Ren'Py - Lust and Power [v0.65 Regular] [Lurking Hedgehog]

Pretty sure Dev is done with this game and is just trolling players at this point.
Unless it was some kind of experiment on how to blow up your game that has been in Dev 5 years by removing all the fun reasons to play the game?
If that is the case Dev wildly succeeded at cucking himself.
Only other reason that makes sense is he decided to turn it into a normal game and not bother with sexy time anymore, but as a normal game it is pretty horrible too.
It is a puzzlement but stay away unless you enjoy endless frustration.

You got tired of games being updated slowly and getting minuscule amount of sexual content with each update? Then you should look no further. You can now play a game that LOSES content with updates. Truly innovative.

Boring combat
No option to have sex with anyone who joins you
Renders are not good
You always do the same things eat fight get items food drinks etc drop them in the kitchen
try to seduce the woman who join you
Lot of thing are not implemented yet like sex
No bugs
Would not recommend it

I used to like this game, and as much I don't like following the crowd when it comes to "boo this game sucks" I must agree with this on honestly just principle, but I will start with what was the good , the art and the gameplay were pretty good, the concept was kinda cool and even funny at times , not many sexy scenes but hey , the game is in early development and that's fine!
Fast forward few months to find out that scenesare removed and the game is being reworked from the ground up , ok .... but why ? alright what about the sex scenes, somehow way less now and it's more of fighting doors...

ok ok but the dev will catch up , it's just going to take a bit of time. No it won't and here is more of the bad :

• layered endless grind, not the fun or fast type, you will be mostly doing this the entire time and for little reward and a lot of frustration , it's a joke now about how it's a door fighting simulator cause it feels like it
• sex scenes scraped and removed, what exists as version 0.46 is only fingering and naked scenes , it's a joke
• Dev is busy reworking fighting mechanics every other patch so dw about learning this shit, it's about to change soon most likely
• oh did I tell you about your saves having to reset cause they don't work with the new stuff ? cause that happens quite often ! super fun to go back to grind !

my advice is to stay the hell away from this game , I used to like it and now it's a sad vision of what happens when a dev doesn't wanna listen to their following

v0.46

Sorry but at this point in time I can't recommend playing this game, and here is why:
The game is very grindy for what it offers the player in return.
-Grind love/submission points
-grind food/quest items by bashing down doors and occasionally a demon (it's very RNG)
-grind "junk" (again rng) to make an armor
-now you are prepared to start grinding spells
-occasionally the game now spawns a tougher opponent that you can't kill or run from, leading to random game over

Scenes with landlady end at fingering, with sister at boob groping...

After hours of clicking the same 3-4 buttons (combat isn't exciting or challenging so far, either cakewalk or no chance of survival depending on rng) I am putting down the game. Might play again later with cheats (which the dev wants you to pay for, lol)

This is a worse grind and worse case of "frustrate player into paying" than War Thunder.

The only thing saving it from 1 star is the basic concepts that are in place. Speaking of which, placeholders everywhere that remind you the game isn't remotely finished.

The dev goes out of his way to block cheats and add them for 9dollar patreons only...
On a grinding game.... There are ways to cheat by editing the save files but still dick move and shows how much the dev cares to gain as much money there is...
He keeps reworking on stuff he made years ago but the game has issues even after the rework, so WTF?
There was no point removing the sex scenes even if they needed a rework it looks more and more that the dev wants to look like he is putting more effort when he actually doesn't do much.
But he basically removed everything added more options for ppl to become patreons and have easier time with the grind and added armor mechanic by removing ~97% of his content and adding the same 2-3 scenes each month

Cant wait for his 4rth(1st the dark prince, and this one counts as double ) attempt of making this game tho

This is nothing but a joke. More than 5 years into making and whatever you click on is under construction. you can give the girls items because it's under construction, you can't use magic because it's under construction, I played this 3 years ago and somehow it had more content than now. The fight animations are annoying and repetitive. I don't know if this is a way to scam people for money or not but I know I have been scammed out of my time.

I agree the readded content can be frustrating, but I honestly think the rebuilt systems are better. It honestly feels more polished. I hope in a few updates where everything gets re-added it is in a better state though. At least the new spells and armor mechanics are fun. Finding more girls running from demons and saving them was an amazing idea and random things like that show some progress. Though waiting for the old content to be updated takes away from that.

Overall, I am waiting for more, but it feels like a rough patch development.

Lust and Power 0.42, is a curious game, even when the developer tries hard to fix a problem, end up creating two or more problems later, every time is kind of a surprise, what the developer takes out, what is fixed or when the game crashes.

-This time, the game changed the fighting mechanic, added equipment and that is fine, I guess.
-The game took off the majority of sex content
-The game crashes if you talk to Kelly a second time (sister)
-the percentage of apparitions of food has increased, but everything else is kind of low. Taking down doors takes a lot of time.

Now, the story is not coherent or tries to be. Other games, like "A Zombie's Life", are similar. Both put you in a precarious situation where you have to scavenge for food and equipment. But where in "a zombie's life, succeeds in creating a dramatic situation where you go finding new girls to increase your harem and improve your situation little by little, Lust and Power fails to create that kind of world building. For example, i can't see any change or improvement in the MC, to achieve his goal of beating the one that created the world full of demons.

This game's future is uncertain. Lurking Hedgehog needs a good advisor and maybe someone to check the writing.

This game is super grindy and keeps rebooting (which forces you to grind again).

I discovered this game at its peak, where it had a decent amount of content in it. it was coincidentally just after the reboot to remove incest. (mom and sister were changed to random women who purchased your family ancestral house. you start the game breaking en entering to find some magic item in the house when the demon apocalypse hits. at which point you step up to become their protector).
It was a solid 3 star game, which I could rate a 4 due to personal preferences.

Since then the game was rebooted again to re-add incest. Redesign combat. And remove all the sex scenes (so they can be adjusted and readded later. not permanently)...
It admittedly improved somewhat compared to before. But that is not nearly enough to justify the constant reboots and the grind.

The game peaked at v0.37. Since v0.40 though the game is back to a pre-alpha demo. And the v0.41 did not bring any significant improvement.
Not much more to say, just filling with random gibberish to fill the mandadory 200 characters, way too much dor sure and which would explain why there aren't more reviews than a mere fifty (Notice how I wrote fidty and not 50, just to use more letters)

I find this game very interesting to play. There is RPG and combat part where player needs to survive and protect his girls, and there is seduction part. These things are connected and both are interesting. Seduction goes slowly and needs time and resources, and it feels like being the character and managing the situation.

The first time i gave 1 star.

After 2 days endless grinding, Kicking in doors, killing weird creatures over and over again i got stuck in the game not knowing what the hell to do next.
The game is filled with a lot of useless shit, cola, snacks, wine, beer, which have all no use whatsover, atleast not thatt i was able to figger out. You can o a few things with the girls, but soon you get those anooying signsunder cunstuction), which is the same result as al the stuff you collect kicking in doors.
At a certain point the game becomes a clicking game, clicking through the annoying conversation at the dining table you read by now a few hundreds times.
The graphics are fun the first hour or so, but after that they become annoying as heel as you will have seen them over and over and over and over and over and a few times more again..
one star? well its for the effort than i guess, the effort of making a game anoying as,fuck.

Played the game after 2 years of waiting for updates and it somehow has less content than before because the dev had the "great" idea of reworking mechanics that nobody gave a fuck in the first place. The "reworked" rpg elements still suck - you can use a broom now and trashy armor to kill shitty red monsters that are not implemented yet and that in the playable version, were easy as fuck to defeat.

1.5/5 (play the older version)

Can't say I'm convinced about this game. The drawings are very poorly done. There are some funny special effects, but the drawings in itself are very platonic, to say the least. Next to that, there's the grinding. It takes a lot going back and forth, while hoping to make some progress. Players who'd like to play the game without all the grinding better not play this game, at all. There are no shortcuts, no hacks or whatever possible. The dev made (and still makes) sure of that. He punishes anyone who wants to speed up the gameplay in whatever way. He literally kicks them out of the game. The dev forces anyone to keep grinding. I guess he hopes it will lead to people playing the game (A LOT) longer and maybe even pay a few bucks (I'm guessing: A LOT of bucks) to keep playing the game. Well, I won't. Waste of bloody time, this game.

Following the game since one of it's first releases. It's always the same content in these 4 years. Adding a scene - deleting a scene. Adding mechanic - removing mechanic. Constantly reworking the same few scenes. If you played the game 4 years ago, and then played it 2 years ago after which 2 month ago - no drastic changes. Same shit - different angle.

I played this game over a year ago and dropped it into a "I'll come back when there's more content" bucket. Now imagine my surprise when I play version 0.40 and after going through the tedious grind only to find out there is actually LESS content than what I played. Over a year ago. It's all layers of RNG time sinks here. Random chance to fight monsters to level up your skills, random chance to get quest items to improve your relationships, and of course the relationships areat a very basic level (dominate your "landlord", seduce your "roommate" and if you try to dominate your "roommate" you'll just be penalized with stat decreases so it's very much a "I call it a sandbox but there's only one linear way to play" at the moment). It's a goddamn shame to see a game get less content under the guise of a revamp.

First I should say that I've been a Patreon supporter of the game for years, no longer though or for the foreseeable future. I'm speaking primarily of the "remastering" of the entire game in version 0.40 which is a complete disaster IMO. Previous versions of the game had a much simpler and cleaner UI and mechanics. This latest remaster throws all that out the window in favor of a uselessly complex series of mechanics in virtually every area of the game while resetting content back to a level of two or three years ago.

For example, this is the second and worst time the combat system has been revamped. The first revamp was not an improvement over the original but I could overlook it. The latest combat system as of 0.40 is absolutely overly complex, tedious and boring to say the least. I'm able to grind through it but the entire time I'm asking myself "why". This started off as a Renpy porn game but now it's trying to be DOS2.

If that wasn't enough, every little inventory item and associated action has been changed and for what. The items do the same thing as before but now you have to navigate through several more screens, search through categories and select an action after you've already selected the action to give an item in the first place. The original way worked better which is for example: here is your battery. battery is removed from inventory. Very simple.

I would say the idea of creating a neutral path is OK because the original two pathways were somewhat rigid, and the game didn't handle switching between the two. However, it doesn't need several middle-of-the-road paths like it supposedly has now. Every aspect of the game like combat, inventory, messaging, etc. didn't need to be rebuilt from the ground up in order to achieve this.

So basically, what you're left with is no change in graphics and hot scenes from what I can tell. But now, most of the hot scenes and other features that've been around forever are locked again behind "under construction", and there are new bugs everywhere to fix. How long is that going to take to restore. Months or years. The bottom line is that even if I exclude all the missing parts of the game from my review, what remains is much less fun to play. The reason I give this game two stars instead of one is because I think the previous version 0.37 is worth playing but this is not the current direction of the game. Perhaps, one day if the content is finished and the game is working, I'll change my mind on a review and support. But I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Okay, here is a little bit of backstory for this game as to why I rated it so low:
Reboot,
Reboot,
Reboot.
Each fucking time either to add, delete and then add back some features like incest. Each fucking time forcing you to regrind all of the progress, or, pay 15$ a month for a cheat.
This time however, reboot deleted about 3 years of content, scenes and all, and all that was added are a bunch of new bugs and a slightly changed inrto, that reintroduced incest and deleted most of the rapey demons, with no mention if rape scenes, safe for imp trying to dick your mom/land;ady will even be added again.
The game as it was in v0.37 was not bad, 3 maybe even 4 out of five.
Kinda grindy, just to sell you cheats, but at least it had content to fap to.
Now you need to redo all the shit again, wile the damage output is nerfed into the ground and health bars got up by a margin, specifically so that the grinding would take even longer this time around. This is some EA or mobile paywall games rated fuckery.

I have just started playing this game and I really hope the developer is okay and we have new updates soon. I really liked the game, a good fighting system, a nice story and very good art ...

Waiting for new updates and having faith in the dev and his team that this gem is not going to be cancelled