Ren'Py - Rogue-like: Evolution [v1.51f] [Oni]

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.978b...

This game is a adult/erotic parody of the Marvel Universe X-Men... The concept is cute and slightly funny...

The visuals of the characters are 2D hand drawn, a bit cartoony in nature but still pretty good... The backdrops are the same... I'm not a fan of the phantom hands, phantom penis, and so on... Same goes for the see through hands... Plus not all visuals match what is necessarily being chosen to do during erotic scenes/events... Sometimes what is chosen isn't even represented visually...

The script is spot on, as I don't remember running into any spelling/grammar errors... The plot (what little there really is) revolves around a male protagonist who discovers he has a super power that nullifies any other super power/s of someone he comes into contact with... He then is invited to stay at the X-Men HQ/School... And of course Rogue instantly falls for him, since now she has someone she can touch without issues...

The game mechanics involve a highly grindy system of repeating this and that to gain various stats for the protagonist as well as with the other women characters... Once certain stats are achieved, various levels are achieved, and so on, different content opens up or different options for character interaction opens up with each character... Now, you can expect to spend a lot of time grinding out everything, or you can also use the built in cheating... Cheating will guarantee that you may miss certain content, so be aware... And most grinding content, and interaction content does become highly repetitive...

Overall, even though this game is meant to be a parody, it is mostly a grindy porn fest... Grinding away to open up new sexual interactions and events... The protagonist can even date and be a boyfriend to multiple women characters, go figure... It has it's moments of comedy both in the visuals and text, but not much... The parody aspect is more in the conceptual design of the story idea and visuals used, rather then actually making you laugh all the time... There is no real meaningful story, or even story depth at all... It's still in development, so there is some more to come... Will I revisit it? Probably not, but only time will tell...

PSA Just for the good of the site: To open the console in a ren'py. Open the console file in the games file. Sift through the text till you find Config Console = False. Replace the false with "True". Done.


It's good. I'm not always a fan of trainer games with the execption of "wife trainer". Usully they'rre just a bit to grindy for my taste, while this is still grindy. It's good offering a decent amout of content for the grinding you do.

I can't wait for more releases with better content.
Pros:
Good rewards,
Not hard to open the console for those of us who hate grinding.
Good size map, big enough to contain objectives but not so huge you get lost, *cough* Glassix *cough*

Cons:
Whole lot of grinding.
Lack of niche, It currently ticks every box for a trainer style game but as of yet no stand out content.
Wish the sho was more useful and sold clothes that were decent

Overall a great game. Not sure where it's going to get added in the future but as long as it isn't a huge expansion of empty area's I'm in.

Dang this thing just kept getting loads of content throughout the years huh, i've moved on to much more detailed and realistic vns but this one is still very dear to me, definitely going to play it again someday.

Nice game, even if its still not finished it still hold a lot more content than some completed game. Also it include two of my favorite X-Men, Rogue and Kitty . Just need Jubilee and it would be perfect

I normally like games that have a good story you can immerse into. This game barely has any story at all. Weirdly enough I still like it.
That's probably because the sex options in this game are superb. The amount of interaction you can have with characters and their bodies is astounding. At the same time the reactions and options are as realistic as they get considering this is a game.
The options to go either "good" or "bad" are something I really enjoy in games like this. After all it's not as much fun to go "bad" if that's the only planned path. At the same time it doesn't feel "special" when you go good if that's the default option.
There're several stats that allow for interesting gameplay and though right now (v0.974i) the character Rogue is a bit too simple to get for my and many other people's taste the game mechanics themselves show great potential.

The art style wasn't my kind of thing at first, it really grew on me though as time went on.

I'm normally against grinding in this kind of games, but given than there's no main story the grinding actually makes up the game play. And unlike other games where you click "work" and "sleep" repetitively it does so in a very exciting and engaging way!

It's probably intentional that this game is similar to actual rogue-like games that don't bother with story but focus on fine-tuned game play instead.
The only difference is that you can't screw up and have to start all over again, it's more like a "choose your own adventure" sort of thing.
That's likely the correct path for an adult game though, imagine you couldn't save and would have to start all over again every time you have a decent wank going because you pushed your girl too hard

The creator provides a constant stream of updates and seems to be interested in feedback from his patreons, overall this game looks very promising, I can only recommend you check it out!

The art style is good and fresh. Gameplay and writing is OKish. Lack of story and interations between characters, but it is not completed nor the focus of the game, so... tolerable, I think. I want to give it four point five stars, but can not do it, hence, five stars.