Ren'Py - Sins of Night [Release 2] [MakinWaves]

When I saw the title I just knew it would be some old boring vampire thing. Wrong! I was pulled into the world of our mc, the characters are well written and the story thus far is quite good. It took some time to get used to the points system, but that is really straight forward. I can only hope that this story carries on in the same vein and is not watered down into one of those horrible time consuming games. Keep those updates coming, good job. When will we see some BDSM or other fetishes?

Pros:

- Renders


Cons:

- The main plot
- Textures of some of the models
- Models in general
- Gameplay

From a lowly pizza delivery guy to a vampire that's creeping on your family the main story plot is already made the important decisions for you. Either way you're going to do others bidding with the faux idea that you're in control. I don't see the MC as being more than pawns of Hugh and Kate. On the the gameplay the story nosedive when it revolves around repetitive things like creeping on your family, reading dairies, etc. The love interest aren't attractive to me, there's maybe Kate and that's it. Evelyn and Harley looks like they've escaped from an 80's explosive. Nothing screams hotness from the two. I also don't enjoy the old man skin features on the MC. Between the dodgy story, the grindy gameplay trying to hide the minimum gameplay and the forgettable cast. This seems like a let down.

Underrated for sure. Slow burn so far, but it has all the foundations to be a proper Vampire game, and one that isn't full of grinding time wastes. The girls look good, though I'd like maybe the ability to change some of their looks? Not a super fan of muscle girls, so some choice would be nice. The writing is also quite good and believeable, no cringe and there's no grammatical or spelling errors at all so that's really refreshing. The games also got a pretty good in depth hint/guide system in place and you can toggle off the sharing/ntr shit so you can avoid it completely. Overall, I think it really sets the mood for the darker vampire atmosphere, but there's not a crazy amount of content yet so we'll wait and see. However, so far, it's very promising, you should try it for sure.

Story/Character:
The story follows as an unsuspecting pizza boy is killed and revived into a vampire, who is now embellished into the world of being a vampire. I have seen few or very few games that involved the themes of vampires in a game whilst my time of playing adult games, this game just serves it nicely on the platter. It delivers on the ambiance and feelings of being in a underworld world of vampire. The dark energy and resonance really brings this game to being an immersive experience. Origin story of becoming of a vampire and lore surrounding it is explained very well.

The main character is a nice fresh air of what an MC should be. Confident, but not overly too cocky. He delivers a cool vibe, something that you as a reader want to be in. Other supporting characters are great as well, with certain flairs and unique characteristics that make them stand out and easy to identify.

Content:
There is a chunk of content that will leave you quenching for more content (about 2 hours, depending on how fast you progress). So far there are two main girls for most of the content, where there are virtue and vice sides of it. Virtue is the romantic route and vice is the corruption route. It’s got a good amount of variety of content but at the moment it’s more so currently teasing and only one sex scene from a side character.

Gameplay:
The gameplay is a sandbox game where you have to manage your money, and your thirst for blood and build relationship points for girls. Amongst other stats, but aren’t too important in the current version.

The core gameplay of the game is fun. You are able to progress and spend time with the girls, doing various activities. Some are to build relationship points and some are more devious to get lewd scenes. There is a sense of free autonomy where you are able to play at your own pace. I love this, it feels liberating and there some games that have time constraints that make the experience a bit more stressful.

What I will absolutely commend for this game is the hint system when navigating free roam mode. This is an absolute life saving especially to those who are playing this on a phone. It’s such a small addition that makes the quality of life of finding the right button/event that much easier. I can’t tell you how many games with free roam I spent mindlessly clicking on random shit to progress through.



Visuals:
The visuals are super great! They nailed the visuals of the game being set in a broody underworld city. All the characters fit into this vibe of this neo-dark. The characters are done great. Each character feels unique thanks to the quality of their outfits and varied body types.

The UI seamlessly adds the ambience and makes the game more immersive.

Sound:
The sound design in this game is great. The music does an amazing job with the sinister tone and thumping bass that keeps you on edge. There are a few sound effects, but not more as I would like. I assume this would be added as the game would progress in development.

I can't wait for the next update and installment of this game. Especially the netorare and swinging content, which I know will be absolutely fire. If you're into a vampire games, especially corrupting ones. This is the perfect game for you.

What an amazing game! It's been a long time since I last saw a game that got me this excited about it. Really amazing art, a very engaging gameplay and an interesting story to top it all. Great stuff, really looking forward for more of it.

A VERY promising game that delivers a lot in visuals and presentation.

The vampire theme is interesting but there is not much development yet, the gameplay loop of slow burn corruption offers no challenge but has a satisfying sense of progression and fells just like the right pace.

Though the real gem of the game are the mom and sister characters, both have stunning and unique models, with good personalities to boot. Can't wait for the next updates!

The pitch for this game: AVN Sandbox meets Vampire Masquerade secret vampire society. That's it, really.

STORY

There's not much content here yet, not enough for what I'd consider even a solid single AVN chapter at least. But the quality of the writing, both narrative and dialogue, starts off very strong compared to the standard AVNs.

The dev respects your time and intelligence, so the intro doesn't bore you with lore dump exposition or explain what vampires are.

It's a sandbox type AVN, so it'll have a non-linear storytelling approach. I expect the future content updates to be a mix of side quests and main story updates. Hopefully the story goes somewhere interesting.

THE LOOK AND FEEL

The character designs are interesting, very Vampire Masquerade. You know, the 2000s gothic punk aesthetic. There's also incest, and the mother and sister stand out design wise because they have a big 80s hair glam rock look to them feels a bit out of place.

The renders are good, and animations are solid.

The average AVN dev usually struggles with dark night renders, but this one does it well.

There's even good use of music that really sets the right mood for this kind of story.

GAMEPLAY

As a sandbox, players need to manage vampire game flavor stats like hunger (for blood), lust and a tracker for their ability levels. There's also money and time system too.

So far, the UI is easy to navigate and the map is easy to use, so it avoids the usual pitfalls of bad sandbox games.


I'll put it 5 stars for now. Will revisit later once further content updates are posted.

omg was ein guter Auftakt für ein wahnsinnig spannendes Game Der MC ist cool , jegliche Entscheidungen werden uns überlassen, grafisch Wow . Hoffe es kommt bald mehr

Wow. Genuinely almost nothing I would improve. Except I wish there was more.

-Artwork is great, has a unique style, doesn't look at all like dime a dozen Daz games, theming is consistent across the world.

-Sound is decent but minimalist, providing an ambiance reminiscent of 90s games (this isnt a bad thing for me).

-Mechanically is where it shines, it's not quite what I'd call a sandbox, since those usually involve world maps and lots of cumbersome clicking. Yet it's also not a pure visual novel. What is it then?

I'd best describe it as a streamlined hybrid; all the navigation functions are well laid out - it's a little confusing and overwhelming when you first start compared to your typical renpy click-through game, but soon it becomes second nature, and it's a pleasure to navigate between events.

-Story and Characters are great and unique. While I'm not partial to the vampire theme, I like any game that can build a convincing world for itself, this it does. For me, the Harley update was especially a high point - things like her blog entries on artwork really build the sense of the character.

On track to become one of the best games on the site, that's not hyperbole. No matter what your interests are it's worth checking out. Furthermore, dev does a good job of clearly demarcating various fetish content, so it's sure to please a variety of tastes.

5/5

Serious VtMB vibes, as others have stated and I'm sure is the influence. Lots of room for lore and non-lewd gameplay to carry things. Renders look very nice although outside of Kate the girls look unattractive to me, ymmv.

So far not much content but there is already some adult content. The basic frameworks are in and it's definitely one to keep an eye on.

This one was a surprise. A great start for a thrilling adult game with Vampire themes. Most vampire games tend to be boring, generic, predictable, not this one it's actually quite interesting. It's dark but not over the top. The characters are remarkable, the story is incredibly well paced. MC is attractive, a relief considering most AVNs tend to have nerd looking guys. The girls look very lustful and unique. The main aspect i liked the most about the game is how the world doesn't revolve around the MC. He's still learning how to evolve and climb the current social hierarchy.

About the characters:

Vampire: The Masquerade collides with a well-designed and conceived incest-themed sandbox RenPy game, coupled with well-done 3D renders. While it's at an extremely early stage (so far, you can only seduce one character, and at least one of the routes ends before it gets too hot and heavy), but the content that's there is extremely impressive in both its design and presentation.

Release version 1.

First I'll say that I am pleasantly surprised with how it started.
As of late vampire games take after VTMB
(Vampire the masquerade bloodlines) or famous recent tv shows.

Which honestly tends to get a bit old, where its either you are being like adopted into some other vampire family or protection. That tends to make the game tiring when the starting seems to remind you of so many other games.

With that being said, this game has a feel to me of something before VTMB, a tv show called "Forever Knight" now the so called masquerade has been around before VTMB. But I like how this is done because it doesn't feel like the start of the game isn't ripping off something else.

You are told you need to make a choice, however my first gripe is you dont get to actually make this choice, rather its made for you. I would have preferred to walk away from family but that's me.
(maybe in time?)

In the tv show "Forever knight" there is a so called father figure named
Lucien LaCroix, which to me is almost mirrored here with your sire. Not showing to much emotion to you, but actions stating he will care about you to some degree.

There was a scene that stuck out to me from that show when Nick said "You taught me to take what I want." To be corrected by LaCroix instantly "I taught you to take what you need and nothing more!" The sire reminds of LaCroix and if you seen the tv show, you understand the win there.


I liked the fact right off the bat its told to you and shown to you, sunlight will kill you fast specially when being a new born as age will make you stronger against the sun. Then pulling your arm into the light to show you how fast you get damaged.

This game is showing a lot of promise so far, however it seems to be evident a bit that a lot of that "potential" is going to be missed. Its stated dont trust any supernatural beings. Ok I get that but the two based around you, seem to show that, your sire wants you to grow up fast and dump you off and that the other female likes you but wants nothing to do with you.

There seems to be a lot going on but each character is showing a pattern of "needing to be distant". I'm giving leeway right now being its release 1 but when each character is showing a pattern that makes me wonder.

The story line so far is great, it doesn't steal from others at least currently.
I'm curious to see how skills will be put into the game. If it will be something interesting or more of a grind feature of "if you have level 2 you can do this", I hope it more takes after a game called Genex Love in that regard where maybe you can unlock special stuff and it not be just a numbers game.

The open world is a bit annoying but its not as bad as some games I've played, with that being said, I hate open world games in VN's. So how you will feel about it will differ for sure.

I cant wait to see more vampires and other beings in the game, I hope this doesn't go the road of becoming more of a kinetic novel.

Even with the very little content we have right now as i'm writing this(Release 1) this is already showing massive promise beyond many other projects. Eagerly awaiting how far this dev can go with this.

Definitely need to keep an eye on this one. The mechanics are cool and the renders are great. Love & Vice was a favorite of mine so seeing the same dev gives me high hopes for what they can accomplish with Ren'Py and having control over the scenes

I have played the dev's other game love and vice and seen improvements with that game but it's main problem for me was the fact it was a Html game and i couldn't easily load and try different routes this game solves pretty much all the problems i had with the other title renpy's save system works great with it and lets me go back and try the corruption and love routes of the current character and by the looks of it multiple in the future. In terms of this games story has very nice start for a vampire story and does the blood mechanic well with it essentially acting as mana for vampire powers and locking you into feeding if it gets to zero. The current job system is a little basic but not bad and can easily be improved. In terms of fetishes and content has a very good start with some vanilla action like blowjob and basic sex and some fetish like rimjob's and setting up a open door for a lot more to come like making characters more submisive or dominate through there dreams. Especially for a first version published it blew me away and made me very excited for more to come.

I'll keep it short:

• Really good renders.
• An interesting and cool concept.
• Well-written dialogues, both in terms of written English and in making the conversations believable.
• There's no sharing right now, but switches for it are already in the game.
• It's nice to see a sandbox that isn't useless and a game would be much better as a VN, making the game boring and tedious. Instead, it's one where there are systems that both justify it being a sandbox and are pleasant to play.

My only suggestion after playing the intro would be to include an indicator for new scenes in an event.
It's not a huge bother at this point, but if they stack up with updates, it could become a problem.
Even if it doesn't happen, it's always nice to know where to find the new content instead of going there, checking, skipping if there's something new, and checking all the options.
Ren'Py keeps track of seen events, so I guess it shouldn't be a big time consumer.
Even then I think it's worth it because from the player's perspective, it makes the game much more enjoyable to play.

A really promising start for a game, from the renders to the dialogues very well done, love the theme of the game which also shows in the light and environment setting.

loved the mechanics very easy to use.
goodluck on the next update , looking forward to it.