Ren'Py - Sweet Affection [v0.10.6] [Naughty Attic Gaming]

This game has a great story and great graphics. Some of the side stories seem unnecessary. The regular updates are great and I like the idea that we don't have to wait months for an update. I like the hint system to this game.

If you're here for a family corruption type of game, in the style of previous work of this developer, you'll be dissapointed. At first it's fine, but then the cheesiness in the dialogue plus the absolutely overwhelming amount of it starts becoming unbearable. For the first few levels with the mother and sister things seem to go in the right direction, but roughly by level 5 or so the dev goes full on Hollywood wannabe. There are some fucking scenes that, and I kid you not, I spent entire MINUTES of ctrl pressing. So imagine, a few hundreds of dialogue boxes for a game you are supposed to play to fap. Furthermore, the highest level available by v0.8.7 is very stagnant and pretty much the same as the previous one. The storylines of other characters are lighter and you can actually enjoy some of the later stuff. But the amount of text this has (and by no means good) should be measured in Dragon Ball units of power, because it's like ten billion billions.

To the dev... I'm sorry, I want to love this game but the dialogue!! WAAAY too much man! 99% of this is clicking through dialogue. It's the biggest obstacle in this game and adds no value to the gameplay. If the dialogue was reduced by 90% it would be playable. For example, and a very SMALL example might I add:

I enter the shop, all I want to do is buy some fricking clothes or cosplay for the ladies of the house and I'm forced to talk to the lady at the counter for bloody 5 mins. Just insanity man. If the dev reduced it, and I mean REDUCE REDUCE, I would rate higher but the rewards is not worth the time, and very sadly the negatives outweigh the positive.

Edit:What I love about this game is the slow corruption and focus on main characters, just please imagine how much fun this game would be if you cutall the pointless dialogue out and leave the bare essential. I'm talking less than 10% of what already exists. Is 10GB of this game just script?.

TL;DR - I like this game but the 500 trillion dialogue count in this game makes it unplayable. Sorry man.

review based on 0.8.5 version (also played version 0.5 before, previons name was "Research Into Affection")
PRO:
- acceptable cg
- some animations here
- in 0.5 mc was simple pervy freak, now mc evolved to kind, polite young man with some perv. evolution...
- not bad ui
- good content amount
- since 0.5 we got world outside home! wow! now mc not grounded/home_arrested.
- cool ui element "diary" (actualy its "scene guide") but only for 2 npc now
- ig hints- no w/t needed
CONS:
- 12h timesystem... for what reason that madness here?!
- animations... there only 200-300 animations(i mean- to few aganst 30k-40k cg pics) and half of then for peep/spycams
- some background elements looks terrible
- model problems in some cg arms looks like broken
- again models prodlem- unnatural poses gestures... example? ok, look at mc phone grip, arwww!!!
- text amount... its real problem, cuz i pressed "SPACE" key several thousands times, so be careful your keyboard can die in that game . minus 1 star for that

my rating for that game was 3.5, then i used science method- 10 times flip a coin (6 times adler und 4 times löser). result- 4 stars.
if u dnt ready spend many hours in reading and have no spare keyboard/mouse- avoid that game.

Really nice game interface and story.
Only downside is the artwork, which is Honey Select or something else, and it could either be beefed up a lot, or exchanged with Daz, which solves the issue of American people looking exclusively Japanese. (I mean, honestly, an idea like this deserves better than screencaps from another game).

Rating: 3 (due to the artwork source being a game and even one with subpar graphics). Would be 4.5-5 if done in Daz.

This game has decent ui and sandbox mechanics such that it doesn't feel like a chore to navigate. I've only played a bit but it seems like there is a lot of content and the family stuff seems good for incest lovers which is the only reason this isn't a one star.

What does feel like a chore is the dialogue. I don't need the writing in these games to be amazing but this games writing is particularly bad. Every single man other than the MC is a cartoonishly evil character such that the MC can impress girls just by simply not being a monster. This is a pet peeve I see in a lot of harem games but never to such an egregious degree. The plot for literally every girl is that some evil men are causing all her problems and you have to save the day. The only exception to this is your family which is another reason why the incest content is the only redeeming factor for this game.

On top of that, the pacing of conversations is just so slow and the MC can't stop jerking himself off about how he's not interested in one night stands and wants a real connection. Meanwhile he's flirting with a dozen girls at once. I think the intention is to let you follow as many or few routes as you want but the issue is that he treats each girl like they are "the one".

Of course behind this nice guy persona he secretly peeps on his family members in the bath and spies on them using cameras. I actually think you could work with this and make him a two-faced kind of character but the narrative doesn't address this dissonance at all. It seems like were actually supposed to buy that this is a decent person to self insert as despite his creepy gross behavior.

Also I love slow burn games a lot, but in order for them to work there needs to be constantly building tension. With the family this works because they aren't overtly flirting, part of the reason why the incest category is popular in the first place is because it can facilitate slow burn stories like this and add a lot of tension. However, it doesn't make sense to have this slow pace to such a degree with other characters especially when both sides have expressed romantic interest.

The dialogues themselves drag tremendously long as well. I think you can get away with making a game more dialogue heavy if the writing is good enough but this is some of the worst I've seen. I feel like the dev needs to go back through and condense a lot of the dialogue or hire a writer and this game will be improved immensely. As well as reducing the white knight attitude of the MC.

EDIT: One thing I didn't realize when writing this review is that the incest content has like double the length of any of the other routes, but also the dialogue becomes harder and harder to get through as it goes on. Every conversation is the characters talking about how much they love each other and there is very little plot or character traits to break up this monotony. Every interaction is just "I wish I could spend every day with you." or "ahaha I'm teasing you in the most lame unfunny way imaginable." It's excruciating. You will read the same lines over and over and over again, not because scenes repeat, but because the same type of situations keep happening and the characters have very samey conversations that take up way too much time.

Again, underneath the abysmal writing is a potential hit, but I've probably played hundreds of games on this site and this is the closest I've come to skipping dialogue, I definitely started skimming it quickly.

First - there will be many mistakes, not my native language.
Short version - Do NOT waste your time on this *Game*.It is not worth your time.(And you will spend a huge amount if you`ll try to read the text).
Version 0.8.2

Gameplay:There is none.You get a fixed amount of events on the time schedule, you click(read) through these events, level up your family and start over.Rinse and repeat until you get to the end of the current build.
There are side characters , you can click(read) through their events as well.
Kinetic novel, i would say, No choices though, you can only choose what event to trigger, but NOT what will happen or wont happen in it.
One-hand game, maybe that is correct.

Graphics: Average HS graphics, cant complain or praise.

Story: Oh man, that is where the most problems are.
I can`t fully express my frustration with the text in this game, because this is not my native language..but boy oh boy, this is the most cringiest ,annoying, timewasting, enraging, facepalming,time consuming, irrelevant, insanity definitive piece of..of...script.
If you read first 3 affection levels - you have seen all that this game has to offer in case of storytelling.
First problem - repetition.Context is changing, circumstances are changing - but you(MC) are saying almost the exact same things, over and over and over again.
Second problem - it is NOT ineresting to read.I can justify any amount of text, but it needs to be INTERESTING!This is not the case!
Exscluding some talks about a past, almost every dialog is same ol same ol!
From the most succesful compliment of all times: Her eyes are so green!
To an endless fight for honesty about MC MEANING what he is saying.
Yes, for the love of God, when you have been told that your are beatiful for the millionth time -YES!HE FUCKING MEANS IT!
If you will play(please dont), here is the list of the things you will see almost every dialog:

And thats it!Thats the whole story!You sweetalking(literally) your way into the panties of your family!Playing all loving white-knightly yes man.

Problem is - you are not.You place web-cams all over your home to spy on your family.You are snooping around their rooms, personal stuff and diaries.
You intentionally barging in on them in the toilet\bath and their rooms when they are inside.
This plot was working for the time,when game was named *Research into corruption*.But now it is what it is.

Content: It is there, but the amount of text you have to read(or skip) is just not worth it.Nothing above average.95% of the game is - text.Long read before naughty scene, long read after.

Summary: Goal of the game is simple - slowburn based only on affectionate relationships.And its not working at all.Characters are not developing, they are getting used to your actions.You take advantage of your NOTmom, who lived past 21 years without any form of contact, and a half- stupid NOTsister in her puberty years, when hormones becomes your brain.
Not interesting to play - because there is no gameplay.
Not interesting to read- because same topics with same words.
Not interesting to fap - because by the time you get to the good stuff, either your Ctrl will broke, or you will loose your patience.
This is the second time i play this game, and there wont be the third.

Not a bad game and it has it's moments but the sheer amount of words is way too much. They have repetitive conversations about the same things almost every time they start sexy times. By the time I got to home-base with the mom I was out of patience. Get rid of at least half of the dialogue as a start. It's almost weird too that the sis is ok with anal before pussy sex. Women don't see anal as sex light so it just feels silly. It's one of those odd things in the game that doesn't help like when they slip in the pool and act like they fell ten feet onto concrete. A few tweaks would help this game a lot.

could literally be 5 stars if it wasn't so wordy lmao, the build up is good but i swear you could take out around 50% of it and it would still be more than enough and you wouldn't lose anything valuable. mom and sister are good and once u do get the sex scenes they are fantastic, but its a massive grind to get there.

First of all game is great and there are some amount of grind but its fairly easy(money and affection)Grinding for affection points are not chore because you still interact with the characters and see some nice scenes and money is fairly easy(you dont need the work hard for it).I would say game has a nice story and there are many conversation fillers but if you want to read,enjoy the dialogues this game is for you.Scenes are hot and i find the girls amazing if you get in the story,interactions with the household is hot.Overall i really love this game,cant wait for future updates

Decent game, but the dialogue... is not so good. Relationship between character also don't very change, which is confusing given how far you go with them, but they still treat you same as at start of game. Overall, still fun to play, but would really be nice if dialogue could be improved.

Pretty nice game. Sister is a very fun character and hot, I really love her. Renders are pretty good, writing is also decent.

Personally wish it was less of harem but won't subtract any points for that, good luck to dev keep working on it.

It is funny but some mechanics aren't as fun as you expect. Poor drawings and poor animations describe it better, but I find it a good beginning for a developer who's grinding for some experience on developing porn games.

Dialog may be overwhelming, but it's good content with lots of relationship building and a few nuances. The level 6 movie date to get to level 7 relationship with the two women of the household may have a lot of words, dialog and filler sentences, but it makes for a great build-up on how the progress of the relationship between them has grown, the diary content is adds more context on the minds inside them but it's a bit tedious when it comes to completing all the diary notes since the weekend only events can only completed in 2-3 separate weekends which takes up a lot of time, the patreon income mechanic becomes obsolete once you get to $50+ subscribers then the amount of money becomes useless at some or an early point in the game since there's only two women you can spent money on dresses, costumes, lingerie and a trip to the spa, otherwise with all these flaws it still makes for a great story and interesting game. (Sucks that to give something a rating F95 requires you to give a 200 word essay, like ain't no one got time for that, but here I am).

I'm forced to give this a low score ATM, so, an immediate point to clear up:
I am still playing this game. I do enjoy the game. My low score is NOT MEANT to warn people off from downloading the game, but the game does have some severe flaws that need to be pointed out, in feedback.

So, what are the flaws that drag down my score so much DESPITE me thinking the game is still worth a look if the tags are up your ally?

1) FAR TOO WORDY.
I like a strong narrative, and one flaw many games have is one scene is rushed through to get to the next. Slowing down and taking time to flesh out a scene makes games better. But...
Ok, look. Many games say in 50 words what should be said in 500, and feel rushed.
This game says in 5,000 words what should be said in 500. So while I appreciate the dev trying to include deeper conversations and making everything feel more fully realized, it instead leaves the player feeling like they're drowning in dialog.
Normally, if I find myself skipping dialog in a game, it's a sign I'll delete the game sooner than later. I intend to either play through and read the story, or just not bother with a game at all. Here I find a rare exception where I am content to keep playing, but find myself skipping 40-80% of the dialog, depending on the scene, as while occasionally funny, cute, sweet, or plot relevant, it is often so overwhelming that skimming through (and the occasional scroll back to make sure nothing was missed) is enough to move it forward for me.
Think I'm being wordy here? Maybe I am. But the game is at least as heavy handed and overly wordy as I am here, and arguably more.

2) A burn so slow it's glacial.
Like stories that don't try to rush themselves, I also appreciate a slow burn to build things up. But just as this story slows to a glacial pace, so to does the relationship building.
I LIKE THE MECHANIC of building a relationship and seeing how it develops over time and in stages. But for the mom/sis, following the diaries, you do the same countless actions, including weekend exclusive actions, to fill the pages, reach the next level, do so again, repeat repeat repeat.
The mechanic isn't the problem, but the number of things you need to do is.
Over 30 actions need to be done for mom, and another more than 30 for sis, before you reach the event that raises the level. Then, you start at square one and do another 30 for each, over and over.

This doesn't count side characters, either, who also have multiple events per level.
I'm in the level 7 now. That's WELL OVER 240 events, just to finish 7 and move to 8.
And between time-sensitive and weekend sensitive, it can be a grind to get them all. Sis have 4 events and mom has 4 events in the same timeslot, and it's a weekend time slot? You get near the end of events for that level and find yourself skipping weeks just to get back to the weekend for a single 10am event. While not grindy in the technical sense, it is exhausting.

3) No gameplay at all.
Weird to take this long to get to this point, but here it is: This is a kinetic novel, not a visual novel. You make no choices AT ALL. You move on to the next scene, and it plays through. You choose nothing. There are no branching paths. This also means that if you don't want to interact with a girl, you just avoid any events with her. Great, except you'd worry that might impact the story. Well...

4) The story, outside of the core family, is a disaster.
No one has any meaningful interactions with anyone else. Store clerk is a story unto itself, and she doesn't meet anyone else. Neighbors are a story unto themselves and they don't meet anyone else. etc etc etc.
Sure, you meet characters through other people. Kelly at the spa you meet after going there with your family. And then her events are just her.

Did you think that the neighbor's story and Sydney's are connected? Well, they're not. Did you think your family will every meet their neighbors? They won't. Now, admittedly, as side character stories are NO WHERE NEAR as fleshed out as the family story, there is a lot of room for this to change!
...but thusfar, it shows no sign of changing, so I'm not holding my breath.

Laura is thinking of hiring someone for the store. Does the MC mention this to any of his other interactions, even ones who talk about wanting or needing a job? No. Because each story is an island unto itself.

Also frustrating how, in every one, MC insists he doesn't have a girlfriend. When kissed, talks about how he hasn't been kissed in a long time, etc. And plays it all off in a way we are supposed to read as him being sincere, and not bullshitting people. Because the stories are so loosely connected that if you are practically dating say, Laura, it's like she doesn't even exist when dealing with Rose.

5) Every man is evil in the world. Except for you.
This one drives me up a fucking wall. I get it. No NTR. We don't want romantic rivals. Ever woman is either a virgin or untouched for so long that she might was well be one. Fine. Whatever. Some of that I'm OK with, and some is can shrug and accept.
But EVERY SINGLE MALE CHARACTER WHO IS NOT THE MC is a rapist, or beats their sister or wife or daughter, or is otherwise the scum of the earth. Even characters not seen and merely referred to. It gets pretty fucking old.



so, in summery?
I don't care about the visuals. It's an HS game, and is what it is. That's fine.
It's an incest focused slow burn game where you play someone who genuinely cares about his family, and even has some severe internal conflict about some of what he's done and a desire to come clean and pay the price (which, lucky for him, is usually complete forgiveness).
The side characters are interesting, and so is their stories, even if each one al most seems like it is trying too hard. They work enough that you want to see them resolved.

The game has a decent amount of good going for it. And that's why I say you should play it and enjoy it.

But you shouldn't sugar coat it. The flaws are glaring. And I'm hoping that pointing them out, while still explaining why I like the game and why you should give it a chance, inspires the dev to look a second time at how they approached things, and wonder what they can do better in the future.

Far too much has been done in this game for it to be conceivable to address my concerns, even if the dev were so inclined (with the exception of pulling disparate stories together). So the best bet is to finish this game, as it has been handled thusfar. But should the dev choose to make more games in the future, I hope they look at what was loved about this game... and what was criticized, and use the critical feedback to help navigate their future game designs, to account for issues were we felt this game was lacking.

Critical feedback does not mean a product isn't good, or isn't enjoyable, or that it shouldn't be supported. And I'm hoping, if they read this, the devs realize that.

UPDATE 8.9 -- I have nothing to say about new content really, just want to chime in and say: The names should be reversed. The MC name should be on the right because the player doesn't need to see it, but when he's speaking to more than one person, you have to actively look all the way across the screen to see who's talking. And MC is not even interesting enough to be called vanilla. He's purified tap water. Every interaction is completely boring and tame until somehow people want to sleep with him. "I don't mean to impose. *Smiles*" Just come on. Have SOME kind of personality, please?! ALSO Dialogue can be more than one line long. That's why this is so much of a click fest. Renpy automagically returns to the next line, you know that, right?

So here's my review at 0.8 and I'm very ambivalent about it. By that I mean I really want to rate this lower. And I never say that. I really want to give this one or two stars because the writing in this is awful. But everything else about it is done so competent and even well. The UI is good, the renders are alright, and the animations are at least not 240p. And the "slow burn" of the game is something I like. But this writing... My god...

So you start out as Nice Guy MC incel. You live with NOTMom and NOTSis but this game is written in a way that it would literally not make sense any other way. And you get income by running a patreon page with no content... I guess? Which is whatever, no one likes money grind so at least it's not a dumb minigame. But onto the actual writing. You play as a character with no actual personality and if you spoke to people like this, I would think you're an actual serial killer. "Oh I've never felt this way about anyone else, never mind the 8 other women I'm seeing." or "Oh you don't have to go on, if that makes you uncomfortable." or "No, I'd never be pervy with you, I'm looking for the right woman(I'll just spy on you in the bathroom)" You can't see my face, but I make a mocking face when I say that. He's a straightedge M'Lady type that goes to a bar to drink water. And if you have ever had a conversation with a living human being, you'd understand that being this much of a "Nice guy" is pretty gross and unnatural.

All that said, if you skim through the reading, the rest of the game is done well. Which is irritating. I remember back when this game was called [Something] Corruption and have no idea why it was changed to this. I'd rather have more natural sounding writing and it be about corruption than this Friendship is Magical mentality.

TLDR; if you skip through just to see the naughty bits, it's good. If you read anything and aren't a M'lady, you'll hate it

I first played this a while back, and although it was a bit grindy, I enjoyed it. The grind is still there but it is now made worse with hours of pointless dialogue. Shame really because it was really good before these changes. Characters are good and scenes are good but it´s now a mare to get to them.

I've got mixed feelings about this game, leaning towards good but it's not quite there.

The relationship buildup with the mother and sister is an extremely slow burn from week to week but it makes it plausible. The sex scenes are very nice when you finally get to those.

The other characters don't seem as well implemented, it's almost as if they belong to a different game. While all progression with mother and daughter is on a set path with up to three different interactions for every hour of the day in a given week, any non-family member has their own progression which seems completely detached from it. The game would be a lot better if everything where handled in the same way.

There is a lot of text to read, an extreme amount even. Some of it is pretty cringeworthy, especially from the daughter, but that seems to be on purpose. I have never seen the term lady flower so much in my life.

Another gripe I have is the weekend grind you need to do if you want to unlock all interactions. Since everything takes up an hour slot and for some hours you have three actions for each character, you need all five days of the week and sometimes still can't complete the week log.
The weekends are the worst here because the hour interactions cannot be done on the same weekend day as the date events, or the spa outings, and since there can be up to six events for a single hour you need to repeat the full week at least four times to see everything.
Some of the interactions, especially early on, take virtually no time like the peeping or knocking where you're told to go away. It should be possible to combine these hour slots with other events.

On the plot level, currently it's not possible to go for only the mother or only the daughter. You need to do both before you can progress to the next week for the new interactions.

With the art style I have only one complaint: the characters smile by showing all their teeth and this looks very off-putting.

[v.0.7.7 Public]
There's so much content: many girls with many tiers with many events.

Unfortunately, while experiencing them all is great, even if it gets a text-heavy at times, it's only possible to track Your families events and progress at the moment, making it easy to miss out on events;
Additionally, having inaccessible yet interactable places that only say "to be developed" is bothersome, since if I hadn't known about them, I wouldn't be as "teased".

Seems like a lot of work was put in and a lot of work still awaits, great game, needs to make use of what it has, specifically- event tracking is necessary to be "fully playable".

Sweet Affection is about a sociopathic horndog manipulating all the poor innocent honeyselect women in his town. Unfortunately, every single one of them is being targeted by people with "powerful connections" that our brave MC has to stand up to. Boy that premise sure sounds interesting! Not really.

The MC suffers from two different personalities. The dominate one (unfortunately) is zealously devote catholic school boy that knows that lust is a sin and s*x is reserved only for the sacred act of procreation. Several of the girls all but grind on the poor innocent MC only for him to say "um, maybe we should get to know each other first? Let's wait till marriage *smiles*." The other personality is a desperately horny sociopath willing to do what he needs to do to get off. Here's an average day in the life of the MC:
He spends the day out by the pool with his family, promising that he values them more than anything in his life (certainly more than his own life in fact) and swears he won't let anything hurt them. The next hour, he barges in on his sister in the shower desperate for a whiff of pussy. He makes it up her later by telling that he would do anything to make his family feel safe. After he's rapped up with that, he sneaks into his mothers room while she sleeps so he can eye-rape her for an hour before bed.
It's not like these peeping in the shower and sleep scenes aren't common tropes for these games, but the MC is so outrageously white-knighty that the actual porn sections of this game feel so tonally different that it makes it feel like the MC is poorly imitating human emotions. And that's not made better by the robotic *smiles* that is in 80% of his spoken dialogue.

The game, other than the dialogue with the MC, is alright. Unfortunately dialogue IS 95% of this game, and boy does the MC love to talk. So for this reason, I'm out.