Ren'Py - Welcum to the City [v0.13.0] [Quiquersson]

Review for v0.13.0

I am very interested in the future of this game, but currently there is not a ton.

Visuals: Perfect! Its all lovingly hand-drawn art in a cute chibi style that remains consistent and in-tone the entire time. Kudos to the artist! The art remains well drawn and the characters are extremely enticing for each panel. I can tell lots of care was put into it, and I think the art style will continue to only improve and remain strong.

Sound: Good! The music is fine, doesn't do much, but I love the sound effects from the characters talking; very Animal Crossing-esque, but if its the vibe of the game very well.

Mechanics: Ehhh... Not great but not bad. There's the basics of what is needed in a dating sim and some more stuff (phone, stats, etc.), but right now none of it is utilized and it is easy to get confused of where you are since a lot of the backgrounds look similar. Maybe some text would help navigation? Either way, needs some work.

Writing: I like it! The characters fit their archetype very well and there is tons of good dialogue. I am genuinely interested in the characters and like them. The english is a little rough sometimes, but its overall good enough.

Overall: What's here so far is incredibly well polished and well executed-- BUT... as other reviews state... Once you go through a few days at school, you've seen everything there is on offer. What is there is very nice, but theres no H scenes! Please add some dev, this game could be so unique and amazing if only it fulfilled its goals! Stop building wide, its time to build tall!

I love the characters, art, writing and theme of the game, gameplay is also completly fine.

Why such a low rating? It has been almost a year since the game was added and it's still just a tech demo, proof of concept, there is absolutely no content other than each girl flashing or teasing MC once, usually by accident and a single handjob scene you will see in the intro.

Ignore stats as they serve no purpose at the moment, same with choices, just do what you want, after intro just go to class twice and the pool once for the events and you are done.

...after writing it all I really want to lower the score even more to be honest.

Review as of v0.13.0.

Holy shit I do not normally, no, I've never written a review before, however this masterpiece of a game truly deserves it. The art, the fucking music, the funny ass humor, is all right up my fucking ally. It has been so fucking long since i've had the pleasure of playing a game like this.

Version 0.12.0 Review:

Summary: Don't get me wrong, I really love this game and hope dev succeeds, but wish more effort went into content instead of avatar build game, an opening theme song, and their ichi.io site. It oozes with character... but sadly once you've done the simple tasks for each character (there's not many) the game is barren... without a decent fap to be had.

Disclaimer - There is still no sex (AFAIK) and I've been attempting to max out characters for hours.

Pros: (barely enough to keep it around average)
- Good chibi art style. Like Animal Crossing meets Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
- Great dialogue in the opening week(s)
- Good humor
- Lots of potential in the systems
- Decent animation when it's present
- Semi-enjoyable minigames (but only trigger once, so better hope that Dr. sits on your face, because you won't visit her again a 2nd time in this build)

Cons:
- No sex
- Some humor is cliche anime tropes (boy trips into boobs)
- Wait for content, everything feels "to be continued."
- Misleading name... one would think there's cum every moment... but only once
- Underutilized functions, like the phone... Can't call contacts? Why?
- Empty school... for a game about school, no one is around to interact with except for noon and end of day (this is after week 2 and triggering all events)
- Grindy... wouldn't be so bad if you had more freedom to meet classmates
- Can only visit school and home (only 1 doctor visit?)
- Repetitive dialogue... omg , and after a certain point, it's very limited

0.12 Updates:
- Yoga game with Step-mom works now!
- Class project with Kanedere
- Hallway encounter with tripping girl
- Rival was removed for some reason (post week 2)
- Updated UI
- Backpack actually works
- New Help/Info button
- Updated Status button (where friends and challenges are located)

Bugs:
- Back, History, Skip, Auto, Save... bar on bottom sometimes vanishes
- No sex... this is a glaring bug... fix it!
- Going home from the pool or gym results in either wearing gym clothes home or walking around the house naked!

Review of the v0.9.1

So let me start by saying that this game is in its early stages and some critic maybe fixed as time goes on, but I feel that it’s fair to mention them.



-Graphics:

The game has 2 styles one it’s the “Over world” chibi style and the other it’s the events style a mix of the chibi and a more common anime style: while I don’t hate either style I feel that maybe choosing one style and sticking to that maybe better on the long run.



-Dialogue:

The dialogue it’s a bit clunky and the “flow” it’s weird I understand why it because the author wants to add animations mid sentences within the same “Textbox” but it feels a bit awkward at least to me



-Characters:

They are a bit one note for now but with hints(more specifically for the step-sister and the friend) of thing to come.

-Gameplay:

This is where the game loses one star for me, moving is a chore, and the author hasn’t explained how anything work for example I don’t know how much time any activity takes, I don’t know the difference between intimacy and love(or how to earn love), what’s the point of my stats, that this game has stat checks(if you have enough INT you will know who the statue is supposed to be), another thing I know that this will probably be explained later but I think it’s fair to criticize the lack of any tutorial or explanation.

-Customization:

This one I actually dislike, its supper annoying for me to choose a name, surname city, village and 2 for every character I feel that it would be better to have some default options(also the randomization feels weird because it can lead to someone call Kate (Japanese name that I don’t remember) so still prefer some default names)



-Rivals:

This is an interesting system but one that I feel can bring unwanted heat to the game mainly from the NTR/Vanilla community personally I don’t hate any of this but I feel it’s worth mentioning for someone who does. (and maybe implement a toggle option for this.)



Final:

As I said before the game it’s still in its early stages there isn’t enough to know how the gameplay loop will feel but this game has a lot of promise at least in my opinion.

This game is awesome. Love the art. It feels very polished. It has great potential so I give it 5 stars. However. it has almost no content yet, so I will be following with great interest in the future

At first, the miniature doesn't fit your eyes very well, but once you try it and get used to it, the art becomes very pretty and very good, then the scenes where there are no "chibis" improve a lot, some scenes are quite funny, dialogues or moments, apart from the fact that the scenes there are are quite good
It is short and there are few H scenes but they are good, I think the game promises a lot
For now I love what there is

Review for v.0.8.0

TL;DR: Amazing potential, overall great execution, original, but currently nothing more than a tech demo.

I think this game has an amazing potential, but to be rather blunt; i'm entirely unsure if the game will be able to deliver sizable amounts of content in the future. More on this later.

The game has all of the standard features of a dating simulator type game; you can grind several kinds of stats and money to help you in your horny endeavors. The execution is rather well made mechanically, however some of the UI elements could use a few improvements to make it clearer and more concise. I like that you can choose how your character react to (most) events, giving you an excellent sense of freedom, yet that is pertinent due to how it affects the accumulation of stats and skills for different characters.

The characters are somewhat one dimensional yet rather charming, with a pretty diverse set of body and facial features, although the body frame is pretty much exactly the same between all female characters. The name generation thing is a nice touch, allowing people to tailor their narrative however they see fit, and represent how the characters are clearly centred around their archetypes (Tsundere, motherly, gaga, etc...)

The writing and story itself is rather simple, straightforward and uncomplicated, which i believe serve this game rather well. The interactions (the few present in the current game version anyhow) are actually really quite well made, with a clear effort and focus on giving characters movements and expression, making them substantially more appealing this way.

By far, the biggest issue right now is the content. As it is right now, there is pretty much none, other than one H-scene with the "cousin" and the occasional nip-slip/boob spillage incident. The current structure of the game's design and gameplay make it suggest there is plenty to come, with clearly ambitious goals that only ask to be fulfilled.

The massive, big question the dev now must live up to in the year of 2024 is to be able to deliver sizable amounts of h-content to actually populate an otherwise empty game. The 2D, hand-drawn nature of the characters combined with the high number of different characters could be a massive bottleneck in the long term.

To be blunt, it's something quite common with dating simulator type games, where they try to advance the story and progression of a bunch of characters at once, making the content delivery very slow. The best way to remedy that would be to focus on a few characters at a time, and to progress them in acts/chapters, so that you can get a meaningful amount of content on every update.

I honestly wish the best for the dev, become Welcum to the City has some amazing potential, that i can only hope it can reach out for.

Does not have alot of content at the moment but, has a lot of potential. Love the art style and simple but yet fun mechanics. In the future it might be a banger of a game. But right not it's just some frame work and not much more

Came back months after this was initially uploaded to see how much content it has gained since then.

There's still not much. This is more a proof of concept game on how to setup a dating simulator. The art style and random generation of names for characters/places are what makes this title have potential.

I fear that progress for this will be done at a snails pace. There's some teasing scenes here and there but no sex yet. There's some sandbox elements in the game already but no complete full day yet. There's stats put in the game that have no effect yet.

Right now it's Blue Balls In The City

As of Version 0.6.1

Pros
- Art is interesting
- Characters are interesting

Cons
- Very small amount of content
- Not much story
- No H-scenes, if that's what you're here for.
- English can be rough at times

There really isn't much here in terms of both game and story. I honestly thought there was a lot more content when I saw the version number but that is not the case. It actually feels more like a 0.1 version release in comparison to other F95 games.
Also, the game has this 'Immersive' dialogue option which gets annoying very fast.. i recommend you lower the voice volume or disable it entirely.

I don't mean to come off too negative here.. but this is not 5 star game. There is just not enough content here to justify that kind of score.

I do think there is a lot potential here.

This is a slow-moving title with some really clumsy writing. It seems like it has high ambitions, but at least as of 0. 8 it really hasn't gone anywhere. It's got a ton of features, various stats, randomly-generated names, minigames, etc., but at the moment they aren't very well-integrated and there's really nothing very interesting in the whole game, so it feels like it's a mile wide and an inch deep. There's some potential, but it's got a long, long way to go before feeling remotely complete.

So, the game is nice and all, I love the art, the story, and the GUI (even though it's mostly stock). I have a few issues though, I know this is a porn game, but I feel as if the porn aspect settles in a little too fast, but it's alright. Some of the text noises make odd sounds when it's typing, and when you press the "H" key, sometimes the full scene doesn't show. Other than that, great game! 7/10

The art style is great, different, and very refreshing!
There is not a lot of content yet, and the translation to English is still a bit rough.
However, I'm looking forward to more of this game and art style!

This game is too cute, so it gives me a erection dysfunction.
It really amazing, and extremelly unique art-style when it comes to a porn game.

You don't really expect characters in a porn game to be this adorable.

The first game that actually made me want to sub to patron. Despite being a erotic game it actually has some heart filled scenes which I wasn't expecting. Love the art work; it easily switches from cute to sexy which few games can do well. Honestly the only fault that it has so far that it's short though that's to be expected since it hasn't been out for long. "Welcum to the city" has a great base to build on and I expect great things to come from it in the future. 5/5.

Potential 10/10, This game is so unique and fun, that it deserves nothing but the highest reviews possible, The art style is cute and hot at the same time and the characters are fun, it just needs more content

fun little game. i usually don't play these types of games (the cartoony ones), but for some reason this one jumped out at me. it does need some proof reading but i like the art style and the humor. i will definitely watch this one.

The art style looks original and amazing(a fresh change of pace),Im tired of playing the same cut and dry games with the same staticky models. not much story but its a first release so thats not really surprising. keep up the good work!

this game have a cute artwork and interesting characters. but since this is still in early development of the game, you still cant get the full story behind its characters but so far so good. theres some simple mechanics of this VN game that i believe havent got implemented yet. can't wait on the future updates on this game