Ren'Py - 30 Year Old Virgin [v0.34.DV] [Black Star Games]

For 5GB it would seem like its a very big game, but in the images folder there are 3000 images.
The game is divided in 3 sections, home, city and magic hat, and that is pretty much the folder structure.
Everything that is inside the HAT folder is useless, just silly (not funny) stories with ugly fantasy races doing stuff and jumping and fighting.
Almost everything inside the CITY is also useless, once again, ugly fantasy races that belong to the lore, and ugly people just being there and talking, (plus batman),
Once established that those 2 folders are useless for a person that wants to enjoy a story and fap, more than 1600 images are discarded.
In the HOME folder we have 1000 images which is the useful part of the game but there are still many images related to hud and navigation that im not counting.
Inside that folder there are 10 subfolders and the one that contains the events of one of the rooms (specifically the basement) has 40% of the total images. In the basement you summon fantasy side characters to do lewd stuff, so even if this is sex related stuff, it is drom dish served side characters, and feels like they are tere to balance the blueballfest of the core part of the game.

The game feels quite empty right now and it is mainly because there are 400 renders left for the core part of the story which is the actual household and its characters, and also cause these remaining 400 renders are used mostly used and reused following that stupid event formula of repeating the same renders over and over advancing one frame each time, so you may have an event with 10 steps but its actually an event with 4 base images +8 images that you have to do in 10 days and spend 20 minutes instead of 3. Personnaly I can tolerate it if the sillyness and hotness are balanced, but with the amount of silly the game has, and the few useful renders left its hard to swallow.

If im giving 2 stars is because there are funny parts, even if I think that it should be toned down or balanced. Lesbian wars was funny, but more funny than hot since there is nothing special in the presentation, it relies on context but the form is the average. Still if all the game had the level of that event it would be a 4stars.

TLDR
1-5GB should mean a BIG game, but actually a regular person would find only 600MB of those of useful content.
2- Too much sillyness and side stories turn off and oversaturate.
3-Events that are actually short but are cut into countless pieces in the span of days.
4-It feels empty, and the main characters have like 2 short events each.
5-Related to all of the above, the game is like 80% filler in v023

Short description:
An overall average game, overbloated with sillyness and pointless side stories kidnapping production time, that will need 2 years of updates before I revisit it, which I will, but right now is not worth.

I've played this game for three hours now and have loved it.

The good:
- Renders are terrific, and there are scenes that are def fappable
- There is a ton of humor in this game which is always a plus
- Looking forward to future releases of this
- Character models are unique to any other games out there (if not lemme know)

The meh:
- Story so far...is okay. Just okay, and that's okay because again there's a lot of humor in here.
- The clickable items are kind of a pain.
- The hint system is good, but I'm still unsure what I'm supposed to do (but this is a game).

End result: Is that enough to dock it a star? No, I have very high hopes for this one. Am I a patreon? Nope, but I will become a patreon after I'm sure that the dev sticks with this after a few more releases.

Overall: Give this game a shot. Worst case scenario you're out two hours and a couple of faps that you would've spent elsewhere.

v0.21.DV

This is a game I *should* like a lot. It has just about everything I like for a light hearted romp from sleep creep, hot fam, overarching story, mild humor that isnt too annoying, etc...

So where does it go wrong?

The sandbox. Oh god the sandbox.
It looks and feels like places (people and things to click) were put out to be filled...
And then were not.


The world is a mess of clicking around to find random things, at specific times. To give a better feel, you have 90% clicking around for the 10% of content you find. Which is then repetitive mostly after you see it once.

Which leads me to the grind. This feels like an odd time gated grind with excessive exploration of nothing.
If the content were stripped from the UI and put into a linear kinetic novel, I could finish it in 5 to 10 minutes. That same amount of content took me about 1.5 hours of clicking around to find it.
Yeesh.

That said I love the content itself. Just ruined by the choice of delivery.
And of course, the amount of content itself is rather sparse and blueballing.

People writing reviews seem to impose their own negativity and lack of understanding onto games, and totally forget, its meant to be fun. The game comments appears most particularly hung up on particular genres people strongly like or dislike. All I can say there, if you feel that way, follow or forget, but theres no need to vent your spleen either way.

I found the game to fulfill the fun element I want from a game. The characters are quirky and several of them are hot, and I look forward to the game developing the relationships to get to more sexual scenes with those.

The pacing of corruption events is ok so far, although the VLDF storyline seems a little superfluous at the moment, albeit an amusing distraction, with some The Boys overtones. Whether that will become more prominent, only the author can tell. Given it is part of the premise of the whole storyline designed to set it apart from other games, I would have thought this would happen quickly if the game is to remain unique from the many others in this family genre

One bizarre annoyance I find is the size of the textbox, which although can be hidden, seems to occupy a disproportionate amount of the screen!

All in all I have found it a game I look forward to coming back to play and complete to the end of the current version, which I have now reached - and to look forward to the next updates.

*Edit* - so it seems the newest version required Windows 10 to run it. Sorry ppl but I refuse to be dictated to by an amateur gamer (or even a professional one) what OS I use. Eliteism is such a bollocks filter weapon. ranking 1 in default of being able to set Zero. What a waste of a game

Unfair to rate this 2/5 but I don't feel the time spent on this game is worth it.
There are only a few lewd scenes, the game mechanics are about the worse I've seen in a game. The story doesn't make much sense either. The renders are good but not anything special.

Only bug I found was
Eventually if or when this game get more content I'll do another review. See you in about 18 months.

version. 0.21

0.21
Renders are really good
Story is good
Walktrough is a confusing mess
No bugs
finding items for the summoning s dumb there where no hints where to find them
there night events
I just stopped playing because i had no idea how to even trigger a event even with walktrough

3YoV, chaotic game also chaotic main character while having fast-paced events.

I haven't touch any just released game, but I found this game in the forum asking for a play-tester, curious about what would they have in the game just about to be released, I give it a try. This review is highly based on that experience, without yet trying the latest version assuming there would not be much different in it.

The game it self seemingly to embraces magical theme in modern era.

Gameplay, it seems like dev are intend to make this game to be a fast pacing game, everything that will be advanced in near future is already set in the game so player could see where this game going toward to. Which is kind of nice to have despite my curiosity about the game tend make me kind of sad leaving things at cliffhanger.

Mechanics, what I have been experienced, it's a simple errand type of grind, where you need to do things which you can skip through several time to get to certain point where you can proceed.

Well of course to be fair, I will also mention how sometimes I get confused to navigate the "room" and want to address the hints are kind of vague, but considering it's just released version, from that stand point it is understandable.

Storywise, I don't know, every time I decide to slowing my pace to read what the hell is going on, it became more chaotic than before. Kinda weird, not in the bad way.

Character, are simply the main point of the game. I appreciate the effort they put in each of them.

H-Scene, considering this is the newly released, I skipped this part. This is why I don't usually reviewing new released since it so hard to make it objective.

Overall, the game seems like intended to be fast-paced but I found myself the effort to reached that point is preventing me to felt this is fast-paced game. I wished for there will be more things to do in between in future, so it may kept the game to be felt like I stated before or I was wrong entirely.

I curios about where the game will be expanding, had few guessed but I let the devs and his community decide rather than setting a stone from someone who just reviewing game.

Oh! I know how to phrase it better, don't worry the cat is had strong will to get his/her revenge.