RPGM - Completed - House Chores [v1.0.2] [Siren's Domain]

This game uses the tried and true "boy stuck in a house with lusty busty babes" formula, and it executes just fine on it. Like many in this genre, it has strengths and weaknesses. I would say the strengths are the art and sex scenes. You get a mix of full-screen scenes and some sprite scenes (even mix, it works). They're all animated with multi-speed options, the dialog within is healthy, with audio to boot. Perfect - if a game had to pick one area to excel, this is the most rewarding one to do so imo. Even today at v0.7 there is quite a bit of this to be had:
You can see that it is mostly skewed for one character... but the best one, imo! Actually, this is one of the few games where I'm actually somewhat more interested in the sister character, a shame there's nothing good there yet...

So, what are the weaknesses? Well, it's a shallow game. This in itself has strengths and weaknesses - strong in that it won't take you too long to play through and fap, but weak in that it's not very imaginative or narratively exciting. It's fine really, I definitely prefer this to those BS stories that drag out with unnecessary complexity, but it could definitely be better as well.

Otherwise, it's fine. There is a teeeeeny tiny bit of fetch-questy/grindinesss, but you're usually able to make a relationship progression in one in-game day which is perfectly fine by my standards. I suppose I can mention that the game is built in RPGM, which is a bit of an odd choice (dev is probably just more familiar with it due to his previous titles). It's fine, it just means you're missing some features like rewinding text, skipping text, etc.

Even though this is right up my alley, I'm unsure if I'll ever put this on my 5 star list, even once complete. It would have to really ramp up in kinkiness or... suspense or... idk, something. It's great, honestly, I just wonder if I'd ever consider it to be amazing due to the shallow story I mentioned.

(v0.7) The art is the highlight so far for the game, it does what it needs and is definitely on top of the average. Content is lacking but for what's there with the main lady you'll get some enjoyment out of, with a little on the side from the other older woman in the game. Not much in the way of interaction from the player like for e.g. minigames, so what you get so far is barebones but nonetheless look forward to future updates.

I'm really enjoying the game, but having to choose your relationship with each character is quite disappointing, mainly because you can't know before choosing, it would be much more exciting to have everything pre-set. This is just my opinion, the game is still very good.

hmmm... i dont know how to feel about this game.
if you like story then this game is not it because it has none. if you want a quick wank then the art is decent enough, such a shame though this game has better art than the rest of their game with fleshed out story.

A quick stream of thought ramble on House Chores and the incest genre:

House Chores has flaws but what it does well, it does very well. This game captures the ultimate essence of the incest fantasy. There's no absurdly contrived mind control, magic, or mafia forcing the issue. It's just the simple fantasy of a teen boy living at home and having regular sex with the women in his life, all over the house, whenever he feels like it. And idk why, but that's the dream for fans of this genre. The fantasy of blow jobs to get out of bed, tit jobs when you come home from school, sex before you go to sleep -- the incredibly mundane when mixed with incest, that's the juice, that's what makes it so erotic. I wish more devs embraced the simplicity of the fetish.

Games with similar vibes to House Chores:
-The Wish
-Stay at Home

I'm disappointed with that game, it was supposed to be a mini game and that deserved 4 or 5 stars but as an extended game it's not interesting.
No real story, no character developpement, no gameplay to support an extended version.

It has nice graphics for sure and the animations have the merit of being present even if they are simple...
But the voice "acting" is really crap, she sounds like she's doing sports or taking a heavy crap instead of having sex, really a turn off. It breaks every immersion you could have. Not even sure a woman is doing the acting, sounds like a teenager's voice broken.

Version: 0.6.9.1 Public

• hot intro
• cute art style; the various "in-environment" drawings/animations are a good touch - something about that immersion makes it more erotic
• animations are simple but effective
• not a fan of reusing the exact template animations for a different event, in the case of the bj being the same in the kitchen and bathroom (latter with no clothing) - a different angle/position could have been drawn; perhaps she did the bj without coming out of the bath
• opposite of a slow burn which I'm not a fan of; the sexual progression is fast; scenes themselves play out as fast as they come - should be fine once there are a lot of things to do
• there's only substantial content for the mother rn

GOAT THE BEST TO EVER DO IT SHIT IS LIKE 20 MINUTES LONG AND ALREADY THE BEST GAME ON THIS SITE WAIT TILL ITS FINISHED THIS SHIT CHANGING THE GAME FR SIREN IS ON A NEW LEVEL ALL THE WAY UP THREW THE ROOF ASCENDING A GOD

Honestly, it's not bad. If we're being honest, what really caught my eye was the preview art alluding to the "hot milf scrubbing the floor in front of the son playing video games" meme. The art is HOT, and it's what reeled me in to try this game. Does it disappoint? No, it's pretty good, but it's still very much in development. as of 0.6.9, the sister route isn't fleshed out as much, but the mom route? Holy shit, it's pretty okay right now.

Pros:
- Great art

- NOT grindy.
I think this is what shines with this game. I've played a lot of VNs and RPGMs, but this game in particular manages to AVOID being grindy. The point and click mechanics are very rudimentary, the flow isn't complex, and the hints are VERY straightforward. There's literally no need to cheat in this game so far (at least as of ver. 0.6.9). For me, this is a breath of fresh air because I think this is how porn games are meant to be. I mean, shit, they're PORN games after all. The porn takes priority before the overall gameplay aspect. Regardless of this, gameplay elements are still very much present ofc, and it works like your standard "day cycle sim" where you perform actions throughout the day. You can skip time, or interact with your fellow housemates or loved ones. You choose!

-Good writing
The "corruption aspect" is fast, but the writing isn't braindead. It's good. It sets the stage. It teases, but it gets the job done, and it delivers after enough time.

-Don't like incest? It's fine! You can change the relationship that the MC has with the characters, and you can do it right from the get-go

Cons:

- If you're looking for a slow burn, this ain't it, chief, but otherwise, if you're looking to fap from a basic story you can digest after 30 or so mins, you've come to the right place.

-Lackluster content. So far I've completed the "mom route," but the sister route has yet to be implemented.

-Despite the last "pro point" about relationship customization, it feels awkward to assign a maid role, or a tutor role, or a NON-incestual role to the girls. At the end of the day, no matter how you change it, it still feels like you're engaging in an incestual relationship, especially when it comes to how the dialogue is formed. Make of that what you will.

The premise is looking good so far and some of the scenes are hot enough to get it going.

However, there wasn't any difference between one game and the other in terms of... lust progression. Basically, do something so that the FC likes you more and more until you are both caught in throes of passionate sex, or in general, caught doing something naughty, get rewarded -- each naughty happenings will land you riskier positions and scenes.

From all the art Siren's Domain has used in most of their games, this might be one of my favorites.

3/5

There are some good reviews so I won't really get into it. Good is solid no skip is tad annoying though. Art is good and charming. I put this around 3 for now and probably 4 or straight up 5 later when this is completed. It looks very promising so here is to hoping it goes to a completed status

Current version (v0.5.2) is a bit short but this game has a huge potential and gonna be one of the best at full release. This dev actually do finish what he starts unlike so many other devs, so we will be seing this one grow to to it's full potential. Models look awesome, story is there but nothing special (yet). Only negative thing i can say is that "things" escelate a bit fast. Other than that, everything is peachy. Will be watching this one for sure.

Great discovery ! I follow its development, since the first releases waiting for a bit more of content.
I'm really satisfied by this game content, kinks and design.
It require few grindings, each character can be full of suprises and this game let us hoping for more add-on in the future.

PRO :
- Great design (art style, house locations character design),
- Few useless loooooooong and repeatables grindings,
- Nice characters diversity (3 at the V0.5.2 release),
- Great "side-animations" when fapping in the main characters room or when repeating an event at each location.
- A bit of realism in characters mind : paying attention to others aside, taking care of noise level or proximity when doing naughty things.

CON :
- The relation bewteen the main character and the "householder" is maybe too quick, too artificial, maybe dowing a slowburn relation construction could have been better, more steps before zero-relationship to full-love.

IMPROVEMENTS :
- Adding more outfits choices to each character or scene (like the choice for householder hair (great idea btw!)),
- Adding more steps to get to the sex for each character (maybe each character can have its personnalised amount of steps before sex)(and and for sexual activities, some characters can offer special things that other haven't, or denying some other), not every woman is a pornstar with full specs !
- More frustration sometimes (like the intro scene which is great !) Frustration always conveys to a better pleasure when goal is finally aimed.
- To get point with each characters, having some small-games could be cool, with a gradual difficulty.

Pretty straightforward wank material. Hits a lot of good incest beats so far. Not super original, but there's nothing wrong with that.

Art is really nice and the dialogue is decent enough as well.

A bit more character development would have been preferred, but sometimes you're just in the mood to get right to the good stuff and this does it pretty well.

Animations could be a little smoother.

I don't understand how this has only 3,5 stars (at the time of writing), and how many people in the discussion thread are complaining that there isn't enough to do yet. This is an awesome game, and it's chock-full of content (maybe not in absolute terms - although, yes also in absolute terms - but 90% of the game is pure sex). This could've been a complete (short but sweet) game, as far as I'm concerned, but it's only the introduction yet. I completed the entire thing in an hour, and my dick simply didn't have time to get soft in between scenes.

I see great things in this game's future, especially considering who's behind it. Nothing but quality from Siren.

My only complaint is that the 'lady of the house' doesn't wear household gloves while doing her house chores, but I accept that's a very particular thing that only I care about. (I really do hope they'll be included in one of the future outfits, though).

What's here is very good there just isn't much of it. This is evidently a side project.

Gets right into "it", without much story, but there are hints dropped of the usual story elements used in these games. You just don't see them directly.

The usual "not my family" clone, but the art is superb and I am genuinely warming to the characters. I find it a little counter intuitive when it comes to the quests, but that could be down to it being in early stages.

RPGM is usually a cup of tea not for everyone. I find few games are good with it, ToP being one. But never seen it used like this. I like it much more than Unity or Rpy.
Simpler, without that "patchy" feel the other engines often have.

Game is great. Better drawings than all the other Siren releases, and all around works well.

All im missing is a dedicated fast read/skip button, for those repeat scenes you just need to get through. Holding down MB1 in RPGM usually works for speeding up animations, but the sound in sex scenes can get a bit f'ed up if u do that.

This game has a really good potential the gameplay is pretty good for a beginning but i wait for other features in the futur like hiding the HUD to look at the caracters, left click to open the menu, side quests, ect... but for now it's really good for an early game and the caradesign is astounding this is amazing and original the animations too are really greats can't wait to have more in the future (;

Review for Game Version [v0.5 Beta]

Pros
+ Simple Story, easy to follow along and find out what to do
+ CG quality is great
+ Animations are done well
+ Good art and character design
+ Dialogue is good given the setting and character interactions
+ Some H-scenes have some variations which is nice to have

Neutral
* There is 2 choices when interacting with the character (Linda) in how the relationship system works. Can best describe these as love or lust. However there isn't much difference besides the dialogue from what I found. If developed further it can give it uniqueness which could improve the game significantly. Perhaps different scenes for different choices base on choices.
* Game Story is a bit directionless? At first you do some chores to build some relationship. However once you get H-scenes you don't need to do chores to build relationships. Just do some H-scenes and you will eventually get the rest. Chores is a bit thrown aside and not sure how the name of the game is fit for the story. Most games are relative to the name title as a theme/focus. Maybe not much is developed or somethings need to be changed but hopefully improves.
* Being that most of the story takes place in the house it should be fit that characters clothing change when going to the next day. Whether its just simple clothing or color change there should be something. Nothing as of now but would be nice to see.

Cons
- Not much build up and tension for getting to H-scenes. Relatively quick to progress through each H-scene.
- Relatively short (About 40 - 50 mins for my playthrough for all content available). This game would probably benefit if it had time develop characters and such.
- Not much to do in the game. Click here for dialogue go to next room. Build relationship. Rinse and repeat and your kind of done with everything.
- Kind of no need for room and UI design style of game. There's really only 3-4 places you move in between. Click here to go to next room etc... this probably would've been easier in a simple menu UI design in choosing rooms. Just tedious as there isn't that many locations to go to as of now.

Conclusion
Overall its an average game. Nice H-scenes to be seen and easy to follow the story. However the story itself doesn't help with character development and feels like everyone is just horny for some sex. This can be felt in the short game time as of this game review. Do expect some nice CG and animations but don't hold high for any story and character development as of now.