discussion What are your 5 favorite VNs & 3 VNs that you wish you'd never started?

[Soniram]

I'm going to try to mention those not already mentioned, even if I'm a fan. Mist is cool, I know.

The Good:
My Bully is My Lover - Cute-ish "landlady" VN. The beginning was really good and strong. First VN to make me really tear up. Kinda started going wacko a bit later, but still a good story.
Neko Paradise - My definite go-to for supreme hotness over story. Violet is a near-perfect character.
Tales of Terrara - Especially Mol and the dwarf girl. Fantasy. Yum. Interesting story, too, though updated very slowly.
Little Green Hill - Straight super-harem type game. Not much story.
Libertine - Well, yeah. Of course.

The Bad:
There's all kinds of ways of being a bad game. From super-grind to super-slow to super-just-fucking-bad. Too many deleted games to remember.

 

[Stoni1234]

1. The Guardian
2. Personal Assistant BHE
3. Desert Stalker
4. Higher Society
5. Proud Father

Honorable mentions: Daughter for Dessert - first Vn that got me into this stuff, Melody, Hot Sand of Antarctica - good start so far, Long live the Princess, Away from Home.

There are some games i lost interest in or stoped playing after a while because i didnt like the characters/story. I dont like games with many different routes where you have do go for more than one playthrough. I also prefer games with ingame walkthrough or an easy structure where no walkthrough is needed.

 

[Kazenofick]

My 5 favs (that i remember right now) are:
Radiant
Summer Scent
Lunars Choosen
Acting Lessons
Ecchi Sensei

Regrets:
Ecchi Sensei (yes its in both i regret it because i always think about what could have been, but the contant that is there is amazing.)
Adventures of Willy D (it was a good game but i forgot to save for like 3 hours and had a bug that wouldnt let me play further)
- I played a lot of games but i dont think i regret another one maybe i didn't lie them but i just stop playing them... and since i am dowloading them for free im not really regreting anything

 

[Toraskemasta]

My 5 favs (off the top of my head) :
tales of the unending void
my time with you
projekt passion
phoenixes
twisted memories

Regrets:
lustyverse universe (although willing to give the new lust theory a chance)
triple ex
my ordinary extraordinary life.

 

[Matsu]

Five i really like in no particular order
1. Eternum- good story, good characters, high production value.
2. Leap of faith- a porn game that made me feel something
3. Artemis- fun characters, and i like near future tech in stories
4. Mist- good unique story/mechanics
5. Out of touch- synth wave + anime = badass

Three i couldn't get into but not necessarily bad
1. City of broken Dreamers- seemed good, but the English dialog wasn't translated well.
2. My Bully is my Lover- just couldn't get into it
3. Acting lessons- I played it right after leap of faith, and heard it was heart breaking, but it just didn't hit the same way. The twist seemed cheap.

The plot twist in acting lessons. Are you referring to the house fire where you have to choose which one to save?

 

[JKQW]

Personally when deciding favorites, I'm more inclined for the japanese VNs as they give you a complete product but some western VNs are real gems.

LIKE:
Dessert Stalker (Zetan) - You play as Stalker (very competent mercenary) in a dystopian world with Egyptian aesthetics. It's nice to see our MC act like the absolute badass he is without doubting himself for days about wheter or not he should fuck his daughters, of course he will!
Rightful Ownership (RNGR) - MC is filthy rich after investing in crypto which used to fulfilled his earthly desires (booze and hookers) yet he feels empty, so he decides to honor his father's wishes and find some women to pass his superior genes on. It's about bleaching so be warned.
Eternum (Caribdis) - This is the quintessential VN about a youth (+18) hanging out with friends, fucking some chicks and solving the dark mystery behind the most popular game in that world.
MILF Breeder (Serge3dx) - If you like futas, a simple story about a hung gal accepting her condition and breeding all women she sees. Short but goes to the point, giving it more content than a lot "slow burn" VNs out there.
In for a penny (Moist Sponge Productions) - Will like it if you're into women with huge breasts. MC wakes up into a spaceship to run a porn show, like Friends but he is the only man and has to fuck all 30 women there. The beggining is rough as he acts very whimpy with "I don't know what's going on" or "I cannot just bang you even though you're clearly okay with it" but gets better pretty fast and despite his complains he bangs.

 

[User_80256]

My personal top:
1. The Entrepreneur
2. Amnesia
3. Summer's Gone
4. Adventures Of Willy D
5. Twists of My Life

Waste of time:
1. Being a DIK
2. Fetish Locator
3. Summertime Saga

 

[lonewolf1986]

tops
My New Family
Love of Magic
Sorcerer
Serenity
Lessons in Love

 

[critkal]

1 - Heart Problems
2 - WVM
3 - Single Again
4 - DMD
5 - Away From Home

Regret:
The Secret

 

[AsuraEU]

My likes :

• Being A DIK
• Parental Love
• It's Not A World For Alyssa
• Apocalypse
• The Guardian

My regrets :

• Moving Down
• All games by Blondie Bear
• All games by CeLaVieGroup (the grind is fucking real, for almost nothing too)
• 2Sides (I should only list 3 games, but fuck the dev really)

 

[Just Another Rando]

My Favourites.

• Eternum: - The game itself is a masterpiece for the genre it's in, the story was always on point.
• Serenity: - This is unique in a way, it has a touching story and adorable girls
• Proud Father: - The character interactions as well as the storyline made this one a real gem
• Friends In Need: - A recent win from buying too much cryptocurrency gives you the power to help others, choices are either diplomacy or degeneracy.
• Long Road Home: - An ex-military man released after 'wrongful' imprisonment gets a new lease on life, and ingratiates himself with the local Biker chapter.

Worth mentioning but not in my top 5

• Cosy Cafe: - Good story, good renders and a nice theme (it doesn't hurt there is some mild BDSM action in there)
• Personal Assistant BHE: - A good remake of a decent game but with Seath's unique take.
• Wicked Choices: - A game I replayed more than a few times, it is still on my list of games I play.
• Stormside: - Yes I'm aware it's another school-based game, but it's unique in its delivery of how the MC ends up being in charge of punishments etc. At least compared to other games in the genre.
• Defending Lydia Collier: One of only a few games where you can play as a lawyer that doesn't suck ass.

My Biggest Regrets

• My Ordinary Extraordinary Life: - This game had so much promise when it first started, but it snowballed into one of the most abysmal games to grace adult sites.
• Bull Bunny Cuck: - A game that should have been amazing, but every iteration of it just further sent it down the road to ruin.
• The Two Sides Of Love: - Story of an ex-fighter being accused of things he didn't do, and then throughout the story proceeds to have his daughters try to control his every move, such a pointless story in an otherwise half-decent game, this is one I wish I hadn't wasted my time on.

Other games I regret spending time on (but still hope they get altered to make them good again)

• New Horizon: - A game that had so much potential but the story was written in such a way that the MC felt pointless and you the player were left feeling cheated
• The Shrink R&R: - Started brilliantly, but after the 'remake' it just ended up being another game on the ever-increasing dung pile
• Bite Season One: - I liked it initially but then the story was 'redone' such a waste, an otherwise somewhat good game going to hell in a handbasket.

This list took me entirely too long to think about and make complete, I held off on cooking dinner for this, I hope y'all appreciate that

 

[res]

1. False Hero (still waiting comeback)
2. Desert Stalker
3. Such a Sharp Pain
4. The Guardian
5. Higher Society

 

[Matsu]

1. Such a sharp pain
2. The guardian
3. Proud father
4. City of broken dreamers
5. Tales from the unending void
Honorable mentions: Dating my daughter which gave me my start in VN's, Ecchi sensei as some of you might have guessed already, secrets of whispering pines, raptus, apartment69, ravenous, radiant, triple ex, Where the heart is, element 174, many more....
Games I regret:
The intoxicating flavor because it started out as a seemingly normal VN, but devolved far beyond left field into inter dimensional beings and blurring the lines between delusions and reality. Much like a schizophrenic on LSD. There were other games that ground on forever with little reward or progress or games that were just difficult to play or navigate because of their structure which I tried to forget. Apparently it worked because I can't remember the names. If I think of more I'll post them

 

[BadFox1]

Top 5 in no order... This is harder than I thought. I play A LOT of games.
Where the Heart Is
Being a DIK
Eternum
Summers Gone
Chasing Sunsets
Light of My Life
Interwined
I know more than 5, I couldn't cut it down to just 5 SORRY...

Honorable mentions also in no order...
Ecchi Sensei (Sad it was abandoned)
Midlife Crisis (Also sad abandoned)
Leap of Faith
Where it All Began
City of Broken Dreamers
Good girl gone bad
Our Red String
A Man for All
Camp Klondike (SUPER UNDERRATED)
But I'm the Bad Guy
Hillside
Tabletop Porn Star
The Night Driver

Wish I'd of never played...
Anything by Slonique. HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE!
I can't believe I'm going to say it because I LOVE the game but WVM. If BrainDead could get out of his own way it would seriously be one of the best, but i digress...
DMD I liked the first chapter after that it was a disaster.

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[Just Another Rando]

To compound upon what you're saying about WVM @BadFox1 The only thing that irritated me was that completely foolish idea that the MC's face was never seen, it simply destroys the story when you see all the girls in all their splendour and then this insanely stupid black box for a head.

 

[JadedSkywalker]

I wouldn't say i wish i never started but a wife and mother, the content isn't worth it. I mean there is a slow build and then there is milking. You kind of have to like corruption and ntr and lesbian action, and still mc never progresses.

 

[BadFox1]

AHAHHAHAHAHAHHA The black box head and baseball bat dik. AHAHAHHAHAHHA gotta LOVE WVM. At the begining of a wife and mother it was great, IDK where that story went off the rails but it did. By the later editions which are RARE now I don't even care anymore...

 

[JadedSkywalker]

Wish WVM hadn't made some of the characters off limits like the sister, but oh well. Even the women who adopted you who is not blood, its like they did this for patreon.

 

[The Void]

Not an actual ranking, but if we're talking about actual VNs only and ignoring RPGM and sandbox games
Favorites:

• Pale Carnations: This game is fascinating. Writing, characters, visuals, everything in this game is amazing. It is a bit too extreme for my tastes sometimes, but it's so good that I can overlook the more extreme parts and to keep playing.
  
  
• Light of My Life: Writing at its finest. At first I didn't liked the character designs, but the more I played, the more I started to love it. The girls developments, about how they try to overcome their issues and how the relationships keep building, it's just so good. I just wish the updates were a bit faster, the last one took like two years or something to came out (but at least they are massive).
  
  
• DeadMoon Survival: Post-apocalyptic setups aren't my favorites, but there's something about this game that makes me love it. Visuals are beautiful, the MC is nice, the plot is very nice, even if it's a zombie apocalypse game.
  
  
• Tales from the Unending Void: Like DeadMoon Survival, another setup that isn't my favorite (space sci-fi stuff), but this game makes me like it. Beautiful visuals and good plot. This dev's previous game (Sisterly Lust) was already good, but this one is even better.
  
  
• Such a Sharp Pain: Perhaps one of the most beautiful visuals in porn games I've ever seen. Don't know what else to say about this game besides beautiful visuals and good writing.

Honorable mentions:

• Keepers
• Radiant
• MIST
• Eternum (everyone's saying it's a masterpiece, but I've only played it for a bit. Really liked it so far)
• Parental Love
• Project Myriam
• A Wife and Mother

Regrets:

• Grandma's House: I loved it at first, but as the game progressed, it just became another "MC fucks every girl he talks with" game. It got really boring.
  
  
• Single Again: Actually a very good game, but the MC is SO ANNOYING that made me dislike the entire thing. I just wanted to punch this dude for being so annoying every time I played.
  
  
• Dual Family: I don't understand how the dev was able to ruin one of the most promising game I've ever seen. It was amazing at the beginning, potential to be a masterpiece. It seems that the dev either got addicted to crack or stopped taking his meds, because the game just became a complete garbage. Dude LITERALLY ruined his own game.

I just mentioned games that I actually invested time and got disappointed. Of course there are tons of other games that were totally shit, but I didn't even wasted my time and just ignored them so they don't count as "regret"

 

[tangodidi]

Eternum,call of the void,love season,imperial chronicles,once in a life time