Cultivating Companions

v0.3.5 A wonderful gem. The girls are very cute and I really like them and their interaction with the MC. The art is fantastic, with heft and impact. The sandbox has a bit of grind, but not much so it is tolerable.

Review for v0.3.5 I like the cultivation genre so that always kind of boosts a game for me, but that only goes so far. I think this game is alright for what it's doing, but man it would be like ten times better if it wasn't a really boring sandbox. Every time I play an AVN sandbox like this I understand more and more why so many people seem to dislike them. Dude, I just do not think it is enjoyable to do the same actions over and over for all the characters to get to any new scene. It's not even overly grindy as you exponentially grow pretty fast, but it's just a chore that's constantly in your face if you want to progress with anything. Nothing about these repeatable actions are engaging because it's the same little thing every time. Yes man I want to watch the MC grab an herb 10 times and then go punch a training dummy 10 more times and then go farm points with the girl by watching the same interactions I've already seen 10 times. Just not fun. The problem would be alleviated somewhat if the rest of the game was more interesting, but it's not. You know how so many lewd games will throw in some plot device for the MC to have a bunch of sex? This does the cultivation equivalent of that. The plot hasn't evolved much beyond that idea in what I played. Most events are pretty simple and revolve around you getting more and more intimate with various girls. I do like the girls, but progression with them feels so warped because a lot of it is based on these sandbox mechanics instead of real events. Doesn't feel that natural (more so for Okin). It's too much sandbox and not enough girls/events. It's also a little hard for me to get past Okins design of using a bunch of hair assets to create that fur affect. I appreciate the attempt but it feels so uncanny. It's like the game is so close to being good but also holds itself back with its sandbox approach. Probably a game I will just download a save/cheat if I do play it again.

Okay dev you got me, hook line and sinker or something. Sure there's some games with more refined models and smoother animations but still a solid 8/10 Characters have depth and are attractive, they have their stories and backgrounds etc. got me by couple of kinks there so for now 9/10 Overall i'd usually reduce points for making one of those grindy time waster type of fillers to make the game feel more like a game because you spent hours on it. usually it's just annoying and honestly it's a lazy solution from the devs. Still don't like it but what the hell, i want this game to have some visibility, you earned enough faith from me to give 5 stars for this, fingers crossed you get the support to take this game further and make it better, worth it to players and you Dev. Femboy enjoyers don't skip this

Good game, good characters, the story is basic so far but enought to the purpose of porn game. Animation are good and hot. MC is fine. A little grind at start of the game but not to much and you unlock thing fast enought and if you do good choice you unlock more faster. Now just have to wait for more content.

could be peak in the future the character models are amazing dev really knows his taste h scenes are hot and the animation qualty gets better as the game goes story is decent not big fan of culvitating but atleast its something unique the only bad part is grind its kinda easy after buying scrolls but i dont really like that kind of gameloop and lastly add more femboy content!

so far this looks real promising! my only complaint (which feels nitpicky) Is that once i noticed that all the hair patches on Okin are essentially stacked up wig models, i just can't unsee it. It's a pretty creative use of assets and might just be a "me" issue, but might be worth re-visiting to see if tweaks or a model edit could improve it. but aside from that, models and animations are fantastic.

There's not much to say about this in that it's just attractive characters models and good animations. The story is basically non existent and there isn't enough dialogue to even talk about character writing . I just personally enjoyed all the girls

PROS + The idea behind the game's story is interesting. + Most of the love interests are likeable. Okin had a likeable personality. Nomi was quite pure, and so cute, especially with the moving flower on her head when she is happy ''' Hmph. Flower traitor, tell Nomi's secrets!'' and how she talks her feelings towards MC in a most pure, cute, and funny way ''I wanna stay, and protect human. Human is precious to Nomi! More precious than shiny copper coin!'' Mira was funny and chaotic. + You can headpat Okin, a feature every game should have. + Character models look good, mostly towards the cute side (especially Nomi with pure act, and her facial expressions come as quite cute), aside from rare hot/sexy ones like Yeuqin. + Sex scenes have animations with good physics, FPS, and quality. They do have different progression animations as well, like slow, fast, faster versions of the same position, or while slapping Okin's ass, seeing her ass getting redder, etc. CONS & SUGGESTIONS - Story-wise, it's quite illogical, and nonsense that MC can't feel qi or cultivate from the moment she meets with the Old Man or starts to ''Dual Cultivate'' with the Okin. First of all the game is clear on how much Sect wants to Okin, and Okin wanting revenge on Sect, and wanting to find/save her people, and her family, so it's clear as a day there will be a lot of fighting, and there is no way after all that bonding MC letting her go throught that alone, he is gonna fight that's clear as a day. Secondly, even Okin is not powerful enough against the Sect or the Sect Elders; she is weak compared to them. For the third, the whole thing called ''Dual Cultivation'' what's the point of ''Dual Cultivation'' if MC is not gonna be able to? It makes literally zero sense that he can't feel qi or cultivate, and just acts like a charger for almost the whole of Okin's path. It makes no sense that MC can't feel qi or cultivate while he is ''Dual Cultivating'' with the Okin, and they are not getting powerful together. This whole thing is at the very center of the story, and it's failed quite badly. What's worse is that after all that time passed, they raised a bounty on her, getting close to her, etc, MC decides to join the sect as a disciple to progress forward. Which is literally something that should have happened from early parts of the game, not this late... - The cultivation levels are never explained or shown. There is a whole ''breakthrough'' talk by Okin or Yeuqin to MC, but to break through what? Which level? Nothing is mentioned, and it's way too vague. - ''Casual'' and ''Dirty'' conversation you have with Okin are not shown, the game simply says ''You spent some time making small talk.'' or stuff like that, while ''Deep'' conversations have some actual dialogue, but ''Deep conversation'' are not really that deep, they are mostly stuff like ''Where are you from?'' or ''What's does your name mean?'' or ''How did you end up here?'' which are quite casual conversations. But because of how the point system works, you need to spam ''Casual'' and ''Dirty'' conversations to progress, and that damages the experience. For a better experience, removing them and instead using the "Deep conversations'' system for all talks would be way better. For example, instead of one choice giving more affection, one giving less affection, another giving affection, decreasing one option will be a little bit lewd, and give intimacy points, another will be affectionate and will give affection, while another one will be lovely and give love points. - When there is no question to ask at the point of the game, you are even in "Deep'' conversations, which become the same as ''Casual'' and ''Dirty'' conversations, and just get skipped with something like ''You spend some time talking to her about her life.'' etc. - Yeuqin's path handled quite poorly, for no reason at all her path starts very roughly, while MC minding his business, and training stamina she approaches MC, insults him multiple times, then challanges him to spar where she won't use any spiritual power, weapon, etc, and only fight with her flesh, and if MC can land any hit she will leave him alone, but if he can't then MC has to leave, and not come back again to train there, she beats the MC, and says him ''Remember this moment, worm, the gap between us is not merely wide, it is infinite. Leave my sight and do not return to this place.'' and after MC training with Okin, coming back, and landing a hit on her, she says MC is the first man ever landed a hit on her while blushing, MC is like ''Why are you blushing? I only landed a single blow... It's not like I could beat you in a real fight...'' and she is like ''I'M NOT BLUSHING!'' while she is bright red, then says her chest feels strange before running... And when they meet again she says she wanna make amends, and warns MC, says he is talented, can feel his qi building, and might breaktrough soon, and as a lone cultivater with no backing who beat her in spar he should stay away from this place, and when MC acts suspicious towards her, she says him ''you are little frog in the well'' then leaves. And from there she kind of becomes like Okin, where you go to the training sight, and have conversations with her, get to know her better, etc. While she gets better, and more tolerable, it doesn't change how awful her first intereaction with MC was, if creators wants people to think this character as likeable to some degree at least they need to remake that scene's dialogues at least, and turn into something more acceptable without unnecessary insults, and more of a friendly banter like she is asking MC to leave this spot, and train somewhere else instead because she can't consentrate while other's present, and this is her spot to train, etc, and challenges him for the spot, this could change the things for better, and kinda fix her path to some degree. Not to forget it will fix how contradictory she is as well, because her act with MC in their first meeting and her act with Sect Leader doesn't suit at all, those two people are total opposites, and makes no sense that the girl who is against the Sect Leader's awful ways treating MC like that, even if she wanted to make MC leave because she thinks Sect's ways are bad, and he should be away from it she could have done without insulting, belittling, and beating the MC like that, like how she tried to do in her third intereaction with the MC after he managed to land hit to her. She is already kind of an enemy of the MC because of going after Okin anyway, making things worse than they are. Making her way less likeable with that first interaction makes literally no sense at all. Changing that first interaction, at least dialogue-wise, would be the best action to take here. - Villains are a bit too annoying for now; we have two of them. First one is Azure Wind Sect leader Elder Tokita, who thinks; Mercy, Justice, Balance, etc, kinda stuff is foolish, only thing matter is power, rare bloodlines, beasts, talented cultivators are resources to be used, unlike the Sect Leader before him, which is Yequin's mother, and despite the teachings she believe forcing Yeuqin to catch the Okin, bring him to prove her worth, so she can have answers about her mother with accessing records sealed above her rank (doubt this guy would ever help her tho even if she brings him the Okin, considering he says unless she does this he will find a more suitable use for her) seems like he is ruining/corrupting the sect til last drops, especially with raising the bounty on Okin constantly, making the sect disciples seach peoples houses without even warant, how they acting like bandits, taking peoples stuff, and beaten people who say they acting like bandits, etc, and some old woman tells MC about how they bring humans in cages as well, not just beasts, and they never seen again, so they seem to be using them for certain stuff. The second one is Imada, who seems close to the Sect Leader, thinks similarly to him, and even lusting after Yeuqin. Interestingly enough, Elder Tokita comes to him with a technique that lets the user absorb the powers of others through their hate and suffering, with the cost of lust. - We have no tips/walkthrough feature in the game, and combined with the sandbox style, it's almost possible to miss certain girls/content; there should be at least a screen that shows which girls/content are done or not done, etc. - HUD is way too big; we definitely need a way smaller HUD, or at least a HUD slider or some smaller options we can choose from. And there is unnecessary stuff on screen as well, like the "Data'' button, which opens the Save Menu; it takes too much space, and is not needed at all. And while we have unnecessary stuff like that, MC's Strength stat is nowhere to be found for no reason. - We have no textbox transparency/opacity option/slider, adding would be great. - Stamina mechanic is restrictive, and annoying/tedious, especially with not even getting fully restored when you sleep, or training it not affecting the efficiency at all, in fact, for increasing that, you actually need to buy an Artifact. The stamina mechanic should be optional, and we should be able to open or close from options. - While it's not awful, the game is still grindy, and it's both annoying and kinda ruins the immersiveness of the progress you have with Okin. Especially needing to spam meaningless ''Dirty'' and ''Casual'' conversations or needing ''Love Points'' to unlock sexual stuff that should happen organically while you make progress with her. Okin's progress/development/path already feels unnatural/artificial, but this whole needing to manually buy the stuff should happen normally simply makes things way worse. Even if the system is not gonna changed fully, at least we shouldn't need to buy manually, it should open automatically when you reach the needed love number. - When buying or using something the game opens menu asking you ''Purchase for 100?'' with ''yes'' and ''no'' options, and after buying it says ''Rejuvination elixir purchased!'' kinda message, and sents you back the first menu you were in, which is really annoying when buying or using multiple stuff, removing these would buying or using something faster, you don't need to confirmation, etc, anyway, even if you make mistake on buying or using rollback feature is easily fixes it. - Scenes and animations need more angles, and fewer POV or too close ones; mid-far 3rd person animation should be the main angles. Current ones are either POV or angles that look way too close, and this does not go just for sex scenes; almost anything characters do in the game, for some reason, either POV or looks way too close, and looks really bad. Like, what's the point of hugging or dancing being POV? In POV, we can't even see what's happening at all. Those types of scenes should be either mid-far 3rd person angle, or it should have a POV or close angle as an optional/secondary angle only. - Okin's chains on her neck don't get removed, or her clothes don't change. Logically, you wait at the start of her path or close after that, at least the chains get removed, and she gets actual clothes, and stops wearing rags, but nothing happens. Makes no sense, especially after all that bonding she had with the MC, that she doesn't ask or the MC doesn't ask her to remove the chain or bring her some actual clothes. - Okin's fur needs some fixes, first of all some of her fur goes inside of her body texture, and secondly she does have double different fur at her tail, it looks really weird, like a visual bug . While fixing this is crucial gotta say other fur parts doesn't look great either, like the ones on her leg, or the one on her croach or shoulders, removing them could be a good idea, in fact the game could act like they were actually not part of her body, and just fur accessories. Having only ears and tails alone would make her look way better. Interestingly enough, Nomi has a similar problem; it's not as bad as the Okin's fur, but she has weird branches around her whole body, and they don't really look good. Removing them could be a good idea. - Nomi's face design changed after her first sex scene, and her old face design was better/cuter. - Mira's chest and tits look really bad; her lower body looks good, but her upper body design needs some changes. - Characters, especially Okin's face, are way too tanned/bronze, and red; it is quite different than her body color, she almost looks like she got sunburned or something, and looks kinda weird, some color adjusting is needed. - While it's not on an "unplayable'' level, it still has bugs like giving ''An exception has occurred'' in cases like missing audio files or pictures (Yeuqin's almost whole second spar is full of grey screens with missing images), etc. Along with these, we have visual bugs like body textures, like characters' feet going inside of ground textures as well. And some animations had weird bugs like some weird stuff happening with Okin's pussy . And there are not stopping animations bug (at least I assume it's bug) where some animations looking like supposed to stop not stopping at all, and keep playing, these are not loops, these are animations that has to stop after playing one time like cumming animation, but they they don't, and it keeps repeating unless couple dialogues are passed, etc. All of these bugs are stuff that can be easily seen; the game should be tested before release to avoid bugs. - MC's dick is like it's not the actual part of his body, and it's an entirely different entity, probably because of the engine getting used, but it looks really weird , especially in animations when it moves inside of MC's croch, etc. - There is a weird Vignette effect on a lot of scenes. It's quite unnecessary, and looks bad. - At the end of their content, every girl talks to players with breaking the 3rd wall about Patreon, etc, and it's kinda immersive breaking. VERDICT Most of the CONS can easily be fixed with some tweaks, and testing the game before releasing updates, doing that alone can bring the game to a decent level. On the other hand, fixing the failed main story along with CONS could make this game a great game, and not just a decent one. Either way it's worth playing or at least giving a try, but it could be a good idea to wait until some bugs and problems get fixed as well.

So I'm over evaluating a bit this game under the copium, but maybe we gonna have some good stuff later. Girl models is alright, some flaws between their legs but their face is really well done (most important). Would have like more details and efforts for their intimate parts. Okin is definitely the perfect petite girl you like, I do think she opened a bit foo fast and don't have really anything important to say but ig with the evolution it'll be fine. I also like Yeuqin even if I think the relation needs more work. Mira is lacking some interest, she's pushed to much to have the same persona as Okin, submissive/in love at first sight, bit boring, could make her different. The scenes are pretty fine, animations are doing the job, devs could be alone to do all the work so I'm gonna say it's fine. I completely cheated the grind, was a bit boring to do could make it easier a bit easier for people that wants to stay legit. Kinks covered are for now pretty vanilla, no rimming possible yet on those girls showing you their asses. The story is imo very whatever, nothing deep, vilains are vilains and that's pretty much it. Got some big scenes missing with the sadistic girl which feels a bit bad but ig it'll get fixed soon. I imagine the dev is a dude so he focused most of his time on the girls and I understand, but god dammit the MC looks pretty bad. His cock is badly attached to his body and it's like super big. I think more realistic proportion and better model would make the scenes more interesting since we see him a lot. About its personnality a work could also be done, he's so blank and empty I wishe he got cucked. Music & Audio, nothing to say for that, it's ok. For the future : Hope to see more wild kinks, more of Okin. Some fixs on the models. Less edgy MC. And a story that is a bit more deep, keep it simple if you don't know how to write one.

Art is incredibly good, and the cast is (so far) nicely diverse. My only issue would be the black/blue haired girls model, which might need a little touch, but other than that they're all stunningly well made. For the amount of content so far this probably shouldn't get a 5 star rating, but I believe in the potential of this game.

Not much to go off of yet, but I love how it looks and the "cultivation" is fun. The animations are good but there was a moment where a nipple clipped into the rest of the skin, sort of breaking immersion.. But still very early in the development of the game and I really enjoyed it. I hope to be able to bring more girls into the house in a future update, maybe okin will interact with other companions?

The scenes are great. The art direction is solid. The story is interesting. The pacing is not bad at all. There's not a lot wrong with it other than some minor spelling mistakes but I'd definitely recommend this one.

its so good. I love the character in this game. And it has a certain amount of gameplay, after all, it's a simulation game.I also think the character modeling and dynamic CG rendering are quite good.

One of the few cultivation games so I might be a bit based, Art and Animation: 5/5 amazing Ive got nothing more to say Story: ?/5 there not much to judge it off of as of right no so I'll leave that blank Gameplay: 3/5 its a basic point and click semi dating sim nothing too new or original but still fun none the less Overall im giving it a 5/5 because I see good hope for it in the future.