Life in Woodchester

I remember seeing this a long time ago and thinking it was going to be great. Well, its been a while and it isnt. The artwork is great, but the faces sometimes detach from the characters and float in the void, which isnt my particular kink. The plots are decent, but they overlap each other so moving room to room you'll randomly get sucked into something completely unrelated to what youre trying to do which really throws the story out of whack. Besides that, there just isnt a lot of content at all. 90% of the content I saw I remember seeing a long time ago, so im just not really sure what theyve been up to.

This game has been in development for six years yet the amount of content and technical execution leaves much to be desired. Sure, the art is good, even though some panels look off (you don't eat half your parners' face when kissing, wth man), but there's really not that much of it given the time this thing has been in development. A somewhat clunky interface, lack of scroll back, navigation issues, sprite bugs (floating eyes, missing body parts, etc) and pointless waiting cut into the enjoyment. I imagine the dev has grand plans, given the size of the game world (most of which is completely unused), but compared to similar project like Summertime Saga, which has been in development for 10, they are taking way too long and underdelivering. There's just not enough content or uniqueness for this project to be worth your time right now. Things could change, but right now it's more like a demo or proof of concept than anything else.

The characters are good, the art and animations are very well-done, and the writing is decent, but this game really still feels like an initial demo. I realize that this might not initially make sense as a complaint seeing as it's early access, but there's a notable difference. It's still struggling with its identity as a game despite the first playable build being nearly six years old now, and it's constantly getting in its own way. The sandbox elements and "stats" add no interesting mechanics, only really serving to make things a bit more tedious. The time of day rarely matters, the day of the week never seemed to mean anything as far as I could tell, and there's no day counter to necessitate any time management. This also renders all of the stats, money, and "FapBank" points meaningless, as you can just stockpile them until you're maxed out. The navigation's UX is clunky, and it's easy to stumble into a room that triggers a character's story that you weren't meaning to advance. Every single dialog choice is purely flavor as there are no hidden affection meters or branching storylines, which itself isn't bad, but it strikes me as odd. There are truly no consequences for anything, which begs the question: why implement so much player input if you aren't doing anything interesting with it? The only real benefit I can see to this sort of sandbox approach is that it allows the player to choose which characters they want to prioritize, but that doesn't explain all of the other extraneous systems in place. The game also has a fair number of bugs as well as many small typos — most of them are punctuation-based, but it adds up to be just a bit grating. There's also no skip or history for dialog, but you can press B to go back one dialog box and N to instantly skip the entire current scene (this also selects every dialog option in the scene being skipped, which may force you into a character's replayable sex scene). These keyboard shortcuts are not listed anywhere that I could find. Fortunately, there's a "deluxe" build with cheats that allow you to instantly max out all stats and unlock (almost) all scenes in the game to rewatch, sexual or story, so you can easily bypass nearly everything I just mentioned. Again, though, this doesn't really excuse the flaws to much as it does slap a bandage on them. The scenes themselves are good, but everything around them needs to be reworked for a more cohesive, streamlined experience. I considered keeping this at at least three stars because I genuinely liked the H-scenes enough, but a lot of the newer static images and backgrounds are AI-assisted, if not fully AI-generated. In particular, all of the FapBank images are absolutely made with AI, which is extra gross because that's supposed to be the higher-tier paid reward. (I know this is a piracy site, so nobody here is likely paying for this, but it's the principle of charging extra for AI shit that's scummy. I typically advocate for supporting indie developers and artists wherever you can, but this kind of thing is just not worth it.) The character sprites and animations still look to be handmade, but if they keep up with this GenAI use, this game will lose the one thing it's good at.

I think this game deserves 4-5 stars. I like it a lot. In a sense it stays true to the classic structure of these kind of games, but I feel it does it better than most. Definetly worth trying. Plently of detail and it feels like a game. I can't think of anything negative really I could critique.

i love the art, the characters (main character is whatever but that doesn't matter much to me), the sex, the romantic arcs, all that stuff. most of the "h-scenes" or whatever are phenomenal. not much that's particularly original, but one of the most beautiful and appealing "landlady" character i've seen in one of these games, maybe my favorite sadistic older "roommate" character in an avn ever, extremely charming story with the younger "roommate," a couple really great side characters with a fun storyline (also a leprechaun for some reason, but that part is funny enough and her sex scenes are pretty great, so not going to complain). BUT: this is the most extreme example i have ever encountered of a straightforward visual novel that is desperately trying to escape from the sandbox game it has been shoved into. i don't just mean "this should just be a visual novel," i mean that the game is constantly fighting against any sandbox elements it has. events constantly get interrupted by other events because they're triggering on the same day in the same place - you'll be going with someone to the mall, but when you go downstairs someone rings the doorbell and an entirely different event will start unfolding against your will just by entering the room. events that are clearly supposed to happen at a specific time and over the course of hours or days will happen at completely random times of day, without time actually passing - you get in a fight in the park "at night" even though it's the afternoon, pass out, wake up nursed back to health in someone else's bed, have an intimate conversation with them, and then fade to black...then you are back in the park, and it is the afternoon of the same day. select the map icon and go back to your house to see what else is happening this afternoon! when you get there, the character whose bed you just woke up in will not mention it or act differently at all! there are stats you can train in your free time, but they basically have one specific use each (or no specific uses), and could just be handled in the narrative. you need money basically only so that you can play a gambling minigame that part of the story is locked behind - why have the money be an actual stat you're tracking? you could just lose the card game and have to try again without clicking on your computer a bunch of times to earn money. days passing has no effect on anything, so there's nothing to stop you from just spam-clicking until you have thousands of dollars. you similarly unlock still images of characters by earning a "fap point" every time you talk to them, but talking doesn't use up time, so you can just enter and exit a conversation ten times and unlock all of them for that character. why not just have them all unlock as soon as you meet them, or alternatively have them unlock as you progress? you can make small talk with the characters, but all of them, *including the main love interests* say the exact same things (or tonal variations on the same non-answers) in response to your questions over the course of the entire game. why even have this option? there are a bunch of buildings that you can visit that serve no function except as settings for a specific scene or two, but you can go there every day and do nothing there. why have free map movement at all? it's beyond pointless. worse than that, you can make repetitive small talk with characters hanging out in this big pointless world who will become important later, *when you meet them for the first time* in the plot. yeah, we've never met before and i know nothing about you, even though i talked to you at the library a bunch of times when i first started playing because i thought that was part of the game, and we talked like we were old friends. the choice to make this a sandbox game is absolutely baffling to me, because literally no aspect of that is used for anything, on any level, whatsoever, for anything but making the game way way way more confusing, immersion-breaking, tedious, and janky. also the UI is kinda laggy and non-responsive, and the only sounds are like, the shower running and a little clicky noise for the buttons. this would be a 5-star game to me if it were a linear visual novel with branching paths determined by dialogue/action choices during scenes. it would be really good. instead it is kind of bad. maddening, frankly. still going to give it 3 stars because there is an amazing game trying to claw its way out of this thing.

As one of those games that’s basically the same as Summertime Saga, it’s alright. It’s got some GOOD characters and it’s a decent way to kill time. Honestly, I don’t even remember the story, it’s that forgettable. But for fap, it does the job.

Awesome Art, awesome scene, relation building is good. We only need more content and some scene needs a bit more animation, like the footjob on livingroom scene thatdoesn't shows the entire scene. ARequire also a bit more teasing in some different places and it would be perfect. Great game.

The story is good so far, and it's not super grindy. The art is excellent, as well as the animations. I also like that there is an option of adding a layer of intimacy that you generally don't see in games. Hopefully the creator will add more options to the "end game." What I mean by this is the only sexual option at the end game, outside of gallery, is missionary. I would like to see the previous scenes added into the options, like the blowjob and doggy. With that being said, they do a good job of adding variety to the missionary option by letting you choose where it happens in the house. All in all keep up the good work!

Terrible UI and navigation certainly atypical of most other games. Annoying to get to the options menu. Right click doesn't really do what you'd expect. Rooms aren't labeled Even w the patch mc calls his mom by her first name. (not dev's fault) Granted I don't have the highest performance machine, but it was still clunky on mine... Story doesn't make much sense and is way too wordy.... Things like your mom explaining everything she has to do for the day, including going out of town to visit her sister which didn't make sense how it was written. MC is a douche... I guess I just expected a lot more out of a game that's had over 4 years worth of development. Anywho...pass

it had a potential in graphic and artistic design( excluding the milf and big sisters the female bodies are good) but: the dialoges are too long and no way to skip it the controls is terrible the story takes too much time to get to sex scens the game include many nonutilized location it seems the developers lost interest after sometime the sex scenes aren't repeatable like most of games the story is so silly the programming is terrible in short it a bad game that had some potential in art only

I enjoy, also blackjack sucks ass but can be easily completed by just modding your cash, and making your luck outrageously high, like i mean 5000000/10 typa high. Animations r hot, mom hot, lil sis is ok, big sis is hot.

Really sad, but I gotta give this one 3 stars max. Pro: Great illustrations Characters actually make sense Can play for sex or story Passable animations Nice Variety of females Based on this, I would give it a 4 1/2 stars, HOWEVER CON: UI is HORRIBLE. Only basic functions work. There are menu bar items at bottom, such as Auto and Skip, not they are currently non functional. Also, you would almost think the Dev went out of the way to include extra clicks. Wanna travel on the map? Gotta click your destination just to focus on the place, then click again to select. You can drag the map (which you're not told) but you still need to click x2. Little typos all over such as displaying variable NAMES and not their VALUES Wanna quit? Takes like 5 clicks and a lot of patience Has a gallery, not even close to working thought Does not save your preferences, everytime you start the game you need to reset your window and audio volumes Don't even get me started on the LOAD and SAVE options So, for now or stands at 3. Bravo to the Writer and the illustrator If you are going with a "non traditional" game engine, get a dev who knows what they are doing. Best of luck

I love the artstyle of this game, and I like how pretty simple it is. I was enjoying just plowing through it, until I was forced to play fucking blackjack 3 times. Maybe even 4, I don't know. As soon as I realized I had to play blackjack again I closed the game. This needs to be skippable, or have luck effect your cards. I do not want to play blackjack, forcing it on me once, fine. Twice? Dick move. THREE? C'mon dawg.

The only reason this doesn't have a 1 star is that the art is pretty good. I don't really have much against FuShark (the contracted artist for this game, god bless his soul), just Dirty Sock Games. First off, this game is a laughably buggy mess, and it's been that way since release with no signs of that ever changing. Not sure if it's because the engine is trash or the dev is just lazy, but the true answer is probably both. Things will rarely ever work as intended when a new update releases and it will take the dev days if not weeks to fix the issues (and many bugs still haven't been fixed at all). We’re not your playtesters, or at least we shouldn’t have to be. Hire some qualified people to legitimately test the entire game because that clearly isn’t happening right now. The dialogue isn't the worst thing in the world, but the writing is extremely generic and cliché. The main characters are such bare-bones archetypes (mature but secretly horny mother, bitchy older sister with a soft side, innocent younger sister), it's honestly fucking comical at this point. I'm surprised my eyes didn't completely roll out of their sockets by the time I was done with this game. The dev also can’t write legitimately good smut to save his life, and he has an obsession with the word ‘girlcum’ and it’s very cringe. There's an 'ambitious' attempt at building a larger world with an increasing number of characters and mechanics here, but I'd say it's way too ambitious if updates are going to come as slow as they are. This game has been in the works for over 3 years now and has less content than some games that have been in development for less than a year. And the majority of it isn't even sexual content, just generic point-and-click quests with a shit ton of teasing and time-wasting. Only recently have things actually started to 'spice up'. Something isn't working here. The way I see it, the direction this game is going needs to change. Maybe not worry so much about trying to expand the world, mechanics, and number of characters if it's going to lead to this many problems; instead, just stay focused on fleshing out the already-established characters and mechanics. Fix the bugs. Give the game some polish, for god's sake. If the dev can do that and stop trying to make promises he can't keep on his Patreon, I think there's still hope. But I seriously doubt any of that will actually happen. Why change and put more effort into the game when people will happily pay for it the way it is now? Legitimately the most fun that I had with this game was with the fucking Blackjack mini game. Such a great sign when the best part of your game isn’t even your own game. Just ignore this one for now, and probably forever if we're being realistic.

Really enjoyed this one. Played it on mobile and had no issues. I am excited for more content. Each character is well fleshed out and interesting. It will be fun when more locations and characters are available.

I am really enjoying it so far. didn't really felt the need to cheat to advance faster. The content I think is balanced, the hint system helps you a lot if you need it. The downsides for me are the visuals not the best of all time, really enjoyed the visuals of the younger one in the house the other not so much don't have that much which makes them unique. But the major problem for me that makes me unable to give a higher mark is the lack of a skip option. There is repeatable text that could be skippable. For example, there is a minigame later on that is probable to lose some times and each time you have to get through all of the same text again. It makes this game a left click(or space) masher. Wish the dev could add a skip button at least for already scene bits.

The scenes are very well-drawn, and there's a decent storyline with good pacing, but the engine is just horrible. Too glitchy and laggy than it should be. Even the best gaming PC is going to have trouble running this thing. You can also tell this is just a rip-off of another very popular game with much less of the charm. Only thing saving this game from getting a poor rating is the art. Side note: I do like the Blackjack minigame, which is quite fun despite the frustration.

You will regret playing this game. The drawings aren't bad, but the actual sexual content is sparse. You'll spend most of your time dealing with bugs and clicking through the sandbox trying to figure out what's suppose to happen next. The content creator is scamming people on his Patreon. In the last two months, he's posted twice. Both posts were promotional links to other games. That's the extent of development you'll get in this game. In the last year, less than 10 minutes of actual game content has been published. Don't fall for this trap. There are so many great games on this website. Don't waste your time with this one.

Pretty decent game for what there is, which isn't that much as of the time of this post. It's a bad game to follow since it gets updated slower than most younger games, it took nearly two years to get the handful of sex scenes added to the original first blowjob scene. It's also, technically, a mess. Every release is exceptionally buggy, laggy, and often straight up broken (how it gets past QA to even get released to patrons or the public, I don't know). You usually need to wait for a few quick hotfix patches to have a playable, still technically laggy and buggy game. All that aside, it has great art and what scenes are there are good. Not great, none of them individually go above and beyond, but good. The story's okay, if you've played the other big incest (I mean, *room mate*) sex games you've seen the archetypes before, you know how it progresses, you know the catalysts that take the relationship from normal to sex-curious already. The game needs to update faster. For as slow as some other games take to update, they're usually highly established games with hours of meat on their bones and huge amounts of technical debt. This game could have been released as it is with the current content and that'd be about right. If the devs get their minds focused, make the game as smooth as most other games, and start putting out good solid routes every few months this will skyrocket towards the top of the cum soaked pile. Until then, 3/5 stars.

The developer is doing a good job here. I lost interest for awhile (due to many of the concerns others have mentioned) but coming back in August found they had begun to fill the game out. They game is worth watching and possibly evening supporting on Patreon. GG