Maya's Life

v0.1.4c Still quite poor in current state, recommend waiting if interested. I've encountered many bugs, including repeat of events when you save-load on certain day, lil bro memory event keeps happening (it doesn't go away), etc. If you play anyway, DO NOT SAVE AND LOAD on rent day, it'll repeat the rent event, so you'll lose more money and school progress. I also found the 'random encounter combat' to be tedious and honestly doesn't feel necessary. Other than that I love the arts, especially the MC. Oh, and the app is an installer so don't be surprise when it suddenly install.

[v0.1.2a] I'm not sure what is the idea of this game, it looks like renpy sandbox game. Starts with some introduction and picking perks, than you move into the world and find the game is pretty big world with not much to do, right now it's hard to give positive rating, as game forces itself to install into appdata, while you can safely move installation folder elsewhere. Game needs more stuff to do and a bit less locations or better way to present them, right now it's a bit too much chaotic.

2/5 in it's current state. Littered with bugs, many of which are game breaking. Progression and narrative lacks any sort of structure and there are few scenes. Gameplay feels grindy and tedious. It has potential but would only recommend it to people who want to playtest in it's current state

I like this dev and the art but mouse control only and a lot of the movement/ui is just not it for me. hope the development continues and i can change this one day but for now its really hard for me to enjoy

As of v0.1.2a which is very early, I'll give this a 3 out of 5. As it feels very early in development, the gameplay loop is basically what you expect from any sandbox game. You have freedom to move through town, go to school, get a job at the burger place, get harrassed by thieves (giving up triggers some adult content), go on a date, flirt with random folks. I ran into bugs before I could test everything out but at the very least the art looks decent so far. Things folks may want to know before playing this early version: 1) The game has an installer, which sets up the game on your c drive in your users / yourname / appdata / local. I installed it with the installer, and uninstalled it after playing with an uninstaller program I have on my computer (from Iobit). I usually dislike installers as I personally feel that opens folks up to accidentally installing possible malware since you cannot scan the files ahead of time that are being installed, but as far as I can tell, this game as of this version from pixeldrain was safe. 2) the game does have some bugs, sometimes when selecting a location from the map, the location that should open simply never does and you get stuck and cannot do anything in that location anymore. This is an early version so I think having bugs is fine and will get sorted out over time. 3) the navigation is one where when in a building like school, you start in a entrance room, and have to click on the connecting hallway, then click on the connecting classroom to get to the classroom. You cannot travel directly to where you want to go,without going from room to room that is connected. If you go through a room multiple times, you will trigger a conversation with an npc in the room over and over each time you enter the room.

art is nice, love me some tomboy hentai. but locking the character into a relationship that will immediately game over if the partner notices is already an annoying aspect i do not like. in addition to the rent contributing to the game over, the karma also causing a game over, and the bugs stopping you from even playing the game in the first place (imagine not testing your own game) kinda sours everything for me.

Maya unfortunately has an infestation of BUGS..........but also probably STD's from constantly getting raped (at first) by the homeless, stalkers, and thugs. Luckily this is a videogame and the dev only needs to fix one of these. Will update stars appropriately when the game is actually worth it. Edit 0.1.4C: I had to drop a star, because even with more content this game is just a torturous scene hunter. Art does not make up for a bugged out mess with a shitty installer that I'm now going to have to root through appdata to remove, literal blueballs incarnate.