Wasteland Guardians

Honestly, I just want to say thank you for making this game. I think a lot of people who actually enjoy it don’t always leave a rating, they just keep playing. Meanwhile, people who don’t like it are more likely to rate it low, so the score doesn’t really reflect how good the game actually is. Personally, I really enjoy the story and the direction you're going. I like the darker tone, the graphic violence, and the taboo elements (like incest), which are honestly what make this game stand out for me. It feels more bold and different compared to a lot of other games. The visuals are also really cool and add a lot to the experience. I also understand this is an indie project (and even free), so I respect the effort you put into it. Not everything has to be perfect from the start. Please don’t get discouraged by the ratings. There are people who genuinely enjoy your work and are looking forward to future updates. Keep going, you’re doing great.

PROS + After the prologue with Carla we see MC's POV from one day ago, before the attack on the community, see that he is still seeing nightmares of things done to his wife every day, and the talk he had with his dead wife, seems like he is seing stuff or something, then see/do some daily stuff with his not-daughter, and he founds a note from community asking him to come back, which disturbs him because no one should knew where they are, and since their position is revealed he decides to go back to the community, and learn the whole thing, and visit his mother, and sister in the community as well, on the way some events happens, we meet with the Rust (his face was like ghoul, and he had some hints about who he is, he seems like poisoned leader of the community, and MC's old friend, but not confirmed 100%), and Eva (bitch who stole the MC's car), from there they went to the community, infiltirate the building while attack happening, he meets with the Carla, learn where armory is, wears a Juggernaut Armor (which looks like Power Armor tbh, cool stuff) and helps community in the upcoming attack, and burns the mfers alive with his Flame Thrower, then he meet with Queen, go after his family, can't find and go after hacker girl we meet before, Valerie, she asks help for help, while helping her he meets with criminal leader with missing daughter, take quest to find her, then meet with his old friend Ganesh, he says he was the one sent the note, and talks about Queen poisoning her own father, and wanting to punish her, make the truth coem out, and ask MC to join their resistance group, his toughts about missing something like what happened between Queen Selene and her father after he left the community, then he wents back to sleep, his dead wife appears again, and says it's time to say goodbye, a new chapter starting in his life and he should let go off her, and he accepts, says he is ready to let her go, a figment of imagination he kept after his wife's death, next day MC gone to training, fight with some gals and Dustin, then phylogical test, even meet with some bar owner, he wasn't happy about how Queen handling things, criminals going around doing shit, later Queen decided to go war with the attacked neighboorhood community, and residents thrown bucket of dirt to her (lol), she sentenced him to be beheaded, and asked MC to carry the sentence, MC had option to refuse, even touch the Queen while doing so, but eitherway the guy dies, then he goes after the criminal leaders daughter to a cult den, finds a tentacle monster, and a girl named Lily, makes her own woman (kinda), and saves her along with the criminal leaders daughter, while doing these he somehow manages to kill the tentacle monster cultists worship, then meets with the Queen, bathes with her (kinda) and meets with her Handmaiden (childhood friend of her she is overworking almost like slave), then they go meet with MC's not-mother, and not-sister (quite emotional renuion, aside from how angry MC's not-sister was,slapped him 3 times, and treated him like a shit, even tho it was kinda given) after leaving these stuff behind he tries to convience the Queen not to go war with the neighboorhood community, with a skit, showing how cruel war is to her, next day he was given his position as Special Forces Captain again, and asked to found some new skilled members for it, since Special Forces has no members currently, and he tasked with becoming her right hand (kinda), after that he went mission to go and find Rust for information he has on Queen with rebels, and someone was following them, then they run away from a Sand Worm, and fought with some Rotleapers, Vanessa gets bitten by them, and after that they reach the Rust at last, and the game content ends there. + Aside from times he acts careless and stupid, MC actually has a likeable personality (which makes that CON even worse, honestly, since it ruins the potential very good MC), he is brave, sarcastic, and funny, some of his scenes with Chloe are really funny for sure. + Most of the main love interests have their own personalities going on, and they are likeable in their own way. + MC's and Chloe's (MC's not-daughter) relationship is kinda cute, and funny, especially that blowing raspberries scene was so funny. + As a post-apocalyptic world, the game has some interesting beasts like Sandworms, Rotleapers, Cave Spiders, Tentacle Monsters + Visually, the game looks good, and the art style is kinda good as well, especially the place designs, etc, are quite interesting. + Character models, especially body-wise, look good. Some characters feel like they can look better face-wise, like Valerie or Ella, but aside from them, it's mostly fine, especially Chloe, who has quite a good face and body model; she is beautiful and cute. Keire is quite a looker as well, but on the more beautiful side. + Sex scenes are animated, and their physics, quality, and FPS are quite decent. CONS - The game's prologue is told from POV of Carla's ''to introduce you to the lore'' you see her wake up out of nowhere with no memory who she is, and found by two people, they try to understand if she is bad person or not, answer some of her questions about world, etc, while talking one of them got shot by savages/riders, they start run away with the car, manage to get away from them, then one of guys saved her explains Carla things about the community, like the roles (Fighters, Gifted, Botanists, Lawmen) they have, while going there for no reason Carla decides to become topless (dumb AF) and sleep on the back of trunk, when she wakes up tells the guy turn around, but he says he seen everything already, she tossed and turned around while sleeping, etc, then he takes her to their hideout where she meets with their community, get's molested (you can kinda stop it mid way, but the dude still touches her), meet with girl names Shami, learn about how women position in this world, how they mostly seen as property, sold as slaves (seems like one of punishments for certain crimes is getting sold as slave as well), men having multiple wives, marrying with their own daughters, next morning she starts training, but half way through their trainer gets called by the Queen to told one of their allied neighboring communities called Badagos is planning on attack to them, and they given Queens orders while their trainer departs to get ready for the attack, from there Queen let's them to be free around, and she meets with some of community members, learns about them, and listen MC's story from Valorie as well, about how his wife brutally murdered in front of him, and left him alive, to suffer, and he remembered every one of bandits did this, left the community, then come back a week later with 4 of killers dogs tags, and one severed head, but he was unable to find 2 remaning killers, then wrote ''Murderers'' on the wall in base, and hang the 4 dog tags he got, a few days after this event he left the community with his not-daughter, and was never seen again, but because of respect for him no one ever tried to remove those dog tags from the wall, and they still remain there, after this talk she talks with Queen, and attack happens, while running to give orders of Queen to some fighters she gets attacked without weapon, and from a door MC comes, from there we go his POV after this point. Everthing told from Carla's POV is either not really related to the story or the MC's story, or it's something can be told by Narrator/Narrative without needing any other characters POV, and since we don't actually play with Carla ever all those relationship buildings, etc, she done with community members are simply pointless, not to talk about the vibe you get from her POV and MC's POV is not matching at all, and gives wrong vibe to the players, so basically this whole thing is uneccessary, and pointless, looking how pointless it is, and how it recieved by players it'S surprising this didn't replaced by Narrator/Narrative simply telling things we need to know like most games, which would be way more logical than this whole thing. - Some parts in the story/game feels quite unncessary, or feels like could have done/written way better, like the Carla sleeping topless on Car Trunk, Lliam acting up and going after her, the whole jumping the fighters water pit naked, whole personality of the Rose, and her path (seriously), the whole trope about MC constantly getting cock blocked, the whole cult thing, how comically poorly it's written (doesn't suit the serious story-telling we saw until that point at all), how unnecesarly far Rust's camp was, MC and girls had to fight for their lives just to reach him, both Jane & Vanessa getting attacked by a Rotleaper, MC needing to choice, the one he didn't choosen guilt tripping him like he could save two person same time, and no matter what he choosen Vanessa getting bitten by Rotleaper, and problems will cause later on. - There are some annoying characters in the game, Queen Selene quite annoying, she thinks she is all high and mighty, acts very ignorant, and stupid, does stupid shit like asking MC to kiss her foot to show his loyality, or executing a member of community only because he thrown some dirt to her because of how awful leader she is, treating her childhood friend like a shit, forcing her to do things with MC, etc, list goes on, on almost every part of the game she is nothing but annoying bitch, and her looks only good thing going about her, she slowly gets better tho if that changes anything. Then we have Jerry, lazy, pervert, and back stabber Jerry... And while it's not worse than others, Chloe's personality can be a bit... Annoying, because she almost never listens to the MC, puts herself in harm's way, and makes him worry constantly. - MC acts way to stupid and out of his character at certain points, like killing a mollester with a fork, beating him would be understandable, but killing him in the city walls was out of his character, or how he attacks the cultist after the girl is already sacrificed, makes literally zero sense he blow his cover, and get caught like that despite he can't do anything about it, it's soo out of his character, and seriously stupid or how he left Chloe alone while she is trying out clothes, and we end up with stupid scenes with Jerry where he bots spies on her, then betrays him, what he was even thinking leave her alone there changing? So stupid. Then he let's her pass a unsafe metal bridge kinda thing, it collapses (surprise) and then he gets betrayed by Jerry, and left to die falling from the rooftop they were in along with Chloe since fucker kicks them instead of helping, again soo damn stupid, and careless for someone used to be a Speciel Forces Captain, or someone lived in wastelands for years. - Dialogue options are a bit too black and white; there is no balance. You either see dialogue that is way too white or way too black, while, especially in a game like this, neutral dialogue would be more logical. And even tho you choose these white and black dialogues it seems they don't actually effect the things that much, like when you talk with Chloe (MC's not-daughter) about killing someone whether you told her to white or black one she still says ''Like you said, if we don't kill them they will kill you'' and kicks the guy you beaten seconds ago. And how they work is kinda annoying as well, like you can get blocked from already a small amount of variety of options just because of something you chose before. - The voice effects the game uses are quite bad, and mostly feels pointless, like the ''Hey!'' sound we have, it's used on not just when characters says ''Hey!'' it used on when characters says ''WHAT?!' or some other stuff as well, or the ''Hiyaaah!'' sound happening when a female character done some kicking kinda attack, or the weird laughing, and screaming effects, or ''Wohooooo!'' sound, which even sometimes MC uses, and soo unfitting for him, and his style. They all feel bad and pointless. Not to mention that these are actually controlled by the Sound part in settings, not the Voice part, and that makes no sense either. - The gallery is not working properly; only the Special Renders work, but the Scenes part is not accessible. VERDICT The game starts kinda ''meh'', become decent, then gets worse the more things went especially with how comically stupid some story parts are, and for no reason how careless, and stupid MC acts, I was thinking to give 4 stars since the game has all groundwork to be a 4-5 stars rate game, but CONS revolved around writing is really bad that the game doesn't deserve that, because of that I will be giving 3 stars, and gotta say it's shame that writers decided to show MC careless, and stupid at a lot of points not suitable to his character at all, and kinda ruined it, even with other CONS if MC was written as he should I would give 4 stars to it because of other parts are done quite well.

Quite enjoyable. But please for the love of whatever tf you believe in. Stop using the stock scream audio OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I promise you there are more files and sounds to choose from. Its so cringe and corny hearing the same sound so often.

Very well done. very impressive. Great video quality and good story. Keeps you interested requiring you to partake in minor min-games which i like. The only downside is the happy scenes are few and far between. Don't expect a frap tastic avn

Review based on v0.7: Good game but I would say nowhere near as good like a certain other game set in the same setting, but still manages to be its own thing even if it borrows a lot of ideas. Characters are well designed, sex scenes are good but maybe far between each. The story is promising and manages to go its own ways while not going full on porn logic, I would however say that it drags on a bit for the first few chapters. Around v05-06 is when it started to become interesting for me. All in all a competent game with good writing and nice looking characters, I at least enjoyed my time with it for the most part.

The game features many choices involving male dominance, but these choices have no effect on potential sex scenes. In any potential sex scene with a girl, the MC acts foolishly, or the game's developer excessively blocks these scenes. For example, many times, someone or something interrupts just as a sex scene is about to happen. The last scene I played was with Rose. I hoped that maybe the male dominance choices we made earlier would have some meaning and we could treat Rose as she deserved, but it didn't. After that scene, and despite 5 hours of gameplay and making many male dominance choices, the MC's continued foolish behavior in potential scenes with girls drove me away from the game. I couldn't be patient any longer and deleted the game. This game doesn't have male or female dominance. I played this game for about 5 hours, and in all potential sex scenes, the game's developer frustratingly blocked them. This game has developer dominance. And the only obstacle to this game being fun is the game's developer.

I liked it, until I realised that in some situations game forces scenes where MC act like a barbarian asshole. There was many decisions, where he can be forcefull or be empthatic. Then boom - he just fuck woman against her will (or without asking her), or brutally kill some guy, who was harsh to another woman - doesn't touched her, or anything - he can be hit and that's all. Sorry, There are a reason I just "skipped" some scenes to see what happen next, and meh, I don't want play it anymore

Ok first and foremost, I really like this game. The premise is top notch, a gritty, dirty dystopian world where ancient motives mix with modern ones. Survival is tough in this world and it shows. Rather fittingly the safe haven "communities" are basically sheltered cities ruled by monarchs and crimelords working hand in hand with slavery, drugs and poverty being a normality. So far, so believable and cool. The implementation of modern surveillance and military kinda clashes with the survival theming but concerning the fictional dystopian premise, it works. The characters are mostly caricatures but still it kinda works. Your main mc can be played in different ways and due to frequent choices you can immerse yourself decently in this world. There are multiple reappearing male characters in this game (though still more female ones) so that helps to in a sense of believability of this world. Thankfully its not just the cliché 1 guy (your mc), 1 bad guy/best friend and a bunch of ladys. You can choose bad guy o good guy options for your mc and the game tracks decently what choices you picked resulting in later, differing scenes and some dialogue changes coming your way. If you wanna be bad u can do it, if you wanna be good u can do it too. At least most times, every game that does sth like that is comendable. The visuals imop are great and I love the background music and noises. No weird background noise or music was picked. Its all rather fitting an immersive. (there are strange sound effects frequently like laughing but u get used to it pretty quickly. The story is intersting and there are still some questions remaining concerning what has happenend to characters in the past leading to a vertain intrigue. An overarching plot kinda isnt really there but it is told in multiple sideplots which seem to be intertwining ín the future. All good imop. There are minigames and QTEs but both can be turned off or on at will. Great implementation of such a system in the game. I turned off the QTEs (I dont like such things in VNs) and it worked flawlessly. First playthrough, I played the minigames, 2nd one I turned them off. Both very good implemented. The spicy stuff is very well done most of the time. Many hot situations and creative character combinations. You get what you expect from a AVN. Sometimes its too vanilla imop regarding the premise of the story and a certain grittyness is missing. But all in all it delivers on what it promises. LIs are all drop dead gorgeous. Some more intersting, some less. Personal favourite imop definetly the red-haired psycho psychologist. Here scenes are by far the hottest one in this game and your relationship regarding that character seems to be segmenting dom or sub. You can easily chose what you prefer. She is one of the few LIs that deliver on the gritty, dark tone of the premise. All LIs are sadly fully shaven and mostly look too clean and fully styled what is a thing that can really be improved. Let the ladys grow some hair dammit or make it optional for folks who prefer it more fitting the setting. There is one major problem with the game and this is why I cant give it 5 stars, even though it probably deserves it knowing the rather low standarts of AVNs: There are forced scenes where your character acts a certain way giving you no freedom how you want to react to a situation or even contradicting earlier choices you did. This imo isnt a problem in the beginning of the game but after the first few events of the story it starts to slowly appear and results in a dwindling quality of the games atmosphere and believability. Choices become less frequent and therefore the interactivity of the game lessens, your character starts to feel less controlled and more of his own will, what is in this case a bad thing. The mc should to an extent be a puppet controled by the player, its a game and no movie. These forced scenes could be easily avoided , sometimes a second dialogue option would be enough to have a more interesting scene, f. ex. there is a scene in a bathhouse of the queen from the community your mc is a part of and there is mostly one single conversation chain even though in earlier scenes you mostly had the opportunity to act with her differently. So the dialogue in the pool becomes dull and uninteresting. Another example of a forced scene that plays out in exacly 1 way and therefore lacks any interesting involvement is a underground cult scene in which a pregnant woman is fed to a monster which the cultist worship and believe that through such a sacrifice can satisfy. Basically your mc tries to sabotage that feeding but ultimatly fails (rather dramatically) and get captured. So it is clear that the devs want to get him captured and want the victim to leave the story not becoming a LI. You could achieve the same result in multiple ways but thats the only way this scene devellops, no player freedom at all. The result could have f.ex. been achieved via 3 differing paths: one path where you do not sabotage the feeding scene but get captured anyway for snooping around, one path where you sucessfully sabotage the feeding and the victim flees the scene never to be seen again leading to your capture and the path that the story eventually takes. So you would not force the player to try to save the girl or see her being eaten. Would be a better experience to be able to interact with what happens to your mc. Also there are some scenes where your mc actually has to options to interact with a scene but one is blocked due to your mc being to kind / too dumb / too distant / too dom or sub or whatever to chose option 2 therefore forcing you into chosing only option 1. Yeah thats sucks. Such bs doesnt work andvforces your character into earlier choices without you being actually able to even see why you know fail to get another way of acting in the current situation. But all in all still great game, definetly deserving of 4 stars.

v0.6 Story has lots of moving parts in a rich world. Maybe even too many, as it feels like every quest introduces a new concept so substantial it could stand alone as its own story. Main story is very loosely connected to these side quests, so it makes the whole plot feel too slow paced. Writing does not fit, if playing on evil/dominant path, as the main character talks like a modern loving person outside those choises. Some characters, like the queen and psycho psychologist, are more fitting for this world, but completely opposite to most "good" character. Overall this all creates a world full of caricature characters. Writing is not bad, it just makes it hard to immerse oneself in it. Visually game has lots of good stuff. Nice teasing, beautiful women and good artistic camera angles. Sex scenes are mostly teasing or really short, so not really worth playing if looking for wanking material. Sexual content has your regular incest teasing and really imaginative stuff. Good enough, and with longer sex scenes it would be even great, if only the story or writing would make the reading worth it.

Ive always hated games that gives you face choices and force you to have sex with people you hate in one way or the other and this game does all of that. Then theres the hole constantly having to do QTE crap which is pointless since if you dont do em its game-over which is another thing i hate, there should never be any idiotic game-overs in any VN. Story has to much porn logic as well, some bimbo refuse to give MC info on where some weapons are coming from, so instend of beating her or arresting her, MC goes into some weird full on lust mode and starts to fuck her in the ass? First i dont care for anal, second its piss poor story and lastly i hate the girl and i got 0 choices to stop anything what so ever. Same goes for the next even more ugly bimbo, you cant refuse the bitch since that leads to game-over, so its really just one turn-off after the other, even more so when your not into femdom. It also have a ton of idiotic sounds that are more annoying then anything else. Girls are mainly just bimbos so you theres no point playing if you dont have a big tit fetish since theres barely any diversity in builds. Animations a mostly below average. I can really recommend this to anyone even if you got a big tit fetish its not worth it, story is to stupid and most choices are fake and theres not that many sex scenes either so not even worth it even if you fast skip texts.

Thanks for this game, it was very interesting to play. It's rare that a Ren'Py game doesn't make you press "skip" on the whole text . I hope the sequel will come out soon. Huge respect to the author of this game.

Honestly one of the best games on this website, I quite like the intro being something different for once. Quite a lot of beautifully rendered scenes with interesting characters and leaning quite a bit into sub/dom dynamics which I really love. Only thing I disliked was having to look up the answer for a riddle because the amount of answers that would fit are way too broad. But other than that the non-VN section are nicely spaced apart and offer a nice way to have some additional optional lore.

My favorite game, bold and clear. Good job developer senseidaimon. Love the game and premise! Hopefully it will not be abandoned. Wish the dev well, Pls try this game. I love it and its fun and the girls are sexy

Liked: Renders, Character Models, Story (Some parts). Disliked: Mixed Good/Bad and Sub/Dom Choices, Story (Some Parts), Fake Choices, Forced Scenes. Renders and characters are pretty decent but the story is not that great, Some parts of it are good and some are bad and some are worse, depending on what you like and dislike i guess As for choices that's where this game starts to fall apart, If you try to be good you are automatically Sub and if you try to be Dom you are automatically bad... there is really not much to say on this subject after this. At the beginning you start as a Temp-FMC?, anyway at the end of that stage of game when that dude try to abuse temporary female main character, i choose to make her kick his ass and when she met the Main MC she said she managed to fight him off with the help of other girl? that's just not how it went down... During an event later in the game there is an unavoidable/non-skippable tentacle scene, that's where i enabled skip unseen text mode... Not recommended, i would have try to find another game if only i had read the reviews before playing...

Good one, has huge potential. Currently reviewing 0.5 as of now renders, storyline, characters all good as of now. A bit kinetic but stories like this r like that most of the times. I wouldn't consider it a top tier but good stuff is good stuff so rating 5 as of now. Also, MC seems strong but underperforming most of the times, need some improvement in how he's written and portrayed.

Well as much as I would have loved to give this a 5 I simply can't do that for a couple of reasons. All the good actions are restricted by this point or that point that you apparently do not have and apparently can't earn either. Rather pissy if you ask me and defeats the whole desire to keep playing. In fact I quit right after the entire rescue mission and the whole giant spiders and tentacle monster cultist shebang. Way more story here than sex scenes and you don't actually get real sex until way late in the story as it is. The scenes are so far apart there is absolutely no way to fap to it. Hmmm. Dune and Skyrim feels to the game are here. Tales of a sandworm and giant cave spiders. Weak but still I can accept it as it was presented in a decent way. Not something I am knocking a point over anyway. I hope there is an improvement to this in the future. That point lockout just really ruins it for me in a big way. Could have had sex but are now locked to just a blowjob due to points you don't have and can't earn. Hmmm? Perhaps its something you get by being a patreon supporter only?

I don't even know where to start when mentioning the problems with this game, so here a few: Lack of choice fake choices dislikeable mc stupid mc many forced and unnecessary sex scenes stupid hidden stats and the good parts are: it looks good the start after you get to play as the real mc a couple likeable characters this game is just a huge wasted potential

[v0.3] Writing & dialogue With some awkward phrasing in the first chapter, it's evident that this isn't written by a native English speaker. However, the grammar improves as the chapters progress - AI? Editor? Or just improved English? I don't know! But despite the improved grammar, the dialogue remains stilted and the characters all speak with the same voice / tone. By around chapter three, there are some parts of the story that railroad the player into particular choices, typically incestuous or violent. For the character I was playing, they were abruptly out of place. I don't feel this is a good direction for the gameplay. Character models Everyone's good looking. Sex scenes Occasional, sometimes memorable. Hot outfits and a bit of nudity (though I feel framing could better exploit the nudity. Too often it seems like things are unintentionally or needlessly censored.). Gameplay VN. Choices, quick-time events, minigames, collectibles, occasional free roam.

Cute girls Truly a game (Choices impact the game till now at least, plus quick time gameplay elements quick time events and roaming minimal, not obtuse to the story) Interesting premise and quick flow Good promise — Alot of teasing, but no sex (That barely anal doesn't count) Voice volume is intertwined with sound, thus muting the "Voice" option does absolutly nothing. Constant use of sounds is annoying tbh, same laugh everywhere and ugh, dunno, why? At least you do make the effort to use it well, but still, i feel sometimes you limit the writing potential just to fit a voice effect Queen is mid, sadly "Through the earpiece", oh really? Almost got mistaken after the fourth time, thanks for clarifying FUCKING PUZZLE, WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT ISN'T "SUN", it's such a weird take, plus saying something is missing i went with sunlight, the sun. Honestly, would never guess "the rising sun".

Wasteland Guardians [v0.3] Overall - 7/10 Don't recommend currently - too early in development, but has potential Classic dystopian game with LIs, just needs more content. Story - 6/10 Dystopian setting - some places normal forestry and some desert, but live in a compound you MMC soldier has to relearn how to live in a compound doing various things as a soldier Linear story some choices - its alright Render - 8/10 Sound - 7/10 No bgm Has good SFX Hscenes - n.a Low amount - has some softcore scenes, no actual sex scenes Playability- 7/10 Simple VN with sometimes sandbox Sandbox is easy to navigate Choices exist - idk if theres gonna be a karmic system QTE + minigames - can be skipped , QTE is annoying since multiple keys, annoying riddle thing