Ren'Py - Completed - Space Journey X [v2.05_010c] [y.v.]

Hi, while I don't think the game deserves 5/5 (amazing game) (game of the decades) review (I have a pretty high standard, if you can forgive me) but I do think what's in it (and the enjoyment I spent playing it) made with effort so much that it at least warrants a review/feedback .

The Gameplay :
The gameplay is quite extensive and made with much more depth than most porn games you could find, and I do think it's one of the strongest element of the game.
It has a decent enough in-game economy with ship's parts system and what not, but I do think some elements from the game could be fleshed more for better experiences (bots systems are not fun at all, battle system is just weird with unlimited movement)

The Writing :
I think this is the main weakest point of the game, and I do think writing should be the most important of any story, its the engine that drives the game forward, the game currently lacks it, sure the player have many "side quests" like peeping their crew or making them wearing revealing clothes, but in bigger picture, while the players is making money, nothing is really going on.
The writing is what separates the good from the greats.

The Sex Scene :
The game currently lacks character development enough to deepen the sex scene, it has the biggest pitfall most adult games fall into : treating characters as checkboxes for sex scenes. I don't want a repeated handjob scene with a character I don't care/know nothing about (I'm not that young anymore), I want some interactions with them, to know more about them, whether to sympathize/downright hate them, the writing and the sex scenes complement each other.

TLDR: what's inside the game is currently good enough/made with effort enough that warrants an enjoyment from a gameplay or two, but with more polish it could be way better, going forward I suggest the developer put more effort in the writing to put their work to the higher level, good luck dev, and have a nice one.

Excellent game, I love the art, proportions, great animations, funny gameplay.
Usually I skip games to the sex part at least for the 1st scenes to see what the game can provide. In this game I really wanted to play like I was the MC.

great progression narrative and character designs are what define this top notch game

the animations are fun and sexy but a little clunky due to the minimal frames in the loops

one of the better collection of minigames ranging from actually a little strategic to at least quick to get thru

a very good game and the best yv game to date!

What a banger, this game is away from the simple porn games we are used to. Strategy is key and the leght is awesome. Would play this again if i could forget it. Hope more like this are to come. Masterpiece

Abso bloody lutely fan fucking tastic

Sorry for the language, i really enjoyed this i am hoping the continuation game is just as good, maybe some intergalactic trading so we can go back and see old friends and make new ones across other galaxies.

Maybe a trading game with further use of bots allowed and meeting many more different races. The storyline potential is massive for a sequel.

Thanks Dev for a great game.

excellent project with a well-developed idea, high-quality drawing, interesting mini-games and a good set of fetishes. It's nice to see that the author produces quality content and doesn't waste time on trifles

Space Journey X is a real game, not just a visual novel. Very long and funny story, with well-defined characters and several sex scenes. It is probably not finished yet as there are objects and characters that do not yet have missions and a specific purpose. It really took me many hours to play and I enjoyed it. The downside is too much grind which forced me to activate the cheats. It probably should be balanced better. For the rest I can only recommend it as it is rare to find such products in this category and in Renpy.

So it hurts to give this low a rating, as there is definite effort here on most fronts. However, the gameplay isn't particularly hard or engaging, and after playing probably 5 hours, I didn't really see any hot scenes beside just SEEING the two main girls.

If you like repeatedly clicking the same things for a few hours at a time, this might be for you.

I saw someone mention that a cheat might make it more enjoyable, which if you really must play this, I 100% recommend finding something to do that. But imo, if a game must be hacked to be fun, it's not good. The dev should be able to optimize or provide settings that make the experience smoother, without a player having to guess at rebalancing it themselves.

v2.00_010d

The most dazzling part of this game is the gameplay. Its long and extensive and if you are into a space exploration/trading/questing type of game, then you will most certainly find fun here. The art is decent, not really my taste but it can work for the majority of players all the same. The soundtrack gets repetitive and the story is mildly intriguing, nothing too special though.

What fails me is the severe lack of the sex. There really isnt much of it when you compare it to the length of the game and the journey it takes you on. In essence its hard to give this game a rating based on the standards of either a porn game, or a regular game. It is just stuck somewhere in the middle of it all and that is why its getting a middle ratings.

Overall not enough quality to be a good regular game, nor enough porn to be a good porn game.

Very high quality game, but without cheats it is incredibly long and boring.
A lot of different well thought out details, interesting plot. It is not often that good projects are brought to a logical conclusion, and here the second game can already be considered finished, keep it up. Respect to the authors.

Play time: 2-3 days. First of all this game has lots of cut content. You can play it if you like scifi, space stuff, but other than that i wouldn't recommend it.

Girls - 3/5 . The models are alright. Their design is kinda cartoonish, but i liked them. They have diverse personalities but we see very little of it. Aside from learning about their backstory, there's nothing else to explore. When you speak with them, outside of story related stuff, they say the same 5 things all over and you reply with "alright" "i see".

MC - 2/5 . There's nothing else to say here really. Just a dude. No personality whatsoever. He just goes with the flow with whatever others say. At least he's not an asshole.

Sex scenes - 1/5 . First of all the animation in 90% of the scenes is bad (Just 3-4 repetitive images). There is almost no variety to them and each character has 3-4 scenes max.

Story - 3/5 . I liked the premise of the story. Some elements of the world building is also good. But it's too little. No exploration to those elements, and the worst is the cut content. I guess the developer had many things planned but didn't have time? Don't know. The final product though is disappointing.

Gameplay - 3/5 - Point and click gameplay. The fights are turned based. I saw some comments say that it is grindy. I don't agree. It's alright. Yes you need to go farm for some things, but that's all. You don't need to be constantly farming to play. Other than that, it's nothing special.

this game is very slow and grindy and objectives are not clear
i spend 2 hours playing this game and could not get anything done
get like 15 favor points, asked woman for favor, no favors...
also why you have to go for so long just to buy 1 map, can't i have it right away?
whats the point or goal of the game? what i m even doing?
i repair some engine, but than could not travel anywhere
i was selling everything i have to afford sex unlocks, could not unlock sex
is there a way to unlock everything immediately or speed up the progress? or point arrrows where to go?

This game is weird. I am giving it 4 stars because there is a solid idea here with a lot of content. The craft on display is solid and holds together better than some of the top games on this site showing that at a technical level the dev has it in lock. However the thing is that it feels sort of feature crept and bloated with potential.

In many ways the game parts suffer because of the porn-tier writing, and the porn suffers because there is a competent game design loop trickling in the porn. The two don't actually work together most of the time. The closest they get is with the creation, training, and handling of the sex bots, but that itself is mostly a menu based manager with very little actual content outside of number grinding. The only other game that interacts with the porn-side of the porn game is the spanking/training but that feels really underbaked.

That is really the catch. This game would be a mediocre game without the porn, but the porn being attached to it doesn't really elevate the gameplay present. It just means that when reviewing it I am also reviewing the quality of the porn alongside the game. However since the two don't really work all that well together I can't give more than 4/5 stars. It's good, but it falls into the usual trap of adding gameplay elements as a grindgate to the tits out part. I feel a lot of devs do this where they conflate "game design" from bog standard games and think that porn games need that when really I'd prefer a lot of the superfluous half baked elements trimmed out and the elements that gamify the porn to take more center stage. Like, I think the idea is that you are supposed to play for the fantasy of a space fairing captain + sex sex sexy sex. But it is hard to suspend my disbelief for the straight man space fairing dynamo when my crew are a bunch of eye candy sluts on display and act very much as such. I dunno, it just feels a bit jarring to play some of the more droll resource trade routes, boring one note bounty hunts, and mining mini-games when the game really wants me living a porn-tier writing fantasy.

A solid technical foundation, good amount of content, but just all over the place in tone, pacing, and polish.

I just spent a day grinding money doing fetch quests and trading.
And, somehow, i'm happy.
So i guess this is the reason for 5 star review - game went so high off the rails on QoL features that you're just happy to play it. I mean, it took most traps from other games and just went over it.
Huge "house"(ship) that you have to navigate to interact with stuff - here's a interactive map with single-click movement and indications.
Traveling on global map takes always 1h hour, traveling inside locations takes no time - you'll never miss event that you're gunning for.
Speaking of - character schedules are simple and constant, even if you missed a window - it will be there tomorrow, no need to skip an in-game week.
There's a lot to do - here's a nice quest log with hints.
Combat might be a bit hard - go earn money, buy consumables, roflstomp.
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Oh, right, it's a porn game. It's, uh, there, but it really fades into background. You slowly corrupt your crew into your harem. You improve their exhibitionism so they wear more and more revealing clothes. But it's smeared so thinly over the game, that there isn't really a fappable sequence. Most sex scenes have to be repeated couple of times and they consist of a single animation.
The phrase that come to mind is "a game in pornographic setting". Porn is there, it's everywhere, but it isn't the main attraction.

This is a good game, but it's more of an actual game and less of a porn game. The scenes are one or two gifs with no interaction possible and no conversation between the characters.

After unlocking a scene, like a blowjob for example, you walk up to one of the girls you ask her to give you a blowjob and you see her licking the protagonist's dick, you hit next and you see him coming. That's pretty much how all the scenes move forward.

This is not only a lewd game with nice animations and events. It's also a complete space exploration and trading game in its own right. Even when not looking for a sex game, I occasionally booted up this just for the gameplay and to advance the story.
It's even a completed game, with a developed storyline and a satisfying ending. Great experience, will proparbly continue to explore just to unlock the last few gallery pieces.

Alright, I finished the game after almost a week of playing, and I have to say at the start, I felt an enormous urge to play and progress. It really hooked me, so to speak. But I had a huge, when I say huge, I mean absolutely massive difficulty adapting to the game, from the standard missions to the daily tasks on the ship, which, by the way, are extremely repetitive. I know that later you can have someone else handle them, but even then, only up to a certain limit… Anyway… personally money wasn’t much of an issue for me, but it would be nice if the game made the best way to earn money more explicit, and oh boy... the combat mechanics.

Speaking of which, I believe the power scaling is quite unbalanced. Normally, you start weak and gradually get stronger to the point where earlier enemies become completely irrelevant. But not here—if you try to take on two Krell ships with just the maxed-out gun and no torpedoes, you're dead! Even with the best shield, you either die or lose HP and ship parts, That was pretty frustrating because it forced me to keep going back constantly to avoid battles… which could have been avoided if it worked the way I suggested.

Another downside is some of the missions. Even with the hints, sometimes it’s practically impossible to figure out where to go or what to do to complete them, which gets frustrating. I understand that this game, unlike others, wants to make you work for it, but come on—better-designed hints can work wonders.

Another thing that bothered me was the dialogues and cutscenes in the sex scenes they feel so empty and emotionless. Tease is practically nonexistent in this game... It's like you're fighting for something, but the reward doesn't feel fully satisfying. Besides improving those scenes, I’d also suggest enhancing the standard dialogues after reaching certain levels. The way the crew members perceive the captain remains practically static until the end it doesn’t feel like all the training actually changed them internally, you know?
So, simple things like changing their facial expressions and poses on the ship, the way they refer to the captain with more respect and desire… Small details like that would add a lot to the experience.

But for me, the worst part of the game is how it hides the mechanics for progressing with the girls. I played almost to completion without even getting a hand job from T’ris!! because there was simply no clear indication of what to do in the missions! That was surreal when I checked the walkthrough how to do...

So, in summary, the game is very good and well-made—the models and everything else but it falls short in these aspects I mentioned.

I also felt that the game sped up too much after leaving the first system. It seems like the developer had bigger plans for each sector but chose to rush the game's ending instead such a shame.

This one is really a gem. One of a kind. No game made in Ren'Py here does what this game does (well... Mostly aren't even games in the technical senses). Technicalities aside, though, this game also stands on its own for many reasons: the graphic presentation is superb, done with great care, love, and originality; talking about originality, the characters, though clearly based on The Girl 8, were customized so each one has its own characterization while retaining the overall game style (personally, I find them really cute, though I don't give ratings based on mere personal tastes); and the game is also fun to play for those who like management games. Unfortunately, here, many just rate games based on if they tingle their tiny parts -- poor boys who can't go to PornHubs to get some release. That's why you'll see some -- sparse -- low-rated reviews. I bet most of them are "i CaN't GeT tO sMuT sCeNeS eAsILy." Well... This is, in fact, true. If you just "play" (I guess "read" would be a better word) "games" (i.e., "pulp porn novels") to fap, stay away from this game. Even as an XXX game, its style is a trainer-like game, thus, taking time to get to the porn scenes is part thereof. Too bad "those" reviewers can't rate a game for what's intended to be and not for aligning to whatever makes them (or their tiny parts) tick.

only two stars wtf?! let me explain...

the amount of work you put into getting scenes in this game is a huge time sink, we are talking like 20 hours to get all of it, maybe more, and the overall theme is bondage stuff and pin up artwork, I beat the game despite that and don't feel like playing space rangers light was worth it. Also very few sex scenes depict penetration, and the artist has no idea how to model the naughty bits. So, grind away if you want for model swap scenes and slight variations.

Quite a long game. The animations aren't top notch but this game is fun to play and you get sexy ladies to bang while you're at it.

Keep playing and you'll be able to have them in a fairly undressed state that doesn't really bother them -> or a significantly more undressed state that does bother them. It "bothers" them by stressing them out and ruining their mood which isn't that big of a deal once things get going and you're super duper uber mega rich.

Speaking of being rich, it starts off kinda slow, but listen, there is no time limit. Just take your time and figure things out -> refer to the walkthrough if you're completely stuck. You can speed things up via giving yourself a ton of money, but not by much.

I just wish we can pick one girl to "favorite" -> maybe sleep with her at night. Or maybe just have the obviously horny girls stop pretending they're not being horny. Like,

That aside, fantastic game. Don't come here looking for instant gratification. Enjoy it.