VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Depth's Revival [Harem finale] [Seacth]

The renders are nice and most of the LI's are attractive. Unfortunately, there are several forced lewd scenes with characters I had no interest in. For the most part, actually, I didn't have any interest in a lot of the LI's for one reason or another. The forced scenes are with; a sex dream with Serena where she transforms into the mom, Sarah, and the teacher, Imogen where you can choose to be a dom or sub, and the teacher while Sarah watches. Besides Serena, I had no interest in the rest.

Honestly, I didn't make it that far after one more forced scene with Imogen and some other chick. You do get choices to reject the ones you are forced with later on, but at that point the story was already ruined for me.

Getting friends and family in a harem and pregnant, what's not to like? Models are decent if not great but the story is neat if straightforward. Having the option of LIs is there too for those who don't want to go full harem I guess.

One if not THE BEST game i've played. It has everything i want in a game Awesome graphics great sex scenes great dialog. The story is great it keep you intrested. I'm will to support the dev in any way i can to keep going. If there is a patreon i'm going to support. Need more games like this one.

[ Review subject to change. Review for Version 8.5 ]



TL;DR: I’ve really enjoyed my experience with Depth’s Revival so far and while it isn’t complete what is there so far is really promising! It is a beautifully presented Harem game that is honest about its intention. As a result our romantic interests very much throw themselves into the harem with little difficulty. It ticks the goody-goody fetish boxes well and it gets to the good stuff early.

The Good: (If you patch it) Incest! And the mother is both beautiful and has a great personality. The harem aspect is sprinkled with both love and lust which I really appreciate. There is pregnancy as well which I look forward to seeing develop. I do feel like there is genuine care between the characters involved.

The Average: The dialogue, especially regarding bringing people into the harem, leaves some to be desired. Only some occasional friction occurs, but it is quickly solved. Some of the plot points are not very well explored and are over before I get my head around what happened or why.

The Bad: So far in development the game is very strict on getting you down the harem route which I was a little disappointed by. The game so-far has much less content if you try to go down the non-harem routes. The creator has said he intends to finish the Harem routes first before developing single character routes.



Thorough Review:

Story: Competent

This is a typical male protagonist discovers he has powers and uses them to get women sort of deal. Except he doesn’t use his powers to corrupt or enslave people, but instead to help him say the right things to make women fall in love with him, and even accept that he has other lovers. There is also a sub-plot about why the vision of the woman who appeared and gave him these powers look the same as another woman we meet later in the story, but that is not finished yet. Other than that, this is a story about a boy who builds a harem. The creator has been clear from the start that this is the game isn’t really about much more than that, which is fine.

Characters: Great*

*but still needs a lot of development! The MC isn’t a complete asshole which is a massive plus. All the characters are beautiful and have distinct personalities. There is still room for growth here, so I hope to see more of them blossoming into fully realised characters as the game develops. Other than that, only really three characters have any substantial character-changing development in the game so far, the rest are more mild developments from not wanting to have sex with the MC into wanting to have sex with the MC. I am hoping for more on this front. I have a particular love for the characters Jane, Imogen and Freya and hope they all get more content, especially together.

Gameplay: Competent

It is a visual novel in the truest sense. You don’t have much choice of what happens or where, but some limited control within the scenes of what you want to do. This mostly boils down to ‘do you want to pursue this person romantically/sexually?’ or ‘do you want to have sex now?’. It works but isn’t anything new.

Visuals: Amazing!

I really love the character renders and the animations in this game. This style of character design, that is a mix of the anime style and more realistic humans, is one that I feel clicks just right. Some story scenario scenes however are somewhat stiff because during story the game is very much a slideshow like most VNs. During sex scenes, however, it is beautiful mix of still image transitions and animated lovemaking!

Summary: Great!
This game has great potential and I think it is well worth playing through once or twice to set your expectation for the future of the game's development. It is hands down one of the more visually beautiful games I've played on here so far, and with time it will probably look even better.

Wishlist:

> More Jane!

> More Imogen, especially lovey-lovey femdom!

> More Freya!

> More of the above but together!

> The game has extremely cute cuddling and sensual kissing scenes. I want more of that. A LOT more of that!

Overrated family AVN. The above average things are the taboo talk and models. Characters are unique, but shallow (They don't have much of a personality) There isn't much of a story and so because of that it is only average overall.

Sry dev, game looks great and there's a decent amount of content, but this is one of the few games I actually got turned off by the writing of the sex scenes. Lots of people around here love this game tho, so give it a try and see for yourself.

This is one of the most childish adult games I've ever played tho there a quite few of them. Seriously by looking at the renders and animation it had huge potential but it turned to be a disappointment and hot mess.

Plot :-
No offence to the developer but the story feels like it was written by a 14 year old with no imagination. Cause the plot is just super sluggish, unironically rushed, incoherent and stupid at times. I pray to others who reach the harem and baby making part cause it's a really cringey road.

Character :-
I'm quite tolerant of the honey select models but idk why the faces of the characters except Sarah just feels off to me. The characters motivation, thoughts and decisions are really poor too and don't even make me mention the MC.

Renders :-
The renders and animation are the only good thing about this game but even they are slightly above average. Yeah they are smooth but the weird camera angles sometimes just takes you out of it.

A very decent harem game in my opinion, of course it has a few flaws, but they don't deduct from the enjoyment of the game.it has wonderful renders and extremely hot sex scenes, an average story, above average writing, good character development, and wholesome relationships.

This one was really enjoyable and quite a lot underrated tbh. Girls here are gorgeous even for hs models, animations and sex scenes are one of the best and the intimacy is hella arousing which i find most games here lacking in that. Story isn't standout; the relationship building, romance and solving their problems are of focus here which is cool.
I don't have any issues regarding the game and find it wholesome, takes my mind off for few hours. Well patreon here i come, I'll support with whatever i can.

Remake renders - 4/5
Original renders - 2/5
Setting/premise - 4/5
Story - 3/5
Overall - 3.5/5


Decent story and setting. You will find some generic characters in this but also some new and interesting ones (kinda find Jane real annoying though). The main story is also fresh and interesting but porn tropes/stories are once again kinda generic. The renders are not great but are good enough for a honey select game. Though the old renders (renders between the remake and the latest chapters) are bad and kinda off putting at times. All in all a decent game worth playing but i will wait till everything has been renewed to the remake standards.

For me the game is 4 stars because it has nice animations and sadly (not implemented fully) preg content. I think this will be solved in the future updates. It has a harem incest story but the jealousy thing makes the difference from the other games.

1. lot of fun
2. Renders look pretty good
3. choices works
4. many paths
5. lots and lots of scene.
6. models are awesome.
7. Entertaining and goofy story
overall lots of fun and no dead head theories everything is smooth like butter.

The game is defenetly good and a lot of fun. The girls are good looking and the plot is getting more and more interesting the farther you move into the game. There are a lot of renders too.

By the way, the dev is improving and remastering the first chapters. So it only gets better.

There is a good amount of content, quality writing and story so it doesn't feel awkward and forced, and the ladies are all super into whichever path you choose. There are plenty of kinks, but nothing hidden to surprise you. I look forward to future updates.

English:............6/10
User Interface:.....4/10
User Experience:....7/10
Art:................8/10
Dialogue:...........4/10
Story:..............4/10
Opinion:............4/10................
Avg:.............5.29/10 [2.65/5]

If anyone's read my reviews before, it's no surprise I'm very critical. And for some reason, I think this game is what started it all. I don't know why, just suddenly I had to dissect every issue I have with the stories I read on this site. The overall message of this one is good. "Work to improve yourself." If this actually portrayed it well, I'd have given it a higher rating. But the issues in the story were numerous. MC works at his job TWICE before getting a cushy job from some girl he starts screwing. MC has no real character flaws to begin with. Outside of cheating on everyone he knows. The relationships happen in the blink of an eye. The only character with a character is the manifestation of MC's subconscious. Imogen's dogshit storyline of "You beat up my son, now I'm going to use you for sexual satisfaction and fall in love with you over nothing" actually made me angry. And MC's sister supposedly turning tricks for drugs is never thought of again after she leans into her hero complex for him. There wasn't even a reason for it, she was just missing, in a warehouse, and doing drugs becasuse... Drugs? And those are just the big ones off the top of my head. This being a near-total rework means I have something to maybe look forward to. Full disclosure(no that anyone will read this because this isn't on the front page anymore) I've had talks with the dev and bits of the rework are from my criticisms. Which gives me hope. But we all know hope is a cruel mistress and I'm still ready to be slapped back down.

It's been well over a year since I touched this, so I won't know every, or any, lines that have been changed. So I'm just gonna go through this as I normally do. The game starts up with MC just saying "I've got to put an end to this, every day is the same" Slightly paraphrased. But what? He doesn't have a terrible life. He's going to college. Sure, his house is not the biggest, but its fine. Yeah, he needs a job, but being a full-time student(as he supposedly is) is a lot of work itself. Even though after a certain point in this story he never goes back to school for unknown reasons. I'm glad MC acknowledges that he's uselss. But WHY is he uselss? There's no build up to why he feels that way. This is one thing I do know is changed. I remember MC talked to his mom about Sarah, his childhood friend. LAST TIME, his mom somehow never met her. THIS TIME, she just wants to know how things are. A minor, but good change. And now MC actually has feelings for Sarah? That was never even hinted at before. MC was just good friends with her and actively supported his friends crush. I actually thought that was a good part of the writing. A female character that was just a friend that was pushed to more after, admittedly, poorly contrived circumstances. And meeting Serena is still not good. Nothing has happened to him to make his psyche break. Just, suddenly, a girl appears for no reason. I guess NOW he asks why she looks like Lera. Because having MC not remember his first crush and long time babysitter was kinda stupid. Either way, Serena says MC has been considering suicide. But WE HAVEN'T SEEN THAT. The story is still just telling us that things are, and have happened. The English still has.. Issues. But it is still touched up better than most, I will admit.

Mrs. Bell's weird obsession with MC and her missing daughter are still a part of this, though. "Wow you look like your dad, that's hot." Is not really a great place to start a relationship. And again, MC beats Toni because? He believes? The English really starts to crumble at the cafe. MC also feels weird about saying "I love you" to his mom? Why? I get it for the censor avoidance, but seeing as that's not an issue now, why? And Sarah no longer even seems to have a crush on Mrs. Bell. Which I wish was what was expanded upon. Instead, we get more about MC, the weakest part of this. Kaylie's intro is still the same. MC sits down, says "Don't be sad, you're pretty." Then she's fine and suddenly in love with him. It's weak. I get she's had difficulties, but It's still not good. Lo and behold. Imogen's dogshit story is still the same. "You beat up my son. Please have sex with me." This entire section of the story is the worst. MC beats up a gangster's son. The gangster is convinced to delegate MC getting beaten by his wife. She wants a fuck toy, and you get choice of male/fem dom scenes. Then, after two or three sex scenes with her, you get to choose if she's in love with MC or not. All after the gangster finds out about MC screwing his wife and MC beats him and his gang singlehandedly. This kid has been in one fight and is apparently morbidly depressed. How? Her entire story is the worst and no amount of retooling can change that. Then MC comes home, sees the his mom went on a date with her boss' husband. THAT THEY OPENLY FOUGHT IN THE PLACE SHE WAS WORKING. And MC puffs out his chest and pushes Igor out the door. I don't see the point at which he's actually needed Serena. The ONE time he needed her, she wasn't useful. And the one time she said she did something MC fought a tubby loser. "Dodge and punch." She's already served her purpose. I don't get it. And, because all similar things have to happen around the same time, MC finds Melinda and fights off her dealers? Captors? Boyfriends? The CGs don't match up here as Toni miraculously changes clothes for one frame. And suddenly Sarah's crush on Bell is secret? I remember it being very apparent?

Chapter 2 is where I, unfortunately, start to mentally check out from the story. What do we have left? Melinda's hero complex, Bell's obsession with MC's father, Meeting Cindy and also Freya, Lera having sex with MC after one day, and Sarah's voyeurism. After all that, it's just MC locked in a house with up to, what? Nine women that are suddenly okay with a man that's with other women? MC's mom, cheated on by his father and the one guy she's tried to date was married. Bell was the other woman and her husband is awful. Lera's boyfriend was beating and cheating on her. Melinda was about to be used and abused over drugs she used for no reason. And Imogen's husband was a gangster that was more than likely never home and out with other women. All the main women in this SHOULD have extreme complexes about an unfaithful man. But they just roll over and go "Hmm. Okay." The only hints at a problem are when MC's mom meets with Bell and when Melinda is found out. Even then It's a two second conversation for them to accept it. I'm fully aware this is just a site of porn games with girls that have no brains. But shit like that just doesn't do it for me. Or at least rarely does. I know this isn't a complete rewrite/rework. And doing that would be a monumental effort. So the little touch ups I've noticed help. But this one just insn't for me.

Tangential paragraph aside, Chapter two shows MC having sex with Bell. And Sarah, finding them, mentally admits that she loves them both, in her head. Now, I know HS is hard to work with. But her crab walking into the room they're having sex instead of hidden in any way makes me laugh. It's just a funny sight. Then, the next day, Bell (Mary, but her name is rarely used right now) shows up to take MC to see Melinda. And MC's mom, that just said they shouldn't act on feelings for each other the night before, gets jealous of Bell's existence. Pushing that relationship because now she is five years old. And Bell drops the Melinda bombshell on MC so... He gets out of her car and walks to school. Then, after a time skip, Bell ambushes him in the hall to ask about starting a relationship. Right after that? Imogen appears to set up their next sex. This is also meant to be a training scene with Kaylie and Sarah, but after ten jumping jacks, it ends. Then it's a section pushing MC and his mom together. And Sarah getting mad at MC over her feelings for him and bell. All to end on MC's mom assaulting him in his sleep. The typical incest trope of a bottled up mother finally wanting sex for some reason blows their son in his sleep. Because blowjobs are sexually gratifying to the giver? Chapter 3 is just a victory lap for MC to get more intimate with the women he already knows. It even rounds out with his mom say "Yeah, I was cheated on by your father with six other women, but it's okay that you do it because reasons."

Chapter 4 is titled Lera. Not that it's focused on her, just that she's here now. It's especially apparent as a big chunk of the beginning is MC dealing with Melinda. And the English is ESPECIALLY bad too. You're also given a non choice here as instead of MC saying "you're my sister" he either lets her kiss him and stops or stops her outright and she gets mad asking if there's another girl. Why, yes. There's several, actually. But MC lies about two different things here and says "No". And, instead of facing any repercussions or dwelling on it at all, Sarah shows up to reward him with sex. She also tells MC a bunch of girls fell for him after rescuing Melinda, so he asks why he's never seen them. He has been to school maybe twice since then, and time was skipped so no wonder. And again, this chapter was called "Lera" and she was only there to walk out of the house after saying hi. And Chapter 5 opens to Mary and Melinda moving into MC's tiny 2 bedroom apartment with him and his mother. It's also the chapter when MC is attacked by Imogen's husband. A fight that MC just does his "Dodge, punch" combo. Then MC goes home with Kylie and her mom basically says "REMEMBER HOW YOU SAID YOU'D HELP HER LOSE WEIGHT?!" Because that is Kylie's entire character, shy girl that wants to lose weight. This section is the only time it ALMOST reels me back in. When MC confronts Mary and his mom about their relationships. There's half an argument and for a brief moment, I hope there's drama. But after one kiss and one Legend of Korra "Deal with it!" later, all is hunky dory. Chapter 6 is where Lera gets beaten, tries to hurt her ex's pride by winning a competition, loses, then fucks MC after saying she wouldn't sleep with her long time boyfriend. Lera even says she doesn't want MC to fight her ex, then rewards him for doing it anyway. After this point, it becomes a sex fest. Feigning sex as romance and relationship building. There is no plot after this chapter, therefore me droning on would be pointless.

To be frank, I don't see any reworked or retooled lines anywhere. Obviously, it's been over a year since I touched this, but it all feels the same. The idea of the story is, as I've said before, a good message. And who doesn't want a few girls fawning over them, in theory. This still takes place at lightning fast speeds, which will remain the worst issue until MORE dialogue is added. Not just slightly better. Chapters 1 - 6, AT LEAST, need more build up and reasoning. It doesn't matter how much sex or "wholesome vibes" you add to the later chapters if I don't care about the characters. It may not seem like it but, full disclosure, I've helped the dev with bits and bobs here and there and even consider him a friend. He's a good guy with great work ethic. However, this story needs so much more to be anything more than an odd power fantasy about MC's imaginary girlfriend. From what I've read of his NEXT story, I will like it a LOT more than this. Which shows improvement. But this is just not it for me. The bits of humor I get from this are mainly just from poorly translated english. Like when MC says "I had sex with everyone sitting on this table" but there's no one sitting on the table.

I don't know for certain, but I think the English in the version I recieved is going to be updated. So I'm giving the benefit of the doubt with the 6, otherwise it's a 5. The UI/UX is basically stock with minor additions. The art is above average HS and they improve greatly as the game goes on. I doubt he'll go back to update early renders again, but there's only one incorrect image I remember seeing. The one of Toni. The dialogue and story are rushed, milquetoast and safe. They're not as bad as some things on this site, but just need work. As usual, I'll include my last review. It's still pretty valid even with the rework, sadly. If you just want a harem romp, here ya go. After chapter 6 it's all sex all the time. While it's not terrible, it's not my thing.

Alright first things first: This game is 100% following the teenage male fantasy. You get to be the hero, the man of the hour and how everyone lusts after you to the point where it's weird.

Now this doesn't have to be a bad thing, the teenage fantasy is there for a reason. But when it comes to character depth and plausible motives, it's definitely lacking. The story is present enough to semi-justify the actions of how everything transpires, but if you look twice it's quite superficial.

The art is GREAT imo and the animations are ranging from ok to good while keeping the sex present enough that you won't grow hungry of it but still not too full from it.

TLR
All in all a good game that plays on teenage fantasies. The characters are just deep enough that it doesn't become a problem and the whole subconscious style is a fresh take on it all. Would recommend but it's not gonna win an oscar for best writing.

Not great, not bad but the dialogue/writing kills it for me. Renders look pretty good on the models and most of environments so solid work there. The story has this certain air of being edgy to it that just comes off as juvenile. I know hentai visual novel and all that but it reminds me of something I'd come up with back in high school and just comes off as lame. Dialogue itself reads off as stilted and sometimes a bit ham-fisted. I've comes across far worse games on here and I might come back around to visit this one but I quickly lost interest in this one.

Pretty good! Nice character designs. Entertaining story, if a bit goofy at times. The writing was a bit repetitive early on, but I feel that's gotten better as the story progressed.
Animations are overall good, but at times the movements don't seem too realistic.
The game has an honest charm and the interactions with Serena are great! Looking forward to seeing where this all goes!

Summary:
You are a young man that somehow was able to manifest his unconscious into the world and with its help you slowly trying to create your own harem.

Extraordinary aspects of the game:
Many choices and many sex scenes.

What is good:
Sex scenes are great and sexy where many fail this one success as the dev knows that there are different speeds of lovemaking, different positions, and different cameras angles, as well as the animation, are good.

Character diversity, there are a lot of characters in this game and you nail everyone at least for version 6.5, with is actually quite surprising.

Many choices, this is quite interesting as I saw that every choice changes something, so every choice you make has a different scene behind it, I don’t know how the dev will continue to develop this but I give him a lot of good luck.

A lot of content.

What is bad:
An average unrealistic story and medium-quality content. Some scenes are head-scratching, in some scenes props or body parts clip through the terrain, sometimes unrealistic body positions and empty environments with old textures(note that less seen after around chapter 4 or 5).

What can be made better:
Polish of scenes and an improved story would be nice.

My opinion:
If you come to this game for an interesting story you be disappointed, the story isn’t bad but it’s totally not something to write a book about. The dev focus on quantity in this game than quality and I think that this is an alright choice as he created a long great game in a little time, instead of a short one.

Though the game shines in the sex scenes department, many games have vanilla sex scenes of grinding on one speed and then just a lot of text and then the finish with quite disappointing but not in this game. From many sexy characters for all tastest to quite fun facial expressions to great positions the game nails it quite well.

At first, as I started to play it I tough that it will be just a good game(8/10) at best, but because of the quantity of content and the great sex scenes, I found that this game deserves to be a high-quality-low-tier game(10/10).

Usually, I don’t write something like that but I think you should support this game at Patreon don’t know why but it has too little support, most likely because it’s not exactly realistic looking.

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A really very nice life adventure around MC and his ever-growing harem.

Many interesting, pretty girls and women (really nice arts!) slowly gather around MC and he experiences smaller and bigger adventures.
Without really wanting to, the world is saved ;-)

I love the subconscious and especially that MC is not a whiny wimp and a total jerk! Another big plus for me is "the chubby girl", because she is not the typical cliché model girl, but soooo cute and adorable!

Sometimes I just need a happy story to relax me and I'm always happy about all the successes and happy endings. No gruelling extreme profundity, enjoy and rejoice!

Only the extremely shaky camera during the sex scenes unfortunately diminished my enjoyment....
(It seem to be solved during the last Updates)

In any case, I've really enjoyed the story so far and hope for many more chapters!

The latest update has the harem in full swing and I love it so much! Just enjoy to the fullest and solve the little dramas and problems and then continue to enjoy... What more can I ask for?

A clear recommendation from me!