VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Dreams of Desire [v1.0.3 GOG DE] [Lewdlab]

This game is coming together to be one of my Top-5 in development right now. The Art, especially the women are fantastic. There are several different women to pursue and there are enough choices to impact the game but not too many and few as to overwhelm or make the story drag. Well Done!

One of the best games I look forward to. Love the fact that the sexual content is not the only thing that is there to look forward to, the story is VERY intriguing! The only negative point I can think of is that women have been made with un-natural boob size and rather muscular bodies. Well...I guess nothing can be 100% perfect

Episode 9 Version 1.0.2

Interesting story, with great opportunities. I guess you could say till know was the slower introduction time. I can't wait for future episodes and the possibilities they'll come with.

Storyline 8/10 - unique and unusual, keeps you guessing

Pacing 3/10 - Way too fast. MC starts doing "sex stuff" with mother in a matter of days, even with magical powers that's silly

Renders 8 / 10 - Image quality is good let down by not fixing clothes clinging to models around the breasts.

Character design 4 / 10- young females look good, Mom, aunt and Best friends mom look like mutants.

Playability 5 / 10 - Player actions basically do nothing. You might see 2 or 3 different lines of dialogue and the odd render might change but you are pretty much just along for the ride.

I'm so conflicted about this game. On one side it is wonderfully made, thoughtful, with a real interesting and freaking creepy story / vibe / visual elements.

On the other side, the renders of any woman past 30 looks freaking horrendous (to my eyes). It's deep in the uncanny valley and I can't put my finger on what exactly is wrong, it just is.

This last part is highly subjective. I have strange and niche fetishes (bestiality for example), and I'm always a bit disappointed when I see a developer is completely against things I like. So I feel like a hypocrite, but foot fetish is a fetish that I not only don't get at all, it's an incredible turn off for me. Like 100 to 0 in half a second. This game has some extremely detailed (yet still wonky uncanny valley) looking feet, and the game dev doesn't shy away from them.

It's such a well made game, but the foot fetish and wonky renders force me to give this game 2 stars.

First game I have played. Enjoyed the images and storyline. Mrs. Turner is a goddess. Liked what the MC can do with the aunt. Looking forward to seeing what can happen with Tracy. Played through to the end a couple of times with different choices and never experienced any bugs that ended the game unexpectedly. Held my interest and worked well all the way through.

I love this game

The game itself consists out of 9 episodes atm, in every episode you're following a story about some dream shards and you have the ability to control everyone or trying too, there is enough progress in every update to know the story better

Also enough 18+ material to suit your needs, also try different paths to get the most out of it.

So far it's one of the best games out there

Keep it going, Really love this game

One of the most interesting games on here. The art is well rendered and detailed, the characters have more going on then first appears, a variety of locations outside of the home, and the MC can pursue their preferred fetish (albeit within a limited extent) rather than be forced to endure what the creator wants. I would recommend this game to anyone that enjoys family games with a mind control plot.

One of the best adult VN games available, creator is consistent on delivery and communicates well, the gold standard on patron adult games. Also graphically very impressive. Occasionally one or two scenes a touch jagged, but overall a extremely high quality. The writing is also good, minus a few spelling errors that (hopefully) won't break any illusion of disbelief.

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is Episode 9 v1.0.2...

Originally Reviewed on 12/16/2017

Ok, I have quite a bit to say about this Visual Novel/Game... And this is just my point of view, so please don't be offended... From the beginning I was really truly enjoying this VN as the story had a creative and interesting plot... With all the mystery surrounding the protagonist and his new abilities, with an almost detective mystery feel to it... Sure there is erotic stuff as well, but the story was really engaging and sucked you into wanted to know more about what was going on, how will the protagonist figure it all out, who are the bad guys, will the protagonist fall in love, and so on and so on... But as the VN went on, I started to find that the story began to suffer due to various things that I'll mention below...

Visually the characters in this VN are absolutely top notch, and better than most other VN's I've read or played... The backgrounds, when unique, were also good... There were a few backdrops that are copies from other VN's, so the sources were probably the same, which does get a bit tiring after a while... I would love to see more original backgrounds, not the same ones being used from different VN/Games, especially when it's not the same authors... The animations were well done as well... There are a LOT of creepy visuals as well, that tended to sometimes be a little too creepy so much as to just add to the confusion of the plot at times... There is also a lot of body camera panning, some which you can space bar through, and some you can't... At first it happens on occasion, but later it happens quite a lot, which I was glad I could space bar through most of them, because they started to become distractions...

The script and how it plays out is where I found the most problems in this VN... From the beginning, I absolutely loved how it was playing out, with the mystery and character interaction, and the tons of protagonist dialogue and inner monologue... But as the story progressed, so many questions kept coming up with what was going on, and the protagonist started to feel more and more like a clueless sex addict, and it just started to become a bunch (and I mean a huge amount) of back to back sex scenes, with the occasional small amount of pushing the plot forward... The protagonist would begin to push for more information, and 9 times out of 10 get distracted by more erotic scenes, walking away from it with no new information... Don't get me wrong, this is supposed to be an erotic VN, but too many constant erotic scenes, just destroys the driving points of the main story... Add to that, with so much sex constantly happening, the immersion also began to suffer since it is biologically impossible for a man to ejaculate that much through multiple sex scenes in one day, and do it yet again every day... Nothing leads you to believe that any ability he has includes unlimited ejaculate... Of course, that is just my observation, with so many darn erotic scenes in the last 1/3rd of the VN...

There are lots of scenes/script that only open up based on the decisions the reader/player makes, so it is impossible to see all the content on one play through... Many times throughout a play through, decisions will alter content later in the VN, and in some cases multiple different decisions together will alter what you see and read later in the VN... So going through this VN several times will be required if you want to see it all..

Sex scenes are well choreographed and sexy as hell, but with the VN going from story driven in the beginning, to sex scene driven, with the protagonist just repeatedly having inner monologue about the confusion of what was happening all around him, as the only real driving force to push the plot along, at a snails pace, it becomes a bit annoying... Now, there were moments, very few near the end of the current content, that scenes not involving sex, pushed the story along a tiny tiny bit... But I wanted to see the story progress, not be constantly bombarded with sex scene after sex scene after sex scene... The sex scenes become tedious when presented so often... The VN started to really lose that Novel story driven feel, to being just back to back porn (sometimes creepy porn)... They should have been more spread out with more story filling the gaps... I just don't understand the 90 degree turn on how this VN began to progress...

And the Halloween stuff, when it occurs, both times, it seems totally and I mean totally out of place with what is happening in the story at the moment both events occur... It felt like bonus material that should have been included outside of the main story as a separate entity for viewing, rather then being slipped into the main story at points that make no sense, and just causes more confusion... It also felt like chapter 9 was just haphazardly thrown together, and some continuity is lost with the Halloween stuff...

I feel that shortly after about 3/5ths into the current content, that the story slowed way down in favor of erotic scenes, and it became frustrating to have so many unanswered questions about what was truly going on, and whenever the protagonist would plan out a way to get more information, he would be stymied by more erotic sex scenes and not get anywhere... The inner monologue in the shower scenes and at night, tried to portray that the story was moving along, albeit at a snails pace in the last few chapters, yet sometimes felt like it was just repeating the protagonists confusion again without really being constructive... I started to question if this VN was as good as it seemed during the first half, and the potential that this would be great story driven VN began to just disappear...

By the end of chapter 9, it seems to just be mostly nothing but sex scenes, hardly any movement in the real plot... And it's so hard to tell who is really a bad guy and who is really a good guy... It's so confusing and full of mystery in the last few chapters... I actually began to feel the need to skip some of the last few erotic scenes, just to get the story moving...

Now, in the last half of the vn, there were a few (and I mean only a few) sex scenes that perhaps were probably intended to slightly add to the actual plot (beyond just adding to the creep vibe), and did tease at something more going on then what may be currently known... But they also just added to the confusion and mystery... There was more mystery than answers by the end of chapter 9... You really only know 1 character that is 100% a bad guy, but it isn't the protagonist that knows this, just you as the reader... Every other character could be a bad guy, could be a good guy, could be nothing, and the protagonist is so bad at figuring things out, it's a bit scary...

There were a few moments, especially in the first half, that I felt like there might even be a few love stories playing out between the protagonist and other characters... But by the end, it felt like that aspect was most likely abandoned, and it just become sex, sex, and more sex...

Overall, I'm so disappointed in how things are playing out... Please don't get me wrong, the sex scenes are very well done, creative (albeit some creeped me out during dream sequences), and so forth... But to go from such great promise in the first half to becoming a plot tease, while throwing mostly sex scenes at the reader, it's starting to become tedious that the story has taken such a back seat to the sex, when it started off so strong...

It makes me wonder if all these sex scenes, being added, are just to keep the money flowing in for the author/s, rather than making a well balanced VN that is a piece of art, up there with some of the best erotic VN's... And not just another copy cat 3D porn show... I may try this one again in the future, and I may not... I dunno, because I'm so disappointed with how slow the story is actually progressing at the moment...

Here is a story that almost made me dream. Very long story, with beautiful pictures, and pretty models, with some disproportionate body members. I just love it. There are many choices. There are multiple choices but few, there is little variation in the story. This story ends and I am dissatisfied.

This game has hands down the best 3D visuals of all the game sof this genere. The underlying plot is interesting to, with the conspiracies and such.
However, the incest-milf fetish is a bit too much. The sex scenes are barely related to the plot and your choices barely affect your relationship with the women, who you end up screwing one way ore another at a poorly developed pace. And the writer seems to forget the rules of the world and powers he has created. The spell can manipulate people to give you information and perform all kinds of things, but the MC conveniently forgets to use it when questioning some characters, and then proceeds to have sex with them because porn.
Overall interesting, but could bebetter and have more meaningful choices.

Great use of models with the animations and whatnot. Good music, good ambience. Refreshing storyline, makes you really want to immerse yourself and invest actual time in it. The characters and the progress with them is entertaining and engaging. Top quality fap material.

At the start i didn't gave this game much attention, but it slowly turned out to be one of my favorites!

Good points:
The renders are just really great, well chosen and edited models.
Has animation, even tho is just images loop.
Never had any major bug that could break the game.
Steady pace of updates.
No grind.
Does have an interesting story that is getting better every update.

Bad points:
Could have better animations.
Could have more sex scenes.

At episode 8 the game has over 2000 images and a lot of content and this was made in 8 months! Seriously, i never saw any project evolve that fast, and to think that this is his FIRST PROJECT... So far Sin is the best adult game developer i've saw.

I truly enjoy this game, and i look foward to further updates. I finished it once already, and may go through it again and try different choices to see any different scenes. I think i'm in love with the mom lol

While adult visual novels aren't exactly known for their stellar stories, Dreams of Desire makes a valiant attempt at breaking the mold. With an engaging mystery story, unmatched visuals, and attractive characters, Dreams of Desire sets itself as one of the best of its kind.

It's just a sequence of increasingly disjointed sex scenes. Since there is no build up whatsoever with the relationships, it's apparent how empty the whole thing is, with the rush to put sex scenes randomly to fill the void caused by the terrible dialogue and plot.

The most pathetic one is the relationship with the aunt, who initially dislikes you, but then you basically rape her while she sleeps and ends up liking it, because who cares about dialogue or anything resembling actual human interactions. Let's just pick a character, put them to sleep so we can avoid writing , and add some sex scenes afterwards. After that let's introduce the cheapest plot device possible, an easy to render dude who makes them horny with just a touch. The whole plot is a band-aid, trying to embellish that.

The way the plot flows is just lazy. The MC literally reading a book from time to time, or a few short dreams with two characters who fuck 90% of the time (gotta hide the poor dialogue), with no explanation either other than being horny.

Even the dreams with the main characters are just unsatisfying sex scenes with some cliche information thrown around to give the idea that the plot is anything but an excuse to force sex scenes without any buildup or decent dialogue.

The edgy backgrounds in the dreams try to give the idea of a deeper meaning but there is none possible when you have avoided developing relationships or personalities beyond the shallow introductions (mean older sister, loving younger sister). There is nothing to build on.

The idea of the dreams being used to affect the main characters was interesting at first, but when it is reduced to "use superpower", "have sex", "now they like you" in such a direct and blatant way the game becomes barely more than a sequence of disjointed CGs.

I wouldn't be as harsh on this game if it was a new game made by one person, but it's a mature game which has never improved since the first releases.

Let’s see, it’s mostly all pros for this game.
Has a story.
Has some amazing graphics out there. Shows the hard work of the devs. Good job guys.
Has some great content from Ep 1 to 8.
Fap factor is high.

Cons would be that content per episode release isn’t satisfying enough for my appetite. Though, in a month’s time, and with the quality they are rendering, can’t expect anything more. All my respect to the devs man.
Thumbs up. Cheers.

have been following this game for a while, first the CG is top notch, beautifully rendered and the posing is right on point too. Second Lewdlab has managed to write an engaging story as well, its not just secondary to the image fapping, they go hand in hand (pun intended). Third This game has one of the best mom/son stories I've encountered in a game (and that is my jam, I'm not overly interested in the sister routes but they are done well too) and it is certainly the best CG adult game I have ever played. Thank you Lewdlab for the time and effort that has gone into this project. I look forward to the future updates!

You want an interesting plot? Play this game. You want to see the best rendered models in erotic gaming up to date? This is the game for you. Are you into incest and wish to bone all your female family members? Stop thinking and pick up this masterpiece...You intend to offer your dick a great gift? Lead him to this treasure. Are you a psychology student and want to understand how hypnotism works? Play this for scientific research and you'll also get your blood flowing smoothly as a bonus. *wink