Ren'Py - Life in Alphaville [v0.6.6] [GameleaksStudio]

What can I say about this product? I feel deceived regarding the promised 18+ content. Initially, I tried playing in the standard VN-style mode. There were many hints about intimate scenes and their development in version 0.6.6 + Halloween Special, but I never encountered anything resembling an actual sex scene. Still, I wasn’t too upset and decided to try the solo mode, thinking maybe I was just missing something. The result was the same.

In forum comments and reviews, people mentioned scenes from both the harem and deception routes. I thought maybe I was just unlucky and couldn’t trigger the harem scenes, so I tried hardcore mode. However, the only differences were a few extra lines of dialogue and some additional CGs—none of which contained actual adult content. Meanwhile, the forum claims that such scenes exist in the "Memories" section, but I never saw them.

I played through all three modes in the sandbox, but the outcome remained unchanged. As far as I understand, unlocking these memories requires earning 60 lust or love points—but how? Alternatively, maybe the scenes are tied to future story updates, but I completed all available missions without unlocking anything. There was even a message about "unlocked dates," but no dates appeared. At this point, I felt thoroughly scammed.

Turns out, the developer is some kind of genius who plans to add these scenes later. View attachment 4698192 Because, of course, players will happily replay the entire game in the next update just to see if anything was actually added.

Now, about the game’s content: The story has potential, but the execution is lacking. The developer introduces plot points—like the protagonist meeting a friend at a restaurant—only to immediately abandon them. A girl says, "Come over to my place," but there’s no one at her home. The only character you really meet is schizophrenia.

In short, it feels like the developer is rushing ahead to create future content without properly refining what’s already there. Whether they’ll ever fix this remains to be seen. If you’re considering playing this game, do it only for the janky storyline—there’s little else to justify it. The promised 18+ scenes are practically non-existent, appearing only as disconnected videos or images without any narrative context.

If you’ve read this far (or endured this verbal diarrhea), congratulations—you might have just saved yourself from my fate. And if you found any issues with the grammar or phrasing, keep in mind that this comment was originally written in another language and translated via AI.

Did Sandbox solo because I like repeatable scenes. TBH not impressed. Story was chaotically out of order, and I'm pretty sure a ton of scenes were missing.
Probably a better experience in story mode.
Like the models as a whole. Didn't hate anything. Some decent options, but. Nothing overly solid either.

Based on the amount of content, I feel like the dev has worked way too much on adding too many different game modes, and their attention has been overly divided by that. But. What do I know.

As of v0.60:

So I actually enjoy this game. It's not too bad. But there are some things that force me to give it a 4 star instead of 5.

Artwork/Animations - 5/5

So the artwork and animations for this game with the style used is good, and there are some good scenes available. The scenes are pretty interactive too, which is neat. No complaints here.

Storyline/Dialogue - 4/5

I am curious to see where the story leads. I think I get the premise, but it's not quite far enough to tell. Looks interesting though. Now the reason I am giving it 4 stars is some of the choices and language in the game are in the dev's native language (I think it's Portuguese). While it's not game breaking, it is immersion breaking, and kind of lazy. Dev needs to pick a translation and stick with it, and change the whole thing to fit. Having a conversation in English and then the choices being Sim/Nao is just weird. Needs to be fixed.

Gameplay/UI - 4/5

Relatively simple UI. At the beginning of the game, the devs ask what type of game you want (girls only for MC, sharing, etc.) and then I assume the upcoming dialogue accommodates so you don't accidentally pick an NTR choice (not 100% sure since I didn't try any other routes). Again, the reason I give it 4 stars is the constant breaks in language. Even some of the menu options in preferences are in Portuguese. Again, needs to be fixed.

Overall, not a bad game, is worth playing. But the dev needs to tighten up and fix the dialogue and make it uniformly one language. If they want to do a Portuguese translation, great. Make that all the same language.

Cheers.

Radical Dreamer

Played version 0.6.0 and while this game has potential, it needs a lot of polishing. There's all sorts of untranslated buttons in the various menus and some of the dialog could use some improvement, but mainly it all just is a case of a non-english game developer that needs to get a native speaker to help with the translation.

There's a bunch of characters, most of which are various girls. There's some good scenes but there's some parts that could use some improvements. I'm interested to see how this one develops though, so I'll have to check back for future updates.

It started off great, but now it's gone since December. I hope the project will continue because I think it has good potential. The only thing that annoyed me about the creator was that he promised to release the last update on December 22, but in the end he didn't release anything or answer what was happening with the project. I hope that everything is fine and that he will continue with the project