Ren'Py - The Headmaster [v0.16.4.3] [Altos and Herdone]

I absolutely do not like this style of render typically, but this game is really deserving of praise, enough that I enjoyed it and forgot about the graphics.

The pacing can be a little slow and start to feel a little grindy, but not awfully so. This is a good example of a sandbox done right

The stories and twists are subtle enough to be engaging (vs say AnniesSchoolDays for an unsubtle example) and the characters have their own personalities

I appreciate that this style might be exactly what some love, for me if this had the type of renders I love (e.g. CMA, DMD) it would be a 6 star game. The render quality is surprisingly good in some areas - vaginas sometimes look more realistic than in some of the subjectively 'better' render styles

Honestly it's a masterclass in BDSM/training content.

Render/model quality isn't anything amazing, but it more than makes up for it with a lot of content and high quality dialogue. One of the few games I actually play, not just speed through to get to the good stuff.

one of the best games I have ever played in here.

funny story, good charecters, very nice charecter designs.

only bad thing I can find about this game is waiting for a new episode. rest is perfect. thanks.

This game is kinky and fun. Lots of detail and decent storylines. Character models are on point and the girls have distinct and well-realised personalities. Thanks very much to Altos & Herdone for creating it.

I believe this is the best game I ever played. There is a lot of content here and its building up towards a certain momentum. If you expect easy come and easy go, this is maybe not the game you are looking for as it is more a slow runner. However, the story and the way it progresses to a climax is maybe the best there is out here on the marked. The developer takes their time in progressing the story with new updates, however, it comes steadily every few months. I would def recommend this game to everyone who likes games with builds up. The animation is very good and so are the models.

This is easily my favoutite porn game so far.

Totally recommend it to anyone who likes Schoolgirls, their butts, spanking said butts, and more.

There is lots of content, still it needs more. So much more of this....

6/5 Stars. Keep it up!

I really like this game, I wish there where at least some optional femboy/trap content in it, like come femboy that got in the school by accident or something. I will definitely update to five stars if thats ever put in the game.

Was really looking forward to this game as I played it a while back. The concept is very interesting to me to be in a school and discipline girls and the initial way it was introduced really had me excited. But after years of development at a snails place, it has turned out to be a huge disappointment.

Firstly, the art is outdated and very poor compared to other games. But that can be forgiven. However, the worst part is the grind. It's just grind grind grind and absolutely little to no action years after development.

REgarding the gameplay system, while I applaud the dev for putting in efforts to come up with an actual mechanic, it turns out to be boring, repititive and grindy. Absolutely not worth the wait. Very dissapointed in this one. I'll be back in a year or two to see if there are any improvements.

My only complaint is that: I wish the game had better pacing (too slow), besides that I like it. there is a lot of promising things so far and future things to come, also I love Rachel she is adorable, more of her please.

I didn't play this for like 2 years and its gained nearly no content at all, much less actual lewd content. What is the dev doing? What's their is... okay. Standard illusion asset flip with a non-annoying UI and characters who aren't actively annoying.

Very boring gameplay loop, though, and annoying. Just clicking on every area in vague hope of seeing a scene that lets you get another scene that lets you get another scene that maybe lets you + 1 a single girl once.
You +1 them, generally, via doing some really boring, samey, and overly strict (do it in the exact right order or fail) minigame that barely changes at all between girls and levels. Then you may be able to, after this, click to tell them to do a thing. Some of it is repeatable. Some is not. No way to tell which it is. Thankfully it has a decent gallery to prevent the need to save before every scene just incase its one time only.

It leads to you spending most of your time making no progress at all, unsure if you are doing the stupid minigame wrong or haven't unlocked the tools needed to do it right. And then, if its the latter, wondering what random event for what girl will unlock that option.

Despite leaving it for literal years its still the same few girls who have any real content, corruption levels or anything available to them, and mostly the same caps they had before, or just 1 more scene longer. 90% of the girls lack any real content to speak of.

Overall 4 stars for good qol and good (if generic asset flipped) visuals and okay (not great, but not terrible) writing.
I don't see it getting above 4 before I die of old age at the rate its currently going.

version 0.12.1

It has good graphics with acceptable animations as well as the story and most
importantly the amount of beautiful girls to punish.....I love the game.

The game does not have many sex scenes so many will not find it entertaining but has a lot of potential to continue growing.

This game is grind central. It has a lot of potential hence the rating of average, but many of the positive traits of this game is overshadowed by the excessive or unnecessary grind needed to advance in the game. The premise of the story is you're put into a position of headmaster and must change the all girl students behavior by means of spankings and other BDSM measures.

However, you aren't allowed to change any rules or apply any of your bdsm measures until you can convince your faculty to support you in the board meetings every Friday (incoming grind) . In order to do this you're given the dreaded sidequests for each faculty member. On top of that you have other things like (reputation, discipline, and lust) points.

Most of the quest instructions say "Do this" however most of the time it's completely random whether you see the correct scene or not, the instructions don't specify what time of day or anything. Most of my playthrough is spent frustratingly wandering around hoping to catch someone misbehaving, or a scene so I can earn more discipline or reputation points.

There's cheats that let you circumvent and raise the amount of money you get (very helpful) because you only are paid 500 per week every friday and most gfits are 500-1000+ dollars each. So on top of grinding for discipline points without cheats you have to grind for money as well. Additionally, you can unlock all scenes in replay and max out character bdsm "levels" with cheats but that doesn't help either as several scenes are locked unless you increase bdsm levels through the research tasks that take forever with little instruction.

All in all the storyline and graphics are decent but the grind greatly reduces the immersive quality of the game as you will find yourself bored and frustrated with trying to find different scenes,. For example you have to train a faculty teacher at night on how to better control her classroom . You literally visit this teacher's house 15 different times to train her, and you also have to watch her in the classroom as well.

However, as I mentioned earliar it's hit or miss on instructions for tasks. Sometimes it tells you what time of day to visit sometimes not in the case of the teacher it does not and is random. So i go to visit the teacher to observe her during her class and 4 times in a row it says "Nothing of note happens i'll need to come back and observe when someone is misbehaving" (repeat this scenerio everyday)

I don't mind grind but annoying things like with the teacher but associated with 70% of tasks sucks all enjoyment out of a game which is supposed to be fun. All in all this game would be much more fun as a visual novel. This game still has some enjoyable parts but all in all I ended up stopping as I got too frustrated trying to find different scenes to advance with a characters as the game doesn't tell you when or where to be to discover punishments solid 3/5.

Nice graphics - the first thing that catches your eye. Then a large amount of content pops up and a good study of each character. The main plot and a separate branch of content for each character - this is not in every game. Special thanks for the good study of the code - despite the small version number - 0.12 and beta status, during the full walkthrough I did not encounter a single glitch or bug. They would also bring localization, but it’s not harmful to dream))

You'll love this if you like doing boring in game tasks like delivering a photograph on a specific day, training someone every night etc etc. Same animation cue and the "reward" is probably another task or the imaginary points bar fills up so you can MAYBE progress to spanking the girl. Pass.

If you have a spanking fetish, this game is probably 4 or 5 stars for you.

Personally, I don't, so what is here is... competent, but bland.

Progression is linear, and has (imo) the bad design of requiring you to progress character A. before you can progress Character B.

On the plus side, corruption is nicely slow.

On the negative, it is grindy. With lots of spanking. Don't expect to get to sex scenes any time soon.

The promise of this game is just excellent.

A "grinding" type of AVN, but with the right setting, the many differences in girls due to a school type environment, and a focus on bdsm/discipline.

What is there to ask for more?

I hope the next updates go on in the right direction because this start is wonderful.

Version Played: v0.11.1
TIme played: Upwards of 8 hours. Most content seen aside from a scant few events.

The more I play this game, the more I love it. While it actually doesn't really tick a lot of my fetish boxes, the writing, setting and extremely hot cast of girls (what can I say, I love Honey Select) makes me enjoy each and every play session.

For someone far removed from his student days, games like this with an older MC have a special appeal since it's easier to self insert or at least relate to the situation. Said situation isn't unique (I can think of at least two other games with the same or a similar premise), but it's incredibly well-realized here.

Positives:
+ Fun setting
+ Smart writing with lots of laughs (I was literally laughing out loud during the + Incredibly hot characters
+ A ton of content

Negatives:
- If you're not into a large power balance disparity or spanking and shit like that, this might be a hard sell
- Tends more towards the humorous rather than serious, so don't expect any real heartfelt love moments
- YMMV on Honey Select models

As you can see, those latter two negatives are barely that, but to talk to the first negative point, I'm actually decidedly NOT into either, but the game manages to do it without it being off putting. The game also does a great job of keeping its tongue firmly in its cheek in terms of just how fucked up the situation actually is. I like when games have a self-awareness to them without breaking the fourth wall or devolving into seeing how many memes they can cram into each line.

Note devs: Bravo! An absolute delight of a game. Please just keep up what you're doing and those updates coming. This game joins the list of those I've supported via itch.io.

This game is amazing for one reason: the sheer amount of content. There was so much to do, so many unique characters, so many individual stories to explore. It was easy to forget I was playing an early version (0.10.1) of the game.
Most of the gameplay events are accompanied by images or animations and that means there are lot of them. The animations are not even reserved for sex scenes. For example there are multiple animations for sports lessons. The effort put into this game is clearly visible.
Of course the game is not perfect. The main storyline is easily forgotten between the various events and character stories. The individual images and animations are good, not amazing. However that does not matter when the game design works as well as in this game.
I did not even like the spanking in this game, one of its main aspects. Yet I could not drop this game after starting to play it. It is that good.

Very nice game with plenty of content for >24 hours of decent game play.
Fetishes presented in the game are totally up my alley and there are a huge cast of characters which makes it great to explore and expand in the future.
Can't wait for future updates!

This is the game that started it all for me. The beginning of my journey into adult games, and boy, did it set the bar high!

The Headmaster is set in a fictional country where the government has approved the testing of 'unconventional' methods of discipline on students to help improve graduation rates.

While the game and its premise definitely require the suspension of disbelief, which adult game does not?

Not quite a virtual novel, but more so an interactive sandbox with the usual limited actions per day mechanic. You are able to gradually corrupt girls, adapting and fine-tuning your approach as you go.

If you're wanting to play an egotistical megalomanical headmaster that seeks to corrupt, humiliate, degrade, and perform all manner of unspeakable acts on his colleagues and students, this game is perfect for you!

Thoroughly enjoyed it, and find myself checking the discord regularly to see whether there has been an update.

Animations aren't really out of the world, but you don't really notice it because the game does a great job of drawing you into the story, and making you focus on corrupting each girl as much as you can.

There are some continuity issues every now and then where the girls don't act like they would in real life when you next meet them after just having mistreated them a couple of days ago, but that's par for the course in sandbox games.

Definitely a big recommend!