Ren'Py - Uni [v0.57.120b] [Hizor Games]

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 v0.10.50b...

Not a half bad grinder with some story elements...

The visuals are 2D hand drawn in a Japanese Anime style... Most visuals are stills with not a huge amount of variation, as this VN/Game plays a bit like your typical Japanese style Visual Novel with characters showing on the screen as they speak or during some interactions... The backgrounds are a mix of unique ones and a few I felt like I'ld seen before, but not sure... Very few scene and/or event visuals... The basic UI elements and map navigation is alright for what your currently able to do...

The script is pretty spot on, as I rarely ran into any spelling/grammar errors... The introduction to the story is rather short and simple, and does feel a bit unoriginal, but it gives you a basic setup... The plot (what little there really is) revolves around a female protagonist who's parents died and she ended up skipping her senior year of high school... She moves to a different city and tries to start her life over again, and also to finish her last year of high school...

After the introduction you get into the grinding aspect... Where you may decide how you want to play... This VN/Games is slightly flexible on how you can play it, beginning with either a pre-set amount of days you can play the content, or a custom number of days... I assume if you go with pre-set and max out, then the game ends prematurely, but not 100% sure... I went with a custom amount... Game play is broken up into the 7 days of the week along with 2 to 3 sections of each day... You can do things like attend school, work, shop, and wander around... There are also some character stats, and I would guess some hidden stats, but I can't confirm that... Viewable stats are things like school grade, money, and corruption level... Which does gate some content... But most content comes in the way of a mixture of set story arcs depending on choices made, as well as random events that may also involve choices... Corruption is not just increased via sexual choices either, as it appears to be an all encompassing measure that is effected by many varying choices...

There are a few story arcs that can be experienced, but as the game is still early in development, not all of the current story arcs are very long... Some are not even noticeable, easily, until after some choices have been made, which may or may not allow them to continue... So in essence, choices matter, and may end story lines prematurely, based on what you decide to do... The story elements are not lengthy or hugely deep... But most do feel somewhat meaningful and well put together... There is a bit of repetition with some random events, but some random events also revolve around a few story arcs that involve interactions at random intervals... And not all story arcs are sexual in nature... Do expect to spend some time with the grind elements, although they are not terrible... I do wish they had included the back button in the UI, but it doesn't show on the screen... So be prepared to save game now and then, just in case...

Overall, I think this one shows some potential for what it is... It's not a story rich VN/Game, but it does feel as though there are some well crafted story elements... Some attempts at humor are a bit drab, but some made me smile as well... I can see the developers are trying to make this VN/Game more then your average porn fest styled grinder... In fact, most erotic content is based around the text rather then the visuals, even though there are some present... There are also a few moments now and then where it feels as though some visuals are missing during some events, but again, this product is still in it's infancy... There are also some elements that are a bit over the top, but not enough to annoy me... I think this one shows some promise, again for what it is, and we'll have to wait and see if it keeps being promising or if it dives off the deep end at some point... I'm rooting for the continued promise, but you can never tell with many of these grinder VN/Games... Will I revisit this one? Probably yes, but only a bit later into it's development cycle...

Not that much content for now. However, I am able to see some glimmer of what can be a really great VN, if and ONLY the creators are able to consistently update the VN of a good amount of content. I know of the past complications that have arisen within the team creating it, however, I believe they are past this, and will hopefully add more content and provide consistently. Waiting for the story arc with Damien unfold, but hopefully, more slowly please. It is going way too fast.

I don't really know much about the previous versions but here's what is in this one: I got to day 29 being confident, absolutely barely any CG (nothing nude or anything remotely suggestive). So far I have 1 girl that won't let me flirt with, but she's in the preview pictures. There's a guy, but he's whiny and weak as fuck so I shrug him off. There's not much going on, to be honest. What little art there is, is nice. There's no city map like in the previews. I haven't found a single scene like the previews except for the cheerleading one. Overall, the game is in pretty poor condition for such a large amount of changes. I believe he needs to dedicate more time on other aspects other than just writing or hire people for help. My imagination is great, but this is a Visual Novel, not a Novel.

It's very rough and new, but I enjoy what I've seen of it. I'm definitely wanting to see more. The submission to characters and other factors are very enticing, and I can't wait to see more. The only disappointment towards the game is how little there is to play currently. I look forward to updates, and if I had the choice, I would contribute to the patreon.

there are not much cg's right now and the game is fairly short. but if you like submission you need to give this a chance. the (very short) maledom path had one of the best written submission scenes i've ever seen and the lezdom path looks insanely promising.

Version 1 looked full of promise.
Versions 2,3, and 4 have not lived up to that.
It has the fundamental design to become great, but with each release the newly added content has been... well... mediocre.
It is still early in the development, so maybe I will try it again in a few months.

This game has some DELICIOUS potential, and from the sounds of the titles in some of the patron only posts on the patreon, the general idea of where they're going with this, what you can tell from all public info of the game in general, the visible text from some of the patron only posts if you aren't a patron includedP), this is going to be one of my favorite games if it can get far enough!

I really think they could also still invest in more visible characters, and less characters you don't get to actually see, but know their name and things about them. It's very bare-bones at the moment, with only one major school event, and at the same time, it seems like the coding could use some work after going as far as the game would let me go, and reloading a previous point where the game prompted a choice, and after playing a bit ahead again, my go outside and Play button overlapped for a bit, despite going back to a point where I didn't have the game console yet. The play button also didn't work.

This isn't a bug report post though, it's ultimately got some problems here and there, but it's not even a full v1.0, so what can you say? I like where the game is going, and I'm looking forward to see where this goes, and hope for the best of it!