VN - Ren'Py - Ravager [v5.1.9] [4MinuteWarning]

Okay, I am going to be professional for a sec here, don't worry this isn't going to take long.
I am a small Patron, tester, and Simplified Chinese translator (not in the current version yet) of this game, so basically the "Outer Party" member if you imagine we are Oceania...and if you have read 1984.
This means my review may or may not have some bias, take that as you will.

Also, my actual review if we go by points is 9/10.
But since this website still doesn't allow a half-star rating, I am going to give it a full score because as mentioned, I am biased.

So anyway, Ravager is a, how do I describe this?
Overlord simulator? okay, I am going to go with "VN with actual choices that matter" game in which you play as a dragon Overlord.

The premise:
You are, as mentioned, a dragon.
Not the anime kind of a guy with horns and/or tails. But a full-blown fuck off dragon, the story starts with your literal birth from an egg in a princess's chamber. In which she greets you and tells you the initial situation of "Why you are here?"
The simplified (and maybe wrong but similar anyway) version of the story is the royal family of this nation draws power from the dragons, But now all other dragons died out due to war and stuff.
With the loss of power, the Kingdom has turned into a Republic under some Lord Regent, like the Cromwell times of England.
While the royal princess is left powerless and being a political figurehead, like current-day England.

But unlike current-day England which the country is run with an actual democratic system, it is implied the Lord Regent is basically a king without the title.
Which means, what else, power struggle.
The princess somehow gets you from...somewhere, implying you are the last dragon of the land. So she can regain power from the Lord Regent using you as a legitimacy token.

But ofc- oh yeah, spolier alert:

The Story & Writing / presentation:
It is quite epic.
Yeah, I said that, that is my initial thought when I first dive into the game serval months ago.
My first "playthrough" really gives a sense of an epic tale in a text-based adventure, but with actual pics and stuff.
In fact, this storytelling really reminds me of that phrase: "Art Is A Compromise Between Your Vision And Reality".
The vision of this story is grand, but the reality is it is still sort of tied down in the VN/Choose your own adventure format. So they have to utilize and stretch the medium being a VN as far as possible.

Granted, if there is anything bad about this writing. Is the initial magic is weakened on repeated playthroughs...since different choices lead to different things, this game is recommended to do so.
But hey, anything will be less effective on repeat. This includes pain killers, the same porn animation, and crystal meth.

The Gameplay:
First of all, it is worth mentioning you can turn off any fetish you don't like in the settings, so don't get scared by the vore or gay...they are less than a handful anyway.
It is a VN with "Choices actually matters" alongside a light RPG system.
For example, if you meet a girl, you can either ignore her, grab her, do the standard adult game thing since you are a dragon, or kill and devour her.
Each choice will come with different outcomes, that either, in no particular order, levels up your stats, get you a new "prisoner" or, well, sex scenes.
Granted, not every female NPC is open to let you do the above deeds, sometime you have to play your cards, or your roles of either being an absolute evil overlord that kills everyone you can, or as a benevolent (as benevolent as a dragon can be) ruler...I can't go into too many details without serious spoilers.
But ehhh, here is some anyway:
Speaking of the ruler stuff, It is rather complex to juggle all of this if you choose the "stats actually matter mode" since one really needs to make some serious sacrifice to advance the plot. Like do you throw girls to the soldiers so they can fight? Or keep it for yourself and try to hold it out?

If there is one thing I don't like about this- actually make it three.
First of all, it can be very hard in the "stats actually matter mode" that makes it impossible to be a benevolent ruler.
And at later points of the game, when you are basically the Overlord, and seeing your soldier fails once again, I always have the feeling of "I am a big fuck off dragon, now fuck off useless minions. I will do it myself."
But no, that is not always a choice, in fact, the vast majority of time when your men are sent into battle, you can only stand by even when they got their ass beats.
Granted, the dev himself actually once tell me that is initially thought of, but cut because of various reasons.
Still, I feel like I am useless when one considers the "choices actually matter" mode requires some serious sacrifice.
Lastly, when you interact with a girl, "killing her" is almost always an option.
Granted, I like the openness of choices, but when I am not going to kill them, seeing the choices every time I want to bother them is a bit weird...yeah now I am just nitpicking,

The Artstyle:
There is actually two different art style: One is the more western cartoon kind when you talk to characters, and there are the actual sex scenes.
You can see the example images and judge them by yourself, the animation is a bit buggy due to Ren'py being an ass to work with. But again, you can turn them off in settings.
Anyway, I like its uniqueness, in between the five billion anime porn and serval gazillion 3D models, this style really stands out.
While despite my positive impression of them, here is a vulgar standard I have to mention.
I feel like this is because it is a bit too "artsy" for me, as I play through it for treating it as a "game", rather than something to keep in the spank bank for later.
Don't get me wrong, there are scenes. A fuck ton of them, actually.
But I kinda view them like "art" and not- you get the drill.

In conclusion/TL;DR:
Compare to my other reviews, I can't help but feel this is a bit shorter.
But here is the thing, I play through to the latest chapter about five or six times, and am now too used to the first serval chapter. To the point it may be impossible to be accurate in my critique.
TL;DR this is an Epic fantasy VN that you play as an actual fuck off dragon. With a "choice actually matters" mechanic that lets you dictate most people's fate, as an Overlord should be. While you build your power, army, and your harem to eventually take over the land.

Review for 4.2.0

I was pleasantly surprised by this game, it has a proper balance of pacing, game mechanics dialogue making it a all around well curated game.

Graphically, it's good, and it serves its purpose. It's nothing particularly out of the ordinary, with only a few distinct poses and animations for each character for most of the game, but again, it serve the purpose of the story and generally help with visuals. Some improvements could be made to add more in-betweens poses for some actions and a larger variety of expressions to better fit the context in the dialogue. But again, it's good enough for now.

Story wise and for characters, it's also pretty good! There is a nice variety of personalities that can react better or worse depending on your actions and i particularly like that the story is fairly simple and easy to follow. In fantasy themed lewd games, it's easy to go overboard with the lore exposure, making you lose interest and just wanting to skip to the good parts, but that rarely was the case here.

The fact that you are a dragon also give it an interesting and unique POV for the character.

Gameplay wise, i have nothing much to say! You can make the choices you want, to be merciful or cruel at your discretion, devour people that annoy you or have no interest. There is an "easy" and "hard" mode, for players that wish to have more consequences for their actions or for those who want to focus more on the story and characters. Personally, i played on Easy mostly to be able to make the choices i want without being compelled by stats.

Stats are actually easy to get and never feel much like a grind due to their inclusion into relevant events and the lack of repetitive events (There is no "Train 10 times in a row repeating the same boring ass event to grind stats"), so it makes for a pretty natural, yet interesting pacing.

You can also choose exactly what kind of content you wish to see. For example, if you are into pregnancy or gay stuff, you can turn them on but if you are not into say rape or futa's you can also turn them off. So you can tailor the game to the exact type of scenes you want to see.

The main reason i'm leaving 4 stars is that the game has a bit of rough edges left and right, as well with the inconsistent amount of contents across characters, being spread out between 8-9 characters or so, with more or less between them and depending on locations and such.

There is voice acting too, but i honestly never cared much for that since voice acting in lewd games is usually... eh... kind of bad. Also, it prevents me from progressing the story at the speed i want (I'm a fast reader, so having to wait for the voice actors to follow through is just annoying). Personally, i turned these off.

Overall, it's a pretty good game, definitely worth checking out.

What do I like about the game?

It does feel like a game - it is not just another almost completely linear visual novel which also could have been just a very long text with pictures.

I like the stats - so you see your decisions have consequences... I like the artwork (most of the time) and I had really a lot of fun playing thru the game (two times).

I will play it another time in a couple of months when there is more content. And I am going to support the game with money.

Why not 5 stars? There is room for improvements. So this is a very good rating. And the visuals could be more ... stunning, more details... less static (even the animated)... dont get me wrong. This is one of the best visual novels I have seen - usually I dont try them anymore because they are just an endless reptition... this one is different.

A bit rough around the edges but some of the best rape content in the game. Soul shows through in the art and writing and really makes up for the occasional tonal issues (looking at you, fangirl).

One thing I appreciate here is the flexible focus on dubious consent. The game gives you the freedom to be downright cruel or even lovey-dovey as an alterative to your typical dick-swinging magical rapiness. So only is that a comfortable sweet spot to be in on the spectrum, but the game also provides some contrast itself.

I love it! What else can i say. I am always down for story where i can be anything other race then H U M A N . In this game you take role of freshly hatch out dragon but the royal asshole will not like that (because he is a massive racist and if the game let me i would bite off his nuts). After the escape you will have the whole world.
Little tips for starters:
1.)be nice to every one who needs it (do not stats fights and don't threaten anyone)
2.) protect fan girl at all cost (she wold literally die for you)
Overall i like this game and i hope the developers will finish-it soon. Thanks for reading.

Good visuals. Decent voiceacting. The game crashes when you skip through stuff, so that's a bummer. Also, it may just be me, but the art style seems inconsistent throughout, with characters like the warlock not matching up with someone like Heloise.

Ravager is a Good game with an interesting premise and Great potential though for now it feels quite incomplete it's been 2 year's and we still haven't got to the part of taking back the capital and many of the girl's storylines are incomplete though i am hopeful that will change in the future and i must admit i really like the voice of dragon it gives quite an interesting flavor to the game in my personal opinion it wouldn't have affected the game much if the dev had decided to only voice the dragon i personally played it with all other voices mute except the dragon.

Love it, the game has what it needs & even more. All fantasies can come true and i would love to play final version of this game, and waiting for it every day. Please please please more updates.

I wanted to review this game for a long time, but just didn't know how to do it justice: So many aspects are worth mentioning, that i couldn't possibly list them all. So instead i've decided to just write a bit about what this game is...

Ravager is NOT a visual novel! Calling it a visual novel would be an insult. VNs are high grind, high noise - they make you do repetitive stuff and read through walls of flavour text that doesn't really affect the gameplay.

Ravager instead is more like an oldschool choose-your-own-adventure game, where every little choice you make has permanent consequences, and every scene matters. There is no filler, no grinding, and no noise: Just making one fateful decision after another. And unlike oldschool CYOA's, every scene is presented with atmospheric visuals, moody background music and sfx.

It reminds a lot of the heroquest-parts in King Of The Dragon Pass, which also were atmospheric high stakes CYOAs, where seemingly symbolic gestures had far reaching consequences.

And that's probably the only "flaw" of this game: It's hard to play without a walkthrough, because every choice you make opens up some paths in the future, while permanently closing others - and it's impossible to anticipate them all. So basically either you accept having to play through this game many times to see everything, or you need to plan your playthrough in advance, in order to get the set of outcomes you want.

EDIT: To clarify: This is not about unlocking some "perfect ending", because Ravager has no perfect ending: Every choice you make is a tradeoff. Problem is the game can't really tell you what those tradeoffs lead to without spoilering everything. And conversely you can't get your preferred conclusion without spoilering yourself by reading a walkthrough. I don't really blame the game for this: It's just an unavoidable drawback of creating a game where every choice matters.

If this or the game's theme doesn't put you off, then Ravager is an absolute masterpiece that should be in every porngame collection.

one of the most fun games I've played on this site, no bullshit boring combat. Good writing wonderful art and some good pacing. Overall something for everybody here no matter your tastes, would recommend for sure.

I was pleasantly surprised how much I like this game. It is a lot of fun and one of the only ones recently that I am going to replay - just to see some other stuff!

Mina is probably my favorite lady in this game, she is a handful in more than one way!

Noice just Noice.
Good ol rapey and good characters what is have their personality and fun to rape, love than betray be a real Sadist and give this now usless bitch to horny horde.
This is a game not just Visual Novel but really game with even RPG and Manager elements in it. With cool story and good MC what is do what you really want him to do. i have fun playing this for a long time i really enjoy gameplay. just thx. last time i have this fun in Old huntsman games.

I've got pretty high hopes for this game. Being rewarded for going the evil route is so refreshing. I got thrown off by the clashing art style at first, especially stuff like the body not really matching well, but that's forgiven as I know you can't always get the best resources. I do hope they all get very different body types as seeing the 10th big torpedo booba in a row can get tiring. I personally prefer the more anime-ish one as the realistic one is a bit uncanny valley for my taste. Besides that, the arrays of characters are FUN and the amount of interactions and funny scenarios you could potentially write with them in the future are endless. It also helps a lot with pleasing everybody's fetishes instead of locking in one route. It's definitely harder but ultimately much more rewarding if pulled off correctly. Something about forcefully breeding a powerful mage to then birth and raise the literal anti-christ that could potentially end the world is pretty fukken metal. Can't wait to see the chaos that will unfold. Or if that's too heavy of a plot line for your tastes, you can go with a simple farm girl. Naho's pet-slave route is also neat. Also, I completely appreciate the amount of fetishes they're trying to put into the game. It can get boring if it's the same similar stuff with everyone. But I don't think that'll be the case considering they're even going for a futanari option, of which by the way I hope they don't forget about adding a vagina on it. Too many western artists think that futanari means only having tiddies. That's a dude.

Even at this stage, I feel pretty bad not being able to pay for it.

Game is still in development but has already impressed me. The fact that this game doesn't penalize you for being evil is a refreshing touch. The fact that you can murder-hobo and still finish the game is priceless. This is a true do as you wish experience. I'll be waiting very impatiently for the final release.

Sense of freedom and awesome characters. One of the most fun impregnation narrative involved in any game. Constant crashes in some scenes, but still worth a play. Truly something of a gem. I am eagerly awaiting how this one grows!

There's enough fun narrative content to give it a try, I highly suggest if you like well written stories with choice, you will give Ravager a try.

I was absolutely surprised by how insanely good this game is. The painted art is gorgeous and the chibi-ish avatar art is cute as hell. The writing is spectacular and the prose is beautiful. There is just enough gameplay to clearly be a game, just enough open-ended-ness to let you forge your own path and play the character that you want to be. But at the same time, none of this is grindy or repetitive.

This is easily one of my top 10 favorite adult games.

What I really like in this game is the voice actress are really good , yes highly recommend because not all game has voice actress it is highly addictive hopefully it gets a lot of content , for the art they are also good same to the sex script.

This is a really well done game that offers something that very few games, even those done by AAA studios, offer: Tons of meaningful choices and decisions. At every moment in the game you have many choices you can make, some minor and some major. All of them have consequences, some immediate and some much later on. You need multiple playthroughs to even come close to seeing everything on offer. The freedom you feel while playing this game is its strongest asset.

Another strong asset is its characters. They all have different personalities, and some of them are really awesome to interact with *Cough Marie-Anne Cough*. The major ones are voiced too (and the voice actors do a pretty good job), which isn't common in western VNs. There are also multiple factions that could be recruited, each doing things their own way.

As for the art style, there are two artists. One does the CGs and the other does the sprites. As a result of that, you will notice that characters look a little different in their CGs than they do in their sprites. While I personally prefer the work of the sprite artist, both artists are good, and one does get used to it after a bit. Also, all the sprites are animated in a nice way.

The story is compelling, and the enjoyable music sprinkled throughout the game strengthens its impact as well.

There is only one notably negative thing, which is that the game frequently crashes, especially when are fast forwarding through the scenes that you have already seen. Hopefully that issue gets resolved soon.

Overall, I recommend it to anyone who likes to have tons of choices in his games .

I played more than 100 games from F95 (a lot of them really good) and this is one of my favourite games in the forum.

Pros: The music, the fetishes, the sex scenes, the art, decisions... everything is amazing for me.

Cons: Personally i don't like the dragon dick, i would prefer the MC be a vampire or can transform in human or something like that, but it's ok anyway.

First off, amazing game -- no offense intended for what I'm about to say.
The only issue I have with this game is that as of 4.1.6 the sex scene art is sometimes different from the character Art. And no I don't mean one looks like it was made in adobe illustrator and the other in Photoshop, I mean some characters have different details on them, different bodies, what have you. I wonder if two different Artists made them but either way, I wouldn't mind the 2d art for the sex scenes.

And now for the good parts about this game. This is possibly the first game that fit my fetishes this stunningly. For example, some games force you to rape someone, Some games don't let you, Some games make it a realistic rape and make it sad. In this game, Rape is more of a fetish than it is a lifestyle and if you don't enjoy rape, good for you being a good person... you can disable that, but if you do, I think you'll enjoy being the anti-hero for a change. As another reviewer noted, it was tasteful. I also particularly enjoyed the pregnancy, the anal, hint of incest. I LOVED the fact that the big dick dynamic is at play and is portrayed without plot holes, although it tears a different kind of hole.

You'll probably have stopped reading this review after vomiting at what I said about the rape, but if you're still reading then I think the demographic I'm reaching right now ought to hear this. The maker(s) of this game put a lot of effort into this and it clearly shows. I've been playing this game for 3 hours and just finished, yet the makers still plan to add more! At the end of their game, they have a witty little part about the characters being asked questions from the audience. Maybe someone could argue that they could've spent that time actually making the game, but I think that segment just shows that the game dev(s) kind of enjoys making this. Another thing, I loved the voice actors, they might not have studios but their inflections were not immersion breaking, they were immersion making. All in all 5 out of 5, I have so much more to say about this game but I think I'm gonna make some food.