There are some good elements to LustyVerse but just as much bad. I found at least four different endings with possibly more and yet I didn’t love any of them. Some were better than others but none were really ideal to me. I think the problem lay in me not liking the main character much and not being given an opportunity to really make many meaningful changes to him. He’s the same vain, short sighted, borderline scumbag at the end as he is at the beginning. It’s not surprising that in many of the endings things don’t work out ideally for him. Speaking of choices there was a decent amount but there was a noticeable dry stretch of over an hour in chapter one where there are none at all. The worst part is I can think of many spots where I would have liked a way to branch the story as I didn’t like where it went. Overall though I did enjoy many of the characters and most of the second half of the game got really interesting. I wish that some of the characters that got introduced had more of a role later in the game such as Patricia and Felicity but they just seem to get dropped for me. The animations are well done although the lewd scenes could have used more choice and variety. The models and object detail were well done as well. I hated the AI like voice that narrated the game but luckily the volume is adjustable for it and I just turned it off. The music was a bit repetitive but it’s volume is also adjustable.
I played LustyVerse on Linux. It never crashed but I noticed at least a dozen spelling errors which is a crazy high amount compared to most visual novels I play. The game also lacked the ability to skip text or to go back. You can manually save whenever you want and there are fifty four save sots.
Game Engine: Ren’Py 8.2.0.24012702
Graphics API: OpenGL
Game Version Played: 1.0.2
Disk Space Used: 7.1GB
CPU Usage: 1-12 %
RAM Usage: 2.8-6.2 GB
Overall LustyVerse is a decent game. It has some technical issues and shortcomings as well as me not liking the main character much but there are good parts to the story as well and those there for just the lewd content should be satisfied. I paid $10.16 CAD for it and was able to see four of the endings in eight hours and thirty eight minutes. There are better visual novels out there as well as worse. The price and amount of content keeps the value in a good place.
My System:
Intel i5-12600K | 32GB DDR4-3200 CL16 | Intel UHD 770 | Mesa 23.0.4 | Western Digital Black SN850X 2TB | Trisquel 11 | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 6.8.4-gnu Manjaro