No More Money had a good first season. It set the stages and gets you used to the game’s characters. I was left wanting more though. It seemed to end rather abruptly and there really wasn’t much in the way of any consequences for your actions yet. It did a good job at setting that up but I was hoping for more to happen I guess. The story and characters were interesting with one caveat: I hate the whole use of landlord/tenet relationships. I understand why the developers do it but at the same time it is just a lame copout and anyone with a room temperature IQ or better can see what the true setup is. This isn’t a game breaking issue and as I said I understand the reasoning but at the same time can’t help but roll my eyes every time it’s brought up in game. The animations were decent but lacked a little choice. The models were well done as was the object detail. There wasn’t much use of sound at all which left the game eerily quiet at time. No music, no voice acting, very little use of sound effects. I don’t expect visual novels to have all of these but if they can incorporate a couple and do them well it can elevate it. The only other thing I think the game lacks is a back button and a skip option for the dialogue.
I played No More Money on Linux using Proton. While the dev may not officially support it there is also a native Linux version that gets downloaded with the Windows version and it runs fine for me so far. You just have to run the .sh file. The game has a manual save feature with fifty four save slots. I didn’t notice any spelling errors or any bugs.
Game Engine: Ren’Py 7.3.5.606
Graphics API: WineD3D
Disk Space Used: 1.3 GB
CPU Usage: 1-9 %
RAM Usage: 3.8-5.. GB
Overall I would highly recommend Season One. While I wish more things were explored it did set things up very well and most of all it made me want Season Two bad enough I went and bought it after finishing Season One. If that’s not doing it’s job I don’t know what is. I finished the first season in three hours and six minutes.
My System:
Intel i5-12600K | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | Intel UHD 770 | Mesa 23.0.4 | Western Digital Black SN850 500GB | Trisquel 11 | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 6.6.9-gnu | Proton 8.0-4