This is so refreshing to see, i absolutely love everything about this visual novel!

The timing of humor and quality is .... chef kiss! ( emoji )

10/10

Can’t wait for act 2

26 hours of play on record
30/56 achievements unlocked (53%)

Race of life is an Adult Visual Novel (AVN) that provides the player with a slightly more adult story-line than those found in many traditional AVN’s, which often revolve around college student antics. It’s style for me is reminiscent of other AVN’s I’ve played like Fetish Locator and Taboo University; e.g. a story-board with static images and partial animations, along with dialogue and narrative text. Sex scenes involve static images and animated scenes. There’s no voice acting or sex noises, but there is some music. The game also contains mini-games that revolve around the Fast & Furious-esque street-racing. These are simply time-based decisions.
It is a choices matter driven story in that certain decisions make along the way effect the overall development of the plot and the all too important relationships with the girls.
Without giving too much away the story revolves around a university professor who is developing a “world changing” technology at his campus, and just happens to be a motor-head. A family tragedy forces our protagonist to seek ways to raise lots of cash quickly, which revolves around him promoting his new technology and entering the shady world of street-racing. Along the way he of course encounters lots of hotties and engages in some steamy affairs.

The girls are top-notch. There are the main girls which you can form relationships with, several side-girls that you can have sex with, and other side-girls that you don’t interact with, but don’t have relationships with. All the girls are very well drawn, sexy, have engaging & different personalities and are diverse in their looks.
The main girls are:
Jasmine – a ginger, tattooed, hot-head college girl who’s into motors and big ♥♥♥♥♥.
Veronica – your MILFy busty co-worker and fellow teacher whom you start the game in a relationship with (this may be an issue for some, but wasn’t for me)
Allison – your blonde ex-wife and total ♥♥♥♥♥ with it
Natalya – your best friend’s neighbour who is German, sexy, super-intelligent and a total sex-pot
Maggie – your neighbour, a sweet and naive blonde with daddy issues

Side girls:
Dr. Kalani – a sexy MILFy Indian coma doctor
Kris – a street-racing goth sub/dominatrix
Alexa – Jasmine’s sorority friend and nymphomaniac
Patricia – a dumb-as-a-post grid-girl
Tiana – a black bootylicious hospital physiotherapist


There’s a decent amount of sex-scenes to be had in Race of Life, but not as many as some other AVN’s. It can take a while to get into the story before getting a sex scene and things do start out somewhat vanilla before they get going at the end of the story. I encountered only one girl that was into anal, which is somewhat disappointing; but hopefully there will be more opportunity for butt-fun in part two with more of the girls.

I found Race of Life – Act 1 to be of average length for an AVN, it took me 26 hours of play time. I do hope Act 2 will be longer with many more sex scenes.

The main focus of the game is to promote and sell your new technology, and to mod your car and win street-races to fund medical care for your daughter. All the while banging many hottie along the way,

The racing mini-games are a kind of love them or loath them affair. I’ve encountered mini-games in other AVN’s which are very frustrating and you’re provided with no information on how to play them. Race of Life does at least give you a tutorial on the mini-games and they’re not that hard to play in the end. To be honest it’s very easy to cheat on them anyway, because if you make a mistake you can just scroll back and correct yourself. The developer might want to look into this and remove this ability if they want to make the game harder.

There’s a phone system included in the game, which is becoming a common feature in many AVN’s. It allows you to make calls or texts (only when the story demands such), view sexy pictures and order car-parts.

Overall Race of Life is a really good AVN. It has an engaging and relatable story that isn’t over the top and doesn’t rely on gimmicks in order for the main character to bed the girls. By and large the dialogue and text are pretty good, with only the odd grammatical glitch. I appreciate the main character being an adult male with a job, family and a pretty normal personality. I also appreciate he’s drawn as a normal man with plenty of body hair and not some waxed Adonis! He does of course have an enormous member; it is an AVN after all. At times I found the technobabble around the technology and medical parts of the story to be a bit boring and convoluted and I couldn’t tell you if it were total made up bull-crap or has some basis in the real world. The medical parts sounded like pseudo-science mumbo-jumbo in particular. The dialogue between the main character and his best friend Cooper is slightly choresome and over-done as well in my opinion, but not so off-putting. By and large the dialogue with the girls is great. The girls are really great, not my favourite group of girls in an AVN, but they are very well rounded and sexy.

Like other AVN’s being a choices matter affair, I do find it somewhat frustrating that some of the choices provide for outcomes which are not entirely clear. Only upon playing through again or reading the walk-through guide does it become more obvious where choices lead. I get this and do understand it lends itself to re-playability, but I do wish sometimes it was easier to keep track of where you stand with a girl. The walk-through guide makes it clear that there’s a points based system happening in the back-ground, but you the player remain completely unaware of this and how many points you’re earning which affect your relationships with them. I can’t decide whether it would be better to to make this obvious to the player or not. Also it’s very hard to determine if you’re on a romance or purely sex path with a girl. It’s kind of frustrating in an AVN game to deliberately avoid sex scenes and stay on nicey-nice terms with a girl just to open up a romance path. Personally I enjoy engaging in sex paths and romance paths with girls. It can be frustrating though when you end up on paths that you didn’t exactly count on with your decisions. As far as I can tell there’s no harem route or pregnancy route in Race of Life. I guess these route may be developed or open up in Act 2. Personally I enjoy a good harem and pregnancy route in an AVN. The main character certainly deposits enough ♥♥♥♥♥ cream-pies to make a pregnancy route seem likely.

Overall I thumbs up from me and I recommend Race of Life – Act 1. I look forward to Act 2, I just hope it doesn’t take an age for the developer to release it. A polished complete game is of course a must, but if one has to wait a year you end up forgetting entirely what you did in previous parts.