Review of Leap of Faith (2025)

ReviewLeap of Faith will surprise you if all you expect is a lewd visual novel. It actually doesn’t have a ton of lewd scenes and does have one of the best stories I have played through. Without going into spoiler territory I will say that the way they wrote and handled having a relationship with a person suffering from severe depression was very accurate, at least to my own personal experiences. It was one of the few times in visual novels where I could really relate to the main character. The stories of the other characters were hit and miss. I wasn’t overly impressed with Steph’s backstory as to why she left the main character for years on no notice. It seemed to fantastic to believe and she really didn’t seem to fit the part for what she was supposed to have done. Luckily there are a lot of people whose path you will cross throughout the game and there are more good stories than bad. The game also has some good interface ideas such as being able to take pictures, sometimes sneakily, and upload some of them to social media. My only complaint was that the icon that shows up when you’re allowed to do so isn’t always easy to see, and also there is no good reason given as to why you can only take pictures at certain times. You also can’t upload them all to social media for some unknown reason. Still, it’s a good idea for a feature. Like some other games you get to use a cell phone to check messages and social media but with leap of Faith the text messaging actually felt very realistic in that you are waiting for responses before choosing yours. The game has some personality choices you get to try to tailor to your character such as athletic; flirty and romantic. I liked how they came into play, sometimes closing off dialogue options and other times changing the way a scene plays out. For instance if you have a high enough athletic score certain lewd scenes play out differently. I do wish they were used more often though. The lewd scenes themselves were well done although they lacked a little choice compared to some other games in the genre. The animations were fantastic throughout the game. The models and object detail were well done aside from the main character’s hair. I don’t mean the colour but just the hair itself seemed a little strange looking to me. The music was very good, enough so I tracked down some of the songs to buy after playing the game. There was one faux choice at a beach where you can choose to skinny dip or not but regardless of what I chose my character stayed out of it. I don’t like faux choices. The presentation of the game right down to the main menu deserves praise and looked fantastic.

I played Leap of Faith on Linux. It never crashed and I didn’t notice any spelling errors. You can save any time you want and there are fifty four save slots. Alt-Tab didn’t work. The game did have a very weird way of updating itself. The game is split into three versions: chapters 1-4; chapters 5-6 and chapters 7-8. You have to copy and merge the files of the newer versions into Chapters 1-4 and then run it from there. This has caused some issues for some players and while I got it to work it is weird and shouldn’t be needed. Other visual novels when they release new chapters just release a new executable for all content without splitting it off and I don’t see why Drifty didn’t do that.

Game Engine: Ren’Py 8.0.2
Graphics API: OpenGL
Game Version Played: 1.01c
Disk Space Used: 7.4 GB

Review of Leap of Faith (2025)

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