Unity - Guild of Spicy Adventures [v0.59] [Hikkeiru]

[Ver. 0.59 review, supposedly a big update is coming in 0.6]

I actually like the writing in this one. There's a lot of grammar issues, but that doesn't really bother me. It's hilarious, entertaining, and enjoyably unhinged. The game overall feels well made and the characters look really great. It seems a lot of work was put in to the 3D and their animations and I can't wait to see more of the game overall. The main character is as hilarious as he is devious and perpetually horny.

What there is of the game, however, is extremely shallow. This game supposedly started development a year and a half ago and the "guild" part of Spicy Guild Adventurers isn't even in the game yet. You can fish and sell the items to make money, but for nothing, since there's no reason to buy anything. However, as stated, a large update is coming and I'll see how I feel about it by then and it is using a custom engine from Unity, not the usual Renpy.

Slow development isn't what makes this game a 3/5, though. The real reason is because I fucking hate half of the characters in the game. The other half I initially liked until the story went on, then I hated them, too. All of them are unstable insano bitches who want nothing more than to make your life miserable for no other reason than because you exist (except Sori, but with how the characters are written so far, I have a feeling she will probably end up being the same). A great example is Mara, who I thought would be the only character sympathetic to you, but the plot advanced, I currently want nothing to do with her. This is definitely the developer's fetish. It got to the point where I literally said out loud, "alright, what kind of bullshit contrived drama are you going to bring" when I thought a new character that showed up. Turned out, it was just some meta character that was the developers way of gathering feedback for their game. I was literally conditioned to expect the worst out of everyone.

It's really quite frustrating, because in the times where characters aren't being horrible psychopaths, I really did enjoy (what little there was of) the game.

The main thing about this game:

The developer seems to be building characters starting from conflict, so if you are a bit unsure about losing, then it might not be for you.

It's counterintuitive compared to usual porn games that protect the MC's mentality from everything. Although I don't mind it, since it makes me want to win characters over more.

The story is quite fun, although sometimes it feels like the game overdoes the joke, while others land fine.

I'm not sure where the game is going yet; it has a few open topics. In general, it builds up on characters' quirks. For example, Kanae's control and authority-related problems.

Some of the choices literally block you out of even 10+ renders or minutes of story, which is always a plus when choices matter.

The engine seems to be a bit excessive, but we will see how far the project can take it. It shows mostly right now in animations.

A big minus is that there is only fishing gameplay and the items don't have much use currently.

I'm giving it a 5-star rating because I want to see what this game will have to offer, but I may lower it if it loses the spark.

For now, this is an impressive foundation.

An isekai story, poorly written with a massive amount of spelling errors in almost every line. The characters are annoying and their "quirks" are not endearing at all, and often the exact opposite of that, to the point that I honestly would rather get them killed then help them due to the way they act.
The story quite early completely removes any semblance of tension or world building, when you are rescued from your "deadly predicament" by one of the worst deus ex machina moments possible, all done for a "haha funnie" moment that only accomplishes complete deflation of narrative. Why care for anything when you will be saved by idiocy?
Visually fine, not sure if this is custom maid, but it certainly doesn't look much better than illusionsoft stuff.
But most importantly, there is barely any content. Don't get fooled by the file size or the "extensive" changelogs, this barely qualifies as a demo, and every update adds barely nothing at all.
At this point, a disappointing waste of bandwidth and time, an attempt at a porn version of konosuba subversion that does not work on any level.

It's hard to take the game seriously, when not even the game itself can take itself seriously, I like a humorous atmosphere, it made me laugh a few times, but when the humorous atmosphere is just that all the time, it kind of loses its fun over time,like living in a circus with everyone making jokes all the time, sometimes in the midst of so much comedy I just want to be taken seriously by a female character, or that our protagonist acts normally without looking like an idiot or something like that.

As the developer already said on the page, our MC protagonist will not be particularly interested in any girl, so I suppose he will always use every girl he finds in a pathetic way as he always does, His personality is one of those capable of giving a girl a pie in the face and still leaving laughing.

As I'm a more serious guy, I couldn't get too attached to the game or the characters, since I like to get involved in role-playing and be immersed in the game as if I were the protagonist, feel like I'm in history.

the girl in the store treats MC like trash for no reason at all (unlike the other girls who really have a reason to treat MC badly for having an idiotic attitude towards them), the tsundere guard is worse than a 5 year old kid picking on him for anything , the girl from the guild just seeing the MC for the first time already wants to marry him without even knowing his name, the girl in prison will soon arrive sitting on the MC's dick in the blink of an eye

what attracted me to the game initially was the unusual quality of the game, seriously, that incredible rendering must have taken a lot of work, But as the developer himself said, it's not his first work, so creating something of extreme quality like this for him should be easier, The developer's skill is impressive, but I kind of feel like this is being wasted with the way he puts life into the characters as I explained at the beginning.

a game that I'm interested in in the medieval RPG quest style, if you've played any medieval RPG with quests, guilds and missions, you know what it's like, and I really like that, if the game at least put humor in the right moments, at the right time and made the characters care about each other, maybe I would care about it too from my perspective as a player.

In short: the game has extreme and impressive visual quality, but visuals aren't everything, and I'm not a big fan of satire and constant jokes.

Beautiful game with humor that actually hits. It doesn't try that hard to be funny but it just is. I also have to say, I like the ability to um. Have fun with girls without their consent, if you get my drift. Not many games are brave enough to do that. I also like the choices you have in how you approach all of the girls. The biggest negative I think is that its a sandbox of course and that means there are points where you are clicking around fishing for new events. I'd rather it be a more VN style with more choices rather than having to click around this imaginary city and look for events. Other than that, the game so far is sort of short but what's here is damn good. I really enjoyed my time playing it and I'll be keeping an eye on it for sure.

Just finished the 0.53.4 and i would still say it feels mostly like a demo still, but it still gives you a nice start with the story which is pretty good, the characters have diffrent personalities anywhere from crazy to fun or annoying, so a bit for everyones taste.
The only part in the story i hated was the hole hospital part, i dont like getting ripped out from the hole immersive experience you might have in the world your supposed to be in.

I havent really tested out choices but it does seem like you arent forced to fuck anyone if you dont want to which is perfect, and i hope it stays this way, and its something ill keep an eye on in future updates.

The girls/LIs are cute and most of them looks good, some might get on your nerves but they are ment to do that, that hey honey/husbond girl drives me nuts, but it felt nice to rip up that marrige contract hah

Animations i dunno they are a bit average but still something you can enjoy.

Music and Effects are good and suits the game.

Sandbox is pretty good and for now there is no real grinds to be worried about, but current version pretty much stops close to getting to the sandbox part so you dont really have much to do yet.

For now review is a bit short but it covers most for now, but i will revisit this once there is alot more content.

I warn you that this comment is from version 0.51


It is relatively short practically a demo, but it is graphically good with quite striking characters, a decent story, a good variety of characters aesthetically speaking and a promising future potential.

I enjoyed it a lot, keep up the good work! Although it's very early on I can see the potential of this just by looking at all the aspects so far (chars, story, animations, performance). I'm really looking forward to playing the game again later on when it gets more updates.

Edit: with a bit of time to think about it and talking to the developer of the game i have come to the conclusion that some points in my review have been slightly too harsh. I am keeping the orginal review below so people get additional information, but you can ignore my part about the website opening randomly. If you are willing to open a random exe from a forum you have other things to worry about than websites opening.
While the other points are still valid, they should not discourage you from trying out the game. While it is random in a lot of places it has a certain B-Movie charm to it, and the potential for further groth is very high with this one! Moving up my rating to 4 stars for now, if the other issues are worked on and the game get's a bit more content under its belt it can easily become a 5 star.


old review for version 0.48.5
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Can't really give much more stars than 3 even though i would like to for the supposed freedom of choice. Simply the fact that the maker allows for rather dark content (comedic rape) is commendable. And art is very good too for koikatsu base, though it sometimes has issues with backgrounds looking very awful/not fitting together in tone.

But there are just some glaring issues that hold back the game.

The biggest one is the writing. The amount of grammar and typo errors is simply unacceptable. I get not having english as a first language, it is not my first one either. But do you see 5 missing A or The in my text?
And even if you have problems, there are so many free/cheap writing checking tools online that could easily fix these things. Hell we have chatgpt now that could rewrite any sentence with less issues than the game has.
Which means the designer either didn't care, bad at his job, or way too lazy. Either option is not reflecting well on the game! Each error is pulling the player out of the game, and with such an easy fix, it really is not toleratable (and yeah i know there are worse offenders, but 2 wrongs don't make a write!)

Then there is the characterization. This game clearly is not taking itself too seriously and the setup is relativly intriguing. But it goes over the top a bit too much a few times, in my opinion. Especially the gigantic random personality shift of the big shop sister is just akward as hell. I mean, i get it, her sister is in danger. But people don't just flip a switch like THAT.

Another big issue is the game framework. If you are touting that you are not using renpy to use a "serious" engine, maybe actually make the framework work as good as renpy atleast? I had to akwardly double click a lot of times because the scene first removed the current speechbubble but did not move on to the next scene right away.
And the fishing mini-game needs a better explanation asap. It only says to hold the key, but you actually have to hold and move the mouse. How can you program that game and not notice how akward it is?

Ohh and also fuck off with trying to get data from me? Extra stories with the demand for giving away player data? Heeeell no. You are already encroching the line of beeing shady when you randomly open up a website in the browser for a joke. Sure it was kinda funny, but that can easily be misused for anything, and not a good idea if you want to keep players trusting you.
So the designer has to heavily rethink how he should look at privacy standards for his games!

As of 6/23/23, I have changed my review. (Added a star)
The dev has worked out my issues with the game.

I really like the story so far, It's a lot darker and more taboo than most Koikatsu games we get.

The characters introduced so far are pretty unique and cute, one of which is a fairy! (or at least looks like one). Maybe we'll finally get a game with fairy fucking and cumflation? but as of right now, she doesn't have any content.

Seeing how the dev has decided to create their game in Unity, I'm excited to see what they will add to make it stand out from other VNs.
The dev is clearly passionate and willing to try to make the best game they can!

Finished the current version, huge potential and already nice flavor of scenes. Really looking forward to Updates and the finished Version of it one day.

Pro's:
- Nice flavor of Scenes can see lots of kinks covered in fuiture versions
- Good Start for the Story so far
- Nice Humor kinda could feel like Konosuba but as a Hentai Game once its finished
- Koikatsu Models (Not everybody likes them but i think they are a nice pick)
- Dev active on F95 answering questions etc.

Con's:
- Not much content for now (30-60min Playtime)
- Some minor Bugs nothing gamebreaking

Made my Review for Version 0.42 - will Update it once i played newer Versions.

+ It has a good amount of actual funny jokes, a lot of freedom, as to what you want and don't want to see, which is something I appreciate.
The animations are enjoyable, the characters already have a very good distinction among them, it's not a simple "here are 10 copies of the same personality game", which is good for an early release, if kept up, it will add to the overall feel, tho also being quite tiring to entertain.

~ Some minor typos here and there, but not too impactful, that it ruins the mood of the game.
I'm not sure if the blowjob scene is supposed to run once and not be looped, but I assume it is a mistake(?).

- My only issue would be, while I appreciate the game having a good amount of H content, the actual length might have suffered from it, there is no harm in focusing on one or two characters and moving the story along and updating it with further content for others, I would have enjoyed to spend more time in the actual game and while it is an early release, when I played it until the guild creation part, after looking if the choices affect the game, I realised, it took me about 20 min to get there the second time.

All in all, if the quality and workflow is kept up, I highly expect it to be 5/5.
Please keep it up!

Played through the newest version must say this game is definitely a hidden gem. It's a solid 10/10 when it comes to the character design. The story also looks really promising cant wait to see more in the future keep up the great work.

After playing the latest version available to the public, 0.22, I found myself impressed enough that I feel like doing this.

For starters, the premise itself is generic, but the presentation is superb. R18 games are a dime a dozen in this website, the first sign you stumble into a good one is how much effort goes into the beginning -- and you put so much it's kinda creepy. Different shaders and renders than typical VNs, the menu, even the goofy prologue; it's more than enough sign to show a lot goes into this game.

Going in, I get the impression your work is very:
- Flexible (in the range of R18 stuff included, seeing as we begin by trying suicide, being told we might get ordered to kill people, and one of the firstt H-scene we can do is sleep sex), and also
- Dynamic (hell, my mac can barely animate the part where Cylia starts dancing with hololive Ollie's electro swing playing in the background)
- Sexy. The renders of the girls aren’t half-jobs and the available animations aren’t clunky.

When the appropriate time comes, such as when more versions are public, I will spread the work.

The characters I've seen look really good minus the MC's eyes being a bit strange. I think it's rather interesting that elves can't use magic since they are typically great with it in most media which makes me look forward to more worldbuilding. However the whole V.0.22 barely having any content is a bit off putting I get the whole staggered releases but at the rate of updates and how little they seem to add means this will be in development for an incredibly long time. There's just too little for me to decide if I want to support it. At this current moment in time I can't quite rate it any higher it has real potential I feel just its going to take a long time to get there.

pretty serviceable game so far... the girls are cute and young. the elf has a really nice tight body. great facial expressions that bring life to the girls. story is retarded, so it's perfect for a porn game. mc isn't a cuck and thighfucks unconscious girls which is his god given right as a man

cons i guess:
no ren'py
text size is way too big
not much content in the public release (0.22)