Unity - Hail Dicktator [v0.78.1] [Hachigames]

The game was more disappointing then I was expecting but I wouldn't say it was a waste of my time. First the game being a sandbox instead of just a standard VN really hurt it imo, trying to get things to trigger is very annoying especially when it say "talk to x" and you go to them but you don't get the option to talk about it. This is because it actually means "talk to x at this certain place". The money is also annoying as it just slows down the very bad start of the game, I absolutely recommend using the money cheat code if you are going to play. As for the start of the game there isnt enough girls to have enough things to do every day, this is remedied at about 10% quest completion when more girls show up and there are more quests for the same girl.

The story I'm having a hard time getting invested in as there are so many things that don't make sense. First you are told there is likely no one left alive that even knows of the island existence and they are wanting to keep the island a secret, so how are we getting guests? Second a girl parents died when she was 8 and has been alone since, how did the friend or foe never see her for 10-12 years and how would she not know the war ended, doesn't make sense. Third there is electronic interference on the island which is why it makes it so hard to find and why you cant just put down a beacon on it to make it easy to navigate to. So how can there be internet? Fourth character can read minds yet doesn't try to read the mind for a password preventing a major incident? Maybe these are answered later but at 20% I'm still as confused as I was when I started.

Now there is a crap ton of scenes in this game I honestly thought I was half way through the game and then saw I only have 10% of the quests done so that is a major plus. However the scenes themselves are stills with at best click through slide shows. So much clicking...

sandbox type of games are bane of intrests, and this is a sandbox

ME THAT DOESN'T HAVE ANY USP WRITING, STORY , CHARACTER , RENDERS ETC AND HENCE I can't give it anythiong more than 2/5.

There are better games , nothing against the developer it is not my cup of tea

Game is great so far, here are some of my impressions:

-Story: From the start you will realize that this not a story to be taken that "seriously", that being said, It's still enjoyable, engaging and very funny. The developer sure knows how to make a plot interesting. To put it simple as time goes by it gets better and better.

-Writing: The pacing is great and I highly appreciate that writing is not unnecessarily dense like I've seen in many other games (No walls of texts).

-Playability: I like sandbox and management games so that's a Plus for me, however, around 25% of Quest Progression I had already bought/upgraded everything to the max, so the whole management thing became pointless after that. In fact, towards the end I had more than USD 550k I didn't even know what to do with it xD.

-Characters: We get a good MC, and the girls are very well written with interesting personalities all of them, their models are also great, Sarah being my favorite (BTW for some reason the developer decided to fk up her hairstyle xD which was already beautiful luckily he realized and tried to fix that by giving her a new better one IMO nothing like the first one). You kind of get attached to them and so the immersion is there. My congrats.

-Renders/Animations: Renders are great, however, there are no animations during the first half of the game.

-Music/Sounds: There are a few tracks that are better than nothing. It's passable.

- Others: 1)This game is long (around 40 hours I'd say) but it's worth it, It's not boring. 2)Also, the devs need to work on a better Main Menu, no offense but with the current one some people might think this is a shitty game which is completely wrong. 3)Another thing that bothered me: Dude... when navigating through the map Do you really need to put those fkin "SUSCRIBESTAR" "PATREON" ads almost in the middle of the screen, that's annoying and kinda immersion breaking, I think it does more harm than good.

So Overall the game is great so far and barely gets to be a 5-Star (still a 5-star). However, I prefer to rate from 1 to 10 and I think this is an 8.5 game, recommended for everyone, especially for those into Bondage because there are tons of it.

Loads of content if you can be bothered with horrid sandbox (could be replaced by a galery) and random no sex scenes .
Linear sandox you have to complete ALL update x sandox events to continue into update y update, maybe at the start is feels like an sandbox hovewer this quicky vanishes as you play allong the nonsensical plotline with jaring plotholes. boils down to tie up girl she is happy click 6 times to forward into next day ....
not denying some hot girls are present, the time you spent clicking on the guide then clicking on the map doesnt make up for it
avarage/10

There is a lot of content and quality of renders are pretty good. Initial story is interesting, with you becoming a 'lord' of an island. Sounds good right?

Unfortunately everything falls apart when you reach the 'gameplay' stage.

Unnecessary hotel management where you need to grind for money and grind to advance LI's stories.

There is a lot of BDSM which is welcomed, but they often overstay their welcome, as you repeatedly experience the same events with characters, only with slight variations in dialogue.

There is a quest tracker so you know where to go and what to do. Only issue is, that you often need to wait for a specific day to advance those quests. Which means you need to skip several days if you want to advance some girls story.

MC is just a tool to advance the storyline. He lacks character and seems just.. plain.

Overall, this game has a good story idea, but falls short in its implementation.

My second review.

I've been playing thinking to myself "when is it start being good? When is all that time wasted will be rewarded?" The answer seems to be never, after 35%

The story is terrible and poorly written.
The grind is absolutely insane, ranging from an endless fetch quest "Go there, talk to X, buy Y, return Z" over and over and over and over and over and over again.

The sex scenes are tame and boring. There's a lot of emphasis on BDSM though, if it's your cup of tea, may like it more.
No character feels real, from their animations through their actions not even a single character feels like a person or even alive. Extremely poorly written.

Initially there's a grind to acquire money and upgrade the hotel and do the endless fetch quest... After some time, money becomes a non issue.
Guess what, the entire economy could be removed and the game would rather improve a ton. It was waste of time for the sake of it.

I cannot stress enough how tedious, boring, brain dead, poorly written, combined with an endless cycle of go X, then Y, talk to Z, then P, it's the entire game.
Oh also, it's not only that, but often MC has to speak to a specific character, that it's on a specific location, at specific time, at a specific day of the week.
If one event makes time advance too much, bad luck you'll have to repeat next time. So beyond the fact that your entire playtime will be going from point A to B, you'll actually be doing it while reading where, when and whom you need to talk to, again and again and again and again infinitely, that's the gameplay.
Also say you had to speak with character A at location B. Your next step will be to speak again with the same chracter A, at same location B, but on the NEXT day, just for the sake of FU and FU your time. It's insane.
If you cannot stand the first 30 minutes, it WON'T get any better, in fact it gets a lot worse. And no, there's no spicy well written scenes, they're as boring as it possible could be ever made.

The only positive about this game is that the models are gorgeous, but that's it.

Pros:
Hefty amounts of content, high quality renders, decent writing. Definitely an easy visual novel to like if it was implemented as such.

Cons:
Lots of not even really grinding, but straight up forced playtime to unlock things. My least favorite thing in a game is being asked to spend my limited time on Earth being bored to qualify for actually having fun.

You need to incessantly click around to match the copious quest triggers shown on tooltips and grind stats to progress the story. But max stats are tied to specific quests where you have to guess the specific choices or have to rollback and try again, so you can't really grind on your own terms either. It's all railroaded.

So it's effectively a VN. But with the illusion of a sandbox and a heavily inflated playtime while being drip-fed what could otherwise be a very fun experience. I could not bring myself to keep playing after the "15%" mark

HachiGames has consistently delivered an incredible experience with their game. The story is well-crafted, the characters are engaging, and the content is both generous and high-quality. Over the years, the game has been regularly updated, showing clear improvements with each iteration. It's evident that Hachi is dedicated to their craft, putting their all into creating a polished, immersive experience while maintaining excellent communication with the community.

As a player, I’ve enjoyed multiple playthroughs, and each time feels just as rewarding. This game truly deserves recognition, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to anyone.

Hachi has been cooking for years and they deserve recognition.
No notes, love this game. Can't find the rest of 200 characters to sayhow much I recommend it. It's well doone, consistently updated, and having been a Patron in the pastI know how much the dev communicates with the community

I play it a lot, I think its my second or third playthrough, I wouldnt mind if there is a Hail Dicktator 2 and 3 for the future. Characters and story is awesome, more games like this. Everytime there is an update i come back to this game. Hope to see more games frim Hachigames in the future. 5 of 5 Stars

Really cool game, the story is well put together. The content is generous in terms of quantity and quality.
You can feel the improvement from update to update, and it's nice to know that the creator is giving it his all and not resting on his laurels.

Not bad, not good - the definition of average.

Good visuals and diverse models.
Plot... There is one.
A variety of LIs with different but stereotypical personalities.
A boring and grindy management system.
No sound (but but the standard music).

In my opinion the game would be better as a VN w/o open world and especially the grindy unlock mechanics. All in all the worst characteristics of any open world game that lead to a disconnect between the player and the LIs.

I like character model. The story is original, told in well written dialog and cutscenes.
With the way the lore is set up, I could see many games being made in this universe.

Love to see where this story will bring me in the end.

- good art
- frequent updates
- generic inane and cliche story
- bad dialogue
- no choices
- no continuity (fuck character in public now, lose stats for seeing her bra later)
- you have to re-watch scenes in the gallery in an "open-sandbox"
- sandbox is a lie, this is a kinetic novel with roadblocks
- no optional quests / characters, have to do everything to progress in an "open-sandbox"
- hotel management is a lie, you just buy everything and it straight up kills it
- stat management is a lie, the stats affect nothing after the first 1h of the game
- 1mil locations, 5 things to do in a time slot (3 of them are repeats)

2 stars, false advertising.

There is a lot in this game that might not appeal to others, but i really enjoy it after the intial stretch of quests.

I startet to play Glassix back when not even the maid was introduced in the game, which was a long time ago. This game has a lot of mechanics that remind me of those early days of really well made adult games.

One of those things is the repeatable scenes with all of the girls, although it would benefit greatly from variations in the dialogue or even an evolution of the dialogue based on the progress you made with a LI during repeatable scenes. The quest log is comprehensive and easy to understand. The LI are covering a lot of ground personality wise and concerning looks and body types.

Of course quite some stuff is unnecessary and was more or less dropped by the devs as far as i can understand it. These relics of early development could be confusing when starting the game. Just stick with it and give the game a few hours so you can unlock some stuff and have a few quests with different girls on your plate.

There is character development and an okay story playing out along with progressing the girls. Being an adult game none of it is oscar or pulitzer price worthy, of course, but still pretty good compared to the competition in the genre. For me the quality of the artwork is pretty decent even though three of the LI are not even my type. The prospect to engage with them in the framework of the predominant fetishes succeeds in doing something for me.

It is still a sandbox and there is still repetition in it, but i grew increasingly weary of grinding over the years and this one is definetely not too much to tough it out.

So if you are interested in dominant MC's and can stand a little bit of grind and repetition, or even enjoy it, you should probably invest a few hours in this one to see if it is also your cup of tea.

First off I want to say that this game is great, there's a lot of negativity in the recent posts about it and I get some of it but I disagree with most of it.

The game does start off rocky, there are management elements which are soon pretty much ignored, there are sandbox scenes that don't get updated, there are relationship/girl stats which don't really seem to serve any purpose later but those are honestly pretty minor in comparison to what Hail Dicktator does well.

What the game does do well is pretty much everything else. The models are amazing, pretty much all the girls look great, from their base models to their hair and clothing choices. The game doesn't start out animated but when the animated scenes do start appearing (about 30-40% through as of update 71) they're pretty good too, for a non Illusion powered game at least.

But honestly, what really charmed me most about this game is the cast of characters and not only how they interact with the MC but how they interact with each other as well. The story really ramps up after a bit of build up and seeing all the girls' characters develop is a treat, especially when you see their friendships with each other grow and the hijinx they get up to even when you aren't around. Even with the cast of characters constantly growing too none of the main cast really gets forgotten and every new character brings something new and interesting to the story and character dynamics.

I think if the structure of the game was maybe reworked the game would be pretty much perfect for a porn game -- either actually add sandbox elements like more side events, proper repeatable events with updated dialogue or just... more to actually do in the sandbox other than skip to when the next quest trigger is.

Also sounds in the sex scenes would be good too but I want that in all the games I play so what can you do, really.

Either way, good game, love the characters and story, started out as a bit of a janky sandbox but then decided it didn't want to be one even though it still is.

The game is fundamentally flawed in design. If this had been a visual novel where you could just click your way through the dialogue, then the game would easily get at least a 4/5. But unfortunately, it's a complete disaster. Once you get to the later stages, all you're doing is basically blindly following the quest instructions anyway ("Be at X location during Y time, when Z is there.") This is problematic though because there really is nothing else to do in the meantime, so you're forced to just click your way to your room, to your bed, to skip the day(s), until you can continue the quest. And sometimes the quests overlap and so you have to do only one of them, then skip multiple days to do the other one.

You may ask yourself why anyone would design the game this way. It's because the idea was so that you can "progress" each girl whenever you want, meaning that in the time where you can't complete quests, you can then have fun with the girls. Sounds good in theory, but it's done terribly in practice: the girl progression makes little to no sense at all. For example, after having 'steamy hot anal sex' with Yuki, you can still only raise her lust value by doing "light bondage in the school", which is one of the first things you do with Yuki way at the beginning. And no, the writing doesn't progress as you progress, which means that Yuki still acts during those light bondage scenes as if you had just met her a few days ago. Besides, how does it make sense that literally SEX doesn't raise lust, but being spanked does?

On that note, excessive spanking. Virtually every scene contains spanking. And it's manual, with boring dialogue. Don't get me wrong, I like spanking chicks too, but does it really have to be every single scene?

All the choices are illusions also. They have little to no impact and you're forced to go through them anyway. You can't for example progress with Heather unless you go through dozens of foot fetish scenes that are not skippable either. Don't like feet? Too bad. And you can't progress the main story unless you progress with Heather. So there you go, forced foot fetish in a game "about choice".

I could go on and on, but I'll end on the music being repetitive, overused and boring. The only thing that salvages this game is that I like the male-dom BDSM-oriented sex scenes. That's it.

For a while i avoided this game because it didn't seem like something id like, and honestly there was times where i got bored of it early on, but once you get past some of the early stuff, the game becomes an enthralling story with some kinky side stories.

Infuriating game. The art is great - undoubtedly - and some of the characters are well done but they are all basically porn vehicles.

There's a story but it's barely interesting enough to string you along. Other than that it's a scene collector in a sandbox with a bondage focus.

The situations that "happen" are so contrived and borderline stupid though that it's hard to take this seriously. It's also not funny/ quirky enough to accept it as satire.

So, that's it. It's a brain-dead scene collector with pretty graphics. Given the audience, no wonder it has so many positive reviews.

Great game, quite enjoy the characters and writing, there is a nice variety and a bit of a replay factor. Having said that I gave it only 4 stars because I do think there could be a little more in terms of replayable bondage. At this point, it's generally the same bondage content unlocked for each of the individual characters. Would be great to see some more extreme bondage type stuff that is different from what is currently availible.