Ren'Py - Happy Summer [v0.6.0] [Caizer Games]

This game is one thing a porn game should never be.
Boring.

First I started fast clicking through the dialog, then through the tease scenes, then realized what I was doing and just gave up. The only twist was coming back to this thread and noticing this game has been 5 years in the making.

This is the ugly side of Patreon.

Great renders but no substance at all, very boring! Lacking everything oh and no sex, just crazy for an adult game! Stay clear, it's a big snooze fest. Heck even writing this I'm starting to get bored. LOL

Man, I really don't like to give a game low ratings, but unfortunately sometimes we need to.
I even like the game, I like the models.... But the game is not going anywhere. Three years of development and it doesn't budge, some lewd scenes but nothing really impactful. It even has a certain frequency of updates, but unfortunately they don't bring anything important.

Small updates with content that no one asked for while the content people are waiting for never come.

By searching the developer, I noticed he has the habbit of not finishing his games, the complaints about lack of content are always the same in his games, he lives to blue ball ppl who pledge to him

the one good thing about this game is the dev IS an artist, great models lousy gameplay. I like the layout of the town but after 3 years you should expect more than just bj's and hand/foot jobs. its sandbox without a hint system you can play for hours after you finished the game update. he has a good stable of characters but you can't do much with them. in my opinion he should colaborate with another dev him with art, the other with gameplay. its more infuriating than enjoyable.

lately I have just been unren and honeyviewing it.

3 pic per update, smells like shit spirit. Waiting half month for what? for very small event? For non main character? Yees. I do not advise anyone to spend at least a year, or even 2, on this, perhaps then at least a couple of worthwhile events will appear. Such a terrible approach to creating a game that prompted me to write the first review on the forum. Unfortunately, it is negative.

The only plus of the game is beautiful models.

Simply not adding enough content to be finished in a single lifetime. Surely in seven hundred years when the stars align and some form of penetration is added the game will be stellar but unless you have access to cryogenic technology you're not going to witness the pure erotic genius i'm sure this dev is secretly capable of. Renders are pretty great generally. Characters are a little plastic-y and uncanny but not enough to detract all that much from the game. The problem is that you don't get to see the shiny barbie dolls do anything. Even real barbie dolls can be smashed together every now and then. If the dev consistently put out *real* forward momentum into the game's content I'm sure it would be a pretty good game, but that just isn't there, and likely never will be.

Been through years without a single sex scene, screw it. Only Eleven Sexual scenes, blowjobs, handjobs, pussy lickin, not Actual Sex, no butt or pussy fuckin on sight, done with checkin on this so I don't get disappointed again bruh.

art/animation is good. story is ok. music plays. half of grinding can be skipped.

cant rollback
cant skip text or transitions
cant save during dialog
gallery is trash and only shows 1 image from scene events
some events get bugged and you cannot progress

This game was a surprise that I just got to know and when I started to play, the game is really very slow, but what matters is that the game is very nice and really very addictive at first it would be a mmmmm... there is no sex no there is action but little by little you start to love it and really love it this game is great, perhaps many of us would say this game takes you from here to there or it takes a long time to find the scenes because you have to click here and here and here, but seriously the game is very good just by simply seeing the characters and how they develop in the story is great, their story is very nice and the renders are also nice, if I'm honest if this game gets to put scenes of lesbians or just a single scene from NTR this game is completely dead, since the game is very good as it goes in its history and its animations and how its characters look

Good story with graphics but every update there is only 1 or 2 events..need more content fast..
I guess u can hire some other people too..but overall great story with secy girls ...my fav r rosie and lucy..

Right instead of complaining about the same things 85 people complained about. i will spend this review giving some ways the dev can make the game better for the state its in.
i write this because despite my low rating and slow dev i do see a lot of tallent and potential in this game and i want to see more.

1. If you let the interactions have a positive effect despite the attraction level stay active than you will significantly reduce the grind, and you can always as development progresses add less significant events if you are worried about pacing.
2. If you allow people to just jump to a room rather than click the way to back> Stairs > toilet door > toilet. This will significantly reduce the clicks needed and make for a more fluent game play, and less of a grind.

3. allow the player to go to the world map from any location for the same reasons above.

4. give the player a hint as to where the next level up event will take place.
5. last and most certainly not least. use that character info screen to tell the player if they still can advance this game version.
as it stands its a unfinished sandbox with no hint as to where the end is. this causes the player to waste time looking for events that are not yet implemented.

With these few changes you do not even need to change the value of each interaction and it will make for a more fluent game play.
These changes are extremely minor and easy to implement.

No true direction , having to slog through the days is really painful , a goal meter would help but the dev wont add one , feels like fluff and this makes the entire game pointless. The grind factor is off the scale and not just me feels this game is an infinite circle of activity then sleep then chatting then it becomes a very boring waste of time.

There is nothing HAPPY ABOUT this game, I only tried this game like most others because the art work.. well thats the only good thing about the game. The rest of it just GRIND FEST! and the story line stopped in 2020. I honest believe this is one the only games you could play 5 days per week for a whole year. and nothing would happen ! other than a few bathroom scenes, work, go to gym, have a dinner, join them watch TV, go to toilet etc it think it would loop till 2024

I have tried to play this game but there are two traits that alone I can normally overlook but not together.

First off you can't skip text. I have a gaming mouse with a 1000 click macro that limits this hassle but if you are using ye ol Logitech then you in for a lot of exhausting clicking to get through the slow playing scenes.

Next is the complete lack of objectives and/or journals to give you some reference as to what I the player should be doing. Instead I either have to switch back and forth to a walkthrough that may or may not be updated or just brute force my way by focusing on one character at all times of day at which they are reachable and see what happens.

Both of these together mean I am sitting doing nothing but clicking through dialog that doesn't give me much insight to what to do and I am not getting the adult content that we are all playing the game for.

Another mark against this game are the needs. If I am not pawing around in the dark for what to do next in order to advance the plot I am focused on trying to get at the toilet or bathe or eat and because of how time is handled in this game I have to trade an action with the girls to take care of these needs.

It adds nothing to the game play and means that I the player am focusing more on those four bars then anything else at times. It's not fun and it doesn't make for a good adult game.

Everything else is... tolerable. I mute these games so I can't speak for the audio but the visuals are of solid quality though I keep getting Dark Crystal vibes from this kind of character design.

There is some action but its softcore and if there is more then its unreachable by anyone who doesn't have a few days to spend brute forcing the game paths.

If this were a fairly new game I could justify three stars but given how long this game has been in development and how long the complaints about the gameplay have been going on the developer clearly isn't interested in making a decent game.

So two stars for a nice looking game that is only a hair breath away from becoming a outright patreon money grab.

This all could change if someone at least comes up with a walkthrough mod but I doubt the usual makers of such mods are going to bother with this game.

Well, the truth is that for me it has been a pleasant surprise to find this game. Although it's a bit slow, it has a good story, with very sweet and nice renders and above all good animations.
I found the game so nice that I'm translating it into Spanish manually.
Greetings.

Slow burner you might want to call it, but that it is not.
Carpet tunnel syndrome is what you will get playing this game, for apparently there is no way to skip text or automated the process other than clicking absolutely everything. Even transitioning "scenes" take WAY TOO MUCH FUCKING TIME to go through on their own, so you have to spam click to get rid of them quickly.

But what is the problem with slow transitioning scenes? Well you get to see them over 50+ times. Like what are you devs fucking smoking when you are taking these decisions, what is there to gain from this? Do you obtain my lifeforce wasting my time playing this game? Is there some kind of fucking ritual you partake ? If not, why the fuck is this game so tedious? Rhetorical questions to prove the point that this dev doesnt know jack shit about developing a game.

Story is non-existent, like other people say, it goes in circles. No fetishes, no sleep sex/grope, no grope in general, nothing but platonic shit with kissing and barely felatio. Music is whatever, the devs didn't even put in the time to re-sync the music used on those scenes in the gallery, so you still hear the super mario overworld music while Rosies or Lucy is spread out wide open.

Like you understand how dumb this sounds right? The 3CGs are good and the loops are erh kinda decent, but there is nothing other than that in the game honestly. Huge waste of time, do not bother unless you see it in the changelog that here are actual sex scenes.

Also last note, the game has absolutely no pointers on how to progress the GRIND so read the walkthrough and save yourself the trouble. Yes all games that require a guide to play are complete and utter garbage that deserve less than 1 star rating.

While this game could have been good, it fails in so many aspects that makes it ultimately very unappealing and a 1/5.

Let's start with the only one positive: The CGs. While they aren't ground breaking, the art style makes up for it. That's the only redeeming aspect of the entire game.

But the negatives: This is a ren'py game specifically designed to remove all conveniences of ren'py. Basically preferences can be set, text cannot be skipped, keyboard inputs to move forward are disabled, must spam the left click. Text transition speed cannot be altered. So this ends up being an intentionally very paced game, not by content, but by software design. Not only that, the dev has gone out of his way to make it harder to enable some of those features with unren. Even if you enable skipping, it won't allow you unless you go remove the hamper the dev has put in place.

Then we got the story, while it initially was meant to be slow, it feels like the dev had no idea where to go so it just slowly circled on itself. Circular story that's simply not interesting.

When I started playing this game I saw a lot of potential, nice graphics, interesting characters and some pretty good dialogues, I have been watching the update for a long time hoping that it will change what players hate the most - grind, yes, the game has a terrible grind if you want to see a few (sometimes worthless) scenes, well, you have to do completely nonsensical things to be able to see the scene and push the plot forward. In other games it looks logical, you have to go to the store or somewhere else, you have to meet a character or just do something else, but here you have to do things so absurd that even children would bore to death while playing this game.

After years of "updating" the game still grinds and although players are complaining about it, the developers are not doing anything about it and are still pushing meaningless things into this game, I think that if this game had been made by another studio, we would really have a VERY interesting gameplay, but unfortunately, at the moment it is just a drama and the sad thing is that it will stay that way, I put 2/5 because the graphics are nice.