Ren'Py - Happy Summer [v0.6.7] [Caizer Games]

Nothing happens and nothing will happen, because the dev rather introduces new characters than creates any sexual content for existing ones. All this game has is grind, but at least there's lots of it.

Short one.
Decent game with nice graphics.
Updates are a load of crap.

You will be waiting years just for it to progress enough with the character you want, its obviously a way to milk in the money aslong as possible. Theres 1 maybe 2 events per update and its likely going to be a little rubbing and thats it.

The character you likely downloaded this for hasn't had an update in events for a very long time.

Hi first.
so when i played the game in 2021 there was just no progression. you played for hours and you just didn't get any further....
but now (with the built-in guide) you can play it neatly in one go.
the animation is really great.
the only thing that bothers me, the mc is too young, he could have been a few years older, but that's a matter of opinion

I think the bad reviews on this game are related to older updates. Play it now and you will see how great it turned out.

reviewing v0.5.2

When I see a game in development for four years, I expect to see a lot of content. Now I won't say there's nothing here. There's content that looks good, but all but the spiciest scene would pretty tame if it weren't an incest situation. The annoyance is that it's padded out by plenty of grind, and certainly nowhere near what I was hoping for. Now I'm not a bitter patron or an entitled fanboy with an axe to grind. I have no opinion about milking patrons or any of that drama. I'm under the impression that patreon lets users unsub at any time. Some devs take their time, and it seems like that's what's happening here.

I'll start with gameplay, because that's what was on my mind most as I was incessantly clicking. I started a "standard" game. The other option is "free", and it's not explained in the game what the difference is. I suspected "free" might have less content, but after about 45 minutes of grinding, I searched this thread and found that "free" removes the MC's happiness requirements from gameplay. For the uninitiated, that means you don't have to regularly eat, shower, watch TV, and use the toilet with the correct frequency to keep advancing the game. I tried a new "free" game, and although it did make things simpler, it didn't really speed the progress in the game. You still have to do the boring grinding activities between the triggers in the relationships. Even when you've reached a milestone, many delays are still in the script. Basically, no matter what it's a slow burn. "Free" mode just lets you be mindless about how you grind, which IMO makes the grind even more insufferable. So I decided to stay true to the dev's vision and grind the fuck out of this thing. Let me tell you, dev's very dedicated to grinding too. Renpy's rollback, skip, and quick save features are disabled. He wants you to spam that mouse a half dozen times for each shower, TV show, and spreadsheet. Getting arthritis? No problem: the spamming actually only shaves a couple seconds off each grind montage. Just chill and watch each 7-12 second montage a couple time per minute about 100 times. Did you miss something because you got overeager on the LMB? See?! You shoulda just been patient. Now you can load up your last save from 5 minutes ago and grind it again, son! It's called replay value!
Now, I didn't use Cursor2's mod, because it hadn't been updated to the current version yet. After the third time that I needed to rollback though, I used Unren to force enable rollback. It's one of Renpy's best features. Why disable it if it doesn't break your game? It was a godsend. A few times, I rolled waaaay back and Renpy threw errors at me. I spammed the "Rollback" text button on the error messages and made my way back into playable game with no harm done. There's ways to handle that problem so that rollback needn't be disabled, so I don't think that's the excuse for disabling it.
As far as the complaints about sandbox, they're mostly overblown. We can all see the tag and know what sandbox is going to mean. It's a bit annoying, but this isn't that bad of an implementation. The map usually tells you where a LI is during any given timeslot, so if you're trying to advance her plotline, then look for her. The "usually" in that last sentence is really the frustrating part. Sometimes (whoopsie daisy!), dev doesn't have a LI's icon showing where she is. I found Mika hiding in her apartment when she wasn't showing there, which kicked off one of her events. The LI's generally follow a schedule, but later in the game parts of that schedule shifted. It could've been due to my rollback shenanigans, could have been dev's intention, or a coding oversight. It wasn't a major problem to adjust to, but noticeable after an in-game month to have them suddenly bathing and flicking the bean later in the day than usual. A tips section would help ease the sandbox burden, which is listed as a feature of the mod, because there are more than a couple times where progress just plateaus with little to no clue what will move the game forward. The most notable example is when I got stuck in "sick mode" for almost two weeks in-game. "Sick mode" disabled almost all the story progression and levelling with the girls, and lets you focus on what you came here for: grinding a "real life" simulator. What makes sick mode even more outlandish is that it starts with declarations from Rosie and Lucy about how they're worried about you and will take care of you, but then they just don't do that. I really had no clue what I should do to let me progress. I wondered if "sick mode" might have been coded to last a certain number of days, but then I tried cooking with Lucy, she gave me some medicine, and next day sick mode was done.

The artwork is really good as long as you can accept the Bratz doll style. The first time I saw this CG style in another game, I rejected it on principle. I've played a few games with these models now, and while I'm still not a huge fan, it's not such a hard pill to swallow. A few minutes into it, and I kinda forget that they look like dolls. The girls look good, even if you can only appreciate them as dolls, they're sexy dolls, as creepy as that makes me feel to type. There's some variety in body types, but the "flat is justice" crowd won't find a princess they can idolize here. Rosie and Lucy are curvier than the other LIs, but they all have some nice curves, which I appreciated. The scenes look good too, there was a lot of attention put into the environment to make it look about as realistic as you'd want characters that look like dolls to be surrounded by. The animations are really smooth and have some impressive pans, sweeps, tilts, etc. The animations are worth checking out, but there's not enough of them.

The writing is in clear, concise, grammatically correct, and readable English. While there are some unusual sentence structures and dialogues are sometimes pretty stilted given some of the relationships between characters, emotions are conveyed almost realistically. The writer has either spent some time around native English speakers or has a good proof-reader. The plot is nothing exciting. It's the beginning of two incest stories with some side girls. It could turn into a harem, but right now it's MC just winning hearts by being Mr. Nice Guy. Really, I wish there was more actual plot, because it's honestly fairly thin. Hang out with shy, cute teens (and your 25-year-old little sister), tell them they're cute, buy them things, and sometimes help them get low paying jobs. That's this dude's game. It works too: he's gone all the way once, gotten (I think) five BJs, and gone down on a few of them. There's repeatable shower handjobs and bathtub footjobs if you prefer your sexual encounters to not involve holes. Optionally, the MC can play a game on his computer that can end in a MMF sharing scene with that game character, his gf, and an old dude. Apparently, some fans count this sexual content also, but since this pornception has nothing to do with any plot going on in the actual game, it scratched none of my itches.
There's also a few details that when put together cast a different light on the MC. Early in the game, MC comes off like a pretty normal guy, occasionally noticing his hot daughter and other young women, and rebuking himself for it. This is the starting point for the surrender to forbidden love/lust plot in an incest story. Early on, we also learn that MC was the betrayed party when his cheating wife left her family for her lover. As mentioned, he's Mr. Nice Guy, defender of women, hardworking and loyal. Later, we find out he bathed with his sister until she was five, but we already know he's 12 years older than she is. Dev has gone to painstaking effort to create a "real life" sim, with food, waste, and stress/boredom accounted for. We're supposed to accept that a normal 17 year old boy and his five year old sister were bathing together? Okay, very weird, but only slightly untoward. Even later later, we find out that 7 years ago he propositioned then 18-year-old lil sis for a handie, and she was down but got scared. Wait a minute!? It's not explicit, but at various times, it's strongly implied that Mr. Nice Guy MC's wife left him somewhere 2-4 years ago, and both MC and lil sis vilified the ex for cheating. So evidently, Mr. Nice Guy MC isn't beginning his surrender to forbidden lust. He's been willing to cross that bridge before. It makes all his and lil sister's reluctance earlier without any mention of their past seem unwarranted. Mr. Nice Guy MC isn't struggling with new ephebophiliac tendencies. He's always liked them barely legal and taboo. It's not addressed in the script, so it doesn't feel like we're adding depth to the MC. Instead, it comes across like the dev has been working on this game for so long he forgot what archetype he was following for the MC's character. It's okay for your story to reveal that Mr. Nice Guy is actually a closet Mr. Perv Nasty, because really all Nice Guys are, but you have to address it in the story or it's just ludonarrative dissonance.

I'd like to give this one more than two stars, but those would be "potential" stars, which I'm ethically opposed to. More importantly, after more than four years, I'd expect much of this game's potential to be visible already as well as for the grind problem to be more effectively mitigated or balanced to allow players to enjoy the game. If I take a look at this game again, it won't be before 2025, and it won't be unmodded.

Good Points
+ Visual style looks unique and girls look hot/sexy/cute. Especially in some scenes, some girls look hot AF... Like Rosie's surprise scene, that scene was dope...
+ We have properly made animations, and most of the sex scenes have at least a couple of different positions, which is quite good.
+ Despite most of the content being teasing and stuff at least they are hot and enjoyable, except our only penetration scene...
+ Considering MC and most girls have related their relationship progress is not too slow nor fast, it feels quite alright, online problem is grammar being quite bad and how it kind of makes scenes less immersive.

Bad Points
- I'm not sure when it was added to the game, might be after people complained a lot about the grind, but at least we have an option called ''Free'' and it removes the grind for like sleep, hunger, cleanliness, etc, but still you need to grind for progressing your relationship with girls and do same things and watch same scenes and dialogues over and over again... Considering without a mod you can't even skip these scenes, that means you gonna press your keyboard buttons or mouse button over and over again... What a bad design...
- Despite being made by Renpy this game menu, HUD, and save-load system is a total mess... You can't reach the main menu or save-load functions with ''esc'' or ''right mouse button'' like all other Renpy games, instead we have a pop-up menu in the HUD, and every time you need to make something related to the menu or save-load you have to open that pop-up, but that's not even worst part, that pop-up menu and ''back'' button is in the same place and ''back'' button is literally your only option to leave the room in free-roam, you can't move without that button, so every time you do something related the menu you need to: open the pop-up menu, do your thing, close the pop-up menu, press back and imagine doing this over and over again while playing the game... This design literally makes no sense and is annoying AF, oh, and don't forget you can't open the main menu without being in the map part of the game! Arguably this is one of the most nonsense menu, HUD, and save-load systems in any Renpy game I saw...
- Despite being sandbox this game does not hold players hands enough to not make things painful, without mod giving you hints it's nearly unplayable...
- There is no skip or rollback feature, and let's be honest both are quite important for games like this... (It's one of the features the mod adds BTW)
- You can't advance the time... (Again another feature mod helps the game already should have)
- Grammar is not good and it's almost bad as call it ''Engrish'', especially some scenes make zero sense thanks to grammar problems, like do you understand anything from ''No MC, sometimes I can sit on my phone'' this or ''Get used to anything.'' or ''No MC, I... you lose your hear and do not immediately go out.'' this or ''He would get lost in his work and start scandals all the time.'' this sentence? I'm not a native English user either but this game feels like didn't even pass proofreading with most basic and free applications.
- Sometimes it feels like DEV assumes you already know some story details like Lucy's first arrival, why she came, or how the game assumes you already know she had a relationship with someone, etc. It just doesn't make any sense at all and makes things quite hard to understand.
- Girls do look kind of unattractive when their hair is slicked back.
- This game is nearly 4 years old and I can't say we have enough content for 4 years of development. Mc didn't have sex yet with any of the girls except Lucy and his sex scene with Lucy wasn't good at all, it was too fast and weird, which I don't even understand why because DEV was doing a good job with teasing scenes, etc. And don't forget after 4 years of development this game has serious grammar problems... Like seriously forget using proofreading, if he worked on his own English he could have fixed most of the grammar problems in 4 years' time...

For The End
I'm going to be brutally honest, I enjoyed my time with this game, and without all those bad points I would give this game 4 or 5 stars rate, but with them, I don't think it deserves more than 2 or 3 stars, I hope DEV will fix those bad points and I can give this game better star rate in future.

v0.5.0. Very cute renders and animations but the story becomes too linear and there's too much guesswork once you get past the first hour or so. It really needs an in-game hint system and more warnings on actions before you do them. If the story was just more intuitive so that it didn't need a walkthrough, this would be a great game.

Played version 0.5.0
Models are awesome.
Animations are incredible.
Story so far is simple but decent.
May be a little grindy to be up to date with money, wich makes it a little difficult to progress in the game.
But I think this is one of the best sandbox I've ever played.

Amazing game with amazing mechanics, like you need to sh*t per 5 minutes! Can you believe it! Even AAA games don't have such an immersive mechanism! Game of the year, if it's possible to see finished version

What could of been one of the most monthly anticipated games, became a monthly cash-grabbing project with minimal updates that escarcerly add any content either story or visual wise. Uncommitted sentiment with project, lack of attachment or professionalism to his game and fan-base, Not worth it.

Amazing game. I love it! My beloved developer updates it quite often. There can not be any better game. Mechanics, renders, story.. Everything is flawless. You can not be thankful enough for such a masterpiece.

Creator is milking. Just read at the updates for approx last year:

v0.4.6
Added 1 event for Rosie.
Added 3 animations.
Bug fixes.

v0.4.5
Added 3 events for May.
Bug fixes.

v0.4.4
There's not much content guys, it's only a base for new events.

Only good thing about this game are the renders,thats it (and it doesnt deserve a star for that). Everything else is a dumpster fire from the basic story (nothing original) ,lack or real hints to progress through out the game,the amount of blueballing (almost 3 years of developement and no sex scenes). Keep in mind this is a milking project nothing more.Stay away from it cause it has a better chance of getting abandoned first before you get to the good parts of it.

The worst game of all time.
If you want to know "What kind of gameplay shouldn't exist in adult game", just play this game.
If I want to describe this game as a new genre,
this game sure called " Eatin' n Poopin' ".

Grind madness with zero reward. Nonexistent hint system so u keep clicking everything and hope there is something new. And after all that u get a look at the neck and thats it. Graphics seems nice, but this is just a crap.

I don't have much to say, the others have already said all the problems found in the game.
The game had everything to become (not the best) but a good game, but it's not what we see. I like slow burning, but what we see in this game is something else, which we all know what it is, and unfortunately this practice is becoming popular.
There are those who don't mind being deceived, but this practice drives away many potential supporters.
Anyway, another game that we can leave in oblivion.

The game keeps getting lesser and lesser content, you can see the lack of interest in the dev. Shame, this started quite well now it went downhill to the very bottom. And if that fellow named obama something something that has started insulting pple and saying he's the dev and really is the one and only , Shame on you man, you really are the new low .

- Me: Ok it's late, let's go pee and off to bed.
- Dev: ***I'ts too late for that***
- Me: Oh Gawd, can't go pee before bed? Ah well gotta make it till the morning, hope i don't piss my sheets.
- Me: Ok, it's morning already, let's go pee cause i can't take it anymore!
- Dev: ***You're not in the mood right now***
- Me: Whaaat?! Not in the mood..but.. but i'm litterally pissing my pants over here!!! OMG OMG what do i do? Need to figure out how to pee asap or my bladder will burst and i'm gonna die and get a Game Over! Oh, boy, sucks to be a game character...

Cute girls though, I kinda dig the barbie doll style. Will keep an eye on this one, 4/5* - don't listen to the rant reviews, it's all exaggerated. K, gotta run pee now while i'm sill in the allowed time interval.

[v0.4.6]
This game's getting many bad reviews, and I can easily understand why the situation is like this.
But, in my opinion, this game can still be a pleasurable experience, provided that you:

1) Use the QoL mod (to remove the shitty management stuff and grind).
2) Follow the walkthrough (most scenes are nearly impossible to unlock without guidance, as they need to be activated at a specific day of time and locations which are not highlighted on the map whatsoever, with the game giving absolutely 0 hints about those).
3) Don't mind waiting for updates (better waiting for a couple of them, at least).

Under these conditions, the game is very good, and if you like the graphics style and light sandbox elements, I can still recommend giving it a try. Also, the animations are very well done.

It's one of the worst game on the f95. almost 4 years and still 0 sex scenes. models are generic, gameplay is crap. simply terrible. dont waste your time for this game, maybe after 5 years later this game is gonna be playable one. such shame.

This game would be good if you could take things to the extreme given its art style but you cannot. You are Brendan Frasier in Bedazzled, a sensitive dad lukewarm wooing his adult daughter resulting in blue balls for the MC and player.
The Art is not the show stopper, its the repetitious grind and failure to satisfy that will drive people away.
If tame, vanilla and cute grinding "no-burning" action is your thing, well there are much better and finished options.
The most exciting thing about this game is a toss up between the premise and uninstalling the game.