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

Being unable to skip forward and backward was one issue and now the game has stopped working altogether. I cannot run the game because it doesn't make it past the initial logo for startup.
It looked like it might have gone somewhere, but wherever it goes, at least for now, it isn't for me.

I think the quest and progress system is a bit confusing. But I love the rest of the game, I think it has a special art style. Hybrid between anime and realistic. He has managed to reach me. I like it

Do yourself a favor and do not play this. yeah that "main" girl in the banner is pure bait, the real protagonisrt is a ugly girl called May. Updates are once every month without fail but by update i mean the developer adds about 2 renders and at best 4 paragraphs of text.

Gameplay is grindy like POE but without any real progress.

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.