Ren'Py - Completed - Harem Camp [v1.0.1] [Dirty Secret Studio]

TLDR: A fully debugged game and updated renders/aesthetics, including MC penis that is of average size or better and matching skin tone to the rest of him (or at least not gray) would make this arguably the hottest, best game ever.

The renders and the animations are less than mid and a bit on the short side for such games. Users have had to post their own debugs for easily fixable things like typos in the code. There is no Walkthrough anywhere which wouldn't be such a problem of the game did a better job explaining itself and/or had a more intuitive UI.

But the scenarios and game design, especially the pacing, are far superior to most games.

Notice I say "design." The game has several really well thought out components, for the relationships, the camp renovations, and even though I mostly hate mini games, the have one that actually has a bit of nuance and strategy to it.

And like I say, the pacing was surprisingly good. There isn't an unreasonable amount of grind to get to erotic parts and the game isn't just a series sexual encounters barely strung together. Its just really even and stead flow of everything together as game possibilities and the cast of characters expands.

Dialogue doesn't weigh it down and there is even much more valid and successful attempts at humor and banter compared to most games. Also, perhaps ironically given the code, I have only encountered one typo and no mistranslations, which is refreshing for me as I find such things jarring and immersion breaking.

The actual implementation of the game though is very rough. Bugs run from game-breaking ones for central plot line events to simple nonfuction. The non-functioning ones are almost worse. Like, you have a mechanic to repair a building. Except the greenhouse has no option to repair. You follow hints like by seeds and hire a gardener and the greenhouse still never becomes active. So you are left with no clue if you are doing something wrong or green house is simply another thing that is broken. Or the location identifier so you can never find the character you are looking for.

But it's such a great game otherwise that this is the game I most fully hope for a comprehensive art/animation rework and debug as these are critical flaws with an otherwise near perfect game.

Maybe one other thing to make this game perfect would be to make the quests mandatory sequential with next step explicitly. Especially with such an all over the place UI and no walkthrough it is hard know what to do next and avoid skipping things you won't be able to back for. i.e. I went to the mess hall so many times for to talk to Lucy and still somehow missed her first scene at the mess hall. Zero clue how to fix and the only clue is visit her at the mess hall. This would also help with keeping things ordered. As is many things happen disjointedly. For example getting a tutorial on some aspect long after you have already been doing it.

Edit: Oh yeah. One other thing that is pretty frustrating is conversational links are limited to something like 4. So like in any RPG where a character has several things they could tell you about 3-4 passes a time period such as morning. Pretty frustrating when time is such a valued commodity in the game format Better if you could at least exhaust all the topics with one person before it takes up a time period. Similarly a better system for changing workers jobs. Given approaching a worker can trigger a scene and advance a time period it can take multiple game days to get around to having a normal interaction with everyone during which you can change their job or give them a command.

Despite all of the other reviews, I never ran into any big bugs. Sure, I had a few gray screens, but just hitting Ignore always allowed me to proceed properly.

To me the biggest flaw of this game is the grind. I have spent hours in game and only cut my debt by half. I'm not willing to double the amount of time I've played just to start seeing different content. Also, the storyline is mind-numbingly painful and the LIs are all stereotypes.

Bottom line: It's very easy to find better games than this on this site - do yourself a favor and skip this one.

Newcomers: quit downloading this game and asking for help, there's 36 pages of people complaining about game breaking bugs.

This game is not COMPLETE, it is an abandoned pike of bugs. The dev could have even taken all the bug fixes fans have made for them, but they are too incompetent to even do that. DO NOT PLAY.

Ok so overall, the game is good but it really needs a tutorial,
it can have its bugs: the main 2 are:
-missing images in some pregnancy scenes that don't crash the game so it's whatever
-some asylum monster fights that do crash the game but you can use the "ignore" button without any issue.

While I didn't 100% it due to the quest system not being great, I'd say I've seen 90% of what it has to offer.

Overall, it has a camp simulator, alright interactions and a very simple FF fighting system and a small card game of Gwynt.

You can play through the entire story easily and barely see a few scenes so the story of magic/time-travel and exploring the girl's stories should be seen as separate.

The two main issues are solvable with a tutorial or a better quest following system so I'll give to you the answers here:

-to unlock the Vampire interactions, you have to interact with them at the bar, not sure if thetime of the day matters but you'll know you have the right interaction if it's something like"bite me"
-the debt, it falls out of nowhere and blocks you, you gotta fiw your car to go in town (orc in the woods, lighter in one of the searchable spots around town and probably will need to clear the woods so upgrade them at least once)
You need to go in the morning, you'll make an arrow appear on the road of the town that wasn't there before (may have an intermediate step to go to city hall) and then it's a small easy sequence to erase the 12000 dollars you owe.

Some quick tips are:
- don't hesitate to load and save for a jackpot in town, it reached 15000$ for me
- in the cabin, the upgrades are at the bottom, a bit difficult to spot tbh, it took me a moment but clicking on "camp management" will get you access to job attribution, upgrades, etc.
-endings are only connected to a single girl at a time, it can be a bit disappointing to know but once you get an ending, they're all accessible in the main menu (that's how I learned I was missing half the girls when I completed the main storyline.)
-about the main storyline, there was a last mainstep about either getting a crowbar (500$ town store) or unlocking the magical potential of Amanda...
I did neither, the prompt to fight the final boss appears nonetheless.

TLDR: a bit buggy, quite fun, I challenged my future buff apocalypse-causing self to a Yu-Gi-Oh battle and won, erasing him from our timeline.

If you have the resilience of trying out those half finished, half abandonned games you see by the dozen on this website, try it, it can be quite good.

Game should be marked as abandoned, not complete. Game had amazing potential but was just never finished, so many unfished story lines including the main one. I keep clicking in the post to hope that there had been some updates or that it's no longer marked as complete and instead is being worked on again.

I play on a PC and I can't change jobs or find anything in the woods hints say to click on. Sandbox is repeat not the greatest animations. Very hard to figure out how to play and i can't seem to get in the head of the DEV to even try to figure out what is happening in this game. Several bugs.

I wish I could have given this a better mark cause the game can be fun but I will never grasp the logic of a game full of bugs being considered as completed. You never know what bug will come, images not loading, game becoming visually break or being stuck in a battle that only a community patch made me pass through it. As I doubt the developer will return to this the best I can give to this is a two stars.

v0.18.0
Game is extremely buggy. Only way to report bugs is to pay the dev for the privilage (on patreon or subscribestar).
Every game I have seen that required you to pay in order to report bugs was an unplayable buggy mess, what a coincidence.

Game is grindy and the GUI is just bad. If it was just the girl control level it would be ok.
But there are lots of other things to grind like employee-waifu work skills, money, camp levels, camp ratings, MC levels, etc
The girls are not in the same place every day, and I have no indication in game of where they are, so I gotta go from place to place looking for them. And most places are not directly accessible from the map, requiring multiple clicks to reach.

There is an exceptionally complicated card game they invented and included in this game. It is a broken buggy mess. And yet it is critical for some of the paths.
Some girls cannot be found due to the bugs in their scripts on where they should be located.

Most terms are not explained, there are so many stats. Stats for you, stats for camp, stats for each employee-waifu.
Most are obvious, but some stats are just baffling. what does the MC's "buff" stat mean?
Took me a while to figure that a employee-waifu "handiness" stat means "skill as a handyman used to repair or upgrade facilities".

You start out with too many expenses and not enough income making your money immediately dip into the negatives.
The employee-waifus are all taking a huge bite of your income via their salary, each.
This makes it really hard to dig yourself out the initial financial hole.
Especially since you can't upgrade most places without money to invest in them.
I am guessing I am supposed to turn my girls into cam whores to get that initial capital?
Because mind controlling the guests into thinking they had a good time and leave a positive review doesn't seem sufficient to get out of debt.

Dialog is poor, plot is threadbare.
The Elf looks really uncanny. Also apparently all elves have autism in this game.
I am not even kidding, it is a plot point.
The 3d vagina model is gross looking, and one which I recognize from other games.

The token trans (Laura) is really ugly looking (god that face), and the game handles the introduction stupidly.
first telling laura that you are mind controlling all the girls in the camp. then asking if you want to keep laura as part of your harem or allow laura to leave. but how can you send someone away with knowledge of your actions? surely this needs to be kept a secret? it should be the other way around where I first decide if I want to keep laura and then expose my secret... or better yet, keep it an actual secret!

The redheaded "waifu" is the town bicycle and explicitly has STD. How the fuck am I supposed to waifu that?
For all my criticism of the art... some of it is good looking. It isn't all ugly, but those moments of ugliness ruin things.

1 star currently.
hypothetically easily fixed to 3 stars if they just fix the bugs and the user interface.

Although it is somewhat different than others in regards to story, There is so much wrong with this as it is, it might be best to completely revamp that whole thing from the start.

The graphics are rather low end, and the animations are just horrible. Animations and story are key to the success of a story/game. And why oh why would you put a big non transparent box right in front of the sex scenes, completely ruins it when you can't even see the sex because of a big brown box right in front of anything that would be interesting, that was just Dumb.

Errors galore in this so far especially if you upgrade certain buildings, better have ignore on speed dial, you're gonna use it a lot.

As stated by others, there is no real instruction or hints on how to do many things especially construction. Poorly thought out in regards to that and a others.

It will take a lot of work and a lot of changes to keep interest in this story/game . Although it is new and it doesn't have a lot of content. I think not having a lot to it, is a plus less work to revamp it into something that is not such a hot mess.

It's a good game but there are a few problems. The first is the bugs, it will crash a few times, in my experience the worst one was when your camp level did not match the expansions so the game crashed every time you looked at the main screen. But if not for the bugs it would be a 4 star in the current state. There is content but it is not full game.

This game is a mess.

Pros:

• It is a managment/harem porn game.

Cons:

• User interface - conceptually this is a time management/harem porn game. However, the user interface for the management portion of the game is a confusing mess that I never understood.
• bugs - If you like renpy exceptions, you are in luck.
• No tutorials - This is not entirely true. The first morning the game walks the player through how to select a building to improve and how to assign someone to work on the task. Of course these mechanisms are never used again.

Bug Camp version what? Dear god, I wanted to like this but so many errors, and bugs and even one that causes CTD. I've never even encountered CTD in a renpy game before this. Decent models, terrible UI, terrible hint, terrible map...just awful really. The UI is literally the most obtuse crap I have ever been expected to deal with in a game. This game needs SO much work.

I actually think this is a really fun game, I like the management aspects and the art and really all of it is top notch. There is one issue though, as you progress later in the game there are lots of bugs. Some of them are missing images, which is fine, they can be easily bypassed, but others are game breaking or simply will not allow you to progress with a character.

The yoga studio is bugged, whenever lilly is in there it will not allow her button to appear. Every extra building has a door in it that leads to the yoga studio. When the vampire is supposed to be at the standing stones there is a bug. When you enter the graveyard there is a bug. There are lots of examples of this, and although I would like to continue to play it, since I have come too far I will have to wait for some fixes to come out in order to keep going.

Anyways I give it 5 stars because I think its going to be an awesome game once the bugs are fixed.

Its a decent game. Bumping it to "good" due to good aminations.

The UI could use some work, I have a couple wrinkles on my brain so I was able to figure it out, but it's not ideal. Also, was a tad disappointed by how easy it is to do some corruption actions, yet others require progression. I think progression is the right move, but I can force a girl to fuck me on day 1 if I wanted. Kinda strange choice but not horrible.

Definitely needs some more content but it's not content dry at v0.6.1 by any means. Also, technically can have incest? You can give one girl (supposed to be your TA) whatever relation you want (I went with Daughter for max kink). It works okay most of the time. "She's my Daughter, I can't do that!!!". Some lines don't make 100% sense (maybe 80%) but others do well. I will say that when I name her TA, she has 1 intro, but when I name her Daughter, she has another (but it may just be a generic "not a TA" intro)... Anyways. Technicalities .

Overall.... yeahhhhh, I recommend it I think. You should get at least a fap out of it. Story exists loosely. Decent amount of H content. Animations are good. I like the two busty models, hope we get more. Would be cool to take the Vanessa character and bimbo her or something via mind control (slim her waist up, pop dem titties out, etc)

Is good.
Menu is good(for renpy), easy to use.
Plot is fine(for porn game).
You kinda free to do anything(i mean this is a sandbox, so it is really a game, not a shame like VN with 0-2 choices per whole game).

Very promising, but so buggy.
Looks like developer not a programmer at all.
Too many RenPy errors.
Still 5 stars cause not Illusion\other stolen porn pics or videos and good potential.
But still, this is good enough demo version.

I really want to like this game, the story isn't anything new but it's decent.
The characters need some more exposition IMHO but I had much worse games.

The main issue is that the game is all over the place, you lack hints to what to do, It took me a couple week in the game to realize there was a menu for assigning jobs and repairing the camp.

The whole mind control doesn't really works that well, when you can just stack bonus and use the other attributes to kinda cheat.

The whole camp management isn't a bad idea but money management is a mess, it took me a couple or retries to understand how to make money, and by the time I was making enough to start the big spending I got hit with an unavoidable 12000$ bill to pay with basically sent me 11500$ into the red.

And while I understand this is part of the plot to introduce the sexy vampire it basically stopped any effort I could make to keep the renovations going.

By this i was annoyed but the final strike is the bugs that come with the introduction of the new character, I had already fixed manually a couple rmpy files for locations and character for misspellings.

By this it was enough, I do think the game has potential but there are a ton of things that can be upgraded, from the bugs to things as simple as talking to a character moves the time forward and basically makes you waste time if you talk to them.

I'll take a look at the game in an Update or two and hopefully some of those bugs will be fixed.

I'll update the review accordingly later.