VN - Ren'Py - Harem Hotel [v0.18.1] [Runey]

Hands down, the best H-Game I've ever played. With so many detailed reviews already I doubt there's much I could add, but I felt my contribution to the rating needed to be made.

Lin is best girl, ever.

v0.13.2 Public

A hotel/harem management game sounds really good, but the interface and the early game grind is extremely painful. Basically each day you buy something or upgrade your hotel, then check with all the characters to see if you can advance their storyline, and then repeat this over and over. It became a bit of a chore rather fast.

Played this off and on since early versions. The cast is adorable. There are a good number of animations and scenes for each character. 90% of the cast is very attractive.

Please support this project.
It gives the feels in a happy way, while staying sexy throughout.

I love this game. It has been a really rewarding story that lets you wonder about different aspects of the game world. The characters have tremendously more personality than most games of the genre. You remember key details, and even quirks about them, when sometimes other games meld their girls together into one.

Overall:
This game has a ton of play time, a very likable and diverse cast of characters, and it incorporates fun story telling in a developed world.

Can't wait to see more.

Girls are a bit too submissive and lots of sex scenes but nice game.
Best character are Moon and Felicity (she is a bitch but I like it).
Good backstory on all main character. Ashley is a bit annoying because of her breeding thing...

I've been a fan of Harem Hotel for most of the time in which I've played H games. It felt like a breath of fresh air when I found it, a real cut above the rest of the competition. The girls were cute, the animations seemed cutting edge and it was mostly lacking in filler.

Anyway, I'm not sure whether I've changed, or Harem Hotel changed at this point. I'll admit that it seems like other games have caught up in the animation department at this point. I've seen several games with as good or better animations and while Harem Hotel is still among the top, that's not enough in and of itself anymore. It's very possible that my familiarity has bred contempt. If I had to guess though, I'd guess that it's just started giving me genre whiplash.

Not every H game needs to be a happy-go-lucky romp where you bang happy well-adjusted girls eager for cock. However, once an H game establishes the sort of flavor it aims to deliver, it's really rough when it deviates. Harem Hotel generally provided silly, slice-of-life type scenes. You wandered around the hotel and approached the girls going about their days for some sexy fun. It was lighthearted and silly most of the time; things went wrong comedically, not emotionally or mentally. The girls had small problems with available solutions.

That... has not been the case in the more recent updates. Worse yet, the story has shown us a lot of the world recently as well and frankly... it's about a demon invasion short of a hellscape. It's distopian to such an extreme, it's kinda broken my suspension of disbelief as to how we hadn't noticed earlier.

Now, I don't mind distopias, whether in H games or otherwise. They can provide great backdrops for interesting stories. They're places where normal has been so completely skewed so as to make anything seem if not reasonable, then possible. However, when I walked into the door of the Harem Hotel, I wasn't presented with a distopia. Until recently, it was just a world with a little slavery problem, which was mostly out of sight. The sudden change to in-your-face awful has kinda soured my entire experience with the game to be honest.

It feels like half the cast is on the edge of a breakdown for one reason or another, which is a massive change from the happy-go-lucky fun that was the first seventy percent or so of the story. It just leaves me sitting here with my dick out wondering if we can get back to the porn anytime soon.

The story is good, don't get me wrong. The characters are interesting and more than skin-deep, but the tone is dark and getting darker. I'm too invested to give it up at this point, and I'm looking forward to how it all ends. Just let that missing star serve as something of a warning: Harem Hotel isn't just a story about a harem of waifu.

I hope by the time the game draws to a close that I'll be able to add the star back. I think having the story actually resolve instead of pausing in the midst of misery will help a lot. Until that point, I recommend this game, just be aware that some waifu were harmed in the making of this game.

v0.13.2 Public: Great game, probably for what I've seen it's one of the biggest out there, incredible how many girls and options there are. Sex scenes are nicely done, art is fine (specially the girls) and storywise well, there's a bit of everything. Some aspects are great and even deep and there's also many filling and characters you won't like that much (and sort of sadly you have to advance in everything). I would recommend using Lain's Mod because if not is far too easy to miss many things and get stuck (or maybe I lack the patience), but if you like the challenge you can try it raw. Some grinding elements can be a bit too much for some, anyway.

v0.13.2
This game is about a guy who runs a hotel, sheltering various girls along the way.

The graphics are not really my cup of tea but to me the story comes first.
Even though in my opinion there are already so many girls that the game can feel a bit unfocused, the storyline content is really well done and the characters feel endearing.

There are some point-based systems but grind is not really necessary, except maybe for some side activities.

If the title of this game appeals to you, you should probably give it a try.

Version reviewed: v0.13.2

Pros
+ Great art style
+ Hot sex scenes
+ Interesting story
+ Every single chararcter's development is intriguing
+ Lots of repeatable scenes
+ Almost 0 bugs encountered (at least in my playthroughs)
+ Lots of content (more content coming soon!)
+ Not as grindy as some people say (pro tip: just buy a bar, upgrade it and money flows in)

Cons
- Transitions between pictures and animations will have some delays and frame rate drops for 1-2 seconds during animations (this happens on low spec devices, don't know about high spec devices)
- Lack of *good* male characters/male friends for the MC, most of them are enemies? Seems like the MC is the only nice male lmao. (just a very minor complaint)

Note to Dev: Don't lose that passion when you're making HH, take care of your health mentally and physically. Best of luck to you, Runey.

Great game w tons of fans. I mean 29k posts on this forum so some of us have to be right about the game being so good.

The Dev, Runey, is very involved in here as well as friendly and helpful. He (?) helps out and responds to loads of posts in addition to working on the game. He takes in suggestions and occasionally uses them in the game, and is always a very gracious and decent person. I've seen some devs that are just vicious and foul towards folks.
Also, this forum has some of the friendlier bunch of posters here......

HH is a fun game where the MC falls into a hotel, fixes it up, and has permanent girls staying here. Each one of the guests have been written so that they have unique looks, personalities, and issues... One of the predominant stories is slavery with Elves. There are several other themes as well. It's not too heavy and hasn't been too preachy.

The graphics are fun and easy on the resources. The game is fun to play and you have a tendency to care about the girls and want to keep coming back for more. There are various kinks represented which also helps keep things interesting.

It's also a very easy game to play for awhile then come back and pickup again later without feeling lost.

Everyone here has their own favorite girl, though we all know that Lin is the best.!.

Almost 8 GB of outdated and badly designed door opening simulator. How this game got to top is a big mistery.
Whole gameplay is based around battling a mess of interface and opening doors in architacuraly challenged hotel (no map to help you get about) to unlock any kind of scene, where a girl tells you how she feels and what can you buy to make her feel better. Ux is unintuitive, clunky trash. The whole time management thing is trash heap of bad mechanics. Graphics is hedious, outdated and would be good in 2004. All girls look the same, square faces, weird grims, petite asian clones (no diversity). Their "sexy" uniforms (that you can unlock after hours of grinding) are basically strings; uniforms should be uniforms like secretary or maid dress, shoes, pantyhose etc. and not just differently coloured panties. Their stories are childish, boring cliche with many inconsistencies. Two main components of this game: upgrading hotel and managing relations are very poorly designed and executed even worse. Relations-management is made through opening doors and walking on some girl (taking a shower) or asking her the same questions every day and half of the progress is hidden in hidden events (opening the right door at the right time). As for managing a weird hotel - it's just grind until you have enough money. Buy upgrades. Make more money. Boring, repetitive. How anyone could find that engaging is a mystery. Even bigger mystery is how many people rated graphics in this game - good or very good, wtf!

I thought it was gonna end up like most 3D ero games that are mostly bad and make me hesitant to download but I give this one a spin, but oh boy I was so wrong, pretty characters and personality, wholesome story here and there. such beautiful masterpiece

I love Ashley and Emma so bad

Phenomenal game! I've kicked over a few dollars on patreon over time and im glad to see the project still plugging along. Great CGs and I appreciate the lack of NTR.
I've devloped a liking to the character Jin, she's had a character arch that I dont see much on F95 and I wont spoil it for you. Despite being a side character she's recived alot of love and good wiriting. For all of the main girl content seems to be very evenly distributed among them, there is no one girl being flavor of the month with patches, there is always something for a few of them. They're well fleshed out and have more then a "sex-doll" personality.

Version Played: 012.2

This game easily sits in my top 5 with its blend of charming characters, interesting setting and regular updates.
What started out as a bog-standard game with rote situations and older graphics has morphed into something really interesting from a world-building/story perspective (science-fantasy) with some surprisingly moving story beats.

Positives:
+ Absolutely amazing cast. In terms of personality, there's someone for everyone here.
+ Great world-building that gets you invested into it wanting to know more about it.
+ Consistent updates
+ some bush

Negatives:
- Dated graphics
- Some grinding, but what little there is can be augmented with codes!

Overall, this is one of the games I most look forward to for updates. Lin is something special!

Like this? Try!: Mythic Manor
Notes to Dev: Really looking forward to seeing what comes next!

Really top quality. Excellent gameplay. ( Not too grindy, but it also doesn't give you everything straight off the bat, thus not making it feel overwhelming or making you feel lost. ) "Main" plot is rather simple, but quite effective at setting everything up. The real gem of the game is everyone else's stories, which I think are really interesting and well written.
Really awesome characters with each having their own distinct personalities, motivations and backstories. ( From really shy girls to ones that straight up would bang on sight. ) Very good art style. ( YEAH... can't say much about it because it really is up to personal preference, but overall everything is sleek and quite polished, and to me this art style is one of the best. ) The amount of content is also very high, especially if you compare with most games like this. Personally, I don't have any complaints regarding sound and music, since all seem appropriate to the situation. And last but not least... the sex scenes are really awesome, with enough variety to not make it feel like you're doing the same things over and over again but just with a different girl.

To sum up, JUST DOWNLOAD THE GAME IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY!! Honestly, couldn't recommend it enough

10/10

Will keep visiting it again!

The porn, action and content are amazing. Well-written characters. If you want to jerk-off this is a great game to try. A tad slow to start but ramps up very, very fast. But so far my favorite aspect has been the story-telling. Each character has wonderful story-lines to work through, and holy mother this game made me feel all sorts of emotions besides horny. Great job. On top of all that, world-building in this game is insane. Not only is there content to flesh out the world. It's mostly well-written. (I'm not a worldbuilder so don't quote me.) But I very much have enjoyed it and look forward to learning more. Try it, enjoy it, review it.

I enjoyed the game more when it felt like the characters had more distinctive stories, with update 13 consolidating what feels like most of the characters stories to be reduced to elf slavery bad in some facet or another it's lost a lot of the charm.

Harem Hotel [v0.17.2] [Runey]
5 stars and my favorite game on the site.
It doesn't have the best animations on the site, and it doesn't have the best girl drawings or the best setting, but it's all top notch, without a bad thing.
The story of the girls is very good (some more than others).
Ok, the truth of the 5 stars is entirely thanks to Kali, Lin, Ashley, Ellen and Autumn.

Easily one of, if not the best hentai game I've ever played. Everything from the sex scenes to the story and characters is just phenomenal. If anything, I'm almost disappointed it's a porn game, simply because the story alone is better than half of what Hollywood puts out these days.

One of the best fuck games there are, no doubts about it. Animations are great, characters look fantastic, story is pretty dope. 5/5 easily. I just wonder if were at 0.12 and the way the stories develop is so crazy as it is now, where the shit is this even going? I for one cant wait to see. Just play it ya ding dong.