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

[accidentalEv1l]

Man, what's with the flood of "I HaTe LeSbIaN CoNtEnT EvEn If It'S BiSeXuAl" on the site lately? You don't like it, feel free to uninstall, stop trying to get devs to change their games.

I couldn't agree more. For most devs on games like this what you have is a passion project, which is to say it's more like art than a product. The artist (Runey) is making something they WANT to make and hoping some people enjoy it enough to support it so that more time can be put into making it. This is a completely different developement philosophy to a game that hopes to make a profit, where you cater specifically to certain widespread tastes that you KNOW people will support. A product will change to cater the consumer. An artist will usually tell you to kindly shove it if you try to present their subjective taste as objectively unwanted.

Otherwise I absolutely love this game it is one of those games which I played and felt that if I would have built a game it would be similar to this one. and trust me this is the best compliment one could give. I was enjoying going through the game a lot and if Maria was not there(or be a bit different i.e. heterosexual) it would secure the first place undoubtedly on the list of porn VNs I played.

I've seen this "if I made a game" thing in a few different contexts on threads recently, and I feel like people who say this are forgetting the fact that the reason they are here enjoying these games is precisely because they do not have the skill or experience to put something like this together. I certainly don't have the necessary ability to create a game on this scale. I'm here because Runey and other creators have made something unique and interesting that I want to explore. If parts of it aren't to my taste, it's because the artists tastes are different than my own. There is nothing wrong with something not being my thing(or anyone else's). Let the creator express themselves and take from it what you will, instead of antagonizing developers over a difference in taste and acting like it's honest criticism.

 

[deathspawn246]

There is no man that comes to book a stay at the hotel.

They may be referring to the one joke scene you have in the game where a guy shows up trying to get a room and is immediately ejected from the building.

 

[Runey]

They may be referring to the one joke scene you have in the game where a guy shows up trying to get a room and is immediately ejected from the building.

That's not in Harem Hotel. Maybe a mod, but I didn't make it.

 

[accidentalEv1l]

They may be referring to the one joke scene you have in the game where a guy shows up trying to get a room and is immediately ejected from the building.

I'm pretty sure that's in Maim Lain's mod, if memory serves. Not the game itself.

 

[deathspawn246]

I stand corrected then. I admit I play with the mod installed pretty much every time. It's a funny little scene honestly. Dude comes in asks to rent a room, then gets forcefully removed after being told no men allowed. My apologies for that error.

 

[Aereon1104]

The game is clear, she is not interested romantically in anyone else but you. It even says on all of my pages (even in this OP) that there will never be NTR. But he will not watch any of Maria's scenes whenever she appears because she's bisexual and is threatened by that, even if sexual or romantic things aren't happening, he doesn't like that she's bisexual. I mean... I don't know why I'm repeating what he said, anyone can read it.

There is no man that comes to book a stay at the hotel.

Maybe that scene comes with a mod haha i forget it

 

[hextecneko]

I know, I've seen this a lot recently, I literally had someone on my discord say publicly "Remove all the maria content, I hate lesbians. DEATH TO ALL LESBIANS". Word for word. Maria isn't even a lesbian...

yah see if this happened to me i would honestly go full troll and for one version redo the entire game to make every charachter gay as fok or mb just 1 full on gay orgy that replaces the opening cuz DEATH TO HOMOPHOBES <3

 

[ankhtar]

If I might be the devil's advocate for a moment...

No, I can't. Homophobia is a horrible thing and should be publicly called out and shamed. It actually surprises me there's still people with this mentality in 2021, but I suppose war isn't the only thing that never changes (mandatory dated reference).
You can dislike Maria, that's cool. You're well within your right to do so. Hell, she ain't my favorite either. But saying the game would be better if Maria didn't exist strikes me as the equivalent or squatting, spreading your cheeks and dropping a massive deuce on the dev's vision of what he wants the game to be.

I think pineapple on pizza and motion blur in video games are two of the most heinous creations of humankind, but I don't go around telling restaurants to change their menu, or devs to change their games, that's just dumb.
Use your inside voice, let it flow through you, see how it feels. It might make you a better person.

 

[Superrando195]

If I might be the devil's advocate for a moment...

No, I can't. Homophobia is a horrible thing and should be publicly called out and shamed. It actually surprises me there's still people with this mentality in 2021, but I suppose war isn't the only thing that never changes (mandatory dated reference).
You can dislike Maria, that's cool. You're well within your right to do so. Hell, she ain't my favorite either. But saying the game would be better if Maria didn't exist strikes me as the equivalent or squatting, spreading your cheeks and dropping a massive deuce on the dev's vision of what he wants the game to be.

I think pineapple on pizza and motion blur in video games are two of the most heinous creations of humankind, but I don't go around telling restaurants to change their menu, or devs to change their games, that's just dumb.
Use your inside voice, let it flow through you, see how it feels. It might make you a better person.

I agree with pretty much everything you said, but I think you have the wrong impression of what playing the devil's advocate means.
To be the devil's advocate you have to argue for something that most people usually wouldn't.
In this case it would be for the guy who "hates?" lesbian content.
Which in all it's quite funny I thought most people thought of that as a hot genre regardless of sexual preference.

I don't see a majority of people advocating for hate on others, it's just a few butthurt people mad about literally nothing.
Sadly that is what you see in today's life with social media and such whoever is the most vocal seem like the majority.

 

[Skode]

If I might be the devil's advocate for a moment...

No, I can't. Homophobia is a horrible thing and should be publicly called out and shamed. It actually surprises me there's still people with this mentality in 2021, but I suppose war isn't the only thing that never changes (mandatory dated reference).
You can dislike Maria, that's cool. You're well within your right to do so. Hell, she ain't my favorite either. But saying the game would be better if Maria didn't exist strikes me as the equivalent or squatting, spreading your cheeks and dropping a massive deuce on the dev's vision of what he wants the game to be.

I think pineapple on pizza and motion blur in video games are two of the most heinous creations of humankind, but I don't go around telling restaurants to change their menu, or devs to change their games, that's just dumb.
Use your inside voice, let it flow through you, see how it feels. It might make you a better person.

I suppose we just gotta accept some kinks aint for everyone and not liking them and even preferring they be removed does not make it phobic. Personally i dont play games where im forced into relations with Trans characters, that doesnt mean im Transphobic... merely its just not what i want in porn game and whilst that does shit on a devs vision arguably having that mindset they often give an option to opt out and everyone is happy. In this instance we can only say - its a big part of the story and some of the characters so its maybe not the game for you before we all get stirred up and start deducing anyone is a phone of any kind IMO and what will or will not make them a better person.

I love me some Maria but accept shes a very controversial character as shes slutty, a handsy sex pest and a predator for trying to coax others into sexual activities they are often clearly not overtly comfortable with. Lets be real honest here - if she was a guy acting as she acts even i would be glowering at her suspecting NTR even if its always been made clear there will never be NTR in the game lol. She makes the game a more fun experience but shes an edge character ill give her that (creating scenarios where her cheerleader friends can be peeped on by hotel managers, hiding the receptionists clothes to grope her naked body, took control of Android against her will to try and have her fun with her, talk the maid into getting naked for strangers online and who can forget coaxing her rather impressionable friend into raping her crush whilst he was asleep haha.)

 

[Harem_Master]

I guess I am a simple guy, but as long as there aren't other dicks involved I don't really mind if the girls do things with each other.

So true! I've personally backed out of a Devil's 3-way, but 2 hetero girls with 1 guy is almost commonplace. Example:

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[QQP_Purple]

If I might be the devil's advocate for a moment...

No, I can't. Homophobia is a horrible thing and should be publicly called out and shamed. It actually surprises me there's still people with this mentality in 2021, but I suppose war isn't the only thing that never changes (mandatory dated reference).
You can dislike Maria, that's cool. You're well within your right to do so. Hell, she ain't my favorite either. But saying the game would be better if Maria didn't exist strikes me as the equivalent or squatting, spreading your cheeks and dropping a massive deuce on the dev's vision of what he wants the game to be.

I think pineapple on pizza and motion blur in video games are two of the most heinous creations of humankind, but I don't go around telling restaurants to change their menu, or devs to change their games, that's just dumb.
Use your inside voice, let it flow through you, see how it feels. It might make you a better person.

What does homophobia have to do with anything? Nobody is saying that homosexuls are bad or evil or what ever. All the guy is saying is that the events happening aren't coinciding with his romantic or sexual preference. And since this is a game centered around sex and romance with the primary goal being for the player to identify with the main character ones enjoyment of it will indeed depend heavily on if the events unfolding cater to or clash with ones romantic and sexual preferences.

There is nothing wrong with that. Nor is there anything wrong with levying constructive criticism on a product. Doubly so if said product is still in development and actively seeking money from people. When all criticism is shut down by people like you is when projects become echo chambers and things end badly indeed.

Now, that's not to say he is right or that the game should be changed or anything. But he is not wrong to speak his mind.
Nor does it mean I agree with his position, but again, not wrong to say it.

Than again I am of a wholly different kind my self. I mean, personally if I had my way I could honestly play this game with the sex turned off and loose very little since I genuinely just enjoy the harem plot. The complexities of the individual characters, the romance, their interactions and the way they grow and develop is what keeps me hooked to this game.


Finally, given how you scream phobia, you of all people should know that ones sexual and romantic preferences are not something one can choose or change but something one is born with. So maybe you shouldn't be so quick to judge people just because they were not born on your side of the issue.

 

[Leingod]

Even if we waive homophobia as a possible motivation entirely for a second, it still comes off as, I have to say, really fucking pathetic to be so dead-set against Maria having sexual encounters with other girls you're dating that it legitimately harms your experience of the game and you can't even stand to look at it, as the original poster expressed.

The idea that it's "like NTR" if two girls who are both getting regular dick from you and may even have been in threesomes with you already might sometimes fuck each other when you aren't around is so sad I can't help but laugh. How fucking shot is your self-esteem that you find it threatening to your manhood or whatever that the horny bisexual girl who has gone out of her way before to help you get your dick wet maybe wants to get in there, too?

And moreover, wow is it some really fucking dehumanizing shit to say that none of these girls you're fucking are allowed to have any intimacy with each other without your express fucking permission. I get that they're called your "harem," but maybe don't base your expectations for how that kind of relationship should work in this character-driven porn game on the behaviors of Chinese emperors and cult leaders. Only you are allowed to have sex not just outside of a relationship, but even with other people within the relationship? Maria is flat-out not allowed to have any sexual partner other than yourself, male or female, ever, while you're fucking random elf girl strays you picked up over in the shelter you built for them that she hasn't even met yet? That's some next-level Incel shit, I have to say.

It's one thing to just not be into girl/girl (I'm actually not super into it, myself, though I can still enjoy it), but if your reaction - to fictional characters in a porn game, it must be said - is so strong and vehement that it makes you close your eyes when Maria has sex with one of the many other girls your self-insert MC is regularly fucking because that legitimately feels "like NTR" to you, maybe you're the one with the problem.

So, you know, maybe do some soul-searching on exactly why you feel that way. Get some counseling, if you can. Or just go to 4chan and you'll find plenty of like-minded spergs to agree with you 100% and you can scream about "cuckshit" together.

 

[TheDevian]

There is no man that comes to book a stay at the hotel.

But, I thought you said Kali's dad was going to be the new girl?!?!?!

 

[Leingod]

I agree with pretty much everything you said, but I think you have the wrong impression of what playing the devil's advocate means.

I'm pretty sure they do have the right impression, because right after saying "If I could play devil's advocate" they follow it up with "No, I can't" and then proceed to not play Devil's Advocate.

 

[Oldtoothlessbasterd]

Some people need a thicker skin!, Or a brain!.
For reference I cant stand Futa, but not once have I suggested he remove the Futa scene from the game!.
(yes there is One and I deal with it!.)
If you don't like something that's fine, (you do you)
but you don't go demanding a creator remove Part of their vision/creation just to suit you!.
Its up to you to deal with what you see not anyone else ffs.!
If you cant stand seeing some types of scenes that's fine, but maybe put a bit of thought into what you download and play!.
Most games are tagged on this site with what sort of content the games have!,
maybe check the tags before downloading would be a good start!.

 

[QQP_Purple]

Am I the only one here who is objectively terrified at how some individuals have gone on a rabid assault on this guy for daring to state his opinion? I mean he just said he does not enjoy the game and explained why. And you people act as if he made statements claiming the presence of wild animals in your family tree.

Is this sort of rabid angry explosion at any criticism really the norm on this forum? I mean, seriously. I like this game a swell but you people are out for blood for anyone that says anything negative about it.

 

[wiseold6996]

What are pre releases?

 

[rambo455]

If I might be the devil's advocate for a moment...

No, I can't. Homophobia is a horrible thing and should be publicly called out and shamed. It actually surprises me there's still people with this mentality in 2021, but I suppose war isn't the only thing that never changes (mandatory dated reference).
You can dislike Maria, that's cool. You're well within your right to do so. Hell, she ain't my favorite either. But saying the game would be better if Maria didn't exist strikes me as the equivalent or squatting, spreading your cheeks and dropping a massive deuce on the dev's vision of what he wants the game to be.

I think pineapple on pizza and motion blur in video games are two of the most heinous creations of humankind, but I don't go around telling restaurants to change their menu, or devs to change their games, that's just dumb.
Use your inside voice, let it flow through you, see how it feels. It might make you a better person.

i can find reasons for the pineapple on pizza but motion blur? really ? only people i know that use motion blur are those with pc's so weak that it's improving the stability of the game as well as the fps. please explain why you like it as i can't think of a reason for that to be true at the moment.


as for whats been said about maria(backreading) yes to me it also sounds like it was rather homophonic i am in full support of the devs on that one.

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that maria is not my favorite however does not mean i do not like her. she has a good story line.

 

[Umbro]

Homophobia?

Y'all have way to much free time friends.