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

[TheDevian]

Damn, I'm kinda shocked at how Autumn is crushing the competition here. I guess it makes sense since she's the newest and therefore the least content but it's not even close. She has almost double the votes of the next closest girl.

Yeah, people are eager to unlock sex with her, but I am happy to see Kali is that next closest girl.

 

[freedom.call]

Yeah, people are eager to unlock sex with her, but I am happy to see Kali is that next closest girl.

I love her personality, not sure I would if this was real life though.

Running around naked in her family cafe with nasty words written on her skin, there's no way she's ready for sex! I am resigned to that fate.

 

[TheDevian]

I love her personality, not sure I would if this was real life though.

Running around naked in her family cafe with nasty words written on her skin, there's no way she's ready for sex! I am resigned to that fate.

She is pretty high on my list, even if it is not vaginal sex, any sex type scene with her would be something to look forward to, exhibitionism or not (even if I like those more). hehe
Maybe some fun ritual at her church or maybe the lobby... XD

 

[freedom.call]

She is pretty high on my list, even if it is not vaginal sex, any sex type scene with her would be something to look forward to, exhibitionism or not (even if I like those more). hehe
Maybe some fun ritual at her church or maybe the lobby... XD

Autumn and Kali are my top 2 atm, Lin used to make it a top 3 but she's....I dunno, got more important things to do.
Love the twins, Emma more than Fel I suppose.

Maybe easier to name who I don't really care much about....Vanessa and Kate.

 

[TheDevian]

Autumn and Kali are my top 2 atm, Lin used to make it a top 3 but she's....I dunno, got more important things to do.
Love the twins, Emma more than Fel I suppose.

Maybe easier to name who I don't really care much about....Vanessa and Kate.

IDK, with time, I think Vanessa can be almost as fun as Kali, similar kinks. lol XD

 

[freedom.call]

IDK, with time, I think Vanessa can be almost as fun as Kali, similar kinks. lol XD

You're such a romantic. I've got nothing against them, just not for me I guess. Kate seems to want to breed (all those hints and quizzes) and it feels weird that I don't like that. Vanessa is dominant and reckless imo, not my type.

 

[BudgetPro]

i was not expecting all this deep Lore in this game lol. call me pleasantly surprised

 

[Charlie78]

Hi!

At what date comes out the compressed version?

 

[c3p0]

Hi!

At what date comes out the compressed version?

At the date that someone here on the zone - or some other - make a compressed version of the game. Feel free to search for the compress game request thread and put your request there.

 

[Runey]

Why Lin's exhibitionism score not going up when I take her to cafe?

You have to click the Something Lewd option and do something lewd. Exhibitionism doesn't magically increase by taking them on a date.

Encountered a bug: went on date with Maria then she is in lobby. After it, she offered a blowjob, but animation isn't there: text is definitely progressing, but Maria just stand in the room.
On PC there is folder of Ashley bunny suit pictures, but there isn't a bunny suit for her. How can i got them?

This was fixed in v0.15.1

 

[Runey]

Wafe Thanks for the review, I just wanted to address a few things you mentioned.

However as time went on, they grew too far from their core. I can’t help but feel that this is a developer who has begun to outgrow their flagship game, and has begun to add more content with a different style that has begun to clash. While oddities such as elven slavery, or an AI girl were there early on, which at the time I thought was simply to catch more fetishes, their role in the story grew, and pulled the story with it.

All of a sudden, I’m involved in too much elven politics, or diatribes about mortality, AI, racism, and religion. This isn’t what I originally came here for. Had it always been like this, I at least would have set expectations, but it feels like the rug has been pulled from underneath. I keep wanting Maria to go back to being sexual, flirty, and fun, but with her new character arc, everything is changed, in way that seems out of nowhere.

The story has always been about this stuff, you just chose to ignore it earlier on since it wasn't the focus. You played Harem Hotel like a porn game, which is fine there is definitely plenty to do in that regard, but Harem Hotel is primarily a Visual Novel, not a fuckathon. To you the inclusion of a slave was sexual. To me it was a plot point. And to reiterate, it's fine to not care about that kind of thing in the story, but it also sounds like you may not care about Visual Novels in general, at least ones with semi-serious stories that aren't purely sexual.

Android’s arc, which has been self contained from Elven lore instead revolves around mortality, AI, grief, more racial discrimination, etc. I remember when the character still had a smile on their face and was learning about the world. Nowadays it grows more and more depressing, and less and less sexy. Seeing the cute nickname I gave her, and the name I had her call me only stings when she’s just crying in all the new scenes. Then when I go back to play a sex scene, which hasn’t expanded significantly in a long time, she goes back to the cheery demeanor of old, giving me a sense of whiplash, nostalgia, and longing.

Android was going through a story arc that lasted about 3 updates IIRC? That story arc ended in v0.14, and in v0.15 she had a wholesome happy event. I understand you don't like sad things, but this is how stories are meant to work. It can't just stay at the same thing, otherwise there is no progression.

But this isn't how her or anyone's story ever stays, and you seemed to have left out the end of her sad arc and beginning of her wholesome story in your review.

I plan on remaking all of Android's sex scenes in v0.16 and adding more as well. I can't add everything in one update, so it was pushed from v0.15 to v0.16

Lin’s arc, which connects to the other elves, features a long section where they got kidnapped and tortured, ruining any sense of fun or sexuality. Then there’s another section where the elves mention the MC’s mortality. But the MC should and has been a self insert power fantasy. This personality or lack there of hasn’t changed. It doesn’t need to. But all of a sudden the game changed. With how the MC was a power fantasy, why can’t he be essentially immortal? In fact that’s even a response you could give to Android when asked about it, if that hasn’t been changed. It dampens the mood, in ways that the player cannot influence, and in ways they didn’t expect.

They weren't tortured, they were imprisoned.

I would like to reiterate, if you're only here for a happy fuckathon game, this isn't it. It was never that.

The MC was also never a power fantasy. He can't be immortal because this is a story that takes itself seriously, with laws and rules. Again, this isn't a fuckathon game where you have infinite power, it never was. I honestly don't understand how you got that impression.

As the game progresses, my favorite characters have been the side characters, such as Hana, Lucia, Ellen, and Kate. Their stories are more compact, more sexual, more direct, and more in line with what I’ve come to know, rather than how the game is now. In fact I’d wish for a scene of Juliet, instead of Vanessa, who at first I liked, before the inevitable fixation on elven history.
In short, the game lost its joy.

From the moment Vanessa was introduced, she was fixated on elf stuff, that's a massive part of her character. I'm also pretty lost how you got that impression.

With each update, outside of small quests for Lucia, or Kate, or for now, the Twins, the game drifts towards a dark place. I’m convinced eventually we will lead direct revolt with the elves, as characters chastise us for ignoring elven slavery instead of sitting around in the hotel all day sleeping with the girls, as I was led to believe we were supposed to. For a game where the MC does and is supposed to treat his residents as a personal harem, as per the title, the game increasingly frowns upon sexual slavery. Maybe it’s okay for the MC if it’s sexual indentured servitude.
More and more, the sexual fixation that leads to playing this game to begin with is seen in a negative light. Jin, who at first was a light reminder of that, recently has her sexuality depicted as an addiction to be fixed, leading to the removal of a sex scene in the dungeon.

To reiterate, Harem Hotel isn't a game about sitting in your hotel all day and fucking the residents. The title of Harem Hotel is meant to tell you that there are multiple main characters you can fuck, and you own a hotel.

Jin absolutely does not have her sexuality depicted as an addiction to be fixed. It's the other way around. Her addiction to a drug causes many side effects, like losing her personality and becoming a sex object. She will be getting more sexual content in her new form and some in her old form as well.

Inspired by the twins, I had some of the girls call me daddy, only for Sylvia and Nia to react poorly to it, and seem disgusted at the idea of touching me at all. Wasn’t this an H game? Why am I made to feel guilty about behavior encouraged up until this point? The new focus of the game rips out the joy from the original premise. Recently Kali asks the MC if he has plans for moving on from the hotel to newer things, like more hotels or be some elven savior, and I was just shocked. Wasn’t that a little blatant? Soon the name will be just a relic, and at some point a false advertisement.

Your "original premise" was only one you came up with, not the one I intended. Nia and Sylvia are two people who are the last to want to be your slave.

This isn't actually an H game at all, it's an Adult Visual Novel. That is, a story with lewd content.

You're not meant to feel guilty for anything you do in Harem Hotel, and that Kali dialogue you mentioned wasn't that important. I'm pretty sure MC even states he does not want to move on or buy more hotels, so I am also confused where you got this from.

I love the game. I really do. I love the charm, I love the characters, the passion, and the joy. But with each patch the joy is lessened. Each patch the charm decreases, and the characters grow depressed. Each patch I grow more convinced the developer forgot what we came here for, and what the appeal was. Each patch I end up skipping more and more elven lore as I wait to see a heroine smile before I stop skipping.

To me it sounds like you fell in love with what you thought the game was about. I will never be able to match anyone's ideals of a perfect game except maybe my own. Harem Hotel was never meant to be just an H game, story is always something that has been in the game since day 1, and I will continue to expand it as well as the sexual content.

It’s been years of this. It’s been many patches since the notable drift from it’s heart. It seems too late to turn around, as more lewd or fun content falls behind in priority to lore. In old versions, a foursome with the Twins and Ashley would beg for a long scene that goes into the interpersonal relationships that led to it. Now it’s a random scene to fit a lewd quota. Now, when we fuck Vanessa, it’s packaged with a long lore dump, and some pointed questions about your beliefs on Elven politics, chastising you if you press the obvious “skip this I’m bored” button that the dev clearly put in there, possibly knowing.
Despite it all, I will continue to follow this game, out of memory, and connection to the characters, but each time, after initial joy, I grow disappointed when I realize how much it is drifting away from what I’ve come to know and love dearly.

Fair warning, the game will likely become completely unenjoyable to you soon. In your eyes, it will likely drift so far apart from "it's heart" that you will drop it.

I say this because the Twins and Ashley's foursome scene is a lot more in depth and bigger than the other things I used to give you. In Kali's early story, she would just say "Hey I want to suck your cock" and MC would say "Ok" and that's it. But you think that's better than the recent foursome? I'm afraid there is nothing I can do to please you more in this regard. At least, I don't know what that would be based on your words here.

It also seems like you don't want any story to go along with your sex at all, so this confuses me even more. If you just want sex, and that's it, Harem Hotel has never been the game for you. It's an Adult Visual Novel, story is very important in these types of games.

You're also not chastised for skipping lore. I put those options in there for people who don't care as much about the lore, it's fine to click that.

 

[SamShadow19]

Can I have a save pls?

 

[Bumblebee813]

Compressed version???

 

[c3p0]

Compressed version???

https://f95zone.to/search/185124927/?q=Compressed+version&t=post&c[thread]=12760&o=date
Help yourself

 

[shadowwolf123987]

When do I get to kill the Mayor/Felicity's dad, I mean he killed a cat, in the egyption times that was a death sentence lol

 

[TheDevian]

You're such a romantic. I've got nothing against them, just not for me I guess. Kate seems to want to breed (all those hints and quizzes) and it feels weird that I don't like that. Vanessa is dominant and reckless imo, not my type.

Yeah, I can kind of see that with Kate, but I plan to be wealthy, so more kids will be fine, they will help spread the love and respect for elves into the next generation...

As for Vanessa, while I agree with the reckless part, the fact that she likes to be tied up kind of shows that any 'dominant' part of her will melt away at the first opportunity.

 

[Forgotted]

Can I have a save pls?

Yes, they are all over this forum. Just use the search function.
That way you can grab one from most any point in the game.
Though It's also a fun game to play if you decide to go that route.
Best of luck!

 

[Runey]

Wafe Thanks for the review, I just wanted to address a few things you mentioned.



The story has always been about this stuff, you just chose to ignore it earlier on since it wasn't the focus. You played Harem Hotel like a porn game, which is fine there is definitely plenty to do in that regard, but Harem Hotel is primarily a Visual Novel, not a fuckathon. To you the inclusion of a slave was sexual. To me it was a plot point. And to reiterate, it's fine to not care about that kind of thing in the story, but it also sounds like you may not care about Visual Novels in general, at least ones with semi-serious stories that aren't purely sexual.



Android was going through a story arc that lasted about 3 updates IIRC? That story arc ended in v0.14, and in v0.15 she had a wholesome happy event. I understand you don't like sad things, but this is how stories are meant to work. It can't just stay at the same thing, otherwise there is no progression.

But this isn't how her or anyone's story ever stays, and you seemed to have left out the end of her sad arc and beginning of her wholesome story in your review.

I plan on remaking all of Android's sex scenes in v0.16 and adding more as well. I can't add everything in one update, so it was pushed from v0.15 to v0.16



They weren't tortured, they were imprisoned.

I would like to reiterate, if you're only here for a happy fuckathon game, this isn't it. It was never that.

The MC was also never a power fantasy. He can't be immortal because this is a story that takes itself seriously, with laws and rules. Again, this isn't a fuckathon game where you have infinite power, it never was. I honestly don't understand how you got that impression.




From the moment Vanessa was introduced, she was fixated on elf stuff, that's a massive part of her character. I'm also pretty lost how you got that impression.




To reiterate, Harem Hotel isn't a game about sitting in your hotel all day and fucking the residents. The title of Harem Hotel is meant to tell you that there are multiple main characters you can fuck, and you own a hotel.

Jin absolutely does not have her sexuality depicted as an addiction to be fixed. It's the other way around. Her addiction to a drug causes many side effects, like losing her personality and becoming a sex object. She will be getting more sexual content in her new form and some in her old form as well.



Your "original premise" was only one you came up with, not the one I intended. Nia and Sylvia are two people who are the last to want to be your slave.

This isn't actually an H game at all, it's an Adult Visual Novel. That is, a story with lewd content.

You're not meant to feel guilty for anything you do in Harem Hotel, and that Kali dialogue you mentioned wasn't that important. I'm pretty sure MC even states he does not want to move on or buy more hotels, so I am also confused where you got this from.



To me it sounds like you fell in love with what you thought the game was about. I will never be able to match anyone's ideals of a perfect game except maybe my own. Harem Hotel was never meant to be just an H game, story is always something that has been in the game since day 1, and I will continue to expand it as well as the sexual content.



Fair warning, the game will likely become completely unenjoyable to you soon. In your eyes, it will likely drift so far apart from "it's heart" that you will drop it.

I say this because the Twins and Ashley's foursome scene is a lot more in depth and bigger than the other things I used to give you. In Kali's early story, she would just say "Hey I want to suck your cock" and MC would say "Ok" and that's it. But you think that's better than the recent foursome? I'm afraid there is nothing I can do to please you more in this regard. At least, I don't know what that would be based on your words here.

It also seems like you don't want any story to go along with your sex at all, so this confuses me even more. If you just want sex, and that's it, Harem Hotel has never been the game for you. It's an Adult Visual Novel, story is very important in these types of games.

You're also not chastised for skipping lore. I put those options in there for people who don't care as much about the lore, it's fine to click that.

Instead of responding, he just updated his review saying I told him "he was wrong", which I didn't do, and gave me an even lower rating...

 

[freedom.call]

As for Vanessa, while I agree with the reckless part, the fact that she likes to be tied up kind of shows that any 'dominant' part of her will melt away at the first opportunity.

Yeah sorry I meant more like a 'take charge' personality. Dragging the poor MC ($590) around town.

 

[Evil13]

Kinda wishing we could facepalm reviews.