Ren'Py - Harem Idol [1.0 Bugfix] [Akihiru Harem]

Game version: 0.1

Macro-transactions aka "Buy Patron to skip ridiculous hours of grind"

This should be the title of this game

The game mechanic is: Work to get money, use money to buy popularity, "pay" with popularity to progress with the busty women.
In order to earn more than 600 creds, you will have to unlock Patron's content.
"Turn every move into profit, gain 10.000, but.. You must become input Patron code first to unlock this.." (Yes, this is literally quoted from inside the game!)
There a 3 locations to earn money, 2 of them are paywalled.

This. is. BS.

So this game has terrible mechanics that are by design meant to be annoying that can be solved by paying for the solution. This is the worse predatory form of monetization possible. Create the problem for the player and then charge them for the solution.

The core game loop of make money to buy control through gifts and lust through turning cash into popularity is 100% a pointless grind designed to waste your time as the player. You then use that cash to open up "access" to events. The events drip content to the player and if you try to skip your way through the boring ass story and mechanics the game PUNISHES you by making you answer 5 multiple choice questions that can be skipped if you are a patron buy buying tickets at the gift store but they don't show up if you are not a patron.

The sex? as far as i can tell there is no sex yet because the events are created in such away to drip out the content slowly. Everything about this game isn't designed for you to enjoy the experience but to be annoyed by the experience. Not sure why devs think ANNOYING their customer base is a winning strategy.

This isn't worth the download. It isn't worth the time sink and it isn't worth the sex scenes. There could be sex hidden with one of the events but after doing this for three of the women and all ending their content with a tease. I was done especially when the core mechanic is click button to get cash to do anything but you have to do a job that requires you to click multiple times to get cash and the amount you get isn't even enough to get one thing in the store.

When you actively make you mechanics to annoy the player and sell solutions to the problems you create you are not the good guy dev. You are in fact the bad guy.

This is so lazy game. Sad to see how people who know how to draw characters (except breast) is too lazy for a good game, but people who create good game is too lazy to take better models.
I hope that soon we will see really cool game somewhere