Others - Haremon [v0.39.1.1] [TsunAmie]

I want to love this game, the art looks amazing and it has a good soundtracks BUT:
combat is fucking disgusting, there's lots of qtes that require lightning fast reflexes and at the same time drag battles forever
It takes forever to grind abilites and most items dont even have descriptions about them
The H scenes are few and take forever to unlock, they also contain a ton of text and NO animation at all
The game is build on a roulette system where you have to be lucky in almost every activity in game, this leads to having to scumsave all the time
You cant save and load from the esc screen, you can only do it on your phone, so if you get into a battle or some event that drags forever the best way to load the game is to alt f4 then open it again

I really want to like the game, but it has zero respect for players and their time. They are trying to make something ultra complex instead of making a full game that I have to wonder if this game's final version will ever be released at all

+ beautiful looking game
+ cute girls
- combat is too slow and complicated. we are talking old school here.
- every attack and defense in combat is a QTE. i hate those.
- very grindy
- lose save between upgrades
- whenever you are given a choice you get a 5 second timer before it just automatically chooses a random answer.
This is extremely annoying. As it does not give you enough time to read.
This is especially an issue in dungeons where instead of showing you, they tell you. You need to read through an old school text description of what you can see in each direction. But there is no time to read because you only have 5 seconds to choose.

I will just say that I love this game. The artwork is amazing, the characters are enjoyable with believable dialogue, and the combat system is really fun. Each character feels like a real person and has great artwork to go along with them. The dating system could be a bit better, but the enjoyability is still very high.

Possibly the worst game i know, when it comes to fighting mechanics and gameplay.

Its interesting game, but seriously? WHICH IDIOT had the idea to make the opponents, attacks and defense like an game itself? How can it be that there are people out there liking this shit?

Unstable with terrible combat in a terrible engine.
The worst of both worlds baybeh.
Expects people might want to use controller on launch cause that's a thing for a vn.... not, and a restricted to sometimes save system is an odd choice...

Like for real this is an example as to why most people stick to known engines like renpy since even the most unstable of their games is generally able to be patchworked back together with 0 skill.

Great game, really well put together, appreciate the voice acting and the art in this, really cool concept and transpires a lot of personality. I'm looking foward to seeing more, also great UI <3. Even the grind is tolerable because everything seems to be made with care, good luck to y'all

I quite like the game. The dungeon combat is hard but I play DD so its cool by me. The reason behind why I give 4 stars and not 5 is because there are still some major issues with QoL such as mission system or some bugs. Can be a 5 star in the future updates though

For what the game is only being 30% done its honestly a great game. Most of the negative reviews are people having pc problems or dont like the combat. for a game thats only 30% done the story and characters are great.

I live this! Addictive, good gameplay and graphics! Maybe you can add more interraction with girls but i can wait for more content ! i recommand this ! If you have some times to spend on it you can go !

This would be a great game if only everything wasn't designed to waste your time. the great artwork, cute girls, voicework, nice music cant pull this one out of the dumpster.
ive never seen a game where the gameplay and combat ruin it to such a extent.
ive spent 5 hours on it and the only thing i got was a headache and i used cheats.

STAY AWAY from this game

The art is top tier, and the vast majority of the mechanics are interesting. I like the random events, and I like the wheels to spin. Coupled with a gift system and date system the game seems like a shoe in for 5 stars right?

Unfortunately the battle system, which a lot of people echo here, is very hit or miss. Not just in whether you like or love the quick time for EVERY attack and defense, but that attacks may fail even if you hit the quick time event. Cool, I guess.

The huge sprites on the side also leave a lot to be desired on the battle system. I think if they just shrank the sprites, and made it Darkest Dungeon-esque in terms of size and speed it'd be amazing. That said, a lot of people seem to really like the game as is so perhaps I'm the odd man out here.

But, even with how much I strongly dislike the battle system, I still pledged and played it. The game could honestly give me math problems as a battle system and I'd still give it 3 stars since the rest of the game is just that damn good. And I think that's why a lot of the ratings are so divisive, since everyone (Me included) wonders how amazing this game could be with a revamped battle system.

Could be such a great game: the story and concept are interesting, the art is good...
But, is SO INCREDIBLY ANNOYING, that's just unplayable...
Everything is sooo slooow, lots of useless and time consuming animations, random boring events, titles, fadings and cut scenes...
Also: timed choices, UGH!!!
The engine is not the best either...
And then, to make it absolutely unbearable, there's the HORRENDOUS minigames and battle system.... Timed keys combos, REALLY...?
And yet more time wasting, action waiting times, useless slow animations, each action is explained and subtitled...
A shame, really ... Complete waste of potential...

The game potential is just amazing. Art, idea, voiced... however there is also the combat system.

As much as i respect its originality it's insanely hard. I did multiple tries, however starting with the second area the odds are heavily stacked against the player and i was unable to even progress any further. Also, despite the fact this is a porn game, losing battle as two cute girls to a tentacle monster means game over... and without any animation!

In the same fashion, as i don't request Dark Souls to have erotic neko girls, i dont expect game from F95 to force me to tryhard.

If you ever release any other game, with the same quality of graphic i am your man. But i will hard pass on this, sorry.

Btw character missing every second spell and still calling ME an idiot is really doesn't help to the overall experience.

This is a high quality game, high quality UI, high quality art... Then why a 1 star rating?

Because the more I play this game, the more it feels that the developer actively hates the player. From constant subtle insults to the player in the dialog to some of the worst RNG and Grind based combat.

I've played some really bad, low quality game, but I'd recommend most of them before this game.

first off, the story, the CG's and the level the game is made at is at a 5 star level.

the reason i am only giving it 3 stars is some of the game mechanics that are horribel.

combat: (quicktime events)
a lot of the combat moves are quicktime events,where you have to hit the right keys "z,x,c,v" at the right time for a bonus, or if you are getting attacked, you take less damages. The Quick events when i play are too fast.

loot and random events: (quicktime events)
once more this is quitime events where you can improve your changes of getting good stuff and avoid bad stuff. the events are too fast.

Harem: (not so much)
for some bloody reason you have to pick a lover that you then get exclusive scenes with. and if you want to see the "exclusive" scenes with the other Haremons you have to break up with your "former lover" and then "declare your love" for the next one.

What is the point of playing pokemon/haremon where i can't catch them all !
and live out my little boy fantasy, and if you cant tell, i still cant fantom the fact that there is a monogamy system in a harem game !

After playing for about 10 hours, it's obvious that a lot of work went into Haremon. However, the most glaring problem is that the combat really feels like a slog after a while. There's an interesting mechanic involving stances that adds a bit of uniqueness, but overall I'm not a fan of the slow-paced, tedious nature of turn-based combat and this game is a good example of why.

Besides the opening scenes and a few nudes sent to you by characters over the course of the game, it's not particularly easy to unlock h-scenes. Also, evidently (going by the gallery) there are seasonal events/costumes/scenes that require you to play the game during certain parts of the year -- I don't think I've ever seen that in a hentai game, or really anything outside of an MMO. It's a unique design decision that I'm not really sure makes sense, but I'm assuming you can just mess with your computer's system clock if you don't want to wait months to unlock a CG.

The art and writing are both pretty good. I like the idea. Just too much focus on tedious combat and grinding to unlock a handful of scenes.

The combat completely kills this game, you can be doing great in a fight and then get RNG'd into oblivion so quickly it gives you whiplash. The general idea of the game is great, the art is great and the story is great. If it wasn't for the painfully slow RNG heavy combat system this game would easily be 4 stars.

Fantastic art and interesting gameplay. I can't understand why this was rated at only 3 stars, I had a great time with it and there's still more to come. This game will continue to be near the top of my H game list for quite some time.

Art is nice and the writing is funny BUT: The combat is unintuitive and horrid, the difficulty spikes and unforgiving random deaths kill this game. A major rebalance may save it, but as it is I would not recommend it.

Having played a much earlier version of this game I was enamoured and very excited for more content to be released. So much so, I even supported it on patreon. As I wanted a good amount of new content to chew on, I waited a while and just yesterday finally caved. Sadly, back when I first played there were a few issues and it seems they've only leaned into these.

Haremon is a game of both incredibly smart design choices and ridiculously frustrating ones. The game is an absolute time-sink firstly; not in a good way, with the encounter system being the predominant culprit. There's some great ideas present here, with moves that increase "pleasure" of opponents and then upon hitting a monsters threshold allowing you to use manipulation abilities. There's more generic yet still interesting and flavourful rpg mechanics for abilities. Unfortunately the method to which you use the "manipulation" abilities (and if you want to get anywhere, you have to) is so laboriously slow and rng dependant initially that it's not unreasonable to believe most players will never even play long enough to use it. Mix with this that the combat abilities for some reason have varied QTE's, while it's hilarious you can get a "perfect miss" it's only because it's so counter-intuitive.

The devs are clearly holding back on releasing their favourite monstergirl; dice-chan. The giant, unbridled erection these lads have for rng is quite astonishing to witness. There's very few options in the game that aren't taken out of player's hands. While this isn't a total negative on all fronts, it gets discouraging and feels without warrant in the vast majority of cases.

Where the game shines is the art and writing, though even with the latter there's again a forced timer to either the most innocuous or poignant queries/responses the game gives you. They're also varied in length, resulting in sometimes having to speed read and hope you get the gist then buckle up for 50/50 get punished or rewarded.

The character sprites are incredibly charismatic though maybe a little familiar to one another. They've done wonders having such subtle yet deviously clever animations to hit a sweet spot between emotive responses and efficiency to craft the scenes. Every characters dialogue feels very tailor made while they're brazenly tropes at the introduction, some of them become much more than that. The MC is your typical faceless moron, with responses really narrowed-down to over-sharing doormat or sociopath who's an asshole for kicks. At least you get a choice.

Had I reviewed the game on my first playthrough (something like version 0.11) I would of given a 4/5, but it feels like it's gone such a clunky, awkward direction. It's hard to justify spending so long to get to a point where you can actually start playing the game in a "fun?" manner. Even once you get past the first few ventures; still you have to put up with rng at every turn and encounters that you get used to so fast it'll send you to sleep, yet they'll force you awake with QTE's, which only has the purpose to annoy I can assume. The inventory system is also a nightmare, but there's a lot to the game and you could write a couple pages about each one. Really it's just frustrating to see so much potential be mired by obstinate adherence to some design philosophy that simply doesn't enhance the game and therefore only detracts. 2/5 is maybe a tad unfair, but I really think only a specific kind of player will enjoy this game and that's if they can get past the appalling first chapter.

tl;dr: Dice-chan will fuck you hard, just not in the way you want. Mixture of greatness and failures.