Ren'Py - Abandoned - Hero's Harem Guild [v0.1.2.3b Public] [Komisari]

I don't think I've ever played a game like this before, one that seems to drive such command of the Ren'py engine. The gameplay makes me forget like it's a fucking porn game. It's not grindy, and feels like it was made by a human who wants me to enjoy rather a sadistic asshole whos forcing me to grind my balls off so they can pad out play time.

On top of all of this, it's got great characters and a pretty decent story to boot. It's funny as hell, and has great character drama. It's times like these where I regret naming all of my protagonists in porn games Penisman. It's just a shame to see the update schedule for it, but unlike most games, I can see where the time and effort goes. I can't even imagine how painful waiting 3 years with just a prologue.

The game seems to have lost passion from the day it started.

The animations and renders are fine.

It offers a bit more story than just a porn game. Sometimes it hooks you in, other times it feels like a dragged-out event added just for the sake of an update.

For example, the character that doesn't speak at all... I'm not sure how that's a good idea. Even from the outset, it sounded bland. Fortunately, you just fuck her quickly and move on.

It has the typical blank protective MC, although it's expected for this target audience.

There are no choices that matter.

Many characters are undeveloped and probably won't be easily developed at this point.

The gameplay seems like it will be limited to the depth it's at now, functional but nothing special or complex. Since the game doesn't easily adapt to changes, it's hard to expect more out of it in the future.

It had potential that's a bit wasted now. I'm willing to improve the rating when the updates show back the spark it once had.

Lots of content so far and lots of girls. I tend to dislike sandbox games, but I tried this one since it was highly recommended. Many of the annoyances I have with sandbox is the insane amount of clicking needed to progress anything. This game provides upgrades you can enable to make it much easier.

That said, it still has one of the worst features in all of sandbox games: you have to navigate to your room and click your bed to end the day. I wish this mechanic was outlawed. Just put in a UI button at the top if you need user interaction to progress to the next day. That would remove having to navigate to the room, clicking the bed, clicking OK to the confirmation prompt.

Otherwise, I'm a big fan of the models, scenes, and animations. No complaints there, really.

There is nothing special but for some reason I was hooked from the beginning to the end.

Gameplay - 4/5 Solid sandbox with RPG elements.
Story and Characters. 4/5 Something on the level of hentai manga. Nothing special but keep you engaged the whole time. Characters are good, but sometimes they act too much defenseless.

H-Scenes - 3/5 This is the biggest problems of the games. But as I understand quality will improve on the next chapters (at least I hope it would) Sometimes it look to worse than usual Koikatsu gameplay. Sometimes it look fine.

I would recommend this game to those who looking for a fantasy harem game with decent gameplay.

It's a fun but sort of drawn out experience. Very story driven with fairly unique characters that try to subvert the usual tropes, so they have a little more depth than usual. Thankfully there is a nice hint/walkthrough system to avoid randomly clicking and hoping something new happens. Koikatsu is used pretty well here with a decent amount of animated scenes. The minigames are okay, nothing really special but they add a bit of flavor. There are also a few skill trees and a level system that I think is a nice idea and hopefully is expanded upon even more.

I think what stands out to me the most about this game is the UI and polish of the skill systems. While the harem side of the game takes a while to get going and IMO leaves a bit to be desired, the overall presentation of the game feels very professional. Seems like a fair amount of skilled programming has gone into HHG.

I just found this game so i'm not gonna talk about the developement time, i did however expect more content seeing the game has been around for a while.
As for the quality of the game, i think it's top tier.
I'm not the biggest fan of the anime style but i can't deny how good the game looks.
It has some chill background music and some sound effects which are a nice addition.
For a "prologue" the story and writing are good, overall light hearted so we'll see if it's gonna keep up with the future updates.
I really liked the sandbox, i didn't find it too grindy since i liked doing side activities for money, also i want every game from now on to allow you to head pat the girls.
There is good variety with the LI's and they all have a specific role so none of them feel like a third wheel.

9/10

Wow. The high rating on this one is really a mystery. Maybe a lot of people voted early on when this was new?

I checked this title out (largely due to the high ratings) and gave it a shot. Now I will admit, in the beginning it seems like there is a lot of potential. At first the story was pretty funny, there were a lot of scenes that I really liked (Luna the cat lady fighting with the drunk nurse whose name escapes me at the moment was funny as hell.) The various incidents with the builder idiots were also pretty funny.

However, over time you start to realize a few things. Number one, there is very little content and this game has been in dev for YEARS. You will very very quickly start hitting this "no more content for this character in this version" message on all the LIs. Number two, the writing and story suddenly goes to shit and makes very little sense. Right around the part where your 'family' comes to the new town, it seems like the dev maybe tried to outsource a bunch of the work and it shows... those scenes were very poorly done, they make so little sense and the writing becomes crap. I would bet money the dev wrote the beginning of the game then started outsourcing and... yeah it shows.

The graphics have their charm but the sex scenes are mostly a big let down; they need to do better detail and higher quality renders. Especially around the naughty bits. The LIs vaginas have about as much detail as a barbie doll.

Also, while the game tries to sell itself as a full game rather than just a VN, that falls very flat. All of the side activities/minigames etc. and the whole management of the guild is a joke. Fishing sucks. You will hurt your wrist and not really make any significant money by doing it. Gathering/foraging is also a joke. Sending the guild members out to work is a pain in the ass and again, very little yield. You need to constantly remember to call them back or you cannot access events because they are out 'working' for a few pennies that you don't really even need in the first place.

And let's not forget... as far as I can tell... there is no actual fucking combat in the game. Let that sink in for a minute. The 'hero' despite constantly being depicted with a sword and shield, never actually fights. All fighting occurs as part of the story, you don't really control it at all. I thought at some point you would start going out in a party with some of your guild members to fight enemies, but so far that does not seem to be the case.

SO SO SO MUCH WASTED POTENTIAL.

The game is fun and good. Characters are lovable and you can enjoy many scenes with them.I recommand this game if you like seing progress with everyone on your team. Good scenes, nice and fun story, lots of click but not too grindy

Really good! the only thing the dev should improve is how the vagina and anus interact with the dick in the scenes, it could be so much hotter if it was more polished

I also hated certain scenes that are POV and the camera shakes a lot

I can't make out my mind. Do I love it or do I find it boring? Well... something inbetween.

The development is fantastic, it looks gorgeous and it's a very vivid world. There were really emotional moments during the story and I felt very excited with plenty of the girls, but.... I think the MC lacks some edge. Feels like he should act somehow different with some of the girls or at least the situations. But I know the dev wants a different tone to it, and I respect that.

There were plenty of great laughs and smiles with this game, and that shows the talent of the people behind it. That alone makes it much more loveable rather than boring, and I think it easily deserves the 4/5.

I give three stars for now because I'm not sure if I like this game or not, everything seems perfect, but the MC, our character, is so evasive with girls, for example the girl falls on top of him and stares at his lips wanting to kiss him , he tells her to get up, she lays on his lap and then he makes her run away, he's taking a shower then a girl goes into the bathroom to help him feel better, take care of him, so he sends her away.... I don't think this is the normal kind of reaction from a guy... even more so by f9 standards or even if it matches my personality... it gets to be depressing or annoying... but the game and mechanics are perfect. .. I've never seen a game with this engine have so many mechanics and animations. each girl has a unique personality, they are beautiful and the story, although SUPER slow, is still engaging, so my only problem is with the mc, i'll send this game on my list and see how things will progress, but so far it's nice

First of all I want to say that this game is easily my favorite adult game and highly recommend it to anyone into adult visual novels


The characters in this game are absolutely amazing they all feel unique and different you can definitely see the time and effort put into creating characters. Lucy feels like such a well developed character and I hope to see more of her. I also like how Shino was changed in the snowy event changing up her design and her personality a little was just what she needed to become a amazing character. Jimmy is just a great overall character and is probably my favorite character overall

This game is not just a Harem game it has some amazing plot that had me interested all the way through I initially came just for the adult content but ended up staying for its amazing plot

The animations and scenes all look extremely good with the audio fitting them well and the audio just gets better in the snowy event

The humor in this game is very good. The event between Zack and Kiuta or the ice cream shop event in the snowy event were some of the only times I have ever laughed during a H game.

Overall this game is absolutely spectacular and I look forward to seeing it develop into a spectacular game

Slow, but eventually fap-able.

12 GB in size.

This is a "run-your-guild" game first, and a sex game second. You will spend some time doing guild related stuff & waiting, in order to advance with the girls.

The pacing is slow and it takes hours for you to get anything good (if you read everything). But it does pick up the pace later on.

The animations are really good and the game looks very pretty overall. Very impressive for a RenPy game.

99.9% of the time, when a game makes me laugh, it's a big smile and a chuckle. THIS game had me actually LOL-ing several times. The comedy is well-blended with the game engine (I suppose "great direction" is another way to say that).
I found the relationship development tuned amazingly. It's never so fast it feels like cheat mode, nor so slow it becomes an annoyance. AND while you have to grind it a little more in the beginning before you put skill points into faster relationship development, that's only while you're getting the lay of the land and learning the mechanics of the game - another bit of great direction.

I really used to like this game. A few years ago it definitely stood out for its quality. Even if the animations were generic ones that'd i'd see in dozens of koi games later. The characters are strong and interact well with each other. The designs are good. The events had a certain comedic timing that worked well with the anime aesthetic. It leaned into its tropes in a way that worked. The lewd content was good. Story wise it was a bit unplanned and unfocused. A few things didn't really make sense. The sandbox elements were a bit grindy but passable. One major issue was that a lot of stuff that should have been repeatable events simply never got added to the prologue. Some systems felt unfinished. But it was like definitely one of the better koi games.

Then two and a half years happened. Eventually the dev said the next chapter of the game would pause for a christmas update. The christmas update stretched from two months to five. And its not that good. The obvious problem is its a content update that, in the story, occurs after a bunch of stuff in chapter 1 has happened. Chapter 1 which is not released and will contain major story developments. So thats kind of a problem. That aside, is the snowy update... good? Well.. sort of.

The good:

• Characters got some visual upgrades and costume redesigns which are generally improvements.
• new visual and magical effects for action scenes which are kind of nice. Includes sound effects too which is always apprecaited.
• the dev changed how he draws mouths. The result is notably more cartoony but they're also significantly more expressive. It looks good generally but there's some renders where it draws a bit too much attention.
• lots of new lewd content
• some new characters that seem interesting
• old characters seem to have had real progression in their personalities or relationship with the MC
• a few of the scenes have that nice comedic timing that i genuinely enjoyed from some moments of the prologue
• voice acting in the lewds (feminine moaning, not dialogue) is a welcome addition but they need a bit more work to sound appropriate to the environment. I recall them sounding like they exist in an echochamber.

The bad:

• somehow, the game seems to have performance issues with the constant idle animations. Maybe you can blame it on renpy, maybe you can blame it on people's machines. I don't know how its possible. I've heard this is fixed now.
• Obviously the gigantic problem that whatever character and story developments happened, happened in unreleased content so half the time the game reads like "oh yeah remember when this big awesome cool important thing happened? That definitely happened." For the player, it hasn't happened.
• dialogue has this forced pause as the letters slowly get drawn on screen that makes it absolutely miserable. But like, its not used sparingly. Every line of dialogue has like three forced pauses. I think this had been patched?
• Visually its not all improvements. morning and nighttime effects have this terrible washed out look, which sort of conveys the exact opposite of what's intended.
• There's a new god awful terrible fishing minigame that is absolutely unplayable and I assume added about two months to the development time. Thankfully you're not required to play it.
• the start of the snowy content is incredibly slow and boring. There's like 50 frames of the MC walking around in the morning and drinking coffee, which then gets spilled on his clothes, so you have to run all over town to talk to someone to fix your clothes and get reintroduced to each of the characters (this part is fine).
• The main 'story' is about the MC not spending time with his harem so he can do something nice for them. The nice thing is a very tall pile of christmas gifts? Or something? The dev doesn't even try to explain it because its understood to basically be a self insert about not delivering a game update for years. Except then the point of the story is that everyone forgives the MC and they just want his company and time and attention rather than some gift. So it's a self insert where the dev writes all the LIs forgiving him for not delivering a game update. Which is maybe therapeutic to the dev but its pretty atrocious to make the actual story of an a major update.
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  . The one payoff is we get a joke about having a Christmas update in April, which I laughed at.
• There's two groups of lewds. The first group is like the normal ones that take place during the story. They're okay. Nothing special. The second group is the end-of-update lewds where you pick a Christmas Queen and have a special night with her. Except there's no event there. Just the lewd. Like.. black screen... lewd animations.. back to black again. Then like a final dialogue scene with the LI thats totally unconnected. These end-of-udpate lewds are much better, but the fact that they arne't connected to any kind of event contributes to the whole thing feeling unpolished or unfinished. I can't believe this is how the dev intended these to play out.
• Speaking of thing feeling unpolished, its unbelievable that the snowy update was delayed over three months and the dev couldn't find one person to read through his script and correct the grammar and spelling issues. Its like typical ESL-dev fare but like.. come on people are willing to do this for free its crazy for this to read like a first draft.

This game used to feel like something special. Not so much these days.

Note: I don't believe a complex opinion can be properly represented by a number but I do understand some people are impatient so I don't use the star system normally, my ratings are as follows. 1 don't recommend, 3 unsure please read review, 5 recommend.

Hero's Harem Guild is a conundrum. It's got good art, a good story, interesting characters and a gameplay loop that isn't completely terrible, and yet the problems with it are numerous and frustrating.

The story is a classic, ordinary guy becomes grand Moff Tarkin type shit, but it gets a lot of praise from me because the author understands how to write a story well within his medium. There is a lot of stuff that you as the player can pick up on despite going unsaid, how "hero's" in this world are, what happened years ago, what different characters are, and so on. It's refreshing getting the chance to use context clues to think and come to conclusions on my own as opposed to every piece of information you can imagine being shoved down the players throat and carefully explained. Unfortunately this also causes some inconsistencies.

Shino is a great example, she's the blonde with huge titties, she is established to be a drunk slut since you meet her wasted in a bar and she's the first one you actually have sex with. Okay cool, but then eventually it's established with a single scene that she's a mean drunk, I guess, then you're character acts as if this happens all the time and blows up on her. Her story line then becomes about redeeming herself for being a mean drunk? Which for the player, happened once, and why isn't her story about her quitting drinking? That would make way more sense. I understand through minimal research that this game has been in development for a long time and has gone through several changes and I assume one or several of those changes likely altered her story a bit so now it just feels inconsistent. Regardless the writing is very good especially for a porn game and even with these issues I still enjoyed it.

The gameplay is confusing to me, It's simple point and click kinda stuff, you can wonder around at different times of day clicking on women or flowers or fish to obtain items and what not, additionally you can also manage your guild members time by assigning them to parts of the map to do jobs, this gets your guild stuff, but why? This is the part I'm confused by why do all this stuff to obtain money? after you get all the money you need for upgrades and items why continue? As of right now the gameplay is just kind of in the way and has little bearing on anything other than as a way of obtaining the necessary funds to continue, which to be honest kinds just makes it annoying since the game is designed around you doing the gameplay constantly, I know this because after you level up each girl you need to wait 2 days before you do anything else which is annoying as fuck but the game in the current state has no need for all this repetitive ass gameplay when it does nothing for you, additionally there are skill trees for each thing you can do, you first need to unlock the respective skill tree in the skill tree skill tree, then half of them have a single thing to unlock WHY?!?!? The reason is that this 10+ hour experience is just the prologue of the game and there will presumably be more to come, I would argue however, that the entire prologue should be simplified and shorted if that's what it's meant to be, it's way too long and has way too much unnecessary shit going on for something that's meant to introduce the game/story.

One of the main reason's I don't outright recommend this game is because of how long it is verses how much sex there is, and how much of it is repeatable. There are 27 scenes both events and repeatable not counting the snowy days content, which we'll fucking talk about, and the Halloween event. 27 from 10+ hours might seem like a lot but when you consider the scenes are max like 2 minutes depending on the individual deciding the speed, that's 54 minutes of sex scenes out of more than 10 hours, less than 10% and again these numbers are approximates, for me it was probably more like 32 minutes. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if 90% of your porn game is not porn it's not a good porn game. What makes this even more confusing is that I have found out that the dev removed scenes from the game, I cannot fathom why you would do that unless those pixels some how guarantee a crash, I mean seriously even if you changed up characters and shit you can still have them in the game just make them non-cannon unlockables. It's the mentality of someone who doesn't recognize that they're making porn, well news flash you are, this is masturbatory material, I do not engage with what you have made with my pants on please just make the porn game have more porn.

The snowy event, Christ I hate this event. This just pisses me off and it's the thing that really cemented this my negativity toward this game. To explain a bit, the snowy event is a thing the dev made presumably for the Christmas season? where you run around and do Christmas stuff and fuck girls and fish, but where it all falls apart is that the dev made the event to take place AFTER the first chapter. Confused still? Oh well you see the first chapter isn't out yet, you can only play through the exceedingly long prologue at the moment so you finish that and load up the event and fucking every goddamn thing is different, I need to clarify right now that the developer makes it very clear upon loading it up that the snowy event takes place after chapter 1 and that the characters and relationships will be a bit different, what I didn't expect is how drastically different they are or how much different the characters that aren't even an option yet are. You spend the first day of the event looking for a girl you don't even know in the prologue WHAT? The dev claims this is simply a teaser for the first chapter, expect teasers tend not to take place at the fucking END of the chapter, the chapter that's being released in 3 parts might I add. Whats most frustrating though is the reason. I have no clue at all why you would make this event at all given how much work needs to be done on the first fucking chapter of the game, but if you're going to anyway, just for a mental break or whatever, then why not have it come after the prologue? That's because, "it doesn't make sense to make content for the prologue after the prologue" . . . . MOTHER FUCKER THE PROLOGUE IS THE ENTIRE FUCKING GAME AT THIS POINT!! AGGHHHHH AND AND THIS EVENT IS WHERE THE REST OF THE SEX SCENES ARE, HALF THE GALLERY IS IN THIS SPOILER FILLED EVENT!!!!

Okay now that I have said all that I will also be fair and tell you the dev does recognize that it was a mistake to make this event and he strives to do better in the future which is awesome and I want to commend that behavior, it takes a lot of humility to admit your mistakes and it makes me trust the dev will make this right eventually. However I am not reviewing the eventual product I am reviewing whats in front of me and what's in front of me is a game with great writing and also a game where 90% of it is long pointless gameplay with that last remaining 10% being the only real pornigraphic payoff. I think a lot of people will eventually enjoy this game when more of it comes out and is playable and I look forward to that, until then though, you can move on to gayer pastures

v0.1.2.3b Public

I really like the "code" part, the UI is really good but the actual game and story content is non existent. I have no idea what is 12 GB in this game, maybe all images in png format. The girls are kinda pretty but nothing more. There is no development in relationships, womens just want to fuck the MC for no reason(wtf). In a moment the MC behave like a virgin 12 years old, on the next he is the alpha male and repeat. The animations is stock not custom made, so they are meh... I give 2 stars for the UI, the other stuff is not my liking.

Great mechanics and animations/art. I really enjoy the progression system with the girls in the game, and the fact that not every milestone with them involves sex. Allows for tension and growth to build.

The character models are cute, that's where the good news ends. The writing is straight out of a shit tier anime, the English is poor and jarring, the animations (which I've seen tons of people comment positively on) are just generic animations you can buy. The grind is unreal and completely meaningless. There's nothing of substance here.. Best I can figure is that it plays into popular cliche's.

Normally for a game like this I'd say even if you just want to see the cute models having fun, give it a go, but even then I say skip this one. Even with cheats I wasted tons of time trying to progress the story.

Definitely above average
The animations are above average, Variety of character ,Interesting plot ,not much grind and the dialogue is also good (most of the time).
It has a few flaws here and there and the drama does pile on a little slavery,genocide,abuse,racism,prejudice we get it the world is bad.
But the Developer says he's been improving himself so let's hope 1 chapter will be even better