Ren'Py - Holiday Island [v0.5.0.1] [darkhound1]

Gameplay:
Daily sandbox
The game consist of doing various actions in the day throughout the island. It can be to increase your stats, girls stats, or do activities that will trigger a scene, if conditions are met. There is a quest guide that is very useful (and necessary) to follow. The content is massive (as are the chests), there are a lot of things to do. But it takes time, a lot of time, through repetitive actions.

Story:
The pitch is quite silly, you win a lottery to be on an island with only (very busty) girls that seems to be also quite horny. There is some mystery behind this, that has to be unraveled. This pitch allow to create various scenes in various places (beach, pool, gym, nightbar) with the girls. A lot of scenes are kinda similar with different girls. A few events advance the underlying story arc, depending if you meet requirements and trigger them correctly. While the writing is correct, it feels quickly repetitive.

Graphics/Animation:
This is high quality renderings. I hope you like big tits, because there is only that. Also, you have a few animations, but they are not so elaborate. And yeah, there are muscular monstrosities also (oh god, it's ugly, like a chihuaha head on top of a belgian sheperd, challenging wank).

Sound/Music
Background music is good, although you may hear them a lot. Also, there are good sounds for the girls.

Overall impression:
Although I was not very thrilled by the massive tits, the game was quite interesting in the first phase. You have to build up, and you chase girls and unlock some content, the context is interesting. But to advance at some point, things start to get annoyingly complicated and lengthy. And also messy. Some scenes triggered referencing to events that didn't took place already. You may have to repeat 3 times the same scene to advance, waiting for a message to trigger the scene, that can take a week in game's time.
Without a guide, it's impossible. But even with the guide, it's hard to understand how to make progress. So, it quickly becomes repetitive, and kinda grindy.

Easily one of the best games on the site, but not without peculiarities, which is what I'll start with, in order of importance.
First, there's a good bit of grind. There's a lot of titillation during it, and it helps increase the burn, and if you like seeing Numbers Go Up, that part works, too. So for some of us, this isn't much of an issue. Basic RenPy cheats also work. Some of the scenes are also difficult to reach or hidden, but there's a guide as well.
Second, while there is a photo gallery, there's no scene replayer. If you want to see a scene again, you usually have to remember to save manually first. Luckily saves are infinite. Also, remember that you can roll back before saving if you come upon a scene unawares.
Third, while body types, preferences, and positions do vary, they don't hit every fetish imaginable, and to some will probably seem fairly vanilla. The MC and most of the girls have breast expansion fetish, but that's about it. As such, there will be no girls with less than a C cup, either. Similarly, the girls' backgrounds don't vary a *ton*, they're all essentially professional models, so don't expect a librarian.
Fourth, some of the bits (like conversations) are randomized, and the fact that each girl chooses from (mostly?) the same list can make them seem flat and samey, at least early on when convos is all you have to work with. Later on it just seems incongruent.
Last, since development has been ongoing for quite a while, some scenes are at different resolution than others and some assets are better than others. I find it noticeable, but not too distracting, but I've been playing from the beginning, so ymmv.

IMO, however, all of those are minor. So why *should* you play it?
First, obviously, the girls. There are a lot of them, they do have different and interesting personalities, histories, and secrets, the renders are quite pretty, and there's a lot of variation as long as you keep to "conventionally beautiful".
Second, obviously, the scenes. The writing is well done here, doesn't get too wordy, and consists of much more than "ooh", "ahh". Flavor text is important to me, and here it's sometimes hotter than the (already great!) pictures.
Third, speaking of pictures, the renders are really, really good. One of the best and hottest I've ever seen. There are animations, though they aren't everywhere you might expect, and I personally find them somewhat distracting anyway, but the static pics are tremendous.
Fourth, the gameplay loop of finding ways to increase stats efficiently, then doing so for each of the girls on the island separately while they move around, plus improving your own stats is actually done really well. It does get old, but I was personally pretty enthralled by this alone to start with. It also doesn't really matter how efficient you are, since the time limits have been removed, so if you don't like this aspect, you can ignore efficiency. But I kind of like challenging myself to do as much as I can in as short a window as possible.
Achievements abound, are separated and sorted in a mostly logical manner, and have obvious pics upon achievement, plus hints on how to get there. If that isn't enough, the guide is also quite helpful.

You may also like the story. There's some amount of mystery ("*why* am I here?") as well as individual girls' stories, but since the story isn't yet finished, the bits are few and far between, and it's IMHO fairly easy to guess, I personally don't consider it a huge draw.

Love the game! I will personally be following darkhound1, duckswim, and other contributors for anything else they put out in the future.

The graphics of this game are well done. The dev makes good on the "big tits" tag -- none of the women have breasts smaller than DD, and most are much larger. I prefer more variety and realism, but I don't include that in my rating here. My complaints about this game have to do with the amount of grind and the slowness of progress, even with women with whom the MC has developed 100% affection and love. It takes hours of going through the same routines in order to make any progress, and while there is a certain amount of eye candy included, it isn't long before it gets to be boring. I played this game some earlier in its development, and just tried it again, only to find that, even with the cheat mod installed, it's still a long slow grind. I won't be downloading it again.

The art is quite good and the character looks improve every time he introduces a new character. The gameplay can be confusing. I think several of the events have some sort of percentage chance of happening rather than, you do certain things and you get certain outcomes. But, regardless, I'll be downloading the latest build.

I've been playing this game for some time now, and I'm thrilled. The great female characters, in particular, are really sexy, especially as I seem to have the same preferences as “Darkhound”, the creator of this game. Women with really big tits.

The graphics are great. I wish the women were a bit more aggressive with each other and not always so disgustingly nice. I also sometimes wish the MC were a bit more aggressive and less of a simp.

The original reason I started the game was the chance of a titfight event, which actually took place. But again, unfortunately too mild and not enough. But still good enough.

Since version 0.5, there is so much content in the game that it never gets boring. Even if there are often repetitions, which are sometimes a bit annoying. It is also not always easy to achieve the goals, i.e., to have sex with the great women, you have to play the game properly and endure many repetitions. There is a “Companion Guide” and also a “Companion Mod”, both of which can be downloaded here at F95Zone. I definitely recommend reading the guide, even if not all questions are answered here. The mod is helpful but not absolutely necessary. In any case, you should always read everything that is said and displayed in the game carefully to make progress.

I recommend the game to everyone.

This is a beautifully drawn game with believable characters and a bit of sci-fi. The premise is a bit absurd, but it makes you want to aid science and for science to make you moan. I just hope at the end you find yourself not wanting to leave and for Joy to be your long lost aunt.

I like it, but I hate it. I think..?
It's better than 90% of games that are present on F95 and I thoroughly enjoy it, but that said I do have take issue with a few things so here's my 3 Good, 3 Mid and 3 Terrible bits of the game.

5/5 Character Models.
5/5 Original Story.
5/5 Overall Graphical Presentation.

3/5 Sex Scenes. Like before the character models are great, but 5 frame gifs don't make a scene. Unwankable, but still hot'ish.
3/5 Individual NPCs. They feel pretty copy-paste personality wise.
3/5 Mini-Games. I mean at least you let me cheat my way past poker somewhat.

1/5 Intuitive Menus and Systems. Completing this game without a Guide will never happen.
1/5 Convenient Scheduling for NPCs, takes forever to get someone alone at the pool for instance and then for some dumb reason the event won't trigger anyway. 50+ attempts to put sun lotion on Jessica and I figured she might as well go home and make room for someone else.
1/5 Intuitive Story-Progression. If for some reason you don't run on the beach, at the right time of day, after a specific day and roll appropriate RNG, you will never progress the story. Only have other quests tell you that you need to visit an underground lab before you can progress. I get that there is a guide, but lets be real, even searching the guide doesn't make it explicitly clear. You gotta read the whole thing if you wanna make sure to not miss something. Oh and it's on page 118 and is called "Secret Lab" not "Underground Lab" hence searching for it is pointless.

One of my favorite games on this site.

Some might not like the fact that you have to earn the sex scenes through having correct combinations of stats/outfits/etc, but the scenes are mostly excellent. I personally wish there were more PoV animations, but that's a personal taste thing. This is a top tier quality game overall.

This is probably the best 'harem sandbox' game in the site. Some people may have issues with the body shape 90% of the girls have, but that's not me so I have no complaints there. The game, with or without mods takes DAYS to complete, and it's extremely worth it. It probably has the largest amount of events in any sandbox, and the content itself is good at worst, with some great scenes sprinkled in between.

I think this is the best game we have on F95zone, but the story gets monotonous after a while and the women's bodies are a bit disproportionate, but the type of game, the progression and the amount of different events is fantastic. I think you need to speed up the progression in the game and help players unlock new interactions by marking the dialogues in which the paths have already been exhausted and those that still have things to be explored. Other than that, the game is fantastic.

Only thing is that without any mods or guides, the game is a long grind where you're it doesn't seem to give a whole lot of hints as to what to do, who to talk to/date or how to do those things, nor unlock new girls. Maybe Ive gotten used to things being more linear lately. So, I still give it five stars

Everything is great. The art style might seem bimbo heavy (and it is) but if the looks interest you; you will enjoy it. The gameplay loop is good and rewarding (on the slightly longer side). To me it has a great balance seeing what you wanna see, and progressing the game futher to see more goodies. But if you must have great animations in ur preferred games. Then maybe hold off, but still give it a try if it interreges you.

Holiday Island is one of those games that made me play it more than I should have, because once I get the mechanics of the game I tend to just leave it aside and move on. But in this case, there was something about the fact of seeing these women all the time, in diff situations, being provocative to you 24/7...

Very Grindy , Bad Reward Balance , Not worth your time at all this Game.
This is how to not develop a sandbox game. What a freaking boring grind with so much annoying stuff to do. After hours of boring gameplay i switched to cheats and could trigger 1 animation which was also a bad animation. Why ppl rate this Game to 4 Stars.?

Love me boring stat grind with unrewarding progression. Thing is, even if you were to remove stats all together, you'd still be wandering around screens aimlessly, just wasting your time. The women are all about the same with no substantial difference between them. Sex scenes are spread remarkably thin throughout the play-time. And the animations are way below average.
Non recommandé.

Everyone is a bimbo, big tit slut. the only variety are the body types! That is it! the animations are very choppy and most of the renders are not good enough! the dev KEEPS saying with EVERY update that he has "updated" some renders but whenever i replay, every start is literally the same, and yes, i have compared multiple versions of the game together. the initial 1 hour of playtime will look exactly the same quality no matter the version! what is updated??? its very frustrating! and i don't understand why no one else has called this out!!! So it loses a star because of this.

This game could have been much better with more realistic breasts... or if we could at least adjust the girls' bust. I tried to play it, but good god the tits are just too big and ruins them.
At least they're not fat and old or ugly, so + for that. Sad that I even think to say that...
Also, its a pain to progress them. Even with a cheat there's hidden stuff you won't know to do without a WT.
It gets a 3 from me only because I like the gameplay concept and want more of them. I miss Summer Job
Next time, let us customize body shape. We need this in way more games.

Nothing too great, the UI is ugly and feels like it's out of the 90s just low quality and ugly, I do realize now however after paying attention that its a game from 2017 so I guess that makes sense and can be overlooked.

The girls are not that great with almost all them having the bimbo look without any strong characteristics that set them apart too much, and they can be close to uncanny valley rather easily as well, the titties in the game are way too big and a bit ridiculous, but I guess that’s the theme of the game so I can’t speak too much on that.

The actual game-play is pure torture with nothing interesting actually making you go through it very repetitive and uninteresting, I'm guessing the author was trying to make it a little less straight to the chase and more realistic but it’s ridiculous how bad the loop is. Insane amounts of text with the dialogue being very lame feeling like its from a bad porn scene, the sex scenes are also dreadful I was waiting patiently to reach a nice scene only to be absolutely disappointed with how bad they were.

There is no way to even play this without the cheats/mods to alter the girls stats otherwise you will lose your mind playing this, and all for what is ultimately a very mediocre game, hard pass.

Insane grind without cheats, but the models are solid, and there are some really fun mechanics. The most unfortunate thing is that there seems to be an issue with the trophies in game, the contest trophies disappear regularly, so it's impossible to keep track of my favorite idea in the game.

-Boring Mc with zero depth
- The girls all have the same personality with that make you fall asleep
- Most of this game is just grinding for multiple hours and days to increase your stats and the girls affection etc and most of the time its not even rewarding because all they do is tease the mc and show cleavage and thats it.

The only good thing about this game are the models, the other stuff just have no thought put into them.