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

i love that game ! i still dont finish all the things i can do in it , but i really want to do that one when he will be finished . if you have things i should know in that game , something i cant miss , let me know

Really wanted to love this game, the models are perfect and the setting is intruiging. Unfortunately it is a complete mess in my opinion, the writing is poor and there are too many mechanics and its definately not a fap game. Difficult to think of a more blue-balled experience I've had on the site. Even the mod just complicates things. Needs a stripped down, simplified rethink.

Still, the models are beautiful and very alluring, I suspect I will be making repeated attempts to "play" in the future. I really hope the project grows.

This game is just hilariously bad. The dialogue is terrible, which is sad because there are so many people doing fan writing that this could be so easily fixed by having them do the writing for the main game. The characters are all the same with minor differences, the main character has the social skills of a third grader, the animations look like they were made by someone who has had sex described to them but never seen it in person, the character's bodies don't match the way they're described in the text, the gameplay is stale and tedious and will be infuriating after about an hour. There's scenes in there where the MC gets girls pass out drunk, drugs their drinks, and then rapes them. No warning. It's pretty cringe. Patches take forever as I think there's only one person working on it so you can expect any issues with the game will not be fixed quickly if ever.

Great game!!I would to see the following as an update(s) or a mod(s):
A setting that turns girls in to Futa (u could be able to choose which girls)
A way to costumize their body:for example the more time u spend on the gym with a girl the more musclular she gets...or the more time u spend with a girl eating she becoms fatter
Breast/ass implants for girl to buy
sry for my english peace <3

This is a good one, by looking into some of the comments I was worried that the game didn't had much content but thay us far from the truth. The developer is regularly updating the gane nand there is a ton of content to play with. The girls are beautiful and interesting, even the grind stuff of the game wasn't too bad. If I had any complaint is some of the animations don't look too polished and smooth, sometimes you have a really smooth and good animation and then you have a stuff and awkward animation. Overall I'm having fun and looking forward to see what the future updates add to the game. Hopefully we will get more content with Aly and Yumiko.

Summary: this game is tedious, awkward, and grindy as a middle school dance with no chaperones.

Gameplay consists of running around appealing to the whims of silicon breasts sized somewhere between generous and monstrous, who seem to make up some kind of hive mind of slight deviations from the same personality. Occasionally, there are hints at some grand corporate scheme by the bust-in-chief, but nothing makes sense and attempting to disentangle it will only make you dumber.

Look, characters and story aren't everyone's bag, but if that's the case then why waste everyone's time with writing all of this? This game has the depth of a kiddie pool and the diameter of a lake, and the devs have chosen to make the player traverse the latter on foot.

I started to play with AVNs back in 2017. This was one of the first games I have tried. Then it stood out with its quality visuals(compared to other games). Other than that it was grindy and rather shallow on content. 5 years have passed. I have tried it again. I have to say this one matured rather well. It is still grindy(but manageable with a good guide), but has now a LOT of content. There are not many sex scenes still(man, after 5 years, one would expect, don't know...more) and the ones done, are rather lackluster, (like eg. one pose from the back with 0 camera angles to view the girl, not just her ass) but it concerns just some girls, has a lot of quality lewd content to make he player want to grind for them. So all in all it is like a huge amusement park for pervs, and really it has quite a bit of content to grind out, even if some is rather meh due to the issue I will talk about next.
One glaring weakness is however, that some characters got their renders updated, but not in every scene. So eg. Ivy, who has been there from the start, has one of the hottest new renders ever(she is not the only one) but only in some cases or locations. Clean crisp great resolution ones. And there are scenes(quite a lot and not just for her, but some regular, main, or even unique girls, who as their names say, get updated often) which are grainy and use the old models, which is like really an unforgivable mistake in a game stressing visuals this much.
I would have given this five stars, even with the grind and some bland and lack of variety in sex scenes, but this old vs. new look issue is something which should be addressed, cause this way the experience is rather lacking.

0.3.5.0

- Totally boring and grindy af. You have to repeat everything a ton of time to get your three stats from the girl rising. PLUS MC himself has 4 or 5 stats which you also have to improve...

- Models are grainy and absolutely outdated

- Animations are a 1 or 2 second loop

- Some of the girls are escorts (overpriced hookers) which leaves a bad taste for getting to fuck them

Played 3 or 4 hours and got only a handfull of lewds including one fuck until i got bored with everything aound it.

I've started this game from when it was 0.0.x version, so it was quite some time for me to really get what's good and what's bad about this game.

At the beginning, it was a pretty fun and promising project with cliche, but solid background, a lot of preludes to juicy content and steady expansion of game functionalities. I've dropped at 2.1, when I felt like I cannot bear with the recent lame changes anymore.

So, why good?
+ Has good setting, ways to improve and expand are still present
+ Variety of really different gurls, with fake natural melons, sturdy muscles, petite frames etc.
+ Pretty stable, not crashing much.
+ Some imitation of intimate progress is present, though in a pretty lame way
+ Dev really tries his best to polish and bugfix, but...

- Unsightful dialogues with zero personalization, which results in so boring game routines that you are getting irritated from them pretty fast.
- Very badly designed tutorials and to-do leads, you just do random things which pretty much results in the flaw mentioned above.
- Absolutely one-sided development progress, at some point, there were practically no content to most of the gurls except Yvette, Heather and Amy/Alice. The origin is obvious - they were leaders in Patreon votes, which resulted in completely biased dev progress based mostly on those 3 (with some rare bright moments of change to others like Faye, Natasha, Eva etc). Some gurls like Aly were not getting any content at all (still not sure if there is any significant about her even now, though she was one of those rare ones which had fairly believable natural bosom). So, at some point, new content became pretty much monotonous, which results in those flaws mentioned above.
- Events are nice and various, but again, the amount of text blocks you have to pass through each time you want to play it, makes it annoying at first, then simply boring.
- There is almost zero story progress, sure, there are some scenes which may be considered as a progress, but they are looking so random and out of place that may barely be considered as a story at all. Like, compared to other walls of pointless text you have to wade through, the amount of story is barely 2-3%. Not that it would be that bad, if not the flaws mentioned above...

So, based on all the +/-, I can easily rate it as 3*, there is definitely some juicy content somewhere in the text/click walls you have to wade through, but long boring game routines with practically no hints to catch will fade away all the fun you might be having at the start.

I'm not really dissuading anyone to play this game, it is definitely worth at least to be evaluated, just be ready for this game to challenge your patience in a very annoying way with all of its mechanics, routines, tons of recurring text blocks etc.

This game is fantastic and I have just barely started playing through it. Even at 0.3.1.1, there is a ton of good content to enjoy. The premise is simple - you're on an island and there is a varied selection of women to seduce. Gameplay is in the form of conversation options and some light minigames like poker. While there is sometimes a level of difficulty in advancing the relationships with each character, the rewards are plentiful and I greatly enjoyed the escalation with each character.
Where the game really shines is in the quality of the renders. There isn't a great deal of moving imagery, but the still renders are excellent and there is an assorted range of women to work through.
This is one of those games where I can't get enough of it and then I'm going to be greatly disappointed when it's all over. Well done, dev!

PROS
- It has gameplay. It is not strictly a VN with tons of text and some pseudo-choices dialogues.
- Girls look amazing, and there are lots of them
- Some animated scenes (could have more, but at least it has some)
- Great amount of content in general (could have more sexual content, though)

CONS
- Hard difficulty. I just want to enjoy a holiday island, not to be a detective trying to figure out how to trigger events.
- Some girls don't have enough content
- Could have more animations

Despite the cons, I still give this game 5 stars.

This game takes hours to get through with loads and loads of material, it is now the benchmark that I base all other games off. This game is fantastic! I just wish there were more frequent updates. The animations appear to be getting better with each update as well.

This is just so grindy game. You spend quite long of time just looking at your character stroking his dick. This is because you need the money from it and you don't want to him cum in his pants while talking to the girls - also single jerk off lowers your lust status just a bit. This makes the start very non-arousing and tiresome.

Game gives feel of seriously restricted interactions. You might have max stats with the girl but still have trouble finding to do anything sexual with them. That is because game requires your stats, girl's stats, time, location, outfit, your sexual status, people inhabiting the island etc. all to be correct before things can happen. There are also no clear indication of progress when it comes to some aspects making things somewhat frustrating.

All this makes game feel like clockwork mechanism with very specific possibilities, when it should feel like organic system of interaction possibilities.

It doesn't help that in a 2 years or so, the game doesn't seem to have received anything substantial update-wise. It seems almost like only updates in 2 years have been some frame-y animations.

Renders are nice but having to repeat the interactions endlessly with generic text plastered in everywhere does not help things. Girls don't seem to have any distinguishing personalities and events that you have to grind with them don't differ at all. Most use the same text lines, same camera angles, same stat changes etc.

Game is technically OK and visually very well made but it just misses marks when it comes to being a good lewd game. It just so grindy and feels empty of the content that matters. Things like girl's lust levels not plummeting after sex would be good way to make this more non-grindy.

The only thing that this game did well was the intro.
The intro seems good as it seems to give a feeling of an unique game. you get to choose which are your preferences and the character in the island will change depending on them. this mechanic is good as there are tons of character and putting them all in would confuse the players.

But this is the only thing that seems good about the game.

- The graphics and animations are decent.

- Extremely grindy and confusing systems.(Hours of gameplay with no sex scenes unlocked)

- buggy game

- lack of any scenes as most of them are just filler(idk about this but already grinded for hours not gonna waste more time)

The core gameplay doesn't do justice to the intro and never really had fun.

Another "young man finds himself surrounded by hot girls" cliche story with terrible cringy dialogue and gameplay that's: "click the same buttons over and over again until an arbitrary stat gets big enough to allow you to have fun" and by fun I mean get a hug or kiss. This project is basically a mix of semi-sandbox, multi-location, time-managemant, time-waster with hug/kiss/play poker-game that's called dating-simulator that result in the worst kind of anticlimatic scenes ever. Graphics is outdated and plastic with the most attractive girls get the fewest scenes. Character-wise all characters are the same. Everything gets repetitive and very boring very fast and it's honestly impressive how little there is to do in this "game".

Prime example of how to make one oft the most awful, terrible, repetitive and uninspired games ever.
This is basically a hug, kiss, play poker simulator over and over and over again. The Dialogue is laughably cliche and terrible, to get a girl to even hug you, you need to raise affection and love over and over again until you can go in for a hug??
Poker is basically winding back until you win, there is absolutely nothing good in that regard.
Animations run on 30 or 20 fps, I don't get all the good Reviews, I'd rather watch a hand-drawn slideshow of stickpeople fucking then these terrible and awful "animations".

2/10, characters may look very good, the rest of the game fails to do anything which would come close to "impress".

Is't a very good game. I can't stop to playing it . The girls are amazing and the story it's well written.
I have just a request. In the future will be possible ask to one girl to have sex with her?

actually that would be a good game.....if it weren't for this lousy playing mechanism, you quickly lose interest in the game because you have to keep repeating something ....!!
you click one of the answers if it is correct everything is good if not yes have fun repeating.....BORING.....This game is not playable that way, at least that's how I feel, you should build more references to the answers in the game with so many characters that would be really appropriate!

- Great Graphics
- Beautiful Female Character Models
- Good interface
- Story yes as described MUCH too complicated (miserable constant repetitions).....Sandbox Game......

One of the best erotic games I ever found. The women to get to know in this game are incredible. The game also does great without rape and torture stuff. A win for humanity and great game writing! If I found a genie, I'd ask him to bring me to that island with the look of the protagonist.

The game is pretty decent, you've got some good renders, quite a bit to do and you have to find some interesting ways to unlock certain scenes but not to the extent where it's a puzzle and you'll never unlock them.

My complaints are that the game has been out for 4 years now and doesn't have too much in the way of actual sex scenes, and the characters you get sex scenes with are limited to essentially any character with massive tits which is frustrating especially since at the beginning of the game they ask for your body type preference.

Girls with nice bodies and nice sized breasts vs. comically large breasts are overlooked and have had almost no development, and with the pace that this game has gone don't get your hopes up for any more development.

Overall, decent game but don't depend on any decent progress in development.