Ren'Py - Abandoned - Homeshare Harem [v0.1] [Shiny Entertainment]

Interesting. I like it.

Animations 5/5
Characters 5/5
Story 3/5 with 5/5 potential
Graphics 3.5/5 not bad

This game is still early in development, but has a lot of potential. The story is still a work in progress, but I like what I've seen so far. The friendship leveling works the same as Harem Hotel but a little more streamlined, good choice, and there is no grind in the game to speak of. The character personalities are varied, and good enough, far as I'm concerned. At least one of the women's bodies are disproportion-ed, having large breast with a tiny torso, but it's not really a concern of mine. There are no day/night cycles yet, but it looks to be in the works. The animations are excellent, smooth, and feature different angles, good job on the ass angles. It's also worth noting that H-scenes are repeatable.

What I feel is missing: not much really. Making things like watching a movie and having a picnic repeatable would be great (why waste such great scenes on one time events, after all).

Worth a playthrough as is.

Version Reviewed: v0.1

Overview: A guy goes to college and finds himself sharing a house with 5 big chested hotties. Will he score?

Graphics: Honey Select, with the boob sliders set somewhere between huge and "smuggling hot air balloons in the sweater". The character models are unfortunately fairly generic and it can be a little hard to remember which girl is which. The background are populated with low poly assets and the lighting is completely flat. The girls aren't quite in scale with the giant size furniture either.

Gameplay: No weird logic puzzles or obnoxious minigames here. You just go to the girl in her room and select "continue story". There isn't even one of those unnecessary day/afternoon/evening/night systems to worry about.

Story: There's nothing interesting happening in the story. Each girl has their own story arc, but all 5 of them are boring mundane stuff like one girl needs help with her homework. Another has to break up with a cheating boyfriend (this happens offscreen and without your help). Another likes to watch movies. The MC doesn't have anything going for him either.

All of the girl storylines in this version go:
step 1: Hi, how's it going. I'm great, here's some boring background material.
step 2: Lets fuck.
step 3: Lets fuck again.

There's no grind, but having all of the girls just jump on my dick at the drop of a hat does make it a bit harder to get involved in the story. A lot of games on this site go way overboard with the grind before the girls put out, but even for someone who hates grind this game moves too fast. At least let me do something for the girl first. The shower scene feels a bit rapey too, as you just walk in on the girl in the shower and go "guess what time it is!"

There is one minor bug I ran into. Going into the first floor bathroom gives you a message about not messing with the game variables.

A minor change I'd like to see is to have the bedrooms renamed to match the girl like "Lucy's Bedroom" instead of "Bedroom 5".

The "select girl, advance story" mechanic is simple enough that in the current version a hint system isn't necessary, but as complexity is added a hint system will probably be helpful. I did appreciate how if a girl is gated behind a different girl the game will outright tell you which girl to switch to.

Overall: The game is completely and totally average. The graphics are meh but not terrible. The storyline is not insane or horribly translated, but also boring. The gameplay isn't obnoxious or grindy, but also it's so minimal it's just one step above a VN.

My advice to the developer is take more risks. Do something outrageous to keep the reader interested. Putting some more effort into the graphics wouldn't be a total waste of time, but the story is where this game could set itself apart.

Review: v.0.1

I enjoyed playing the game, but it really needs a list of available quest in a specific order so players wouldnt have to waste time clicking through rooms then people then go through a list of conversation only for the person to tell you to talk to another person to progress throught the story ONLY for the game to tell you have to go to a specific area.

And that is the main reason why people dislike SANDBOX/MOBILE style genre games in these porn games, and the endless random clicking only to go to an empty room with nothing else to do.

And if you're going for a story driven game, its still lacking for a V0.1 . So far Georgia has the most interesting quest/story, and the rest of the girl only has some day to day basic storyline? then again there are 5 girls+ the teacher. so its a bit much to introduce all those characters in first release.

all in all good game. fairly enjoyed it.