Ren'Py - Horton Bay Stories - Jake [v0.5.1.2] [Lumphorn Games]

This is potentially a really fun 5 star game, but I am only going to give it 4 stars at this time due to a few issues. Version 1.1

I will start with what I do like.

The girls are sexy, slutty, and a lot of fun. It is just titillating through and through. Fun. I wanted to fuck some of them so badly as they were just intriguing characters.

A lot of games have beautiful models but the way they are written is just boring and sterile. The women here are interesting, enjoyable, and fun!

The presence of other dudes that actually fuck the women in this game is interesting and believable. If you lived in a world filled with sex positive women who were this sexy and fun then they for sure would be hitting the other dudes.

The scene with Lucas at the party was amazingly funny and well written. It is like this is a multi player porn game, and every once in awhile you run into Lucas doing the same shit you're trying to do. You want a harem? Sure fine. But so does Lucas. Deal with it.

Stealing another dude's women means something in this game. I found it satisfying when it finally happened because they could and do fuck other dudes.

I also like the fact that there are so many male characters in the game. It just felt more real. I also think the back story of Rupert was great. I mean everyone looks down on him as the little shit he is, but he also gets a raw deal from Lucas who is also a fucking asshole. And then you are given the opportunity to do all the shitty things to the girls that Lucas and Rupert do. Being an asshole in this game is an option, but it has a bit more weight as there are other dudes doing these same fucked up things. Will you also be a total dick head? If you do take that path the game makes you at least realize that you are no better than the other assholes that live in this world. Being an asshole had real weight here because of the existence of these other assholes.

The writing is pretty solid. No complaints from me. I was never distracted from the story by terrible sentence structure.

The progression of the sand box elements was good. Scenes that you can do multiple times ( and you will have to as that is the game) change over time as your relationships develop. Cool.

Now for the bad.

Yeah, some of the women have some facial features that are just a bit jarring. The more time I spent with this game the more I got used to it. But the game would be a LOT more sexy if the models didn't have these issues.

For instance Claire is fucking sexy, but her nose has some very square lines that at times makes her look like she had a really bad plastic surgery job, giving her almost a pig like snout in some scenes.

Adele has the most problems. Something is just wrong with her face. At times she just looks like she has some sort of skin disease. Like a rash that she is covering up with a heavy layer of makeup. I loved the imperfection of her ass. The imperfection that appears there is fucking sexy as she seems so real, but her face has a bit too much imperfection. Yes, in the real world I have met some insanely sexy women who technically had some ugly facial features, but Adele's imperfections are a bit too much at times.

However, the flip side is that the girls don't all look alike. In a lot of games all the girls pretty much look alike. That is not the case here. Every girl here has her own look, other than the twins. There are 62 girls (yes 62!) in the main character's phone and they all have a unique look. Some of them look great, so I can't wait to meet them all!

So yes, technically some of the girls have some ugly features. People are going to complain about that endlessly. Just the way it is. It would be great if these could be improved, but I would still recommend this game as it is just a lot of fun.

I really hope the author sticks with this game. They know how to make a really fun and sexy romp. I was turned on (despite some of the oddly off putting facial features), and I enjoyed every minute of this game despite the flaws.

If the aesthetic flaws could be improved (without taking away the unique quality that each girl has) then this could easily be one of the best games in this genera.

I would totally recommend this game to anyone that enjoys sandbox games. If you don't like sandbox then stick to your Visual Novels and Kinetic stories.

I can't wait to see how this develops.

(I posted this in the thread and then thought this is as close to a review as u get so copy paste and hear we are.)

Very Ambitious, need to see more for a good take on things but the overall idea is there. Some of the faces do need to be cleaned up, im not sure how some of them made it threw quality control but thats not hard to fix up.

The scale of things and a straight forward story with no magic and dragons is what drives it forward. Not a fan of sandbox, i barely let this one pass because of it but as said the scale of the story gives it some weight.

I can see in a few updates as the world is expanded and if maybe a few adjustments are made that things can really take a leap forward.

Hope to see more.

Really enjoyed the game. The writing is well done and the scenarios presented are very hot. Some of the character faces are a little scary looking but that won't stop my enjoyment. Like the NTR elements while still getting MC's rocks off. Look forwrd to more updates. Will patreon if they're consistent.

Even with NTR off there is a huge amount of cucking going on but just not on you except the beginning so if NTR and cucking in general isnt your thing this game isnt for you. The map...holy crap. Tons of empty space in a sandbox is a game killer I know its a new game but I got so lost it took me nearly 20 actual minutes to find home from exploring town clicking on 40+ arrows at random looking for home since there seems to be no fast travel home or its broken. Most the directions in town are just north or west and its super easy to get lost I nearly had to start over. The MC kinda seems like he could be a spineless bitch I mean personally I would have made Lucas deep throat a kitchen knife for the mom comment but thats me. The game has potential but it also has the possibility to fall apart and not meet expectations. I do look forward to seeing where this goes though but it needs a lot of work.

So this will be a game were a lot of people are crying "hell no".
If you do not like NTR in all its variants, you should not play this game IMO (@mods, probably best to clarify that in the overview or something).

The main plot point is, that you get cucked right at the start, and go out into the world to either find love or become someone that cucks. Along the way you will get into situations where others are treating womens as fucktoys, but I dont know if this is shown when you have NTR off. At least that is how I interpret this first episode.

Renders are okay, only the faces in some scenes could need a bit of a rework, as especially the girls scrunch their face up quite a bit sometimes.

So, if you are into NTR/Netori, this game is right up your alley.
As I did not play the love/non NTR route, I can not comment about the implention of it.

What to say, what to even think. I've seen the the renders, you've seen the renders, but that's not the concern whatsoever. The renders can be looked passed, the animation can be excused. When you look at the tags you already wonder "oh boy, what the fuck is the garbled mess", and you got that right.
I have to be honest, I saw the tags harem and ntr together and retched in my mouth, but hey tags are tags right? The dev also made certain things avoidable, such as ntr, which at first glance is amazing right? I couldn't be more wrong. Apparently you take up the perspective of a male MC, considering you have ntr turned off, this doesn't stop the dev showing you that the MC is getting cucked in broad daylight as your girlfriend get fucked in front of him by his bestfriend IN THE INTRO. Now ofcourse you can skip the intro, but remember you have ntr turned off right? but skipping doesn't mean avoidable whatsoever in this context so I don't know what to make of that.
Say you have an open mind, like I tried to have, trust me I did try. I got past the intro. The dev tells us a story of the MC getting cucked and moving away from that place far away to go to a university. We arrive at a house where we're going to reside at for however long. Not long after we settle we learn about a perverted guy named Rupert who tried to fuck the women living in that house,(3 women and 1 other guy living there) and got kicked out, fine.
The other guy of the house, Lucas, claims all the women as his own apparently, that's fine idc. The MC asks one of the women why Rupert the pervert got kicked out and what happened exactly, we go into a flashback where somehow the woman knows exactly what Rupert the pervert was thinking while eyeballing them, switching POV's all over the place going into his mind where he fucks all the women while cucking Lucas yadayada, whatever.
Anyways I'm tired of this already you get the gist, terrible renders, animations, story, writing, characters. Decent sandbox though.
But overall 1.5/10