Unity - Completed - House Party [v1.3.2.12219b] [Eek! Games]

This was a really cool game when it was released, but I revisited it recently and it's just...unrealized potential.

There's still a nice feel of being at a party where you're organically trying to bang the guests. But with adding MORE opportunities, the game becomes more complicated and its easier to miss things or get locked out of entire characters. Because of the complicated nature, it means the game is impossible to play without a guide. And even the guide is so complicated it's a chore to follow it.

So the game becomes more following a guide and ignoring the story and immersion.

Graphics were good in 2016, but they're really not up to par now and there seems to be a missed opportunity to update the sex scenes properly. The added camera angles etc. don't do enough to compensate.

It's still a relatively fun thing to grab and play through, but there's a good chance you won't enjoy it and if you played it when it was released, I wouldn't recommend going back to it.

I appreciate the concept of House Party, a free-roam problem-solving game with a good variety of interactions and rich, unique character designs. However, as an adult game the sex scenes are very clunky, stiff and tasteless, an exact opposite of the concept of freedom - the key gameplay element where this type of games shine. -1 star for this, and another -1 star for the horrible optimization and buggy mess.

I've played House Party multiple times cuz the concept is great, the development is magnificent, I love the characters, the game is competent in terms of gameplay, but the bugs are unacceptable, and it is very poorly optimized. I play it on a gaming PC, bro, I have games with better graphics installed that run better than this. In fact, if you check the trailers, you'll see the delay in the fps rate, I mean, you're not being ripped off or anything, the truth is they haven't been able to optimize it well, and it doesn't matter if you lower the graphics or set everything for a potato PC, cuz it will still run slow. At least that's been my experience, a great game with many bugs and poorly optimized, so 3 stars. Sorry

There's some decent content in here but its made like a game where its fun to fail, what with every 2nd dialogue option losing you points (sometimes out of character just to fuck you over). The only problem is its not fun at all to lose points, theyre a pain to get, the loading time is weird and broken up into 2 parts so quick loading sucks, and theres way too much running around for too little content.

The idea of the game sounds good, but in reality the gameplay is very boring and difficult. It doesn't have the simplicity and freedom you would expect from a game like this. There's too much unnecessary dialog, interaction and mission. It's not worth all the trouble the game puts you through just to have sex with an animated girl. In real life, it's probably easier to have sex with a girl you just met than with the annoying NPCs in this game. While the graphics are terrible, the game has a serious optimization problem. You can play much better adult games made by one person. Also despite years of updates, there is no noticeable improvement in the House Party.

This is one of the best games in the porn game genre and the best in terms of technical features. It's a shame that there are very few games like this.
Yes, there are a few games in which you can move with a first-person view ("Afterparty", "TrainCapacity" and some other game that weighs like a nekkboskreb and is very difficult to unpack from the archive) but they are very far from the level of House Party. When I saw the trailer for this game, I couldn't believe it was actually a full-fledged game.
The developers have not abandoned the game and continue to improve it, optimize it and add content. The game used to have long loading saves and this could be considered a minus of the game, but now they have improved this point. They have added the ability to customize characters.
Of course the game has its disadvantages, but I can turn a blind eye to them because of the fact that this game simply has no worthy competitors.
If I had the money I would buy this game on Steam to support the developers - that's how good this game is.

It's the best sandbox + dating simulator that also has sex in it.

- You seduce girls (and even guys). Your choices affect whether or not you get to have sex, so it's not linear nonsense where you're just looking at what the author has decided for you.
- You can have both duo and trio sex.
- You can watch the sex in either third-person or first-person - total immersion in the experience. These aren't the typical animations we're used to in the rest of the games when you're looking at looped videos. These are full 3D animations.
- Each character has its own character, its own appearance, its own peculiarities, so there will be no one-type girls, barely different from each other and causing boredom.
- Excellent voice acting, and all phrases are voiced.
- Moving from the first person.
- Good optimization. I have GTX 1070 and I had no problems with optimization, crashes, hangs.
- The game has a console, so you can add items to your inventory if you want (so you don't torture yourself), fuck anyone in all different poses or make them pose. The console is a huge plus.

You might find some of the quests difficult, but there's a walkthrough for each character online, so if you get stuck or don't want to think, you can find guides. Or use the console.
No matter what anyone says, this game is a must play.

Definitely worth checking out. Well made, unique and with some actual gameplay involved. While sexual overtones permeate everything it's hard for me to call it a 'porn game' as the action is rather... subpar... compared to everything else. Lastly, the damn song for being so simple and annoying gets stuck in your head.

I waffled on my rating for this.

Technically, the game does a number of things well. You can play as either a Male or Female character. I think you can romance every character in the game, some in multiple ways. Your choices matter. There's a huge web of social interactions and decisions to navigate. There's voice acting. The fact that the reactions to what you say can vary based on who is around is particularly clever, as are the idle chatter "hints" that the NPCs will give.

That said, I was ultimately disappointed. I found the pacing to be too slow. It was more challenging to get what I wanted (sexy times) than I wanted and even when I got there they weren't particularly satisfying. Too often I found myself in a wander-around-and-try-stuff-because-something-here-must-work pattern. I found the story to generally be more annoying than funny or clever. I ultimately gave up because it didn't seem to be worth the trouble.

All told, though, I think House Party is pretty good, even if I didn't really like it.

So I bought this game on steam way back at release.

The models are attractive.

People complain about the puzzle difficulty but it's not terrible. Old Sierra games were harder.

The main problem with gameplay is the conversation minigame requires save scumming. Often the main "jerk" choices drop your relationship stats. This is a pity because they often elicit funny reactions, but if it locks you out of a route and requires a restart it's a poor gameplay choice

Extremely disappointing, specially considering the top-notch 3D models, animations and voice acting (which mostly carry the rating alone, due to the production quality), it seems to be a huge wasted potential because of 2 core problems:

1) The main gameplay, which is to become friendly with the girls and have sex, is incredibly more obtuse than it should be. What should have been a fun and carefree party sandbox, is in reality an annoying puzzle solving mess, that would make the worst of the sierra adventure games blush due to the dumb item scavenging and the unintuitive logic required to solve them.
You receive very little to no hints, and the hints that you do receive are almost always vague at best. Worse still, you can quite easily fuck things up and get blocked from progression due to the messy quest-line progression , due to entanglement with other characters or due to actually being able to destroy or lose required items, literally forcing you to restart the game.

2) The actual adult content is... underwhelming. When you inevitable resort to a walk-through (just for one girl tough, because to max out with one girl questline, you need to block yourself from others) the reward of the sex scenes feels lacking.
There is no 3rd person camera control (only POV), no intensity control, no gallery to view scenes, you need to keep tens of saves for different game states, and the scenes themselves, while decent, are brought down by the insane effort you have to put up to reach them, ending up being not worth the whole trouble.

House party is an un-optimized piece of trash game that will overheat your pc. It has missions that are too complicated and require too much effort for a very little reward. Most of the models are not very attractive. The devs dont understand why people play these sort of games, its not to be stuck in a quest to find 10 bottles of crap just to have your boner go away. If i wanted to play a puzzle game id play uncharted not a porn game. Ahhh just make it easier to fk the babes. 5/10 game. Avoid if you have a graphics card less than 4gb and 8gb ram.

If I were to describe this game with one word, it'd be "confused". Confused about its systems, confused about its purpose. Likely confused about its future as well.

First thing first, because that's why we're all here on this site, the lewds. They suck. And not in the good way. While the girls are attractive, despite dated graphics, the smut you'll unlock with them isn't. The animations are very bad - there's lots of obvious clipping and zero weight behind the movement. The content is all very vanilla, which may be both a pro or con depending on who's asking. Worst of all, the devs in their infinite wisdom have decided that static, choreographed cutscenes are the way to go in a game that tries to sell itself on its interactivity. Remember how I mentioned confusion? Yeah. Make sure to tick the "Enable legacy POV intimacy" button to unlock an old, alternative mode that at least allows you some degree of control over the very limited position list and a degree of camera movement.

The aforementioned interactivity and player choice is supposed to be the core of its gameplay, except once again, the game gets confused and does not quite know what it wants to achieve. At first, it gives you the illusion of total freedom - greet your friend who invited you as "the guy who never causes any trouble, honest", then proceed to whip out your cock and ejaculate on some unsuspecting party guest, likely causing lasting trauma and a shattered perception of reality. Fun! Too bad that's the extent of non-railroaded freedom you'll have and it's all aboard the choo-choo train from now on.
You see, the game is actually structured more like a VN, masquerading as an "open-ended social simulator". You'll quickly notice that all the characters have three crucial stats - friendship, romance and of course alcohol intoxication. A bit later you'll find out they don't matter one bit. It is merely a graphical display of whether you've triggered enough storyline flags to proceed further, and the sex scene you want is at its end anyway. The main way of raising these stats, beyond giving out the limited alcohol (to characters who even want it, that is), is following the plot along, preferably picking the least amusing dialogue choices while you're at it. The game gives you plenty of chance to be an overt dick to people. Or a dumbass. Or both. Except there is never any reason whatsoever to do so - in fact, it will actively hurt you and lock you out of content.
While the theme of the game might remind one of Leisure Suit Larry, the mechanics can be pure Sierra as well. That can of Pepsi you randomly cracked open five hours ago because the game gave you the prompt? You need it for the storyline and it's the only one in the entire universe. Oops. Too bad, quest failed, so sad, go restart. These sort of issues lead to a rising urge to consult a walkthrough, which is the death of any adventure game.
I've mentioned the VN structure, and it is evident in how the game will prompt you to make choices halfway down the storyline - these will usually lock you out of progressing with another character, encouraging replays and reloads. You can also try to tip-toe around the lockpoints somewhat and try to solve as much content as possible in one run, but that'll require you to save a ton as every step could potentially irreperably screw you over. This wouldn't even be a bad mechanic per se, but the game simply takes ages to replay. Even if you click past all the dialogue, characters still have to walk and washing machines need to finish their programs. It does not help that loading a savegame takes the better part of an eon. Do yourself a favor and install it on an SSD.

Fortunately, the writing is quite enjoyable, and there's a lot of it. The game's silly and it does not treat itself seriously for one moment. The jokes do try too hard at times, but usually they'll get you to smile when the writers want you to. NPCs aren't particularly deep and some can come across as one-note caricatures, but that's fine in a house party comedy and they all have their own quirks and speech patterns that make them memorable. I guess the one complaint I can have is the needlessly dark pet death plot point. While it does flesh some characters out, it's a bit jarring tonally and offers no satisfying resolution.

The game has been quite the success on Steam, which I suspect is the reason behind its focus on story content over expanding the somewhat bad porn in a porn game. It's just more marketable. And boy do they like marketing. The game is packed with z-list e-"celebs" that come with their own baggage of advertising and "no bumping uglies allowed" contract clauses. You know what I thought porn games always needed? Well, it sure wasn't goddamn GAMEGRUMPS guest characters. What the hell.

Perhaps the overall confusion has rubbed off on me a bit because despite the negative-sounding review, I'm giving it a 4/5. I did enjoy my time with the game after all - it screams "potential" (that will likely never be fully realized) and it's one of the few titles to at least attempt doing something different. The dialogues were also genuinely fun and worth a playthrough. It's just that all the flaws are so glaring they're hard not to notice. Would I replay the game? Not really. Would I empty my wallet on the piles of Whatshername the Youtuber DLC? Nope. But for what it is, it's sure worth a download, if out of curiosity alone.

How's it goin dude? Staying away from the game reviews?


Played this probably a year ago on the steam release, even then it was of a caliber that would put 95% of the games here to shame. The dialogue is funny, well written, no translation issues, flows well.

The characters are well voice-acted, and match their personalities well (especially ashley and rachael!)

Artwork is a weaker point, but that's to be expected comparing a game with 3d models vs rendered screens. On the plus side - many of the texture maps are quite good and unique for the different girls, leaves you wanting to discover more.

The fact that this is available here is a no brainer for downloading and playing, I had no problem paying for it a year ago, but if someone's on the edge, do yourself a favor and check it out.

Be warned - this is a "game" game - not a short fap click-through novel. You will have to use your brain at points, but I never found it tedious or annoying.

5/5.

The game is so unbelievable. I had NEVER NEVER NEVER see the boobs move like that. Also the gameplay is too messy. There are a lot of ending to go but the guideline was so terrible. It was very easy to use up the things in several quest and cannot go over the game. But no one told you that. Should I have over 100 different save for playing this?

A really amazing 3D game full with animations, humor, and personality.
Pros:
- Great looking characters and models.
- Can hook up with guys or girls.
- Every character is unique.
- Voiced.
- Easy to go in blind and figure out on your own how to max a character's love interest/ relationship meters and eventually hook up with them.
- it's a sandbox instead of some more typical VN games.
- Lots of replay ability.

Cons:
- Sometimes the voice chatter from the characters overlap each other and they all seem to speak at once.
- Couldn't figure out how to turn off holiday clothes (when I played it was Christmas themed)

First of all I'll say that this is the best 3d adult game, and by game I mean a game with actual game play, puzzles and choices that change the course of the game.

The game make you feel like you are actually in a living and breathing party and immersing you by including dynamic NPCs that move and talk, dialogues that you can actually listen to, they can even hint on some side quest in the game. You have music in the background, which the game is very self conscious about how repetitive and annoying it is and let you make side quests to change the music.

The voiced dialogue is one of the best in the adult games scene, with well written and some funny characters.

The game has some interesting puzzles, which very fun at the beginning, but the farther you get the more far fetched the puzzles are, and I found them very hard to complete without the wiki. This is a shame IMO, because at the first moment I went into the wiki to learn how to achieve something, that what killed for me the game. The rest of the game play I just followed the walkthrough and lost the sense of exploration and fun. This is why I hate when games have walkthroughs, it means it got lost somewhere in the design process and make up to it by some online guides.
Aside from that, the actions you choose to take have impact on the current playthrough of the game, meaning you can't see all the content in one playthrough because some of you choices will block other missions, which for me is a bummer because I'm not the kind of player who like to replay a game if a lot of the content will be overlapping, I just don't have the patience for it.

Moreover, some of the quests are very elaborate, and by the time you will manage to get to the H scene, you will be very disappointed by it, because the animations are mediocre at best. The characters performing the animations doesn't feel like they have impact on each other and have a very bad collision.

Overall, I would recommend to play the game because when you just start fresh without knowledge about the game, it will seem to you like awesome sandbox playground where you can mess with the characters and do interesting stuff. You will find it fun to explore up to the point where you will get stuck on every quest and then you will get frustrated and just want to get to the end of each story arc.

Well, at first the game didn't catch my attention, but after playing it for a few minutes I saw all the work that they put into it, I played it and after about 4 hours, I stopped playing it... The reason? in the end i tell them

0-------5

-Drawing/3D modeling: 3.5 (They're fine, there's nothing fancy, the waifus look good, apart from that everything looks good according to the game world. )

-Music/Background sound: 5 (The background music was good, for each situation or scenario there are different sounds and ambient music, and there are even voices that is already a great merit in +18 games, normally there is neither, but this one breaks that stereotype, what makes you feel really inside that world.)

-Plot: 4 ( I had never played a game with this type of plot, but I must say that it is interesting, as the protagonist performs certain actions within the party in order to get what he wants, it seems unique and interesting to me.)

Map: 5 (There's no map, it's the house, but it lets you fully explore it and it feels great, it's well done.)

-Animation: 4.5 ( The animations are good, the fluidity of how the characters walk is excellent, there is only one thing I don't like and that is that the "sandbox" is cinematic, so you only enjoy the scene according to its duration..)

- 18+ Scenes: 2 ( Regarding this, I'll be honest, I didn't finish the game, the reason? it's because it's TOO LONG to get 1 +18 scenes, I mean if you want to have a +18 scene with some npc, it will take you a long amount of time to get it if you don't have a guide, it's more even with a guide it took me 2 hours and average in getting just 1 sexual scene... I feel that you have to do too much to be able to get +18, in this aspect I don't give it more than 4 but I think that it has quite a few scenes... however it is very Tired of getting them.)

-Gameplay: 5 ( It lets you interact with several npc, depending on what you say it will give you good or bad points and according to that, you can perform various actions, but I must say that they went a long way with that here. The reason is simple, you have to do about 10 quests that can take you 2 hours, to be able to get just 1 scene.... and not to mention doing it without a guide, without a guide it will take longer, because the internal guide of the game is only clues and this kept me confused for a while if it wasn't for using the guide. In this aspect it is good and bad)


-Interface: 5 (it's well done, all clear)

When I started playing it I really got hooked right away, I say I had never played this type of game until then, but after a while I got tired, it's incredible that I want to play a +18 game, when it must take me about 2 hours to get 1 single scene, it's not fair in this aspect. I feel that this game is more narrative oriented and that it has a small bonus of sexual scenes, anyway, if you like to play a fun and long story that does not focus on +18. This is your game, if you want a balance between storyline and +18 then look elsewhere this is not for you.

It does not receive a bad score since it contains many things that other +18 games do not have, the game is very well done in the visual part (for the type of game it is), but as for the +18, in my opinion I feel that it does not they did well, but hey this was just my point of view.

4.1/5

Well, I'll give this game a 3, why? yes, just a waste of time. when I went through these quests, a long time ago since version 0.6 or even earlier, improving all these relations with the characters, everything went well until it came to the sex animations .. are you serious? wooden physics is miserable, after which I just deleted and forgot. people come here and play for the sake of one thing, animations, diversity and physics .. with a hand, well, in fact))) having entered the 1.0 version in the hope of at least seeing something new .. no, the developers add new quests and characters, that's all. they do not plan to improve the physics, the engine, why? let there be an ancient, wooden UNITY, but there are quests)

Quite boring, not a lot going on. Suppose to be an adventure game but your limited to the house. Then there's some dude who doesn't even live there but controls everything..? Too much grafting = 1 big headache and little to no reward.