Unity - Completed - House Party [v1.4.0.13106 GoG] [Eek! Games]

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.

Interesting game, im going to give this game 2 ratings
1. 3/5 viewed as a porn game that you commonly see on this site.
2. 4/5 viewed as a comedy game with a lot of r-rated content. the rest of the view will follow this interpretation seeing as this seems like the intent.

Story
The story is funny, not hilarious but worth a good chuckle. very clearly inspired by movies like american pie but since you take the Stifler role not Jim or the other guys, it lacks any of the heart those stories had but what can you expect from a silly lewd game.

Art
The art is ok at times it feels like a ps3 game in terms a quality, like an improved version of the sims characters.

Gameplay
Gameplay ranges from ok to frustrating. its not so bad that you have to do irrational things but you do have to experiment a lot to figure out the correct sequence and sometime you only get one chance to do something, save often because you can and will lock yourself out of some quest. That being said this is the type of game that you are intended to play multiple times, I don't know if its possible to have a "perfect run" where you sleep with everyone but i doubt its possible. My biggest problem is its all a house of cards, since a lot of quest have overlap, (which is a good thing it makes you actually feel like you are at a party), you can easily mess up some questlines by progressing another characters questline, again save often.

Overall not a bad game but dont go in expected a super sexy game. also use a guide if you get frustrated you can find some one steam community.

One of the best Adult Game ever made, title say anything about what the game is, but its not a simple date sim its more like adventure game with well animated sex scenes. Each decision have impact on anything so I recommend to save game often. Have Fun <3

A direct descendent of parser-driven text adventures, House Party reminds me of the adult interactive fiction of the 90s, and I certainly mean that as praise. This is Interactive Fiction in the old-school sense, with a compact environment, lots of verbs to use, and enough objects to fill multiple pages of your inventory. Progress is satisfying, getting stuck is frustrating, and sometimes you want to use a walkthrough, but you don't and have more fun for it.

The game is well-written, looks great, has real laugh-out-loud moments and interesting stories for most of the characters to follow. The main story, when it really gets moving, does manage to feel like an increasingly chaotic house party.

However, it lacks some of the openness of the old-school games. Rarely can you combine items in unexpected ways, rarely is there that moment when you think, "no way is this going to do anythin--damn, the dev even thought of that." Part of this probably comes down to the dialogue menu being the main tool for both advancing and telling the story, as it would in a modern visual novel. This half of the game's identity often butts heads with the pick-up-and-try-everything approach of its adventure game half, and sometimes I found myself quitting the game to play proper visual novels where more limited interactions managed to feel more immersive.

I think this minor identity crisis is evident in other parts of House Party as well. The game is full of incidental dialogue that is funny and revealing, but it's played at an extremely low volume and has no effect in the play-space. There is dialogue that characters can overhear and react to, but it is, again, limited to the dialogue trees. NPCs are scheduled to move around the house, but have little to interact with, and are sometimes literally standing alone in a corner. The game gives you the ability to remove articles of clothing individually, has a urine and an orgasm meter, but exposing yourself seems to have limited and context-specific uses and consequences. In other words, the game systems are there, but they don't feel fully fleshed out.

And of course, systems are the hardest part of game design. Developers spend their whole careers theorizing about how to tell a story through interaction. The creators of House Party deserve a lot of praise (and sales) for their synthesis of a lot of design ideas, as well as their creation of a really great storytelling tool. House party is extremely fun interactive fiction that has a ton of satisfying elements in its toolset but doesn't quite manage to use them all in harmony.

Not this time, anyway. I have high hopes that future stories will do amazing things with these tools.

This game has the merit of being one of the few 3D porn games available (and the only one I have played); and by 3D I mean real first-person 3D world rendered in real-time, and not just static renders made in a 3D program that are, of course, 3D computer graphics, but not a 3D game. With that comes the limitations... The graphics are not only old but don't have the same quality as the pre-rendered games. It has to be done in real-time and, thus, it uses simplified textures and fewer polygons, so it's unfair to compare them with those other games; you have to compare it with other first-person 3D games (shooters/walkers/whatever) released at the same time, and I'd say that House Party doesn't lag behind. The problem is those who are looking for a fap don't make excuses, so they'll probably prefer the pre-rendered games and find this one crap.
My opinion then is this... If you're looking for a fun game and a different experience, play it (like you would play a game such as Leisure Suit Larry -- and I know we shouldn't mention other games in reviews, but I think it's excusable in this case, since Larry is a classic by a big studio). If you're just looking for a fap, search somewhere else because you'll be frustrated... As said multiple times, the sex scenes aren't that great and also lack variety.
So, you're probably asking, why do I give it 5 stars? 1st, for being unique; 2nd because it's not only a funny story but also fun to play. So I'm judging it as a game and not as fap material; as a fap material, I would consider it an appetizer at best and give it 3 stars for that, considering the time of its release and for being an indie game, probably with a small budget.

So, this game has been out for a while and I can say rather firmly that the Dev is really reliable. The scenes are ok quality, the story and characters are really fun, and the overall experience while nowhere near triple or even double A, it is a stand out among the 18+ gaming scene. However the fact that is started development a while ago have left the game dated in terms of art and animation, which may change in the future though I wouldn't rely on that.

Characters 10/10
The characters are always memorable, especially when compared to most adult games. The highest praise I can give them is that I am able to remember each and every characters name and personality. Which very very few adult games manage.

Gameplay 7/10
The gameplay is pretty good, exploring the house and movement in general are fairly average, and the quest system is very easy to follow. Letting you know what you need to do for each character at any point in the playthrough. Though I recommend saving often as you can be locked out of content through making the wrong decisions at a bad moment.

Sex 4/10
The sex scenes are on the whole, passable. Though some criticism I can offer is the fact that they are a bit vanilla for my taste. Add this to the fact that the game shows its age, through both the sex and the art. The sex scenes themselves are a bit stiff, robotic, and plain. Zero interactability aside from choosing who you fuck.

Art 6/10
The art isn't bad, the girls are hot and the guys are memorable. But this is one of the aspects of the game that definitely shows its age. The models can be waxy, unemotional, so on and so forth. You can definitely tell it started development a long while ago.

1 star. this game is super buggy, ancient textures, poor graphics bad update d support. the developer has a record of overpromising and underdelivering and still hasn't released the female main character update. Meanwhile he's charging people for explicit content updates. Wouldn't surprise me if there were microtransactions next. This game is a disgrace.