Unity - Completed - House Party [v1.3.3.12895] [Eek! Games]

This is a tough one. Love it and/or hate it.

Concept is 5/5. It really is an excellent themed game with a good story. A party where you can just interact with whatever girls or stuff you want, at your own pace. The other concept that makes this game shine for me, is Character Customization! This is huge. Countless times I've wanted to change girls in avn's for various reasons.. Don't like dark/light skin? change it. Want green skin? Can change hair and clothing. Breast and butt size too small or big? change it! Awesome.
More games should have options for changing the girls. I don't want thicc or fat or old or ugly or flat chicks.. Why not let people customize the LI's so Everyone can enjoy your AVN, instead of trying to satisfy too many fetishes, making it unsatisfying for those without the fetishes...? This game gets an award from me for going the extra mile on this, and having hot girls to start with.
Girls - 5/5 - Every girl is hot, and if you don't like something, you can customize her! Perfect.

Graphics - 5/6 - I say out of 6 because there's newer graphics that can produce better models, but this game didn't have those, and still the graphics are way better than most avns, even ones that use newer software.

Lewdity - 4.5/5 - This also depends on the person. Some people need more sex, while others are good with more of the teasing bits of nudity. Personally, I loved the way this was done. If you give too much, it's not exciting or desirable. Sex is there, its just after you've gone through some story with the girl. I'm much more into the build-up and the teasing/voyeur/accidental/partial nudity that this game gives, plus the build-up to the sex scenes.

Gameplay .... 3.5/5 This is where it's tough for everyone. For some, this is 5/5, and others its 0/5, depending on your threshold for figuring it all out or using a WT.
The effort for the gameplay is 5/5 though. The issue is personal preference for the complexity, and lack of guided experience.

It can be cool and fun if you're one that likes to figure it all out. But it's also not very intuitive or quick for those that are somewhere in the middle; and it's especially not easy for those disinclined to this kind of thing and just want to progress without thinking too much.
To make the most of this avn, you'll need a good WT. The one linked here is good. But this is also time-consuming, and you have to constantly check it.
The game is made so that you can have multiple play-thrus with different experiences. But I'm the kind of person that wants to do it all in one go, so I needed a WT. This got old after a while and I dropped the game for a long time... But recently picked it back up because this game is like no other, even years later...
It really is a gem. That's why I don't want to give it a bad rating. We need more games like this. Just updated and with a good clue system or in-game WT.

I hope we see more games like this in the future. So instead of complaining so much that it was too hard and giving bad ratings, lets compliment the good, and ask for improvements.
-STuRoK

Overly complicated and mostly boring. Plus the animations and character models aren't great, feels like I could just have the same experience with a modded Sims 4 game.

Additionally, the game's performance is terrible. Like the loading screens take forever and the game lags, even on potato quality. For what is essentially a 3D VN, there's no reason for it to be this performance heavy.

Lastly, more girls than guys by a large margin.

I played this game near 4-5 hour and i cant see even 1 sex scence. This just fkin adult game and its so complicated for it. Its taking too much time. If you have so much trash time, you can play. At least i didnt give my money

This game is one of the few 3D porn games out there (the only one I've tried), and it's real-time 3D—not just static renders from a program. But because of that, the graphics aren't as good as pre-rendered games. They have to keep it simple with textures and polygons to run smoothly, so it's not fair to compare it to those games. You should think of it more like other first-person 3D games from the same time period, like shooters or exploration games, and I think House Party holds up pretty well in that comparison.

If you're looking for something just to get off to, you might prefer the pre-rendered games with better scenes. This one isn't as great in that department and lacks variety. But if you want a game that's fun and different, kind of like Leisure Suit Larry (hope it's okay I mentioned that), then this could be a good pick. It's got a funny story and it's enjoyable to play.

So why would I give it 5 stars? First, because it's unique. Second, because it's not just a funny story—it's actually fun to play as a game. If I was rating it purely for getting off, it'd be more like 3 stars, considering it's an indie game with a small budget, especially for its time.

great amazing game welly luv da boobs and sometimes even da but what can i say i could even pee on dem if i wanted or sumfing also it welly showed me da importance of being a decent human being by showing my dick and balls to everyone i can witerlly

I would say it’s unique in its gameplay. Super replayable. They add content constantly. It’s not just about sex, it has funny and crazy situations. I would say it’s a game that you must try of this kind. The only thing I could reproach it for is the bad Spanish translation, but hey, at least it exists, and I didn’t take the trouble to search, but surely there are patches with better translations than the official one.

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?