Ren'Py - Completed - Kingdom Harem [v1.0.1] [Ortus]

Rating this 10/10 because I can feel this game had potential, but the dev's handicaps limited his vision. I genuinely feel for the dev, in a world where shitty daz3d render slideshows make 30k a month with zero updates in between, the dev saw a potential market where he could essentially make a living off, but unfortunately, lack of funding made this game impossible, where he even had to use his own savings to complete. This game could have been a masterpiece. Considering the wide range of characters this could've blossomed into an amazing story arc, but unfortunately, it didn't. I will still rate this game 10/10 since he did put some effort into it. And the preggo scenes with the fairy were hot. I wish the dev's next game is as promising as this with the proper funding. 10/10.

I found it was a fairly enjoyable story did find some charaters i liked but many of them i never got to know. the game it self felt rushed and lacking in content. example there was pretty much nothing to do every day despite the game having tons of areas to visit there was literarly nothing to do in them expept a few repeateable events. the shop had items to buy and sell but they had no real uses too them, and the ending felt super rushed so many girls pop up in the ending insted of having them spread out in the game to interact with and fill it with things to do there a bit of a wasted potencial having that many charaters designed and not useing them hopefully you learn and improve as you evolve as a dev ^^

This is just not a very good game. Maybe I'm being unfairly critical because I just finished One Day at a Time (which was amazing)...but I don't think so. The story started off pretty well, but didn't really seem to tie in very well to the interactions with the main characters.

The characters were attractive, but nothing particularly special.

There are enough quality games on this site that I just wouldn't spend the time on this one.

So, what we have here.
We have nice and interesting idea, esp of potential smuggling and illegal selling of "milk".
Unusual looking elfs, and pretty nice non-elfs, i like it.
Lovely nature of characters, and nise, sometimes funny, events, scenes and dialogues. But there not many of them, couse game are short.
It says completed, but in my opinion it's it's about 10% or less of potential performance of game. It was so promising project, BUT i think it's abadoned.
I hope author, or someone, continue or rework this project, or at least idea, for it's full potential.

A solid and satisfying albeit short game which should not take over five hours to finish, even if you go off your way to explore.

It doesn't have anything particularly innovative, but it was put together neatly, and even the ending, abrupt as it was, managed to be satisfying.
Don't expect ground-breaking art, scenes, music, effects, plot or character development; But don't expect to be disappointed by these either - There's a plot, there's character development, the scenes/art/music/effects are all decent.

PS. There's a couple jump-scares, the plot twisting is really minor, and you can at times see the places where the developer originally planned to extend upon but didn't.

You shouldn't regret playing this; It is a good game overall which didn't disappoint me.

PS. I believe the suggested price on itch.io underestimates the game, and should be higher. That's the only thing I can objectively think about to complain, sorry!

a simple game,short (less than 4hours), not perfect, not bad. despite seeing some reviews saying the game was abandoned there is 3 nice endings, the story is ok, the girls are beautiful and cute and the sex scenes are ok as well, if you like cute girls embarrassed at their first kiss/sex or to saying their feelings you will find great content

The game concept is good, character design is acceptable and the sandbox elements are nice.

The problem here is that the game stops responding constantly. Played the game at version 0.4 and it was crashing frequently even when trying to load saves, now at version 1.0.1 [Complete] the game still stops responding mid gameplay.
It creates a hopeless situation because if you don't save frequently you lose progress, but saving frequently increases the chances of getting stuck.

A shame really since the game seems enjoyable enough otherwise, but having to fight against constant bugs and losing progress makes for a poor experience.

This review is for the final version 1.0.1. Sad that the project has been abandoned, but it is what it is.

I’ll start with negative points. The plot of the game is decent, but conversations and dialogs of characters are pretty boring. Some dialogues are pointlessly too long. The navigation and triggering of events is quite cheap. There are open locations from beginning, but there is nothing to do. Sometimes you can see characters there but you can’t interact with them. For example: You see Olivia fishing, so you try automatically to click on her to trigger a dialog or something but there nothing there. Not a simple “Hi, I’m fishing here” or something.

Based on that I would give the game 2/5, but it’s a porn game so there are other important feature to look out for. And they don’t disappoint.

Characters are hot, sex animations are good and most important, what I miss in most RenPy games, are sex sounds. I cannot stress enough how important they are. I don’t know about others, but sex animations without any female moans or even simple “smashing sounds“ doesn’t make me as horny as with sound. And another big plus is that these sounds are separate from the "music". In many RenPy games I've played, effect sounds are part of the "music" volume, and you can't turn off or turn down the music without also turning down the effects.

I'm actually a little sad Dev quit out on this. Honestly. One, it's a loose parody on Kingdom Hearts. So loose that it doesn't involve any of the characters or story, which is good. Two, It doesn't take itself too seriously while not breaking the 4th wall every other line. Three the models are edited enough to be somewhat original.

You get teleported 4,000 years in the future where there are no men. They all died to plague and you are the "Cum Bearer" and have to repopulate. It's not much deeper than that. I played a few months ago and it was alright so I waited a while only to see it's being canned. It is a little bare bones, the only way to make money is stealing a bra and sugar 50 times to buy stuff for the fairy. And you can tell there were more things planned by the ending dump, a lot of characters and possible subplots just thrown at you all at once. All I really hope is the Dev starts up another project they feel more strongly about.

TLDR; Entertaining and decently written but short and abandoned too soon. Without leading on patrons with false hopes.

I love this game..I am an android player..feeling sad that the game has end too early i personally thought this game has lot of potential in story.. And also I personaly like harem, pregnant, feral women content..ofcourse in this game the most likable thing for me is that the game has no ntr content unlike other cuckold dev... So playing this game so satisfied for me..as well its Music. . As far..Though its end. I love to see more work from this dev. In future like this more game...will come, I hope... Many many ❤ to developer...

The girls are nice, the story is mild, animations are decent, but the sandbox here just sucks, it's probably one of the worst i've ever seen. It's confusing cause with my experience in sandbox games (a format that i don't really aprecciate at all), making a sandbox doesn't seem too hard, you just need to be clear about where you're going and here I often wasted time trying to get somewhere and feeling in a maze...

dialogue... is passable, unlike what some other reviews said. very cringy/edgy, and the writing style/wording isn't ideal. the dialogue really doesn't create the right feel for each of the characters either
continuity errors... quite a few. for example, you don't see the girls in the room before you have dinner together, and olivia is always in that room in the basement, even if she's also in the kitchen
renders... the environments are subpar. in one scene olivia hunches down which is kinda weird. also looks like you can't see the MC which is very unfortunate. some renders are also in the wrong lighting so they *really* stand out in the environment
mechanics... the movement is kinda meh, the circles for the locations are way too big, i'd also prefer an option to click on places to navigate and have no movement/interaction circles at all

[Rev @ v0.3.3]

Art's a bit primitive, backgrounds have the feel of placeholders and the characters are Uncanny Valleygirls.

Writing is average. Scenario's not particularly novel but not worn out, voice is alright but narrative pacing feels halting. The overall flow is very start-and-stop and doesn't seem to transition smoothly from scene to scene, leading to hunt-and-peck style event trawling through an annoying navigation system.

The porn I found was unremarkable, both for good and ill.

I dislike the navigation. Some of the daily time slots seem redundant and useless as scenes seem to trigger immediately at the start of the day, at the end of the day, or on finding / interacting with a given character. Combined with the odd pacing of the writing the roughshod scheduling makes me simultaneously feel nothing is happening and that I'm missing something.

TLDR: rough draft with potential. Godspeed~

The Good Stuff:
- The Story is intriguing and immersive so far with the typical fantasy realm stuff most will be familiar with.
- The Characters (only a handful right now) are diverse in their personalities and designs.
- The Dialogue is written well and had some humor mixed in that actually made me laugh once or twice, which for me personally is an achievement.

The Meh Stuff:
- The Sex. Very little is implemented as of v0.3.0 but when it's there it's not awful and I can see some potential for the future.
- The Visuals are again not amazing but also not awful. Honestly, if I could give one bit of advice to the dev it would be to maybe figure a way to improve this aspect the most. Some scenes are jarring and pull you out of the game.
- The Sound is fine, and I didn't feel like I noticed it was there very much while playing.
-The Animations are very basic and consist of a couple of seconds looped, but at least this game has animations.

The Bad Stuff:
- The Travel/Moving system needs to be reworked or improved. I can't tell you how many times I clicked the wrong location or spent the day going to each and every location to see if anything was there to do. You could use hints in the info tab to know exactly where and what to do, but that defeats the purpose of a sandbox like this is trying to be.
- The Character positioning in scenes isn't great. Most of the time it just looks like they are floating around and not actually planted on the ground.

Score - 3/5

Overall I see potential in this game if some minor improvements are implemented and can see myself coming back to the game next update since I like the characters and world enough to continue.

I can't really see my score improving unless either or both of these two things happen.

1. Improvements such as I stated in my review.
2. Some seriously good story, sex stuff, or major character developments that make one or more of the girls amazing.

For the positive points:

- First of all, the game is touching, immersive and original, the graphics are quite nice for a game of this kind.

- The lifespan is a good three hours or maybe four hours for the slowest among us so far if you take the time to read and explore.

- Sex scene are really well done.

- The characters are all different, have their own temperaments which differ from each other it is well marked, their faces and expressions are pretty to see.

- Humor is present throughout the narration.

- The music goes well with the games, the sound effects are very good and
the choice of colors and light are well chosen.

- The fairy Meg is the main protagonist of this latest update and she will have some good surprises in store for you.
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For the negative point:

The game is a bit linear but nothing too bad, it is only in its third update and then it is more open in options than most of the other games of the same genre.
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I will conclude by saying that this game changes games where sex comes first, if you are looking for a game where we fall in love then we have sex this one is for you.

Kingdom Harem 0.1 Review

• Story is warm and funny with hints of upcoming conflict. The dev knows what kind of game they're making, and there are a few self-aware gags in the story.
• Each character feels unique so far and the designs are a good example of what HS2 is capable of.
• The scenes are not not complex but consistently designed. This helps make the world feel cohesive and nothing feels out of place or jarring.
• Some will find the sandbox style of gameplay to be a detractor, but I found the hotspots around the environment easy to learn and didn't have any issues with navigation.
• The audio in the game is well done. Levels are balanced between action sound effects and the ambient sounds in various scenes. I found my self sitting with the main menu on loop for a little while watching and listening to the excellently constructed slide show in the background.
• The game runs on a time of day system and I had no issues with losing track of what I should do or run out of time to finish the story beats included in this first release.

Overall a good effort and it will be interesting to see what Ortus comes up with in future releases.