Unreal Engine - Love or Lust Beach Stories [v0.4.0] [Night Icons Studio]

The graphics are fantastic — you can truly feel the consequences of your choices, so it's important to make them carefully. The animations are excellent, and the visual quality is stunning. However, there are some optimization issues. At the highest graphics settings, the visuals actually look worse, while the game looked better on medium settings. Overall, compared to the demo, it's a very satisfying experience.

It's pretty bad. I played the first seven or eight days, and it honestly got worse the longer it went.

The dialogue feels so nothing. Shit just kind of happens for the most part, and you're thrown between events with no fanfare whatsoever. Occasionally, you can make a dialogue choice, most of which move your standing along the one-dimensional love/lust meter. It's just the hornier version of the inherently-reductive binary morality system. I can't even say how much it matters overall, though, since the only stat shown to the player is their current position on said meter. I don't know if there's character affection, split storyline routes, or some other hidden system to determine what happens. Honestly, I'm not even sure the developers do, since the dialogue will randomly feel extra repetitive or reference something that never happened, as if the writers aren't even bothering to keep track of the branches they set up.

Now, I love when people put actual gameplay in their porn games, but this drink-mixing game feels so incongruous to anything. You get money based on how well you do; you also occasionally get money randomly, though not much comparatively. The money means almost nothing. Something happened a few days in that required I have a certain amount of money by the end of the day to fix the bar's boiler — I got enough money, fixed it, and that was that. That doesn't feel rewarding, that's just an arbitrary wall to what I assume is some hidden affection stat or dialogue tree. There are also some segments where you just click on the several things to clean up, but there's no challenge or even a fail state, so I really can't even consider it a "game" for anyone over the age of three.

These two points end up mixing horrendously when combined together and given no way to save outside of designated autosaves. It just means that sometimes, if you choose the wrong thing, you have to replay the day, potentially along with the same two-and-a-half minute bar shift, if you want to retry. There doesn't seem to be a gallery, either, so no replaying the actual scenes without going back through the entire game again.

I get that it's early in development, but what's here is just not good without significant changes to just about everything but the art itself.

Love the art and nothing else. No ability to save games. No rollback. Loading problems. I stopped playing due to extremely annoying minigames. I don't want to have to work to advance the story. Just tell me the damn story. Writing seemed okay from what I could tell. I mostly skipped ahead as I was just trying to get a preview. Two of the three girls so far struck me as attractive.

Starting of by stating that I have only played some adult games but I really liked this one so far. It´s a bit to soon to really point out any big flaws because i can´t really think of any standing out so here is the things i like

Graphics
Character Design (I´m down bad for Chloe)
Music
Setting
Minigames

Insanely frustrating experience. This may seems harsh, but I don't see the point of leaving glowing reviews to bad games in the hope of "motivating" the devs.

This is a wolf in sheep clothing, as you can see form the previews its looks amazing, the animated idles are smooth and its written by english natives. Once we're past the superficial though it gets really bad:

First : The engine, this is another "For fucks sake just use Renpy", Unreal engine to make a visual novel is like using a bazooka to mow your lawn. This is missing all the Qols I expect out of this type of game in 2025, you can't even save.

Second: The constant pointless unexplained branching. Just why,... Let the players see the damn content. And if you absolutely need have a branch, make it a big moment not "Am I scratching my right asscheek today or my left?". As you can expect, this makes the game insanely short.

I swear one of them is litteraly "I only have the energy to answer one text tonight" the game is full of shit like that, its ridiculous. This is 2025 there is ABUNDANT competition, I'm not going to replay a game just to see a few more scenes that might or might not lead to anything. I'll just go play a better game if you can't respect my time.

Third : The scenes. I only got to see one (thank the stupid-ass branching) and it was the typical no-text sex I expect out of new devs, goes like this : "oh haha we're going to have sex" -> sex -> "oh haha we just had sex".
I'll stick to pornhub for my souless porn, thanks

Fourth: Dialogue. Like the branching, theres tons of dialogue choices and fuck if I know what they do. Is it just flavor or are there hidden stats? Am I going to miss a scene? Should I pick respectful or horny options? At this point only God and the devs know and I have my doubts about God.

That's about the gist of my main issues with the game. I didn't have a good time.
Hope the devs can turn this around, I'll update the review if I ever hear they have.

FInally someone who puts in work, creates an unique artstyle and puts in his own twist.
You guys rock. I am a proud patron and a member of your discord also. I literally cant wait for the next updates to arrive!!!! Love from Greece!!!

Fun, carefree game with the vibe of a wild summer. Love the mix of social dynamics, flirting, and party life. The setting is vibrant, and the interactions feel natural. Feels like a real beach adventure

Dialogues are interesting to read—not too long and they help with immersion. story introduction feels smooth. mini-games are fun but I wish there were more lighthearted ones . amount of adult content feels just right not too muc not too little. I really liked the animations during dialogues and the ability to communicate via smartphone. It makes the game feel more alive and realistic. There’s definitely potential for further development, and I’d love to see how it evolves in the future.

absolutely 5 stars