Unity - Completed - Mystwood Manor [v1.1.2] [Faerin]

Couldn't stop playing it. The gameplay is amazing already and its early days. It's quite genius how you got me hooked. I came in trying to fuck everybody and next thing I know I wanted to upgrade everything and I was playing the game long after all the available scenes were done. Renders and girls in the game are amazing. Loved Man of The House and this is different entirely. Your a great developer and you have earned my support

I was sure that Faerin is a great developer before playing this one (during hours). After his last game "Man of the house", I discovered this game which is so hotter. Everything is there: hot models, great story, achievement system to not be stuck... Hope in the fuiture updates, there will be a cheat mode, to avoid models cleaning or taking naps to restore energy.
Keep going, 5 stars!

Very interested management style game. Even without much adult content so far, the pace is reasonable while you need to think about girls’ capability to match guests’ expectation. Unlock sexier costume is quite fun, and all girl or milf render are high quality, definitely will follow every update.

I really like this game, even if it's poor in sex content for now
I found the hotel gestion gameplay really good, it's not too complex but when you had many guests, you need to organize the staff planning if you want to be really efficient
So I'm really eager to play more

A thing that I found bad however is the fact that, during guest's activity, if you answer well to their expectations, they will be very happy, but right after, if you don't have the job level, they will damned you !
It's a little strange in my opinion, maybe it will be better if the job level requirement comes first and after you answer their request

Anyway, great job !

Great game IMO. I enjoy the pace and the variety of girls in this one.
- Great Graphics
- Render quality has improved from previous game.
-Models are all attractive

I like this one better than his previous game. I find the variety to be better here and the hotel aspect actually makes it an enjoyable game even without the lewd stuff.
Lastly, Amber is the best girl

The mom looks like a mix of a man and a gargoyle. The worst milf-model ever seen by under the sky.

The rest is ok, but god damn...that character model is terrible. Just the queen of ugly ducklings.
The rest is quite ok. I played like an hour, before I got tired of blocking the gargoyle monstrosity with my left hand, while clicking enter constantly.

i cannot Stress how good this game is. the only Problem is.
it is a Game First, and a porn game Second.

my suggestion is the Bookmark and Support it. and only play it once it is done.
you can play the intro to see what it is all about. and then save it for the full release.


there are no Quick Sex, you will have to Work for it. but the story makes Sens and i dit enjoy it and i want more.

so for me. the wait has started and i am looking forward to the Full release

Lots of fun, enjoyable management game which is a nice break from the norm. Very excited about future content, very well rendered characters that don't look like cookie cutter types (no purple haired undercut tattoo'd gal I've seen in 5 different games). Love the gypsy, look forward to exploration being fleshed out more along with some of the guests.

Let us soothe the Karen!

UPDATE March 2021:

Okay, now that we're almost halfway through, time for a review.

Enjoyable Management game. It's very relaxing without the porn, I often find myself skipping over the T&A just to get back to guest management. It's a lot of fun, and hope to see future titles like this. Refreshing change from VN/RPG/Dating Grinder.

The Girls are both fantastically rendered, have unique personalities, AND not the same "Obligatory Purple haired girl with shaved side of head" or "Bitchy Older Roommate who is Clone of 5 other popular 3D title models". They are unique in appearance, personality, and have some depth.

The story is great, and not at all a cliched plot.

Gameplay: 5/5
Model Appearance: 5/5
Story: 4/5
Overall: 9/10

Minor constructive criticism: I feel like one more employee that could fill a gap between Lobby/Kitchen/Bar would be great, or I fear a full house of guests would make selecting guests from the lobby a chore rather than a challenge. I haven't played past Level 3 in this game yet though, so... more feedback later.

Good models and renders. The mechanic of the game is slow and repetitive, the story doesnt develop much , there is no good scenes at the point and a lot of under development features. If the pace speeds up the game will improve considerably.

The game has great visuals, cute characters and curious situations. It also has an interesting and not primitive gameplay realized as a hotel management. The developer publsh regular updates on a monthly basis. It is the most promising game and fresh angle of view here.

Interesting game, mixing management with spicy scenes.

Played 2.2.9, and although it's still at an early stage, Faerin did a superb job with MotH and I really like where this one is going.

I have read some bad reviews stating lack of content, but as this is not your typical renpy visual novel the developer needs to invest time in the core mechanics. Once they are finished, I’m sure we will get more visual content.

[Unity] Mystwood Manor [v0.2.1.5] 16.10.2020

I startet this game at the mentioned version and i am surprised how much fun i had:

1. pretty grafics
2. interesting and funny story
3. Interface can be used without studying rocket sience
4. working progress system - reach a level, have more skin
5. enough mystery, enough management and some stuff to collect

Here are some things that can be done better in my opinion:

1. too much repairs, to much cleaning. It isn´t nessesary to rebuild 10 % for every change of daytime, just to stay at the current level. It´s not fun by definition either.
2. The guests could name their wishes after a couple of good or working orders - there is no need to train the knowledge of the player to succesfully serve a cocktail or beer multiple times especially if the worker hasn´t been succesful because of the joblevel.
3. Change a decision should be possible by simply going back as usual using a mousewheel. It is still a porn game and not roguelike adventure - It´s a pain to load an old save just because a worker is suddenly ill or the player misclicked anywhere, for example.

Comparing pros and cons : This game is very very ...very good. I have high expectations. There is space for so much story and the locations are still empty more or less right now.

Go Developer Go - you are on the right track !

- Great Graphics

- Beautiful Female Character Models

- Good interface

- Story is actually very interesting when you consider that this Game is relatively early in Development, I think it will be much better than ever.

what should get better...

1) Saving should be possible during an Event ( if you have to serve several Guests at the same Time, errors occur, unfortunately you have to repeat everything, which is a bit time-consuming and annoying I find )....

2) the Leveling Up should go faster both with the Hotel and with the Girls..


- Conclusion

if you take the Time and Play it sensibly, it's a great Game with huge Potential.



5/5 from me, thanks to the Dev. for a Fantastic Game......again.....

Excellent job, again, Faerin.
Your games have something that holds the attention with the plot and development of the characters. Although many find it too slow to get to the sexual content, which is evident, this can really make it exhausting if you search for sex scenes right in the first hours of the game. However, if you are looking for an intriguing, developed and coherent plot, it is very exciting to follow the story line.
Those who enjoy a good RPG of the old ones (FF III, Chrono Trigger, among many others) will understand that Faerin's games need to be appreciated little by little and exploring the story to the maximum.

For .2.1

It's been a year in development and the game feels really empty to me. It's a management game so your day consists of assigning staff to do tasks for guests and an option to explore, but most of the time this just ends up being "there's nothing to do here." "I found nothing of interest" <--- Sums up the whole game.
Didn't get to any sex scenes because I was bored to death by the actual gameplay, it's not interesting or fun.
Renders look pretty good but nothing special.
Maybe I'll give it another try in 3 years but for now this just really isn't fun.

At its most basic, Mystwood Manor is the marriage of a porny visual novel and a decently robust hotel management simulator. In terms of gameplay style it resembles Hentai High School somewhat (granted that you're running a hotel in this game and not a school), though it's closer to Westane's game The Company in terms of difficulty and complexity.

As a visual novel, the closest comparison to make is Faerin's (the dev's) previous game: Man of the House. Both games have a fairly similar art style, though I think it can be reasonably argued that the graphics are somewhat 'better' and more realistic in Mystwood Manor. The characters are also fairly common harem story archeypes in both games, but that works perfectly fine for me. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," as the adage goes. It's still mostly a modern day-themed game, albeit set in a magic forest with some spooky goings-on throughout the game. If you've played a reasonable number of hentai games over the years, this theme should feel familiar.
(I will admit, the setting is fine but not amazing. Again, a similar issue with Man of the House, where the setting was just okay. Still, that served Faerin well enough in that game and I don't see it really hurting this game. That, and a certain 'visitor' related to that setting definitely helps the porn part of the plot move along.)

However, those hentai games probably didn't have the hotel management part! As far as I'm concerned, the hotel management gameplay was the biggest seller for me in terms of my initial interest in the game, beyond the bare fact that the game was from Faerin and promised to be similar to his also-excellent game Man of the House that finished development last year (yes, really! Faerin actually finished a big game and released it before moving on to this game, rather than just switching topics when he got bored!), with a bigger emphasis on gameplay. But I understand that this can also be divisive for some players, so this caveat is important: progress through the story of Mystwood Manor requires engagement with gameplay. Personally, I think that's a great thing and that this part of the game is really well done (and still being improved upon!), especially given that so few porn games can really compete in this regard. Almost every aspect of the hotel management game has the potential to open up some parts or scenes of the visual novel section of the game, including new characters, new outfits, and new sexy interactions. Further, it's actually fun on its own. That being said, things can be a little grindy in the parts where the gameplay extends past scenes it's intended to unlock (as of the current update, you can technically train the staff members to the skill level needed for the 3rd hotel level, which takes a while, but that hotel level isn't actually here yet and training them that hard doesn't unlock anything). But that feels much more like an unavoidable issue of alternating development between focusing on gameplay and focusing on scenes than a problem with what the final product will be. And believe it or not, the updates since about April of this year have all felt satisfying in some way. The gameplay gets better, new girls get unlocked, and/or you make more progress with some girls.

That last part is why Faerin is one of my favorite porn game developers these days: he's very good at making sure the game makes progress on a regular basis, and that every update has something worth checking out. I can't guarantee that you won't at some point lose interest in the update cycle, as I think that's a danger with most porn games in the Patreon era that release monthly-or-so updates, but from experience it's generally safe to take a few months off, check back in, and expect that you'll find some new stuff you'll like (assuming you're into any of it, of course) released in the intervening time.

All told, I'm jazzed about this game and it's one of the real highlights of my month when an update drops. I can't say that every aspect of the game has been fleshed out yet, in particular the magic part of the story and interactions with the guests beyond their use as a gameplay device are still pretty basic (there's every reason to expect sexy scenes with the guests at some point). But for what it is, Mystwood Manor is unique, ambitious, sexy, and a very strong game (as compared to most porn games) in its own right. It's also important to note that, since the game has been made in Unity, if an update doesn't break save compatibility it's very likely that you'll be able to move a save into a new version when an update drops rather than starting over, and you can review unlocked images and scenes, hopefully decreasing the risk of burnout that often comes with ren'py games you need to entirely replay to see later scenes in updates.

With an eye toward the fact that it's still comparatively early in the development process and that things can change, I feel confident in rating this game five stars. I like it, I love it, I want more of it!

Very good story. In contrast to the "logs", which simply change the pictures - there is a good balance between playing and management.
It \"s also interesting - how the history of the Taro card will develop.
And as (it seems to me) correctly said Faerin-the main thing is that the main platform is made. And you can add a lot of women, sex and drugs to it - it will be easie))
I'm just hung up on this game. I play daily.
The only drawback is the translation into Russian.
In version 1, it was fine. But in update 2.0.3 - all new dialogs are in English.
It's good that I know the language.
But I also find it difficult to understand the meaning of the dialogue about Mr. Movo.

Hotel management simulator with a paranormal/fantasy twist. Currently, the game is very focused on the hotel management aspect and less on the story/animations/etc. Very much an expansion of the game mechanics for the Gym in his previous game, Man of the House.

To repeat what Faerin has directly said, don't play this game if you're here for the sexy times yet. Play it if you want to play a hotel game with only the lightest of teasing, in fact, it's new enough to where I'd only recommend playing this if you truly want to either get a head start or you want to help with beta testing.

The framework and planning are great though and will clearly allow for him to churn out animations/story nonstop pretty soon, unlike most games where they have to overhaul the game multiple times throughout the creation process. I've had a lot of fun playing it in its current state and looking forward to it's development.

draws and graffics: amazing.

story: happy and kinda sugarcoated.

gameplay: is well done but also kinda slow.

characters: they are lovely and with a nice design but...

music and sounds: really well done.

conlcussion: the quality in this game is superb. there is a lot of tough on it.
but needs some serious upgrades on the speed, it feels so slow mostly of times, and the grinding becomes really tedious sooner than later. the story also feels odd, bad things happens but you CANT feel them because all this happy atmosfere and graffics, BUT AT THE SAME TIME it feels that it got the right pace, and noting is rushing, and all is going acording to the story so you feell right about it.

this game TOTTALLY deserve your time and money.

psdt: "ctrl" boton is your best friend.

Horrible and really slow mechanics. When a new update is out you can't use your old save files so you need to replay that slow and frustrating farming mechanics.

And the most important: it actually has zero content.

Maybe it will be interesting at 2022.

Original rating: 1 star

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UPDATE: 1/1/2022

I'm here and it's already 2022 and I must update my review.

Mystwood manor has became one of my favourite currently-under-development game. It's true that is grindy but it has nice quality content.

Congrats, Faerin, great job.