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

Writing: 8/10
Imagery: 9/10
Gameplay:8/10
Kinks: 6/10
Overall: 8/10

All work and no sex makes Jack a dull lad.

Thanks to your old man biting the big one in a very suspicious circumstance, and then visiting you in a dream, you are now the sole proprietor of a up and coming hotel for the rich, famous, and extravagant. Famous authors, pompous celeberties, sexy widows, and more. You hire on both friends and family, including your hot mom, your bratty sister, her slutty best friend, a quirky mechanic, a Chinese bodyguard, and a sultry nurse among others.

Managing your hotel is really easy, you set hired help to a specific room, new guests will have an event where you need to correctly guess what they want (previous guests skip the event), upgrade rooms with cash or expand the hotel when you reach certain levels prestige. The upgrades and expansions are hilarious, with a 4th wall breaking handyman doing all the work.

As you work events will open for both guests and employees, you can check them out to earn side-story stuff, leading to sexy time moments or humor. There's something haunting and strange about the place too, so it can also be a little creepy too. Seeing to guests and making them happy will also earn you a unique currency to spend on gatcha, earning perks you can assign to the staff and yourself. Even here, gatcha continues to follow me.

As your hotel becomes more grand and you entertain more and more important guests, you'll progress the story, which can be dark, sexy, and a bit of a blue balls move. Kinda wanted to bang the old lady who runs the ritzy hotel, big GILF energy right there and you'd think she'd be grateful for the help we eventually give. Now depending on how many of your employees you have maxed out in the relationship category, you can unlock different endings. Of course the only ending for an ultra chad like me, was the harem ending, banging all your hot female staff and creating a new generation to argue who will inherit the hotel later on.

Overall, great renders, fun story, very teasing (to a blue balling level), interesting game mechanics, but felt more like a game than a good jerk opportunity.

was excited to play since the dev made man of the house, but looks like he focused on things that dont really matter (for me), the girls are pretty the hotel is cool but i'm not playing to run a hotel, where is the romance? corruption? taboo? you interact with a lot of girls but all of them is just casual sex, you spy and flirt and them... boom handjob, julia is obviously supposed to be your mom she is conflicted about sexual toughts for you but after sometime she don't see any problems in having sex , also guests like karen, what is the point? just wasting time because there is no content with her

The story was better than I expected. The gameplay was excellent, and the management aspect was well done. A bit grindy, but not too much. The renders and animations are excellent, and the scenes are not too over the top, which is fine. Music and sounds are also great. It is a great now at its current, supposedly completed state, but if the developer ever decides to add more scenes, costumes, idle animations, character interactions, and more voice acting, it would definitely be one of, if not, the best.

Mystwood Manor [v1.1.0 Hotfix] [Faerin]
A beautiful game!

Does the game have any negative factors? Yes! But I can turn a blind eye (not two) to how much I enjoyed it.

Characters: Unfortunately it is understood that the last unlockable characters are inferior to the first ones.
Let's say that from Julia to Laura the characters are excellent, they have remained well in my mind.
Mediocre Annika and Hana. I remember the game, but after a few weeks after finishing the game, these 2 characters are not etched in my memory. Doing other runs, these 2 characters come back to my mind though.
Then there's the one from the Club, impossible to remember, every time it unlocks you wonder who it she.

Cards and skills not all useful. At first I thought unlocking each character's third equip slot would be helpful, but it's the most useless feature in the game.

The game has good management, perhaps a little too much grind for the completionists (all cards, all skills maxed, all objects, rooms maxed, etc.). Ok, there are integrated cheats, which is certainly a good thing, but without it, the game remains very repetitive.

The story is nice, with just the right amount of mystery.
The scenes are few, but very beautiful (not all, some close-ups of certain faces are creepy, a defect that I also found in "Man of the house").

Having said that, I recommend the game.

I want to give this 4.9 stars, but in this full star system it deserves 5. One of the best games I've played on here. I was getting sick of the VN style "click and read" games where there is little to no actual gameplay. While this game isn't perfect, it's a very very polished and working game that I think anyone can enjoy even without the lewd content.

Pros:
- As I said, the gameplay was very smooth and polished and worked flawlessly for me. I would probably play this game even without the lewd content honestly, it was very addicting.

-The models are gorgeous and diverse.

-The story is interesting, with a mythology and mystery that keeps you guessing

-The grinding was appropriately difficult (played in normal mode) and didn't feel overwhelming. You can work smarter and get more rewards as you learn how to be more efficient.

-There are cheats available all along the way and you can really tailor the game to whatever you feel like doing

-Lewd scenes are pretty hot. A little static for my taste without very much in the way of options or interaction...but they are very nicely rendered.

Cons:
-THE TEETH. The girls are too beautiful to have those mouths full of ridiculous chompers. Way overboard on the teeth rendering.

-Non-repeatable sexual encounters. This is a harem game, I want to be able to interact with my harem once I've unlocked that girl's "level." As it stands, you're given the option to visit one girl per night after unlocking her and you are given a pretty static and, if I'm being totally honest, boring sexual encounter. The scenes during gameplay that happen naturally are much hotter than the late-night visits that you're left with after running your story with each girl.

-There was one frustrating thing for me...there is a certain event (maybe more than one, but I only found one) that is only available at a certain time in the game. It doesn't affect the outcome but still...if you're a little OCD about games like me and are searching for that elusive 100% completion (not that this game tracks it) I was really disappointed that I couldn't go back and complete that event...especially since you can "downgrade" your hotel guests. I thought I'd be able to re-trigger the event but sadly, I was not able.

-The storyline is a little bit too spoon-fed for my taste. Every new event is marked as such, so you never have any reason to explore. Seems like a missed opportunity to just roam. There are multiple locations on the map but you never really need to visit them unless they have the "new event" notification on them.

Executive Summary:
Great game. Top 3 for me. It was addicting, interesting, hot, and fun. What more do you want? Huh? What more??

(Disclaimer: I played on normal mode so I can't speak to the story mode experience)

I wanted to give Mystwood Manor 5 stars. It has some of the best character models in an adult game you'll see, the writing is original and entertaining, and I enjoyed the hotel management gameplay. However, Mystwood Manor is held back by its grind and lack of sexual content.

All eight main girls in this game have their own look, They all have different body proportions and ethnicities that will appeal to a large amount of people. The plot is good enough, however it is another game where your father leaves behind a mystery for you to figure out. Mystwood Manor at least makes figuring out this plot somewhat interesting. It does, however, have a test at the end so if you didn't pay attention to the plot it could lead to some frustration.

I will say I did enjoy the hotel management gameplay overall, although I think it definitely gets repetitive. It could be greatly improved by simply lowering the amount of points you need to upgrade your hotel. It's simple enough that I think anyone can play through it successfully. There's a lot of ways the game tries to help you make it easier too with tarot cards, abilities, and items. It does make for a very long and drawn out game though. This leads me into my main problem with the game. There just isn't enough sexual content to justify the amount of time you put into it. All the love interests have a good amount of scenes but they aren't repeatable. The gallery only contains snapshots of certain events and doesn't let you replay the sex scenes. Also, since this isn't a Ren'py game you can't just save during the scene to come back to it later. The night time scenes that you can repeat are just animations, which are high quality, but there's no dialogue to go with them. The game could be greatly improved just by adding dialogue to these scenes. Also if you're going to have a ton of build up to late game content, then put enough at the end to make it worth the grind.

My other complaint with the game is the RNG aspect of it. When playing in story mode there are certain areas you have to explore and hope that RNJesus is on your side. It took me 10+ tries to find one item that you have to fish for near the end of the game. It's just a waste of time. This is frustrating because the creator should just increase the rate of getting this specific item (Bronze Spider) if it is needed to progress. There's also a bonus scene for getting every tarot card which would be a drag even with cheats.

I would recommend Mystwood Manor if you have a lot of free time to go through all of it. I think the game is very good, although the creator should have just focused more on the adult content over the gameplay and/or at least added more repeatable scenes outside of the events. Honestly it could still be fixed with a complete gallery and some slight improvements to the management system.

TLDR - Good gameplay and content, needs more sex scenes and ways to replay them. Overall fun but time consuming.

First of all I want to say... this game is just awesome. One of the best games on this platform.

Characters 10/10
Graphic 10/10
Engine 10/10
Game play 10/10
Story 8/10

Of course I wish this game would go longer. I finished it 100% in two sessions because it's just so addicting.

What I would wish for would be some kind of DLC with more content, e.g. more employees, rooms, events with guests. The potential for something like this is definitely there.

I love the different characters and that they don't all look the same.

What I would improve, however, would be the division of the sex scenes. In the first 70% there is peeping and possibly a hand job and in the last 30% concentrated sex, which made me a bit overwhelmed and I couldn't fully enjoy it.

It would help to have a slutty girl early in the game that you can start having fun with. I had those hopes with Riley, but unfortunately it wasn't the case.

The system itself is great with the characters and the activation principle. However, not everything should go in parallel at the same time.

Definitely a masterpiece in my opinion. I'm a little sad now that I'm through. I hope for new content from Faerin. I can barely wait for it.

Pretty good game, especially due to it being rather unique in this sphere.

Models and animations are good, story and dialogue are okay, nothing too spectacular.

The H-Scenes are animated smoothly, which is nice. I think the pacing is a bit off, at the beginning, you barely get any scenes and from a certain point, you basically unlock one scene after another, which is fine, but I personally like it more, if it's sprinkled throughout the whole game. Not just the mid- to endgame (but this is a more subjective opinion).

The thing why it's only 4 stars is mainly the repetitiveness. I understand the focus are the sec-scenes, but the game becomes repetitive rather quickly.

Loved the mechanics of the game. The hotel management plus the handling of the staff. I liked it that you can also just cheat for faster sexy times.

Art is amazing, gameplay is great, the characters are also very unique and non-stereotypical mostly.

Great game!

"Mystwood Manor" is a really good game. One of the best i played since a long time... and it's completed ! something that happens so rarely (or after so many years) for these kind of games that it's worth celebrating.

The most positive point that come to my mind are the graphics and girls : Graphics are great and the girls are all really hot.... each with their own different physic and style. I particulary felt for Laura... but it's obviously subjective (this Laura.. what a bombshell).
The animations are a bit short (too short... often a single classic "comes and goes") but more worked than usual in terms of keyframing and movement.

An other very good point is that the story and ambiance are good too. I liked the gameplay even if it's a bit repetitive (but which of these games are not ?).
It's definitively one of the top tier games here as i really had pleasure playing it.

On the negative side... with so much effort put in girls graphics, clothes and animations... I wish there were more scenes (or longer ones).
I tend to think that most gamers will have a favorite girl and fetish.. an you'll probably be disappointed in that regard. For exemple, if you fall for Laura as a nurse (like me)... there is only 1 scene with her. Same for Laura as pool girl. No scene with Amber as maid...ect...ect...

I think it's a common "problem" in sex-games with too much diversity : Some of these feature 12 or 15 girls... and if you greatly prefer one to the others, you'll end up disappointed to have only one short scene with your favorite one.

That been said... it's a good game.
Good work and i'll wait to see what next will do this creator.

First thing first I should probably start with the fact that this is a biased score and that my opinion is...let's face it kinda worthless.

This review is not objective in any way and shouldn't be taken too seriously. Now why am I starting this with useless dribble when I gave it 5 stars. Well if it was a different game from a different author it wouldn't have been worth 5 so that's why.

Man of the House is one my of favorite games of all time and probably the only porn game I've ever replayed more than once. And this feels like the order in which the games came out was reversed. If this was Faerin's first game and MotH was the next project I would be able to understand some of the things that happened here. Unfortunately that's not the case and that makes this project...a disappointment.

Now for the why.
Gameplay. Nothing wrong here on the contrary I liked some of the systems implemented quite a lot. The tarrot cards the equipment slots the management stuff were all fine and I never really felt like I hate the time I am spending on it (that said I did play with the cheat mod) some of the UI stuff was a bit annoying like not being able to save in some screens and having to manually claim the next tier of each character felt kinda weird. But overall I would say that this was an improvement and that I liked the fact that I had to play the game to get the scenes. As it should be in case of a porn GAME.

Characters. Now here comes the problem. I'll start with the good stuff which is the protagonist even though he still felt a bit wimpy in some cases and he was needlessly short (bit of a manlet ) but otherwise decent looking and semi-decently behaving male protagonist with a dick that fits a porn game not the pinky finger some of the other protagonists rock (twist :/). Female characters though...not so great. First thing first and this is just my opinion I obviously have no idea what the general paying customer wants...but I am slowly getting tired of the absolutely perfect female models most porn games use these days. Perfect waistline gravity defying huge breasts (don't get me wrong I love big and small but uh...when they look and move like a piece of plastic stuck on the body it's just...not very erotic) characters supposedly in their 40s with no wrinkles no blemishes nothing it just feels wrong...and here I am going to be hypocritical considering the fact that even though I'd like to see a bit more...realism in the bodies of the female characters I'd like to see way less realism in their behaviour. I don't like loose used goods in my porn games. Obviously it's a whole different thing when the game/novel/manga bends over backwards to make every single female character a virgin that has never seen nor touched a male being before the protagonist. But I really don't want the real world equivalents of instagram attention whores with 50 orbiters on each finger in my escapism. So yeah would've appreciated a bit more of...naivety/innocence and a bit wider age range. The fact that Lady Emily has no scenes is an absolute travesty. Same with Karen who was the only female character that seemed to have a not so perfect body type and yet no scenes with her. Missed opportunity. Outside of that yeah the faces of some of the characters from 1st person PoV were...scary to say the least. The teeth... The progression of each character was pretty much the same compared to the huge variety that MotH had it felt sad. Same with the actual sex scenes there was a bit of masturbation then oral then vaginal and 2 whole scenes of anal from which 1 was textbased only since you couldn't even see the penetration. No range of fetishes and pretty much no difference in the personalities of the women. And the repeatable scenes were literally 3 super short loops and that was it. Again huge difference compared to the MotH. So yeah huge letdown compared to the previous game. The side characters had a few more differences and a bit more potential but unfortunately their "questlines" were rather short and the female side characters that got a scene were again...the same resulting personality the same perfect body without a single fault.

Story. I don't know. I did not read it. I got the general premise I read some of the dialogues but outside of that...I just did not feel like it was worth it. The english was good don't get me wrong and it wasn't...completely empty. But again I have to compare it to the previous game that I played through multiple times and READ through multiple times. No free-roam after the ending was again something that was just straight up missing.

Overall...I am still rating it with 5 stars. Because compared to the utter garbage some of the developers scam their not so bright patreon supporters with for a decade straight this is still a great game. Just not what I expected from a developer that made the best game I've played from this site. I really hope the next project will be great and I see no reason why it shouldn't be since Faerin has always been a decent person communicating properly and delivering content worth supporting. I wish Faerin the best and hope he is doing great and that my shitty review won't make him feel bad.

This is a great game but girls' frontal shots are extremely creepy and that ruins many scenes. In addition I didn't like the repeatability of girls's corruption progress. It always has the very same route. How I hated Annika's route where there were 3 or 4 almost equal scenes in sauna again ruined by creepy not only fronal but also wet shots. Same with Catalina's yoga sessions, but she at least was sexy there. The final Tier of relationships was disappointing too. Only Julia, Hana and Kay have a completely unique event at the end. In addition there's no MC's character growth: as he was staring at girl's boobs or ass at the beginning of the story being a 17y.o. virgin, same he is staring at them having fucked half of the staff near the end of the game remaining a 17yo virgin in mind.
Overall, this game has a great teasing start(though may seem too slow for smb), great intrigue at the middle but also large disappointment at the end, not that it's that bad but because of the lost potential to be a 5-star masterpiece.
Beginninng 5/5
Middle part 5/5
Final part 4/5 because of lost potential

A very well done management game with bits of porn and a pretty decent plot. Maybe a bit light on the porn side, but thanks to the well done models and repeatable scenes that part gets well covered, still the strongest point of the game is the management section, with several times opting to play the game only to advance in that matter. Worth donating some money and wait for the next game.

The Good:

• Solid management Concepts​
• engaging story with a good element of mystery.​
• Great renders and scenes​
• Specific mode made to skip management if you just wanna get off​

The Bad:

• The system for progressing with girls require's you to claim their level from their page in management view. personally I would prefer it to automatically claim
• destiny levels max at 3 meaning if you are trying to get the tier 3 cards you end up losing a lot of points
• Sometimes progression with a girl you are trying to level up directly conflicts with managing

I found this to be one of the more enjoyable games to play. For me the hotel management aspect was entertaining in itself.

I thought the girls looked good, Hanna being my favorite even though I usually don't go for a lot of tattoos. I always appreciate it when the models have more realistic body proportions.

The story line was good, though the ending was a little telegraphed, no surprising twists here. I place a lot of importance on writing and it did just fine.

I definitely recommend this one and it's one I'll play through again.

[After playing final version v.1.1.0]

Enjoyable game, the managing options are entertaining themselves (though they can be a bit repetitive towards the end), character relationships are nice, the story is a bit worse, but good enough to keep it all together and let the relationship between the characters build, and sex scenes are good both in render quality and execution. Very recommendable game.

This is a very good game, no bugs throughout my game.
Nice story.
Good management gameplay, the graphics are nice.
For all those who like management I invite to play it and for the others I invite you to make your own idea.
Easy gameplay, the difficulty increases throughout the game,
But still manageable.

I like the idea for the game, you run a hotel while unlocking a story and sexy content.

Unfortunately everything in this game suffers from repetitiveness in every way.

Let's start with the gameplay, once you get the hang of the game, it becomes trivial and extremely repetitive. Even with new girls and hotel amenities being unlocked, it remains uninteresting.

You can go pretty hard at optimizing characters with items and taro cards, but none of it is necessary as the difficulty of the game is quite low. Most players probably won't care enough to try anyways since we're focused on unlocking all the sexual content.

Next the sexual content, every girl's content is unlocked in the same way:

Night time encounters for every girl has the same order
The same sound effects are used for every scene
We do a vertical/horizontal pan on every girl
and so on and so on

It's the same script for every girl with variations depending on their characteristics.

The story is not the main focus of this game and is not good enough to keep the player interested.

Mystwood Manner (1.1.0 version) is not a perfect game but it is a good game. The core gameplay is a simple yet fun management game in which we control, improve and organize work in our hotel. Nothing ground breaking but it is done well and is a very fun experience, though some parts are underdeveloped (like many of the locations). The story itself is interesting in the general plot, but the stories of each girl is less interesting in itself. But there is in general a nice vibe to it that makes you want to see how it advances.

Character models are not the best, but are pretty good. Animations do their job but are a bit basic in some points. Sound also has a limited impact, but does its job reasonably well.

So, all in all, a game worth playing.

Mystwood Manor being a game made by the creator of my favourite game was always something i was looking forward to. Now I could finally experience this game in its full and completed glory. And i have to say, i'm disappointed.

Mystwood Manor is a game with actual gameplay. And that gameplay is pretty good. It's working pretty well and it's somewhat adicting, especially in the first hours of play. We're working as a hotel manager, we're renovating and opening new rooms in our hotel and sending our girly stuff to work and satisfy the guests. This is fine and all. It works pretty well, it's nicely designed and executed. We have different guests, different girls with different skills, we can train those girls and improve their skills, give them different items and cards with different bonuses. If someone is looking for a game with proper gameplay mechanics this is the game for them. What is disappointing in this game it its adult part. It feels completely lackluster and underdeveloped. We have 8 different girls, every one of them have 15-16 events with them. Most of those events are just a waste of time. They're very generic and boring. 75% of them, in every girl case, are only talking with occasional flirting and teasing. That wouldn't be a bad thing if those dialogues were interesting, if those girls we're talking to were interesting, have some depth and we would get to know them better. Unfortunately all those girls are very shallow and have no depth and any character development outside of them getting more and more horny and lawd thanks to that place, that hotel having this effect on people. Yes, this game have some paranormal stuff in it, ghosts, curses and mysterious fog. I really don't like those things in a porn game. It always feels cheap and out of place. Ours relationships with the girls just feels very forced and unnatural. No real connection between MC and them. Their progression system also could be better. Some events are locked behind having some specific room unlocked beforehand or require specific progress level with other girl. You can easily find yourself in a situation where you are not able to progress with one girl for hours because you don't have some room open, thanks to opening other rooms first and not having enough money for next pricey room at the moment. That's just not fun when game doesnt let you do something you want to do. I mentioned earlier that girls have 15-16 events with them. Only last 3 or 4 of them contain sex. That's just not enough, every girl have the same slow progression. For hours you won't see anything sexy. There should be some diversity here, different pacing with different girls. Some events even feel literally the same.

Talking about adult content we have to talk about renders, models and animations. They're just ok. I think in 2022 that's not enough. Many older games have far better animations and more detail models. There is some diversity in girls body types, breasts sizes and looks, so that's a good thing. Sex scenes itselfs are also quite disappointing, they're very short, have only one or two camera angles and one ok-ish animation. Again, many older games have far better, far more hotter sex scenes. They're serviceable i guess, but i expected something better. Nighttime repeatable scenes are also disappointing. Many repeated positions and animations. The one thing i want to mention here is the Gallery feature. It consists some "bonus" renders with girls. This is the thing which just screams UNFINISHED. Some of the girls only have pictures with while they sleep. Like what is this? With so many different rooms, there should be tons of those renders with different girls working in different rooms (like gym, sauna, pool) with their more and more skimpier outfits. Wouldn't that be hot? Wouldn't that be some reward for all your managing? The very recent Halloween update shows this perfectly. Some of the girls didn't even get their Gallery picture with their new Halloween outfit. Just a wasted potential. The last thing i have to mention, it was the same damm thing in previous game by Faerin: no proper harem route. Only this very short bonus, final ending. Why?

Overall Mystwood Manor is a solid game if we're talking about gameplay but severely disappointing in terms of actual porn. It feels like this game was not really created with sex content in mind. Gameplay was the main focus, everything else was just not important. That's why the game end up with generic story, generic girls with little to no personality, slow progression with uninteresting events and finally disappointing sex scenes. This is not a bad game, it has some nice gameplay mechanics but from this developer i was expecting something more, something better. In my opinion, if you're not able do make game with good both gameplay and adult content, you should always prioritize adult content. Porn game with good adult content but with bad gameplay or no gameplay at all still could be good. While porn game with disappointing porn fails as a porn game even with good gameplay.