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

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.

good: almost everything- image quality, the girls (small and big ass/tits and not all just huge tits and asses, pretty rare, different hair colors, one girl with tattoos!), the story, the management of the hotel and the minigames, the hint system, most of the incest, the sound and songs, the humor!, and probably much more.

less good: the video part of the game- looks very mechanic, and the sound is of only the girl's moaning. its not that big of a deal but some games add the fucking sound, the fucking looks real and with a few more positions of sex (though in the end there are tons of positions, just spread around all the girls).
about the incest part-could have been a bit more hesitant and emphasize the incest part, but im just being too hard if im being honest, it was pretty good.
also MC can be kinda dumb sometimes, especially in the end , but its kinda funny lol

love u dev, u make great games! hope u will keep on going while having a good time and having a good life!

The game is fun but compared to the previous one by the same author, I found this one lacking a bit of attachment to the characters. You get 8 girls who are diverse, but I felt no real build up of the relationships.
Also, the family incest part is so "quick" to happen and without question that it destroys in my opinin, the whole point of the incest fact.

Also, the game is a bit repetitive and requires a bit of farming.

Animations are good, but only a few of them for each girls and with fixed threesomes scenes, an aspect which could have been used to give a lot more diversity.

So not a bad game, but a little bit disappointing for me.

The story is correct. I expected the reveal since almost the beginning so I was not really into the plot.

Mystwood Manor [v1.1.0 Hotfix] [Faerin]


Pros

• A nice story emphasizing incest as well polyamorous. Expressing the incest approach by mom’s little reluctance to give-up the morality well expressed.
• Excellent quality of image renders. Pictures of characters are more realistic; more lively images and more expressive the feeling as the dialogues like expressing the females blushes and the reactions pretty well.
• Excellent quality of animations; Also, some detailed view of pussy & the ass hole being contacting as soon as the cock withdrawal subsequent to the sexual intercourse
• Performance and grammar are all just OK no issue
• Lot of contents; pretty interestingly directed well.
• Mini games are inbuilt; like dialogue for example the interactions with the gambler guest

Cons

• Lack of hints for game progress; especially no hint when all the steps of the particular level tasks have been completed but the reward is not able to get and simply you need to repeat/continue other activities until it progress; meaning there are some other link like time or other hidden activity that controls the progress that makes frustration. While reading the review / queries’ I guess that many players have the same issue. So little bit improvement in the hint system would help the most of the players
• Playability: Roll back only the dialogue texts are rewinding but the images doesn’t
• The author checking us the player knowledge by quizzes and answer method is kind of funny and makes you to fed up. In a way the player is forced to follow the story very carefully else end up in repeating again and again

Overall too good/interesting; looking forward for the improved versions / such new games from the developer

This game is significantly better than the sum of it's parts . The models are good, not great. The sex scenes are decent. The story itself is very good. I enjoyed the management aspect of it, but it's hardly a Tycoon game...but it all comes together really well. Absolutely one of my favorite games on the site.

It drags a little mid-to-late game, but the automation upgrade you can buy takes a lot of the sting of that away. Items seem like they should play a bigger role, but I enjoyed the card mechanic.

The variety of women is a big feature and the costume changes (which are a thing for me) are one of my favorite parts.

Overall, great game. Can't recommend enough.

Mystwood Manor is a very polished, good looking visual novel and a very bland management sim. The writing feels generally above par, although it's a little predictable. The major crack in the polish is the incredibly mediocre sound - royalty free music you've probably heard before and all of the girls make the exact same handful of sounds during scenes with them.

As for the hotel management, the developers seem to think that a grind makes a game. I cheated my ass off to get through the content, and it still took me ~12 hours to get through. I suspect if I hadn't, it would have taken at least double that.

I'm basing my score on the fact that the game is complete and functional, both of which set it apart from the majority of what you'll find here. However, I'm not overly enthusiastic about it.

Probably a worthy successor to MoTH, with the possible exception of the endings. MoTH had more endings and each of those endings were comprehensive and contained multiple scenes.

On the other hand MM's base gameplay loop was more satisfying, with earning money being a part of base progression rather than something you do on the side instead of base progression in order to afford progressing.

Maybe there'll be some cool DLC involving Libby, the one that got away.

I really enjoyed the game, great graphics and a interesting story.

The inbuilt guide is great and allowed the game to be easily completed.

It was a bit grindy, to get all the tarot cards, but that could have been my bad planning.

I look forward, to future games.

Noice, another great game done from a consistent and hard working developer. To think it's almost been 3 years already, really looking forward to the next creation down the line and hope the dev has a great break in between!

Basically a Business simulation game with some lewd scenes. But the gameplay is fun and the scenes are good. Story was forseeable at some point, but it was good enough to make you want to see the end. Will keep you occupied for some days, so give it a go!

Enjoyed playing this to the end. A bit vanilla but the music/effects can be made quiet and it is the kind of game you can play while doing/watching/listening to something else. A bit vanilla. Karen McQueen and the lady from the Forest Queen deserve their own game...

I liked "Man of the House", so I decided to play "Mystwood Manor" by Faerin. This game differs in style from the previous game, and at first I did not understand why it was necessary to develop the hotel, then over time I was so fascinated by it that I was sad when the game ended.

This is one of those games where you play a timid MC running a hotel. There's a main supernatural mystery story to go along with the relatively vanilla porn game. It was pretty interesting to do the management section but got boring fairly quickly. Even with cheats, it still took me 7+ hours to beat it and I didn't even max out all the girls. Almost all the normal events with girls are just slice of life dialogue which can be skipped since it's pretty shallow. You don't get to any of the sexual stuff until the very high tiers. Overall, an average experience.

Excellent game, the idea of manage the hotel while you search the mystery of the land and get to know the girls is great. this game make you to follow every story line.
Also i think that the story lines can be better more detailed and more interaction with the girls, and also some interaction between stuff members could also work, to make the game play longer.

Story is great, love the writing too. However, I'm only giving this 4 stars because the gameplay is super grindy. Not that it's a bad thing to have in a game, but it really slows the gameplay down. Especially in this case where it could take in-game days for me to get the ending I want. Other than that, not bad.

I had not played the game since very early on and I thought it seemed well made, with a lot of potential, but with no content so decided to wait.

Fast forward to game being completed, this is honestly worst grind fest I've played in a really long time.
And there is little to nothing to do while you grind, with almost no rewards along the way. you have to wait to near the end of the game for sexy time, and the grind to get to the end was way too long and boring.

Also the game/bank wouldn't even tell you how much money you need to pay off debt, it's $200,000 I think, which was HOURS of grinding, after having finished literally everything else in the game, and that was with cheats, i can't imagine what it would be without cheats, days?

When you get to the end and unlock things like night time visits, you notice very quickly that the animated snipets are repeated between characters. What I mean is they replace a female in the scene, with a different one in the same scene, and rerender with the same camera angles, same pose same everything. And I said snipets cuz the are short AF.
Really felt like they didn't want any porn in the game , but put it in cuz they had to.

That said the graphics and animations are done well
But feels like the focus was only really on the UI which is pretty good, on par with mobile games.
One part of the UI that is not great is the "frame" that is unremovable I think it was ok looking for the first hour but then I just wanted to turn it off. As well I use and OLED screen, I don't like static elements on screen for 40+ hrs, I don't wanna burn my screen out.

The game had/has potential, but I wonder if anyone on the developement team has tried to play it from begining to end in one go. It's not a fun grind, and I like some grind in my games, but this is next level boring.

I didn't play story mode, but I would suggest skipping the "game" mode and try story mode to see if it's any better.

Really disapointed with how this ended up as I thought this was going to be a good fun game, when I fisrt tried it, but it's not.

Reviewed at version 1.0.2
SPOILER FREE REVIEW

TL;DR: It's an okay game, worth of at least one playthrough; using cheats is highly advised.

My Overall Score: 6.5/10

*****

Story: It starts with a decent story, nothing wow worthy but decent nonetheless, however as you move more and more towards the end of the game, and specially mid-game, the story and the writing turn weaker and weaker.

Gameplay: Grind... lots and lots of boring grind, even using cheats it was still grindy, and that's not something easy to implement. there are certain caps on a few resources that made even using cheats to be somewhat grindy.

The gameplay itself is a form of management/quiz type of thing, nothing interesting.

Also another thing to note is that this game is pretty much just 'click to go to the next scene' type of thing, there are very few dialogue options and they don't matter at all anyway, so it's a very linear game. the only flexibility it gives you is the option to choose what girl to pursue, however that also has it's limits, because at certain points it expects you to have leveled up some girls to proceed with another girl's story.

Also for some reason there is no notification or alert when a girl is ready to be leveled up, which was really annoying, often times one of the girls was ready to be leveled and I didn't know and just kept playing for sometime until I noticed it.

The amount of H-Scenes is moderate, not very few, but also not a lot of them. and they kinda start getting repetitive, specially the 'repeatable' scenes, some of them are literally the same scene and just the girls are replaced in the same animation/setting.

Girls/Assets: Probably the strongest feature of this game is it's hot characters, but that's about it. they kinda have their own personalities and such but the writing is executed poorly and your progressions with them eventually end up disappointing.

There are animations, but don't expect anything amazing.

I really enjoyed MotH and held high hopes for this title, coming from the same dev. Disappointing, is putting it mildly.

MADDENING grind, with no end in sight.
Gawdawfully few sex scenes and they are hidden behind FAR too much grind.
What sex there is, is a clear case of "too little, too late".
You're supposed to be a Hotel Manager, but you can not decide when to hire whom. The employees to be, are brought forth by the story, in succession, depending on what you have so far unlocked. Your 1st non-family employee, Riley, comes with 2 of 3 skills that you cant even use when you hire her. (And hire her you must, for your sis and mom cant take up ALL the slack by themselves)

The story, contrary to many others, was the only thing that really held my interest. Still, even that develops too slowly.

All in all...too little progression, requiring too much time to achieve, and giving far too little reward.

Honestly really disappointed with this game. I had high hopes as I enjoyed Man of the House a lot, but the grind in this game is unreal. There are HOURS spent doing the same tasks over and over again, just to see a few brief scenes. In the beginning the gameplay was interesting, but it after a few hours it wears out its welcome and just becomes a hassle. The art is good for the most part, but there are a few facial expressions that are just bad, and really needed another pass. The game appears to be a sandbox when you first start, but you quickly realize there is actually very little to do in each area. Hell, one of the first areas you can explore has no purpose at all until you have the final girl, about 6 hours into the game, and even then it's only used for one scene and nothing else ever happens there.

Honestly just a poor showing, and I can't recommend this game to anyone unless you really enjoy the hotel management loop