Unity - Completed - Paradise Lust [v1.1.5c] [Flexible Media]

This game is pretty good. I really like the art and the writing is okay for the most part, however the whole experience was heavily weighed down by time wasting mechanics and an incredibly monotonous grind.

I'm not even sure why they have all the grind in this game. Normally this level of time wasting is only employed by games with a dearth of content desperately trying to ensure any players who bought it on steam burn 2 hours before they realize how little content there is. Thats not a problem here. Theres a pretty fair amount of content that would take far more than 2 hours to explore even with all the grinding removed.

Since even the game developer realizes that the grind is annoying (see Grace's complaints about having to gather bananas to get underwear), I can only assume this stuff was added to give the game texture beyond reading. But if youre going to add stuff to do, why not make it a proper mini game? Simply telling us to go click on a png of a banana isn't fun and pretty much anyone is going to get annoyed after the 3rd or 4th time theyre asked to do it, especially since we're here primarily for the story and adult content, and even more so because the bananas and bamboo growth seems to be rng! Instead why not make it some sort of test of skill or quality? If you want a positive example of what I mean, go look at the game PMC promiscuity. They have their content and progress locked behind affection hearts which are earned through mini games. However unlike the bamboo and banana collection in this game, their mini games are usually a test of skill. For example they have a shooting range, an object sorting mini game, and the memory game, where depending on your score you can earn 1-3 hearts where only around 5 hearts are needed to progress. That means players who are engaged will progress rather quickly where as players aren't paying attention, not trying, or just completely suck get punished with additional grind. Provided that the rewards for playing well sufficiently shorten the grind, you've added gameplay, a mild sense of accomplishment and a reward/punishment system which will help keep the player more engaged and less frustrated, all by just adding an assessment of quality. Now I know thats very easy of me to say and a lot of work for the developer, but they've already shown their willingness to add additional minigames that youre only going to play once or twice the entire playthrough where as the bannanna and bamboo gathering you have to do all the time. If youre going to put the work in to make mini games, put it in the most visible spots, not the one time I have to reconstruct a radio antenna or whatever.

That was my primary complaint. The only other issue I had was with the depth of relationships. I get that this was meant to be a light hearted sort of harem game, but even by the end the MC and the girls didnt really seem all that emotionally invested in each other, they were more like bang buddies than anything more meaningful. I mean half the girls seem more invested in each other than MC. For a game trying to center itself on its relationships and story and with a couple dozen hours of content I was just hoping for some more progress/depth relationship wise. They didnt seem to tap any of the interesting relationship drama elements that could have been explored in a cast-away scenario. Its sort of a hard issue to put into words and mostly comes from the writing prior to the conclusion of the game where they deus ex machina the problems out of existence, so please try to stick with my poorly worded observations on the shallow nature of these relationships. Most of these relationships start out centered on MC and a girl, each from a different nation. During the game each of them enter a relationship with the MC both to get laid and out of genuine appreciation for the material help and emotional support he provides. But thats about as far as it goes. The writers did address that everyone on the island sort of wanted to stay in touch after they left the island, but for all their conviction to remain connected, none of them seem to consider the relationship when deciding their future plans. The assumption in each case is that it will likely end, but each character has some sort of line like " if you ever need me I'll come visit" but to me that trivializes their bond. Like, MC is more or less guaranteed to have to go back to America but every girl has their own plots and plans for their lives after they leave the island all of which dont involve the MC in any way whatsoever. None of them seem to consider giving up their past lives, many of which actively made the girls miserable, in favor of what they've found on the island. Very few try to make concrete plans involving the MC after the island, and the MC doesnt try to involve any of them in his own life after the island. This is in addition to the myriad of lesbian relationships between many of the girls, which do make plans for their lives after the island, make the MC feel very much like a disposable third wheel.

All in all its an okay game. Good art, and its animated which is always impressive for games not using prebuilt models. But between some writing issues and the grind I cant say its one of my favorites.

I wasn't going to review this game until I started reading some of the other reviews. Overall, the game was pretty good with smooth graphics and attractive models. Even the MC is tolerable.

The Bad:
-The automatic pandering done to those "in power" who are only in power because they say they are is very annoying and unrealistic. There is no option to dethrone them, or to simply beat them into submission, which is what would happen in reality since they are so insufferable.
-Also, just a note, the system those in power set up is NOT CAPITALISM. When those in power seize and control the funds (poker chips) and chose to disperse monies for things that they didn't create but also seized, that is Socialism. Later in the game, those in power also decide to just raise prices (for revenge) which again isn't Capitalism which is driven by supply and demand.
-It seems to me the Dev wanted to take jabs at Capitalism, which is fine, but at least know what you're talking about if you are going to criticize.
-The game began to get very grindy for me, particularly the fetching quests where you have to collect certain items. The cooldown of the gathered items was insane and made it even more grindy, particularly when collecting them burned time from your day.
-I wanted to rate the game much higher but I just can't get passed some of the grinding and the long-winded conversations (and texting) between the characters. I know it was set up so that there was some background and personality development but that can be done without having to sit down and yap for hours on end. Also, a lot of the filler conversation was exactly that, banal boring info that we players could do without.

This game seems like it's gonna be a survival story where a loser protagonist proves his worth, but it's not, don't be fooled if that seemed interesting to you.

It belongs to the type of game where a bunch of sexy people hang out on a tropical paradise and there's not much tension. If that's a setting you like go for it. For me, it's dull as dishwater because there's very little tension, at least when I stopped playing. I was running the upteenth errand for some lazy assholes, and I just said fuck it. The sex scenes are too few and far between to entice me to keep going. The conversations are rather boring and they just keep going and going.

The visuals are really nice, but the characters blab endlessly and it feels like a waste of time.

Im giving 5 stars bcs of the crazy office bitch and the ukranian chick.

Objectively its 4 stars.
Do timed busy work and collect items to unlock scenes.
Its not to grindy and its worth but if you read every girls dialogue then you will sit in front of this for like 40h.

I only payed attention to the top tier girls.
Overall its a solid adventure style island story.

Top Tier Game. I kept up with it through development, playing multiple times and it holds up. Works great on mobile. Lots of girls with different character. Interesting locations. Good art. Looking forward to the second one.

This is really a dumb game.

You get stranded on a tropical island with sexy chicks and what do you do?

You set up a Wish version of Capitalism, of course. Because it's so fun to do meaningless, stupid fetch quests in exchange of poker chips.

Could you, you know, kick a few people in the teeth and just tell them to go fuck themselves? Yes, you could (plus, you have a FUCKING MACHETE on hand) but the game designers are so lacking in imagination that you gotta handle their uninteresting, shitty gameplay loop. Otherwise, no progression.

Also, you just have to get along with the worst piece of shit of a character you could ever design on a porn game. You have to deal with a literal Karen, otherwise, no progress either.

That is neither funny, nor fun.

Art is okay. You dig it, you don't, that's a matter of taste. Objectively, the sexy times are a bit on the weak side; the main variations comes mostly from the dialogues, not a real exploration of the kama sutra.

One of my all-time favorite adult games, Paradise Lust has a romcom feel, quite sweet and romantic with just the right amount of humor. The artwork is high quality 2D, and looks like a remaster of those classic Lucas Arts point-and-click adventures. The sounds and music are also on-point and enhance the atmosphere. Gameplay consists mostly of fetch quests and flirting with girls to improve your standing, which then unlock new scenes and/or different parts of the game. There are also a bunch of minigames that include coloring in sexy pictures, matching shapes, completing circuits, taking apart stuff in the correct order, etc. These were generally entertaining, but you can auto complete all of them so it should not become too tedious.

The girls are all very attractive with mostly distinct personalities and quirks. I kind of like the cartoony look, which is a welcome change from the standard Daz3D models. The relationships are mostly (with one very obvious exception) romantic, with the MC and LI slowly falling in love. This can feel a bit strange with more than ten love stories unfolding at the same time with the same male lead, but the girls are all okay with it, so just switch on porn logic and all should be well!

Even though the game has a romcom feel, the sex scenes can be quite hot and varied with good animations, although it does feel as if some girls received more attention than others. A couple of scenes towards the end of the game also feels a bit bland, but I guess that is inevitable with so many girls, each with about four scenes. One slight complaint; with this many girls I would have expected more threesomes and/or lesbian scenes, but these are extremely rare and mostly confined to the beginning of the game. It almost appears as though the game’s supporters had a vote and the developer decided to disregard girl-on-girl action. A missed opportunity for me.

Finally, the very best thing about this game is that the MC is not a complete pervert. Some have complained that he is a spineless beta, acting like a servant/slave to the girls. I felt that he was just a normal, caring human being (if you ignore the multiple falling in love thing!), helping out the girls with their various problems. One scene in the beginning of the game sums it up. The MC was in a girl’s cabin when night fell, and the scene changed to her sleeping. I just rolled my eyes and braced myself for the compulsory perving/groping/rape scene. But no, he just stated that she needed her privacy and left, behaving like a decent human being. Right there I knew I’d love this game. I was not wrong, it is one of the best.

I had to 'review my review' after i played all the way through the game. I wanted to go down to 3 starts but that would be unfair given the technical quality of this products, where everything looks professional and works smoothly.

Unfortunately gameplaywise this game has huge issues, that we could summarize in "overbloathed and repetetive".

While it's not strictly a grinding game it has strong grinding elements, like having to collect a currency so you can go buy quest items or having to score relationship points with the ladies while at the same time having ro progress in their quests.

Absolutely redundant, but it would have been ok if the game was half the lenght it is and you weren't forced to literally repeate the same quest over and over.

For example, i think at last 5 or 6 times one of the girls have a little melt down and go hiding somewhere in the island and MC has to look for her. Even multiple times the same girl. For fuck's sake, they are adults, they can come back on their legs.

I think i had to collect at last 60-70 bamboo poles which have a cooling time of days to grow back as any resource on the island and sometimes quests are like 'pick up that resource three times' and you have to wait 2 times for it to grow back.

Some of the girl have been portraited in the painting minigame 4 FUCKING TIMES.

And don't get me started with the words minigame.

Days are way too short, actionwise, and my 'life' on the island lasted almost a year (despite the dialogs assume that you just spent there 2-3 months).

But you know why i wanted to give it 3 stars?

After all this extenuating gameplay...

THERE. IS. NO. FUCKING. ENDING.

The game just basically informed you that the events got resolution, THE END.

You don't even get to know if MC will carry on any relationship with any of the girls.

GUYS, THIS IS A FUCKING DATING SIM!

i like how much content is in the game for each girl. firstly, the 2d art and sprites already do look pretty, but the sex animations bring it up another level. one thing I appreciated is that as someone who knows a lot of about Filipino culture, I was really impressed by how the writers handled Reyna. the plot is nothing special but serviceable in this type of game.
i would say the only big negative are the fetch quests and the grind.

Not a terrible experience and I was pretty hooked for a while; even with all the grinding and fetch quests I had a good time. The flaws outweigh the positives however and you'll eventually grow tired of some of these characters and the weird pacing that throws you off a bit.

Girls are pretty, the game is well designed mechanically and feels very smooth and modern. Animations aren't too bad either but the story, grind, writing, and pacing aren't worth it.

There's a girl that talks about herself in the third person for a majority of the game... and it's the black chick... like come on.

This gave is a lie. It claims to be about an abandoned island full of hot chicks to seduce. Then you get the, the first two you run into cuck you. Then you run into a Karen that wants you to be her slave. Denying her cuts off multiple paths. The 3rd quest involves you finding out that some dude has already setup camp and forces you into capitalist servitude. You have to work for him for money. If I wanted to work for it I would get a 2nd job.

There's 100 reviews so it's difficult not to say what has already been said. To keep it short, this is probably h-game of the year. The few negatives for this game don't ruin it in the slightest. They're things that I believe could've been handled better, but they don't harm the game enough to matter (to be honest, they're more so complaints than negatives). With that said, you should definitely buy this game. For note: I'm someone who played it after the full release and I did not follow this game during the many years of development. Additionally, I'm pessimistic so I hope that this review being the first 5-star rating I've given to any game on this website (out of like 70 reviews) holds some bit of merit. The negatives section of my review contains spoilers as I can't really talk about the negatives without directly mentioning certain things.

Negatives

1. The main one is that despite being the most important girl story-wise, the "first girl," the girl in the most h-scenes, the only girl with a unique bedroom transfer scene, and one of the few characters to have a threesome (tied for the most as well); Cath probably has the most neglected h-scenes. I know, that sounds odd with everything I just stated but hear me out. Her BJ scene is reused with 2 other girls, her from-the-back scene is reused with Gabby (it's also unlocked right after the Gabby scene is unlocked), her waterfall and lake scenes are fairly tame and borderline lame porn-wise (they're good for the story, just not the porn), and in her threesomes it feels like Gabby is the focus of both scenes. That just leaves her cowgirl scene, which itself is really good. Cath is the most developed and important female character in the story, so she should have had equal treatment in the porn department. Instead, she shares numerous scenes, has some of the worst unique scenes, and feels like a side character if you just look at her porn treatment. Hell, Karen is treated better on the porn front.
2. One other blemish is that Grace and Rachel don't have a threesome scene despite the story and basic h-game logic alluding to that eventually occurring. I was genuinely shocked when I unlocked the third threesome scene and it was Reyna and Maria. In the same vein, Reyna and Jenny were alluded to having a threesome as well via Jenny's dialogue, but nothing came of that. It's a bit odd.
3. I also feel as though the end game features less of the puzzles and other fun activities that were present in the early game. The early game just feels better, but that's not to say that the end game isn't fun as it's still a good time.
4. In my (likely unpopular) opinion, if this game cut out a couple of girls in order to increase the amount of h-scenes with the remaining cast, then it would've been more beneficial than having such a wide cast. It would have also given more time for greater character development of the rest of the cast. Many of the girls feel like they're just there for the porn, while others are there for both the porn and story. Those who fit in the former category could've easily been replaced with girls in the latter category. So the negative is that this game is a little too wide with the amount of women.

Positives
It's easier to focus on the negatives rather than the positives. Other than those things I mentioned, everything in this game is a hit and it is definitely h-game of the year. There is never a dull moment, grinds don't feel like grinds, the numerous mini-games are all fun, all of the girls are great, the dialogue feels human, there's not an overbearing amount of "sex text," and there is a lot of high-quality h-content available. All of this among many other things. In spite of my earlier negative, the girls are a nice variety of different ethnicities and backgrounds. It's a rarity in h-games (I also want to point out that this is one of the few h-games in which a black character properly looks like a black person). I've played many h-games over the years, honestly a sad amount... regardless, the amount of genuine 5-star games that I've played can be counted with my fingers and this game is one of those few. I wish every h-game was this good.

For the people looking for a nice free roaming experience, cheesy but endearing dialogue and good amount of hours of content, Paradise Lust can deliver all of that and more, for the good and bad parts of it.

I'd like to take the bad stuff out of the way first, some of the faces from the girls in specific moments througout the game can look bad, sometimes it feels like they draw over a picture of a real person and settle with that, sometimes the anatomy during the sex scenes can look ver wonky. The writing in their worst aspects can be very cheesy and dorky, and the development of the main conflict can feel very inconsequential, theres a few problems in the performance of the game that may affect you experience depending on your computer so be aware of that.

Now, I have to say that I love this game very much, the art style allows for a wide variaty of designs for the LI. yes, all of them are conventionally atractive, maybe the ones who weren't peagent models could be on the chubbier side, but I can live with that because the writing and effort in developing the character of the girls is very good, for them and the MC. The conversations you can have with them, the events and the settings bring a lot of charisma for this cast. Theres a good amount of variaty of for the sex scenes, althoug more positions during them could be an improvement, but what there is serves very well. I specially like that you can save the photos to your computer from the game, that's nice.
I feel the breaking point for many people with this game will be the writing, you either love it or hate it, if you can pass that then I can confidently say this game can be one your favorites.

The 2D Art and the soundtrack are excellent. Beautifully done.

Unfortunately, the fetch quests are tedious and repetitive. Also, I'm okay with having a lot of dialogue as long as these are engaging and help me be immersed in the story. The game has SO MUCH dialogue but these could have been tightened up and edited better.

Quite simply one of the best porn games I have ever played. Fun characters, good writing, sexy scenes. Looking forward to the sequel being finished.

There is a little bit of grind to get the girls maxed out for the proper ending, but it's not too bad, and that's really my only complaint with the game.

Every scene is animated, which is always a plus, and the characters are likeable and funny. A definite recommendation

I followed this game from start to end and i wanna say amazing like sure theres some problems here but other than that this is a completed game and believe me brother thats really rare to see here or even i can say that that a impossible tast to authors to make believe me i am not joking after seeing many games thast left to die here.

Art good.
Story good.
Mc is good.
Girls are good.

I like it if you have time play it.

Postives are the art is nice, and the game runs smoothly. It's got a nice premise.

The downside is the game's schizophrenic pacing. Things move incredibly fast and slow at the same time. You get whiplash. The first love interests you meet are already deep into relationship/commitment drama before the first day ends.

You get introduced to a bunch of love interests in rapid succession, then you have to grind up your relationships with them by slogging through endless banal dialouge. One love interest has sex with you within real-life moments of meeting her (in game a few hours), then you have to continue to grind up her relationship anyway.

The setting suffers from this too, you are all shipwrecked but turns out there's a fully functional luxury resort that needs a little cleaning. You just let two assholes set up a bullshit capitalist empire on a deserted island instead of just knocking their teeth in so the game can have a money system.

So you're off to run errands and go back and forth and back and forth, grinding through dialouge and doing some basic minigames. It's just unsatisfactory.

So, I am not a good rating person. I am just not excellent at it. I am giving the game 5 Stars so it moves up to around 4.5-4.7 Because that's how good it is in my opinion. It isn't a straight 5 it has minor flaws, but a lot of good things that outweigh the minor bad things.
1 The characters are pretty much all different and have different traits and likes. I found Tamara/Olga to be a bit under-written, if you will. She didn't have as much felt back round and interaction as the others. But a side from that the game is really fun and the Chars grow on you.
2. the renders are a mix of cute Type characters to Beautiful in the xxx scenes. The Animations are decent so not mind blowing but fun to watch and a lot of verity depending on the girl and type of her likes.
3 Story the story is decent and isn't the most bland. The game also doesn't take itself to serious, and makes jokes about itself.
4. You could even say there are a few side punches at the Elites and politics in the game, and doing so kind of to both the left and right side. Like the MC criticizing stupid aspects of Capitalism, and being lectured on the good aspects of it by a second Side Character. So this game has more then you would think.

Overall I spent around 30-35 hours and i was always hooked and always thought ... just another 30mins.. So give it a try I hope you like it as much as i did.

Game is woefully in love with pointless fetch quests with miles of banal dialogue to fill the space between sex scenes. The writing is plentiful and completely devoid of charm. Characters will just vomit out factoids about radio technology or gaming culture on and on. Even holding Ctrl to skip the whole time I played took forever to get through this fuckin tome. And then why am I playing it in the first place? I cant relate to the characters if Im not reading the story, and I cant read the story without getting bored.

The women are beautiful but also kinda too similar to each other. The sex is vanilla and the animations used are a little too unpolished to make up for the shortcomings in all the other areas. If it was sexier, or better written, or had some kind of interesting gameplay hook then these problems would not be so glaring but here we are. There are much better games worth your time.

If you like this style of game (visually) - I think this is 5 of 5 easy - Lovely scenes and evolving story. So happy for a Follow up Part 2 as this has room for so much more. Enjoing the approch vs. all the Renpy VN games (as much as there are some good ones there too) This reminded me of all Larry Leisure Suit games.