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

So this game is an absolute gem!
The characters are fun and unique, the story is great, the art is amazing and you get a lot of content!!!
It is very grindy, but that's what makes it so awesome, you get to experience the island and its environments. SOOOO GOOD.

I am coming in after it was in development for a bit and cannot say how the update process goes (good amount of content or weak), but what you get right now is far more than what you get for most completed games.

This game is a piece of art. When you have time and you feel like diving into a new mysterious story with a beautiful art style, this game is for you.

Review of version 0.18.0a:

Pros-
Nice art with a lot of content
Decent animated scenes
Wide variety of girls

Cons-
-There are long dry stretches where you are just running around doing menial quests all to get one little image (had a 3 hour play session that got me a couple photos of tits after dozens of quests)
-The quest system isn't very intuitive and often feels like the next step isn't proccing for a time.
-While it's humorous that they make fun of the capitalism, having to get chips for basically every quest which involves redoing boring mini games over and over is and absolute chore

I started playing this game since something like v0.12. As of the current v0.22, I can safely say it's the best free-roam harem game I've ever played. The writing skill level is apparently above and beyond standard porn games. The actual amount of interesting information contained in these dialogues shows some serious effort put into writing, whereas dialogues in a lot of other games are lengthy, tedious, cliché, hollow and skippable. The sense of humor is also quite enjoyable.
Character building is fantastic. Every girl has her own personality and psychological activities that are actually not stereotypical and feel very unique. In the meantime, unlike typical harem games where girls are weak, insecure, immature objects who suffer Dependent Personality Disorder and/or serve only as prizes for conquering, girls in this game are actually some awesome strong, independent and liberal females who know what they want and are not afraid of pursuing it. They're not some damsels in distress needing help, well occasionally some of them could be when they're having a hard time, but certainly not always. The point is, every girl in this game is mentally healthy (except, you know, one of them), independent and certainly unique individuals, which make them realistically much more attractive, at least to me. I love them.

Some other aspects of the game:
- The art is great. Personally comic style art is a minus, but this game outperforms my expectation. Just see for your self.
- The animation is not perfect, but still good enough.
- Audio experience is good too.
- Gameplay can be slightly grindy, but acceptable by me. It doesn't take long to trigger events. Minigames are short, not annoying and always skippable. Just use cheat code to get chips for swimsuits and lingerie, or whenever you feel too grindy.

Overall, a very enjoyable piece. Please consider buy the game on steam if you love this game.

I really like the game. Yeah, the minigames are pretty simple, but I like that. I definitely don't hate the story. And I really like how each of the girls is different, like not just different body types, but different kinks and styles of interaction.

Updated review for Paradise Lust v1.0.0G:

Overall: 4/5 - The game had a lot of growing pains, but it has now grown on me. If you like the artwork and you speak English, you will probably enjoy this game. It's not a masterpiece, but it is good-quality entertainment.

Story: 4/5 - The story isn't great, but it's a good setup for a porn game. It has some humor, too. The MC is a pushover, which is cliché in porn games, but probably the biggest downside is the author's references to current events/politics and slang that will eventually cause the game, and especially the humor, to become dated.

Writing: 4/5 - The writing is pretty good overall. Sometimes, I think the author is trying to be too witty or to stylized, and the slang is sometimes just cringeworthy.

Art/Renders: 4.5/5 - The art is great, the only reason I don't give it a 5/5 is because of the inconsistency. I assume there is more than one artist because a few of the girls are hardly recognizable as the same character between some renders and animations.

Animations: 4/5 - The animations aren't the smoothest, but they fit really well with the art style, and there are quite a lot of animations in the game.

Sound: 4/5: - The background music is OK, but definitely gets old after a while. Sound effects are good, too, although some of them, like the walking or swishing sounds when moving between areas, seem unnecessary, and algo get old after a while.

Gameplay: 3/5 - The gameplay is where this game is kind of a letdown. It's all over the place. The game is a mix of sandbox, point-and-click, resource/time management, and minigames. I imagine a lot of players are turned off by at least some of the gameplay.

• Sandbox: It's not terrible, but it's more tedious than it needs to be. Getting to some areas requires too many screens to click through. It needs a more granular map. Thankfully, the map can be used from any location, which is rare in sandbox games. There's also the fade-out/fade-in that happens every time you move between map locations, which adds to the tediousness.
• Point-and-click: This part of the gameplay minimal, so it's not bad. It does have inconsistencies where sometimes, the game has text to click on and sometimes there are hot spots in the graphics.
• Resource/time management: This is the part that adds grind to the gameplay. There are 4 times slots per day, but one slot is useful only for sleeping. The other 3 slots are also limited in how they can be used (e.g. resources can be gathered in the morning or day, but not evening).
• Minigames: The intellect required for the minigames ranges from kindergarten (match the flowers and painting), to grade school (Strppr app on the phone) to junior high (Woodle app on the phone). The only thing adult about them are the pictures and some of the cringy words in Woodle that you would only find on urbandictionary-dot-com (seriously, WTF?).
• Probably the worst part of gameplay is the time/reward trade-off for the most tedious and/or grindy parts of the gameplay: Woodle, Strppr, and repeating activities like swimming with the girls. They all lead to a reward of just a single render. To be totally fair, Woodle, Strppr, and swimming are optional, but damn, you'd think that you would at least get a whole scene instead of one render.

Playability/Bugs: 3/5 - When I first played this game at v0.21, it literally crashed every 15 minutes, but that was fixed by v0.25 and I haven't encountered any crashes since. Here are a few "bugs" that are still in the game. Unfortunately, these are design/architecture defects that are unlikely to ever be fixed.

1. The Quest/Hint system very frequently says "Get closer to <character>" to advance that character's quest and players can keep trying to improve the relationship, but nothing happens because there is actually something completely different needed to progress the quest. Typically, it is the progression of some other quest because there is some arbitrary dependency between the two quests.
2. The GUI has some broken features: When a dialogue is active, the GUI buttons for inventory/map/phone/clock are not functional, however they do highlight when you mouse-over them, which is supposed to be indication that they are functional. Conversely, the player can open the inventory or the phone which takes up nearly the entire screen, and still manipulate the map, or the clock, which seems wrong. At a minimum, the buttons that don't work should be grayed-out and not highlight when the player moves the mouse over them.
3. The game frequently indicates that the MC's relationship with a character is increasing (e.g. the game will display "relationship +3") even when there is no change in the actual relationship points because the relationship is at maximum or temporarily capped for some other reason. On top of that, at times where players want to check if the relationship is actually increasing (e.g., during conversations), they can't because the only way to check is with the phone, which is not available, so players have to save and reload the game just to see if they're making progress or wasting time.

Very well-paced game that creates a sense of consistent progression, as you won't really have much time where you're grinding without reaching any new scenes.
The minigames are creative and engaging, with the option to skip still appearing for those who aren't in the mood. The currency system is also done well enough to require a little bit of effort to earn money, but quick and engaging enough to prevent it from being annoying.
The scenes are fun, the characters have interesting personalities, and the game overall has a really nice atmosphere.

Another brilliant game which proves this is not sex scenes that matters the most but tension building and whole plot leading to them. Simple and brilliant game in its porn comedy sub-genre.
If:
- you like silly sex humor
- you are completionist (you hate choices, routes, missing content, timers etc.)
- don't like when every character jumps on MC cock in the first hour of the gameplay (you like slow or medium burners).*
- you like when characters have their own personality and background
- you like when characters interact with each other and not only with MC (in my opinion it helps to better show their personalities).

then this game is for you.

*Pacing is better than in 95% lewd games, but still little too fast for my taste. As a fan of slowburners I would gladly see that some girls are harder to get. I also think that girls overall are too friendly to Jack from the start. For example, Mi-Sun has a sex scene almost immediately and Jenny for example almost from the start suggests that maybe they can become "something more". Also I wouldn't mind to see 2-3 girls who simply don't like him or they are indifferrent to him in the start. Maybe some girl who is disgusted by the fact that he is building a harem? Maybe some girl who thinks he is an idiot?

Nevertheless this is 5-star game for me.

Yeah, it’s a porn game, but does this writing have to be brain dead? And the puzzles… click on everything to sort it out. It’s like they made games for six-year-olds and then decided to make a pr0n game. You even have a colouring mini game. Colour matching games, just click stuff to make it disappear till you clicked on everything.

Stranded on an island after a heavy storm. One of the first things she wonders, is her hat. Not the crew or other guests, no, her fucking hat. Another girl, her clothes are missing, and the MC offers his, but she thinks it’s ugly and don’t want to wear it. ‘No you can’t take drink water from a standing body of water, the big waterfall behind us is just for show, let us go downstream, were you can’t see any water movement to get something to drink. The writing is so dumb, it hurts.

The game may looks good, but everything else is awful.

A very good point and click sandbox type game. Very highly recommended. The art and character design is top notch for a 2dcg game, and the animations are fluid and smooth for a hand drawn style - though they are on the short side. Lewd scenes are long enough to make it worth the grind and the grind is short enough to not blueball ya.

Definitely give it a shot. Should add that this probably won't play very well on low end tablets or non flagship phones. Kept crashing on an amazon fire, presumably due to running out of memory. Zero problems with the PC version.

Easily my favorite game on here.
I love the MC. He is a generally nice guy and gets rewarded with sexy and meaningful relationships with a bunch of gorgeous women.
The writing is great, the sex scenes are hot, the girls have clear and interesting personalities and it's pretty funny at times. I like the mini games.
Generally it feels like a real game, not just a porn game.

Unless you enjoy playing as an MC who lacks any back bone or any semblance of self respect you will not enjoy what this game has to offer you. Not only are you treated like a second class citizen but also as the personal servant to ALL the survivors of the ship wreck. If your deluding yourself into thinking this buys you even a miniscule amount of respect... think again... But hey you might get yourself a pity hand job after hours upon hours of useless fetch quests and about a thousand clicks going back and forth all over the island. What fucking joy....

One of the best games out there at the moment. Plenty of content regular updates and good art. Easy gameplay and UI. Good variety of girls, Just wish there was a shemale on board or some trap content that you can enable

Story
The writing is good, I enjoyed seeing the characters' developments and personalities. The conflicts in it are a little eh? Not much to make it more engaging I feel. I do hope the "rich assholes" aren't just there to annoy you and make you roll your eyes.

Art
The character designs in the characters are great, I like Olga's detail where you can see a swimming goggles imprint on her face, that for one. The environment's very nice to look at too, makes it easy to figure out where to click. But I think there are some small flaws in some of the pieces, Olga not having her imprints on her face during scenes being one of them. Overall, more upsides than downsides, do hope to see more improvements coming from the artist.

Puzzles/Minigames
I guess they're OK. I do feel like most of them are way too easy, ranging from click this, click that, or match this to that. There's not a whole lot of thinking because the characters kind of solve it for you, sometimes, and one time, they literally do. I do appreciate these not being hard, but I do wish there were more environmental puzzles like the hose for the hookah pipe.

Sound
Pretty mediocre when it comes to the sex scenes, some feel unsuitable to the scene. However, it does add to the action.

If you want to play as a passive psuedo slave, then look no further as you'll absolutely love this game, you'll be at everyones beck and call with errand this, errand that. I genuinely don't think I've ever disliked a main character as much as I do here. He does become a tiny bit better as it goes on, but even mildly "assertive" will never be in his dictionary. I just don't get it how you'd choose to make the MC like this in this kind of setting. This type of character would fit better in a femdom or any other game leaning towards sub males. Nothing wrong with that, but in this game it's horribly unfitting. Beyond that, the characters.. No sorry, I mean the slavemasters are generally pretty annoying, though that varies from person to person.

I can appreciate that the art is great and there isn't much else I can harp on but the story and characters just brings it down to one of the worst things I've played on here.

Fantastic!
If you like wholesome adult visual novels that are well-written, this is your game!
The MC is a total chad(in the GOOD sense!) and the female characters are pretty well written, each with their own personality and interactions with each other.

Support this DEV if you can! Truly a marvelous game to jack off to!

Good game, good writing/humor, although I think that a majority of the early release h-scenes need to be brushed up. I'd recommend for anyone who wants to play VN with a positive vibe around it since the whole premise is just about living life on an island and having your needs met in more ways than one.

As mentioned before, the h-scenes could be improved on and currently are hit or miss in the final release. You like them or you don't. It does get progressively better, but the early scenes are def not ones to write home about.

Simply put - i couldn't stop playing when first booted up this game. Great art, great writing (albeit quite silly, as are most adult games), great gameplay loop.
Very much looking forward to the finished title!

Version played: v0.15.0e

Overal there is a good amount of content, a decent scenario and I did enjoy the story. It also looks pretty good and there is a decent amount of variety in the girls.

Firstly the grind, Most of the minigames are okay and you can skip them after some time, however to get certain things It does turn grindy at times. Making the whole thing feel like it drags on for way longer than it has to.

Story wise it could also just be a little shorter as things can drag on for a bit too much, I ended up skipping dialog because of that.

Visually the girls look pretty good but sometimes look like entirely different people during the sex scenes. Its like the perspective doesn't translate that welll, which kind of takes me out of it.

Another issue is save compatibility, with a game that takes this long you may want to be able to pick it up again at after a couple of updates, however there is no system to skip ahead and saves are also not always compatible.

I have one sentence for this game and that is Achilles' heel.

I will not write a long review for this game because if I will start I don't know how long it will take to finish it.

This game is so godamn polished, so good, I am not reviewing it as a porn game but an honest to god computer game.

The game is all around working flawlessly, over the time I have played it (v14) I never had any crashes or ever a choppy animation, though animation reminded me of the early 2000's ganguro girl and hentai social club a lot.

Mini-games in the game are engaging I even managed to get the hang of the fishing game at the end and I have never skipped the painting mini-game because I can't paint and I actually felt good when I was filling the empty spaces.

Aaand there comes the Achilles' heel of this game, and that is the writing, I can write about every little problem I have found with it but like I said in the beginning this review will become too long so to keep it short I will say 2 things, the story is pessimistic and nihilistic combining these with other creative choices story turns sour, though the story gets better albeit just marginally.

In the years I played games 3 games are called flawed master pieces because of their story.

Vampire the masquerade: bloodlines
Kotor 2
Arcanum: of steamworks and magick obscura

if you played these games then you know that how the story carried even the flaws of the game, because you wanted to see more play more just to see where story went next.

I wish this game was a flawed masterpiece with a good story but less polished game play.

So to cut things short, if you don't care about story but here for the CONTENT play the game there is a lot of content and you will like it, but if you pay even a modicum of attention to story, you might find it problematic.

The premise is pretty neat.
You are shipwrecked in a tropical island with the contestands of an international beauty queen pagent (each of them a winner of her local beauty contest). Now seduce them all.

There is a massive amount of content. Game is incomplete but you can still play it for 3 days.
Although later on it becomes a chore.
I haven't encountered any bugs, which is rare and quite a plus.
There are plenty of animated sex scenes and even more nude stillshots.
The english is excellent, dialog ranges from the interesting and funny, to the tedious and filler.
The girls have somewhat interesting plotlines.
But parts of it feels like unnecessary padding. So much dialog it is insane.

the game is grindy. the currency system started out as an amusing joke but became an extremely painful grind.
You need lots of raw materials and collecting them is somewhat painful.
Fishing in particular is a pain.
Also for some reason the magic number is 3. you need to take every girl 3 times to jacuzzi, 3 times to the pool. then there are some individual girl things. Smoke with raven 3 times. take gabby and cath 3 times to the beach each. Cook with Jenna 3 times. etc.
why can't you give us the still image after doing it once? to pad things.

Art looks worse in the game compared to the sample images.
Dick and vagina in particular do not look good.

The game is extremely "sex positive" (term they use). That is every single waifu has had countless sex partners and is proud of it. They are all bi, they jump into your bed very quickly. In one extreme case literally the moment you meet... because she "did not have sex for 2 weeks" and you are a convenient cock.

Somehow spending a few days talking to them to grind their affection stat makes them into your Soulmate (all of them)...
I remain highly doubtful that this would last the moment they are off the island and can go back to parties and drunken sex with strangers.

There is an excessive amount of minigames. Most of which take an excessive amount of time to complete. There is a skip button... but there is a timer you are forced to wait for before you are allowed to skip. So I very often pinned the game window to half screen while the other half I would read something while waiting for the timer to finish so I may be allowed to press skip.