Unity - Completed - Romantic Escapades [v2.0.2] [Salamander Interactive]

This is a pretty good game that can take multiple days to complete. It isn't just a visual novel or a scene viewer and has many gameplay mechanics.

Good

• Actual gameplay mechanics that are pretty intuitive. You gather resources to either sell, build things or craft things. the things you build or craft will unlock plot, unlock map, improve the player character, or improve relationship with the LIs.
• The map is open world that is mostly unlocked at the beginning, and some sections are made more accessible with crafting or unlocks as the plot progresses.
• The plot is mostly comedy, but it makes sense and isn't ridiculous. Each LI has different plot and different personalities. There isn't an unnecessary amount of yapping where the characters spill their guts about pointless opinions and backstories. I didn't feel bored by their stories. Most of the game is gameplay and not reading.
• The game may feel like a grind in the beginning, but as you improve the player's abilities, things become very breezy by the end. Money comes easily, and you can progress through each LI's stories within a few in-game days.
• The sex scenes are mostly the same with each LI, but they also all have a few distinct scenes.
• The protagonist is silent. I appreciate this. Sometimes writing for the protagonist kills immersion.
• About 8-10 sex poses per LI, some of these poses are shared and some are unique to a LI. Multiple animations per sex pose: different animations for when the LI enjoys the speed and different animations for when the LI is closer to climax, so 4 animations per pose. The ability to choose between coming inside or outside, with different climax animations for each option.

Bad

• The game is forced 3rd person. I wish there is a 1st person mode in certain areas with thick foliage.
• There are some visual glitches in the swamp area. and the water waves are ridiculously high when you swim. But none of these are game breaking.
• The graphics quality for the LIs are not the highest.
• Once sex is unlocked. There is pretty much no more story for each of the LIs. They show up as guest characters in other LI's stories and there are a few additional scenes to unlock, but that's it.
• Sex with the LIs doesn't really benefit gameplay much. Maxxing out the LIs' climax meter in a sex scene yields you a gift item, but that's it. It would be cool is there was some sort of further benefit. However, sex has zero negative consequences like skipping time or requiring stamina unlike some other games, which is good.
• The translation is workable but sometimes there are mistakes, and things can sometimes get a bit confusing if you don't read carefully. Thankfully, you can always just read the quest objectives to progress.

Tips for gameplay:

• You should make pills to increase your max stamina.
• Upgrading your tools not only unlocks high tier resources for you to gather, but makes gathering lower tier items much faster and take less stamina. You can convert lower tier metals to higher tier metals at a ratio of 5 to 1 from an npc at the bridge.
• Selling higher tier ingredients when the market rate is high is the fastest way to make money.

Good Story line , 3D animations are also pretty good . Definitely recommend you to play but it may take a lot (a lot means a lot) to unlock those scenes again you can cheat its pretty east to cheat (not recommending)

This is a rare case of game that is boring and grindy by default and when you use cheats it's still boring and grindy. Gameplay consists of poorly implemented crafting, boring fetch quests and a weird training minigame which is not rewarding whatsoever. English translation is trash. Female characters are all pretty asians with zero personality or backstory. Horrible level design, no idea why is there a huge cliff between the village and the pier merchant, so I have to run around every damn time I have to do another stupid fetch quest. H scenes feel stiff and boring.

Two stars for decent visuals and pretty female models.

I had a sneaking suspicion that this could be masked CCP propaganda, so I had to evaluate for myself. I can't confirm that it is, but I did come away with a few other impressions.
50 coins just laying around a villager's home, just like in olden times. How authentic!
The first sexual encounters available have to be paid for, from an involuntary sex worker. How heroic!
This MC is a guy who spent 5 years pursuing a woman in hopes of reciprocation, and the game description explains that your objectives is to bribe your way to affection.
It's early in the game and I can already tell the protagonist will be an unlikable creep that the plot will contort itself for with enough tedious grind.

Aside from that, the graphics are as good as the screenshots demonstrate. So is the animation. The sexual interactivity isn't non-existent. The music is tolerable for the limited time I was subjected to the BG loop. The voice acting is present, and I would not describe it or the dialog as captivating or immersive.

That's a lot of backhanded compliments, but I already got my worst critique out in the premise and execution of the story, and how it dragged the gameplay down with it.

So far an excellent porn game.
Progression, building, improving relationships, anesthetics, beautiful characters, open-world, 3d, scenes, everything is great.
Here's hoping it'll continue to develop.
I was gonna buy it on steam at first but decided to first try it for free.
I'll definitively buy it!

Update the game, which is from January and on Steam is on version 1.3.8 with improvements, scenes and fixes like black screens. And it is a game that has very good mechanics like farming, romance with sex and more a harvest moon with better graphics and with what they do not implement in their game in the romance part, for me GOTY

Review :

Graphics - 8/10
Characters - 10/10
Gameplay - 8/10
Audio - 10/10
Grind - Average grind level

If you are used to Manhuas or Wuxia, you will like this story
Overall? 10/10

Can't wait for more updates, I guess it's time to buy the game

As a huge fan of Wuxia this game looks good, the story not really that great, it just a simple nobody being isekaied to the Ancient China, the bad side is despite how good the model the animation kinda mediocre compares to the quality of the renders, the game also very grindy if not for the cheat i just cant play this game at all, so with all the downside this game shouldnt have a 5 star tbh, but i just cannot bear to give a bad rating as well so 5 star in hope the devs can make the story more interesting, better sex animation and less grindy.

Pretty good game. Beautiful models but still very barebones in terms of poses and customization for sex scenes.

Gameplay is basic, you farm resources and craft items to get the ladies' approval up and unlock new questlines.

Very grindy to get basic resources so just use built in the cheat codes.

Story's okay with decent voice acting. MC works at a pharmacy, and almost every girl has a mysterious illness. It's like a Chinese trope or something.

Considering the other games on here this is 6/5

All the game mechanics work as expected and no game breaking bugs

Someone wrote in an earlier review that you can't review the animations, but you can if you go to Characters in the main menu (ESC => Characters) (there's a memory button to review them)

Also for most cheats you don't need cheat engine as there's a cheat system build in (can also be found in the main menu (ESC))

Only bummer is the english translation which is probably MTL

It was better than expected. Not very refined, but a pretty decent story, game and system overall. Kept me interested enough to finish it. Not a big fan of the MC or the movement style, but it's not Unreal engine, so can't expect motion matching and all that. Graphics are good.

I did not like that there were so many different types of resources. Red trees, green trees, white trees, hard bark trees... (which you can't get until later). I kept having to go back and forth between Cheat Engine and the game because I just did not want to deal with that sort of grind. But the different types of resources gets a bit obnoxious when you have to cheat for each one because you can't buy them.

version 2024.08.21

Gameplay: ★★★☆☆

Without cheat, this game is a bit grindy if you don't know what you're doing. But once you have rough ideas about where the resources are located, you can optimize your gathering process.

Graphics: ★★★★★
The graphics is good to run smoothly on average laptop like mine (Ryzen 7).

Sex scene: ★★★★☆
Animation is a little bit weird, but overall, it's good enough for this kind of game. Teasing gameplay (labelled as training inside the game) is kinda weird, though.

Sound: ★☆☆☆☆
I know no Mandarin at all, but I just feel that the voice actors and actresses are just paid to read the line, not showing any emotion at all. The BGM is quite good but gets boring over time.

The initial release of Romantic Escapades is a pretty good gathering sim, with 4 beautiful eastern women to pursue. It follows a simple loop of gathering materials to upgrade your pickaxe, use the fully upgraded pickaxe to fully upgrade your axe and handscythe, Get materials to max out your stamina, Get materials to upgrade cabinets to sell more materials, and finally, gather materials to either sell and get the required money for gifts and the plot items, or fulfill quest objectives, which in turn, gets you the girls. Its slightly repetitive at times, but not too much of a hassle in the grand scheme of things, since you constantly unlock more things to gather or see with the girls as you progress.

The sex animations with the female main characters are nice, and the female romantic leads are unique enough, in personality and bodytype from eachother to make pursuing them feel worthwhile. Each character has their own storyline, often with humorous beats that are definitely inline with the same sort of humor you find in cheap chinese romantic fantasy. They were often so wacky that it got a genuine laugh out of me.

While the base this game has is strong, and it succeeds in what it sets out to be, It does have a few things that need polish. In its current state, the game seems to be unfinished, with two potential romantic candidates without content. The English translation is poor, with "him" being used instead of "her" at some points, and flowery prose like "wet jade garden" being used for female genitals, but its nothing you haven't seen before if you have played other games with poor translations. The ending is also horrible in contrast with the good feeling tone of the game. After completing all other heroines quests, you move onto the final island pursuing the final girl. The plot is pretty good here, and it has over the top melodrama expected from the genre- when suddenly its ignored, and you wake up to find your character in the real world was cucked. Just a bad ending, and doesn't really tie anything up well at all.

If you like the artstyle, and don't mind poor translation but don't feel like putting in around 4ish hours of actually playing the game, Its worth using cheats and checking out the short story and intimacy scenes, and I imagine it would be much more worth it when (and if) completed fully.