Others - Secret Care Cafe [v0.8.43 Patreon] [Rare Alex]

3.5 stars because this game is basically one of my ideal setups. Hot girls that you employ to make extra money by slutting themselves out? Yes please!

Minus 1.5 stars because there are some kinks that still need ironing:
-The pacing is kind of off, especially with lewd progression.
-Money is too hard to make from just running the cafe, and there should be a way to automate it eventually.
-I would appreciate more variety with the lewd service scenes, even if they left a lot to the imagination. It starts to feel like everything is on rails pretty quickly. “Implied” sexual content could provide a lot of bang for the buck by adding some repeatable sexy stuff without needing a lot of art/dialogue.
-There should probably be more reward for having a girl lewdly engage with customers.

If they keep working on the details, this will easily be a 5 star game eventually!

If you just look at the cafe management perspective, it's a pretty decent time killer.
For the lewds, it's nicely done and absolutely quality. Of course, there's the issue of the genre involved but if it's for you then it's definitely enjoyable.

Adding to all the postive reviews that perfectly describe the game as a 9/10 with potential for a 10/10, i have to give a shoutout to the creator.
He is always engaging, be it on discord, patreon or here in the forum. If you have a question, criticism or something new to add to the game he will gladly reply.

Really cool game! Yes a little grindy but you get new content for at least 100 days. You have a lot of choices and I think the longer gameplay lets you know the characters quite well. Definitely worth playing! I am really looking forward to the next update

I maybe biased because I'm an NTR fan and has a weak spot for management games, but I don't see any real weakness the game has if you like those 2 genres I mentioned, the only problem the game has that it lacks any other quantity except those 2, would be really perfect if it has other interesting feature, maybe like more hot idle animations during the opening of the cafe that depends of the girl stats - that they just grabs the customer to the back room, just my idea but the game surely will develop to that stage sooner or later.

9/10 - its 10/10 if not for the current lacks of any other quantities

Pretty solid game so far 0.7.3.

The management aspects of it are fun and balanced already, it never feels too easy or too hard, you are always entertained with the minigames and the more you play the more options you start to unlock which also are nice motivators to grind more.

Prostitution mechanics are well implemented and the slow burns helps reinforce them.

Although the game is unfinished it already offers several hours of engaging gameplay and I look forward to seeing were it will end.

Weekly Updates, good content and a lot to look forward to.

Glad i found that unpolished gem and look forward to it being polished.

Normaly, i am not into NTR stuff, but after i looked into it, it's 1 scene where the mc's GF goes with some Sports Guys and "falling" for them. But in the core, she is loyal to the MC and just has fun "swinging" since she is allowed to. Basically a "hotwife"

Secret Care Cafe [v0.7.2 Public] review

What it is:
A mix between point-and-click timed management game, dating sim and a VN.
Positives:
+ Unique concept
+ Actually a decently enjoyable gameplay loop
+ Fun characters

Negatives:
- Grindy. Money comes in soooo slowly. I lost interest before unlocking everything. In the end the normal gameplay just felt like work. Also the stat points take forever to increase. If the time to play through this game was cut to 1/3, I would rate this game higher.
- Confusing progression. Some events are triggered automatically, other events I need to find in the "talk to" menu. Other events are random. I don't feel a lot of player agency in this, I'm just along for the ride. I spent a lot of time going through the gallery hints to ulock new events and that kind of gameplay isn't fun to me.
- So many different stats to increase. I got very confused.
- Main focus is swinging content. Not my cup of tea really.

All in all this is decently enjoyable because of the interesting main gameplay loop, but I feel the lewds were a bit lacking and/or confusing to unlock.

Nice game, decent gameplay, love the balance between netorase and harem.
The backroom looks interesting but I hope there will be some help on automating the maids, looks like the gameplay will become more complex in the future.

Good game, nice and interesting story. graphic ++ / Dev work hard on game and is active. really like SCC and will wait for more to play! ^^

ps. Cookie is my fav girl, hope for more content for her c;

A very good game, I recommend it.
(Warning, I eased up the grind after a while to accelerate the game, but I didn't at the start)

Pro
- Some of the best koikatsu renders I've seen so far, mostly because the characters are well made, and the lighting/pose taste is pretty good. It shows that just because people use Koikatsu or Honey Select engine, doesn't mean the result would look meh.

- The characters are well developed, and the way they interact makes sense. So, good writing for a hentai game.

- I'm not the biggest fan of netorase (I prefer netorare), even less swinging, but the scenes are hot to follow, and I love seeing girls gradually being lewder and lewder.


Con
- It goes way too fast from being a tease, then suddenly giving blowjobs... and it's also uneven, as some parts can be pushed to levels where the girls is banged, where in others the girl is just there doing teasing or being cute. I think a good way to avoid that is to tie all the level ups between each others, so that you have to get everything to level n before going to level n+1. And also maybe link it more to the story, to avoid inconsistencies, like the girl being shy in a story scene before giving a blowjob the day after in the café. Maybe allow the obvious sexual stuff only later in the story.

- I didn't like the fact that you needed to buy an object to enable the netorase/swinging content, I'd have prefered a switch in the option, especially as it's not obvious I needed it for anything being actually lewd in the café past certain levels of the girls.

- It overall has nice content, but I feel like it needs 10 times the content for the grind to be enjoyable, because then you'd see various stuff going on while serving customers, as the most erotic stuff to me is when you use the special abilities of the girls in the café.

As everyone has already stated the grind is huge in this game but it goes from a 2 to a 4 if you use cheatengine or edit your saves, both of which are very easy to do with this game

content is decent still has a ways to go if you prefer to wait for a full game this isn't quite there yet

visuals and animation are good, musics not bad, could do with more story but there are snippets and seems as though more is on the way

Even if it's a koikatsu clone, great idle animations (I love how the skirt flutters on everyone, especially cookie), interactions and gameplay is quite decent too. Sex scenes might need a boost tho, since they're somewhat lacking

Few games do a combination of lewd content and gameplay as well as this game. One of my personal favorites on the site, with one of the most consistent release schedules as well. Well worth a patreon subscribe, and I am so excited to see all the designer can accomplish.

suprisingly fun gameplay that really doesn't get old and is neither super difficult nor easy
sex scenes are usually short and far between and dont have very good pacing - your girlfriend will go from having one h scene with you to being gangbanged by 3 guys out of nowhere
all ntr is optional which is good

Secret Care Cafe has an interesting starting point: to manage your cafe and your girls. But as a management game, it lacks either the depth or the speed to actually make it compelling in either way. The girls are all too generic and uninteresting, and so is the story as far as I've gone, making me have no real reason to keep on playing and advancing.

Art is not great either, nor in design nor in execution. Same goes with sound, which doesn't have much more than a few sounds and a generic-sounding song. At least it didn't have any bugs during the time I played.

So, all in all, I can't really recommend SCC.

Great game that's a balance of NSFW and cafe management. Decent amount of content, though a bit grind-y for now. Heavy on Netorare/netori content, which can be disabled but would remove a large portion of the games NSFW portions. Frequent updates, can't wait to see what else author adds.

As title says this game is about a cafe were girls take care of customer, NTR can be turned ON or OFF, so if you don't like it, it's not a problem but you lose some scenes.

About Grinding.
I suggest you to read tutorial, for example to improve money income you have to use the skills when customer have already ordered a lot, so you can reduce the grinding; there is a grinding but it not so much.
I suggest to add more in-game scenes or animation during game play to add some variables.

The scenes are good and this game is in constant evolution, with weekly updated so it is improving and expanding week after week

I'm morbidly impressed at how this game can have such a sexy concept, but such absurdly boring gameplay. I love the game concept of a sexy, slutty maid cafe, but this game completely misses the mark when it comes to what you actually do. You're not the cafe manager, where you might tell the maids who to entertain, manage their mood/exhaustion, or train their skills and lewdness. You're the bartender, dragging and dropping food, drink and maids onto the desirous customers. It's like the game intentionally took the most tedious and uninteresting aspects of a sexy maid cafe and focused almost exclusively on them.

There are lewd scenes in the game and they're pretty good, but the amount of grind required to unlock them is just ridiculous, especially with such boring gameplay. I'm a big fan of voyeurism and exhibitionism, so this game is right up my alley, but even I can't recommend this game. This game could have been so good if the gameplay wasn't so terribly boring.

Slow, boring, tedious progress for no real reward. Can't possibly see why this game keeps popping up or why it's so highly rated. Tried it after seeing it on top games frequently, but this needs a lot of work before it can be described as engaging on a gameplay level or rewarding in any other way.