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Secret Summer [v0.12] [SuperWriter]

I recently had the opportunity to play "Secret Summer," and I have mixed feelings about it. Let's dive into what worked, what didn't, and what left me feeling perplexed in this adult game.

First, I must commend the game's visual aspects. The artwork and visuals are truly impressive. The character designs are detailed, and the scenes are beautifully rendered. If I were to evaluate the game solely based on aesthetics, it would undoubtedly earn top marks. However, a great game requires more than just good looks.

Now, onto the story, or rather, the lack of a compelling one. "Secret Summer" seems to mistake a flimsy excuse for a plot as an actual story. It's a mishmash of clichés and contrived situations that had me rolling my eyes so frequently I was worried they might pop out of my head. The writing feels amateurish at best, with cringe-worthy dialogue that had me cringing harder than I ever thought possible. The attempts at humor often fall flat and feel forced, while the attempts at emotional depth are, regrettably, laughable. I found it challenging to genuinely care about any of the characters or their so-called "emotional journeys."

Speaking of characters, they're as one-dimensional as cardboard cutouts. These characters are essentially walking, talking stereotypes, and any attempts at character development appear half-hearted. The protagonist embodies the qualities of every uninteresting lead character you've ever come across, and the supporting cast doesn't fare much better. Their motivations and actions often left me perplexed, and I frequently wondered why I should invest any time in their stories.

Now, let's discuss the adult content, which is, after all, a central aspect of the game. It's as gratuitous and tasteless as it gets. The scenes feel poorly integrated into the story, resembling cheap, disconnected fan service rather than anything meaningful or titillating. It's almost as if the developers tossed in explicit content for the sake of it, without giving any thought to how it fits into the overall experience.

In conclusion, "Secret Summer" is a game that leaves much to be desired. While it boasts visually appealing elements, it falls flat in nearly every other aspect. The story is underwhelming, the characters lack depth, and the adult content feels like an afterthought. If you're seeking a meaningful, engaging, or even remotely enjoyable adult game, I'd advise looking elsewhere. "Secret Summer" represents a missed opportunity and, in my view, an underwhelming addition to the genre.

The best game so far from SuperWriter, it has a nice story, likable MC, lovable characters with interesting personalities although a bit cliché, but that is expected, gorgeous models, and of course excellent writing.

Can't wait for the future updates, keep up the good work.

A w nderfull game, so far it has a very good story and the models there are all so beautiful, caring and unique.
But the best is after my new PC and no saves anymore, it will be a real pleasure to start from scratch again. And cant wait to see how the story go forward and what this thing called father deserved .

Thx for the realy good time SuperWriter and good luck with your other games "hardly can´t wait to play the further like this one". And stay healthy!

5/5 Overall
4/5 Renders
5/5 Hotness
4/5 Story
Really like the game actually I loved the games which have incest in them, story is really great but I think the step-mother character was little rushed,but love the bigger sister storyline and second bigger sister(nichole) storyline really interesting hope to see more of her really loved the game thanks.

Here is my review for Secret Summer [v0.12]
This Game's dope and it just came to my Favourite list.
It contains:-
1. HOT MILFS!!!
2. NETORI!!!
3. Harem
4. Plot
5. Beautiful Renders, Characters
6. Good Writing
7. Has many fetishes
8. Incest!!!
The only thing I find annoying is the flash at the Menu screen whenever the game opens.
It does not have background music and I don't think it matters to me anyway.
His other games are also good, check them out too.

Consider sharing your review of this game after playing it that would help the game and the players who haven't played this game.

This is the second game by SuperWriter that i play and the quality is still very high.
The story is quite the classic of the harem games where the protagonist reconnects with girls from the past and by helping them gets rewarded in ways that you know very well.
There is good variety between the various characters (all gorgeous of course), both aesthetically and behaviourally so you're almost certain to find something for your tastes (if not interested in having a harem).
As a side note if you want to be sure to not miss anything it is advised to use a walkthrough.
Talking about the renders i have to admit my total ignorance in the matter, but i think they're very good and of high quality.
Lastly bonus points because the dev actually interacts with his fans on this forum and listens to their suggestions (if they're compatible with his vision obviously).

Positives -

• Nice looking renders
• Realistic but sexy models

Negatives -

• Everything else....
• The story/dialogue are extremely cringe enduing. It feels so forced.
• The MC is just a complete idiot and extremely awkward.
• The sex scenes feel very dated.

I quit playing this game so many times. I picked it back up again when I have nothing else to play and then remember why I quit in the first place. It just feels so awkward to play. The characters seem cool, but the dialogue makes them all feel like androids. No person talks (or thinks) like that.

I quite liked this one, I thought it was going to be cliché as all hell based on the premise but it was actually quite entertaining and unique.

The characters especially, are praise-worthy in my opinion. They all feel different from the usual stereotypes that are associated with their roles in the story and they all have clear goals and differing (and sometimes clashing) personalities.

The only thing that irritated me was whenever the message "You don't have enough points for X" appeared, because it was either a case of it being a (at least in my view) random choice that I had guessed wrong or I was left completely clueless as to what I'd done wrong. It was quite frustrating having to go back and redo choices mostly at random until I found the one I needed to be different.

Other than that, positively smashing.

While the story is interesting the characters & more intimate scenes leave a lot to be desired, The protagonist himself is a wuss & despite even the protags claim is a bit premature shall we say, there are few characters to like or empathise with in the game also which is a shame because as I said the story is interesting

The models are the best thing about the game. Girls are pretty (although Coral is making weird faces sometimes, i mean like something wrong with the model)

the writing is good, but the story is nothing to write home about. the girls are trowing themselves at MC without much effort from his part. the choices he makes are one-sided as well, the game will not be changed much, if there were no changes at all and it was one straight story line.
but for the most part it's enjoyable to read. so that's good. the characters are interesting, and emotional. the good models add to that, since the facial expressions are really good and show emotions very well.
one gripe i have so far with the writing/story/characters, is the attempted rape of Irene (was that the name, i'm bad with names). so she almost get raped, she was terrified and very upset. and the very same evening, like 2 hours after that event, she sleeps with MC. after being raped or barely escaping from rape, women don't even want to be touched on the hand or shoulder, not to mention being intimate with someone. (and funny thing is the game mentioned "game of thrones", and that is pointed out in the show as well). for some reason that whole scene rubbed me wrong.

but other than that, it's an enjoyable read. nothing fancy, no grand story, nor complex interaction with the characters. but i sill liked it.

the game models are hot. the writing is good the dad is a douche. and you get to sleep with both of his ex-wives. what is there not to love to be honest. the one thing I found annoying about the game is if you are going to give me the option to rip someone's spine out and beat them with it and then you turn around and it not really be a choice don't bother because daddy douche does deserve to get this spine ripped out of his worthless body. and beaten with it. Also if we are ever allowed to fight daddy douche again allow us to curve stomp his head it. All in all I loved the story. I love the blonde wife and I loved being able to fuck her like i should if you haven't played you get your ass moving and play it!

I like good-guy-games with harem. If you don't like that, this is no game for you. Because MC is a really good guy that help the LIs with different problems and gets rewarded by doing so.

All the girls are good to look at but still different types which is good. The plot isn't Nobel Prize quality, but this is just a lewd game so good enough for that. The MC is a good guy but I liked .

The only thing is that the sex scenes are not that good but I like the build up to them. So I'm not taking away a * for that. So eagerly awaiting next upgrade.

The storyline is great and the models are gorgeous. It's a great game overall. The one thing I wish it had is animations... But I understand with how long it takes to render that stuff in Daz it's not really easy to do unless u got an incredible video card for rendering. So keep it up! Harem lover <3

The writing is great for the stories he has going in his games and his artwork is very good too. The largest problem is that the developer doesn't create more intimate/hot scenes. The biggest reason most people support these games is for the erotic scenes and having only one position and 8 frames for those scenes is no where near enough. I honestly think his protagonist only lasts like 10 seconds in bed and makes me question how they could possibly love the guy if he is a less than a minute man. Lots of unexplored potential and is possible you can become one of the big time devs on patreon that has thousands of patrons.

I rarely ever read the story thoroughly when playing this kind of games, but this one is exception. I really like the plot, it's not too rushed or too dumb at any view. I like that characters really do feel real and they have their own strong personalities and points of view, how they see stuff is nicely shown. There are few stuff like kinks that I don't like, such as pubic hair, but that just makes the game feel more real. The woman you like may have pubic hair, you know?
I hope that game won't introduce any NTR or such stuff in the future, cause I don't feel like skipping story on this game. I really had to free up some time to play it ,so it would really ruin it for me.
Characters I liked the most are Leanne and Irene. And yeah, Irene is such a lovely character! I really like her and her personality, I just broke up with girlfriend and I sure as hell wanted several times for Irene to be real and meet her somehow(Haha!)
Well, I hope that this game will be on bright side,(Too many NTR stuff as I was searching for a new game, honestly, what's up with it? I'm not judging tho, take your cup of tea) and hope that he'll somehow get the harem going(Yeeaa booiii!)
But for some people romance story may not be something they look for in a porn game. As for me, I really do like it.

What saddens me is that there's complete lack of animations, soo yeah, that's kinda sad. But maybe there will be some in remastered?
Anyways, thanks to the game creator for making it!

pretty boring game with a boring, random mc. dialogues are mostly meaningless. i would imagine all these high ratings come from the people who wants to play a romance game where being a good guy is rewarded and you have to chose the answers that make you a wussy to keep story going and delving into supposedly meaningful relations (whatever that means in a porn game).

instant uninstall for me.

Great game, good renders and a nice story.

What points it loses from the lack of animations (dev mentioned he'd rather remove them completely than have bad ones which is fine by me) it makes up with interesting story and cross-game cameos.

One of my top ten faves, can hardly wait for more content. Great story with wonderfully fleshed out characters. Games like this inspire me to contemplate making one of my own in the near future. I only hope I can create something half as good as what I have seen from this developer.

Fam, why do you have a thing for short games/stories?
My first game from your series was secret summer. I tried picture perfect which finished recently. That was oh so short, and final development was clearly cut short.
You've already started wrapping up secret summer. Sure it's version 0.9 and that's almost 1.0. But the content!!!
The ladies in secret summer are sexier and it's no contest. You can't make this so damn short!!!
This update was Irene's path. Based on the branching, it looks like you might add some more to her path later. You should. All the girls need quite a bit more content. And seriously, don't just end on a clearly unfinished note!
And I'm pretty sure none of us would object to Irene's path concluding in her and the MC's own home with her shocked and sharing that she is pregnant.

Some of the worst dialogue I've ever seen. The MC is major league moron and a serious creep to boot, but somehow everyone finds that awesome and acceptable... it's just delusional. The storytelling as a whole is seriously low tier.

I really tried to make it through this game, but did not get very far at all. Only reason it doesn't have 1 star is 'cause the models are well done, though the facial expressions are not.