Ren'Py - Summertime Saga [v21.0.0 wip.5258] [Kompas Productions]

I'm someone who stopped paying attention to this game for a couple years and checked back in and was immensely disappointed while replaying it and checking it's progress. I can't really say anything about this game that hasn't already been said to death in other reviews. Most of the developers on this site that are considered "bad" can be described as making their supporters wait years for very little content, but somehow this dev managed to take it step further by making this game worse than it was years ago by removing most of the content after years of waiting, all for a "tech" update that is abysmally underwhelming. Even if the dev does eventually add back all the content, and who knows how long that'll take given their track record, all that'll mean is the game is finally back where it was years ago with the minor addition of some shiny paint that is worth pretty much nothing when it's all said and done. There's other complaints like the fact that a lot of the plot devices are very underwhelming and outdated, which yeah, while I don't particularly mind it, is true, I guess it's a symptom of this being developed in 2016 when that's all there was. IMO the dev should've just told his story and finished it years ago and moved on. Whether it's a fault of Ambition, Laziness, or Greed, or even possibly all of the above, it's led to the current state of the game, which is sad considering it was well regarded back in the day.


Even if you're someone who's just here for the free games, it's not worth wasting your time following this; I recommend staying FAR, far away from this project.

Before the "Tech Update" even if the game was completely abandoned, I would have rated this a 4/5 at the lowest.

Good art, good story, little to no bugs or glitches, a easy way to skip the grind, and plenty of choices for girls, even if some of them clearly get more love than the others and for some girls the tone kind of flies off the handle.

It really was that good.

And then they nuked 80% of the content they had after years of no real updates solely for back-end programming stuff, and are saying it's gonna be around a year or more for everything to be added back in.

I get that the startup times were a bit long, but this wasn't the way to go about it. 2/5 is solely out of respect for what came before.

This game WAS 4/5 like 8 years ago, but it's now a joke.

Lets look at the arcs

• Roxxy was 10/10
• Eve was 7/10 for the female version. Trap version ??? don't care/10
• Maria Arc? 4/10
• Trump arc was 2/10
• Mobster arc was 5/10
• Mia arc was 4/10 Which hurts because I like Mia more than most the other students.
• Incest mom Dumb/10
• Incest Sister 5/10
• Incest Aunt 3/10

I mean overall the story lines are week, with a few exceptions. Looking JUST at the story it's a 5/10 game. BUT you have to take into account that the game went on hiatus and did nothing for 2 years, while taking money and lying about updating shit. THEN reboots the game to basically nothing to start the cycle again.

1/10 should not be trusted, shouldn't be rewarded with money.

Version: 21.0.0 wip.4468

Where to begin. 2 years without an update, and then its a rework. And its an odd bent of a rework at that. The improvements are not significant enough to justify the egregious amount of time taken. Then to the content included thus far. It runs damn odd. Adding the whole of Debbie and Jenny's storys without all the other stories they intersect with not only just comes off as odd, but it leads to these weird and unnecessary time gaps because you have literally nothing else to do.

As for the stories that have been included. The path with Jenny where you go dominant is written by a sub. Its completely fucking toothless. Even all the way at the end, she is still regularly insulting, she's still domme in the camshows, literally every aspect of their relationship is wrong. Paying her $500 a night for a GFE while your Dom? Thats nonsense. A Dom would fucking never. Which is not to mention that which she's kicking up her attitude all you'd actually have to do is stop participating in her camshows and she'd fold like origami, because she needs that money more than you do.

As for Debbie,the options around the house should really progress better along with her story. And once you get to the end with her, while sleeping in her bed you should still need to go through the whole progression of things to get to sex. There should be a new sequence where you can jump right in. She's already showing up in your own room at night just to have a rowe.

My very strong recommendation going forward is DO NOT continue this path of adding whole stories at once, but instead go breadth over depth. You've already written so much of it, and it all intertwines, it just hits wrong when you're skipping past things.

Also, i don't see how the game is even playable for anyone not choosing the easy mode, because there was never any prompt for any method to earn money. Nor any prompt to actually start improving stats so the charisma checks would fail.

I've kept up with this game pretty much since the very first release. It has been nothing but a disappointment. At one time, the art style, the premise, the gameplay, etc. were top tier; back before the porn game genre was near as popular as it is today. I was excited for this game.

The story is now old and tired, the artwork is now subpar as compared to contemporary games, the content now lacks anything novel, the mini-games are stale, boring, and basic, nothing about this game stands out anymore. Not the gameplay, not the quality, the artwork, the fetishes, the characters are all one dimensional and unengaging, not the narrative, not the setting. Nothing. It's now basically the Dollar General version of school harem/incest games. And, to top all of that off, the dev came nowhere close to finishing the game after years and years of development and has now decided to entirely rework the game from square one, so now there is not even any content.

You are MC, you have a large Johnson, something bad has happened, you must make money, your mom and sister have the hots for you. Maybe. Who knows. Also, the aunt is a freak, and you're in school. There are some hot girls there. They may or may not like you. Also, is your teacher flirting with you?

This is an honest to god, 100% accurate description of this game now, and the game is as bland and tasteless as the description itself. It's the unfinished Hallmark channel movie of porn games now.

I played this game through many iterations until I finally gave up on it. At the time, every new update required a new complete replay (I assume that was eventually fixed) and each new update introduced new characters. The thing that made me finally stop playing it wasn't the replays from the beginning but that there was supposed to be an overarching goal for the main character and yet, summertime would stretch on forever and he seemed utterly unconcerned with the big mystery, the payments to the mob or anything else. It was just a story of the developer either getting distracted by new ideas or keeping the game going for as long as possible rather than driving it to completion and beginning a new project.

I don't have much to say, this is the biggest h-game i know, and i think it's the "most mainstream", it has lots of scenes, characters, story, options and etc. The only problem is the developer milking the game to the limit, but in the other hand it's free, he is getting money from people who want to support it, so it's up to them not me. Anyway: Recommend.

Since I first played this game, I had recently graduated from High School - I liked the game, thought it was charming and sometimes came up in the back of mind from time to time. I have since received my college degree and this game is still unfinished. Not even that, but turns out they're remaking the entire game from the ground up? What a joke.

Let's just call this what it is: A creatively devoid cash cow with headache inducing production. Stop giving this game attention, your money, and most importantly, your time. All which could be spent on more ambitious, more passionate projects.

Don't be fooled by the charming art - a pile of sh*t covered in glitter is still a pile of sh*t

no new content everything is deleted . i dont understand why they call it update when there is new content and even there is no content they have deleted everything , also no music this is terible !this is the last time i will download this game

v0.20.16 Review

I didn't expect much but I was surprised how much I was invested in this game, especially since I'm not particularly into free roams, incest, and grinding.

The characters, writing, stories, and scenes are all very good. It's a bit dated but has aged like fine wine, especially with the main sub mod installed.

Recommend this for people who are into the VN-type games to give this a shot. It's corny and funny but has its charm.

I like this game always have. Artwork work is unique. Characters are pretty diverse for this type of game. And the scense are well animated. Story is basic but interesting. I can't speak for what's on the devs mind as I don't have telepathy.

However I think in the best case scenario Summertime Saga is his baby and he wants to make it the best he can. The problem is in doing so he has killed all the momentum he once had behind the game. He should have finished the game before he did any tech updates. Completed the story and tied up loose ends. Then all the tech updates and whatever 21.0.0 is supposed to be should have been put into a new game or at best a sequel.

Worst case what everyone else says is true and he is money hungry and milking his subscribers dry while doing minimal work.

Either way he's killed what could have been a faithful fan base and possible future subscribers.

But not gonna lie as long as I don't have to pay for it I'm going to keep downloading the updates because at the end of it all I like the game.

Game's garbage. In the 2010s, many of this kind of game were normal. Make a game, produce scenes and characters, if it doesn't go anywhere, declare it abandoned. It doesn't have be complicated, it doesn't have to be very good, but Summertime Saga's art was. Its writing was serviceable.

But, something changed in the last couple years. Now games exactly like Summertime Saga have adopted a twisted version of the already unethical live service model. Instead of keeping a steady stream of drip fed content or chopping up a completed game to sell you piecemeal, what Summertime Saga and its ilk does is literally tell you to go fuck yourself. You pay me, I give you nothing, and in fact, I'll take back the stuff I've already put out.

After two years of inactivity, the dev has actually stripped almost all content out. The gameplay is not complicated, its a point and click adventure game made in an engine that practically does the work for you. There's no reason that we don't have a completed game with the resources available to create this!

So the game is trash, the art is mid, the writing is mid, and you should avoid getting attached to it, because it will not be completed in a reasonable amount of time. Literally go jerk off to anything else. This will only make you mad and take advantage of you if you consider supporting it monetarily.

V.21.00 rating is actually a zero. The tech "upgrade" is a tech downgrade instead, The current one you can play with cheat mode but what you get is a severely chopped version of the actually good game with most of the game not there anymore. The "improved" graphic quality actually gives me a headache and none of the scene is better quality than the older much more full content version. Why would you take an almost completed game and turn it into a dumpster fire product instead? I was massively disappointed in the direction the DEV went with his game. So much for me wanting to play it now as at the rate of his upgrades it will take another 5 years to reach a worse looking version of the older version before the tech upgrades. Worst move ever in my opinion. Its an opinion and you can either agree or disagree.

Evaluating the product we have in hand today, the aspects that can be highlighted are:

gameplay: The gameplay revolves around maximizing the protagonist's attributes and earning money to buy items in the game, however the "normal" and "difficult" options are blocked, leaving only the "cheat mode" option for new players .

story: the story is being completely retold part by part, leaving behind some elements, characters and choices that were already established in previous versions.

sounds: currently the game does not have a soundtrack during gameplay, leaving the player with no distractions other than the game itself.

dialogues: in general, some dialogues can become a little confusing or not make sense, depending on which character is being represented at the time, this mainly happens with the protagonist's family members, where due to the dialogue they can be represented as 'landlady' or 'friend".

In general, it becomes more viable to play the version before this one, as it does not present the problems mentioned above.

[v21.0.0] 0-Stars
Don't' buy into the tech-update bs. Just an attempt at the developer to prolong a project that should of been wrapped up years ago. The "Tech Update" is just an attempt for the dev to continue getting support while doing the disgusting practice of slowly re-adding pre-existing, removed content, over a long period of time. Literally been years just to make the game widescreen instead of fullscreen. Now the update is finally out, and they have removed all the content down it's bear bones beginning, and are now going to slowly re-add every character route, one update at a time. This is how the game originally developed, releasing one characters route per update, and the Dev thinks it's a good idea now to try and do it all over again with the same content, but now in widescreen. Like that makes a fkn difference while we are wacking off.
It's also hilarious how the visuals have been degraded in the update, when the dev has been boasting better visual quality the whole time.

I've lost hope in this game, and I'm just gonna take the older version as the completed game. I'm done waiting for this BS to get new content. Sorry Rhonda, we care, but not this much.
This dev has completely lost my support.
Un-subbed.

[v20.16] 5-Stars
The game is fun, and has lots of memorable moments. Definitely a great game worth a play through or two. Lot's of choices, mini-games, and a decent enough story to keep your attention outside the adult content.

The game/thread gets 2/5 Stars for Poor. As the project gets a poor rating due to terribly greedy decisions during development. As this thread is both the old version of the game and new version bunched together. I gotta rate it together.

In the supposed tech update, the art has become worse, the first image of the character called Jenny looks like a joke and shows the lack of regard for the quality of the product and this after what it seems to be like one or two years with no actual update. Also most content is removed. Seems like a scam for money. Not worth it.

Unlike the previous update, the "tech update v21" removes too much content to really validate a positive review, or in any case, earn the status of being called an update by itself.
And Likewise, when you deliver a test in blank, your score is 0.

In the music side, the game is mute, our characteristic soundtrack is no longer there. And there are no types of sound effects either.

The artstyle is cute, I think is the only positive thing, although, that would be the case if not for the amount of re-use of all material in this project, and even some downgrades. What a pitty.

In the gameplay deparment, right now, there is... nothing. So, it is more like a quick erotic light read accompanied by a few clicks from the user's part.

So, all in all, a very humble.. "something". I cannot, in good conscience, recommend this... waste of money, waste of passion, and most importantly, waste of your time.

In development for 8 years.
Only 1 day of content,Very short and the changes are not big or something that the player can apreciate.
Scenes have quality, but not justifiable with the time.
A lot of bugs.
I don't recommend playing it.

Horrible update, Art style somehow degraded.
New update killed all the progress, Annoying bugs, It's just a husk of it's former self. Characters look weird, Can't access the old game, Saves getting buggy

This used to be THE porn game. Like easily one of the best of all time. The Tech update was the beginning of the end. Instead of giving storylines to existing characters (Ronda, Annie, Judith) we just got more new characters and scenes for characters that already had a ton (more Odette scenes but no 3ways with Eve or Grace???). And now to top it all off after 3+ years they removed 90% of the game. Originally this was a 5 star game, now it's just embarrassing