Ren'Py - Summertime Saga [v21.0.0 wip.6155] [Kompas Productions]

I see a lot of people hating on this game and the latest tech release, and while I don't normally put reviews out there, I figured I should give my two cents.

1. If you want a large game with a LOT of content, get the pre-tech update version. I recently downloaded the newest tech update, and while it lacks content, the new interface and character intros are fantastic.

2. Despite this being a game that has been out there for a while, you will be hard pressed to find another 2d hand-drawn game that provides this much content and quality WITH animations.

3. If you like big tits, wincest, and pregnancy, this game still knocks it out of the park. If you like futa, there's just one character who's really just a dick girl if you want her to be. That's about it for the fetishes. The "monster" girls aren't that unusual, but they are attractive.

4. Some improvements I wish were made:

• Delve more into the fetishes. There needs to be more variety with what you can do with some girls. Some transformation of some kind would be cool.
• More pregnant sex with more characters. I think you can only have pregnant sex with the sister and the Italian lady. There was some incomplete scene with the aunt a while back.
• Would love to have a scene with the gym teach and/or Judith. We all want some Judith.

The story is funny and keeps going well through the end, if there is an end. We'll see. Maybe in a few more years .....
Until then, it's still one of the strongest titles out there despite what anyone says. I think that people want more out of it is a sign of how good it is, not a detraction.

I will update this review when the tech update is fully released! What a polarizing game this is! Most of the bad reviews come from people who don't like DarkCookie or the development of this game. As with Milfy City, people care a lot about this IP. They want to see it succeed but can't wait for the final product. At the very least DarkCookie is a way more trustworthy developer. Definitely not infinitely trustworthy but he is good at sharing updates about the progress of the game. Currently, he is remaking Debbie's content which is very exciting. I think most of us care more about the remade content than the implementation of old content. I will agree that the development progress feels sluggish but it is honestly not the worst, especially considering this game is hand-drawn. You cannot deny that the game is written very well. You might not like the style or the premise and to each their own. However, DarkCookie has created a world that feels more alive than any other porn game out there. The world and characters have so much personality. There's so much absurd sex humor but also deeply passionate spur-of-the-moment sex in this game. So many well written story beats and just overall good vibes. The girls also don't overly swoon over the MC. Don't get me wrong, this is a harem fantasy, but the MC is not a divine entity. He doesn't make every girl fall for him. Some of the girls do but a good chunk of them just like him because of the casual sex! The story progression is also impeccable. The updates have for a long time been oriented about completing either incremental parts of the main story or full character storylines. This makes the storylines more memorable because you experience them in one go. Sex scenes still get added to the story afterwards but the stories are basically done. A problem with this game is the scope. DarkCookie is obviously very ambitious with the project and for good reason. It's like a hallmark porn game, it's almost mainstream. However, as mentioned before this makes the development slower. Also, the old content just doesn't hold up at the moment. It can be difficult to justly review something that isn't complete since DarkCookie's vision with the game hasn't been realized quite yet. But it is one of the games that I look forward to the most.

A classic, but seems to be slow with releases. A bit disappointed the only release in ages was just moving to a new platform. But seems to be on the up.
Fingers crossed we get some more scenes with the characters previously left behind.

Great game! Filled to the brim with unique characters and witty dialogue! Quite literally one of the best porn games out there.

"Summer Time Sage" by DarkCookie is a captivating visual novel that masterfully blends charming storytelling with engaging gameplay. Set in a vibrant, sun-soaked world, the narrative follows a young protagonist who embarks on a journey of self-discovery and friendship during the summer break.
The character development is a standout feature, with well-crafted personalities that resonate deeply with players. DarkCookie excels at creating relatable dilemmas, allowing players to make choices that significantly impact the storyline. This interactivity adds layers to the experience, inviting players to explore multiple outcomes and replay the game to uncover different paths.
Visually, the art style is stunning, combining bright colors and whimsical designs that perfectly capture the essence of summer. The soundtrack complements the visuals beautifully, enhancing the overall atmosphere and immersing players in the charming world.
While some may find the pacing a bit slow at times, the heartfelt moments and emotional depth make it worthwhile. "Summer Time Sage" is a delightful escape that leaves players feeling nostalgic and uplifted. Whether you're a fan of visual novels or new to the genre, this game offers a refreshing experience that lingers long after the screen fades to black. Highly recommended for those seeking a heartwarming adventure!

The game is good, with a great art style. People dislike it for the lack of significant progress, though progress is occurring (at what feels like a snail's pace). Play the game, enjoy it, forget about it for a year, redownload, repeat.

"Where do i begin
To tell the story of how great a love can be" (c) Shirley Bassey

I think this game is like touchstone from International Bureau of Weights and Measures, for after japanese hentai VN era games. And it was built on the base of one of these, i've recognised it - the plot where MC should find a girlfriend for a prom, going wild within the premises, where everyone is cool with MC fucking everyone around, even in his school (come on now, please fix it, i know it's a lot of work, but, we're craving for a bit of realism, believe me).
Sometimes to the word, like "i want the real thing", i remember that, i'm from dial-up era! Speaking of which, the bitching sister hardly coexists with new story, where MC is saving her from evil russians (transcribing from russian, should i say instead of translation, is adorable) and after that, she's still that empty, ugly inside, sociopat. Nah, it's hardly realistic. Like a beach house for 5k, come on now! His mom just got a loan for 125k for her house!
I get it, the game is far from completion And we're still far away from PussyWillow turning into a girl one night, right?
Art is great, characters are great, although some of them need a bit of more backstory and further interaction. Don't care about the music, however i would appreciate voice over, especially in sex scenes, but ofc, it's in ideal world
Overall, great work, even if it was 8 years, it pays! It's already a classic and a benchmark! Really uplifting, atmospheric and phantasy inducing game! A lot of funny references (i really did appreciate Jay and Silent Bob, not to mention "you're nasty woman!") Thank you!
What would i like to be in here? I don't know, maybe more incest and drama when you know, everything start to unravel itself? But it's my personal fetish and i know that i'm the minority, and you know what i say ? Fuck minorities! You should aim for statistical average, that's how you make moneys, yes? Anyway, thank you again!
PS: Eve is the obvious best character and girlfriend material, just like in the original story and....more eating out and less handjobs! More eating out in the kitchen, in everywhere! Please, i mean, is this an american thing (like walking in your house in shoes) - handjob? I don't need a woman to perform that, what's the point! I've never dreamt of freaking handjobs in my puberty years, wtf, what am i missing here?

Summertime Saga is the gold standard of adult games. Eight years in the making, its art style is incredible, the world is immersive, the storylines are enthralling, the attention to detail is spectacular. Best of all - it's free!

You play as MC, a young student. Slowly, you work your way up from being a jobless, carless loser to being the most popular guy in town. There are dozens of rich, interactive characters, each with their own quirks and storylines to work your way through.

Although there is a linear storyline with a start and finish, the game also has a very sandboxy, freeplay feel. You can spend your time pumping up your muscles, delivering pizzas for extra cash, or sweet talking the ladies. You have complete control. Will you bang the big titted goth girl, or your sweet, religious classmate? Will you pull out and bust on her face, or hold it in and knock her up? You can do whatever you want. Want incest? Just download the patch. Don't want it? no problem! Want to get it on with a ladyboy? Go for it! Or would you rather keep it vanilla and stick with straight M/F sex? The choice is yours!

The look, the feel, the sounds, the atmosphere, and the art of Summertime Saga are all spectacular. It is without a doubt a must-try game. If you haven't played it yet, give it a whirl!

Side note: I wanted to point out a lot of the reviews for this game are bogus. Stupid people do stupid things and then complain about them. If you read through them carefully you'll find that most of the negative reviews come from fools. "I deleted my save file, now I can't load it." Duh! "I downloaded a hardware test version of the game and now I can't play through it!" Facepalm! "The new patches aren't coming fast enough. One star!" Jeez, these guys are ridiculous.

1: The game used to be good. If I can get an older build id love that.

2: The introduction of Trump. It was funny when it was a reference in the mall. But having sex with his family members and the like makes me fill icky, and I enjoy hardcore bdsm porn games.

Like why add that? Its gross and I loose any hard on I had.

3. Lack of new content.


Idk what else to add.

I came back to this game to see how it developed over years but what i found was a dissapointment.
This game was one of its kind with lots of nice art and fun overall. Its really sad that over half of content is gone.
Dang

There is a very clear patern with this writer, even if you take out all the milking of the patreons over the years for very little return the bigest problem in this game IMO is that the writer doesn't know how to hold sexual tension or make scenes not feel repetitive after you achieve sex.

Every story line has the same, it builds on the sexual tension, slowly getting to sex, and after you get to it the writer has no clue on how to continue; can't build relationships, can't build the plot, can't do much of anything else, so he just adds scenes for a new character and repeats everything again.

The main problem in this game along the years can be boiled down to the autor not knowing how to build on the history and taking the easy way out, PATHETIC.

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.