Others - Completed - The Runaway Girl and Me [v1.05] [level1]

The game is enjoyable but tedious. For anyone inspired by the gameplay, here's a heads-up: it's jarring to base requirement as objectives. It feels like a mechanic from Ren'Py games used to track progress, but not something the player needs to see. While it does guide players, there's a smarter way to achieve this—you just need to find it.

I would have loved the game if it weren't overshadowed by better titles like Imouto: Fantasy. In that game, even though day-to-day life is random, it doesn’t blatantly show the chance of success in your actions. This makes the player less inclined to play and repeatedly load the game after failures. On top of that, the beginning is tight on cash, and failure only makes things worse by lowering the girl’s mood.

But to be fair, Trust stat only used to measure her gloom, other than that, her "Trust" only spout insightful life of the girl. I got pretty excited about choosing what kind of relationship dynamic you have with her, but it turned out that branch got trimed pretty quickly.

I did enjoy the little bits of player thoughts and glimpses into the girl's life—it was a nice touch. But sadly, the focus is more on her body than her character.

If the characters were more interesting, writers could have expanded on that dynamic and maybe even incorporated a feature where you gradually write down your experiences in a diary or mental notes, but nope. Her life is a plot and you didn't even resolve it with her.

Then there are the H-scenes, ooh... the poor H-scene. Which is pretty good in all thing considered. But what makes them think it's a good idea to locked it behind stat requirements. I understand the need for progression, but why lock actions behind invisible scores? It just creates unnecessary frustration. What? Is the player never gets handsy with a girl, i am lacking understanding in kamasutra department, but what constitute as good video here? The teasing, the stripping? Nope! You need to make her cream fast in a short time frame, so cram all kind of bad boys on her hole until the time run's up. If Pure Love = Lust, then no matter how sweet the night is, you'll get sick repeating it everyday and against a girl with unlimited libido, you'll get NTR by the toy while you work hard everyday.

All in all, it’s a good game, but its tedious nature only there for 1 thing Steam time-check refund policy. If you ware to play it diligently though you're in luck, it IS linear, which means the fortune and stat you amassed will be used in latter chapter, especially when there's a time skip.

So in this game you live together with this runaway girl (duuuh) called Natsuho and you deepen you relationship with her

This is a really good game If you enjoy vanilla, Its just you and the girl (and some foreplay scenes with the adult story clerk).

The VA does a really good job and makes everything better, the h scenes are good specially when you get to a point where you have a bunch of options

The story is ok! nothing woooooow but not too bad! It entertains you enough to like both MC and Natsuho! (I do think they fall in love too fast but okay!)

The boring part is that the early game can be a bit difficult If you dont pay attention and the game can be a bit grindy

Its a great game! It does have some problems but nothing that made my experience worse or something like that

Definetly a must play If you enjoy some vanilla content and great V.A!!

I still have some content to unlock so If something cool happens I will update my review!

Have fun o7

PROS

- Story is okay, somewhat substantial, with a good ending. Dialogue doesnt grate and Im not tempted into skipping the vast majority of it, which is always a plus.
- Girl is cute, and somewhat believable if you can excuse the fact that youre slapping cheeks within 7 days of meeting her.
- H gameplay is acceptably mid. Not mindblowingly complex, nor a slog

CONS

- Be prepared to down at least 4 hours into this game, and that's if you know what youre doing. If you dont, then likely you'll have wasted endless hours grinding stuff you dont need to
- Gameplay is tedious shit. I mean, surely its acceptable to say that no one is here to experience a day-to-day job which barely has any significance in a H game or from a storyline standpoint.
- H game ratings. Like seriously, I dont need a game grading how Im doing in bed. Even in real life girls dont review your performance because that's a surefire way to bring the mood down.
- Paced like a marathon for mature gentlemen in the olympics where the average age is 70.


GENERAL REVIEW

Alright, let's get the story out of the way with minimal spoilers. You play as random nobody who thinks living alone is some form of rebellion against society. You make your living through part time jobs (like really?) and one day you spot a girl around a playground who needs shelter and will offer you her body for it...yes, its that same tiresome trope of cohabilitation that wont be winning any prizes because there's like an entire continent filled with the thing.

So what do you do aside from the obvious H gameplay? Well, you get to work, take her on dates, work, buy her stuff, work, and work somemore. If this isnt telling exactly what you will be doing most of the time, let me spell it out: you'll be working, and work is about as tedious as it is in real life. Ive no idea why this part even needs expanding because ultimately, who gives a shit about this? Fortunately, at some point you'll start making enough money to skip this, but bloody hell.

H gameplay is where this game shines the best, and while there is no real animations there's sufficient complexity here that it doesnt feel like a button masher, though that is what it is. There are multiple positions, though you dont get to change this mid sex.

Just one last point, because I feel I have to rage against this cohabitation model a bit. Pace the H, because the first hump is always the most special and all subsequent humping feels like a grind. In other words, for gods sake make me earn the sex little by little, and not full blown penetration within the first week.


CONCLUSION

Its a decent attempt at a cohabitation game that at least impresses to a certain extent. Would be better if you remove the tedious working, the absurd sex rating at the end, and focus squarely on the interaction you're having with Natsuho, and of course, the H gameplay.

4 stars, because it accomplishes what it needs to do, completely fappable. Not as good or as emotionally satisfying as teaching feeling (because what really is) but better than 1room because at least the H gameplay doesnt feel like solving a puzzle.

Recommended because why not. Just be prepared to click, and click a ton. With the amount of stats given in game, there should at least be one that shows the number of right clicks your poor mouse has suffered.

Great game, I especially liked the voice acting, the scenes are solid and Natsuho is cute. It's a bit of a grind to get scenes but with living together scenarios, it'd be a bit odd to get everything too fast so I won't count that against it.

This game is genuinely tedious to play, i couldn't really finish it due to boredom, so i guess you can take my review lightly


Story
It tries more that most coahbitation games, but it's just a liniear slide show in the end, with no particular emotional weight behind it

Gameplay
Like all cohabitation games, very simple if not boring, this one is the latter
They could've done alot more with the video feature thing, havnig to go to work and ACTUALLY do something is crazy to me, youjust click a few fucking buttons and that's it, atleast a badly made mini game would've been betterm or just skip the work part and focus on the events at work part, like others games do


Sound/Voice acting
Voice acting is pretty rare in porn games, alright partial voice acting where the focuss is on important story events, nothing much to be said


Scenes/mechanics
You take what you can get, i doubt anyone on this platform has big standards to care about the minor details, they're alright, i can't say it's unfappable
What annoyed me more is the fucking 'interactive' sex
Unlike most cohabitation games, you have to keep. clicking. the. buttons
It just drained every little brain cell i had left in my brain from years of porn addiction, why did they put a timer on the actions? I can accept the actions being dictated by buttons by my god why did you add a timer to them

It was just a giant, fucking chore to play is how i'll finish off

After 9 hours of play, I can say that investing too much time in a vanilla game.
If you're looking for a beautiful simulator, with a protagonist who wants to do good, with beautiful sex scenes and very convincing voice acting, this is your game.
It has some problems that may put some people off, such as the rating you receive at the end of each sex scene, I didn't think there was an explanation for the score. Also not knowing how many scenes there are in the game or how many accessories it is possible to get. I only discovered that there was a BDSM outfit, through photos, researching the game.
I liked the story, the girl who has to run away, because of her father's problems, and I also liked the solution, there really is an ending to the game.

Good vanilla game that I wasted more hours on than expected. The gameplay loop is fun and an interact h-game is always welcome. There's a limited amount of content in the game overall that's slowly dished out through the story. For the h-scenes, an issue I have is that the scoring system and exp system doesn't seem to be well-explained. It just feels like a toss in the air whether you receive a good score.

This is the sort of game that drives a man insane. On one side, the devil on your shoulder wants you to rabidly pursue those H-scenes and the sweet wholesomeness all throughout this hellish inferno of a game. On the other side, the angel on your shoulder demands that you do something more productive with your godforsaken life and stay the hell away from this game if you know what's good for you.

The story: Natsuho is a girl that runs away from home because her dad is so in debt that he has literal police confiscating his home and belongings. You find her in a park, she passes out, you bring her home. The plot thickens as your cohabitation continues. Your company president is actually a ??? year old yokai that was friends with your new gf's dad. Turns out her dad was hellbent on revenge yadayadayadayada. You end up doing amateur porn together to make a decent living.

The gameplay: Fuck this goddamn gameplay. There's an arbitrary sex rating at the end of every session. You have to develop the girl, but you don't even fucking know if it's doing anything. My solution - go fucking AFK and play/watch other stuff while this shit is playing in the background. There's a weekday grind where you go to work editing porn videos. You manage Natsuho's health and cooking skills. You take her out on dates on the weekends. It's like Persona, but if you fucking cut out 9/10's of what makes Persona special.

The Scenes: They're great. Natsuho is hot, and it's explained that her Mom was a model - so that somehow means she's hotter than most JAV actors goddamn. The uncensored patch makes this game all the more worth it. If you're sick of mosaics, this is the fucking game to play. I just wish they had more. There's so much potential. The game experiments with stuff at the start - trying to ask you how you wanna mold your relationship, but it never amounts to anything more than a couple of dialogue changes.

4/5 - the translation brought this up half a point for me. I appreciate understanding what to do throughout half the fucking game now. Thank you translators. You are doing gods work. But fuck this game and it's grind to an extent lmao

This is pretty much your standard slice of life sim resource management game, carried by it's polish, pretty good art, and decent writing. Where it falls apart for me is Natsuho herself (the runaway girl). She's needy, tedious, annoying, and demanding. She will snap at you, going in to a negative mood swing that spirals in to a negative feedback loop that effects all of the games mechanics, all because you wanted to have a conversation with her and failed. She'll get anxious if you don't make a sex video with her often enough, but on the same day she's on her period so that you can't even make one if you wanted to, which of course, leads to a worse and worse mood. Savescumming pretty much part of the gameplay, and I sure hope you made lots of backup saves because you never know when you might brick yourself and go in to the aforementioned negative spiral.

TL;DR: It's a very well presented game that tries it's best to piss you the fuck off.

Pretty good game!

It's mostly vanilla and there's little to no animation. But the artwork is great and the story is good enough to keep you entertained, plus is voiced and the VA really does a great job for the main girl. My only complain is that it can get a little grindy and somewhat repetitive, both for the non h and h gameplay parts. But the game has enough content to at least justify it.

There are multiple endings so there's a bit of replayability. So if you're into vanilla-love couple kind of games this is perfect for that.

This game was a breath of fresh air.

While decidedly the best cohabitation game I've ever played, this may be a contender for best hentai game in general. I was surprised to discover that there's even a moderately compelling storyline contained within the experience, with the dialogue being top-notch and the characters actually interesting and moderately believable (obviously requiring some measure of suspension of disbelief regardless given the premise).

The game is by no means perfect and there's quite a bit of grind involved, but the experience itself is sufficiently captivating to keep the player engaged. My only regret is some limitations with regards to H scenes, but considering the quality of the art it's difficult to bring this up as a negative, I would word it such that I only wish there was more content since what is there is excellent.

This is clearly a labour of love and in my opinion, an experience that is not to be missed. Natsuho is a charming and adorable heroine and you can really feel the bond between the protagonist and her gradually developing thanks to your actions. There are a surprising amount of moving parts in the game, such as items you can purchase that will passively increase parameters that develop her abilities further and unlocking new content in the game.
I so seldom take the time to review a title but in this case I felt the effort was warranted. As stated before, this could plausibly be one of the best hentai games I've ever encountered and I simply could not recommend it enough.

Although it is MTL, it is still understandable what is going on, and the game itself is great, I really enjoyed the play through. You should totally check this one out if you are into this kind of games and the MTL does not bother you too much.

An amazing game. Everything from the art to the dialogue to the story to the sex scenes, everything is 10/10. However, the only thing lacking is the language. It is edited MTL so a lot of the time the dialogue doesn't sense. The biggest problem is the pronoun situations where everyone is labeled as a he regardless of gender, which is hilarious in my opinion. But other than that game is amazing, it is so wholesome, and the story is actually eye-catching as opposed to the typical "girl run away from home, hide her and sex her". I would highly recommend everyone to try this out because it is an amazing experience. 10/10. Would play again.

One girl, one room. I've played quite a few games with this formula and this one's pretty good.

Story 3/10

There's actually kind of a story. Natsuho ran away (obviously) and you found each other in the park. She propositions you sex in exchange for money and she promptly faints. After taking her to the hospital you take her back home and your one girl one room lifestyle begins.

Honestly the MTL takes away greatly from the story. It's hard to read seriously with the MTL mistakes and the fact that you're called "Player" is kinda dumb. With a proper translation, I think this category could potentially be rated a 5/10. Not great, but there's a kind of a story there. However, the story's about Natsuho's dad, it's not even about Natsuho. So... where's the character development?

I do like the ending but it's kind of abrupt. You confront your own overbearing parents but it's not that well done. But confronting your parents is what led you to marry Natsuho. I think the story could have progressed/been fleshed out more leading to that marriage, but it wasn't. Wasted potential.

Gameplay 6/10

The gameplay loop consists of days, 7 days a week. You work on the weekdays to earn money and can go on dates on the weekends. Eventually Natsuho wants to contribute so you start making porn vids with her and earn a shit ton of money.

The stat grind is real. You have multiple stats to grind like trust, sexual interest, and something called "my hentai" which is like your own perversion (your perversion is actually a story element). But stats grow extremely slowly. I think I was around day 100 before I maxed every stat. With save scumming.

Art 8/10

Natsuho is beautiful. There's a decent number of interactive scenes and her reactions are great.

Additionally, the voice actress for Hyakka is great.

Overall 7/10

A decent entry. Not the best 1 girl 1 room game I've played but probably the 2nd or 3rd best. The three main gripes being MTL, lack of character development, and the stat grind.

Especially the stat grind. I had to pull out my phone to surf reddit during sex scenes because it was that grindy. It just takes a long time to max stats. This game probably took 10-20 hours to beat and half of that time was trying to max stats.

Nice game. Story seems alright. Gameplay was alright too. It's very similar to other runaway girl game but with worse (imo) execution.
Art 3.5/5
Story 3.5/5
Gameplay 3.5/5
Fapability 3/5
Originality 3/5

Nice story with a twist, animations are nice, and the few characters present are nicely writen. It might be a bit grindy for some of you. but it is not as bad. Definetly I've had fun with it.. Game is not to long.

I really enjoyed the story of this game, the heroine is adorable and you get to wife her up after all your hard work, but as a trainer VN, there are too many things missing from it (like changeable outfits to add variety to sex scenes and roleplaying) to rank it among the greats like Teaching Feeling, Akira Points, and 1room. Plus the very average at best, laughable at worst MTL translation drags this down currently. So in its current state, it is an average trainer/management romance sim worth a play just for the EXCELLENT story. (I will add a star if it ever gets a solid English translation)

Aight
-Story: You pick yourself a girl from the street, get to know each other better and get closer to one another. There are also some other issues (i mean for the protagonists to solve, not with the game itself) but i was not too invested. Particularly in . The last plot-line is interesting tho and is realised through gameplay in fun way. Also i like the dynamic between the mc and the girl.
-Gameplay: literally teaching feelings, 1room runaway girls and me(lul), fox-waifu Konko and many other..."life-sims"(?) but with a few sparkles of creativity: Girl's cooking can increase of decrease your Max HP, during work you can...work, or upload homemade porn videos.
-Art and designs: splendid! I enjoyed pretty much everything in that regard. And dude...the faces that the sex-shop's keeper makes...glorious
-H: *CURSE YOU, CENSORSHIIIIIP!!!* I think this games lacks sprites for multiple cum-shots, actions would be better if you pressed once and mc never stops doing it until you command him so rather then...this, but those are more of preference issues and not something wrong with the game itself. Generally speaking the H aspect is done VEEEERY well, he-he


All in all i enjoyed my time and will enjoy some more)))
Hope you will enjoy it like i do!

It has problems, but overall...Probably the best in its subgenre?
It has gameplay without feeling grindy or needlessly complicated.
It has decent amount of porn. (animation was pretty bad though).
It has an ending. Surprisingly rare for this kind of game...

I can't stop playing until finish all game. Translation are not perfect, but you can understand what is happening pretty well. Images, actions and gameplay are really good, sex scenes are really hot and well designed.