Ren'Py - Completed - Tropicali [v1.0.0] [Story Anon]

I can't believe I almost gave this game 5 stars. Had I not played until the end, this would be a glowing review about how well-written and hot the game is. Honestly, I feel robbed. What even is the purpose of this game? Because it genuinely feels like it was made with the sole purpose of "deconstructing" the genre while taking a shit on anyone who liked these characters.

You'll see a lot of people talking about the ending here, and I want to make it clear that I didn't subtract 3 whole stars just because I disliked the ending. But holy fucking shit, what a terrible ending. You basically have one choice that matters with each girl in the entire game: fuck them or don't. If you do, congratulations, you just earned yourself a bad ending where everyone is sad and miserable, all while the MC becomes the spitting image of his shitty dad. If you chose not to fuck any of them, however... why are you even playing this game? For the riveting plot? The overarching storyline? Give me a fucking break. And the fact that these choices happen at the very beginning of the game means you can't see the good/virgin ending unless you play through the whole thing or "cheat" with URM.

I'm honestly struggling to understand how this game fell off so hard. And it wasn't just the ending. Everything after a certain point in the game becomes incredibly bleak and edgy, as if the author started hating his own game or something. The sex scenes are no longer intimate like they were in the beginning. Instead, they feel robotic and pointless. The dialogue that was once witty and lighthearted becomes a soap opera of drama, tears and intrigue that never goes anywhere. We're left with a lot of loose ends, making the game feel unfinished and sloppy. Important characters like Yoko and Gloria are severely neglected by the story, and you don't even get to fuck Gloria until the very end of the game.

And if you're wondering why the game has such a high rating despite the polarizing ending, just look at the older reviews. This was an enjoyable game until a certain point, then it was thrown in the trash for the sake of cheap drama and a bad ending. Not even bittersweet, just bitter. And to a lot of people, sad ending = deep, while happy ending = unrealistic power fantasy. That's one thing I fucking hate about modern media.

All in all, this doesn't look like a game meant to arouse. It looks like the product of an author that began to hate his own creation and decided to put an edgy spin on a story that really didn't need it. As an author, is it fulfilling to take a shit on an otherwise bright and well-written story? Is it rewarding to butcher several characters that people grew attached to? If the purpose here was to subvert all expectations, then consider me successfully subverted. Art is subjective, I suppose. In which case, here's my 2 stars. I'm tempted to lower it to 1, but I won't do that SOLELY because the KK models look good. To me personally, though, I'd give it 0 stars if I could.

And just to be clear, this game had great things going for it. Likeable characters, beautiful visuals, world-building, fun dialogue, good pacing. All of that completely falls apart in the latter half of what could've been a masterpiece.

Beautiful visuals, excellent sound-design/song-selection and decent worldbuilding that always teases you about something deeper. But doesn't really deliver on that teasing and kinda rushes the last route and the ending.

Also hampered by a central gameplay loop that while pretty good for the space, felt removed from the central narrative after the first few arcs (the characters start with a deadline to prove their earning abilities and that drives the management gameplay, but once they accomplish that and the MC switches priorities to relaxing and seducing women it feels like the management gameplay continued just to fill in space, would've been better as a one-off minigame or smth).

The endings weren't quite as horrible as a lot of people make them out to be; they fit tonally and were absolutely in line with the game, but they also render the VN-choices portion kind of pointless. Rather than a sliding scale or a point system, the endings for each character are reflected off a single binary choice, and rather early at that. Also kind of goes against the entire purpose of this genre of game, but that was probably the point, YMMV on whether #art justifies that or not. Juni's arc was also quite rushed, ending in 3 short, but engaging events. Was a deal-breaker either way but I kind of wish she was setup year or two (IRL) in advance. Though dev might've gotten death threat over that so maybe not, the internet may not be the place for tragedy that strong. Either way was worth playing, though I wouldn't fault backers for being disappointed that it ended in a way they didnt like. That's the double-edged sword of P*tr*on for ya, can be a big help in development, but can also end in regrets. Alllegedly this may be the setup for a series in which case I may change this review upon further entires until then, 3.5/5 roudned to 4. Worth playing, if for nothing else than the visuals. And the eyes oh the eyes, just keep expectations in check.

All right, then. What can I say about this game?

First of all, I have to say that I'm not a big fan of games that use KK/KKS models. I find that it's often very lazy or the models aren't pretty. Also, having played KK/KKS quite a few times, I'm familiar with h-animations, and they bore me.

EXCEPT THAT! This game proves me wrong on all 3 counts. The models are really well done! And the game is packed with custom poses/animations!
In this respect, the game is beyond reproach.

Unfortunately, while the game is excellent on the graphics front, it falls short in other areas.

The script is okay, but the MC suffers from the main character syndrome to the point of ridiculousness. The MC, tall, handsome, muscular and an outstanding sexual performer (my exact opposite), inherits a hotel and takes advantage of it to fuck as many women as possible.
The female characters, on the other hand, are a mixed bag. While they're well-developed, the endings of each character are botched, and the endings in general are disappointing.

As for the gameplay, it's meh. A semi-sandbox, semi-management game, semi-visual novel, semi-kinetic novel. The management/sandbox part could have been totally abandoned for more story, and the extra images could simply have been unlocked as the player progresses through the story.


All in all, the game isn't bad, but it tries to do too much and ends up being a little disappointing. It deserves 3.5 stars, but I can't give it more than that.

I really enjoyed this game, YES INCLUDING THE ENDING.

This whole game is very melancholic in tone, and the protagonist is definitely a scumbag, but he has enough charisma and isn't pure evil in a way that makes me dislike him, he's infinitely better than any sort of blank slate protagonist.

The girls are all very interesting and well written, and appeal to different fetishes, both appearance wise and personality wise.

As for the management aspect, it's fine, it never bored me or felt like I was doing busy work.

I really enjoyed the story as well, it's definitely made in service to the H scenes, which were also very well done, but the story was entertaining anyways.

As I said earlier, the whole game just has this melancholic undertone to it, so the ending didn't come as much of a shock to me. It's not some happy power fantasy ending, but it isn't some spiteful "fuck you" ending either, it fits well in my opinion.

All in all, I give Tropicali 5 stars, and am really looking forward to the sequel.

bro this game is just a master piece, i came for the fap, i stay for the story damn man you dont need to go that hard in a porn game, but damn, hope you continue doing good games like that, you should put it in steam bro.(sorry for the bad english, can you please tell me you playlist for that game?)

Good for short plays, not worth the replay though. Art is good for 3d but gameplay is lacking. probably better off being a visual novel and just removing the gameplay. It lacks harem ending, engaging gameplay, and replay value; to get to a five star rating.

Version 1.0, just in case it might matter for the future.

Besides several key points that left me confused and baffled throughout, overall i enjoyed my experience with the game quite a lot. So i figured if it can tie it up in any coherent fashion i will be fine with it and could give it a reluctant 4/5 here.

Until the ending happened. It was so catastrophically, cataclysmically, devastatingly horrid that it smashed the entire experience on atoms and i know for sure if dev will have the balls to work on a sequel after this snafu i am not touching it with a 10 foot pole.

First issue. The Protagonist is a complete schysophrenic. You know those animal shorts on youtube, where for example eagle and a snake fight and you don't know the winner and everyone ask "is this an eagle or a snake documentary, who do i support"? Well this is how the protagonist felt. For 99% of his time in the game he cannot decide what he is and in every scene he acts like a different person. Will he be considerate and empathic, will he be a manipulative monster or will he be a retarded horndog is not decided by you or the choices, this is entirely up to whatever scene he is in. This confused me to no end until i figured author just wrote him as whatever he wanted for the current scene and just ignore continuity and consistency.

Second issue. Gameplay is pointless and is tonally awkward. Why did i bother doing the entire "management" thing? It didn't add a single thing to the experience, it doesn't decide anything, it doesn't have any depth and is a clinically boring series of linear clicks that's impossible to lose. Not to mention that your managers will be chickens, sloths, Sanic (yes that one), tanks and every random bullshit in between. The entire gameplay part really should have been completely deleted.

Third issue. Story is a monstrous amalgamation of nonsensical half baked ideas that becomes incoherent mush by the end. Cloning machine would be enough, but also it is implied multiple times to the point i cannot throw it as a coincidence that this entire shit is a purgatory and everyone on the island is dead which makes NO sense but is heavily implied on several times. It is also implied that this is just a place very close to world of the dead and also they imply that either island is sentient and have an avatar or it's some sort of a god or whatever, it's a royal mess not worth untagling. Author didn't know what he was doing, how anyone can.

Fourth issue. The ending. Everyone got shat on. Every love interest besides your maids i guess, everyone have a bad time, everyone is miserable, it has the AUDACITY to assume this dumpster fire gonna have a sequel or will become a series, it spits on the player, it spits on it's narrative, it spits on love interest, it's disgusting.


I did not play any previous versions of the game but i can absolutely understand how at 0.9 people were hopeful for it, because it did show actual promise despite some strong issues, but it is negatively impressive how developers keep finding new ways to royally ruin years of their hard work in what i can only assume some drug induced fugue state with endings that i swear get worse and worse and worse, almost like there is a secret competition between them on who can ruin their ending harder.


Just play until the final event and treat it like it was abandoned and in that case you will find actually decently written fun time with good models animations.

Tropicali, IMHO is (so far) the only trully "unique" anime-style VN out here.

And unique, in many ways, it has its own vibe, the MC has a main theme, each girl is unique visually and in their personalities (with consistency!), it really does feel like an anime (without all the annoying sound effects and bings and boings most can't do without).

The story is interesting and with a simple premise. As you progress in your "mission", you get to unfold each girl's stories as well, with deeper and deeper mysteries.

Technically, the game puts a lot of effort on facial expressions and music, but it lacks on some of the build up, the intensity seems almost always overshadow by the lingering comedy, and animations although beautifully done, are far too mechnical.

The ideal score would have been a 3.5, had to slash it just like the ending of this game.

Version 0.9: Yeah i like this game, looking forward to the next update.
Version 1.0: Dear Dev PLEASE never work on games again.

What you have here is a bit of a power fantasy paired with harem and management. Nice models and good h-scenes. It is enjoyable and light hearted at times.

One star for a completed game.
One star for nice models and scenes.
Three stars are unachievable thanks to the ending.

And then there is the last update (spoilers ahead):

Shortly before the ending there is a new character, teased since forever as a blacked out pic. There are three scenes with her: intro, sex and group sex followed bei that character offing herself in the ocean... at this point FU dev.
And she goes back to a blacked out picture.

The ending, out of the 7 love interests:
3 have psychological damage beyond repair
1 has some entity living in her
2 are your loyal servants, one brain damaged and the other broken
1 is [redacted] haha, no really the relationship with MC is only implied and at the end she just mistrusts you

So if this sounds like the wholesome game you where seeking, congratulations and have fun.
I have no problem with bad endings per se, you start over and try for better ones. But if there is only the bad ending then what does the dev want to tell us? "Thanks for your time, I shat on a plate for you now enjoy."

At the end I really hope this does not become a trend. I for one will just ignore this Devs work from now on, if you enjoy his work, more power to you.

I'm stunned that it only took a year and a half for the dev to complete a fully fleshed-out game. There are games I've been following for 4+ years that haven't released this much content. For that alone this game deserves 5 stars. Will look forward to this dev's next project!

This is the first review I have ever written for a game either NSFW or SFW and i have been thoroughly blown away by this game it helps that i love the characters so deeply. Jessica is easily one of the hottest characters i have seen in any game but not only that i think that the cast itself is incredible. The story is really good and although it feels more kinetic with "fake choices" i still care for the choices that it gives us and i feel as though it allows the story to play out in front of me less like i am controlling someone and but more so guiding them down their path. All of the characters stories slapped in their own way and i thought the game itself was incredible. I also believe the music is the best out of any NSFW game i have ever played to the point that i am looking for the music outside of the game. Lastly i want to touch on the business aspect i think that is the only weak point of the game but it is still so much fun i cannot wait to see what comes next from this Dev. Finally Good Fucking Shit this game slaps. V1.0.0

Note: This is a rewiev of the 1.0.0 of the game, there may be subsequent updates which add to the experience.

It's a "one playthrough" kind of game, but it does it well. You manage an island and your finances and get in the pants of hot girls. The writing is surprisingly good and goes really hard during certain moments. The models are great and the scenes are animated.

Go do your thing and suffer the consequences of your actions.

• Writing is really good. Dialogue is engrossing, characters are multi-faceted and attractive with just enough drama behind them. Pretty sure the game is missing a supernatural tag.
• Choices are fake - they make no impact on following events or the story going forward. They are basically: do you want to see the next scene (yes/no)? And in canon those scenes happen anyways btw.
• Visually game is pleasing to the eye. Looks way better than 90% of Koikatsu slop out there. Sex scenes feature high-quality custom animations. Tho I don't like how they fade into black screen right after culmination just to show yet again that "character [x] enjoyed spending time with you and is now happy". That makes it lack any impact for me.
• The management game is bloated for sole reason of wasting your time. I'd much rather prefer if there were less properties and employees to manage, but they all had actual literary and visual content accompanying them.

⠀ ⠀ Game has potential but I don't recommend playing as of yet. Gameplay loop is raw and main plot-line is not finished, neither are side-character's stories. But the dev is defo cooking somethin' fr.

⠀ ⠀ Edit: so game is finished now. Nothing changed much except for a new girl and an ending. The girl is poorly written. You've literally just met, immediately had sex and now you're already best lovers or whatever. And then it just ends as abruptly as it started. Really just filler content. Now, the ending is......... hectic. It doesn't move the story or characters forward it just puts an end to everything. And in a pretty confusing rather than revealing manner.
⠀ ⠀ I would expect the author to fix present issues and conclude the game appropriately, but I guess he didn't care and my expectations were too high.

Very cool game, some things aren't implemented yet but the management part is kinda fun.

Also, the author can write insanely well, i felt reading a book or something, it's very compelling. The relationships part is well done and the story is cool.

Updated for the 1.0:
Let me preface this review by saying: I did play "Out of touch"in-between 0.9 and 1.0. Everything makes way more sense with the context of the same universe, including the technology and supernatural elements.

And, um... it's a StoryAnon's game, all right, completely psychedelic thought-experiment, parody-like story, coupled with expert graphical work. It could've been more, either he was afraid of pushing it all the way to be how he envisioned it, either of a fear of backlash (doubtful) or something else, or it's just an outlet for ideas he didn't find a way to use, I don't know, but this game turned out to be a bit of letdown, which is understandable. I expect the sequel to this will, once again, be controversial like this one. This branch is an outlet for him to rest from the main thing and experiment with something more brash.

I was singing praises to this game previously, and I kinda still want to do it, but... less enthusiastically? It's still a masterful degree of graphics and scenes, writings is still stellar sometimes, but it's an obvious side project to his main hitter, and everything Tropicali-related will remain that way.

Would I recommend it? Yeah, with a caveat. If you don't know anything about the author or Out of Touch - come play for the memes and really well done scenes, don't even try to comprehend what the actual fuck is going on. If you do know and/or a fan - it's the same old StoryAnon, you know why you are here, I know why I'm here, dive into the abyss of infinite madness of a ":3"-man.

Topicali boasts a great cast of girls, good writing, and an overall polished experience. Strong recommend!

Characters and Story:
Coming back to write this review maybe a month after playing, I still remember the blonde lady, Jessica. Jessica is sweet, troubled, and sexy. She's adrift in life and has washed up on your island looking for something to ease the discontent in her heart. She doesn't know what it might be. Perhaps she just needs a breather. But a breather from what? Being a succesful mother? An American living comfortably?
Jessica thinks that she's being ridiculous. She doesn't have a particularly high opinion of herself. So when a charming, wealthy young man swoops in to tell her he thinks quite highly of her, that he (truthfully or not) genuinely wants her to be happy, well... it's not too surprising that she's smitten, is it?
I won't go into too much detail, but suffice to say that the final product is more than the sum of its parts. There's drama, there's mystery, there's plenty of sex, and it can even tug on your heartstrings. Not all characters have as much emotional baggage; some of them are more fantastical or silly and I think the story benefits from that - though I do hope the maid is explored more.
The MC is more of his own character than most in this genre, though you still have some control as to how he develops or responds to different situations. I've liked him so far and I'm interested to see how he turns out in the end.
Also, the tension with Gloria is wonderful and the scary horny woman has completely flown off the hot/crazy scale.

Gameplay:
This game is unfortunately one of many that works better as a pure VN. The management gameplay is straight busywork. If I'm being extremely generous, it contributes to the plausability of the MC learning how to run an island. But it's never fun, or challenging.
With that said, it does work fine and it's not egregiously slow-paced. You can speed through the "game" sections and get right back to story content. No bugs or endless clicking, and there are some upgrades you can pick up later on to reduce the turn-by-turn micromanagement even further.

Sound & Visuals:
Great. I actually saved a few of the songs, haha. The animations are high quality and the girls are very cute. I appreciated the variety in body type.

well with the games final out i must say this was a very well written story and the visuals are amazing story anon always comes through

that aside i must said this game did not turn out the way i had hoped it would but these things aside i loved it and i thought the story was very well done for a porn first game by story anon it was the same quality as out of touch and hit just as hard at some points and was very fun to play as the management part of the game felt well balanced not like i had to do it every few seconds but it was just enough to remind me oh yeah i gotta do that right i think it would have been a very good game story wise even with out the porn

10/10 IGN

This visual novel is....okay, I guess. It's animated alright for models that use koikatsu?
Chock-full of some memes and references where the author tries to be cheeky.
Some characters are brain-dead, retarded or obnoxious. Some are alright.

I stopped taking the story seriously after the first 15 minutes. I mean, it's a sandbox game, why even try to give the illusion of choice, eh? Furthermore, I completed it in one session, so it fits the description quite well that the idea was a "shitpost".

I had more fun with this little minigame where you take over the island and do a little bit of micromanaging. Some upgrades are not worth the money they cost. An upgrade could be that your workers can take some time off every time they're fatigued.

Good game for someone else, lame for me.
Still, good luck to the developer.

I like the management, the characters are good and varied,

Very few bugs sich as when you are going through the tutorial if you scroll back by mistake, you cannot choose to set Mio as the manager cause you are locked into clicking accept.

Other than that, had a good time!
Really looking forward to more development of the game.

Very good game, I am a much bigger fan of this game than the author's other game. The MC is pretty solid, though it is EXTREMELY weird to see him unironically call himself a Spanish Bull, for the most part, his humor lands and this game obviously takes inspiration from Tropico, and I love it. The city management is actually enjoyable, and while I prefer straight-up visual novels for the most part, it's still a very good game.

The girls are top-tier, some of the best I've seen with this engine, and their varying appearances, sizes, and personalities all fit well.

Gotta love the pregnancy option, I can't wait to see that come to fruition.