Update for v.0.7.3
This game continues to hit it out of the park with each update. I feel kind of bad for rating other games with 5 stars because it diminishes how much this one stands out from the rest. Each update comes with an hour or two of new content (and not just grind, but actual content) and the story line continues to hold my interest. The addition of a gallery in this update to review old storylines and a massive streamlining of the store interface made a noticeable improvement as well. I especially appreciate the useful help system that gives you details like the time and place an event will occur. It drives me crazy when games give a hint like "talk to person X", but doesn't mention that it only works at exactly 2:35 PM on every other Tuesday when they're in their room wearing the purple dress. I also appreciate that the game will have 3 or 4 quests going at once so you aren't completely trapped waiting for the correct day to roll around.
Updated for v.0.2.3
This game has earned its fifth star with just one update. The grind seems less severe in this update and the girldar makes a huge improvement. The clues can still be a little overly vague but not bad enough to lose a star. The newly implemented funishment/reward system has a lot of promise as well.
Version Reviewed: v0.1.0
This is the most promising game I've seen on this site in a long time. For a first release it feels pretty polished and there is a good 3-4 hours of content in there. I expect to see a lot of 5 star reviews once people try it out, but the game has just enough problems to be only 4 star for me.
The premise is that you are a the nephew of the dictator of a tiny magical island. He sends you over to rule the island for reasons that only get half explained in this version. Everybody on the island is either old (and the old people are so far below the MC's notice that he never even considers talking to one of them to figure out what all of the weirdness and secrecy is about) or a smoking hot and thirsty 20something babe.
Gameplay is pure stat building. Talk to girls to level up their stats until you unlock sex scenes which also buff their stats. The girls are on a schedule but it's complicated enough that it takes many days to figure it out. The schedule is per week (I think) as their daily activities are all different. This game really badly needs a girldar. Where this game loses a star for me is where it gets overly grindy in places. Repeating the same scene 5 or more times before unlocking a slightly longer version of the same scene that you then have to grind to unlock an even longer version of the scene. There is of course also a money grind, but basically once you get your hotel maxed out money is no issue.
The navigation is a bit clunky in places, requiring a couple too many mouse clicks to get anywhere.
Sex content is fairly heavy on BDSM themes. Lots of spanking, tying people up, and erotic punishments. Very hot. Few or no animations yet, but honestly that's a plus in my book. Animations seem to take a ton of developer time and I'm happier that there is a lot of varied content instead of a handful of short animations.
There is some weirdness with the time required for various actions. Having the maid fail at cooking and then get a spanking takes no time. Having the maid fail at cooking and then shlick takes 3 hours. Honestly the spanking one was a bit of a relief because that one required a LOT of grinding and at a certain point there aren't many opportunities to do it, so had the activity not been buggy it would have taken many days of in-game time to grind up her stats.
I got to 100% completion after about a month of in-game time. A five star game would have only taken 15-20 in-game days and would either give me the girl's schedule or girldar.
It's kind of weird to have this enormous emergency with someone's life in danger and be forced to sit on my thumbs because the one person who I need is taking an all-day soak in the sauna and can't be bothered.
