Ren'Py - Summertime Saga [v21.0.0-wip.5791] [Kompas Productions]

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

the game has regressed a lot in terms of development velocity. changing tech stack makes sense if it can be done without compromising content and even with content being paused. this is a major regression - going backwards in content after a long development cycle for tech update.
i know the game is free here, but i won't recommend investing your time and attention on this one. its no longer the VN i remember from its earlier days.

I will first talk about 20.16 alone which is 4 stars easily. Old? Sure. But good.

There is a nice variety of love interests, good scenes and a lively sandbox by AVN sandbox standards. Main downsides to me were the main story going basically nowhere so far, the old feeling and the update times being so slow it may as well be a running gag. Good fun for what it is with lots of content.

21.00 as a tech update removes an insane amount of the games content. The benefits of modern features like widescreen do not justify this version yet to me at all. It adds next to no new content on top of this. A wait time of two years for this is extremely disappointing and updating the tech to match the content of the 20.16 will likely take ages.

To anyone that has already played this, don't bother downloading 21.00 until its caught up with 20.16 in content. If you have never played the game before you can choose. Older game with loads more content in 20.16 or follow the development of 21.00 as it plays catch up so you get those quality of life improvements.

3 stars overall and if it takes years for this new version of Summertime Saga to have the same content as 20.16 I will drop it to a 2 without question. Disappointing.

Haven't played the game in 3 years, and nothings changed. Every now and again he will release an update for same 5 characters over and over again, none of it advancing the story, just redoing sex scenes here and there, then "tech update" that's been talked about for half a decade, that will finally allow you to save game so you can continue from next update is taking half a decade to show anything for it, still isn't out, no update for over a year that adds anything to the game.

In 8 years that game has existed Judith hasn't received a single update, despite making it to second place in a bunch of polls. He always adds a new char and people of course want more chars and vote for it. Just lame ass development overall. Regret every $ spent on this

Where'd all the content go? Where'd all the planned content go? Is it rose tinted glasses that make it so I can't remember why I enjoyed this game or is it the fact that it looks worse and decided to pull a beginner dev excuse of "we're working on the mechanics".

The other download is worth 4-5 stars depending on how much you value porn over plot, but this one? Needs a new thread for all the honest 1 star reviews and an abandoned tag on the old one.

I remember big titty goths and other assorted hair colors and said memories have been reworked thanos snapped.

This used to be one of my most anticipated games when an update came out. Now it is losing content, under the guise of a performance update. I started a new game and what little content is there doesn't seem to trigger properly. I can't get Debbie or Jenny's content to progress the way it used to. It's good that they finally added/unlocked new locations on the map, and the game *does* seem to run better since the engine update, but ultimately there isn't much to do any longer, the minigames are gone, the interaction with other characters is very limited. It doesn't seem like it would take much effort to port the existing content to a new ren'py version, so I'm not sure what is happening there.

For game that exist more than 8 years game have too little content. Art style not that bad, but could be much better.
WHat about mini-games? they sucks.
Game have grind elements, useless as i think, but you can turn em off.
Game has no gallery.

Probably one of the best games on this site it has an extensive amount of content, and as far as I am aware haven't added any content that nobody asked for. The diverse cast of characters gives many options for all the different 'Flavors'. Not to mention that I really like the art initially I didn't like the design of the main character but with time it really grew on me just an unassuming nerdy looking guy who is in fact a Gigachad and not even the meme type. If there are any things I don't like about the game its probably to minor for me to even remember let alone write about in this review.

This is the holy grail of H-games. Variety of kinks, age groups and ethnicities in characters, a ton of story and scenes to get through, intuitive quests with a good hint system, and undeniably the best animations and art in any 2DCG H-game. Limited to no amount of dumb BS (creepy character actions, sad endings, bloated storylines). IMO, big props for no CNC, loli or bestiality.

There's a ton of discourse, especially concerning their Patreon and update scheduling. My 2 cents as a [profession redacted] is that the dev started out extremely enthusiastic and with zero experience coding large projects. Either way, not a scam imo, just mild incompetence and likely waning motivation. The sheer volume of content sets it apart from other famous Patreon H-game blunders.

I have to say this is the best game I've played out of all the porn games. The best is that the characters are well drawn in 2D (which I prefer to 3D), that the story is good, the characters are good, the town is nice in the story and that it is point & click, i.e. you have stats, money and you can interact with click people and things you also have mini games. The story begins with the fact that you are an 18-year-old young man whose father died in an accident, and how, after a month-long break, you return to school and find out that you are about to fail a year. The goal of the game is to improve your grades, find out how your father was killed and find a girl for the prom. Basically, the main part of the story is finished in the alpha version (you find the father's killer), but the other details in the game are not finished. For example you can't interact with all the things yet, you can't give other things from the sex shop to Jenny for her cam show, you can't give things from the Cupid shop to any girl if she's not in the task, some characters can't be pregnant (eg Roxxy) , you cannot interact with your children who are sent to kindergarten (for me its not fulfilling), the prom is not yet incorporated into the game, Judith has almost no content and some other characters also don't have the content, some things are not coordinated well, for example Rump who laters ends up in prison, you can see him on mass or you can also see Mia's parents together at the mass, regardless of what you might have taken the nun route, there are still many things that could be added and fixed to make the game even more real. Basically it's a phenomenal game that everyone should play. For the ending of my review, I'm afraid that the game will be abandoned, considering that it has been in production for 8 years and many more things need to be added and corrected, but if it is abandoned, the game is worth every penny to play it even though it is unfinished. You will probably need about 4-5 days to read all the stories and go through all the content in it which is much more than most porn games has it. If the game will ever be finished I would gladly buy it.

Just a short review.

This game was my first introduction on AVN, I started playing this around 2017 when my friend mentioned me about it jokingly. It was a good game and it still is. The story, characters development, free roam gameplay, art style, etc are so good, but I had to give this game two stars because I dislike what DarkCookie does to this game for the past two years.

He doesn't do anything for that amount of time, the progress always stuck around 80% and if it goes up, he will put it down to 80% again for some stupid reason. This "tech update" seems unecessary, he put a poll years ago regarding to it and asked his people to vote for tech update instead of progressing the story even further. It was a mistake, big mistake.

I swear man, we'll get GTA VI or perhaps even Half Life 3 before the tech update comes out.

Oh yeah, it's 5 out of 5 game if you're new in the AVN industry. It was the pinnacle of 2D AVN out there since 2016.

Edit: I just heard about the new update. Basically DarkCookie just spent two years to reboot this game. It doesn't make any sense, this game doesn't need a reboot. What makes it worse, this new reboot just consisting three paths so if you want to play the entire reboot, it means that you need to wait for another few years. This is ridiculous, I'm gonna lower it to one star instead.

Great game of its time. Average game at the moment.

Pros:

• This is a big game with lots of characters to enjoy.

Cons:

• This game had some nice visuals at the beginning of development, but the new art style looks like shit to be honest, maybe not the art style itself more the character design.
• I don't like how the writing and the story aged. The story itself is what makes me want to give this game a 2 star rating to be honest.
• I highly doubt that this game is enjoyable or even playable without a walkthrough.
• This game features boring and very time consuming grind.
• It's not exactly the con, but I have to point out the extreme vanilla nature of the latest updates, this game is basically sterilized.
• As usual with harem games, there are too many characters; too many new characters to flesh them out and make them unique and interesting. That's true from both a design and story perspective.

Right now the development is in a milking pace, so I have no hope that this game will change for the better at any point in time, unfortunately.

Edit: This thread has been updated to v21.0.0 wip.4468. Now this game has no content at all. I have to change my rating to 1 star now, sad. The art update sucks, by the way.

This game may have warranted a 4 some years ago. It was at the vanguard of great 2D adult games. Sadly it just isn't at the very top any more other 2d games have surpassed in every department apart from maybe length. Some people love the art for me its below average. Still it will be good to get a finished game and maybe that will warrant an extra star.

Story 2/5, Originality 1/5, Renders 2/5, Playability 4/5, Performance 5/5, Bugs, Animations 1/5, Amount of content 1/5

I edited my score down to 1 because the amount of content was drastically reduced. The version is not worth playing and wont be for a long time. Could edit my score once it catches up.

One of the best games on this site. Sure, they're not updating the game that often but considering the quality of the game it's understandable.
I really love the art, the animations are quality and the game really feels alive, you get really immersed in the game's world.
Some characters have really interesting development and storylines.