Ren'Py - Holiday Island [v0.4.1.0] [darkhound1]

Extreme grind, and not much sex after hours of playing. It feels a bit juvenile - you basically have to get the women to let you ogle and grope them. Repeatedly, in the exact same way every time. There are some good graphics, but that's all I can say for it.

This review shares my thoughts and opinions about Holiday Island [v0.1.4.1].
I'm don't rate this game based on it's genre!
Please excuse my rather poor english grammar and spelling, if you find any mistakes.

Story [1/5]: You spent time on a island with many girls. Beyond the intro is nearly no story found, except the MC wanting to know more about the implants (MC and girls have them) and the company.

Characters[2/5]: The MC ain't got much of a personality and you can't really make "wrong" decisions. -> If the affection from a girls drops to zero, then you can just start again from there. The good thing about this: everyone can easily play this MC and he is a well done plank page.
The girls all nearly got the some dialog and their events all play out kind of similar. The developer tried giving all girls a personality, but there is nothing really unique about any of them. They didn't leave a deep impression, so I couldn't distingish much between them. The good thing about this: You can't get all girls on the island (It's capped by nine girls), so you don't miss any kind of story, because they are so similar.

Interface [5/5]: The interface is strucured, easy to use and looks fantastic. You have really handy options to see what you need to do or how your stats and the girls stats change. All important features are at hand and the time managment works awesome, too!

Renders/Animations [5/5]: The great foundation of this game are the different girls. All of them look unique and beautiful. The events and scenes are very hot, exciting and go well with the animations.

Gameplay [4/5]: Even thought there is literally no story, it is still exciting to play, because the girls are hot and the game feels consistent. You learn really fast, what the girls like and what you need to do for progress.
I didn't like the repetitive dialog options. Every girl has positive/neutral/negative answers to your same questions and they destroy any kind of deeper perosnality within the girls.

Remains [3/5]: There is no music/sounds, but that didn't matter to me. The randomness for events/scencs/appointments was a little annoying, but still acceptable. Without the mod, this game would be really grindy. There were no spelling mistakes or any kind of bugs.

All in all I rate this version with a [3,33/5], because I wished for more unique personalities and character traits.

Be prepared for a lot of grinding. Cheats/Mods highly recommended. Unless you want blue balls.

There isn't much story to it. The focus is on the Dating Sim gameplay. (good choice)

Content is enough for some girls and scarce for others. It can be difficult to get to some events because they happen randomly or you have to meet certain ridiculous requirements.

There are some amazing animations/renders and girls for every taste. Also, they look awesome.

You have freedom to do whatever you want without consequences. if you screw something up, you can just grind yourself back to where you were, or trigger the event again.

Holiday Island v0.1.4.1

I've spent more time playing THIS game than any other of this type.

- All the women look amazing; there is SO much attention to detail

- The situation, although highly unlikely, is at least plausible for anyone who has ever bought a lottery ticket

- The story is slowly explaining WHY all the women look the way they do

- The techniques for gaining intimacy are essentially the same for each woman: chatting and performing actions to build up friendship, affection, love and lust; it makes for a more focused gameplay

- There is no "dating my daughter" or "corrupting my cousin" or "fondling my mother"

- There are minimal "Groundhog day" scenarios; the repetitive actions have enough variability to make each time the situation comes up again still interesting

- There is no "bad choice" which will close off a potential storyline; if one of the women gets angry, there are ways to make up

- Except for the occasional spying (and a strange pink pill), the main character has to treat the women WELL to make any progress

- There are minimal "random quests"; each quest involves getting to know each woman better (buying swimwear, chatting to get pictures, borrowing a charger)

- There are random events which trigger from just walking around which keeps the game from becoming predictable

- A few basic programming commands allow for the most interesting cheats

- Did I mention the art is incredible?

Holy shit, this is good. It's kinda like Superpowered without the superhero/incest/NTR stuff. I wouldn't mind some NTR, but the rest is a welcomed subtraction.

The game has a ton of girls, but almost all of them have impossibly big tits. More girls like Lacey please!

Great overall game with constant updates.
Graphic quality is over expectation for this kind of game.
Dev cares about his work.
Story is followable without high requirements.
Repeatable actions by playes likings.

The good...
The renders. Yes please! (Aly, seriously, I don't even like blonds but Aly...)
Renders. It deserves this twice. Top notch looking with variety among the girls.
The dev has actively added to and improved the game over time.

The bad...
Many of the girls feel incomplete, limited renders and scenes. (However see above.)
The grind. The game uses a lot of mechanics on top of each other, many variables to level AND lust that can be both too low or too high and often requires a tight range for a scene AND time of day/location requirements AND chance requirements for events AND requirements for the girls stats AND what girls even show up on the island in the first place being chance based to an extent. The effort for reward can be steep.
That is compounded by the fact that this game is probably 2nd after "Corruption" for games that would hugely benefit from a complete gallery option after you've seen something once. (The game has one, it isn't bad but it doesn't include everything or all variables like outfit options).

The also important...
There is an incredible mod linked to the first post that helps, really is almost needed. It also includes a guide. If you're using it the game is easily 4 stars.

Final vote...
A 3 that's improving and buried inside is the makings of a 5.

This game is fu**ing amazing!!!
To choose your type of girl is a complete new thing and i like it.
The skimpy outfits are good too
The game mechanics are good and easy to understand.
The picture quality is quite good.
I love it !

PROS

As you can see in the images, there are many girls, and some of them are pretty. The plot is a good idea. Simple, but nice. You spend your life in a Paradise hotel with lots of girls around you. I don’t want to be more specific. It has good pictures and its more or less erotic.

CONS

The creator progresses too slowly with this game. When you see the “changelog” to see the difference between versión 1.3 and 1.4 you realise it’s tiny. They say “more tan 400 renders”, but when you played it you realise it’s a small progress. That’s for one reason: TOO many girls. The creator includes like one or two scenes for each woman in each new update. That’s a problem, because I don´t like every women, and most important, I don’t like them the same way. Maybe it would be better if they were less women but only the pretty ones. Ok ok… and it’s subjective. Well, that’s another problem. But games like Milfy City, Dating my Daughter, Man of the House… have a few women and people doesn’t complain. You know what I mean? Of course, now if you erase whichever girl in Holiday Island, people will complain, because they already know them. That’s a big problem for Darkhound. 7 girls should be enough

Personally, my favourite ones are Joy and Jessica. I also like Desire and Heather.

There’s no sound in the game. Like the majority of ren’py games. People will not complain about it because they have adapted, but this isn't normal. Every game should have music and sound effects, period.

A really hot and original game. Interesting gameplay I have never seen a game with such a variety of characters created with talent. Many hours of play. What more? The time the game is in construction it is interesting to know with which characters to play to see the content but it is normal.

Lots of content, great models, good game play, and still being updated. The poker gets a little repetitive, and there are a couple of unfinished/buggy places, but overall this is a great product to support.

This game has already a lot of content. Lot of girls with different clothes. Based on points to earn to trigger sexual content. You just need to organise your day with all the girls you want to interact with.
You have to try this one and support the OP that is giving his game for free on patreon!

Game's been around since 2017, but there is way too many obvious placeholders. It's like the dev took advice from Solvalley School, and focused on quantity rather than quality. Story is pretty nonexistent, and like so many other games, are a clickfest, trying to grind stats and waiting for things to happen.

Very boring without using cheats or mods, but even when you do, sex is nonexistent. I've been pining after Natasha, and have not seen a single sex scene from her. Amy's the easiest and the most likeliest girl you'd even see a sex scene from. This can't really even be called a porn game with the lack of sex available, even after accessing cheats.

PROS

One of the best fap games of the 50 or so I've played on this site. Lots of good looking character model girls to choose from, and an absolute ton of content already in the game (can have full sex with roughly half of them, and some with multiple different full scene encounters). Includes one but notably good (in most cases) and fluid animation with every one too.

It's your standard characters move to different areas of the map setting, with you progressing time in 30 min intervals, but manages to keep it all simple enough that it never really felt that tedious in the 3 days I spent happily clearing the content in random sit downs. Stat grind was of course present as well, although that again was a lot less tedious then other games imo (granted I did cheat my own stat grind with the mod in the first post, but without ever touching the girls' stats that maxed quick enough).

Outside a few select instances you might find yourself posting for a tip, and given the help guide already found on the phone...there really isn't a need for a walkthrough (that is coming from a guy who almost always uses one as well btw). Or at least in terms of needing to follow some step by step instruction manual every step of the way just to progress anything. For the most part you can just wonder around and either figure things out easily enough, or eventually just stumble across it without too much "have to meet these exact requirements" effort.

CONS

Not much of a story to the game, besides a fairly weak attempt to throw some in some character backround info lines in the exclusive barrage of "I want you so bad" compliments the girls shower on you from the start. Definitely no feeling of a challenge or chase here with any of the girls so to speak, much less ever a surrounding feeling of potential failure. That said...the writing is in solid english at least.

Definitely an excessive big boob niche game, which while not a bad thing imo could have been toned down a tad across the board and still come across as fantastic. The "small" breasted girls would of been the more preferable "medium" approach here and offered a less cartoon'y type game feel.

As stated above, I used the mod and still found myself sinking a ton of time into this game. Fairly enjoyable time at that. So in this particular case and game...throwing in the typical player stat grind just to add an extra layer of time sink came across as unnecessary on the development end.

One of the best sex games I've played so far. The characters and their models are amazing, various scenarios are great and there is a lot of customisation with different outfits and multiple ways to seduce the girls.

review at v0.1.2.0

Great game that its worth spending time at. Simple story (you are one lucky guy who is getting a free vacation at a island with hot models) and simple gamestyle (kindof like a date sim you raise your affection and love with each girl you want and the bigger their stats they become naughtier with you).

The models are great on quality, the menus are easy to go around, the scenes are very sexy and you progress fast when you learn how the game is played. More pros is that the game creator is active and updates the game often. Bugs are very rare and more scenes are always added.

There are many girls and have different personalities and looks so you will easily find a fav or two. Their actions are also believable and this game does'nt have scenes or stuff that dont make sense like the mc going rapey or the girls not react to rude actions like normal.

My only cons are that most of the girls have boobs too big for their body figures (dont get me wrong I love big boobs but some angles make them look kindof weird and very unreal) and some girls have almost none scenes other than the basic ones (like strip poker) and they become useless to have around because they have no new interactions after you talk to them a few times.

Other than those the game is very vanilla and wont make you feel bad which is a change when so many games have a rapey protagonist who pervs at his family with non consent (not shaming those games but there are just lots of them).

Recommended, even more if you love big boobs and a game you can fap to

awesome artwork and smooth gameplay, great cast of characters and smooth build up.
Definitely my favourite game, really outstanding 3d art, I love the face close ups in the beach walks.
The game concept is also a refreshing break from some of the darker tropes

A game with a pretty simple premise, containing lots of well produced CG and nice mechanics. Some minigames (i.e. poker) are breaks in the fun, however this doesn't affect the game at all.

Pros:
- Well produced CG
- Lots of girls
- Lots of events

Cons:
- Most CG appears compressed
- Some girls have practically zero content, whereas others have reams of CG's and events

Overall it's a strong game with a lot of promise, and well worth a look.

Really enjoying the overall game and the various girls. Although admittedly not a fan of huge breasts, the enjoyment I get from the rest of the game makes them bearable even if at times they just look too unreal.