You've inherited the " Harem Hotel", a hotel where 8 beautiful women stay! Upgrade your hotel, build friendships with girls, follow their stories, and train them. Harem Hotel includes fully animated and completely uncensored lewd scenes, an array of stats and traits to build and unlock, many outfits to use, unique characters and fetishes, over 560 unique events, over 14,000 images, and way, way more to come.
Themes included:
No NTR.
I have plans on adding new scenes and continuing the story of each character in every update, as well as more girls, with more personalities and kinks.
More unique girls will be added in future updates to allow for even more fetishes.
The game is more frequently updated on itch.io, so I'm actually going to review this based on version 0.15.
So as the previous review pointed out: yeah, there's next to no transformation content in this game. Not that it matters, this game is easily among the gems on this site.
The game starts out innocently enough: you inherit your grandfather's hotel where your eventual harem will live, you fuck around, have some laughs, get some vibe kits and clothes for the girls - you know, the usual. So much so that initially, the girls seem to fit a specific niche: the shy nerd, the yandere, the cheerleader, and so on. After a couple dozen days in-game you start noticing that the game has actual writing with actual character development that's actually pretty relatable (like said shy nerd having to find a job because her family won't support her, which is among the first things that happen).
And then the feel-bombs start dropping. Relatively small ones at first, like when a character's entire behaviour and personality is put in an entirely different light and context. And then plot happens, plot that actually changes the playing field. Real, hard, serious shit. I honestly thought at some points that certain things only happen so that the character has their own space where their thing happens, so I didn't take them seriously - then BOOM, shit gets serious. I've been following this game for a few years now and as time goes on, I'm less and less interested in the porn part (which is still pretty good) as the development of each character as well as the hotel as a whole rolls on. There's actual writing and world-building in this game, the kind you can get emotionally invested in.
TL;DR came for the porn, stayed for the feels, the characters, and their story.
I could say all sorts of things about this game, but I'll limit myself to the most relevant in this case: a TF game this is not. I put over 5 hours of exploration and progression into this game; aside from an android character with variable breast size (which I strongly suspect was included only as a sly wink at the site rules so that the game could be advertised here), there is not one sliver of TF content to be found within. If you're looking for a TF-themed game (which you probably are, given where you are), give this one a hard pass and hope that some day games are required to have more than a bare-minimum token nod toward TF before they can be posted here.
I created an account specifically to write this review so if you like TL:DR's then hopefully this will indicate how good of a game I think this by this fact. I won't be adding any spoilers as part of the charm of this game is the things that can occur either randomly or pre-generated based on how you've progressed in the game with the characters.
For those that may wish to know before I get into the chunk of the review I am currently on version 11.2, day 170 as of writing this and have been playing for a mimium of 20 hours worth of gameplay so I have managed to come across a large quantity of scenes and characters within the game and with the new update there is still some more things yet to
-The Characters-
The thing that surprised me regarding the characters you interact with is how deep of a personaility they have and aren't cheaply written shallow individuals. They each have a personality unique to themselves with their own types of interests and ways of speaking to them that differ between characters. Some of the characters you meet will likely be ones that don't appeal to you and although you do kinda get shoehorned into interacting with them and making decsions you wouldn't do in RL it opens up learning more about that character which in itself leads to more options for interaction, with that said, after learning more about those types of said chacraters I have not regretted it.
Each character has a backstory/history which you learn as you progress through the game and this only serves to show how much time and effort the creator has spent on this game to help make it come alive and feel like a careful planned and interesting person who you can care about as much as you would do for you favourite character in a RPG game produced by a company on xbox, etc. As you interact with the characters you get a sense of their personaility as mentioned before but as you learn about their past history you begin to see how that character has been shaped and has evolved by past events into the person they are now and in some cases can be very relatable to real life struggles and things that happen, some of which are quite emotional.
-Events-
The events you get in the game usual involve a single or multiple characters and give you a chance to increase or descrease your standing with them or for specific action to occur and unlock certain options later in the game. I've very much enjoyed the single character events as you learn more about a character and how their mindsets change and evolve as they deal with current and past issues as part of their story arc. More so, the multiple character events again show a very clever level of thinking on part of the creator as not only do they have a rich background in themselves but their stories are interwoven, you get to see some of the pains of one character being shown from the perspective of another and why they acted as they did and helps you understand a character more as their story arcs mix together.
Another smaller thing I have enjoyed is in some scenes where multiple characters are talking and their are nods to previous things that have occured during the game. Some of which even made me laugh as people get a taste of their own medicine.
-Progression-
This is possibly the only part where some negatives could come in, but in truth they are the types of thing that can be said about any game. You can do a lot of things in the game, each of which will raise one stat or another or open a new scene. You do seem to sometimes be clicking round randomly trying to find people which to be honest is only frustrating at the earlier parts of the game but also at the same time does appear realisitic, like going to see if someone is in their usual spot only to find they are somewhere else, it happens in RL and this game wherther on purpose or not reflects this nicely.
The only real bugbear I have is when interacting with a specific character and you see the option to progress a section of their story arc and during that event certain actions aren't available as a certain stat is too low. The reason I dislike this mechanic is simply because it makes me want to metagame, ignoring their story arc in order to spam actions that increase their stats so I can get extra scenes with my favourite characters. I have not done this thus far as but I will add that this has encouraged me to play through all this again where I feel metagaming would be more acceptable as I've already seen those scenes.
-Sexual scenes-
I think we can all agree that this is largely why we play games like this and this game does not disappoint, the scenes you get with characters are beautifully generated. You get to see a lot of different scenes and poses in all manner of locations giving you a lot of varience and variety, some of which are one off events for that scene specifically and some of which can be repeated multiple times. While I would love for more types of scenes that cater for my own fetishes I think it would be selfish to list it considering the amount of variety already in the game.
-In closing-
If you play this game through properly you will find a huge wealth of background and content as well as very well made imagery and scenes, the characters have huge depth to them, all of which is unexpected for this genre of game in my opinion. It is clear that the creator has spent a lot of time, a lot of energy and a lot of love to this game and this is one of the best games of this type I have played and although it's free I think it's well worth donating an amount if possible when you consider I have played this for 20 hours at least and how long some other titles take to complete from expensive titles for your console.
If you're wanting cheap thrills and sexual scenes then this game also works for you, but I think you'll be missing out on everything else that makes this game good.
A well made game with a lot of content and a lot of different girl types to explore.
There is a bit of hotel management. However, I got one event giving me lots of money making things a bit too easy in this matter.
Aside of corruption aspects there is not much TF included so far.
This is a truly beautiful game! I am enjoying the hell out of it. My only complaint is that you get WAAAAAAAAY too little money for rent from the tenants. $25 at the minimum, this $5 a day is for the birds. All in all, awesome game and I look forward to future updates.