I am so sad, my game was glitched and wouldn't allow me to progress with Maria past level 29. I decided to do the code of jumping to the end with her and intended to load my previous save to take me back, but I accidently overwrote my save, and now the game keeps telling me to revert my changes and I have no idea how. Does anybody know?
As the code should warn, you should never use those codes after you've already played the game. It breaks it. You need to reload to a time before you put in the code.
Thank you!!! I took an autosave and replaced it into slot through appdata so I recovered my place. Do you have any advice on how to get Maria past level 29?? I have completely finished all the girls except for Autumn and the game doesnt give me an option to activate an event with her. I cant seem to figure it out.
I noticed something idk if you meant for it to be this way or not but...*spoilers*
After Maria is taken away by the hospital from her DNA test. If you have the Android get her memories back while Maria is gone it is possible the Android will have a scene with Maria...the one where she dominates Maria and takes her around the hotel showing everyone. Even though she is not at the hotel anymore the scene will still play like she is there.
It was after she entered the bedroom with Ellen and got her memories back. I think I may have also gotten her the human expansion kit. I have the Android at level 29 at the moment. So if I remember right it was either her level 27 or 28 scene. Maria is still gone for me but looking in the info tab my Maria is at level 31.
So far I've spent around 6 hours playing and its frankly amazing how much content is in the game and how well written the dialogue is. There have only been 1 or 2 spelling errors that I have noticed which is rare for a F2P visual novel games like this and that is something quite impressive. The images are also incredibly well made and clrealy have love put into them.
Without trying to spoil much, I will say the characters are written incredibly well and generally make logical decisions with only a few nitpicks here and there. The whole plot with elves and how they are treated is genuinely great and thats where I left off for the day before writing this review.
As a warning, there will be spoilers past this point for one character: There is only one major flaw in the game that I have seen so far and that is 1 character who seems incredibly out of place, that being Ashley.
Ashley feels like she is in the wrong game and jarringly shifts the tone whenever she is on screen. Unlike the other girls who have a hard outer shell and problems to overcome, she is outright malicious to everyone and anything that gets close to you and is way way way more down the extreme end of the Yandere scale to the point of Yandere Simulator levels of sociopathy. She will pull out a knife and threaten to kill her best friend on a dime, she verbally and physically assaults some of the girls who have never even seen her before, she threatens to do unspeakable things to some of the girls, she blackmales some of the girls and she attempts to rape you in your sleep. All the while, her actions are shrugged off as "Well, she's a little weird" and takes away from the intelligent writing of the other girls. I feel going from well written and logical progression to "Oh, she pulled a knife on me, how quirky!" really cheapens the story and the well written dialogue and really took me out of the game and world every time.
I will admit that I have not completed Ashleys story and its possible I have her in a weird limbo spot that most wont see but quite frankly, I want nothing to do with her as I find her to be a genuinely terrible human being and find being told that 'I like them more for threatening to murder people close to me! +1 Friendship!' is borderline insulting to the rest of the story and other characters. The worst part is, you are almost always forced to go along with her and agree with her extreme decisions with no option to step in and tell her to get the hell out of the hotel (At least where I'm at in the story). I feel it cheapens what is a gem of a story as it forces characters to make illogical decisions to accommodate her story.
I dont mean this mini review/large comment from a malicious place as I truly am interested to see how the story will develop and would recommend the game to most people however if you came in looking for a cute, clingy kind of yandere, this game isnt for you and that one character can really take away from the intriguing story as a whole as she is unavoidable for the most part.
I can tell you haven't gotten far into Ashley's story haha. Those who hold your same opinion on the earlier parts of Ashley's story come to regret it later on when things start to make sense. Out of any main character in the game, Ashley has the hardest shell and it actually takes a while for you to understand her. I can't say she has problems worse than slavery, but she has some very rough problems as well. Just keep playing, and try to read between the lines. Maybe even watch her room's cameras ;)
I'm also not quite sure which extreme reactions you're talking about, but this is probably hyperbolic. She has also never pulled a knife on MC in a serious way. And has never raped MC. Ashley is a broken person with many problems that get resolved. All characters in HH grow a lot from the first time you meet them.
The problem I found is that for me personally, she has become so irredeemable that I dont want to do her story. I'm aware that she looks sad on the camera's as do most of the girls as all of them have their own reasons to be where they are and most arent positive. I also understand the idea that she is clingy due to something bad happening in the past but all she does is hold up huge red flags of a sociopath so why would I want to get closer to them?
As for the more extreme issues, what I mean is she pulls a knife on Maria for getting close, only for the player character to calm Ashley down and then proceed to justify with Maria about how it isnt a big deal, brushing it off as almost a joke.
She berates, belittles and insults Lin despite supposedly not caring about elves with no way of stepping in to stop her. (I'm pretty sure that in one of those scenes, you get a friendship level up for Ashley for witnessing it but I could be wrong)
She berates, humiliates, physically changes and physically assaults the Android despite the Android trying desperately to get along with people, Ashley instead opting to forcefully change the Androids body and then proceeding to hit the Android in the face. Once again, there is pretty much no way to step in and stop her or at least tell Ashley how much of a sociopath she is.
She also proceeds to blackmail Felicity despite Felicity wanting nothing to do with Ashley, only for Ashley to then force Felicity to dress in skimpy clothing, blackmail more and force Felicity to lick her boots.
With all of this in mind, why would I in my right mind want to know her backstory? She could be the most abused person on the planet sexually and physically but she acts like such a complete sociopath that she has become irredeemable in my eyes and I am very confident there isnt a backstory in the world that would make me feel sympathy for her.
I get that as a writer, you would want everyone to see a character like Ashley from your perspective and that is completely understandable and admirable however from my personal real life experiences with people like Ashley, having no options to call her out on her actions or worse yet being forced to go along with them heavily detracts from the much more interesting stories at play, especially when she becomes involved in those other characters' stories. If all Ashley did was warn the other girls to back off, that would be fine even if there was verbal abuse but instead she opts to physically and verbally threaten and assault.
Edit: I also forgot to mention what I mean by raping the MC. Sneaking into someones room when they are asleep and trying to have sex with them would count as sexual assault as there is no consent. If I remember correctly, you cant even tell her to get out of the room at that point and have to go along with it once you wake up.
If you don't like her, that's fine. I'm not trying to convince you to like her.
She just isn't the sociopath you think she is. Ashley is a broken person and does heal. She is also not the only character with a few bigoted views at first. F&E are very classist and rude, as just one example. These are plot points that eventually become resolved, as is the nature of a story. Rags to riches, in a sense.
I agree, a lot of the characters do have bigoted views however they are at least civil to an extent. My only point was that while the other characters such as F&E may be rude, they are never threatening to anyone else and at worst attempt to stir up problems which gets shut down quickly. Ashley is the only one of the cast who actively goes out of her way to consistently threaten and assault which seems out of place from the other cast.
I understand that Ashley may be your personal favourite character as the writer and I dont wish to berate the writing as a whole as it is genuinely excellent for the rest of the cast, however it would at least be nice to have an option to call her out when she is out of order instead of being forced to go along with it.
Maybe it would be worth slowing the escalation the more friendship you have with Ashley as currently if you dont do her story but do everyone elses, everyone else is facing their demons and overcoming trauma, meanwhile Ashley is running around like a mad-woman brandishing knives and attacking people and that's at friendship level 13, which is normally the point where you understand someones backstory enough to get an idea of who they are and how to fix their issue. You also dont fix someone with those kinds of issues by going along with their defence mechanism. Heck if you could call Ashley out and it lowered her affection then that would make sense. It could also introduce a mechanic where sometimes you need to be cruel to be kind like you do with Lin and her story of becoming free. As a mechanic, it could be a puzzle of sorts and would give you as the writer more opportunities to add even more depth and approaches to each girl.
I genuinely dont mean what I am saying here as an insult as there is a lot here to love and I want to see it improve even more than it already is, however I fear that anyone who has had to deal with the aftermath of an Ashley in real life will not take kindly to her actions and may be taken out of the game's world as a whole due to there being no choice to say she is in the wrong.
What can I say? I already understand you don't like her. The points about you not liking it are clearly understood by now.
Ashley however isn't the crazy sociopath you claim she is. She isn't going out of her way to start fights (though she does engage in them early on, like you said, defense mechanism), or attacking people with knives, nor does MC go along with any of that. Friendship 13 is very early in her story. You also don't fix a broken person by being cruel to them (which is also not something you do in Lin's story?) You have a very wrong impression on her character and story, simply because you haven't played all there is yet. Others can attest to this. I hope anyone who deals with any Ashley in real life doesn't think they're just a sociopath who attacks people.
If you want to argue with the writer over the intent of a character you haven't fully experienced, this isn't a conversation I want to further engage with.
I will second Runey42's statements about Ashley. Just keep playing. Ashley quickly goes from my least favorite to one of the most amazingly written characters I've seen in a game. I know I'm a big softy, but she has several scenes that leave me in tears. In my opinion, she becomes the heart behind the whole story.
Should really continue her story before such a heavy judgement tbh, especially since you are "truly interested to see how the story will develop". Drop the character if you want, that's fine. But don't judge on what you don't know. I saw your previous post here before you deleted it, btw. Big oof.
deserve to be an AAA game. All i wanted is better graphics and smoother transition in motion-evolved scene.
would reborn and vote for this game 10/10 everytime
edit: donated, unfortunately my financial situation couldn't support your patreon at time, but i very looking forward to do so. keep pumping this game with content. Please
thanks for your awesome game i have been playing this i think around at least 6 month ago and i have around 40 hours gameplay and I'm not tired of it at all
And one more thanks because of the simple English you used on this game even that my mother language is not English i can understand it entirely.
Again Thanks for this game I'm one of your fans it's the best game ever I really wanted to support you but unfortunately I'm in Iran where dollar is expensive as hell if it wasn't like this i would definitely be one of your supporters . I can't now so all I can do is to thank you for everything ❤️❤️
And it's going to be awesome when it is released!! I won't reveal anything that is behind patreons paywall, but i will say i am looking forward to it...
hey can someone help me, it just appear suddenly and I don't know what do i do to remove that black thingy over the top left side i tried restarting the game many times already but it's still there no matter how many times i restart the game. Don't know what to do so can someone help me get rid of that black annoying thing please...
trying to get the Mac version onto my iPad... help and suggestions welcome... “Buy a PC” is not helpful or useful to me!! I’ve heard it so many times regarding game emulation I really don’t need that...
This game can't be played on iPad as far as I'm aware. If you were to start that process, it would probably involve the PC build.
Unfortunately, what you've been told so many times is true. You will either need a PC or Android phone to be able to play Harem Hotel. There is no known way to me to install the Mac version on your iPad.
Sorry to ask this but I tried to use the joiplay in playstore but my game is always crashing, I even tried to downgrade it but it said it cannot find the game data. But I executed it Just like in the instructions :( I've also installed the ren'py plugin. Pls help I really love this game
Samsung A90 5G (SM-A908B), Android 11, architecture is arm64 I think
This bug was not present before, but recently now as shown in the video there's a black box in the corner when you open the menu. Something else to add is that the game was previously played and completed on Joiplay version 1.01.430
There should be a video there. I'll delete this folder eventually
Ok... all being well, $5 (Or maybe $10) a month patron subscription as of October 1st, I'd have done it today but it renews in a few days... rather get my month for the money, I’m sure Runey understands that... midnight Pacific time is I think 8am in the UK
sorry for the game versions 12.2 to 13.2 even though it was played from the beginning, the game still didn't work well, making players annoyed and disappointed why your application game came out automatically, aka crashing, it's not known what causes this application error bug.
From the others translating you attempting to say you're having installation issues and the game crashes. Assuming you installed correctly, and on Android (context helps), sounds like the standard JoiPlay problem. Runey is not JoiPlay's dev, he is Harem Hotel's. Not sure if the old solution works since it updated and has the same damn problem, but downgrading to 1.01.400 and disabling auto-update was the primary fix. You could also enable beta builds and use 1.01.500 specifically, as others failed to work. So again, please don't blame Runey for someone else's program not working. Harem Hotel is not the only game run on JoiPlay, and he's not its dev anyway.
having read the 0.14 developmental post properly i have the following to say
1. we're going to see inside autumn and hazels church by the looks of it...
2. ashley going back to her old looks to try and possibly jog mrs rens memory (this tells me we're going to find her or get very close... i wait to see)
3. the red diamonds and triangles on the black background... i have no idea what these are about, and am intrigued to find out (i'm very possibly missing a very obvious link here that is hiding in plain sight)
4. late November?? in the name of autumns tight virgin holes... please don't let that slip too much!!
i've got some ideas of what may happen, but i'm not going to
a/ get my hopes up and be disappointed if they don't happen
b/ find they actually happen and be called out for spoilers and guesswork
Such a good game, im so impressed! I hope it's releases soon! Keep it going man, you're doing a great job! P.S. I can't buy Sylvia Nia and Ann bcs they're "need somewhere to live first". Did i miss something? Or they're roots just not ready yet?
I am incredibly impressed. The amount of work that goes into this game is enormous. The number of one-time renderings alone is staggering. And all for a game that is basically offered free of charge.
The story as a whole and the connections with the characters is on such a high level that I can really only think of a very small number of games that can keep up with this. Major AAA titles included.
I can really only say: "Came for the boobs, stayed for the plot"
I really didn't expect that. I will definitely buy the game a second time once it's finished.
Just sent $20 to your account. Can't even begin to fathom the amount of time and effort you've put into this game, and yet you offer it for free. The world needs more people like you! Absolutely awesome game and I hope you never stop developing it! :)
BEST GAME I EVER PLAYED!Great work , Amazing plot , characters , animations .....I can write many more good things lol. I have a few suggestions though like we never see male elf side of story and since we are on male elves why are there so few of them ? I can only remember that Durn guy from fancy restaurant 🤔 , maybe you can include a male drow(might help with involving drow in revolution if we ever go that path) or male high elf in problem who becomes most loyal friend and later becomes guard of bar or something . And also a dance floor in bar lol. GREAT WORK! KEEP IT UP !!
You've actually seen more men in this game than women, they've just been in black silhouette ;)
In all seriousness, there are a few reasons why I develop less men than women. First is most obvious, my audience is mostly straight men, which also includes me.
Second is that this is a porn game specifically, so creating female characters just makes the most sense.
Third is that the male character creation engine I use is not great with men. In fact, it's so bad that I've resorted to using the female character creation engine to making male elves. Here's one (slight spoilers)
The black man that say he's unique...right ? Lol....geez wanted posters ❤️ didn't expect that but awesome! .Well if it can't be done as marvellous as you do the females than it won't do justice to males ig 🤔. Can you just give a hint in how many months will we be getting 0.14 though ?😉.And can't say it enough ....GREAT WORK!✌🏻
Dude , I just connected the dots of where the character might be introduced in but I won't mention here to spoil anyone and wait just like everybody,(But I want to know it so bad!... ok just answer this if you can the mark on one of them is significant for him right ?)
sorry for the game versions 12.2 to 13.2 even though it was played from the beginning, the game still didn't work well, making players annoyed and disappointed why your application game came out automatically, aka crashing, it's not known what causes this application error bug.
Hi. I have a question. I reached day 200 and now "Day 200" is constantly showing on the screen and it is ruining my game experience. So, is there a way to make it stop showing on the screen?
... I skipped to the next day, and now it is gone. Thx
I don't know why that would be happening. But it should be fixed by loading a save prior to the bug occurring. If that fails, you may need to reinstall as well.
How do you best make money in this game? I need 10K Syls to free the thee elf slaves, but I burned my Trenaro money upgrading my Hotel and Android (aka Robo C*nt).
I can pull about $100/day with rent and pinups.
The bar pulls about $200/week
Do I need to upgrade the bar so it can make more money? I dont advertise much.
At this rate, it will take me over 4hrs of repetitive gameplay to got the ~8k syls I need to continue in the story.
Money is mostly passive in this game. It's extremely rare that I hear anyone have financial issues in Harem Hotel. In most cases of feedback I've received, players end the current story at around $4k - $7k extra.
It's likely that you waited a very long time before you purchased and upgraded the bar, which becomes your main source of income later in the game.
For active sources of income, you can sell pinups, which will make in a day what your other sources of income will make in a week.
Thanks dude! Consider this for any future balancing. Maybe give more incentive to start the bar sooner... have Ellen push MC more. Just a thought. The way I like to play gated/progression games is to finish the current "tier" before moving on. So, YES, I did wait... I assumed some stories may be broken/wonky if I progressed some further than others (which still happens, Android made a cameo on another girls quest-line when she was locked in her room, "splitting" and Maria just made a cameo when she is currently... MIA, in my game (no spoilers).).
i have the same problem, the game just close but if i enable the "Use Legacy Version" on Joiplay Settings > Ren'Py Settings, i can get to menu and got error report when loading saves but can play if i click "ignore", i havent tried to play for long thought
Have you considered doing lite versions? That is where it only has the changed files. So you need to have V0.13 but then there is a smaller set of files for download.
That was the focus of the 0.13.2 patch; Runey wants to make a simple update installer, but it's not at all simple. He's said before it will likely be ready in time for 0.14.
last time i looked on Patreon, there was nothing regarding the empty room on the 2nd floor (next to autumn...) hope this gets filled in the next update or 2 at most!!
Such an amazing game, one of the best NSFW VN's out there PERIOD. Honestly, it's got more quality and content than some fully completed VN's with only a TENTH of the predicted content. The time between updates is only frustrating because I'm impatiently waiting to see what you do with the world you're making because clearly there are going to be big events to come that radically alter the society in-game.
The only thing keeping me from going mad about Harem Hotel is that with each update, you *know* you'll get a sizeable addition of content that will definitely be of high quality.
Love this game, solid sexy times, great characters, and story that's ranged from humorous to making me have to stop and wait so I don't risk tearing up. Seriously, A+ work.
This is by far one of my favorite VN. I was very surprised by the story. I got swept up in the surprising political natures and enjoyed every second of developing relationships and helping the elves. 10 outta 10 cant wait for more!
No no the game says if you increase tha value you didn't experience the story so I just increase the money not the value , maybe 🤔 I just continue Lin story too much , I have to play with all the characters with same amount I guess ☹️ , so I have start with new game it's good because I love this game toooo much so I don't mind play it from the start 😋🤤
There's only one other possibility with this error other than cheats, and that's loading a save into a prior version, say, 0.13 or one of its betas or prereleases into 0.12 or earlier. The error explains it all; "Friendship is too high". Friendship is a direct counter to story events. There is no natural way to exceed the maximum for the version you play.
Yeah , 1st they say if you continue her story you need to increase Lin's friendship but after increase Lin's friendship now they say friendship is too high ☹️😑😔 I don't know what happened
Patreon users currently have the same information non-users do. It's in planning. No information is paywalled, only unfinished beta versions, which are a fair ways off. https://www.patreon.com/posts/news-plans-55852688
Edit: oh, looks like two days after making this comment there's now one piece of paywalled news xD So I guess it's "very rarely" paywalled, only for sneak peeks and whatnot.
And once the trait is gained, unless it leads to the gaining of another trait, no need to repeat it... (I'm thinking sex leading to internal and external ejaculations, the "finish" being counted as 2 different traits)
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I am so sad, my game was glitched and wouldn't allow me to progress with Maria past level 29. I decided to do the code of jumping to the end with her and intended to load my previous save to take me back, but I accidently overwrote my save, and now the game keeps telling me to revert my changes and I have no idea how. Does anybody know?
As the code should warn, you should never use those codes after you've already played the game. It breaks it. You need to reload to a time before you put in the code.
Thank you!!! I took an autosave and replaced it into slot through appdata so I recovered my place. Do you have any advice on how to get Maria past level 29?? I have completely finished all the girls except for Autumn and the game doesnt give me an option to activate an event with her. I cant seem to figure it out.
I noticed something idk if you meant for it to be this way or not but...*spoilers*
After Maria is taken away by the hospital from her DNA test. If you have the Android get her memories back while Maria is gone it is possible the Android will have a scene with Maria...the one where she dominates Maria and takes her around the hotel showing everyone. Even though she is not at the hotel anymore the scene will still play like she is there.
Which part in Android's story did the happen specifically? Can you give me her friendship number at the time of the bug?
i can only confirm this bug exist...
it plays by player going to her room and select *talk option, i took it just as minor glitch
obviously this happened only once and moved on
It was after she entered the bedroom with Ellen and got her memories back. I think I may have also gotten her the human expansion kit. I have the Android at level 29 at the moment. So if I remember right it was either her level 27 or 28 scene. Maria is still gone for me but looking in the info tab my Maria is at level 31.
So far I've spent around 6 hours playing and its frankly amazing how much content is in the game and how well written the dialogue is. There have only been 1 or 2 spelling errors that I have noticed which is rare for a F2P visual novel games like this and that is something quite impressive. The images are also incredibly well made and clrealy have love put into them.
Without trying to spoil much, I will say the characters are written incredibly well and generally make logical decisions with only a few nitpicks here and there. The whole plot with elves and how they are treated is genuinely great and thats where I left off for the day before writing this review.
As a warning, there will be spoilers past this point for one character: There is only one major flaw in the game that I have seen so far and that is 1 character who seems incredibly out of place, that being Ashley.
Ashley feels like she is in the wrong game and jarringly shifts the tone whenever she is on screen. Unlike the other girls who have a hard outer shell and problems to overcome, she is outright malicious to everyone and anything that gets close to you and is way way way more down the extreme end of the Yandere scale to the point of Yandere Simulator levels of sociopathy. She will pull out a knife and threaten to kill her best friend on a dime, she verbally and physically assaults some of the girls who have never even seen her before, she threatens to do unspeakable things to some of the girls, she blackmales some of the girls and she attempts to rape you in your sleep. All the while, her actions are shrugged off as "Well, she's a little weird" and takes away from the intelligent writing of the other girls. I feel going from well written and logical progression to "Oh, she pulled a knife on me, how quirky!" really cheapens the story and the well written dialogue and really took me out of the game and world every time.
I will admit that I have not completed Ashleys story and its possible I have her in a weird limbo spot that most wont see but quite frankly, I want nothing to do with her as I find her to be a genuinely terrible human being and find being told that 'I like them more for threatening to murder people close to me! +1 Friendship!' is borderline insulting to the rest of the story and other characters. The worst part is, you are almost always forced to go along with her and agree with her extreme decisions with no option to step in and tell her to get the hell out of the hotel (At least where I'm at in the story). I feel it cheapens what is a gem of a story as it forces characters to make illogical decisions to accommodate her story.
I dont mean this mini review/large comment from a malicious place as I truly am interested to see how the story will develop and would recommend the game to most people however if you came in looking for a cute, clingy kind of yandere, this game isnt for you and that one character can really take away from the intriguing story as a whole as she is unavoidable for the most part.
I can tell you haven't gotten far into Ashley's story haha. Those who hold your same opinion on the earlier parts of Ashley's story come to regret it later on when things start to make sense. Out of any main character in the game, Ashley has the hardest shell and it actually takes a while for you to understand her. I can't say she has problems worse than slavery, but she has some very rough problems as well. Just keep playing, and try to read between the lines. Maybe even watch her room's cameras ;)
I'm also not quite sure which extreme reactions you're talking about, but this is probably hyperbolic. She has also never pulled a knife on MC in a serious way. And has never raped MC. Ashley is a broken person with many problems that get resolved. All characters in HH grow a lot from the first time you meet them.
The problem I found is that for me personally, she has become so irredeemable that I dont want to do her story. I'm aware that she looks sad on the camera's as do most of the girls as all of them have their own reasons to be where they are and most arent positive. I also understand the idea that she is clingy due to something bad happening in the past but all she does is hold up huge red flags of a sociopath so why would I want to get closer to them?
As for the more extreme issues, what I mean is she pulls a knife on Maria for getting close, only for the player character to calm Ashley down and then proceed to justify with Maria about how it isnt a big deal, brushing it off as almost a joke.
She berates, belittles and insults Lin despite supposedly not caring about elves with no way of stepping in to stop her. (I'm pretty sure that in one of those scenes, you get a friendship level up for Ashley for witnessing it but I could be wrong)
She berates, humiliates, physically changes and physically assaults the Android despite the Android trying desperately to get along with people, Ashley instead opting to forcefully change the Androids body and then proceeding to hit the Android in the face. Once again, there is pretty much no way to step in and stop her or at least tell Ashley how much of a sociopath she is.
She also proceeds to blackmail Felicity despite Felicity wanting nothing to do with Ashley, only for Ashley to then force Felicity to dress in skimpy clothing, blackmail more and force Felicity to lick her boots.
With all of this in mind, why would I in my right mind want to know her backstory? She could be the most abused person on the planet sexually and physically but she acts like such a complete sociopath that she has become irredeemable in my eyes and I am very confident there isnt a backstory in the world that would make me feel sympathy for her.
I get that as a writer, you would want everyone to see a character like Ashley from your perspective and that is completely understandable and admirable however from my personal real life experiences with people like Ashley, having no options to call her out on her actions or worse yet being forced to go along with them heavily detracts from the much more interesting stories at play, especially when she becomes involved in those other characters' stories. If all Ashley did was warn the other girls to back off, that would be fine even if there was verbal abuse but instead she opts to physically and verbally threaten and assault.
Edit: I also forgot to mention what I mean by raping the MC. Sneaking into someones room when they are asleep and trying to have sex with them would count as sexual assault as there is no consent. If I remember correctly, you cant even tell her to get out of the room at that point and have to go along with it once you wake up.
If you don't like her, that's fine. I'm not trying to convince you to like her.
She just isn't the sociopath you think she is. Ashley is a broken person and does heal. She is also not the only character with a few bigoted views at first. F&E are very classist and rude, as just one example. These are plot points that eventually become resolved, as is the nature of a story. Rags to riches, in a sense.
I agree, a lot of the characters do have bigoted views however they are at least civil to an extent. My only point was that while the other characters such as F&E may be rude, they are never threatening to anyone else and at worst attempt to stir up problems which gets shut down quickly. Ashley is the only one of the cast who actively goes out of her way to consistently threaten and assault which seems out of place from the other cast.
I understand that Ashley may be your personal favourite character as the writer and I dont wish to berate the writing as a whole as it is genuinely excellent for the rest of the cast, however it would at least be nice to have an option to call her out when she is out of order instead of being forced to go along with it.
Maybe it would be worth slowing the escalation the more friendship you have with Ashley as currently if you dont do her story but do everyone elses, everyone else is facing their demons and overcoming trauma, meanwhile Ashley is running around like a mad-woman brandishing knives and attacking people and that's at friendship level 13, which is normally the point where you understand someones backstory enough to get an idea of who they are and how to fix their issue. You also dont fix someone with those kinds of issues by going along with their defence mechanism. Heck if you could call Ashley out and it lowered her affection then that would make sense. It could also introduce a mechanic where sometimes you need to be cruel to be kind like you do with Lin and her story of becoming free. As a mechanic, it could be a puzzle of sorts and would give you as the writer more opportunities to add even more depth and approaches to each girl.
I genuinely dont mean what I am saying here as an insult as there is a lot here to love and I want to see it improve even more than it already is, however I fear that anyone who has had to deal with the aftermath of an Ashley in real life will not take kindly to her actions and may be taken out of the game's world as a whole due to there being no choice to say she is in the wrong.
What can I say? I already understand you don't like her. The points about you not liking it are clearly understood by now.
Ashley however isn't the crazy sociopath you claim she is. She isn't going out of her way to start fights (though she does engage in them early on, like you said, defense mechanism), or attacking people with knives, nor does MC go along with any of that. Friendship 13 is very early in her story. You also don't fix a broken person by being cruel to them (which is also not something you do in Lin's story?) You have a very wrong impression on her character and story, simply because you haven't played all there is yet. Others can attest to this. I hope anyone who deals with any Ashley in real life doesn't think they're just a sociopath who attacks people.
If you want to argue with the writer over the intent of a character you haven't fully experienced, this isn't a conversation I want to further engage with.
I will second Runey42's statements about Ashley. Just keep playing. Ashley quickly goes from my least favorite to one of the most amazingly written characters I've seen in a game. I know I'm a big softy, but she has several scenes that leave me in tears. In my opinion, she becomes the heart behind the whole story.
Should really continue her story before such a heavy judgement tbh, especially since you are "truly interested to see how the story will develop".
Drop the character if you want, that's fine. But don't judge on what you don't know. I saw your previous post here before you deleted it, btw. Big oof.
deserve to be an AAA game. All i wanted is better graphics and smoother transition in motion-evolved scene.
would reborn and vote for this game 10/10 everytime
edit: donated, unfortunately my financial situation couldn't support your patreon at time, but i very looking forward to do so. keep pumping this game with content. Please
thanks for your awesome game i have been playing this i think around at least 6 month ago and i have around 40 hours gameplay and I'm not tired of it at all
And one more thanks because of the simple English you used on this game even that my mother language is not English i can understand it entirely.
Again Thanks for this game I'm one of your fans it's the best game ever I really wanted to support you but unfortunately I'm in Iran where dollar is expensive as hell if it wasn't like this i would definitely be one of your supporters . I can't now so all I can do is to thank you for everything ❤️❤️
Thank you so much :)
You're probably at the point in the story where she'll be gone for a few days. Just keep playing and she should reappear.
Harem Hotel Alpha has released for $20+ Patrons!
And a preview from my twitter :)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/harem-hotel-v0-56951582
Is there a way so that ashley doesn't force herself onto you?
Cant wait for next release how's it going so far?
He just started working on it 5 days ago, gonna be a bit my dude.
And it's going to be awesome when it is released!! I won't reveal anything that is behind patreons paywall, but i will say i am looking forward to it...
well that minus vote was just mean... yes i know things you may not, but i won't spoil it for those of you who choose not to pay...
hey can someone help me, it just appear suddenly and I don't know what do i do to remove that black thingy over the top left side i tried restarting the game many times already but it's still there no matter how many times i restart the game. Don't know what to do so can someone help me get rid of that black annoying thing please...
It's not there when i first started playing it just appeared suddenly so i know there has to be a way to remove it
Mods perhaps? Only times I've seen anything like this has been text/language mods. Other than that, as Runey said, try reinstalling.
I have no clue what that is. Try reinstalling.
wouldn't that lose my progress?
You can copy the save file first, after reinstalling the game, all you need to do is putting it in the harem hotel file
I recommend never doing this, as this has a high likely hood of breaking your save permanently on PC or Mac.
I only doing this on my cellphone.
On PC, I just download the new one at the same place where I put my old Harem Hotel's file.
Nope, your saves are stored in a different file. You can delete all of Harem Hotel and your saves will be safe in appdata.
Dose this game have Pregnancy ??
not yet... it will eventually
trying to get the Mac version onto my iPad... help and suggestions welcome... “Buy a PC” is not helpful or useful to me!! I’ve heard it so many times regarding game emulation I really don’t need that...
This game can't be played on iPad as far as I'm aware. If you were to start that process, it would probably involve the PC build.
Unfortunately, what you've been told so many times is true. You will either need a PC or Android phone to be able to play Harem Hotel. There is no known way to me to install the Mac version on your iPad.
fair enough... I have it on my laptop anyway, just thought it was possible!!
The Ipad runs on a completely different operating system from the Mac. It's like trying to put the windows version on an android tablet.
Not funny!!
Currently the newest official joiplay version works with the game
Edit: Maybe it only works with some devices. It does take a long time to load but the play store version doesn't crash for me. It's version 1.01.701
Sorry to ask this but I tried to use the joiplay in playstore but my game is always crashing, I even tried to downgrade it but it said it cannot find the game data. But I executed it Just like in the instructions :( I've also installed the ren'py plugin. Pls help I really love this game
The error seems to suggest that the android guide wasn't followed correctly.
enable "Use Legacy Version"
On Settings > Ren'Py Settings
Appreciate the confirmation, our Discord has had a lot of "JoiPlay not working" complaints recently.
Samsung A90 5G (SM-A908B), Android 11, architecture is arm64 I think
This bug was not present before, but recently now as shown in the video there's a black box in the corner when you open the menu. Something else to add is that the game was previously played and completed on Joiplay version 1.01.430
There should be a video there. I'll delete this folder eventually
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1iA47wBCYwWPZtliW5oRKtNNbb1R808hi
Renpy doesn't like looping videos, they stutter and lag. But frames are seamless.
Ok... all being well, $5 (Or maybe $10) a month patron subscription as of October 1st, I'd have done it today but it renews in a few days... rather get my month for the money, I’m sure Runey understands that... midnight Pacific time is I think 8am in the UK
sorry for the game versions 12.2 to 13.2 even though it was played from the beginning, the game still didn't work well, making players annoyed and disappointed why your application game came out automatically, aka crashing, it's not known what causes this application error bug.
Ok, I think you're trying to say you're having installation issues... Read the android guide very carefully
I'm not too sure what you're trying to say, but you might want to read the android install instructions.
From the others translating you attempting to say you're having installation issues and the game crashes.
Assuming you installed correctly, and on Android (context helps), sounds like the standard JoiPlay problem.
Runey is not JoiPlay's dev, he is Harem Hotel's.
Not sure if the old solution works since it updated and has the same damn problem, but downgrading to 1.01.400 and disabling auto-update was the primary fix. You could also enable beta builds and use 1.01.500 specifically, as others failed to work.
So again, please don't blame Runey for someone else's program not working. Harem Hotel is not the only game run on JoiPlay, and he's not its dev anyway.
That's what I was trying to say... thank you phoenix
the downvote for trying to clarify what I meant is not very nice... however some people will just downvote for fun...
cant wait to have a baby from Lin XD
please add pregnant feature ASAP
Btw i hope you can add the decoration feature for the next update too.
oh hell no!! kali is gonna be a mother before lin if i have a choice in the matter!!
XD
ok... so google says your laughing at me, if it's my choice as of who gets pregnant first... Kali first!!
Ayy buddy you do, you do have a choice cause you are the player bud XD
was Kali named after Kali Linux?
not sure, but it's a nerdy reference... so maybe... on the other hand coincidences do happen
Harem Hotel v0.14 begins development!
oh this is going to be awesome!!
having read the 0.14 developmental post properly i have the following to say
1. we're going to see inside autumn and hazels church by the looks of it...
2. ashley going back to her old looks to try and possibly jog mrs rens memory (this tells me we're going to find her or get very close... i wait to see)
3. the red diamonds and triangles on the black background... i have no idea what these are about, and am intrigued to find out (i'm very possibly missing a very obvious link here that is hiding in plain sight)
4. late November?? in the name of autumns tight virgin holes... please don't let that slip too much!!
i've got some ideas of what may happen, but i'm not going to
a/ get my hopes up and be disappointed if they don't happen
b/ find they actually happen and be called out for spoilers and guesswork
how to start lucia events?
You had to have had sex with her at her father's house...
Or just use the public code "truestory"
Having sex with her unlocks most, truestory unlocks all regardless of choice
Such a good game, im so impressed! I hope it's releases soon! Keep it going man, you're doing a great job!
P.S.
I can't buy Sylvia Nia and Ann bcs they're "need somewhere to live first". Did i miss something? Or they're roots just not ready yet?
Thank you!
Buy the sanctuary at Ellen.
Men this game is so good,love ur work buddy,i'm going to tell all of my friends of this masterpiece.GOOD WORKKK
Thank you! I'm working on the next version :)
And I'm going to be playing it all being well
I am incredibly impressed. The amount of work that goes into this game is enormous. The number of one-time renderings alone is staggering. And all for a game that is basically offered free of charge.
The story as a whole and the connections with the characters is on such a high level that I can really only think of a very small number of games that can keep up with this. Major AAA titles included.
I can really only say: "Came for the boobs, stayed for the plot"
I really didn't expect that. I will definitely buy the game a second time once it's finished.
Good work!
Thank you! Supporters like you are why I'm able to give this game away for free and continue working on it.
Just sent $20 to your account.
Can't even begin to fathom the amount of time and effort you've put into this game, and yet you offer it for free. The world needs more people like you!
Absolutely awesome game and I hope you never stop developing it! :)
If it ends without the option to impregnate who I like... I'm going to be disappointed
Thank you so much! I have some very interesting things lined up for v0.14.
Rough release estimate??
BEST GAME I EVER PLAYED!Great work , Amazing plot , characters , animations .....I can write many more good things lol. I have a few suggestions though like we never see male elf side of story and since we are on male elves why are there so few of them ? I can only remember that Durn guy from fancy restaurant 🤔 , maybe you can include a male drow(might help with involving drow in revolution if we ever go that path) or male high elf in problem who becomes most loyal friend and later becomes guard of bar or something . And also a dance floor in bar lol. GREAT WORK! KEEP IT UP !!
All superb points
You've actually seen more men in this game than women, they've just been in black silhouette ;)
In all seriousness, there are a few reasons why I develop less men than women. First is most obvious, my audience is mostly straight men, which also includes me.
Second is that this is a porn game specifically, so creating female characters just makes the most sense.
Third is that the male character creation engine I use is not great with men. In fact, it's so bad that I've resorted to using the female character creation engine to making male elves. Here's one (slight spoilers)
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and another male I recently developed.
The black man that say he's unique...right ? Lol....geez wanted posters ❤️ didn't expect that but awesome! .Well if it can't be done as marvellous as you do the females than it won't do justice to males ig 🤔. Can you just give a hint in how many months will we be getting 0.14 though ?😉.And can't say it enough ....GREAT WORK!✌🏻
Dude , I just connected the dots of where the character might be introduced in but I won't mention here to spoil anyone and wait just like everybody,(But I want to know it so bad!... ok just answer this if you can the mark on one of them is significant for him right ?)
What now? Oh, the black silhouette guy says he's "the most unique looking guy here". Yeah haha, just a joke. I was confused for a moment.
And I will be making a development post on patreon today.
sorry for the game versions 12.2 to 13.2 even though it was played from the beginning, the game still didn't work well, making players annoyed and disappointed why your application game came out automatically, aka crashing, it's not known what causes this application error bug.
$25K for capturing both?? hmmm that will be useful i suspect...
Hi. I have a question. I reached day 200 and now "Day 200" is constantly showing on the screen and it is ruining my game experience. So, is there a way to make it stop showing on the screen?
... I skipped to the next day, and now it is gone. Thx
Have you altered anything along the way??
I don't know why that would be happening. But it should be fixed by loading a save prior to the bug occurring. If that fails, you may need to reinstall as well.
Like, phantom text perhaps? (What I dubbed it when I got it)
That's an exceptionally rare bug, mine disappeared upon starting the next day.
I've never seen this happen
"... I skipped to the next day, and now it is gone. Thx" thats good
How do you best make money in this game? I need 10K Syls to free the thee elf slaves, but I burned my Trenaro money upgrading my Hotel and Android (aka Robo C*nt).
I can pull about $100/day with rent and pinups.
The bar pulls about $200/week
Do I need to upgrade the bar so it can make more money? I dont advertise much.
At this rate, it will take me over 4hrs of repetitive gameplay to got the ~8k syls I need to continue in the story.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Maybe I will shelve this until the next update.
Such a great game; so much fun!
yea, Ive seen that when I google searched the topic... but I would rather not cheat. Thank you though!
As it is now, this seems to be a major gate/grind that I hope is balanced-out.
Fair enough...
Money is mostly passive in this game. It's extremely rare that I hear anyone have financial issues in Harem Hotel. In most cases of feedback I've received, players end the current story at around $4k - $7k extra.
It's likely that you waited a very long time before you purchased and upgraded the bar, which becomes your main source of income later in the game.
For active sources of income, you can sell pinups, which will make in a day what your other sources of income will make in a week.
Thanks dude! Consider this for any future balancing. Maybe give more incentive to start the bar sooner... have Ellen push MC more. Just a thought. The way I like to play gated/progression games is to finish the current "tier" before moving on. So, YES, I did wait... I assumed some stories may be broken/wonky if I progressed some further than others (which still happens, Android made a cameo on another girls quest-line when she was locked in her room, "splitting" and Maria just made a cameo when she is currently... MIA, in my game (no spoilers).).
Lovin this game!
If you could let me know at which friendships these events happened on and for which character, I will be able to fix those bugs.
Please do not share patron only codes.
Is it just me or is 13.2 not working on phones, I did everything properly but when i try to load it up it just closes instantly
I'm not sure why it's not working for you, but it is working for most.
would you be able to explain the exact process from downloading to starting it up, just so I can be absolutely sure I haven't messed anything up
i have the same problem, the game just close
but if i enable the "Use Legacy Version" on Joiplay Settings > Ren'Py Settings, i can get to menu and got error report when loading saves but can play if i click "ignore", i havent tried to play for long thought
I was about to ask if anyone knew about any other trustworthy emulators other than JP. Thanks for the advice, man.
thanks, this actually worked, any chance you'd also know where to put old saves?, I've looked and I can't seem to find a saves folder
maybe you have to create new save to make the folder to appear, or you can just drop the old saves folder to the new one
the same directory the .exe is in
I don't play Harem Hotel on phone, I can only trouble shooting the PC builds.
The Harem Hotel discord has a help section if you would like to ask there :)
Have you considered doing lite versions? That is where it only has the changed files. So you need to have V0.13 but then there is a smaller set of files for download.
That was the focus of the 0.13.2 patch; Runey wants to make a simple update installer, but it's not at all simple. He's said before it will likely be ready in time for 0.14.
last time i looked on Patreon, there was nothing regarding the empty room on the 2nd floor (next to autumn...) hope this gets filled in the next update or 2 at most!!
I'm hoping it's Moon! *drools*
let's wait and see... whoever it is will get brought up to full trait stats PDQ
Such an amazing game, one of the best NSFW VN's out there PERIOD. Honestly, it's got more quality and content than some fully completed VN's with only a TENTH of the predicted content. The time between updates is only frustrating because I'm impatiently waiting to see what you do with the world you're making because clearly there are going to be big events to come that radically alter the society in-game.
The only thing keeping me from going mad about Harem Hotel is that with each update, you *know* you'll get a sizeable addition of content that will definitely be of high quality.
Love this game, solid sexy times, great characters, and story that's ranged from humorous to making me have to stop and wait so I don't risk tearing up. Seriously, A+ work.
Thank you! :)
Damn this game for making me cry because of Lin, Maria, Ashley, and Britini (Android). lol.
This is by far one of my favorite VN. I was very surprised by the story. I got swept up in the surprising political natures and enjoyed every second of developing relationships and helping the elves. 10 outta 10 cant wait for more!
Thank you!
Game gave a warning ⚠️ that one or more girls friendship is way higher so you never continue any other's story plz load a old save file ????
What is the meaning of this plz anyone explain ???
is that mean I have to increase every character friendship not only one charecter ??? 🤔
It means you cheated or adjusted the values too much and broke the game.
No no the game says if you increase tha value you didn't experience the story so I just increase the money not the value , maybe 🤔 I just continue Lin story too much , I have to play with all the characters with same amount I guess ☹️ , so I have start with new game it's good because I love this game toooo much so I don't mind play it from the start 😋🤤
There's only one other possibility with this error other than cheats, and that's loading a save into a prior version, say, 0.13 or one of its betas or prereleases into 0.12 or earlier.
The error explains it all; "Friendship is too high". Friendship is a direct counter to story events. There is no natural way to exceed the maximum for the version you play.
Yeah , 1st they say if you continue her story you need to increase Lin's friendship but after increase Lin's friendship now they say friendship is too high ☹️😑😔 I don't know what happened
What's the song of chill city?
There should be song credits in the info screen.
So do we have any information on the next update available for non patreon users?? anticipating a good update.
Patreon users currently have the same information non-users do. It's in planning.
No information is paywalled, only unfinished beta versions, which are a fair ways off.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/news-plans-55852688
Edit: oh, looks like two days after making this comment there's now one piece of paywalled news xD So I guess it's "very rarely" paywalled, only for sneak peeks and whatnot.
Fair enough... I just hope Runey is working hard at it...
What is the max level that the stats of every character can reach? I thought it would be 100 but apparently it can go over that value.
Thats an interesting point... which stat and with whom did you push over 100??
There is no max. Stats count how many times you have done a thing.
And once the trait is gained, unless it leads to the gaining of another trait, no need to repeat it... (I'm thinking sex leading to internal and external ejaculations, the "finish" being counted as 2 different traits)
Having a slight issue with downloading the game file. Keeps stalling and failing at 7.1. Is there another option for downloading the mac version?
Yes, check my patreon.
Hey, just wanted to say thanks for the "giving money to Felicia" path. It is what i've enjoyed the most in the game.
PS. Can you give my money to Felicia next time you see her? Kinda wasn't able to do it myself despite trying so hard. Ok? Thanks! Bye.