High School Master

Game is designed to force patreon subscription. Most actions blocked without cheat codes. No access to walkthrough without cheat codes and no guide so you just click around aimlessly. Money, energy and relationship interlocked so you are doomed to fail without a guide. No attempt to explain anything in game. No skip function or rollback. What renders are available are ok but is essentially bait for the above mentioned traps.

As often happens on this amazing site, I disagree with the rating. I frequently come across great games that are poorly rated; there really is a specific audience here that isn’t always objective. Extremely ugly games, with drawings or 2D graphics that even my 7-year-old son could draw better, get scores of 450, 150, 200 positive reviews even though they are all messed up? Anyway, why is this one not so terrible? Yes, it's not very clear in terms of the interface, and the intentions are a bit vague. On my side, I find that the sex happens too quickly; it lacks teasing and seduction. The sandbox aspect isn’t the best either, but it's far from the worst. That said, the rest is good. The girls are beautiful, making you want to continue and discover them all. It just needs some adjustments in the sandbox features to be top-notch. There are many locations and many girls, which is also good. Things happen in every place. The most important thing in a sandbox is to feel free to do things in the order you want, and that's the case here. Just for that, it deserves more than 2 stars, because that's not always the case. If the clues are clumsy, it wouldn't take much to fix it, like just putting a small picture of the girls present in the locations to know who you’ll run into, and voila, the player decisions are already improved. As for the story, it doesn’t change the world, but excuse me, games that are complex in their stories get bad ratings because they are criticized for their tons of text... Anyway, there’s a contradiction in the audience, not the game. Here, it’s simplistic, but that’s not a weak point. And one last thing, where I really disagree, is the chosen shots, the angles. There are close-ups at certain moments in big scenes, there’s original staging in the choice of angles. It’s a shame to see the MC too much at key moments, but apart from that detail, the choices are generally good, it’s exciting, explicit, and especially varied. In summary, with a few small tweaks here and there, it could be even better, but it doesn’t deserve 2 stars, really. There’s no need to click repeatedly on the same action to earn 4 points when you need 400; I won't name the games that do this but it doesn't stop anyone from giving them 4 stars even though they mock the audience. This one is really focused on pleasure, there’s no need to complain. I hope it gets completed soon, I’m afraid the authors might not finish it and that would really annoy me…

This could have had so much more potential, plenty of good looking girls and a nice diversity in girls as well and maybe decent stories, i dont even mind the animations being pretty poor in most cases but i am not a fan of not being able to skip them since alot of them gets boring fast, but what really kills the game is the interface and sandbox. Not only is it a huge grind, but the hint system is absolutly shit, it might tell you what to do but you just get a full list of everything and once you do something it stays on the list, so you have no clue where your at since you cant really keep track of fuck all, so your pretty much left with just checking every room/hall and whatever and hope you run into something, which just waste way to much time for barely anything. And a fair warning that you will see the headmaster have sex with students as well, which can give you that NTR feeling alot of people hate, cant say if its really NTR or not since no clue whos a real LI if any but just know stuff like that is in the game as well. Alot of picture to picture shit and you cant even skip that. No music either. This really is a 1 star game but due to having alot of nice looking hot girls ill add one star for that, i would love to see the game being playable but its just not there.

non skippable video scenes. you have a how to for each girl, but usually dont know what you should do other than checking every room i couldn't keep up with money without cheating. ( i guess you cant afford 3 coffees and 2 meals a day) missing audio the idea is good.

Impossible to understand what to do and when. You go from one room to the next without making any progress. Once in a while, a little something happens. But it's deeply boring. What's missing is a guide or a list of tasks to help you get through the game in a more enjoyable way. The graphics are good, the variety of characters excellent, but it's not enough.

Ok, a short one: Pros: Models are decent, i see the effort here. Cons: I start the game and there is this lame intro where the girls pop up with an unmoderated slap sound. My PC volume is near to the top and the game volume is insane, my ears kinda explode at the first slap. I try to immediately access the volume (but i do it with kinda all games to cut the BG music) and i can't. Ok, nevermind, i'll drop the volume from the PC and the arrange it later in the game. But i found out it can't be done. So i would have to give up pc sound in general to play the title. The dialogs are lame The click around is pointless. Can't see any attractive.

Way too grindy game. content isnt that good either. repative gameplay. as of now. its a 1 star game. but might get better with time but i doubt it. looks like the dev wanted to create a grindy game, he succeeded. i can honestly not reccomend it at this time.

[v0.372][v0.218] This game is STILL not ready for consumption yet. In the 2.5 years that it has been developed, it has a great number of slides, some quite enjoyable. But, with the amount of grind that is required and the disappointing outcome for most girls is not worth it in my eyes. The translation is not the worst I have seen, but it's not great. It could use a proofreader. Still gets a 2/5, you're better off unpacking the .asar then actually playing the game.

Such a grindy game for so little content. Even on a budget, it doesn't feel like effort was really put into this game. The models are fine, but curbs from other assets, but to get any sort of content you just have to wander around and click around unless you want to screenshot every hint for each girl.

Only reason I'm giving this 3 stars is for the graphics which are of a high standard. Problem is it takes a long time for anything to happen & I have no ideas how to move paths forward or even if they move forwards. Both the money & energy are problems. I think this has potential but the mechanics have to be sharpened up just to make it more friendly. Also not sure why there's a limit on saves.

Even with a cheat code, this game is the poster child for grindy. To be clear resource grinding in a standard game is part of the game mechanic to build anticipation to the next level. This game has way too many grinds. And even with the public cheat code(Currently) This game is barely playable. you will just lose any interest in wanting going to any level. I should give it a poor rating. But this is the standard on this site. My advice is to get a following first before you start trying to pigeonhole your followers

The game is unplayable without the cheat code to give you money, energy, and other necessary things. There is an in-game guide, but it can only be used at night, with no method of accessing it when and where you need to know something. A phenomenal amount of time and MC's energy is wasted looking at rooms that could have events, but they are random, so you can't advance the story or characters. "High School Master" is not worth paying, and I'd argue it isn't worth it for free. Just skip this "game"; you will save yourself from the trauma of hitting your head on your desk.

First the positives. The game looks great and I really like the charcters. Interesting premise as well. However, it' s absolutely inscrutable. No idea where to go or what to do when you get there and it feels like it was written by a broken AI. So much wasted potential. I'll keep an eye on this and hopefully someone comes along to help the dev with the writing.

I think the game would be better on RenPY I have read the reviews of other players here and they are right. The character models are good. The pictures are juicy and beautiful. But then everything is terrible. The mechanics of the game, and the first 20 minutes I do not know what to do. The game looks like a visual novel and is a bit interactive. But KARL at 17 12 22 this version seems to be still beta testing. The most terrible thing here is the very structure of the game and its engine. Already many popular RPG games have been moved to RenPY Yes, it takes time, but it's also easier to read and make choices. Than spending 100 hours wandering around the map. So far, this game is very bad.

From what I've seen the models are nice. I quit playing the game because I can't find controls to adjust things like volume and text speed. It is stupid to have to use the knob on my speakers to adjust the volume, which screws up the settings on every other game, movie, etc.. It would also be nice to know what various things do. Maybe a hints system. Bouncing around area to area in the school doing apparently nothing gets old quickly. This game could probably do better on Renpy.

Game is on chromium engine. Aware of the implications? Does it collect statistics? Which ones? Where? Sounds are loud, and can't be changed. Even intro sequence is counterintuitive - how would one know that you are supposed to click on the main screen. And what is this with no character renaming. This is simply bad

There isn't much to be said about this game that hasn't already been said by prior reviews. Grindy, headache inducing, and poorly written with a toxic fanbase to boot. I recommend saving your own time and just avoid this one until it gets a complete overhaul (or get a full save from someone else).

Pros: Images and plot are good. Cons: Game play is grindy and saves are not brought forward. After figuring out the location for entering cheat codes and the map in the MC's BR for Character locations it becomes much better, Hopefully Dev will adjust this if he wants to improve the gameplay and his audience. Captain Red

Review of v0.178: I read the other reviews before playing and was expecting this to be a guesswork grindfest. After playing, I salute all the reviewers who made it to the grind because I threw in the towel after about five minutes. The game is so unintuitive that it is unplayable in its current state. Spoiler: Long Review Plot: You're a whiny loser who lives with your gorgeous ex-stripper girlfriend and her sister. You spend all your time crying about how you should be a scientist working at a university or research lab and--as a result--keep getting fired from McDonalds. Your girlfriend offers to go back to work dancing but you're too insecure to let her go make real money. So instead she gets her cousin--a high school principal at an all girls school--to hire you as a guidance counselor. It's a super generic plot and the MC is very off-putting. I'm just here to see some cute schoolgirls. Graphics: The renders are high quality but have an uncanny valley vibe. One of the first shots is you looking at the younger sister's face and she has a reflection in her eyes. Later, you have the option to watch TV with her at night and there's a silhouette of some plant on the two of you. Just things that might exist in real life but you wouldn't ever notice. In the game, however, they're very distracting. Gameplay: Bad. The first few minutes are an introduction filled with dialogue boxes and the occasional break to check out a lady or click on a chat bubble. That part works fine. Then the principal tells you to look around the school and says she'll drop by your room later and that's when everything goes wrong. There a bunch of icons on the screen, some (the map and wallet) are obvious while others (coffee cup, lipstick) require guessing or pressing them to see what happens. You have your mission: check out the school and then wait for the principal. You click on the map, there are 18 locations in the school. You go to every. single. one. and nothing happens other than some brief narration. Sometimes your energy goes down, sometimes it doesn't. So you click on locations again and sometimes new things happen. You might even get moved to the afternoon or the evening. But there's no indication of what you're "supposed" to be doing other than just clicking over and over and hoping that you're making progress. Games should be intuitive. That doesn't mean an included walkthrough. Just things making sense. "I need to get into that locked room" might cause you to look for a key or a screwdriver or someone with access but you know what you need to do and you can start figuring out how to do it. When you just get dropped in and told "click on stuff and eventually you might find something" that's not a game, it's a social experiment. Conclusion: If you want to click randomly on things in the hopes of seeing porn, I would recommend the artwork subforums on this site.

I really want to like this game based on the images and theme. Many of the characters are up my alley in terms of looks. And who wouldn't like perving and corrupting young school girls. But the game system is just bad. Should have just used ren'py as the base system. The going to different locations to find "scenes" is annoy in its design. If there was a constant ability to see who has a scene in a room at a given time on the "map" it would be much better. The only way to know what needs to be done is only at night in your bedroom you can access a "mission" menu of sorts. Why isn't this always available to view.