Love by the Water

It's...something. Stopped after the mall changing room scene with Frankie and Sasha. People can call it what they want but its blatant NTR. Or at the very least NTR bait. And judging by how close they're getting, blushing AND eye fucking each other its definitely heading down the path of them being intimate. And that is NTR. If it was just 2 actual girls, sure I could let it go/deal with it a bit easier. However Frankie has a dick. They're both supposed to like the MC but they're eye fucking each other and blushing in a changing room together and getting naked like its nothing. To see 2 LI's into each other like that behind MC's back. AND they literally just met. Kinda fucked really. While neither of them are in a relationship with MC, this is supposed to be a harem. I wish devs actually knew what a harem was. Even if the DEV confirms that Frankie will never fuck any of the girls, I probably won't play it again. These two having blatant sexual tension like that is extremely off putting and feels like they're cheating on the MC. Absolutely retarded decision to have them act like that around each other and ruined what was an otherwise solid game for me personally.

v0.5 I'd generally say "yes, this is a good vn and worth your time to try and see if you enjoy it". But there are some caveats to that. So, on the very positive side, the writing is pretty strong with some genuinely funny moments and charming characters. The renders are good, with the exceptions noted below. It's generally a pretty fun romp as far as games go. And, it has some fairly good-quality animated h scenes. Those are rather good positives so I don't really think they massively detract from the negatives. But, there are negatives: Visual fidelity can be a bit off at times. For example, one character has basically been starving themselves prior to the story and this is shown very clearly in one of the early scenes. Then, in an h scene (which in universe is a day or two later) they seem much more normal. Then in another scene not long after that they went back to their emaciated look. And with another character who is supposed to be older, she has a face that makes her look like she has a real life genetic condition for the sake of making her look slightly older. The game often employs the two-frame jump animation for comedic value. This is fine on the whole, but ends up being massively overused and I particularly recall a scene where every character was jumping around with this animation where it just felt like it needed its own epilepsy warning. The tone can be a bit weird at times. As a non-spoiler example, it starts out very obviously trying out some classic dumb humour with the MC trying to make his way to school and weird and wacky things are happening on the way. A day or two later (in-world storyline) you have people seriously fighting to the death in a scene that feels a bit out of the blue. To a much lesser extent, the MC's story so far is pretty much the stereotypical "they're somehow superpowered and everything somehow goes right for them" trope. To be fair, this might change, have some nuance, or you might just be looking for an uncomplicated story where you don't have to worry about those kinds of things. I can certainly understand and sympathise, especially with the latter - although I think I went in and ended up with this expectation only to get hit by the tone issues. Even with all of that said I'd heartedly recommend trying it out and seeing how you feel about it. It feels like it's on the higher end of games in its class and definitely deserves the attention.

Pros: A hilarious game. Both the writing and the schizophrenic animations are funny. Its rare to find a game that makes me literally laugh out loud but this one had me do it many times. Most of the LIs are charming and endearing. Frankie is a sweetheart and its always nice to see trans representation. I hate it when games make dysphoria the only aspect of a trans characters personality, and while she has some anxiety about her appearance, the game doesn't lay it on too thick and now that the MC has accepted her hopefully we can move on. Cons: Unfortunately a lot of the girls are ugly. Either they have weirdly angular faces (Ms Behr) or are too chubby (Mallory, Ellie, Billie). That random jogger in ep 4 was more attractive than most of the milfs in the game. Speaking of appearances, the MC looks very stupid. He is in dire need of a haircut and the heterochromia comes off as a cringe 2012 deviantart OC. The dev seems to be using the game as an excuse to ramble about their favourite topics (literature, anime, video games etc). As someone who doesn't know anything about either (at least those specific books, anime and video games), its just alienating, boring and hard to follow. For some reason we're forced to be attracted to Mallory on the bus ride scene and to spend time with them. Ugliness aside shes very annoying, theres are ways to make the nerd character endearing but they are not it. The MC can be annoying with his self pitying navelgazing and pure of heart schtick, yet the MC's edgelord persona when his eyes turn blue is even more annoying. I know there are "plot reasons" for all of the women of the world to be tripping over themselves to ride the MCs dick, but its a bit much when they barely know him and we barely know them. The tone can be all over the place. I dont think the dev knows if they want to make a story thats college themed, a political thriller, or a fantasy one. At the moment the themes oscillate wildly between the chapters and it can be jarring. And lastly I dont understand why certain parts are voiced when the majority is not. Either do the entirety or none at all. Despite all the criticisms, and entirely due to the humour and endearing LIs, the pros outweigh the cons but I cant rate it above a 3.

This game feels like a bit of false advertisement. It feels like it's a happy go lucky shell pasted on an absolutely rotten core. The overarching story-line is dark. Like dark dark. If the background of the island (very Christopher Columbus and the natives of of the Caribbean type stuff), had been mentioned in passing and then mostly left to the background, that would have been fine. But the entire storyline and background of the main character is tied into it. And I just feel like that wasn't very well broadcasted in either the synopsis or the 'tone' of the first hour or two. Just feel a bit lied to is all. "Look at this fun loving protagonist and this upbeat music and fun. Oh, don't forget about the rape and torture and mutilation too, THAT's gonna come up more than you want." The renders are fine, if a bit of lower resolution than I would like, and many of the girls are very cute. Subjectively - I'm not a fan of cherubic/very round faces, so I didn't find a good half of the cast very attractive. Very personal preference there though, just mentioning it for the folks who might or might not like that type. As much as the writing is very good, and there were a lot of very interesting character setups, I'll be putting the game down now. I think I got to maybe the end of the second chapter? Unsure. It's right after the protagonist gets accused of rape by one of the love interests (cannot at all fathom why that was thought to be a good idea) Game's just making me feel gross.

A very lovely experience. Version 0.5 Played on Steamdeck ~12hrs I stumble upon the game by pure (lucky) accident and I loved it. Although I'm not a big fan of fantasy, I was captivated by the storytelling, which is the game's strongest point. All LI are bit stereotypical & some of them looks a bit uncanny at times, but their wide variety is very refreshing. Your Suspension of disbelief can be challenged at time because of pure "porn logic" and of an MC that can 180° reallyyy fast, but the excellent humor made up for it. Keep the great work cure!

I stumbled on this by accident and I'm glad for it, I love the story so far and the personalities of all the girls are great, I have a couple of minor issues, mainly being the face proportions being a bit "off" at times but so far it's great, and you can definitely see improvements as you progress through the game. I understand the models may not be to everyone's taste I was sceptical at first but it grew on me.

Ooooh, I REALLY like this one. I'll admit from a purely visually, it's a bit average, but other than that, I thought it was wonderful. Really hot sex, really endearing characters, and a very intriguing plot. But what shocked me the most is that the game's really damn funny. It's also really cool to see actual Trans and gay representation in an h game, ya don't see that very often. I'm super excited to see more!

writing 5/5 story is interesting and easy to follow for the most part. Many things are left untouched in the 0.5v tho. animations are fine 4/5 music is okay 4/5 overall 5/5 one of the best games on the website

I was really intrigued by this game before the remake. I decided to wait one update after the remake before replaying and was quite happy to see a new update. Unfortunately, the game is mostly ruined for me by the remake. The characters are uglier and more unnatural, the tone and flow of the story is chaotic to an offputting level. Not sure if it gets any better after the early parts, but can't be bothered to suffer through it as it is currently. Still giving this 3 stars in the hope that some of the original charm is left in the parts I didn't get to. Version 0.5

I just reread this VN. The first time, which was version v.3, I had a lot of reservations, but the flow was enough to avoid frustration. Only after rereading it, thanks to the new, "improved" version (currently v.5), did I realize how weak a creation I had before my eyes. The main protagonist's character development is negligible. Initially presented as an agoraphobic with socializing problems, he finds admirers before even taking two steps into the university building. Previously homeschooled, he suddenly becomes the best student on the entrance exam. What's worse, he was not taught by Aristotle, which could somehow explain this success, but by his father, a fisherman. The boy is a book lover who will win any debate. He has the body of an Adonis and the swimming skills of Poseidon. And perhaps the latter is explained by his origins. The rest is a blend of overactive imagination and laziness of writer, resulting in a lack of character development. Okay, maybe not laziness, but something that raises the question: WTF? The rest of the characters are colorful, which is quite positive in my opinion. However, because this is a porn novel, most of them are subjected to a bimbofication process, resulting in big tits, asses, and lustful intentions, which isn't a negative in itself, but when combined with the other issues, we end up with a weak novel. And I must point out that the earlier version was not so strongly inclined towards this feature. To recap: - Lack of character development. The protagonist is presented as flawed, yet he doesn't show any of these flaws. Instead, we're presented with only strengths and superlatives. There's nothing to build on, and considering how advanced the plot is there is nothing to build down (destroying character to build something new - see Witcher's amnesia in game series). - The side characters, despite their diversity, and having more to offer in terms of character, due to the novel's nature, are reduced to sucking cock. - The visual "improvements" in the new version trivialized the VN, and the childish like or cartoonish scenes gave the whole thing a bad taste. Or maybe there are just to many of them. I'm writing this review because I liked the direction this novel was taking but at the end I found only disappointment. Story score: Kappa out of 10 Porn score: Whatever the number of sluts there are in this VN out of 10 Spoiler This can be high number if you think about it

This game is probably the biggest let down I've ever downloaded. With the (imo, apparently contentious) good looking visuals, interesting looking character roster, and high rating, I was expecting it to be really good! However, the game was such a big let down that it's actually frustrating. So to figure out why this game is such a let down, you have to start with the story. I won't give spoiles but I'll give a basic premise. You are a Mary Sue; perfectly intelligent without effort, extremely fit and lean, and you've got heterochromia. Your one weakness being your lack of social skills, from being a stay at home neet since birth. You enroll into university where you begin to introduce yourself and make friends (your lack of social skills aren't apparent at all as you perfectly navigate every situation flawlessly). There's even some poverty porn where you showcase how divine of a saviour you are by feeding/homing a starving homeless girl. The believability of your social skills completely vanishes as random girls, who having met you for less than a few hours, immediately start trying to have sex with you. Then the game legsweeps you and entirely changes genre to a fantasy/paranormal/organized crime thriller. (If you didn't notice the "fantasy" tag like I did, then you'll be in for a wild ride). So the game has a boring egotistical mc and unrealistic relationships/sex, standard mid-tier porn game stuff. Now this is a glaring issue for one reason; this is supposed to be a story-focused slowburn. For reference; it takes you three entire hours before your first ever h-scene. You spend the first 3 hours of the game, being introduced to the characters and setting. So you'd think for a slowburn, that this blowjob would come from the one character you actually established somewhat of a relationship with? Nope, it's a random woman you've never even spoken with. This is the clearest indicator of this game just being a complete mess. It's trying so hard to be a slowburn, but this h-scene completely undercuts that. It's like the author forgot this was fundementally supposed to be a PORN game and just added a random h-scene. This sets the precedent for the biggest issue in the whole game: pacing. It's so damn inconsistent and all over the place. Like back to back scenes of wildly different speeds and moods, high paced to extremely slow paced. You just randomly leave the main character and just follow random plots and stories for long periods of time, sometimes without reasoning or explanaiton. Like you spend a couple minutes following some "quirky funny scene" (another big issue is that the game is trying to hard to be funny), and then immediately you spend 20 minutes watching some random character you've never met sexually abusing her maid (hot), that you've also never met. Most glaringly, after a huge climactic scene of some huge emotional arc, you then spend 20 minutes watching your surfer "friend" spend his morning before school and learn he's close with the local bike ship owner. For literally no reason??? Overall, I would haphazardly recommend giving it a try. The game is maybe well-liked so if you like a slowburn go for it?? Now I say 'maybe well liked' cause if you look through these reviews, you'll notice that all these 5 star reviews have literally 0 likes. But all these 1-2 star reviews have like 5-10 likes? Idk if this points to the silent majority actually disliking this game and a vocal minority loving it or what?

It's peak, I'm afraid. The game is great, the animations are insane and funny and charming, and the voice lines are extremely well done. The LI designs are varied and don't feel like canned characters. Absolutely worth your time, and not a slow burn, either, you can get your first H scenes very early on, after a very, very charming intro. Highly recommended!

It's a little nuts with some of the excited animations and tells a nice story. I like the way this dev gives clues on which dialogue choice is the correct one. I like the choices for the LI's. I look forward to more.

Really great game with a fast moving story, good presentation and style, and a good deal of LIs. It's not the most original for an HS game, but some elements are definitely unique. Overall, I'm into it so far.

Honestly, I was a sucker for this game at the start. After the rework it's even better. The main character is delightful. He's a bad ass without being a bad ass. He's sweet and kind and I think the way the LIs flock to him, supernaturally prompted or not, feels natural. How can you not like someone who is intelligent, kind and considerate? The characters are unique and interesting and make me want to get to know them better. The comedy does a fine job of being silly, poignant and well-intentioned. This would make an amazing novel in and of itself. The visuals enhance the excellent writing. The story is engaging and well thought-out, both asking questions and answering some as well in ways that keep you hooked without keeping the reader in the dark. It also does a great job of introducing just enough new content without drowning you in so many mysteries you lose the main thread of things. I can't possibly recommend this enough and I will be supporting the author and looking forward to each new release.

This game is absolutely amazing! The humor hits you hard right at the start, but as you progress, the tone shifts toward a more serious vibe with an intriguing mystery and plot. However, the humor never fully disappears—it’s always there when you need it. The developer has an incredible knack for setting the right tone, whether it’s for a lighthearted moment or a more intense, serious one. The characters are fantastic. I’m about to start day 2, but I’m already hooked and plan to finish the rest tomorrow. I’m so confident in this game that I’m leaving a 5-star rating now. Each character is captivating, and the story is incredibly engaging—one of the rare games where I don’t skip any dialogue at all. For a "Honey Select"-style game, the quality is off the charts. There’s even some solid voice acting in key moments, which is a nice touch. Honestly, this game is something special. If you enjoy a witty, engaging, and mysterious story with a touch of deep emotion, I can’t recommend it enough. Amazing job, developer—keep up the great work!

I like the animations and models, but good god this is the most tik tok brained/snorted a whole ass cup of cocaine and actual sugar thing I have ever seen. Take a breather man. There doesn't have to be 10 different moments every single minute trying to pull a hyuk hyuk from the player. It's okay to have more than a short sentence before switching the scene around 12 different times showing a character making a face in a single second.

Was so good I felt the need to make my first ever review. Story has been amazing and I have had many laughs from this novel. Variety of body shapes for love interest is a huge plus. I promise there is one that fits what you like. Can't wait for the next release.

Instantly hooked on this one. Dev is doing great work with this. Intriguing characters, story, plot, and I find myself wanting to engage with pretty much every LI. Highly recommend, and can't wait to see how this one takes shape as it evolves.

I really liked the game, it's quite interesting and has captivating characters. I also liked the MC's personality, his original one. And I hope there will be more female dominance. And I love Sasha. Frankie is also very cool, I hope to see more development of her.