Instead, your affection meter will constantly decay, so you have to be fairly agile to, for the lack of a better phrase, keep it up.Īs you complete the dating and bedroom encounters, you’ll be rewarded with pictures of the women that get more suggestive and sexualized as you progress as well as unlock additional characters to pursue. In this version of the puzzle game, the purple tiles, move limits, and boost items are removed. Once you master all of the systems, the women go from liking to loving your character until you get to put the puzzle skills to the test in a sexual encounter. On its own, it’s complex enough for a decent challenge, but with the added effort in remembering the preferences of each woman, balancing resources to gather and use boost items, and have all of that under an actions limitation ends up being surprisingly engaging. The other tiles are assisting mechanics: purple will remove affection, pink stacks a multiplier to affection gained on other connections, yellow provides additional move actions for the date, sentiment pools to allow you to use the boost items which have their own sets of effects. Each woman responds to these tiles differently with some having a preference to talent over flirtation, for example. The four main tiles are the orange, dark blue, green, and red tiles which tie to romance, talent, flirtation, and sexuality respectively. The different colored tiles refer to different parts of the game, with your end goal being to build up enough affection to succeed at the date. You have a limited number of moves you can take in each puzzle round. The puzzle game is surprisingly fun, deep, and strategic. In short, you want to match tiles in a row or column in order to pop them, racking up points that helps build up the affection of the women you encounter in the game. You have some simple interactions to learn more about them before heading into the dating system of the game.Īs I mentioned above, the puzzle mechanic is in the dating aspect of the game and is reminiscent of Bejeweled, and the ridiculous amount of games that have iterated on that design. The cast is diverse with distinctly different personalities being expressed through their writing, voice acting, and visual designs. Kyu introduces the mechanics of the game with some in-story tutorial efforts and gets your character out and about to meet some women. Your character meets a woman, who you find out to be a Love Fairy named Kyu, who wants to help the character hook up with more women. The game starts out with your awkward and lonely character struggling to attract women into his or her life. There are two resources to manage, one for relationship-building actions like dating, another currency for items which can be used to get more energy, gifts, and boost items for the puzzle mechanic of the game – which is dating, and later, sex. The game runs on a simplified clock cycle with an energy system which limits how much you can do at a time with each girl.
HuniePop is one of the many in between, offering a cast of characters with their own stories, personalities, and interests for you to learn, remember, and attribute to as you progress through the game. Some are more of a story being told, being called visual novels, while others may have more explicit focuses on the pornographic elements, and many find their position somewhere in between. These kinds of games have been around for many years, on many platforms, with many different forms. The dating sim genre of games is a niche, yet diverse market of the games industry.
HuniePop is a generally NSFW crowd-funded dating simulation game that utilizes a Bejeweled-like puzzle game alongside more typical dating sim mechanics, if you’re familiar with those. For today’s installment of the Gems of the Steam Summer Sale, I’m shining a spotlight on a game I would never publicly admit that I’ve played to completion, except for the fact that I’m doing exactly that right here.
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