H Scene Count- 15

Created by EXAMGAMES, translated by Nitrostat

Length- 5-10 hours

WolfRPG life simulator kind of game. It’s a laid back thing with no dark elements, just collect stuff to make better stuff and watch SOL stuff as you get to know the four beauties at the Hot Spring.

This is plot lite. The easiest comparison would be Atelier, where a lot of the game is collecting materials and crafting/exchanging those materials to get stronger and beat the game.

Story

Gayle is an adventurer who is sick of the danger. He finds an ad for a job at a Hot Srping that promises free room and bard, free meals, and free hot srping usage. He goes straight there without reading the fine print, which mentions those who come for a job are magically bound to the land and can’t leave for x amount of time.

He arrives and meets Estel, a fine young women who runs the place. The place itself is trashed though. Farms are mostly weeds, no water to the hot springs, and the inside is dusty and a mess in general. After some back and forth, Gayle agrees to work there after she promises to do anything, and he signs a contract without reading the fine print again.

Two days later the onsen is fixed, and the first h scene happens as Estel finds a naked Gayle. He convinces her to give him some attention and after that, the Goddess of the land shows up. Turns out Gayle can’t leave. Fine print says he has to work for a minimum of 6 months before he can leave the land, and it is magically binding. He complains for a bit but eventually just settles. They finish repairs and the onsen opens for real.

After that you can recruit the other two girls(a dog and cat) by cooking and fishing. Then you just kind of float through their personal stories, get porn, and eventually find Estel’s story which is basically the main plot of the game.

Gameplay

The combat itself isn’t anything special, except for the way ally guard works. In most games, if you have a damage redirect skill and get hit with an all hit that redirect hits the person using it with every instance of damage from the aoe. So if you have 5 people they would get hit 5 times. Not in this game. They get hit once. This is very important.

So this game focuses heavily on equipment for fighting. You craft it with stuff you collect, and there is a lot of stuff. Once you gain control for the first time there are like 20~ gather points on that screen and it recharges daily. Most screens have 10+ gather points of different materials. There’s fishing, bug catching, farming, enemy killing and gathering. There’s like 70 or so crafting items in this game, which feels like way to much as a majority of them are thrown at you right away.

Equipment all come with a skill or two, and in fact the actual characters only learn 1 attack skill each. Everything else is from gear. And there’s a lot of gear. Like 40 weapon types, each with 5 tiers to upgrade through. You can basically make the four you get into anything you want. Want a shotgun wielder wearing a maid uniform? Want a leak user wearing dragon armor? Both good options in a gear system with way to many options.

The way the game advances is basically through what feels like randomess. As you wake up or enter the inn, things just trigger based on what you’ve done. A decent amount of content won’t happen if you don’t do the things the game doesn’t tell you to do. Like the dog girl will never show up at all if you don’t cook a bunch. One h scene requires fighting boss that nothing hints to at all, and then advancing time to the next day and the scene just starts. Several item crafts just get scenes and sudden stat ups, which happen all the time. A lot of h scenes, SOL scenes and just plot content end with stat ups for the characters. Add that some recipes add stats, and you have silly stat growth in this game.

Being honest, it felt like to much for me a lot of the time. Like there’s no reason for a lot of the items to be in this other then novelty and it honestly feels to much a lot of the time. It’s just not the style of RPG I enjoy.

H and Other stuff

Vanilla with a few threesome/foursomes thrown in. Unvoiced. I didn’t really read them since they were paced so badly, but they looked nice and seemed decently long. I think technically all the girls are in love with him but don’t say anything? There’s a scene that leads into the foursome where each girl is trying to direct a conversation a specific way. Dog wants to steal guy’s food, cat wants to go fishing with guy, and Ethel wants to actually spend time with him sexually/romantically. I think that’s a good way to understand the tone of the relationships here.

A weird thing I noticed when I finished the game was that the dog girl never actually loses her virginity in a scene. Her scenes are lactating handjob, blowjob, titjob, and imagining naked apron sex. She’s in the foursome, kissing the guy. I think it’s implied she had sex with him there, so I guess she lost her virginity off screen? It’s kinda weird.

Verdict

To much collecting. If the game didn’t pause when a big list of items was just obtained it wouldn’t be an issue, but it does, which makes a lot of stop and go. No books or items to keep track of everything meant I gave up around the 60% mark on getting stuff. Which was also when I started getting frustrated with the way events triggered and how little control it felt I had over things and how obtuse things were.

I can see someone enjoying this as a laid back RPG, which is what it wants to be. I forced myself through it which killed some of the fun.

Save for Hot Spring Heroes

Contains- Full replay gallery. Didn’t bother with all the feats/achievements as they just give you more items for grinding things, and the last recipe I’m missing is a random drop in the random dungeon. For most people this is going to be good enough.