qureate came back to life and tossed out a relaxing summer vacation esque sim game. Just a simple country romance themed one this time.

Honest- I haven’t actually finished the game. Thanks to a hack someone made I got the last cg in my save, but I honestly can’t find the fifth ending, the Sage ending. I know it’s horror themed from that cg and the one other clue I’ve found about it, but I can’t find how to do it. I’ve done three whole extra runs of the game and spent 2+ hours going through Japanese and Chinese sites trying to find some discussion and nothing.

Note, I played basically the whole game while I was sick, which might have made me like it more. It was the perfect calm game for when I felt terrible.

Story-3

Barely is one. Guy who works for a Black company in Japan decides to use all his paid leave(which I thought Black companies don’t give you?) he saved up for years, two weeks worth, to go back to his childhood home. He meets his three childhood friends and shacks up with them since the local inn is closed. Goal is to grow closer to one by doing her events to get her ending.

He also meets a local bake-tanuki, or an old hermit sage. He gets tasked with finding the old mans lingerie collection for some cash or get cursed. You can ignore this.

The 3 girls are motherly older sister, tsundere(with a good reason) middle sister, and imp like younger sister. I honestly only really liked the older one. Not a fan of how selfish the younger one came across, and the middle sister uses threats of violence way to much to mask her issues.

Anyway, it’s a do what you want game . I do like this take on childhood friends though, as instead of having one memory that the game constantly references like a lot of VNs handle childhood friends where the marriage promise is basically their only shared memory they ever bring up(with maybe a second being they got bullied once), a lot of the talks in this are about a multitude of old memories. Some even get brought up by different sisters so you hear different versions of the events. I wish more childhood stuff was handled like this.

One oddity I noticed is that only the older sister is working through the game. I’m going to assume it’s summer vacation and that’s why the college going youngest is around and never busy, but why is the middle sister nurse never doing her job? I don’t remember ever reading why she’s not doing her job?

Most memorable line in the whole game comes from a alternate take on the classic “You crying?” “No, I got something in my eye”. In game, he says “I’m glad I got to see you smile” and the tsundere sister replies with “I wasn’t smiling, I was just clearing my throat!”

Gameplay-4

The summary states you have two weeks of paid leave, but you really only have 10 days to achieve a route. The first day is all tutorial, and the game ends on the 11th day if you haven’t gotten into a route.

Anyway, there’s basically 4 main things to do in this. The main time waster is picking stuff off the ground. You get trash, bugs, and perv items this way at complete random. These items reset whenever the time period shifts, and the list of items grows as you complete certain Favors. Favors are the main goals you can complete, most of which are get 2 or so of an item and turn in the mission in your phone for some cash. A few favors get you cutscenes that unlock more items to pick up. Each girl also has 16 favors that give you a bit more time with them. These are 100% optional but they do give affection boosts and make the romance feel more complete.

The other tree things you can do all relate back to the 3 heroines, aka doing them gives you affection and is how you achieve their favors. Older sister is farming, which is very basic. The only complication is that harvesting at different times of day can give you improved vegies, which the game will tell you if it’s the right time for that vegie by saying it’s at its peak. Middle sister is fishing, which is just timing. Bait is pointless by the way, it just increases the odds of getting rarer fish which I never needed to catch everything. Youngest sister is arcade games.

The minigame/arcade section has 5 games to play. A timing horror themed thing, a scoop game, a space invaders type, whack a mole, and menka. Menka is the card game, of which every card is a reference to past heroines in qureate’s library. The actual game is fairly easy. Each card has three stats. Hp, attack, and weight(timing). You start each round by attacking, which is timing three clicks with the movement of a circle. Usually each round is you attack, barely don’t kill, they go and you survive and you win the next turn. Just don’t pick someone with low HP and this should every round.

The final card in menka is I guess a reference to their next game? Looks like another modern day horror/escape room thing. Which is fitting, this game basically runs off of Livestream’s engine just without the puzzles.

So game loop. You wake up, get a message telling you can turn in some favors(they screwed up which message you get, the new favor message means you can turn one in), then are set free. If you have a heroine event that day, you’ll get an extra cutscene in the morning telling you when to go where. You can skip an hour of time at a few points in the world, which feels pointless? It really should just skip to the next time section, not an hour forward. I never needed to do something halfway into a time section.

You go to event, see it. If a cg event, you click on the right spot and get a moan, then do that two more times to clear. Otherwise just read. This is actually more similar to Some Some or Snack Shop then I expected, it’s a Vn with gameplay in the way of the VN sections. After the event you get four more favors to do for that girl to spend time on before their next event, two days later. Routes are just this, but a heroine event per day.

Lewdness-6

Each girl has 6 cgs, half of which are live2D style and half of which are plain cg. 2 cgs for endings, 2 live2D for route events, 1 live2D per girl for Sage events, and 1 changing in the bathroom cg you can find when entering each girls route. The harem route’s cg is of all three girls in swimsuits taking a bath with the main male, though he’s a bit to much of a focus of that cg for my liking.

Anyway, what is here has a lot of erotic energy. Panting, blushing, cleavage, see through clothes and so on. The youngest sister has her underwear visible in each cg she’s in, except her ending and her pre-ending one where she apparently isn’t wearing a bra at all. Overall it’s a strong showing by mixing comedic situations into pervy moments. It’s good.

The last cg is from the Sage ending, and I have no idea the context. It looks like the three girls yandere’d the protag into a well and are leaving him to die .I swear the day someone figures out how to get that ending I’m going to have to play it to figure out what the fuck happens.

Final Thoughts

A nice relaxing experience, with some strong lewd cgs and not much else. It’s something I can only recommend as a way to while away the time. Play for lewd or romance, nothing else is worth it. One day qureate will make a game worth playing for the game. I hope.

PC Save for Love on Leave

All cgs and cards, plus a bunch of ending saves. The first save is set up to enter harem or any of the girls routes, just go to the farm and harvest a plant to enter harem. Don’t and the next day each girl will offer entry into their route through the day. It also has all the games set up if you want to see those at all.

Gameplay: 4/10 Eroticness: 6/10 Story: 3/10

Completion: Endings are easy, harem is a bit of a time crunch to get every item from the bug, fish, and plant set. You also need to have max affection with each girl by the end of the 10th day. It’s easy on NG+ but I imagine very difficult on a new game. Oh, and do the three Sage events and the three bathroom events for cgs. Sage ending too, but no idea how to get that.