Review - Super Harem Builder 2012

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Game #3: Super Harem Builder 2012

RMSephy's entry in to the Terrible Games Contest fits the bill. Super Harem Builder wants to be an amusing flash-style harem simulation game, but it feels too contrived and repetitive to appeal to the player beyond a couple of minutes.

In general, games like this boil down to parameters. Just little numbers you watch go up and down like money, score, the girls' stats and whatnot. Unfortunately, Super Harem Builder doesn't present these parameters in an engaging way, and to make matters worse the RPG-style combat feels out of place. It doesn't help that these battles are basically down to random chance, can take up a whole lot of time, and distract from the sim elements of the game.

Maybe SHB would be more fun if it were funnier or had more enemy types and weird situations you could come across. Instead, it just feels like a bunch of menus and the same jokes repeated over and over. The stripped-down, first-person perspective does nothing for the game. It wants to capture some of the wit of the Mother series, but fails on too many levels to do so. Overall, it's a sad little game that could have been funny at the very least.

1/5