The Sultans Harem šŸ•Œ - V0.6 on Patreon / V0.4 on itch for FREE

New updates are never compatible with old saves, start a new save if you don’t want to experience code breaks :stuck_out_tongue:

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So I have to start over again?

Yes. Unless overwise stated by the dev, expect to start over with a new save file for new major releases, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, etc.

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I was surprised to read in this post that skipping through days progresses the game. I imagined there was a feeding counter that progressed the individual girls based on snacks, feedings and restaurant outings. So I try to max my visits per day to as many girls as possible while building my other kingdom stats. It probably doesn’t do anything for the game but I like to talk to the girls too. Just in case there’s a secret contentment counter judging if I’m only feeding a girl like a prize pig or build a deeper connection. I like to think sending a letter to Arya’s brother defuses his thirst for vengeance. An attack on me is an attack on her happy home. But it would be good if random sights could be seen when you walk through town. Maybe after decreasing the price of food you could see people buying larger amounts, women leaving restaurants with big bellies or even being courted with gifts of food.

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Been playing on 0.4 for free a lot, but recently Joined the patreon and jumped straight to 0.6 and wanted to give some reviews.

SPOILERS!

For those still wondering if it’s worth paying, then without a doubt I can say yes, I really enjoyed the new content. But there really feels a difference between old and new content, the difference in weight gain speed cannot go unnoticed. For my preferences, the new weight difference between weight stages is a little too big. That is especially apparent between Nina’s stage 4 and stage 5, when in st4 she is just a little bigger than st3, but in st5 she became much wider, had a much bigger belly and chest. The Katerina and Arya rivalry, as I mentioned previously, still remains unresolved, but now the player gets to realize that the rivalry is between all of the girls, not just some. All of them have mentioned that they want the player all by themselves.
Anyway, back to Katerina st8. As soon as Ä® saw that that the contest stage will go to Katerina’s storyline, I immediately thought that she wil win. Ä® expected there to be a lot more of interaction and trashtalk between the girls, but there was very little, and even then still from Katerina, Arya seemed to be there just for the illusion that there is a competition for Katerina.
About Eyana. I’m not a huge fan of the way she’s implemented in the game right now. She pretty much ā€œstoleā€ the st6 from Nina and the conclusion for the Katerina and Arya eating contest. Ä® feel like there was a better way to tell us the backstory about Eyana without sacrificing Nina’s weight stage.

And to not end with bad reviews just wanted to say that regardless what Ä® said above, the game iÅ” still really enjoyable and high quality. Please don’t take this as an insult, just wanted to give my opinion on things, that’s all!

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I wanted to ask.Is it possible to release this game on Steam?

I have been following and supporting this game for a while. I have not and probably will not try this game version. It’s great in concept, the visuals are amazing, and the writing, especially the romantic stuff, is pretty engaging. These are compliments I’ve given before and those feelings haven’t changed. However, there seems to be a reluctance to improve and build upon the basic game loop and many flawed or bare-bones mechanics that I think deserve more attention after this much development time, and would make the game a more well-rounded experience.

Forgive me for a little salt here, but despite the last version taking some welcome baby steps forward mechanically in areas such as the world map/conquest system and the throne room problems, most new versions only add weight stages for a girl or two based on polling, and a handful of smaller encounters around the palace. This is the fetish stuff we’re mostly here for, but to me it feels like the choice is usually to serve dessert for the entree almost every time (which I realize could be interpeted as a positive in this forum but that’s not really how I mean it). I won’t be interested in playing again until other aspects of gameplay are as fleshed out as the girls are getting. I would like more balancing done to throne room problems, more done with the map, improvements to the daily game loop that make it less likely I’ll just run out of stuff to do and walk around town until I can go to bed, reasons to bother cultivating resources other than gold once all the girls are present, more laws to pass that do more interesting things, and adjustments to what actually costs an action to do and what doesn’t because right now it makes no sense.

That last part is the thing that bothers me most. I haven’t heard it has become free to ask Jamal for advice, or to ask the court for your kingdom stats. Your stats especially could be displayed in UI (gold already is) and as it is I can get my action back by just scrolling backward anyway. But for some reason, those things cost an action while visiting the bakery and feeding your harem any number of treats from it costs nothing. There is a game breaking bug I have pointed out two or three versions in a row that hasn’t been fixed for some reason (based on release notes but tell me if it has). It allows you to feed the harem bakery stuff infinitely with no actions taken to speed through content.

I realize this game has been ambitious and I’m not pulling support or anything, I just think it could be more by now than it is, and I’d rather wait until it’s more substantially upgraded to spend time on it. Hopefully I don’t sound unreasonably critical.

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I agree with you there on both parts, yes the game is worth subbing for the month it comes out and then ending the subscription, but yeah the rivalry is really oddly ended, it seems to have ended that way to allow them to continue to use eating contest as a way to tell Katrina’s story in later updates.
Eyana seems like a character with a lot of potential for good story building and weight gain, her back ground story was nice, but oddly placed with katrina’s story. Sadly all of the character updates are decided by poll results and I find thats making their stories lacking a coherent plot line

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yeah, can especially agree that the game gets repetative when you have to get some girl to the stage you want. I didn’t know about the bug, so I had to manually feed up basically everyone in the harem just to see new content, and, believe me, it was tedious. If I had known about the bug, I wouldn’t have hesitated to use it. I even think i should be a game mechanic at this point.

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Sorry I meant for this to be a direct reply. I’m going to explain it to you, because I think there are two sides to it. It’s tough to get momentum the honest way, but I don’t think this exploit should exist either, because if people use it they aren’t getting a sense for the game’s actual pace and might miss scenes or bug their game out more by doing it too much. If you buy just one cupcake at the bakery, and keep it in your inventory, the game always thinks you have a muffin as well. If you never feed any of the girls that one cupcake, you can give them muffins forever. Because going to the bakery and feeding them bakery stuff costs no actions, you could potentially speed through their weight stages and associated scenes. So it’s really two problems, this bug/exploit that isn’t being fixed and that I have trouble believing no one else has discovered, and the strange decision not to limit feeding them this way with actions. Really, the whole action economy could do with an overhaul.

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Thanks man! Really helpful tip. Ä® preety mucha free with everything you said. But, u know, this is that kind of scenario - the deeper you look the more problems you will find. So Ä® would just stop looking deep and ruining the fun this game provides.

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I didn’t think the feeding them the bakery items was a bug. I thought it was a way to feed the girls without advancing time and to skip the grind. That would make the most sense for what the purpose of the bakery items are for.

It was just an example of what I see as inconsistency in the sorts of activities that take actions. Activities that lead to permanent stat changes and resource gains or losses seem to cost an action most of the time. Because this particular thing doesn’t, it also contributes to an exploit. Meanwhile, some things that only provide information cost an action, but then you can scroll back to retrieve it. If the exploit were fixed, the bakery feeding being free wouldn’t matter so much and I would probably not question it.

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I’m a fan of the muffin glitch. Not to use it as an exploit but to just slightly hasten the gains throughout the timeline. In the beginning you can’t really afford to buy a lot of bakery items. Then when you finally can afford to stock up it closes permanently. With the glitch I can select a girl, give her a muffin, then have the servants bring her food. Talking to a girl doesn’t cost time so quickly devouring a muffin shouldn’t either. If snacks cost time their benefit would be gone. I’d like to see the price of bakery items reduced. Taking a girl to a restaurant for the same price as a single apple pie doesn’t seem balanced. I’d like more transparency on what snacks actually contribute.

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I can’t download it, Google Drive says that downloads for this file have been exceeded, could you post the game on MidiaFire?

we need more eyana content, she’s amazing, i hope she’s revealed to be a step sister or something so we can get her into the harem, would love to feed her and fill her out even more and make her even fatter than she already is

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ya im hoping like not related… like i get the lore implications of old times… but maaaaaaan stop eyeing your sister… its weird

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Oh no! Above all, please let it not be lame-as-fuck stepcest! That relationship should be one of non-sexual, non-familial, or real-deal, full-on blood-related incest!

Like, I really don’t care which it is but please please please I never want to see step-siblings in any kind of porn again I can not say enough how cheesy and tired that thing is. Just, do it or don’t do it.

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