As each girl has her own preferences as to which gifts she’ll accept, and with only one of each item being available each day, this would have required some form of strategic thinking –which could have been neat, allowing for some avenue to discover more about the characters– if the game didn’t already neatly mark everything down for you with stars and hearts. This does not consume any energy, but instead costs Munie (ingame currency), which you earn by going out on dates. This necessitates buying each girl presents, whether they’re in the form of food items (which replenish energy), or gifts (which give some amount of Hunie). Now, actually having conversations, however, consumes a girl’s energy, which in turn limits the amount of Hunie you can earn per day, per girl. Interactions can be made through one of three ways- through engaging in conversations, purchasing gifts, or going out on dates. During each segment, you have the opportunity to interact with a different girl in different ways, with each character being available or otherwise depending on the time of day/week. The game takes place over the course of several days, with each ingame day being divided into four segments- Morning, Afternoon, Evening, and Night.
(And collect their underwear in the process, but that’s after the fact.) (The underwear has no in-game use, as far as I’m aware.) The game’s main gimmick is that the puzzles are a contextualized as an abstraction for a date between you and your partner, who is one of twelve different date-able characters in-game, four of which are unlockable, with the ultimate objective to get closer to, and eventually sleep with, every one. Is it a good game? HuniePop (PC, Mac, Linux) Developed by HuniePot Release date: JanuMSRP: $10 (Steam, Humble, MangaGamer)įor those of you that might be unaware, let me explain: HuniePop is a match-three puzzle game, much like Puzzle Quest, or Bejeweled, with some light RPG elements. Instead I seek to ask and answer an easier question: If that’s what you’re after, I implore you to seek those answers elsewhere. In fact, other writers have done a decent enough job at talking about how the game might perhaps be considered offensive, with respect to sex, race, and gender. Some might gloss over those problematic elements entirely, some would fail to see how these so-called ‘problematic elements’ are, in fact, problematic, or how these things tie into the quality of the work as a game. To simply write all that off as ‘bad’ would be willfully ignoring just how bad it is- but, well, that would be my personal bias and philosophy talking.
For beneath the surface of this innocuous (heh.) sex-themed puzzle game lurks a snarling, angry beast of entitlement and puerility, a monument to the toxic masculinity that society is all too willing to glorify. Perhaps more accurately, it would be doing what the game represents a disservice. To call HuniePop a bad game would be to do it a disservice. Let me begin by saying that HuniePop is not a bad game.
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