Summer at Smile Café Reviews

Rating 7/10 Game has glitches and issues which bring it to such score, without them it be 8/10. Biggest one is save issues, when you finish game for some reason it wont load auto save or do anything, so save often, Sometimes game glitches out. Solid Sim elements, great minigames, decent H moments and an ok a story. Definitely worth 10 bucks

It’s a really good game, probably one of the best of the year. That said, it would be nice to have the option to replay scenes by talking to the characters, instead of having to exit and access them through the gallery.

This is a really fantastic game played on steam deck docked with controller ran really well some precession preblues averaged B grades with the right stick but ran really well since it has limited controller support. Really fun would love english voice option. The mini games are great vary repayable highly recommend.

Pretty good writing, amazing art, and good enough gameplay.

Honestly an great game, only playing for the mini games but; The storylines with these characters are genuinely wonderful to watch, seeing the characters grow and interact with each other. Plus it being pretty cheap is worth getting this game, 9/10 would recomend!

The art is Beautiful, The voice acting incredible, The minigames.... are decent, The "Steamy" scenes are gorgeous, 8/10 I wish the endings were better, for example marrying one of the girls would've been nice.

Got to one of the sex scenes and it just glitched out and keeps looping same cheesy audio, and wouldn't let me do anything. Game is not good, and the dialogue transitions make no sense. Don't waste your money.

I was fine with the premise at first, but I didn't care for the mini-games. Fortunately there's a way to essentially skip them at first to progress, but I just hit an unskippable one and the sudden dark turn in the story at that point, plus the frustration of having to do that sequence has just killed my enthusiasm for this. Aside from that, the art is good if you don't mind the flat colors and very simple animation. The girls are interesting, but the writing is not outstanding and very linear. The gameplay loop is so simple though to be largely meaningless and with the annoying, mini-games that are all essentially flappy-bird or quick time events, just get in the way of the game being fun.

The introduction to the story is not interesting. The minigames are tedious and boring. There is also a bug where Ida’s first scene keeps repeating, which may lock you out of progression when interacting with other characters. The scenes themselves are not worth mentioning. Finally, walking between scenes is slow and unnecessary wastes a lot of time.

Well TL;DR, took me about 6 hours to finish the game and get all achievements. Solid 7/10 all in all. Relatively cheap, would have bought this for the art alone. VA work is great, got tired of the mini games really quickly, the art carried the game. Great, now for a more detailed review: I'd like to list out a PROS and CONS section to this review but that's the thing, I feel like it's a mixed bag... when it's good it's good, but it's always mixed with something that brings it down. [h2] H-Scenes [/h2] H-scenes are good but they're not Summer Clover type of interactive. You basically play a loop that can be controlled. There's a LOT of different CGs, around 5-6 per girl, and there's chibi scenes too, like around 10-ish copy pasted ones for each girl but let's just ignore that, who gets off on chibi scenes anyway? Don't answer that. [h2] Voice Acting [/h2] The voice acting is good (I used JP dub). All the VAs were pretty solid, a bit of miss for Ida at the start. In h-scenes... the voices are in a weird loop like a soundboard being spammed it throws you off. [h2] Writing/Story [/h2] The writing is also mixed, lots of good dialog between characters but there are weird moments like the writer wanted to write "B" but they didn't know how to write and connect "A" and "C". There's a random house that you visit at the start of the game called "Furry's House" and you just bang on sight. This is your ex coworker and a really likeable character AFTER the fact. You start the Milf route by sniffing her armpits (hot), but the MC starts being weird about her smell he has never acted like this at all! Her having a tramp stamp didn't matter at all neither. There's endings for each girl as well but they feel like after thoughts - you have an extra h-scene per girl, which is better than V-Lover, otherwise pretty unsatisfying. [h2] Gameplay [/h2] The mini games get boring fast. There's 3 mini games: drawing r18 stuff, manage social media (2 variants), flappy bird (2 variants). I was excited about the drawing mini game since your character is an R18 artist, and it gets uploaded to your social media which you can then check out afterwards. Unfortunately, you can get all the available art in like a week in-game. The other mini games are just fluff to pad out the gameplay. Honestly the art carried this game as the gameplay really was dragging its feet. By the end you can just buy the skip mini game item which eases it a bit but you'd be bored of the mini games by then. [h2] Conclusion [/h2] One final gripe, on h-scenes when the girl gets excited or after you bust a nut, there's these weird dark spots that shows up on their body like I'm not sure if they are hickeys or if it's supposed to be sweat marks but they look like they're getting leprosy it's kinda nasty like an STD being spread coz you're banging everybody. Well anyway, it sounds like I'm overly negative but I did like this game it's just that it could have been better. Everyone was cute, hope to see more in the future!