Harem Collector

Harem Collector is an open-world, casual adventure game in which you take on the role of an adventurer embarking on a journey to become a legendary hero. As you navigate a world fraught with dark conspiracies and demonic invasions, you will cross paths with 151 unique girls. Forge deep bonds with them as they join you on your quest, and gradually build your own harem—though beware, for a traitor might lurk among them! Along the way, you’ll unlock intimate animations with these girls, adding an extra layer of excitement to your journey. The game features a rich narrative and a diverse array of quests; take on random missions and mini-tasks to earn rewards, or seize numerous investment opportunities to strike it rich overnight—allowing you to construct a grand residence where you can invite the girls to live with you.

Features of Harem Collector:

35 collectible harem girls representing a wide variety of personalities, archetypes, and fetishes.

Over 100 sex scenes.

15 recruit-able party members.

Large, immersive, interactive world.

Challenging combat that rewards careful thinking and planning.

Limited (and entirely optional) grinding

5 customizable player houses.

92 quests not including mini-quests and random quests.

60 investment opportunities that let you build a financial empire.

Changelog:

It's a polish update. I've said in the past that I want to balance new content with improvement of what's already there, as I have quite a big backlog of things I want to do. I'm glad to announce that significant progress has been made.

Major updates

The biggest addition is a complete overhaul of the portraits system. We've managed to get all art assets done in time, but I was otherwise ready to use placeholders. So now you can get cute little portraits of all your favorite characters, including the boys!

(There's also a secret portrait not on this preview. Can you guess whose it is?)

What took the longest was to figure out who would love or hate each portrait. The existing stuff didn't really follow any sort of pattern so I started again from scratch and filled out multiple spreadsheets of data. To make things balanced, all followers* now love 5 portraits and hate 3, while also trying to not have all of them hate or love the few same ones. (Some portraits still have more lovers than haters.)

(With a few exceptions. Quinta loves all portraits and some followers are unaffected by them at all, like Bell and Nick.)

As an added benefit, it forced me to flesh out a lot of intra-harem relationships. I wanted to make everything clear by giving all followers relevant dialogue in the harem chat menu, to explain why they love or hate such and such, but it turned out to be too much work and you'll have to wait for a future update. The current upgrade of this game system already took dozens of hours, mostly spent trying to balance spreadsheets. I'm glad it's done, and I hope you'll appreciate it.

That being said, I didn't playtest it nearly as much as I'd like. I'm counting on you guys to report it if it breaks at any point.

Second biggest change is translating Chimei's dialogues from bad Japanese to broken English. The choice of broken English rather than proper English helps preserve as many jokes as possible, and one of her core distinct traits, while also empowering you guys to understand what she's saying. It's a change I've been asking for since forever, since I think it reflects poorly on Chimei that Hero is able to learn Elvish in a day while she learns very little Common over multiple months.

Here's what it looks like:

This little joke isn't really representative. Overall, her dialogue paints her as quite the sweety, and it's a shame that most people weren't able to understand them.

It should be said that NoMoshing also expressed interest in moving Chimei away from pure Japanese for a variety of reasons, among which the main one seems to be that it's "fetishizing Japanese-ness", although he might have done it in a way different from mine.

There are multiple places where her dialogue is minimal because she doesn't speak Common, and would need expanding. I've not done it yet, instead focusing on translating the existing material. It was a Herculean task, taking dozens of hours, and I'm glad that it's now in the "done" list. I also understand why NoMoshing was reluctant to actually get to it; he had a way more realistic of the workload it would involve than I did. But on the other hand, if I didn't seriously underestimate it, I wouldn't have gotten to it either and it wouldn't be done now, so yays!

As a quick aside, the Wind Shrine can now be completed by having Chimei pray to the Spirits rather than by making donations. Or at least it should; please playtest this.

Third upgrade touches the wardrobe system. The changes I did in the files of previous versions broke it a bit, but now it should not only work, but also be expanded quite a bit. I've updated all player houses so that girls now have dedicated rooms, with dedicated wardrobes to change their clothes, which now all rely on an unified script rather than eventing. To test it out, I've added silly little maid costumes, so you can't have fun with your combat maids harem!

Some girls don't have wardrobes yet because they don't have rooms. I became aware of this lack of housing while upgrading the wardrobe system and didn't have time to remedy it, so you'll have to wait a bit to, say, have Jalila in a maid costume. But outside of that, the system should be quite future-proofed and it should now be trivial to add clothes to any girl.

(I've also added a crash mitigation measure: missing files now have Error-Chan as their default costume. So they should now result in weird visuals rather than crashes, at least most of the time.)

I wanted to make each girl's rooms more visually distinct so we'd know exactly where to go when wanting to change her clothes, but I was short on time. I did it for a few of them but there's still a lot to do for future updates.

What I did get in, however, is the headpats animations. For now they trigger when you cancel an interaction with a follower for whom such an animation exists. It won't stay like this forever, and girls will revert to their default clothes for the time of the animation, but still. It should also be decently futre-proof and make finishing this system in a coming update much easier.

Minor updates

The weapons upgrades system now allows you to update Elaiya's and Gargan's weapons up to their final forms. Elaiya uses the Antikhytera Mechanism from Rurapenthe Tower, and Gargan uses Carnival Soul from the beach clown ghost. (And they both use items from their respective Love Quests too.)

I've upgraded some facesets. There are minor changes to Alina and Kyrie, and a more major one for Gargan. I've previewed the new Gargan on Discord and reception has been positive.

After the completion of Hell to Pay, you can now get a small dialogue with Silvayuco. There was a plothole where the Demon of Tyranny and Control said this implies that Countess Silvayuco would be among the resurrected people. However, it's also been agreed upon that she wouldn't join as a follower in Harem Collector 1. What I did is add a small dialogue that confirms her resurrection but also provides an explanation as to why she doesn't join, while keeping the door open for content in future games.

There's new city content. I've filled out some empty apartments in townhouises and made two new buildings in Westcastle: a new townhouse and a Slaver's Guild building. The latter is there to allow players to get some exposition about the slavery lore that was previously only available outside of the game itself. (Also there's Natya's and Jonagold's families in the townhouses now; I might expand upon them later.)

I've added a debug mode, adding tools to make playtesting easier. Took some time to be made but it'll make things much faster in the future. It's still accessible in-game, but you'll have to wait for the wiki to come back to get a breakdown of what it does. (You're not supposed to use it anyway, I just don't care all that much if you do.)

Misc updates

There are new signs in various cities to help players better navigate visually. They're a bit of a mixed bag, but overall I think it's a nice addition.

The game should be somewhat more optimized. I spent some hours doing optimization drudge work but I still think the effect will be small.

There are new achievements. I think I finished the ones for affection and weapons upgrades, and I've taken a lot of notes for kill counts.

You can now close the hole in the wall of your Westcastle Manor by interacting with the clock that opens it. It's an unsightly hole and I've always want this option.

The carriage house in Northmarket is now functional; you can get a ride to any of the major cities for a fee, or for free if you invested. Useful if you don't have all the houses yet!

The bank has been improved somewhat. There's now an option to deposit or withdraw everything, and you'll be seeing your money in the corner more often.

We've also added a thousands separator to multiple places where big numbers.

You can now sell Tiamat Coins to the numismatist in Eastfort for a better price.

The Insanity Potion, which used to be located in a very secret and counter-intuitive location, can bnow be consistently found in Elvo's basement. (Make sure to save before using it!)

I've redid the Topaz Ark facility map (the one on the floor). It's enough of a labyrinthine mess already with a proper map, no need for an inaccurate one.

Cerulean and Wiki-tan now get tempted by hallucinations in Coastburg too.

In Hall Monitor From Hell, Hero now asks all students if they're from Antimbits' class, not just those who are.

Player Comments of Harem Collector:

Loved this game as it released over the years, and now I'm glad to see fans picking it up to maybe continue development on the same path that the original dev had it on. We may not get the same feverish pace of development that the early versions had, but I'm glad to see development at all! For anyone who is new to this game, it is a mashup of in-depth turn based RPG mechanics and harem porn visual novel. You can go from expansive quests with seriously difficult fights, to walking around your mansion fucking everything with a pulse with art to go along with it as you please. Along with that there is base-building for your several mansions and houses you unlock with furniture to go with it that changes how ALL of your girls feel about where they live. I can't recommend it enough, with a caveat or two. If you don't care about the gameplay and just want the porn, make sure you use the wiki for quests and set the difficulty to easy. There is a mix of 2D art and 3DCG, with 2D art slowly replacing 3DCG over the years. There is no source for the old 3DCG scenes if that is what you prefer, other than going and downloading older archived versions before the 3DCG started getting phased out. There are also mods for the game, but I believe the forum for them is defunct and the only place to get them now is from the game's discord.

I will be watching this with interest.Years ago this was the first truly great game that gave me days after day of content. It managed to hide the portions that weren't done behind a fairly large world. (how many RPGM games have multiple complete cities which you travel to over and over again over the course of the campaign? Probably at least 7, but my point is that many don't.)

I loved this game, thanks to God is back with more Hookers! In the past in old days there was so much to do with less than 200mb now that games don't last even 30 minutes with that space. This game is a reminder of the golden age where games are long and great with minimal space.

Conclusion:

Play centers on turn-based RPG combat mixed with story-driven encounters as the protagonist pursues his goals. Between battles, the game focuses on character interactions and quests tied to individual women, each with their own scenes and small story arcs. Progress is paced through completing quests and unlocking new content tied to specific characters.