Played the latest build and am, overall, pretty satisfied.
It was a very polished, content filled demo that definitely showed off just what sort of game you were making. Kinda sad that it only had one real heroine to screw/interact with, but, the teasers for the other girls were nice.
Visually, the world itself was bright and easy enough to navigate, though I did get a little tripped up when the camera angles changed. Nothing too major though.
The character models were very well made and didn't fall into that annoying trend of giving them needlessly huge tits for no reason... other than for titillation... yeah, sorry.
I liked how you could change the MC and girls' names too, though the inability to change relations is really a big minus there. Customization supremacy and all that. Also, I think it'd be better to let us name the MC right from the start during the 'intro' phase before we start playing than right after. Both for immersion and bc it'd just make the experience feel more personal overall, which is kinda the point in these games. Something I feel most sandbox games either do fairly well... or just plain suck at.
The overall game loop of farming/crafting items to gain money to do X/Y is pretty good and not too tedious. Now, I don't really mind grinding myself, but we have very lazy gamers nowadays so, yeah... balancing grinding can be tough.
I am curious if money and items are the only things we'll need to actively grind for. I didn't really see any stats other than sex stats for the heroines ... to which, I'm curious. Will those stats have any tangible effect on the heroines themselves? I mean, aside from breeding them. Like, will doing X more often with Y elicit a gradual attitude shift into liking it more? I like that kinda thing since I'm not a fan of not being able to do what I want with the heroines. I don't mind working for it, but I do want the option to do it with whoever in the way that I want.
Group scenes, toilet scenes, girl on girl, combinations thereof? Fan of all that. You have anal and as long as I get more anal options in the future with more partners, then I'm happy.
The only real minus so far of the whole, 'but we're friends so you can only use my booty' made me eyeroll a bit but, again, just let me change who she is to me and we're golden seeing as how obvious the writing implies things...
Speaking of customizations... Are only Maia, Chloe and Emilia's names/relations(as of v0.2) changeable? And can we maybe add a clothing/gift store in the future? I think dressing them up would be pretty cool, and a good reason to grind money. Same with maybe upgrading/expanding facilities on the island.
I can't wait to see the sim/management features expanded and how the other heroines and harem get introduced and integrated. I'm seeing some nice things in the update sneak peeks, so yay! Seriously, if each update ends up just as, or close to, as beefy as your v0.11 release, then it'll be worth waiting a bit between releases.
I've become a real fan of these management type harem games set in isolated settings. I dunno, I just like that deliberate 'detached from the rest of the world' vibe. It really does cater to my personal wish of a 'private paradise from the rest of the world', which is literally what you're shooting for here, a bit like Paradise Lust actually, but a bit more of what I was actually looking for in an experience even if there isn't nearly as much overall content yet.
Oh, will we be able to explore more of the island besides the resort grounds in the future? I think that'd be a cool way to maybe get more items/bond with the girls/just find and do more things like fishing, resource gathering for quests, and just new lewding opportunities.
Anyway, best of luck and I'm really eager to play the next update to see what you guys cooked up!