There is Wiki for this game, it explains what events lead to next level.
That very much spoils the game, but if that is what you want you can find link to the wiki near top of this page, along with links to Discord, Twitter and Patreon.
Top right corner of your screenshot shows you are playing a beta version. Beta versions are buggy, do not work properly.
Where did you even get one of those beta versions?
You should use a released version, those are at least supposed to work. Find the latest released version a bit up on this page, under the heading “Download”.
You may need to start game from the beginning, I remember there was talk the saves made with beta version do not work on the released version of game (since the beta versions are buggy …).
Do not download anything from third party copycat sites, those may contain malware. Also, do not pay for downloads from those pirate sites, since downloading this game from the official site is no charge (although you can pay the amount you want if supporting game developers is your thing).
What exactly is that error? Copy the error text and describe in what situation it appears. Also tell what version you are playing and where you got the installation file from.
Probably there is something else you have not done that is a requirement for progressing beyond level 16. Game tends to give advice or hints when this is the case, you need to pay attention to these.
There is a walkthrough, can be found with clever use of Internet Search Engines. But using it too much spoils the game quite a lot.
That is not an error message. It just informs game is reading aloud text on screen. Sound may be muted, so it is useful to know this voice thing is on.
Are you saying it does not turn off when you press v-key again?
The other pop-up is an error, although I do not understand spanish. Does sound work on that computer?
If you download a new copy of the game it may use the same persistent data, so same fault keeps appearing.
The Ren’Py engine stores save games and persistent data under a separate folder. It’s exact location depends on the host operating system.
Windows:
%APPDATA%/RenPy/game_directory
This is usually:
C:\Documents and Settings\YOURNAME\ApplicationData\RenPy\game_directory
Where YOURNAME is your username.
My guess is some file in that directory stores the state of having pressed v or some other key you pressed that caused this fault state. Maybe if you keep the save files removing all the rest, and then install new copy and restore the save files?
Is the text machine translated to English from some other language? I find the text quite hard to understand.
I’m just guessing you downloaded the new version of game and want to know how to continue from the save made in previous version? If so, you should say what platform you are using and what is the old version and new. I play on Linux, and unpacked the new version to new folder, then copied save files from game/saves from old directory to new to the same place.
Dates on the files on Harem Hotel v0.18.1 Patch Notes are old, from 2018 and 2021.
There is Patch 0.17+ -> 0.18.1 (Requires 0.17+), that seems to apply to patching 0.18 to 0.18.1, but the patch note says nothing about how to apply the patch. I play on Linux, is the patch only for Windows?
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OK, I downloaded the patch file and in the zip there is file READ_ME.txt that tells how to install the patch. I think that works also on Linux.
Game is completely free. You can read the game description above on this page, developer writes game is free. Developer accepts payments to fund the developmentm, though.
is it just a demo?
Game is not complete yet, but it has content for 100 hours of play time. You might consider current game is a demo. It probably takes years before game is complete.
The extracted script file “Wicked Maidens Linux.sh” needs setting it executable.
chmod u+x “Wicked Maidens Linux.sh”
With that starts OK. But it might be good if the file name had no space characters, so WickedMaidensLinux.sh or Wicked_Maidens_Linux.sh.
Is there intro or something when starting new game? It seems to autoplay and texts go so fast I do not have time to read them. Setting Auto Speed to larger value does not help.
I quit that game and started new game again. This time it seems better. Seems the Auto Speed did not take effect until I started again or maybe not. And now game goes to next scene only after I click, this is much better.
I spotted typos, “i can finally check” should be uppercase I.
The .sh file is OK, it just sets some environtment variables, sets executable bit to the game file and starts the game file, so it is very small. This seems to be 64-bit version, so it does not work on 32-bit Linux, but I guess not many of those around anymore.
Is there a hotkey that starts autoplay? I got it going again, but do not know how.
I played around for half an hour, game seems OK on Ubuntu Linux 24.04 except those little issues I mentioned above.
