
A unique dating sim adventure that gives you total freedom to romance five handsome guys in an open-world metropolis.
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SALTY HOUNDS is an open-world dating sim in which you will create your own love story.
(*Please find the streaming guide at the bottom)

The love interests have their own daily schedules, preferences and secrets that wait to be unraveled.


After your father's accident, you take charge of Salty Hounds, a small bodyguard agency. Meet your love interests and win their hearts through many daily encounters, special events and romantic dates. Enjoy a romantic life in a living and breathing open-world city featuring a fully realized night / day cycle.
Find the love interests, talk to them, learn about them and build up your relationship over time. As you make friends with them and gain their trust, you will unlock new events and romantic dialogues.

An immersive world and smoothly animated characters in high-quality pixel art
Many beautiful hand-painted illustrations and character artworks
Many voiced contents (more will be added), recorded by famous Korean VAs
Dynamic dialogues with the NPCs that change with your affection level and other stats
Enjoy random encounters throughout the city and activities to raise your skills
Fall in love with five unique characters, each with their own charm!

An aloof loner that borders on unsociable, but an excellent bodyguard in the field. Despite being a childhood friend of yours, he doesn't seem comfortable with you around.

The young but capable head of the rival company, 'Haeryang Securities'. Both gentle and ruthless at will, he is a foe to be reckoned with.
"What? Triple overtime pay? Be there in a second!" A playful and suave bodyguard with soft but powerful leadership. You've come to accept his free spirit, but with that he'd at least wear a tie to work.
"Now is the time to exercise your right to remain silent."A capable crime investigator, set out to create a world without injustice. He used to give you private lessons, but that was a long time ago.
"Really? You don't deduct hot water from my paycheck?"A gullible bodyguard working for a shady security agency, getting ripped off on a daily basis. Maybe you should help him out?
To prevent story spoilers, we'd like to ask you to limit streams to content up to Affection LV 1 ~ 2 for each character!
Kindly include 'Early Access' in your title and a link to our Steam page.
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Languages: English, Korean*, Simplified Chinese*languages with full audio support
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Game incomplete and abandoned. No update in almost a year and no communication.
If I am not mistaken this is the first time, I am writing a review for a game I have. I am disappointed with this game… I love the concept of the game, don’t get me wrong. I was excited when I bought it since I had been eyeing it for a while. However, the game is lacking in content, I have had the game for about 2 days, and I feel like I have gotten almost everything… I know what you are thinking, the game is in early access so its not complete, but I have two other early access games that I have played for muuuch longer that even in early access they had a lot of content. The game mechanics are not too easy to understand, and they take some time, but after getting it was fun… fun until it got incredibly repetitive without having enough romance content. The game is a dating game, it NEEDS more, and I mean loads of more romance. For ALL romanceable characters, Seha got “more” content about a month ago, but that’s it… My favorite characters are Yujin and Nora, the lack of content for them makes me very upset at the game. Nora has a level cap, meaning that you can’t even date him and in Yujin’s case, you can date him but the date lacks fluffiness and CGs. I can’t recommend the game in the state it is currently in. I asked for a refund of the game, but it was denied since I had played more than two hours (five to be exact). I sincerely hope what I have mentioned in this comment will help the game developers in understanding what the game lacks. The voice acting and characters are quite attractive, so they have succeeded in that. Also, a game in which you are the boss of a bodyguard business, where you date bodyguards – that sounds awesome and it can be if the game improves and soon, since the game has been out for a bit of time already. Finally, if you are an otome lover looking for a game, this is not it YET… save it in your wishlist and wait until the game truly adds enough content.
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Give me sexy men but no sexy scenes Give me sexy scenes then I'll give this game my like, make my 20 bucks worth
Run. The update is so slow , not worth paying for it at the moment
制作组坚持更新,这一点要夸夸,只是时间线拉得真的蛮长的,很多人的印象还停留在“诈骗乙游”的阶段,在社媒上搜索攻略也很难找到近期的游戏体验反馈,有些可惜。 从玩法来说,并没有过多丰富,还是周六周日去地图攒属性、买东西送礼物、找人对话触发事件。在设计这么多地图和建筑的前提下,可以有更有趣的玩法,以及希望可以有更多的触发事件。毕竟游戏文本量在乙游中完全不算大。目前体验下来,seha世赫这个角色给我感觉最和谐,幽默风趣,和主控属于对抗路情侣,但也能够感受到他的关怀以及恋爱感。但明显对于诺如的塑造是不够的,甚至让我觉得他很讨厌。。。。这个人设有点过于先抑后扬了。希望可以多多更新内容吧,挤牙膏一样真说不过去。 另外很想吐槽的就是引导:除了酒保小哥那里,引导几乎不存在的,约会事项也完全可以提示在备忘录日程表里,一些角色的后续开展也完全没有提示,只在主线事件比如保护艺人那里有点像正经游戏给任务引导的样子,制作组应该优化一下。
i want full version
上次打开游戏还是23年看到大更新了又重新体验了一下,目前来说整体还是不错的,不过属于是优缺点都很明显的游戏 优点:配音/画风/日常对话/剧情都算顶级很大一部分是因为这几个才坚持玩下去的,立绘真的帅我一大跳,表情差分挺多的,对话真的写得很可爱很好品很好磕,玩的途中疯狂给我朋友发截图嘴角上扬,世赫和泰旻两个人就让我觉得值回票价了 缺点:1.剧情引导太差 完全不懂怎样推进各男主剧情,理解需要玩家探索但是没有任何提示完全只能自己跑图寻找下一个剧情触发点,感觉可以适当在地图显示感叹号/在上段剧情最后有相应关键词提示 2.养成数值低导致过程过于冗长 新增的灵感系统会变成委托有点意思,但是增长的数值太慢了需要花费大量时间才能达到目标,感觉大部分玩家在这个过程中就会失去耐心了,本人算是特别喜欢养成游戏的人了但是也玩得有点力竭了 3.时间计算问题 偶尔太灵敏误触就会浪费十五分钟/进房子也需要十五分钟/不小心点到男主也要十五分钟,一不注意就浪费很多时间,建议改成确认事件之后再花费时间更好安排 4.BGM太少了 跑图只有一首bgm很容易腻如果增加几首就更好,不过这个涉及到预算问题可以忽略只是个人希望 总体就是这些,这个价格相对于现在还是未完成品来说性价比有点低介意的建议再观望一下,我个人来说很喜欢这个游戏也很期待发售的要不然我不会三年前就全价购入+玩这个半成品玩了28h了()希望制作组加快进度尽快端上成品吧相册里可以看到还有很多CG但是现在都触发不了了 [strike]虽然我真的很怀疑在2026年内能不能发售[/strike]
If you love otomes and want to see otomes branch out with more gameplay, more world exploration, etc., this one lets you explore a town and play the day to day in a way that's reminiscent of a very relaxed dating sim. For those who don't usually like dating sims as much: this isn't in the style of the heavily restrictive, older examples of the genre. While you do need to raise stats, how and when and how much you focus on romancing the love interests all has a strong 'explore as you wish' vibe, with a loose deadline hanging in the air that you'll easily be able to reach every few weeks as long as you're not completely, deliberately messing up. And this is a good thing, because the primary joy of this game is exploring each building, finding new events, talking to surprise NPCs that are clearly going to be important to the story later, etc. and even though it's in Early Access, so long as they keep making regular updates to this game, I highly recommend it. It's got some imperfect text mistakes at times, but nothing that impacts/prevents being able to understand what's going on, and again, as this is in early access, plenty of that can be cleaned up. This is the kind of game I've been longing for. I want to see more otome/romance-heavy games where you can walk your character around and explore things, make friends, etc. and while that's getting explored more in the farming sim arena, it's refreshing to see it explored outside of that. I hope all the characters with portraits end up being romanceable in the end, but we'll see, since several of them aren't listed as love interests...!
I love this game. This game has lovely graphics, nice illustrations, attractive characters, catchy background music, and intriguing stories. When I played this game, it made me feel like I'm playing a romance and simulation game in the RPG setting. That's something new and different from the classical romance visual games so far. That's what I love about this game. It's got lots of potentials. HOWEVER, the biggest downside is that this game is NOT FULLY DEVELOPED....!! This game has some early stage of stories, but it's not finished for a complete story development. Seems like a developer is starting to make a progress on developing stories lately (despite a very slow pace), which is a good news. Thus, I have a mixed feeling about recommending this game to others. I genuinely like this game, but the hard truth is that it's not done developed yet. It might be better to wait until this game finishes the story development later...
放心愿单好久就是想等完善一点了再玩,最近看好评很多刚好又打折终于买了。玩了几个小时很失望,首先立绘和配音都很好,但是这根本就是个半成品啊。。。先不说角色个人剧情缺失还未完善,能不能先调整一下这个操作方式,办公室里诺如值班时和电脑重叠想点击他都很艰难,还有经常用鼠标点击地面奔跑但是又会不知道点到什么弹出对话框,还有花店那里要出去的话也得点击到收银台店员退出去还会继续弹。约会的项目也很少,加的好感还不如买礼物聊天的,太像试玩版了让我不可置信的在地图转悠了好久试图挖掘其他的玩法,但是基本上都是“等待更新”一行字
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