Secret Hot Springs Girl

Editorial Has potential

Secret Hot Springs Girl is a completed visual novel with light puzzle mechanics centered on collecting coins to unlock intimate scenes. The core creative work—character writing, scene composition, and artwork—lands well for its audience, and players appreciate that developer Saikey delivered a non-NTR title. However, the game is hamstrung by poor UX design: the coin-hunt mechanic is tedious and opaque (clickable areas are smaller than expected, some coins require shop unlocks with no clear signposting), scene exits are unintuitive (right-click only, with unclear on-screen hints), and the save system causes genuine confusion for many players, with save files storing in unexpected directories and user-provided guides becoming necessary. The build is stable enough to play through, but these friction points and the grindy padding overshadow the solid character work underneath.