discussion How big of a harem is too big?

[absoluteTreebrush]

That gets to be the issue, though: if you fully flesh out dozens or more LIs, the bar for "fully fleshed out" inevitably starts to drop. Dev time/player attention are often finite resources, so finding the right number to spread that attention around to is the difficult part. Sure, its not fun when a core set get all the attention and the outer harem, for lack of a better term, only gets cursory details. But the alternative of giving every girl a character arc ends up taking a substantial amount of time to do right.

 

[hmm_85]

I think 5-7 is around my limit.

Games that go overboard with the harem (10+) become boring due to lack of character development, lack of focus on specific characters I like, or just fizzle out as there's just too much to do.

I agree, any more than about 5 seems excessive to me.