Ren'Py - Abandoned - A Robin's Flight [Chapter 2] [Aaron A. Aaronsen]

BLUF: Pretty interesting combat system that takes some getting used to coupled with a rather cool plot.

Mechanics: Personally, I think that the combat system could benefit from some simplification. But first, explanation.

You can build 3 "warbands" by placing units into slots. You have 3 slots (offense, defense, strategy) in which to place units which each have 3 armor types (heavy, medium, light), 3 damage types (anti-heavy, anti-medium, and anti-light). Each unit also has unique combo that depends on which slot you put the unit into. Combos are built during combat by selecting tactics which increase a counter and once you get enough points it activates the unit's combo.

All of this sounds pretty good and is a good basis. Unfortunately, I completely left out magic units which have their own internal combo/counter system (with Elements: Earth, water, air, fire which breaks the "rule of three" from earlier) which makes things very complicated and not the good kind since there are no tooltips so keeping track of all this is rather difficult and you are only limited to 3 warbands. Making this system even worse is that gaining new units is completely random, so if you haven't gotten any light armor units and the story missions have you going up against an opponent that shreds anything with heavy/medium, AND they have a counter to your magic units, your only hope is getting very lucky with your combat combos (which are also randomly generated so even if you are VERY careful with planning out so you pop all your combos in the same turn, you can still get completely screwed).

Recommendation: Less RNG, focus on the rock-paper-scissors of combat

Story and the real reason you are playing: Pretty good. Overarching story has got some mystery, good scenes following the corruption of the character you're playing. Not very far along and the second chapter is quite a bit shorter than the first.

Note: you can skip chapter 1 and still see all the scenes, although without a lot of the context as to what is happening, and the fights in chapter 2 are a fair bit easier

Do you like bondage? Reluctant/Corruption? In a high fantasy setting?

Great. Download this game. It's basically a visual novel built around the above premises, but with a (admittedly weird, but not as terrible as bemoaned by other reviewers) combat system to add some pacing. Super straight-forward.

The art and writing are excellent, and the story has three different paths which is a nice way to flesh out this world. The game is not too long as of Ch.2, but there's definitely enough content to give it a playthrough. And the grind is honestly far, far less than many other games out there.

Again, if this is your fetish, you'll be happy downloading this game!

Remove the terrible combat system, bring us straight to the content. In an adult game, gameplay should always be lead by adult content and not by poorly implemented gameplay mechanics.

Starting chapter 2 with a police woman CG is jarring for a game that's meant to take place in a fantasy world. It cements the lack of commitment to the worldbuilding and story happening in game.

1 star. Terrible.

Count me among the reviewers here who give the game credit for it's goals but unfortunately are less impressed by the actual results. I like some of the fets and while not the most noteworthy the renders aren't bad, it's just tough to get around the cumbersome at best combat system that just wasn't all that fun. Overall there's a 3 or 4 star game in this but it's buried under that. If it's your cup of tea the game is higher for you but if you're like me and came for the adult part of the adult game, the effort to get there didn't feel worth it.

chapter2... lots of bugs. it's still playable, but there are many missing files. for example spearmen art, helberdier art, upgraded firemage strategy spell missing text. etc. and in those you get error which you can ignore or rollback... very rarely rollback works, if you copy a png file with that error name you can make some things work... but it's messy. and all this in chapter1.


i think the gameplay is nice, but after you build your couple of buildings you have nothing to do, so it gets boring fast(but by that time it's end of content anyway) but imo the problem is not even with the gameplay despite all these issues.

gameplay is still imo 4/5 or 5/5. lots of units and their upgrades and strategies.

but the sex scenes are boring. so far you rarely get any scenes by the known characters. and raping random unknown enemies doesn't cut it for me. there is a route with the main protagonist but it's not finished... in fact it barely started. that is the only sex scene which was interesting. (and maybe 1-2 here-and-there)

so with H-scenes being boring due to unknown characters, and the many bugs, the great gameplay can't compensate for it since this is a porn game forum that's why it's a 3/5 imo.

Patch: Chapter 2.
Battle system: 4/5. Pretty easy if you read the tutorial (+2) and utilize the scroll-back function (+3) but repetitive (-1) and gets annoying very fast (-3).
Base/resource management: 3/5. Some buildings are broken (-3), some aren't (+1). The two out of three resources are directly tied to the battles (+1), but the remaining one is crucial for the story and hard to obtain (-1).
Story: 1/5. A story of the offended, miserable, submissive whore who somehow out-of-the-blue becomes a slaver (-3). On top of that, zero character development (-2). A good side, she can at least select an advisor who influences her sex experience (+1).
Graphics and scenes: 4/5. Scenes are done pretty nicely with standard models (+1). They are somewhat repetitive (-1), and some lack proper lighting (-1).
General gameplay: 3/5. Grind (-2) resources by engaging into battles to see a scene.

An interesting premise with a lot of potential but kind of a strange game. It's a management/strategy game with very few story choices.

There's no choice about how new slaves are trained or by whom. With the two slaves I caught, the MC wasn't even involved with their training.

The resource management is broken I think. I spent several days skipping to build up mushrooms (which are needed for training new slaves), because I couldn't trade anything for mushrooms and building more mushroom farms (as well as blacksmith/medical and anything else past 1) just seemed to eat resources and not increase the level.

It seems like MC just has a secret sub fetish or no content? It doesn't seem like there's a choice about how she develops.

The combat is fairly complicated and difficult to understand from the UI. I got enough mercs to make 3 teams, each with a different type of defense and a couple random people that had different colored icons. That seemed to work ok. I guess. I saw I could upgrade them but no idea what those upgrades did other than change the class name and presumably make them better. As for combat, I just picked the rows with the most bubbles. I'm not sure it's worth trying to coordinate a combo, although I did it a couple times and it seemed powerful.

Instead of entertaining it's incredibly annoying. All these postivie reviews hating on the battle system, why? Totally skip this game unless the combat system gets a heavy rework and finalization (including instructions, UI, and actual combat). It's ambitious, I'll give it two stars for that, but the overall H aspects of the game are wasted because of this.

might have been good without the messed up battle system.... It need to be scrapped and rework better explanation of each unit pros and cons should be displayed in the group assembly screen and to give a n average how the team will fair in battle full stats as it is lacks in so many ways and its boring as a result and even if the rest of the game is good won't be possibly to see it .....

A Robin's Flight is absolutely a Mind Control gaming must for closeted subs and MC fanatics. Not only is there capture and magical mind control, but the main protagonist is a perfect insert for your subby self. The art is good enough not to detract too much, which is hard for some of these rendered games (unnatural positions). The writing is what absolutely hits the right spots. This creator knows this genre and is delivering. The game play is not so hard that it gets in the way of enjoyment, and there is a reminisce mode (thank goodness!). All in all, if MC is your cup of tea, and especially for fem subs... Uhm, yes. I rate this 1 soggy computer chair. Maybe get a towel.

I downloaded the game today and put about 4-5 hours into it. I am impressed; for an early version there is a lot here to like and play.
IF you read the tutorials inside the dialogs with each of the NPCs you will be able to follow the skills and combat mechanics -- don't skip them!
This is a raiding/management game that rewards you with BDSM scenes from time to time - the context and setting really works for me.
So much potential - if the dev had a Patreon or similar I would consider supporting them....

Very competent 3DCG.
Interesting story, told with bare minimum of dialogues.
Nice set of slavery-related fetishes.
Unique, if unfinished, combat system.

Only real problem is that development speed is insanely slow - Chapter 2 was in development for a whole year!

I find the game really good, the graphics are nice, there are no endless dialogues like in other games of the same type. The interface of the companions is a bit confusing at the beginning but not complicated, you get used to it quickly!
A game focused at 90% of BDSM, that's something I'm very happy about ! The sex scenes are great and very diversified. I hope to see a lot more with more bondage, petplay and all the other wonders of the BDSM world!

On the negative side, the combat and team management interface is unreadable and not very understandable. It is by doing a lot of random configuration that I progressed in the story. The game is quite repetitive and it's a pity that we can't train our own slaves. Mini-games or interactions with cinematic with gauges to reach (bondage, discipline, obedience) to sell them more expensive could be an interesting addition. And impossible for me (but like many others) to advance in the capture of the air mage, the fight is impossible to win.

A game that promises a lot, very eager to see more. Is there a Patreon?

Thank you very much for this quality work!

I searched for the BDSM tag and found this game. Then I saw the Renders with chained Girls and the tags with all my fetishes and thought WOW, awesome, this could be easily the best game of the year for me.

But when you start playing , it begins with the most annoying fighting system EVER and you have a new fight evey day during the game.

9 white squares filled with colored triangles and then you have to choose 1, 2 or 3 with no clue wat this means. Fighting System is trash, at total mess. It must be avoidable or a skip button, there is nothing to optimize. I think without this stupid grind and fighting system this could be a 5 star game, but this fighting system compared with grind is a No-go.

To make it more grindy you have to buy and train your i dont know maybe 15 different sorts of Mercs and to make it more difficult in 3 or 4 different Stats what all makes No sense, only to make the game a boring grindfest.
Yes you have slaves and train slaves would be much more fun and sex, but who want fun and sex in a sexgame? I hope for future updates.

And to make it more grindy complicated you have to buy Buildings and upgrade the Buildings several times! And all this with no Questlog, no hints and no propper guiding system or fighting tutorial.

So overall an grindy to complicated Merc Trainer and Manager. I didnt find any sex, but i didnt played very longer than 2,5 hours because the fights annoyed me to much.

Normally I wouldn't review a game so soon after release, but this release is so full-featured that I'm confident that the game is out of alpha and is just being polished and extended.

The basic story is that the MC is an exiled noble trying to make a comeback by starting in a fairly isolated district with a few advisors and fellow-exiles and building up from there, via raiding for resources, building up the base, and eventually taking over the neighboring province.

The majority of the play time is taken up by the base building, troop recruitment and assignment to teams, and selecting and attacking targeted enemy forces.

Much of this is almost totally opaque to the new player. What does upgrading building X do? Dunno. Is it better to hire a strong wizard or a clever barbarian? Dunno. What is a hunter, anyway? Dunno. Who should you assign to a team that's going to take on a magic user? Dunno.

Combats are similar, but worse. It involves a 3x3 grid filled with unknown symbols, and you are supposed to pick a number between 1 and 3 that presumably decides the row on which the combat results are calculated. Or maybe the column. It doesn't matter, since you don't know what the symbols mean, anyway. Combat takes place round-by-round for maybe 10 or 15 rounds, depending on how much damage is being inflicted.

So, that part of the game isn't much fun, since any interesting decisions cannot be discerned from the noise.

There is a side game, involving the corruption of the protagonist, who has a slavegirl fetish in a camp full of slavers and slave girls. This part is very well-done. As-good-as-I-have-ever-seen-it-done well-done, in fact. The MC is hot, the scenes are red-hot, and you get to go back and see them as "memories" when you've completed this first chapter of the game. I played the game as long as I did just to catch all of these scenes. The implied unreliability of some of the MC's closest advisors just added spice to the story and makes the player want to find out more.

The game is well-planned and well-executed. Dialogue and story are smooth, believable, and natural-sounding. And, rarity of rarities, written by someone who actually know how to write, spell, punctuate, et al. The NPCs could be a little better-fleshed-out, but they serve their purpose well.

This would be a five-star game easily of the combat and troop system was not so confusing and hard to figure out, and if there was less grinding for resources and story progress. So it is tweaks away from being one of the very best games here.

Art/Writing are my Jam. Looking forward to more scenes featuring the MC.
Game a bit buggy, can just power through any bugs. Had to cheat to reach all the content but whatever most games I do that anyway.

Very promising, nice scenes right up my fetish, nice art, interesting story. Some gameplay in form of hiring mercs and raiding/collecting ressources, which needs some polishing for sure, but still reccomendable.

it is absolutely unclear how to play. Slurred interface, Average graphics. A bunch of undisclosed buttons, incomprehensible upgrades for some unknown reason. Incomprehensible mercenaries it is unclear why with incomprehensible characteristics