RPGM - A Struggle with Sin [v0.5.9.1] [Chyos]

Janky ass unproportional models, porn level plot, grindy and netorare(bad ntr) elements that I hate.

Wait, so why 5 stars?

The gameplay is fun enough with clear goals, stop the netorare.
Think of it like pokemon with a triggered timer, miss it and your pikachu gets fucked by Gary.

The animation and models eventually grew on me, just like Stockholm syndrome, stay with it long enough and you'll grow to like it.

Cheats are recommended, because it can be a grind even if you have resources and it still takes chunks of time. I'll just spawn in some and give myself levels if I find the mobs too hard.
Being able to bang various women of interesting personalities is pretty nice, some are fleshed out more than others tho.

Decent replay value too, since the game is pretty extensive.
Overall, definitely worth a shot, or many.

The game could have more stars. It has tons of material.
Sadly it is hard to manage all the different paths in it. Even with Walkthrough I find the different options hard to handle.
The game need in the game a better quest/path handling for the different girls.
What I do not like at all are the mini games.
There are not many enemy variations, same with weapons and armor.
Without cheat (Energy and Healing potions) I would have played the game not very long.

From a game and content standpoint, this is loaded and has a lot of things to work on. It's also re-playable, which is rare in a ton of games these days. The generated cgi is pretty good and fits nicely with the story too. Comparable to Claire's quest but imo well outshines that, in terms of sheer playable and image content (as I guess the cgi is easier to generate for this, vs that game's art style probably)

Love the quests and the story. Hard to find a game like this with good quest line and gameplay. The animations are good and the main character isn't a pussy. I will like more games to be like this one.

A Struggle With Sin

Pros:

- Fantastic sex scenes.
- Great and thorough walkthrough both in game and out.
- Great blending of sex and combat/questing.
- Women are differentiated well; Black, White, Green (hehe), busty, petite...
- Easy to follow plot and narrative.
- Appeals to a wide array and kinks from NTR to Non-NTR fans.
- The developer is actually active and has a good work ethic.
- The game is doing successfully on Patreon so no chance of it being abandoned anytime soon.

Cons:

- Generic Fantasy setting may not appeal to those burnt out on said setting.
- Main Character responses are a but douchebag-like in certain scenario's.
- Development cycle is based on Patron choice so some plotlines go unfinished for months until voted on.
- Some plotlines get revisited and changed so if you completed them beforehand you may miss out on potential content unless you start over.

Review for v0.5.1.0

The game is literally top tier of RPGM: unique mature sprite, actually have good and bad path unlike 1D white knight like most RPGM, no redundant UI system.

The game has a story setting, but it is mostly sandbox at the time of this review. Meaning that you can complete multiple characters quest without missing any content. The characters and world change as consequence of your action.

If you do not like NTR aspect, be a white knight like you think you are and if you want to see the world burn, gives a little nudge to let dominos fall into place.

There is questlog help you remember what you did or where you are in story aspect. The UI super basic that does not give you hard time and it really plays into the strength of RPGM.

I have play both deprave and hero aspect of the game and I must say it is almost bug free.

The only 1 problem with the game at the moment is that if you have not decided whether you like NTR between Thomas and Kate (dealing with Thomas at the bar), the game will lock your progress with Ophilia during the part where Ophilia stays at the inn. You cannot get your room unless you decide whether you want NTR or not with Kate at the bar.

I must clarify that this is not a bug; it is just me being indecisive about it. Since if I decline the offer there is not much bad things can happen to Kate and the game become too plain for my taste. If I accept the offer, I have to constantly taking care of Kate which become too much of a chore.

Tsk Tsk... What to choose... Oh yea, Kate is also the only character in the game atm who has pregnancy content which make this option even more heavy to decide.

Beside that everything else are independent as I said previously it is mostly sandbox.

this is my personal perspective to this game

A Struggle With Sins
a game that have a golden chance to become a very big, interesting, rpg type game.


when first playing this game i am playing it non stop for a day, with NTR On and cheat off. ( yeah this two things can be enable and disable to your preference) to exploring the world and making a closer relationship to know better the story in this game. many wrong choices and stuck in a route that i kinda dislike. but this is just a preview for just knowing better the game.

The NTR in this game for me is just like a "test". Like "i wonder what the outcome if i do this" me myself is not a guy that really like NTR. if i can take care all of them why not. but being a jerk sometime is "interesting"

next day i re playing it from beginning to make my choices more the way i like about it. after sometime playing it. the result rating this game is out. for now...

ASWS Ver 5.0.5

Gameplay (pretty solid) 6/10 Higher is better
NTR stuff (optional) 5/10 Higher is better
Grinding (sorry mate the grinding is hard af) 2/10 Higher is better
CG (Pretty "hot") 7/10 Higher is better
Character (some good but some is like HOLY FU- THAT UNNATURAL) 7/10 Higher is better
Bug (just minor sound bug *moaning bug*) 3/10 Lower is better
Story (I leik it) 9/10 Higher is better

Recomended ? yeah sure. give it a try.

this is personal review. no hard feeling.

It's fappable. The women are hot despite the chunky models and there's some damn nice context here and there.
Can't give it more than 3 stars. The writing is stiff, with little personality. Suffers the common problem of too much spread out content leading to unsatisfying individual characters.

Then there's the important warning:
The grind is real. It's not fucking worth it. Cheat as you wish, but always beware RPGM's clunkiness. There is no worthwhile gameplay here outside your choices and they take long enough to make without the added grind.

this game is a one of a kind. The story is well done ( I think by far this is one of the best ), the characters is great. Its really grindy but I enjoyed it as long as it lasts. The thing thats is lacking is the optimization. I hope the devs could do something about it ( I know its hard to optimized RPGM'S games ).

The best RPGM project I've ever seen. I've never seen such interactivity in games.
Game Benefits:

1. As I said, this is interactivity. You can go hunting, you can chop wood, you can kill robbers, ogres or anyone else, you can cook, build a house and so on (the list is long) And it will really pay off, for every action you take there is a quest in the game.
2. Ladies. There are sooo many of them. You can have relationships with the whole family (if you make the right choices)The list is huge Milfs, Gilfs, Nuns, half-orcs and so on.
3. Someone may not like the way the game is drawn, but I like it.
4. A fascinating plot,you start the game as a lazy guy, because of which his father dies during his Alcohol intoxication and other circumstances. After you are kicked out of the house and you have to get out of this situation, become stronger and help people.
5. The game is huge (Although it's not even finished yet)
   If you do not use cheats, I think you will play it 100+ hours
   But I will not say that there is a lot of grind, in any case, you can always use cheats.
6. A lot of skills available for pumping, which really affect your actions, hunting, lockpicking, combat, etc.
   Game disadvantages
   Problem optimization
   I don't think you want to lose all your saves. If suddenly your computer shuts down, your main save will simply be deleted, as it happened to me, so save every time, in 2 different places. I think this is an engine problem, although I have not seen this in other projects.

Lots of planning went into this game. I'm still enjoying it. Can be replayed from various save points. Really good guide included. I have no more characters to add, so I'll continue a run sentence until it lets me complete my review about a game I liked.

The game lets you cheat your way into not grinding so much and there's even a walkthrough to get you through the story.
The scenes, context and style are quite hot most of the time.
Not 100% a polished experience but still decent for story, roleplay and fapps.

Game version: A Struggle with Sin [v0.4.9.9b]
Likes: Path choices for MC, The MILF Rends, OP in/out for futa NTR

Dislikes: Game is not finished......................

So much promise i Enjoyed A Struggle with Sin its been a a rough search for games that have a good story, lots of content, Exciting Quest, and a solid base for MC.

this game inspired me to figure out how to get a fan sign.

story looks solid
i didnt like the pass of time hunting mechanics and models
after little time it becomes boring to get up and do same thing without good purpose
while hunting pray often goes behind trees and we cant see it
MC really struggle at the beginning and there is little to no indications what we should be doing except for hunting and looking place to sleep
the amount of details is overwhelming

Story :
Concept : 6
Development : 8.5
Characters : 9

Art : 7/10

Gameplay: 7.5/10

This is typically the type of a game that I'm afraid to miss, like when we watch the pictures and read the description of it, seems like another medieval / fantasy rpgm but absolutely not.

I played it for the NTR routes, and for a game where they are optional and not the main focus of the game, they are really good.
The most basic one must be the route with Kate, and it's actually pretty good, with various content between Thomas, Toren, etc I just regret that the pregnancy system ain't much developed yet, and the NTR route that goes with it, I was taking contraceptive and didn't had sex with her for a while, and yet when she was pregnant the MC just be like the contraceptive must not be efficient.

I'm impatient to follow Tia / Rumah Village in the next updates, once more developed it's ganna be my fave route I think, I mean it's pretty well developed in term of story, but not in term of H especially NTR, there is great potential, like sending more and more girls to the orc camp or even another Dasan route where he would keep the girls for himself instead of sharing with the whole village.
I also played other routes with NTR content that ain't as much developed like Mira, Natasha, Emily, Lyvia, but there is not much to say for now...

There is a lot of characters with their story and development for each one, and sometimes to meet / talk to one, you have to advance with another one so really great experience.


I don't know if it's because of my choices or something else, but I find that it lacks a bit of some fights, like yes the village has some guards but would be cool some events like orc raids where u have to defend, cause except when you go outside to train, or some "boss" fights during the story we don't have that much fights, and don't feel too much this civil war atmosphere in my opinion.

The graphics are ok, I like as much 3D as 2D, it ain't the best 3D we've seen but it does the job.

In conclusion really great game, with even greater potential, ganna follow the next updates really closely.

I'll start this by stating that I do not like 3DCG and I won't praise it in this game either. I often find it ugly and off-putting. Truthfully, there are scenes in this game that are comically ugly. The one that stuck out to me the most was Emily's blowjob scene where it looks like she is having a war flashback once you shoot your candle wax in her mouth.

In spite of that however.. I do like the gameplay. This game is quite long despite not being finished. So what is the gameplay? Mostly, it's a d20 skill check system alongside standard RPGmaker combat and survival mechanics. Nothing new, but it actually goes pretty far with it.
At the beginning, you are at the bottom of the barrel and it's a game of survival. You do not know anything but how to hunt (poorly). You can't cook for yourself and you can hardly even defend yourself. You will starve, you will be tired, and your lust will lock you from interactions if not kept in check. The best you can do is odd jobs everyday so you can eat a meal and sleep on the floor instead of starving outside in the hay. Maybe, MAYBE, you will get just a crumb of pussy some day, but other than that you're stuck jerking off or fucking a granny who drains your energy. Hardly anybody likes you nor cares about you.
However, you eventually become better at hunting, defending yourself, securing a place to sleep, getting a source of income, getting food, and getting seggs. You build yourself up until things such as lust, food, wealth, and shelter become non-issues.
You only go further up from there. Soon, you can sleep pretty much anywhere as you get access to pretty much all the women's beds. You'll forget the lust bar even existed. You'll have so much money you'll laugh when people are shocked at the mere mention of 20 gold. You become multi-faceted, as you learn how to be a thief, hunter, blacksmith, herbalist, carpenter, cook, spell caster, tribe leader, and mercenary leader. You start bumping shoulders with and fucking not just nobles, but gods and demons. You become a self-made man and it feels like you earned it since you started with nothing but a bow, a dull knife, and the clothes on your back.

That's why I give it 5 stars, and somehow, it kept its steam despite being so long. I'd like to see more.

Very good story line!
At last a game with plot and interesting characters. Your choices are affecting them and your main character has options. You can play 100 hours in different paths and the result of your decisions are forging your MC personality!

The game is so god damn big and long and full of options that its impossible to fullfill even half of its content potential without a walkthrough, and still not the walkthrough nor the quest guide will help you achieving it fully. There are scenes that you have to explore yourself. I wanted to start saying that.

Also the game is a game, so its kind of hard to play cause it will demand some amount of braincells from you.
If you are into the NTR there are a lot of situations where you are "punished" for failing, and for you as player its definintely an advatage. If you don't want the punishments you should work a lot harder to fulfill requests or to win those battles and avoid punishemnts. If you are one of those you will definitely need braincells and isolate yourself from the porn vibe.
There is a cheatbook that can lift a lot of weight off from your player shoulders, otherwise you will have to probably grind levels and even play smart, like any challenging game out there, as I said, braincells needed in that case.

Graphics are weird, kind of like "The sims" but they work pretty well. Decent deformations, and when there are situations where they are not decent, flaws are hidden with camera work to keep importat parts well shaped. If you pay atentipn you will notice.
Also there is kind of soft body physics (not jiggle) which adds something visually and that together with very good animations, even if the characters look weird, the sex scenes become the strongest feature that will carry the game.

The not so good points in my opinion:
There are some inconsistency issues for instance you can have sex with Raaisha at the fireplace before you officially have sex with her taking her virginity.
The virginity is another issue cause if there is a NTR scene where someone virginity is taken, that scene will not have any extra work to reflect it, or buildup, besides some text line. For instance Kate or Arianna, Frisha, and I think Raaisha if she is sent to the orcs, maybe there are more. So there is that extra kink factor missing.
So I feel that these NTR scenes are built as a punishment for vanilla players instead of a reward for ntr lovers. If it was a reward the scene would have the same amount of "narrative detail". Cause of that, many of those sscenes are not entirely satisfying if you were hoping for them.

Also as a bad note there is not much group sex, and there is a lot of one on one, even in scenes where there are more than 2 people involved. Not much orgy or debauchery going on, or its hard to achieve. I found that the highest detail or work in sex scenes is concentrated in one on one scenarios, while the group sex is much more similar to what other games do. There are still hot, for instance Kate Arianna 3some.

Anyway, lets summarize the good:
- Impossible to achieve everything in 1 playthrough.
-30+ hours of gameplay.
- Very good sex scenes with animations and body physiscs.
- It has cheatbook.
- The game doesnt block your second screen if you want to have a WT in it.

And the not so good:
- Group sex could be more kinky
- Not the same scene detail for deflowering in ntr.
- Characters look like the sims, it may misguide your opinion at first sight regarding its real quality.
- Many many girls look thick and busty.
- Without cheat is very demanding for a vanilla player.
- So many paths that inconsistencies are meant to happen.
- Mira is plot isolated and so far pretty much stuck with vanilla.

With the flaws described, and probaly others I havent seen yet, still totally recommended.

That's what you call an actual game. A lot of effort invested in this project. Great visual style, gameplay, stories. It is like Peasant's Quest, but has much more stuff in it.
This project causes some nostalgia for those games in 2000ies. To get some scenes you have to play, not just click your way through walls of text like in VNs, which certainly can't be called "a game". I wish developers luck with this game, because it's a rare type of project.

At first you might be discouraged by the renders, but you get used to them and boy is it worth it.

Almost every scene is animated. You also have a lot of sprites having sex, even when you are just walking around, this can be happening. It is amazing how much that does for the world to feel living.

As for the living world, npcs have schedules. You can pass time and they will more around their jobs, going to sleep, having sex... it is amazing and nothing comes close (mainly since the sprites are painted and not just pixels like most rpgmaker games).

The game at this point has SO MUCH content. You will spend hours upon hours and have fun doing so. The quests are interesting for the most part. I am interested in the mysteries. The world is nice. It has a bit of this grimdark feel to it, reminding me of some older fantasy games. Especially paired with the graphics (which remind me of divine divinity for example, the setting as well).

Overall a great experience. Only downside is that there are a lot of scenes and there are a lot of routes. Usually 2 routes between vanilla and sharing. I dont think any npc has to be shared, so if you have problem with that, you can avoid that (afaik). This will lead you to use walkthrough, which can be a bit annoying. You have a nice questlog, but you usually cannot read into these splits. Though using your brain a bit usually makes it pretty obvious which one is sharing and which one is not.

After years on this site, I think this might be the best game I encountered. So much content and completely unique in its design. Not just some shiny renders put into a mediocre story in a VN. This is a true game, blending both interesting gameplay and the porn aspect. This comes from a guy who cant usually give 2 shits about the non porn aspect of games.

I am really looking forward to what this game will become when even more stuff is added. Even as it is, you are looking at about 20 hours of content at least. My last save has 21 hours and thats with me not having completed a bunch of storylines yet.