RPGM - Completed - Alissa and the Have-nots Cavern [v1.1] [Toritora]

Its weird to be dissapointed by a fairly good game.


But while playing the experience went like this:

Great game with fairly simple mechanics and fantastic visuals;
But it lacks polish, content and balance.

Good game with lots to find, explore, holding Z isn't optimal and balancing stats for magic/physical defense, wight and DMG type weapon.
But it starts being trivialised by simple stat and gear leveling system, collecting CGs is tedious, finishing the dungeon doesn't unlock gallery. Half of all CGs is loss to particular enemies, some customization options are weirdly incompatable.

Its okay. Its an okay game.
It ends up a bit lacking and grindy for CGs

A roguelite done in RPGM, but much like other games that make good use of RPGM, it gets rids of walking and quests: you just go into the dungeon, try to get as deep as possible, use your xp and gold to upgrade, and repeat.

The art is good; the character design is nice - it's always refreshing to see an MC without disgustingly oversized breasts and who isn't a loli.

There's plenty of outfits, although only a couple of them are on the lewd side; the rest are your standard fantasy armors.

The combat is pretty simple, so it's not time-consuming. Gear equipping could've been done better, but it's not that bad.
Since it's a roguelite, luck plays a big factor early on, and you aim to lower its importance through upgrades. That said, luck will always make a big difference.

The main downsides are that there isn't really frequent lewd content; it's rape on defeat, so you need to lose -and lose to the right enemy- to get new content. There is a skill you can buy to surrender and make this easier, but still.

It also lacks lewd combat mechanics, so the combat is just the dull standard attack, defend, repeat RPGM model, and the character has a single combat stance, which is understandable, given that there's probably around 100 different pieces of gear, and each would need separate sprites for every different combat stance.

Overall, a good game to complete once and forget. It features a good amount of anal content, although it also has some pregnancy/inflation scenes.

I kinda get why the rating are 3 stars average.

The gameplay is nice. You enterthe cave. Take down monsters. Get Loot. Kill more enemies. And so on, until you die, or retreat. You go into town use the money you got from selling equiment to upgrape what you will find inside. Additionally you spend experience point to gain skills. It is well thoung you can choose to upgrame armor to have a lot of physical defense. shield to have magical defense. And a lot of damege in a magical and physical weapon.

The reason for the average rating. Is That scenes are anly get throught loosing, and the ones that are not. Are gained to special coditions that feels kinda separated from gameplay. It feels like you play the game, and outside you play another game to gain the scenes. It feels weird. Not integrated correctly.

I think that instead of gaining the scenes from loosing. Moster could have had lewd attacks. That would make much better.

it's your generic turn based rpgm combat, with a rogue-like spin on it. Get as deep as you can, use your resources to get stronger after you die and try to get deeper.
There are a few scenes to get outside of the main gameplay loop but you mostly get everything by dying to an enemy which is kind of annoying when youre super deep into a run and want the scene with a new enemy you just encountered for the first time.
You do the same thing over and over until youre strong enough to do everything and then it's basically over.
I finished everything in about 3 and a half hours and the art you get is great, not a bad game.

The only good thing about this game is art. Even with that, not much to see, scenes are unimaginative and few.

I feel like Devs had interesting idea with rouge elements, progression and maybe sets, but in the end it doesn't work and don't give you combinations or interractions between those pieces. Even if you have different runs with different equipment it feels all the same and it's getting boring pretty quickly.

Grind is a huge problem, but even that could be acceptable, however the game doesn't give you any meaning to continue this tidious loop, not in story not in quests.

This game has no story. The entire story is literally I lost my amulet and I better go find it, its at the bottom of a massive dungeon. THATS IT. No story dialogue other than that mentioned at the intro and ending. Its a looooong grind to go get through the dungeon to unlock outfits and power up. Various H-scenes on loss. Felt even cheating it wasn't worth my time to grind that much combat. If you want go look at the one post in the thread to unlock the cheat gallary to look at her kinda neat sexy outfits and a handful of scenes, unless you enjoy mind numbing RPGM content and nothing else mixed inbetween scenes.

[Review of v1.1 on 5/23/2023]

It's RPGM again, but at least this time they cut out all the tedious walking.

Everything is handled in menus. You choose how strong you want the gear you find to be in the dungeon, then you enter it with nothing but your shirt and your knuckles. Usually after the first kill, you'll atleast get a club to thwap enemies with, and it's all good from there.

Balance is good for a virgin run, I'd say -- spent a few hours getting from beginning to end without too much trouble, just leaving after my potions were used up. Roguelite works oddly well here for risk/reward. Maybe I just enjoy rationing potions a la Dark Souls or something. In any case, I enjoyed the gameplay.

As for the scenes, there's a few more anal gaping and enema scenes than I'd like. The artwork is pretty good, though, and there were enough scenes that I liked besides.

An okay entry, but it's RPGM with an anal focus, so your mileage may vary.

This game is pretty decent. But some parts are done poorly. You can just skip to my thoughts at the end, if that's too much text.

Art. The best that this game has to offer. For the main part, you'll only be seeing the cute mc, but you can fully customize everything that she has or has not on her. There're 17 items of body armor, 12 for her head, 13 for the underwear, 9 for her face (glasses, etc) and 8 items that have something to do with her skin or pubes.
Also there're 3 other npcs who actually have sprites: innkeeper lady, skill shop witch, and the blacksmith. The first one has no sex scenes, second one is futa with three scenes for mc, and the last one has one scene at some random point.

Gameplay. It's a roguelite game. You descend into the dungeon, trying to beat the boss at lvl 45. To go down a lvl you'll have to complete around 3 battles, tho you can later decrease that number. There's no actual movement, everything is automatic and is done by the menu on the left: you can either fight, change your equipment, use a potion, or flee.
But the thing is that you start every run naked (or almost naked) and you'll have to get items through battles. It's completely random and some battles can give you nothing, or multiple items. Also, after each battle, your character may find a chest with some loot. They also have 3 levels of rarity: wooden, silver, and gold.
Whenever you lose, you might see a sex scene, but not every enemy can trigger it. And it only works once. This forces you to lose, and since there are no direct shortcuts, you'll have to reach those levels again to see other scenes. This means you'll have to lose at least 13 times to see everything, which includes two bosses at levels 35 and 45. After beating the game, I saw no button to unlock every scene, so I've decided to forget about the missing 7 scenes. To see any scene again, you'll have to visit the recollection menu in your inn room. Every sex scene in battle triggers a Bad End, but you'll just reappear in the city as if nothing happened, and it'll be exactly the same as if you used the flee option: you sell every item for gold and collect your EXP. You need gold to upgrade your items, or buy some cosmetic items that you'll have on you whenever you start a new run. You upgrade each and every item separately, which kinda sucks, since you aren't guaranteed anything in the dungeon. But besides items for your body and head, which I mentioned before, there are also 19 weapons and 7 shields. Some weapons have different attack types, like slashing, thrusting, striking, and magic. But I only used spears, so I can't say much about it. You can spend EXP in the skill shop to unlock permanent rewards like increased HP, attack, DEF, and MDEF, buy some attack skills, etc. Also for the exp you can buy sex scenes, there are three, and buying them is required to get the other 3 scenes in the dark alley with some dude.

Overall thoughts. The idea is pretty interesting, but the game feels too grindy. The fact that you can see every single piece of armor mc's sprite does nothing to actual sex scenes, and sex scenes themselves are to grindy to unlock. This game isn't hard. So losing on purpose and then reaching the same level again may be extremely annoying. The best thing about this game is the art - mc is pretty and has pretty regular body proportions. Also, this game leans heavily into anal fetish. And I'm not really a fan of it.

The clothing should be the main selling point of this game, but I don't really find the revealing clothing arousing. Maybe because the protagonist is standing still all the time. I think it could be improved if they give her some attack animation (which can be turned off) to flaunt her body

I really enjoyed this game for the game it is and not for the sex.
The gameplay loop is really fun and memorable. Go in, manage your health, retreat, level up, try again.
You always seem to get a little bit farther every time.
Could be improved by making it more similar to Slay the Spire with branching paths and more boss encounters.

Very average game. Gameplay is... pretty okay. Highly recommended to just pick a common weapon, hat, shield, and armor, max them out, and then later a rarer weapon, hat, shield, and armor.
Scenes are a bit more on the side of fetishes. She pisses herself a lot.

Originality - 30%
Renders - 30%
Playability - 50%
Performance - 100%
Bugs free - 100%
Animations - 0%
Amount of content - 20 %

Total - 47%

I like the outfit customization options, even though I have to grind for it, but... unlocking the customizations is where it ends, no scenes / images with those other than standing pose. Much grind, few rewards.

Yo wtf bro. 4 hours of grinding and the scene in the mystery salon was ANAL FISTING. Seriously??? What the fuck man. Then the busty wizard is a futa, and the exhibitionist scene leads to a game over, and no actual sex stats; damn this game fumbled hard.

If you approach it as a casual RPG with hit or miss h-scenes, PLAY.
If you're looking for a high quality impressive experience, SKIP.

A half-assed skinner box.

Let's get the pros out of the way: the art is great. The girl is cute. She looks great giving interspecies birth. The edited MTL is actually on the unnoticeable side. The basic format of gameplay, progressing through a dungeon by menu instead of generic RPGM navigating, is tried and true, both for porn games and pornless games. There's dress up with a variety of both slutty and properly covered outfits. Pubes and tan options are always good.

Unfortunately, the game wastes a lot of the opportunities it has to be truly worth your time. The porn is divided into defeat rape and a handful of town events. Alissa loses to a goblin/bug/minotaur/etc then is pounded into pregnancy/stomach bulge as she cries about how she doesn't want this/it shouldn't feel this good (with hearts). Then you get a game over message, return to town with your spoils, and the incident is never mentioned again. So the porn is not only samey, but also ends up feeling disconnected with the game.

And the gameplay: it's boring. The only thing in the dungeon is combat with monsters. No events, no real decisions aside from using your potions and swapping gear between pressing the proceed button. The combat complexity plateaus at choosing either attack or a stronger TP attack. The meta progression is very bland and feels inconsequential. Get EXP and money from the boring dungeon, increase the numbers on your character and the random drops so you can go deeper into the boring dungeon, rinse and repeat.

What else? The dress up is underutilized because it isn't directly reflected at all in any of the porn. And I suspect the big reason why the MTL isn't too bad is due to the minimal plot, character development/exploration, and disconnect of porn from both gameplay and story.

If you like the art and don't mind chill but boring gameplay, maybe give this a try. But the search for a great new female protagonist game continues.

Playtime: 3-4 hours
Overall: I quite enjoyed the game's dress-up aspect and rouge-like elements. While a little over half of the scenes are monster-rape, they're pretty easy to avoid if you're not here for that and the scenes in town are a lot less rapey. It's a solid showing for the dev's first game.

Good:
- Alissa's cute.
- The dress-up options are well-developed. While the armor and helmets you can get drop randomly, you can always choose Alissa's underwear and customization options (things like suntan, pubic hair, lewd crest, assorted glasses, etc) and even change them in the dungeon. The proper armor is often just armor, but the lighter armors can be quite revealing so there's also some bonus exhibition to be had.
- The way you find random equipment helps spice up each expedition and inform your play-style. For example, I had an expedition where the equipment I found cleared damage-over-time effects at the end of turn and highly resisted magic damage, so I could basic attack through a good number of encounters but needed to burst down physical-attacking enemies. The next expedition I only found normal armors, so it was casters that I had to spend all my TP on that time.
- There's a robust built-in cheat menu. I think it's really nice when devs realize not everyone wants to play their game in the way it was intended. Maybe you just want to check the CGs. Maybe you want to add a bunch of money, upgrade all the hats, then go adventuring with just a hat and pasties. Probably you'll just cut a bit of grind out of the mid-game.
- While there are only 2 exhibition events, there's bonus exhibition to be had by adventuring with very little on. You can't leave the inn naked, but nothing stops you from adventuring commando once you get in the dungeon. It's a small thing, but I really like having the option.
- Running has a very high (nearly guaranteed) success rate. I've played games like this where you can only evacuate at certain times, so it's nice to be able to leave immediately after realizing the enemies in this new area hit too hard.
- It's a short game but doesn't feel particularly rushed or lacking content. If you want a nukige you might be disappointed (though again: you can just unlock all the events with the cheat menu), but if you only get 1.5 days off per week you may also appreciate a game you can actually finish.

Bad:
- This game isn't really the best to show off it's "adjust your equipment based on your enemy" system. Combat typically only lasts a few turns, so you're usually better off just fireballing the enemy three times than spending a turn switching to a spear and stabbing him twice. Bosses need more prep, but you'll probably need to evacuate the first time you encounter them anyway.
- You can't skip floors (you can buy the option to find the next floor faster though) and there's no auto-battle option so the game is grindier than it needs to be, but then again you can just use the built-in cheats to skip this grind.
- The ending is pretty weak. Sure, most people don't play these games for the story, but I think a little more would've been nice.

YMMV:
- The game's DLsite page says "Over half of the events involve anal, and all of it is hardcore!" and you can take their word for it. Sure, there's some normal anal, but also stuff like anal fisting, gaping, and large insertions. I'm not well versed in the kink so I can't really speak to the specific quality, but I imagine anal-enoyers would appreciate the deviation from garden-variety anal.
- A significant majority of the game's scenes are monster rape and/or anal. If those aren't your speed then there's only a handful of H-content for you.
- Pregnancy content is event-only.
- The blacksmith only has one scene, but it is a bonus scene that was added later as thanks for all the support so I'll take what I can get.

The game is easy and straight-forward. You discover equipment, earn gold/exp and use it in town to upgrade the character.
It is kinda grindy (I think having the option to straight up skip certain groups of levels would've been great, as done in similar h-games, here you can only diminish the number of encounters), although not a very long game, you can easily end in 10-15 tries. The grindyness and the lack of h-events (they're good quality but short and little in numbers) put it at 4. I personally had a good time playing it, although I understand people ranking it three stars.

Overall grindy but if you like anal fisting this is the one for you. Art is okay MTL not so bad. Advice is to cheat your way through it. Other than that I wish there were more town events, involving other characters and other characters having a scene with the MC.

Its a game where you grind mobs in a dungeon and unlock better equipment and skills. Unfortunately you cant get to scenes without grinding and there are only a few sex scenes outside of the dungeon. The dungeon requires you to climb a ridiculously high number of rooms in order to progress to new mob. The only way to get scenes is to lose to mobs which leads to game over, and not all mobs have scenes. Aka grindy image gallery that you have to play for 20 minutes to get to a new picture. Not worth the time.