RPGM - Completed - Ariel’s Daily Grind [v1.02] [Akamado Factory]

Game looks great and that's pretty much it.

Seems to have too much grind going on and too much clicking required to progress the text, almost at the point of feeling laggy while sections of the night progress. Couldn't finish it, didn't seem to have anything to offer after 1st, dunno, half an hour or an hour. Played 3-4h and scene are just repeated, progressing main quest shows special scenes but scene are still pretty much reused. Got bored, won't finish. Ariel look sexy as fuck though. But game gets boring too fast and grind can't be skipped or made to go faster.

Digged in dirt but find a small pearl.

Despite the steam negative reviwes i like this story alot.
First of all it is a novel which you could finish to the evening.So dont expect much gameplay in it.
Character inner personality designed and written pretty good and realistic,to impact empathy in you.
If you want to read how to "Galadriel" gotta suck dicks for greater good - this is for you my friend.

Gameplay is simple but story very interesting with fun conclusion in the end.

This one sounds like it might be more original and interesting. So we have story of an elven girl living in some generic fantasy world. One day her village is raided and she ends up as slave sold to brothel. Now she must work as prostitute and rise her skills to gain money and influence so she can buy her freedom and free her people. Sound like background for good RPG based on sexual and personality talents rather than combat? Right! So we actually have it all here, but...

PROS:
+ Nice protagonist with option to change her clothes. We also get some nice uncensored pictures with her. To bad only few. Literally like 6 with cum/milk variants so it just same picture but with white goo.
+ Some story and quests just interesting enough to actually push forward instead of quitting game right away.
+ UI looks good.
+ Decent background music... Probably best aspect of this game.

CONS:
- Name "Daily Grind" pretty much says what this game is about. Each day we can spent some time on shopping, dressing, training skills/reputation and then we jump to prostitution part where we choose clients and get ammount of money depending on our girl stats and picket client. And then we have next day. Rinse and repeat over and over and over. So it's a pretty simple management game that doesn't require thinking or planning or even managing at all since we get money, reputation and skills anyway even when MC fails just less. So only challenge is time spent on clicking over and over again same buttons. And if we want to clear every quest and buy everything just for competition sake we have LOTS or repeatable clicking coming. So yeah it's a daily grind and there is nothing more to do except some quests with kinetic text reading.
- As I mentioned earlier story barely keeps us playing this since we actually want to check out how it goes... And it's disappointment after disappointment. MC has no personality and we don't know anything about her character or preferences. Other npc don't even have models drawn only shadow-like silhouettes and are even more boring and random than MC. Dialogues are chaotic and bland. Quests are just clicking text since they require nothing but wearing certain item or getting some stats. Endings are disappointing and dull and true ending is just tiny bit better than normal or bad endings. No relations, no passion, no emotions just "blah blah take my big dick... you were terrible/sexy... earned 132 coins".
- Sexual scenes are like few and same static pictures appearing from time to time over and over with some random plain text attached to them. This part isn't even worthy describing more.

This game is totally failed in every aspect. It's tiny when it comes to content. It's boring as management game. It's bad and dull as RPG game. And it's extremely limited as porn game.

I have no idea why I even wasted my time to max it out and check every aspect. I guess I really liked concept and it was only thing that driven me.

You may ask why this was created in the first time? I guess to simply scam people. You make small game that looks good at first glance and it's playable and working. Then you sell it for few bucks and because sex sell thousands of people will buy it. There are tons of similar cheap games on Steam and they seem to be manufactured in bulk like some t-shirts in Chinese factory.

So is it even worth playing? Well it's playable but in my opinion totally not worth spent time so I can't actually recommend it to anyone.

I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Min-maxing gear to get the highest stats was just enough to keep the day-to-day gameplay engaging, and the side-quests keep you occupied. It was fairly short, and the latter half of the game felt a little empty, but the characters (mainly just Ariel) were entertaining to read about. The MC really makes this game; She's an elf who was kidnapped and forced to work in a brothel, having sex with a bunch of humans, and she hates it. But her specific blend of casual elvish elitism where she really doesn't care about any of the humans she's around was pretty entertaining to watch.

It's not a bad game, and I think I enjoyed it as much as I did because my expectations were so low going in.

Ariel’s Daily Grind [v1.02] [Akamado Factory]
One of the worst "management" (at least it reminded me of this genre) I've ever played.
Interactions with customers 0, ending useless, uncharacterized characters, linear, no voices, very few scenes and always all the same.
In short, not recommended.

Exactly the kind of female protagonist prostitution game I've always wanted.

The only place it falls short is not using the cum variant of the CGI outside of cutscenes, as opposed to during the normal gameplay loop.

Suffers from what I've come to see as a common issue with Kagura titles. It's very polished, but it's not really that sexy. the entire game recycles the same handful of CGs and only end of quest scenes get any kind of erotic writing.

TL'DR. As a management game it's polished. As an adult title it's sterile and the rest of the game isn't interesting enough to carry it.

The game is just a click simulator with a handful of clips that pretend to be cgs. Tags are misleading due to how little some if most even apply. Honestly feels more like a minigame in another hgame or a demo than a fully completed product

The writing is great. Ariel has more than decent characterization and the other characters tend to be interesting in their own ways, even if they're just subquest givers.

That is the ONLY positive of this game. Content-wise, it is extremely underwhelming.

The stats that Ariel has to gain more money such as sexy, humble, cute, and clean don't interfere with text at all.

Full HCGs tend to be just larger versions of smaller thumbnails you've seen before as a result of Ariel's work at the brothel and you'll quickly grow bored of seeing the same artwork over and over again. Have you looked at the previews? If yes, you've seen half the content. This is not an exaggeration.

Other than that, the quests don't really make you feel like you're progressing in the world in general and instead just serve as excuses to give you a task to do in the brothel to direct your focus somewhere else in the gameplay and perhaps to try to keep you focused in what is your umpteenth day of giving blowjobs to rich nobles.

Speaking of the brothel, the artwork as I said is repetitive, but the writing? The one thing this game had as a quality going in? It goes straight out the window. The customer can be "filthy", "violent", have a "big cock", have "caution", a "mommy's boy" fetish, it doesn't matter - same hcg, same lines. Their "traits" don't affect gameplay at all and could realistically just never be there and I wouldn't notice a damn difference.

Great ideas don't make a great game on their own if you don't properly execute them and this game is just that. A ton of great ideas appearing in game, but that have no substance behind them.

This is realistically a 1/5, but the art isn't bad, and the writing is mostly good, so I'm tuning it up to a 2, but it's really not worth it.

For how short and easy this game I still recommend trying it out. Even if just for the writing and art (although tbf it barely has any art). Writing is interesting, because Ariel is very assertive and professional about working in brothel. It's quite nice and refreshing to see a character like this.

Very disappointing that this game is so poor in content. It would be nice to have good Club Bifrost with female protagonist or one that is not cumming from slightest touch.

Also a tip to make this grind easier: do not try to pay back debt. You're gonna just get game over screen. Spend this money on accessories .

Its good in how its the art and the concept. I like games where you can build you character (I like "Make you own whore games").

But its too poor in content, they dont joke when put the word "Grind" in the title. And.. crash... i dont know why, its not all the time, but happen.

I give 3 stars, because how its the gameplay and the quality of the art, its more that you common rpgm game. But it the end, only play when you don´t have to do anything else. Because its a waste of time.

pro:
- beautiful CG
- clothing system

cons:
- grindy
- repetitive
- extremely short (my playthrough is less than an hour)
- few CG
- no recollection


rating: 2/5 just to appreciate the illustrator since the art is beautiful, but that's about it

Just as the title of this game says yes this is a grind, even when cheating for max stats. Literally only 12 CG - 6 unique and 6 variations with lactation. Lastly, pregnancy leads to game over. Don't waste your time.

Gameplay looks fine at first but it gets so repetitive so quickly it's unreal. Definitely lacking in content, both game and H side. Writing is good enough and the art is very pretty, but I can't imagine playing this ever again.