Others - Completed - Aurelia [v1.00.0] [Mirthal]

I really like this game, but there are some QOL things that need some work. For one, I'd say remove the Ohro minigame, it's absolute garbage that kills your eyes. There's not enough space between the boxes and puddles, and the screen moves fast enough to make it seem blurry and makes you dizzy. The stagger upon hitting one thing often makes you hit 3-4 in a row to towards the end of the run.
Edit: I almost forgot the lemmings dragon minigame, it was also pretty terrible. The screen moves and causes you to place actions in the wrong spot, and no keyboard shortcuts for said commands is also pretty bad. You don't have much time to place the command before your idiot dragon kills itself, and having to move the mouse back to the corner of the screen FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL COMMAND and back to the map often causes your idiot dragon to die.

The alchemy is clunky and slow if you have a lot to make at once. If you have a recipe, why do you still have to individually put in ingredients instead of just clicking the recipe? Also, adding ingredients individually with a hold-click slows it down and is unnecessary. If it takes 3 of the same thing to make something, you should be able to batch add instead of having to do it one at a time, or just click a recipe like stated earlier.

The animations that are there are OK, but could be better. They don't match the dialogue very well and only have one pace/speed when moving, which doesn't make much sense. It would be better to have at least 2 "speeds" for the animations that change as the dialogue ramps up. As is, it just seems kind of... disconnected from each other and awkward.

The story and characters are pretty fun, quite diverse and interesting. I also like the art and the retro style, as well as the colors used. The music is well-chosen, doesn't get annoying, and sets the moods for different places and events well. For me, with some tweaks, this could easily be a 5 star game. As it stands now, I'll stick with 4. Hopefully the dev(s) keep making games and polish up their skill set, because there's some great potential.

+ Good story
+ Lots of girls
+ Well written characters
+ Doesn't require lots of grind
+ Mostly good puzzles, mostly well written hints (except for the candelabra)

- Different artstyles now and then.
- Abrupt ending.
- Some of the girls have too little content
- Boring (and sometimes necessary) minigames

Some fantastic models and backgrounds, varied but tedious minigames, and underwhelming sex scenes put this as a lower rating for me.

The earlier builds were astonishingly promising but a lot of the great art and scenes that are used to promote this game have been removed. Those jaw dropping highly detailed artworks, few as they were, are just gone.
Well, not entirely. Some of them still show up as thumbnails for their new versions in the journal but I can't find a way to view them in their former glory.
Maybe the dev did it to make the whole game more visually consistent but it comes off as lazy. It seems like either the original artist for the great art stopped working on it or someone is just cutting corners.
Wildly disappointing. Each girl still gets a very serviceable animated scene but then are bogged down with mundane slideshows after.


Barring all that this is still a complete and competently crafted game. The dungeon crawling and arrow defense games drag on far too long though.
If I had never played the earlier releases I'd be a lot more excited but seeing those fantastically crafted scenes buried is unsettling.

As it stands, Aurelia is arguably the best all-round hand drawn AVG. There's a thick atmosphere of a high fantasy world drawn in a very pretty pixel-art style. Everything about the game has an undeniable charm and clear demonstration of care and passion put into the project. Great lineup of fantasy characters and humans for romance with scenes admittedly varying in count and quality however never feeling out of place as far as art style concerned, just evident that the more pivotal characters got a bit more detail with their scenes.

TL;DR: All style, no substance.

I believe i will be on a more negative side of the review, because for every point game does very well it got 3 points where it fails horribly. And the whole package, sadly, just does not deliver.

Let's get presentation out of the way immediately, this game was on the radar for many years because of the visuals. Visuals are absolutely phenomenal here, it's true and undeniable, HOWEVER i expected all the scenes to be animated, but in truth for every beautifully animated scene we have around 4 that are just still images. Pretty images, but still.

The second part of the presentation that, unlike visuals, failed this game critically is sound. There is none. At all. There is music, but if you are hoping to hear any sort of moan, slurp, some sounds of delight, clapping cheeks or literally anything besides your PC fans - it ain't here, game is absolutely, fully, completely silent. It sucks.

Gameplay tho. In a nutshell it's a scene collector, you have morning-afternoon-evening-night as usual, you go to various places, click various things, unlock new various scenes. It's as simple as that, you've seen it million times before. What game sadly have in abundance are very annoying and often prolonged mini games, some of them you need to play once, some several times, but all of them vastly outstay their welcome and become exuberant guests you can't wait to throw out the window. I cannot not mention the dungeon crawling part, which is... alright all things considered, it's there. It's overly simplistic and unsatisfying but it functions, i suppose i can't ask for more here.

Now for the part that forced me to put it on 3 and not 4, the girls. Visually they look awesome, style carries the game hard, but the nature of relashionships with them is a very pump-n-dump stuff, with only one girl (Amber) it sort of somewhat if you drink enough resemble actual relashionships and it has a pace and it actually develops. For the rest? "Oh neat, you brought me a frog? Let me suck you off". You talk with a character for 2-3 times, sometimes less, before they jump on you, they have no emotional development, it's all complete nonsense with everyone ready to jump on MC the zettasecond they see him. It doesn't help that scene transitions are probably among the most awkward i have ever seen. Let me give you an example:

You train in magic in the yard, stuff gets horny, you both are all like "hell yeah let's do this", then it fades to black, and next click or spacebar press it's a fully naked animated scene in the bed. There is never any foreplay, sensual touching, undressing, there is no nuanse in approach at all, every scene in the game is just "stick it in a hole and do it". And it's just not... good. It just feels like shit and feels pretty lazy.


Overall for all it's hype, game is depressingly, clinically FINE. You won't waste your time playing it, might have some good times, but ultimately it's an underdeveloped and simplistic emotionally discharged scene collector and you are extremely unlikely to have a great time either.

Very very good game. Heartily recommended.

Pros -
1. Gorgeous hand drawn artwork. Always appreciate seeing 8-bit retro style in 2D pixel format.
2. From the very beginning, the game feels like a proper fully fledged game. The player is introduced to the game via a static cutscene played at the start of the game. Similar to how you used to see in older gen Nintendo/PSone games.
3. The story is decent and not the general shovelware. There is some resemblance here and there which I thought of more as a inspirations taken from right sort of games.
4. The game has proper RPG mechanic instituted into it. You can level up your character as per experience gained from completing quests.
5. The title screen and menu are minimalistic and neat. Customized as per context of game. UI also seems pretty neat and user friendly.
6. The characters models are very well drawn and rendered. The animated scenes in middle are just brilliantly done.
7. The game has multiple locations which can be accessed via map. Further locations opens up as you explore.
8. Each screen has few interactive elements in it for you to discover.
9. Lots of content to keep you entertained.
10. The game has an achievement screen similar to psn trophies or steam achievements which I thought was very well implemented.
11. This game also features a few different minigames for you to enjoy. They were so well done and kind of reminded me of stardew valley in most appreciative way.

(Not exactly Cons but more of things to know before you dive in) -
1. Although I love the 2D 8-bit style artwork, I understand it might not be everyone's cup of tea.
2. I experienced a bug while playing when my game froze. (Although the creator made a great little feature to curb these kind of issues by giving experience to level up if you report a bug. So I didn't mind it and love this small little detail)

Despite the few things I pointed out, I still feel this is one of the most complete and well rounded games I have played here. So I would rate it 5/5. A perfect score. The developer has decent knowledge about gaming mechanics and has a good artwork to support it. Its a very well made game in general without any kind of bloat. Everything about it shows professionalism. Would be waiting for more games from him.

Great pixel art point and click game with tons of scenes and characters. There's plenty of mini games and dungeon diving if you're looking for more of an adventure, but if you just want to turn your brain off and skip past that, the dev has enabled cheats to max out stats and give free gold, so there's no way to play this game wrong.

6/5 game.

Art style is outstanding, sex scenes are very hot, music is simple and fitting/relaxing. It has actually a gameplay and a very well made one for a clicker, duh, even story is decent. In short a must play.

Also it weights like 80MB which is just silly.

Top notch visuals, characters, story, sub-plots. Good exploration, a tad bit confusing at times but good overall.

The character-progression (stats) is not well thought out. As you will level as much as you want at any stage of the game, which will make the difficulty curve extremely volatile.

The mini-games are boring after the first few times and are sometimes mandatory for progression.

If the gameplay wasn't so mini-game focused this would be 5/5.

Hands down one of the best ero games I've ever played! Great characters, beautiful and unique art, and fun gameplay. The only thing I would appreciate is a quest log because while the quests aren't difficult, it is easy to forget your next focus. Either way, I'm really looking forward to the full release!

Hell yeaah Dwarf girls i love it, Now the game its top tier good still VEEEERY GRINDY like a lot. But the desings and setting of this game its Just soo good.
And it hasa lot of potential since this is not fully complete just i hope it gets more H content and more animations.
God Game God Wank (Sorry for my bad english)

I love the art style and the CGs, they scratch some itch I had about certain fetishes like goblin girls (Ki-ki) and similar monster girls. After a while the game starts to become grindy, and not the fun type of grind. I recommend using cheats if it starts to become boring. Overall it was a great experience.

You should play it.
It's fun, has high quality animated scenes, art is excellent, the story is fun.
You play as a male character.
I wish they could add more scenes and story with Merah, and add similar characters.
Such quality work deserves support.

A great game, with an absolutely brilliant art style.

Some of the game-y elements are a bit grindy, but otherwise a solid experience. I ended up playing until it got too grindy then just used cheats. None of the minigames are particularly fun, if I'm being honest. Except blackjack, but blackjack is always fun...

Incredible game. Some of the later scenes lack the same quality and shine as the first ones but those are still so good they outshine the issues. The pixel art is fantastic, the gameplay is fun and varied. Like the characters and the world. Very high quality game.

The main artist in the team (walnuss) is amazing and he/she really brings Aurelia to a level that no other adult game can compete with. Animated, high quality pixel art that is drawn at a resolution where you feel comfortable putting it on full screen.

The gameplay mechanics are nothing novel, reusing ideas that have been used in a ton of similar games before (chore minigames, day/night game loop, etc.). However, the execution feels really nice. Sinking time into the quests and minigames feels calming and immersive, with a really strong retro gameplay vibe.

- Story 7/10 (nothing special really but it works very well for what is required)
- Animations 10/10 (some of the best pixel art animations, and 2d animations in general, I've ever seen)
- Characters (attractive cahracters, varied in both appearance and personality)
-Renders 10/10 (as with animations, some of the best pixel art I've seen)
- Music 6/10 (it's okay, but the tavern music brings it up)
- Enjoyability 9/10 (good flow of sex, gameplay, and reading)

Really excellent game. The women you meet are full of character, the visual style is very endearing, and the sex scenes are awesome. Quests are also well-thought out, though the mini-games are a little repeitive and uninteresting as is the case with games made by small teams.

An adult game with real story, who knew?

This is a very good one. It's a bit of a cross between a visual novel and an adventure point-and-click. The custom art is very good, and the game has loads of artistic content. Along with some different mini-games and characters appearing later on in the story, this game has enough content to be played for hours. My only criticism is that the gameplay can be a little clunky at times, and certain characters seem to warm up to you too quickly to be believable.

Aurelia is def one of the best erotic games I played, because it fulfils both the aspect of erotic content that you work towards unlocking, as well as some gameplay/story elements that actually make sense. It has a good balance of grindiness (perhaps a bit too much at times) and simple puzzle solving. It also is basically playable to 100% within the same playthrough which is nicer than having to fuck around with save files, since even in the games where you do a lot of save scumming the devs are clearly aware of it and it's part of the experience - so why bother at this point.