Ren'Py - Clara and the Magic Ring [v1.0.5b] [Creator13]

The game is finished, so you don't randomly run into dead ends still under development. That said, what there is leaves much to be desired.

Gameplay: Insane unskippable puzzles and one dimensional combat. No game breaking bugs though.

Art: There's quite a lot of it for such a short game, and the models are pretty decent on its own, but when things start happening, you get bodies that looks like rigid stone sculptures.

Story: Events randomly happen out of nowhere for little reason. Dialogue feels stilted. And the overarching plot is just short of dumb enough to be funny.

Language: The grammar is not great, but still understandable. But also comes with lots of spelling mistakes.

Coding: Game over terminates the program (why??), and during combat, the enemy can still attack once on the turn you kill them. Other than that, everything runs smoothly.



This game feels like a first project of someone starting out. Suprisingly good if you consider that, but the inexperience shows.

Word to the dev: You have the rare commitment to actually finish the game, which I greatly respect. Everyone starts out inexperienced, so don't get discouraged, learn from it and move on.

I actually really like the potential of this game, will be looking out for the updates!

Pros:
Art is nice
The concept of the Lara Croft raider girl running into trouble and having to be submissive ticks my boxes
Different routes (curious about the slave one)

Points for improvement:
The smoothness of the story; Now it sortoff feels a bit random perhaps
Written English (I know it is hard when it is not your first language)

All in all, keep up the good work!

An interesting game, would like to see more of it.
Overall would rate it 4/5 stars, but +1 to offset some 1star reviews that were given due to game crashing after loosing in battle (didnt encounter game closing in the recent 1.0.3)
edit -1 star: since i encountered game closing in 1.0.3 as well

As mentioned in other reviews as well - liked the basic concepts of the game, but literally everything needs more efforts:
- CLara Roft: Needs some story resemblance with the lara croft to make it more appealing
- battle system: You shouldnt use basic attack at all; potions replenish too little and turn into mindless clicking. I'm here for the porn not the conplicated (and 1 unwinnable battle)
- Acquiring Potions: potion grinding approach is rather interesting
- visuals: neither Not bad renders. Could be better.

"Playing this game is easy." That is the line that the post for this game opens up with. This has been determined to be a lie.

The battle system is brutal with failure being met with the entire game shutting down and closing! This is poor coding and shouldn't be acceptable for any release.

Some of the graphics look good but its hit or miss going from scene to scene. Sometimes things are so dark that you can't see much detail which detracts from the experience.

I won't bother with the writing, its Engrlish and I can't hold that against the dev but it does make the game look ever more rougher.

Finally the much vaunted puzzles... puzzles are not something that should be in adult games in general and obtuse ones where you the player have to pay attention to the back ground in every frame looking for a puzzle piece is beyond unacceptable.

I finally got over both the battle system and the puzzle by editing the right .rpy files and looking for the code for the puzzle scene. That is where the game finally got "easy". Sadly after solving the puzzle that is it as far as it would seem that is the end of content for now.

So you have a few scenes in a few locations, mutants raping you after defeating you (spiders just eat you), and a masturbation scene with a banana after you solve the puzzle.

I was going to give this game two stars but what we have here is too incomplete and rough for even that low of a score. This game needs way more play testing by the dev before releasing the next version and needs major overhauls of several game systems on top of that.

I wish I could give it more, I wish it was a 4 star with some of the fets it has, adventure chick being taken advantage of with magic yes please, but after playing ended up not really enjoying it.
In an adult game I'm looking to fap, not run into game restarting game overs not all of which are obvious. Not high enough quality to be a traditional adventure game, too many hoops to jump through to be a good game to fap to. Needs to ease back the difficulty/dead ends.
Also the renders and game are way too generic to be needing 3+ gigs at this point.

Nice try. 3/5 stars, but I'm giving +1 for women-focused approach, and +1 just for the dev's morale.
I really liked the basic concepts of the game, but literally everything needs more efforts:
- battle system: basic attack is not used at all; potions replenish too little and turn into mindless clicking when you fight some hard 'spiders' with a random range of damage. There is no point to artificially increase the time spent in a battle in a porn game.
- grinding: potion grinding approach is rather interesting, but any money system is more natural; alternatively they could be named differently (not "cookies", of course) to match the whole theme with extraordinary rings--I don't know... "energy crystals", "tears of happiness", "angelic dust".
- Engrish: oh, well… I don't read that much of the porn RenPy game context, but everything that comes up to my eyes definitely lacks proper native or near-native editor.
- visuals: neither awesome, nor bad for a 3D CG. Still, images are lacking proper rendering quality, and penises look like strapons on the models, but it, of course, depends on the budget.
- story: Lara Croft is completely redundant for the story, but the placeholders for branching in the first half are really alluring. I'm certainly not sure if this approach is to be preserved in the second part of the game.
- UI: the game completely exits if you encounter a placeholder story. It seems like a crash, and is very annoying to say the least.

So, not great and not so bad.
3/5 + 1 for women focused approach and +1 for the dev's morale = 5/5

Sorry buddy, but this game is below average.
Graphics is mediocre at best.
Game crashed couple of times for me.
English is so bad, my eyes literally hurt. Bad grammar, full of typos, like really bad.
Idea of the story does not seem bad, but the execution is. It is full of shortcuts, probably to get quickly to the lewd stuff, there is zero character development or even personality of the protagonists.
Combat system is also very simple.
All in all, it could be turned to a decent game, but needs a lot of polishing.