Ren'Py - Corrupted Kingdoms [v0.22.3d] [ArcGames]

love the art, especially bunny kingdom ehehehe.. only can have one child though, but good enough.

some places need direction and others, making you need to keep notes. but that can be easily solved by looking past the guide.

Great characters, the girls are pretty, and there is a good justification for why you get sex so fast after meeting most of them, the only lacking part of the sex scenes are the animations, which are the same old every other project of this kind uses.
The game starts very linear and quite limited, but opens up a lot on the second chapter, so don't judge the game before you get the Manor, the best pa- TwEnTy FivE CoMe DaNcE WiTh Me
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I'm not sure how I feel about this game.

Actually, I do: I rate first two acts five stars, definitely. They do have problems, but those are incomparable to the rest of genuinely good enjoyable content.

First act is a little weak overall, being just a cliched story of making harem with hypnosis, but it manages to tell coherent story and add a bunch of plot hooks for the second act to pick up.

And pick them up second act do! It's still the exact same linear VN about hypnosis and harem, but it has plenty of non-obligatory expansive side-quests to distract player from main plot for a good enough reason and a good reward. Not that main plot desperately needs it, growing from a simple hypnosis doujinshi into a not half-bad story about... Wait, is it alright to post spoilers if I'm writing my impressions about the game so far? Ah, fuck it, spoilers ahead, you'd been warned! ... story about your past reincarnations and how you will be the one to bring peace where they failed, neat. Mechanics-wise, growing your harem via all the different side-quests allows to build some income, gain stats to outwit and overpower opponents in main and side-quests, and just get access to a bunch of new scenes. The loop is self-sustaining and at some points it becomes easy to forget, that bunch of this stuff isn't even necessary.

There are some loose threads hanging for act two, as mentioned before, but they don't disrupt player too much. Honestly, for a game by a single dev, acts one and two offer plenty of content from four years of development. If last part sounded sarcastic - it's not, there are many devs, who do much less in four years, and leave much more unfinished content over same time, so I'm, personally, impressed and even pleasantly surprised by most of it.

Most of it... But by the end of act two many characters suddenly change, start behaving opposite to their initial states, and even openly admit as much. If anything, it feels a little jarring, but, well, the story is building up to climax, so many of these sudden twists will likely be explained in act three... and, oh, sweet Mother Maria, the third act.

As of right now, act three is very much bare bones, so I don't want to complain about quality, but the quantity makes me worry about it anyway. As it seems to me, the main problems is that act three is just its own game, completely different from one and two. It got its separate from first two acts stat system, spell system, income system, map system, dialogue system, additional disconnected graphics and even a completely new harem.

Some characters from previous acts are still here, although, as said before, completely different from before, and, definitely, probably, hopefully, there will be more of them in the future, but so far majority of them was swept under the rag in favour of six new girls. And whereas in act two you had all the different stories and side-quests for every girl in and out of the harem, in act three you just fight a girl n-times, utilising act-three-stat-system, then maradeur her location x-times in a row to build something for what should become act-three-income-system, and use act-three-dialogue-system to break girl down, completely ignoring previous spell system and whole hypnosis theme in favour of "dick - big, bitch - weak". One might argue, that these are not main love interests, fair is fair, but so far none of the main girls have recieved any significant content for act three, save for a couple new sex scenes (previous side-girls faring surprisingly better in that regard with, something, half a dozen new sex scenes), but no quests to even speak of, even though some of their storylines desperately need development.

Meanwhile, act-three-harem just recieved a whole new "rehabilitation" mechanic, which sounds great, you can have so many potential choices: let them actually get better on their own; brainwash them with you powers to make sure they get "better" with you; fry they brains like a true villain and use rehabilitation to build a completely different personality to better suit your needs - but in reality you just use act-three dialogue system b-times in a row, go on a fetch quest to girl's location using act-three-map-system, and use act-three-dialogue-system for the final time to "rehabilitate" girl. In the future, probably, it will translate into respective girl's location granting player bunch of bonuses, but so far it gives, like, two lines of dialogue in act-three-dialogue-system when observing girl's location, and not even to every of the six.

And if anybody is reading this, you are probably asking: "Why are you constantly doing this act-three-bullshit thing?", - but that's the thing: there's only a single right spot on the map, where you access a separate act-three-map, and then from it you get to all (beside the new dialogue) the other act-three-systems, where majority of act-three content, so far, is available, and it's simply absurd. I think, peak of this absurdity was when I went into act-three-map to build aforementioned "rehabilitation center" at girl's location, then went onto main-map to visit girl's location there and get the fetch quest, then gone back to act-three-map to get gizmo at girl's location, then returned to girl's location on the main-map to hand item over, then finally arrived to girl's location on act-three-map to get my two new lines of dialogue.

What. The. Fuck? Not sure, if Arcgames just got tired of CK and decided to make entirely new game, using CK shell as advertisement for it, but so far act three is not much more than proof of concept. I hope in future updates main girls will finally get some attention and amount of repetative tasks will be cut by more than a half, but for 0.19.0 you really should stop after completing act two, rest is just unfinished and should not, must not reflect on your impressions from the game, which is, again, I believe to be five stars.

The game has several choices where there is no choice. Feels like a VN despite not being one . The story is alright but nothing great. The main character is passionate about what happened in his past but the player isn't given much reason to care.

There are only so few games where you can feel the author give it their love and affection when writing and making the scenes, every character has life in them and makes them feel ALIVE. Several moments in the game made me tear up, shout out of my lungs and well of course get an erection, but I just want to say, this is more than just an H-game, it's a masterpiece and I can't wait to play it fully. SO thank you maker for this lovely game!

Interesting story, pretty good animations that fully transfer feeling of action and pretty good optimization. For someone this game can be special so try it out by yourself, anyway you will loose nothing.

I played again after like two years and it surprised me for good. Very nice to add the war minigame. It makes extraordinary a game that can be good even just as visual novel. Apart, in all the game the use of characters is smart and enjoyable. Exploring options and places to get more scenes is a good feature too. It gives kind of a experience of exploration that is only in rpgmaker games. Best wishes for the closure!

I found the game very enjoyable. The girls are hot and liked the story progression. It's not Shakespeare, but it's more than you expect from a lewd game. A cute and original game that I'd like to recommend.

Good content, good release pace.

Barriers to new content aren't ridiculous and require no significant grinding.

Gameplay is visual novel, so there is not much beyond reading and clicking buttons, but story is okay.

Absolutely loved what I've seen so far. This game almost reminds me of Harem Hotel in some ways, which is definitely a good thing. Of course, the mc can be much crueler in this game than in Harem Hotel, which is a pretty massive difference...but it's not something that I'm inclined to hate.

Can't wait to see what the next update brings!

Good game, the things I would improve are the quality of the scenes and animations. The Game System and mechanics work quite well, and I really like the fact that we have both normal girls and monster girls.

Been following the game ever since v0.3.6 and honestly it's great. Story has been intersting so far and the H-scenes are all quite good as well. The supernatural themes are fun and some of the character stories are quite endearing. In general a well rounded and well made game.

3/5 stars.

The game is large, but not because there is a ton of gameplay. It's simply because there are SO MANY characters in it, and (most) of them are pointless random H-scenes that go nowhere. If you cut 3/4 of the fuckable characters out of this game, the plot-critical ones would get a lot more attention and time, but alas the dev made the easy and simple mistake of quantity over quality. It's pretty common actually, its easy to add characters. Writing hard.

Which brings me to the writing. Its... ok. Interesting enough to play even without the H-scenes, but on the lower end its pointless mind-control click and fuck. For a cheap H game i wouldnt complain about that, but this one is actually an old favorite of mine so it annoys me.

It's definitely worth downloading and playing. It's worth supporting the dev, I know the work he puts into it and it is regularly updated. You can feel that it is a work of passion. However, the outdated models, and the sheer number of un-necessary characters (that are there solely for the pointless sex), detract from the overall experience. 3 stars.

I had to rewrite this review like five times before hitting send, because I was so mixed about my time with Corrupted Kingdoms. Though even in the state that it's in now, there's plenty to see and enjoy.

The story, characters and writing are serviceable. The gameplay is typical VN with very little in the way of actual mechanics to learn so it's easy to dive right in. But to me personally, the decision to use koikatsu is both a blessing and a curse - While it streamlines creating characters and H scenes, with as many characters and scenes that are in CK you can't help but feel like once you've seen the first few hours or so, you've really seen everything the game has to offer. So really your time with this game will depend on how invested you get with the story, and the girls.

But the fact that there are so many scenes to find combined with girls that will usually play in to a specific anime trope or kink you have *cough*Veronica*cough*, you're guaranteed to find something you like here. Especially if your kink is mind control, and you like the idea of basically running around the city with your pants around his ankles, ready to lay some fuckin' pipe with anything and everything by the end of act two.

I give Corrupted Kingdoms a strong recommendation, and look forward to seeing how act three plays out.

One of my absolute favorite games. It's one of the games that made me feel like I absolutely had to support the dev, so I do. I'm actually surprised I didn't leave a review here sooner. Been an on/off supporter for about 2 years now as finances allowed.

Outstanding storytelling, great use of KK artwork and an overall stellar knowledge of the Ren'py system and it's capabilities. The story actually invokes feelings of connection and empathy through it, and it does it pretty well, imo.

Most importantly, It doesn't feel like any other ren'py game because it *isn't* just another ren'py game.

Absolute recommend. 100%.

The writing itself is pretty okay...for an h-game. But that's only because the standard is so low. It's really cliche, and has this weird mixture of trying to be too serious for the quality of writing that it is, while also feeling phoned in. In the last year or so, It feels like it's being milked without any solid idea about where it's headed, like things are barely being made up as it goes along. Maybe this isn't the case, but that doesn't make it any better. It's sad, because some of the concepts and gameplay elements are/were great.

It's worth a download. It also used to be worth some actual support imo, hopefully that returns one day.

Corrupted Kingdoms is a very high quality Koikatsu sandbox game. Tons of content, plenty of locations, girls, etc. It's set in a modern, fantasy type setting., meaning you'll see humans alongside a pixie and a cat girl and fire girl and you get the picture. This and Heroes Harem Guild really stand on equal footing in terms of quality but with one very notable exception, CK's dev, ArcGames is one of, if not the most consistent devs on the entire site while HHG goes on frequent, year plus hiatuses. CK releases very frequent small updates, so you never have to wait long for new content. Highly recommend.

It was good in the beginning and the update were ok, but now, theses updates seem to be smaller and smaller the longer this thing is going on.
An exemple : v0.16.0 to v0.17.0 and about ten to twelves minutes of game play tops.

I'll see the next updates, lets say from here to june and if it didn't move much, i'll free a bit off space in the putter.

This is a generic "explore and fuck" title. Characters are walking anime tropes, the writing is cliche, and the renders while not bad aren't particularly noteworthy. On the plus side there's a lot of content (though not that much for a 3 year-old game), and does scratch a variety of kinks. That being said, while this game does not do anything special- it's still quite fappable.

I saw this game in the update feed a few times, but gave it a pass since Pixie is the cover and there's too much fairy/pixie stuff out there. What's gonna be different? Holy hell, was I wrong. Lost my whole weekend to this game. I consider the best games to be ones that I would play even if the H-scenes got cut, and this is one of those games. The sandbox is a little annoying, but it's used well and there's few time constants (No "wait will Saturday" and you just got the quest on a Sunday) Character's are great. Love the pregnancies, and I espeically love that your offspring get some time and attention in a way thats fun and not suffocating. The first chapter or two feel a little rough, bvery much showing the early dev days, but once the map opens up, it's smooth sailing IMHO. Excited to see what's next.