RPGM - Daily Lives of My Countryside [v0.3.3.1] [Milda Sento]

pretty solid game that falls short due to the slow nature of the RPGM engine and bugs/crashes.

its nice that the game has an ingame walkthrough but it still ends up feeling slow and tedious to progress characters at times

imagine clicking back and forth through the walkthrough, advancing time and days in game, walking to the place you need to be to get the scene and forget to save and ur game crashes, it can get pretty annoying

there are in game cheats to help but they mostly feel like quality of life features (fast travel). affection is pretty easy to get just from pursuing scenes. the cheat for gold saves a ton of time though

the scenes are great though. if you're patient then def give this a play

One of the best art style, scenes and dialogue i've played on this site.

The Mabel (pink haired loli) content is insane, way too good, also pixie.
I'm gonna keep coming back to it everytime there's a new update.

But i feel like the pacing / way to access new content is kinda bad, lucky there's the phone cheats, but if it was a complete game i feel like there needs to be better ways to access new scenes, it's way too reliant on you knowing exactly where to be and the time to get it through phone.

I give it 3 stars overall, if you are a new player it's definitely five out of five. The issue with us guys who played it a long time ago is we already know how boring and terrible the pacing is, you get some quick action with your family members, but then scenes crawl in one by one, as per example one of the girls requires daily grinding and an event that only happens once a week at a specific time, and it takes like four+ of those events to trigger the content.

So for old players seriously consider forgetting bout the game till it's done then there might be enough content you are not constantly skipping time, or i dunno, use the cheat to stop wasting your real life time.

Questionable game decisions and translation but the scenes are some of the very best in the business. If nothing else check out the gallery, if you like sick shota situations including some I'm surprised they even get away with, this is the game for you.

Gameplay:
Quest-sandbox
So, this is RPG, so you have to look for places or npc to advance your quests, and then solve kind of puzzles. Also, there is a money-system and stuff to buy. No real main quest

Story:
Silly-porn. Well, there is sa magical realm and a bit of adventure. But mostly, it's several different adventures that you have to find. Many are just short without conclusions (or are not finished). You may get unsure of what to do without a walkthrough.

Graphics/Animation:
The art is beautiful. If you like, go for it.

Overall impression:
I liked the art. But you don't really know what to do most of the time. And the quest log doesn't help. As there is no real story, I was not really engaged. So, average impression.

*Chef's kiss* God I love this game. The art and animations are so hot and top quality. The story is fun and the characters have interesting stories. The loli and shota content is hot and you don't get to see that much in games with how much it is cracked down upon. The planting and harvesting things is boring but it is still a 5/5 in my book.

Very cool game with not boring gameplay.

Has a lot of characters with lots of differents scenes.

The art is very good and scenes are well animated.

The hint system with the phone is interresting but is maybe revealing too much things.

I would also suggest to allow the main character to dream only if cheats are activated or to show only exclusive scenes.

Besides of that, the game has nothing to change.

I recommend this game !

really really good game, I love the drawings an the animations also the story is very good. New update every few months and the bugfix is fast. I have played this game since 2019 and i think it never disappointed me
Probably my favorite game

8/10 as an ongoing game. The art and animations are niched, top notch. The plot needs more context, a little more character development, an improved system for when it's possible to advance in story or characters and the game needs more rpg elements when completed for a 10/10.

I want to like this game. Very cute art style, decent animations, open world, and vaguely similar to Stardew Valley. However, in its current state, comparing it to Stardew Valley is a bit of an insult to Stardew Valley.

1. My main gripe with this game is the complexity of "events". In order to progress with a girl, you need to do an extremely specific set of things at extremely specific times of day, with some of them spanning a week (get an F on the Friday test means no studying at all for a week, then the teacher gives you a blowjob or whatever, which is a requirement to continue elsewhere). There are things that assist with knowing what to do, such as the info in the phone (which is very confusing to understand), heart icons over characters, enabling cheats, and even disregarding all of that and "dreaming" about the events yourself while sleeping (which shows you almost all scenes for all characters). However, dreaming is just the scene itself without any story/dialogue, so if you have any interest in the story you'll need to slog through the events one at a time. Furthermore, due to the events being so complex, you're constantly checking your phone to see what you need to do next. Since slogging through the game how it's meant to be played is a real chore, and viewing the events while dreaming doesn't carry any story, there's really no draw to playing it.
2. The English is laughably bad. Almost every other box of dialogue has something misspelled or awkwardly written ("I'm the dangerous" - the female blacksmith). It's not meant to be a serious game so it's not a major deal, but it does show that the developer doesn't really care that much about the quality of their work.

v0.2.7.1 bugfix
Absolutely gorgeous game. The art is amazing. The scenes are animated, and animated well.
The backgrounds and sprites are also wonderfully well designed.
The waifus are wonderfully charming.

Unfortunately those positives are brought down by a horrible game.
There is no map to navigate with.
90% of your time is spent walking simulator.
there is a teleport cheat. Which requires you to both cheat and also way too many clicks to use.

There is no text history.
You will miss text.

Why even use RPGM if there is no combat?
The game is a kinetic sandbox.

bad quest tracking.
most quests are just not tracked at all.
and instruction on quests and event guide are unclear so require frequent checks to F95

Bad GUI all around.
Time skipping is a constant thing you do, but is a huge chore due to bad UI design

Time... jesus fuck the time. game tracks exact 24 hour clock, weekday, and month's day.
events are often limited to 1 specific hour in 1 specicific day.
Multiple events on multiple characters are even tied to "harvests" which occur once a month for 2 day period.

Randomness. some events require massive amount of repetition until you randomly roll for the event to show up.
Ex: cousin hide and seek. you need to randomly roll to beat her in rock paper scissors. then randomly roll for her to get stuck in the barn wall

room maps are far too big. often time you don't notice the quest marker because it is offscreen.
You need to walking simulator around the room to expose it.
which gives horrible synergy with date and time schema as well as the clumsy GUI.
Nobody is going to re-explore every nook and cranny for every possible time combo.
making walkthrough mandatory

+there is a skip button (shift)
-it only skips text and nothing else.
animations and sounds are very frequent and will run at normal speed when holding skip

The walkthrough hasn't been updated since v1.7.
Instead you rely on the in game event guide in your phone.
which is just bad. It just lists your progress step for that waifu and then an entire multi page list of most events you gotta scroll through.
listed in order. it doesn't track what you did or didn't do.
It very rarely clearly tells you when and where to do a thing. Sometimes I can figure it out, sometimes I can't.

The gameplay loop itself is:
grind affection slowly
grind money
locate the event to progress a step with that character
repeat.

I cheat as much as possible. but even with cheats this is tedious.
I have dropped and restarted this game multiple times.
Every time I spend hours cheating through all the new content as fast as I can.
Which is only so so in terms of speed.

DLMC is a case study in when a dev's ambitions exceed their ability.

The presentation is the crown jewel here. The illustrative renderings are gorgeous, the animations are superb for the medium, with plenty of nuance and detail, utilizing the fundamentals of animation. Many times animated scenes come down to a few frames that are played then reversed, but not here. The character designs are endearing if not terribly unique. The anatomy on display is rendered to have weight and dimension, and the body types have plenty of variety. The sprite work is colorful and lovely. The world feels splendidly realized in terms of visuals. All in all, it's one of the most visually pleasing games you can find on this site.

But that's really where the obvious positives end. So, what is DLMC? Well, it's the story of a young boy who goes to live with his auntie and cousin in a rural community. He's a skinny little guy but boasts a massive hog. He's horny, but so is everyone around him, and people have practically non existent personal boundaries or any sense of taboo.

So, your characters goals are to get laid, and this is where the major issues come in. The entire thing is designed not only to have you wander aimlessly, but to consume as much time as possible. There is no critical path, so there is no signposting so the player can infer what to do next and why. To play the game earnestly, you have to raise the affection of each female character by grinding repetitive actions. Compliment their cooking, helping them with chores, over and over and over. So, once you repeat these tasks dozens of times, you can trigger viginette set pieces. These require specific day, time and location criteria to be met.

The only real way to play is to turn on the cheat menu and skip all that bollocks. Max each female character's affection to 999, adjust the day and time to the correct parameters, and teleport around. You do not miss out on fun gameplay this way, you simply save yourself time. I do not need to tell the Auntie I like Steak for dinner every night of the week, or help the neighbor girl harvest veggies a few dozen times. You see the thing once, you see it enough. And there's a whole Harvest Moon style mini-chore to do to get cash. I just cheat to give myself cash and call it a day.

At the end of the day, this is the ghost of a gorgeously rendered visual novel stuffed into the facsimile of Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley. Just cheat past the tedious gameplay.

One of the best art I've seen, good writing, plenty of different body type and personnalities to interact with, minigames for the people that like that and something that should be in every sandbox type games but not everyone does this the possibilities to keep playing with and seeing the characters event even when their story line is done. Will play again after every update

Art 5/5
Story 4/5
Gameplay 4/5
Animation 5/5

Overall 5/5

Playing this game with amazing arts and animation is absolutely beautiful.
If you wanna try to masturbate with this game I absolutely recommended because you wont get bored playing it, and lot of interaction with NPCs made this game is amazing and come with the NPCs schedule too. (p.s sorry for bad english)

Overall one of the best game.

best artwork by far, nice scenes, nice animations.

Have a tutorial so you dont get lost within the game.
Dont have time consume minigames and such.
Gets updated frequently

i wish this game had like 100 hours of content cuz it would drain my balls out

Sometimes the gameplay can be take a bit to wrap your head around, becuase specific events need a series of specific steps to complete or rng, such as the rain event. Which can be a buzzkill if you are trying to get into the good bits of the game. Despite that gripe, the art is a A+ and the animation is a B+, making the step by step follow pattern worth while. Even though the game isnt finished it is really polished in terms of H Game rpgs, i can only see great additions coming to it with more content updates in the future.

v0.2.6.1


Like many other games present on this site Daily Lives of My Countryside falls under the "porn with extra steps" category. It is in my honest opinion one of the most overrated games on this site as of right now.

Let's start with the obvious. Yes, the art and environment design are top notch and deserve the praise. The game is very easy on the eyes. However that's where the positives end.

Everything else apart from the aforementioned art ranges from lackluster to downright horrible. The game is essentially a one big checklist of chores which rewards you with some smut at the end.

• The writing is plagued with grammatical errors and feels "uncanny" for lack of a better word.
  
  
• Character designs while not bad are quite bland and generic.
  
  
• Way the game handles passing of time effectively kills off exploration entirely. It's not plausible to play the game without a guide, no one is going to check each location 16 times every single day.
  
  
• A lot of quest progression is counter intuitive or simply is not there at all. Which ties in with the previous point.
  
  
• UI/Menu navigation has a lot of unnecessary extra clicks which makes it slow. This is an issue considering how much time you spend in there.

In short it's a grossly overrated, mediocre game which has seen little to no improvements over the course of its development. If it weren't for the quality of the art, which alone isn't enough to make a good game, this game would have been dead on arrival.

If the author was willing to hire people to work on areas of the game he has no experience nor talent in, as in everything else except the art it could grow into something decent. But considering the development history I'm not too hopeful.
It's quite frustrating really, people criticized the flaws such as the time progression and quest system very, very early on. The dev could have gone back and addressed these properly when the game was still taking its baby steps. Instead we got half-assed band-aid fixes which can only hold the game together for so long.

Great art and quality animations. Non-intuitive gaming experience. Throughout the game, you will rummage through your phone and read the schedules and events of this or that character in order to move forward. But almost always you cannot understand what you need to do and go to look for answers on the Internet. Instead of enjoying the game, you perform the routine of studying the schedule of the day of this or that girl. Not worth the time.

Daily Lives of My Countryside [v0.2.6.1]

Great art/animations. One of the best on this site.

Horrible gameplay experience. Many bugs and it's unclear how to progress very often. The creator cannot design games well or code so they use RPGM and still fail to make a cohesive game experience. Cheats are basically required to progress in the game which says a lot about how bad it is.

If you just want the scenes, they're pretty good. I don't know if the grueling game experience is worth it though!

If it wasn't for the gameplay, I'd give this a 4.5/5 due to the art but the gameplay is exceedingly bad.

Recently played the latest expansion. Before that, I had not played the game for about 1.5 years. I noticed how the game has changed qualitatively. The characters are revealed. The ability to draw the author has greatly increased. There are mini games. It is very pleasant to spend time in this game, nice visuals, not stressful music. And the way the main character acts like. - At first he is very cautious, but at the right time he is capable of decisive and daring actions, which makes the sex scenes more sensual. There are also interesting events in the game with Easter eggs, references. I recommend the game)
And also to support the author, he really deserves it.