Ren'Py - Completed - Damsels and Dungeons [v1.2.41 Remastered] [Amaraine]

Game is good enough for those who love strategy and challenge. The H scene can be acceptable and harem are not bad either. The original game was already very promising, but the remaster makes the experience even more enjoyable.

This is a turn-based RPG where you build up your girls' combat prowess and corrupt them over time. Both the combat and the porn start off at a sprint and are pretty good until it the feed of new content starts to run dry. Big respect to the dev for swinging for the fences, but falling just a bit short.

The combat portion of the game suffers big time from the X-COM positive feedback loop. Basically if you win too much, it gets too easy and interesting decisions are replaced with mindless grinding. On the other hand, if you lose a girl too early it makes the game even more difficult and more likely to lose more girls. Before you get to the grind stage, the combat is pretty good

The corruption part of the game is a bit undercooked. There's not enough character depth or build up for me to feel satisfied when a girl becomes a whore. The scenes are good but they get repetitive after awhile.

You can put quite a few hours into the game and have a good time

It seems to be a corruption game, but the girls keep dying before I get very far.

Cheating improved the game a bit, but honestly if you're gonna add cheats, just let me be invincible.

The porn is ok but gets repetitive fast. Same with the dialogue.

Impo, one of the best ever!

Ok, on first glance, the game looked somehow swallow, really not like a “long time burner”.

But after a few hours, and after a few start-overs, I realized how deep the game mechanics are, how well done the whole project is.

Specially with the remastered version from Ninoss, its really fun over and over and over (thanks for that, Ninoss).

Someone who is looking just for fapping might be bored after some time,
but in case you also like strategy and challenge, it might be a TOP recommendation.
Game is complex but not too much to get into it.

I do reviews not often, but this one is it really worth.

A lot of content here, and the game is fun to play. A lot of different girls and individual scenes and kinks for each one.

Each day you get a lot of girls coming after you and you've got to dole out your "attention" for each, which means pleasing or ignoring or having them service you!

Some real management options, I haven't gotten to what I'd think is the end of anything yet, and I've already played it about 10 hours or so now.

The graphical update and bugfixes that were done recently are very appreciated.

this was the first game ive ever downloaded from this site so theres a bit of nostalgia behind this review, but bear with me

This game is pretty fuckin awesome. You have a lot of shit to do and see, theres a strong variety in the roster of girls you can get, lots of locations to see, monsters to kill etc. And its not even a case of vast but shallow, theres a good depth in most things here. On the technical side its not stellar, renpy is kinda shit for a game like this, but its absolutely bearable. There is some missing content here as well, you can see it was dropped before some ideas were finished, but it seems like postgame stuff thats missing, id venture a guess that most of what was supposed to be in this game already is there.
To sum up, great game, renpy is garbage, play this and you wont be sad.

It's a cool concept and the game was really fun...for about 4 hours. There isn't much in the way of character development and while there is a 'story', of a sort, it's not particularly engaging.

The sex scenes start out fun and varied, but the encounters between days quickly become tedious rather than titillating and it doesn't take very long to goto auto combat.

The limit on the number of women and the amount of time between 'rests' is boring and the mission system seems lame.

Worth a play, but you won't mind putting it down incomplete.

This might have good sex scenes.
But with all the grind?
Fuck this shit!
Don't wanna continue this torture. Not blue balls, the auto hunting will kill the adventures rather than save time. Ain't nobody got time for this shit with all its competition

Really good game. Combat can get a little boring after a while, cause your girls don't really get new abilities after your one and only quest for them each. But other than that the images are well done. The story is pretty good for the most part. Each girl feels a little different cause they all get traits and fetishes that can be different. Some of the classes seem more predisposed to certain traits than others though. Ex. Rouge almost always has agile and greed, while enchantress almost always has lusty. If you don't like their traits or fetishes there are cheats to change them into positive or just more likable traits. Images and Npc look good but there are no animations so your basically just playing for pictures and after a while, they can get a little boring too. Especially given that some of the girls like some sexual acts over others and even if you have all the fetishes unlocked for them, their lust just continues and to sate their lust they'll come to you and if you don't fuck them, most of them will be upset you don't have time for them. Whether on not you can fuck them depends on how much attention you have as well so be careful. I had a lot of attention late game but it just disappeared after I slept with one of the NPCs and then I struggled to keep all my girls happy from then on cause their lust just built up so fast due to all their fetishes. But even if you manage things well like I said it's just the same picture over and over again each time which can be a little boring. Good game though, Get the Harem mod if you don't want your girls working in a brothel. As far as I noticed none of the girls will cheat on you unless you force them to. Ex. telling them to find pleasure elsewhere, which results in them sleeping with another one of your girls, sending them to the brothel, or giving them to certain NPCs to be their servants. So as long as you keep their affection for you high they definitely don't cheat if you want that. Even with the trait of promiscuous, they really don't. All that trait means is they are more open to being sent to the brothel is all. I just didn't build a brothel cause you don't need one to finish the game. To be honest you don't really need any of the buildings they ask you to build. They all have their uses but if you don't, just save your money for your girls. Once you have a lot of high leveled girls they get pretty expensive. Um, what else. English was pretty decent I guess, can't remember any major amounts of misspellings or grammar errors. I would definitely recommend the game, Game is definitely a managing game so use your money, your girls, and your mana wisely. Combat can sometimes make you think too so pick your best squad of girls when planning to fight bosses. Personally, the huntress is really good I've noticed targeting a specific ranged enemy because other wise everyone just automatically attacks front line enemies, and if u are going up against a necromancer which happens a lot in the dungeons, crypts, and otherwise, they just keep summoning front line enemies so unless you doing fat stacks of damage you have a hard time getting to the boss/necromancer and finishing the battle. And the last thing, I finished the final boss off with LVL 7 girls so they don't need to be too high a level to beat the game. After the final boss you just get some mediocre quests to complete, never finished them cause most of the story just kind of stopped there but there may be a final ending after you complete those quests. Still working on those quests though, one you gotta conquer towns and cities nearby as king, another you gotta build up your harem with fetishes, and otherwise, thirdly you have to have like 12 pregnancies from different concubines/wives/slaves. and lastly, you gotta run all the monsters out of each area of the map. Its time consuming but hopefully, it has a nice ending, or better yet, maybe I'm not as close to the ending as I thought and there will be more.

Poor-man's version of a pokemons collector. A mix of harem-builder and pseudo-dungeon-crawler, with a hostile UI, boring, repetitive combat and lewd content even more so. Heavy grind, very limited (both in quality and quantity) renders, many different fetishes completely not played out. Great in concept (for an adult game) but very poorly executed. It didn't succeed neither as a game nor as an adult product.

An involved developer that succeed to do an enjoyable game with good RPG elements

Art style:
First of all the game involve the possibility of sex (one form or another) with around 15-20 girls so while for a girl there are multiple ways for intercourse, those
actions are repeated to the other girls which for me kind of make sense.

Gameplay:
The map is quite easy to navigate after a few plays and you learn where you have to go and what you have to do and where you have to go.
For the quests it would have been useful to have a quest log just so you know where you are standing and have a central place for various quests that appears. The grinding for the late quests (Impregnate and have 75 fetishes) is very annoying so that can be tought differently next time. For the combat side the characters are balanced (with few girls that are rarely used) and I found few different combinations that works.


Story and writing:
I like the fact that there are some sex scenes that will appear no matter what and also the fact that the girls personalities change froș one game to the other, so it make it less boring.


Girls:
The girls are fine but the focus of the game is not on that so you will not see different outfits or positions: There is no personality for girls or character development either.

the "complete" tag is a joke,
decent gameplay, the user UI is a bit hostile.
great character design and a lot of characters.
lacking in content, feels likes the dev spread out too much (a lot of girls but little content). each girl gets a quest, and some quests are a lot better than others (content wise).
some buildings that has NO use.

I like this game, I love party based RPGs and this game combines that with building a harem of girls to fight for you, loved the idea.

Sex scenes have a lot of options and the renders are good. I don't like the "attention" system though, at some point you end up having to ignore girls and lose points with them, had to cheat to avoid that.

The combat can be annoying at times because skills have a high miss chance, making battles take long, enemies used to scale a lot before, but it seems better now in the final version.

All in all I had a lot of fun playing it, it's a game that I come back to play from time to time, the gameplay to me wasn't complicated at all and is fun.

Now that the game is tagged "Completed" I decided to pick it back up again after having quite some fun with it while it was still on v0.9

Unfortunately, this game can be summed up in two words.

"Missed" "Opportunities"

Which is a real shame as the potential for both an enjoyable game and an "enjoyable" game are most assuredly there!


Gameplay-wise, the core of an enjoyable pseudo-dungeoncrawler is there. Pick a group of front- and backliners(Or be a madlad and go full backliners, you do you), pick a zone to explore and beat up the baddies for gold and (cursed) loot to deck your heroines out with. Surely that'd be fun for the dungeoncrawling, and fun to deck your girls out with the fetish-cursed loot you want them to have the most.

Well, no. You simply pick 4 girls, beat up a dozen same-y sets of monsters for that zone, get a random event or two, and once they all have their "upgrade" to each slot you won't even find any gear anymore. The cursed gear is randomised, cannot be "refused" or stored, so if you're unlucky like I was with my druidess you get 6 items that all give fetishes she already has and she literally ends up "Dominant, bondage fetishist, masochist" for her sexual traits. So if you've got a major fetish for e.g. exhibitionism you're either going to be rolling the dice hoping something she can use drops when you bring her along, or wait until you've got the blacksmith(Making her extremely underleveled because she isn't adventuring) and create an item with the desired fetish attached for her.


Which segues into the smut part.
There's a fair bunch of fetishes present into this game. And present is pretty much the best method to describe it. It's there, it's going to be ONE CG for each girl, and it's not going to be cross-fetish.

To illustrate this, let me use a recent example.
You complete some midgame missions and earn the right to choose one of your girls to be your queen. AWESOME!
Except, the following happens:
1: The chosen queen no longer actively seeks you out for funtimes. You've got to VISIT her with whatever daily energy you have spare.
2: Her bedroom CG changes into a royal dress. Neat.
3: She has her greetings line slightly changed.
4: Roll credits!


Now, I want my waifu to be mine for laifu and get a kid with her. You can do that!
Here's what happens
1: The girl's bedroom CG changes to a pregnant model
2: The girl cannot go adventuring for pretty much a genuine pregnancy's worth of days.
3: Roll credits.

THat's right. She can still have sex with you, but there's no pregnant CGs for it, no changed dialogue, in the bedroom CG she's pregnant, when you go to her for funtimes she's suddenly not.

Then I toss one of the slaves into the bondage dungeon, because I'm eeeeeevil. Your choices then literally boil down to: "Release her" and "Leave her". No lewding the girl in bondage, no spankings, no teasing, nada.


And that's basically the whole game. The seeds for a both a good, solid and fun game AND a good solid and "fun" H-Game are there, they just never get the chance to grow into anything of genuine greatness, merely creeping up to "Passable Timesink" level instead.

Such a shame

Width of an ocean. Depth of a puddle.

Its a good game with a lot of great concepts. The issue is is that it really only has concepts to it, and they're poorly executed.

There's a lot of RPGM games I've played where I go "this shld've just been on Ren'py", this game is unique in that its the only Ren'py I've played where I thought "This shld've been made in RPGM." This is a very serious problem in the game, imo. The creator wanted the engines that RPGM offered but instead of making it in RPGM he tried to create those engines for Ren'py which resulted in a pretty clunky and confusing UI.

This is one of the better games i have played, true there isnt much to the story side, but it makes up with its various option in gameplay, its a must try one, if you are looking for just to have some quick fun

I want to like this game more I do, DnD and prego I tried it with an open mind, but it's just so unpolished on every level. It's not bad, it was fun to tinker on for awhile, but after a brief time it didn't succeed for me either as a game or as an adult product. Heavy grind, pregnancy underdone, renders good but limited for each girl, lack of gallery so replaying old scenes takes resources you need towards playing, maybe there's a 3rd or 4th star in here somewhere but at this time it's underwhelming for what it could have been.

I've played Damsels and Dungeons for many hours now and unfortunately I have a mixed feeling about this game.

The renders are mostly good and there are a lot of them, some are rendered in a bad way so they are grainy probably related to how DAZ rendering images it think is too dark.

That the content from this game is from DAZ is instantly noticed as it contains the default pretty women from DAZ which we've seen in numerous games and comics...

The game progression is useless IMHO, it doesn't matter if you are lvl 1 or 30 because the monsters scale with them and the real issue with character progression is that they don't get better at what they do. I had one lady dying on poison before the four in the group could kill one monster... The only noticeable difference being they get more HP.

As it is a Ren'Py game it has the normal "menu"-clicks interaction which just doesn't work in a game like this which tries to be an RPG. I'm not familiar with Ren'Py but isn't it possible to make your own UI implementations?

This menu system make buying items off the vendors very difficult.
And even these are badly implemented as you're thrown out of the vendor which makes the merchant visiting your town leaving. Why the dev. decided to call it a town is beyond me as it is a castle even the image out side is a castle. The in-game picture is of Eilean Donan Castle Scotland

Also it isn't possible to change the gear of your characters which is very unfortunate as gear can be crafted and drops in areas you visit and you want to stack the gear attributes to match the fetish of the woman wearing them!

The quests are somewhat fluid but some needs to be explained better, for example one of the ladies want to visit a town, the text is the same so I assumed it either bugged out or that she wanted to visit the same town twice, which wasn't the case as she wanted to go to a town I never been told exist in the game.
And another I don't understand how to complete at all "Have a woman in bondage in your hall"

Whilst on the topic on traveling in this game, there's no map with connections to the areas, even if you visited a place before you can't fast travel there but instead you are forced to do random encounters until you either reach the designated place or have to head home again because you run out of HP or healing pots. Healing and mana potions are also an issue. The characters get more HP and mana points as they level but the potions remain the same and the amount of healing they heal is random.. so very often they heal for 1 HP!
These potions also conveniently cost more depending on how far you've come or how much money you have!

I can see how the dev might want it to prevent us from fast traveling but add random encounters while you fast travel then...

There's a dungeon where I thought I could assign my slaves and build things I could pleasure them and myself with but no.

This game also flies a huge "GRIND FLAG" over it . I usually don't want to cheat but my time is precious to me and I don't want to spend an unnecessary amount of time to grind money so my suggestion is that you console cheat.

The ladies get pregnant after a while and you can also buy fertility potions which would increase the chance.
There are currently some new pregnant state renders but in the sex scenes they revert back to not being pregnant.
After the pregnancy ends the woman announces that she delivered a boy or a girl, but where does the children go?

I was to rate this 3/5 because of my kink for pregnancy but as far as a game go Damsels and Dungeons doesn't deliver so it get 1/5

Rating based on: 1.13

This game has a lot of fun content, in terms of gameplay. The only thing I feel is too long are the 7 days of recharge time for your characters.
There are quite a few different scenes but the quality I would say isn't five star, and giving your characters fetishes is not difficult. But while on the topic of fetishes there are a few- voyerism, exhibitionism, sadism, masochism, degradee... Not enough foot stuff for me tho.

Gameplay is fantastic, but not so overly complex that it's annoying.

Renders are below average
- He needs to study various DAZ Studio indoor & outdoor lighting tutorials. I suggest allocating seven days to mastering DAZ lighting & go slow, study the concepts in depth.
- You can't just have a light shining on the scene directly from the camera, especially if it's a medieval setting. I suggest he look into DAZ ghost lights.
- You can't just use pure white for the light color, you need to mix in an ever so small touch of yellow/red into the light color.

Story is almost non-existent and there is barely any setup for the sex scenes.

Character development is almost non-existent, there needs to be an element of human interaction between you & the women. I suggest removing the ugliest character models, then focus on fleshing out the story of the characters.

The barren waste land makes the world feel a bit too lifeless. Traversing between a forest would probably work better, and ensure the landscapes are rendered in DAZ.

The women are beautiful, but the lighting is all wrong and hurts the final result of the scenes. The facial expressions are neglected too much. The lack of facial expressions hurts the moment.

The sense of exploration is well done, you'll never know what you may stumble upon.

Harem is great, but I wouldn't mind more femdom where the women are in charge. This recommendation had no bearing on my review score. There is one place in the game where you can worship the women fortunately. It would also be cool to go into the brothel and watch the women get fucked (ntr/cuckold content, if not I understand).

So really the only thing that's preventing me from giving five stars is the render quality and the world feels too empty, barren & lifeless. Instead of using barren backgrounds, try using 3d rendered forests in DAZ with HDR.

The scope of this game is huge, so it's causing him to neglect certain areas. The first thing he needs to do is fix the quality of the renders and the easiest way to do that is to spend a good seven days studying indoor & outdoor DAZ lighting tutorials.