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

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.

Unfappable, meh gameplay and meh art.

The gamplay is pretty repetitive, the dungeons are "move foward or go home". The fights are pretty basic with almost no strategy. And the sex scenes are so fking poor. No sound nor music.

Not recommended imo.

I really like this game, at first it like "What the hell do i do?" There's no real interaction with the girls in the beginning other than buying armor for them. So I bit my lip and trudged on. I realized questing with then and giving them the items you find slowly raises their affection and lust slowly and with that knowledge the game opened up lo and behold we got a fun game here.
I do think there are things you need to work on but it seems you're doing a good job adding things bit by bit. I will cheer this game on waving my single pudgy pom pom in flapping around lol

Great game lots of fun its the closest i have seen Renpy act like a rpg game!
Just for that it deserves 5 stars.
Models are very nice, and if you like fantasy rpgs and boobs you are set.
Really with the Plethora or mindless Renpy VN where all you do is click next nexc next next mindlessly its great to see the engine used to make real games with real gameplay.

Awesome concept.
True management and yet good quality graphics sex rpg are very rare...
Poor sex scenes, animations and gameplay.
A Remake with better sex gameplay and freedom in the castle would kill the game...

Atleast Somebody who delivers a Game that continues the Plotline, instead of cash grab for recycling old contents.

Sure her models aren´t original renders. but Amaraine atleast delievers a complete game. and more.
Instead of reshuffling the demo ¨game¨
To milk out the patreons. without ever advancing the story or plotlines.

(based on version 1.02)

Great game with actual gameplay - party based rpg, darkest dungeon - style, just instead of perks girls get different sexual fetishes, which affects the interactions available when having sexy time with them back at base.

Lots of classes to choose from - i think 15 character classes in v. 1.02 - fun to try different combinations for your party.

Latest version is being uploaded asap.
5/5

Based on my initial play of v 1.0
Enjoyable fighting game. Good balance of combat/sex. Interesting trait system that's becoming more well integrated as versions progress. Some good quests as well. Not sure where the whole plot is heading so far, you just play till you get bored I guess since there's no actual end game that I'm aware of. Models are well done. Good variety.
Updates are coming at a good pace, looking forward to the final release.

Great game already with a lot of promise, also well developed code with arrays, classes, etc.

Content-wise it could use more sex scene images (currently 1 image per scene)

The combat and skill systems are detailed, with randomly generated items to complete your basic equipment

Cool game, pretty easy to get addicted to farm fetishes and explore stuff. Achievement system would be really cool! Maybe some more sexy stuff with NPCs (other than your girls ofc). Looking forward to growth of the project, and i support it with whole 3$ (pretty broke, sorry)

Decent game, but characters need more backstory... and plot. Either that or more variation... the replay value is quite low. Kinda felt like playing pokemon except not as interesting. The combat dialog was boring as heck and the misses really built up.

(v0.7) Concentrates on being a game over being porn, but has plenty of erotic content. Interesting take on the basic party RPG formula, and though it is still early in development the concepts are promising.

Needs more money sinks and there is really only content up to about level 5, but replayability is high due to different classes and unique combinations of traits. I had a few hours of fun, which is a lot for such an early version.

I only hit a couple of bugs near the end of the current content, polish seems high for the stuff that's been around for more than one or two releases.

I really like the attention this game gives to the classes, it's blend of so many well known game play styles.
This game you must assemble your "harem" of fighting classes, in turn exploring the world in a Final Fantasy style, which can result in some real nice game-play with endless questing and individual stat building.
I love the renders, the variables of the prizes/spells which affect personality.

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.1...

Originally Reviewed on 12/23/2017

For being so early in it's development it's alright... Very creative idea for a basic Harem game...

Visuals are not bad for the characters, they look alright, although as your party grows the same character class types all look the same, just with different names... The backdrops are very basic, as there are not very many beyond the basic screen, forest, castle hall, and dungeon... The introductory text color needs to change though, because the backdrops during the introduction are so bright, that it's hard to see the white text... Same with the white description text on the main screen, it blends in with the background too much...

The script really isn't much, you have the introduction text, a very brief amount of dialogue with one character and the rest are just menu choices and brief scene descriptions... The plot is very basic, you hire damsels (women) to join your harem, then send them out on adventures to fight baddies in order to level up, let them rest a bit, repeat... You can find some gear to give them, or buy some armor for one of the character class types... As the harem characters progress, you begin opening up varying ranks of sex scenes (they are very brief)... You may also be able to get some or all to eventually hang around in your harem with some of their clothes off (they still fight in adventures fully clothed)... You gain mana back by performing sex acts with your harem, and use it to cast spells during adventures or to resurrect fallen harem members...

It's almost like a very simple Dungeons & Dragons game but your party of adventurers are all sex addicted females... There really isn't much of a story or plot, at the moment... The combat is very basic and turn based...

Overall, the game has all it's basic mechanics working... I can only assume with it being so early in development that more will eventually be added... Will there be more story elements? Dunno, because there isn't much in the current version, and I don't think that is it's focus at all... It's just a fantasy harem RPG with a very basic story... It does get repetitive once you've seen everything there is to see, but as I said, it's still in early production... Will I re-visit it? Maybe if it gets more story elements, but for now probably not... Have to wait and see what the future holds... It's not a bad game, it's just too simple for me and lacks a deep story...