Unity - Dark Land Chronicle: The Fallen Elf [v0.328] [Winterfire Studio]

Dark Land Chronicle ended up being mostly a pleasant surprise for me. I grabbed this game on the strength of the one screenshot with the monster balls-deep in the elf girl. It’s a cool-looking monster and she’s a hot-looking elf. The pictured event ends up being the very first thing you do in the game, setting the bar high. A bar not quite sustained, alas.

You play as the hot elf in this game. When I play as a female protagonist in a monster-fuck game, I expect to have a lot of monster dick in me. That’s not quite where this game is at now. You get to fuck some goblins and some humans. It’s pretty sexy stuff despite being limited scenes. The animations look hot and there’s sexy dialogue to go around. Actually, despite clearly not being an English-first team, the dialogue they produced is hot and sleazy.

The game itself was fun enough to play. It’s very flexible in how you approach it. Like, once you get past that first monster, you get to just wander. Your goal is loosely defined as getting the humans in town to trust you. You talk to them and they give you quests. But if you’re not feeling it, you can just pull out your sword and start killing them. It reminds me of those old Advanced Dungeons & Dragons games that way.

If you do kill quest-givers, you’re going to miss out on some stuff. You’re also going to piss off anyone in that ‘faction.’ If you kill humans, other humans are going to start attacking you. And you can’t talk to them anymore. If you schmooze too hard with goblins, you’ll piss off anyone in the anti-goblin faction and they’ll attack you. If you schmooze too hard with the anti-goblin people, guess what? Goblins won’t like you anymore.

I like this. It gives the game replay value. You can approach it all kinds of ways. You can be a huge slut. You can just murder everyone. You can try different things. I feel it’s not perfectly balanced yet. But in spirit it’s pretty cool.

You get the most out of the game by just being as slutty as possible, though. Don’t play coy. Just try to get as much dick in you as you can and you’ll reap the benefits. It’s like politics that way.

I just wish there was more to do. As it stands, the game is short. If the game’s various systems weren’t so complicated, it’d be even shorter. This game is filled with all sorts of little systems that give it quite a learning curve. It took me a while to figure out that I have to put my sword away to pick flowers or that I can chop wood by clicking on any fucking tree I want. Who knew? There’s asystem for cooking, a system for camping, a system for drawing water, for making clothes, for making tools, for making lube and aphrodesiacs, etc. The camping system was the worst, because there are no instructions and it’s absolutely essential for making a day pass.

Overall, it kept my interest enough that I’ll check back for updates. I hope to see improved mechanics and a lot more monster fuckin’ going forward. A whore for goblins deserves more than just the missionary position.

A solid proof of concept. You can definitely see the potential especially with how you choose to speak to people. Hopefully there's going to be moments in the released version where a rude or arrogant Elf gets put in her place but that's far far away at the moment.

The combat is really poorly done and the survival system is obtuse and half-baked but there's the makings of a great game here.

I think the game has a solid foundation. But it severely lacks in instructions and directions.

The only way I found out to pass the day was through a Itch.io comment. You have to find your campfire, use some heating ingredient (couldn't use firewood?????) and two meals. The meals are not intuitive to make either.

I like the art, style and overall story/vibe. But the lack of progression really makes it fustrating

Gives me some old school isometric rpg vibes like Divine Divinity. Still a bit light on content and a bit buggy saving often does not work. Also the whole survival/inventory system feels way too restrictive as atm you can easily hard lock yourself if you break all your tools and sleep too often. Maybe ease off these mechanics and focus on other stuff first or add some more repeatable quests to grind some money in worst case. But the mc is hot and quite unique as an elf girl also the sprites and the few h-scenes throughout make sense and look nice. Also the little text lore snippets hidden throughout felt interesting. Hope development continues and rpg elements get fleshed out more as this has lots of potential as the world gets filled in more. With for example some options for a slutty dominant mc. As sex seems to be always whoring herself out reluctantly or getting raped. Maybe dominant/assertive is just supposed to be a virgin run with only seeing the girls around you getting raped or fucked. But that would be kind of boring.

In summary:
Pro:
- Interesting dark fantasy setting and story
- interesting characters, quests and texts
- old-school isometric realtime rpg style gameplay and system
- female Elf MC^^
Con:
- undercooked survival system with very harsh inventory space
- saving does not work (quite short so you can easily finish in one sitting)
- fighting system is kind of a joke (but there are not many fights anyway so it's not a big deal YET)

Tons of potential in this game. Got an item system that lets you get naked at will and some NPCs even react to it (wish it was all though!). There is a crafting system and quests allow you to get to multiple resolutions instead of just one.

It is pretty janky right now, animations aren't great and the combat is pretty bland. Those are all things that can be worked out though. Will keep an eye on this game!

Ooof. The jank is strong with this one.

This game has some gameplay elements that are genuinely exciting. It's tagged sandbox and it truly feels like a sandbox because the quests you're given are very open-ended. The guard tells you to investigate some stuff, you go do it, and then you can blatantly lie about your findings, still get the reward, and as a consequence the next day the threat is or isn't put down by reinforcements. And in turn, NPCs will lie to you, sometimes cheating you of your reward.

The artistic direction is also good, it sells the tone very convincingly. However, implementation is a hit and miss. Some animations, especially walking animations, are very stiff.

That said, the game is a completely unplayable jankfest. Saves don't transfer even between minor game version changes. And worse, for me the whole save system outright fails past some progression point, any sufficiently advanced save just does not load. At all. Coupled with somewhat frequent crashes and game-breaking bugs, I was simply unable to meaningfully progress past day one.

I want to recommend this game, but I absolutely can not, given its current state. Maybe come back in two years, and hope the jank is patched out.

Really good concept with a lot of content and good art alredy... but the game is borderline unplayable right now, multiple crashes while loading into a zone, multiple crashes on loading/saving the game, some saves just stop working at all. There is definetly a potential but right now i can t recomend it unless you just wanna see what the game is about.

One of the best games I have ever played and I played hundreds of them with that in mind if they go thru with the whole game I think it will be a masterpiece. (don't mind my grammer i don't rlly use it often while writing on pc)

good art, already a bunch of content, gameplay is ok, could be better but already better than 99% of other porn games. already a good little game that will be expended upon, gonna keep an eye on this one.

This game starts off a bit rough but the art style kind of makes up for it in my opinion , the movement is not the most fluid but it is still in its early days .
Based on the concept and the art i'd say this is the start to something great

This game moving in the right diraction. Gameplay and the plot are unironicaly good. Also, all curent quests can be complited. For an early builds this is extremly good.
Cons: there are some bugs (not critical) and you can feel the lack of proper tutorial

This game has the makings of a good game but it was released WAY to early.

Pro's:
This game is beautiful! The art style chosen fits really well with the corruption RPG gimic.
The story is decent and the opening cinematic is a very good.
Con's:
This game is almost completely unplayable. The up and down keys don't work correctly. After finishing the first encounter with the cyclopes, My game soft locked and I wasn't able to continue. After starting a new save, I ran into a new bug where the cyclopes would spawn in with full health. The last bug I ran into before deleting the game was a soft lock that prevented me from escaping while being raped.

Summary:

This game is 100% worth keeping an eye on, but it wont be worth the download for at least a few months and probably more like a few years.

Edit: half a year has passed and a lot of the bugs are fixed. Game is still lacking content and the corruption system still doesn't work, I'm still holding out hope.

I might be wrong but I think that this game is dead right from the start. Let me explain:

1. The "Dont starve" choice of art is bad for this game. The game can't offer anything new in this genre and only one animated sprite walk for the heroine in all directions shows that there were no efforts in creating something interesting or engaging here.
2. Sex scenes - they are bad. I won't even be telling you that my game crashed right on the very first scene, it's alpha after all, but they are simply bad. No any transition animations (either in sex scenes or in any other regular animations), no any interesting gameplay mechanics, nothing at all. It's bad and boring.
3. From the game intro I can see that devs want to create something that they simply dont have resources and wishes for.

Maybe they will add a story, maybe they add some sort of minigames but anyway this project will remain a souless dumy forever. I'd like to be wrong but unfortunately I've played too many similar games and sex games in general to rate this game right at the first minute of my playthough. And the next hour only strenghtened my opinion about it.

An amazing start. There are a couple of QoL things to be worked out and the game can definitely use more content, but everything in the game is amazing already. I really hope that the game scales the lewd content with the story progression so that it continues to hook the player in!

Game with a lot of potential, I hope that more good updates will come and more sex/fight experiences will be added.
Graphics 5 stars
Fights 5 stars
Sex animations 5 stars
Story and dialogues 5 stars

Deutsch:
Spiel mit viel potential ich hoffe das weitere gute updates kommen und mehr sex/Fight Erfahrungen dazu kommen.
Grafik 5 Sterne
Kämpfe 5 Sterne
Sex Animations 5 Sterne
Story und Dialoge 5 Sterne

Excited to see where this goes, Diablo sex game more or less.
Obviously still in early development but still enough to see this is going to be amazing when its done.
Had to give it 5 stars because every one rating it so low

The game is boring afther like 10 minutes the scenes are repeated a lot, the saves are shit and the fappable content its not even good so this its just a good concept but so bad planned and made it. Ihope it gets a major update to upgrade this game to the concept its was inicially based. Bad game Bad wank
4/10 (Sorry for my bad english)

The setup and foundations are there and are quite good but... That's all there is. Very quickly you hit a dead end with absolutely nothing to do. Add on to that a lack of saves to repeat the about... 2-3 scenes the game has and you'll find yourself just bored and disappointed.

The sex scenes are honestly a bit annoying as well. The Main Heroine's voice during it is just... horrible and ear gratingly high pitched and will repeat the same high pitch squeal during the "Climax" scene 2-3 times. The "Tap to escape" is really just a "this'll infinitely loop until you click this and trigger the climax scene." and the climax scene has this "Cool down" animation at the end where nothing happens for a good 2-4 seconds. Your character and the other character isn't doing anything, just standing there waiting for the game to let you play again.

It's just.. nowhere near ready to be released to public with how much it's lacking and how completely bare bones it is.

Full of nothing.
This game looks cool for sure, but it has nothing.
The gameplay, erotic scene, convenience, characters....
It's spread thin, and it's master of none.
It's like someone tried to make a regular game, but couldn't make it well, so they sprinkled some erotic stuff on top to make up for it.
The art is definitely wasted on the game.

This is a really cool project so far. From the art, to the combat, exploration, and even the reputation system. There is alot of really cool choices and the game feels exremely choice based. For an initial release, this is better than proably 60% of the never updated slop I've seen. I'd really like to see more options for the actual game system itself rather than content. The content is great but it'd be great to have hotkeys, more settings (i.e. volume/music settings), and such. Excited for this one.