RPGM - Completed - Demons Roots [v1.02] [Quick nail Aristocrat]

deeply touching story,some chatacters and some reletionships in the game between those characters i didn't expect to see..if we are brave and bold enough to reach our hand and help each other,then anything is possible..and that's . I don't have anything really to add then that this is one of those really fantastic RPGM games which just are great and I end up coming back to all the way until the finish. Highly recommend for rpgm fans who are looking for a little bit of an interesting story

Grindy with dump story where you need to save the world from slavery while your allies are on a chain lol, h-scene are boring and as if some kind of bonus was made, the bad ending in this game is the worst mechanic I have seen, it's super hard, and if you get the scenes, you will be very upset because these scenes are terrible.
About the h-scenes in general:
There are no animations, the sounds of sex are bad, the artist was even too lazy to draw some kind of imitation of speed during the sexual act, so you will see the most boring scenes with a bad description of the sexual act, one picture is penetration/foreplay, the second orgasm and that's it, the only thing that is good here is that the arts are really well drawn. Deserves one star only because good art, there is nothing more to evaluate, if the author was even too lazy to replace a sprite with slaves on a chain when the main character saves people from slavery

A great game, took me 40 hours for the first playthrough, but it has a few flaws so I can't give a 5/5 score.


First, the good:

The story is great, filled with many interesting plot twists, (basically, if you see the disclaimer at the start "This is a Work of fiction. etc..." you know the story is good.) The characters are great, you get to learn their stories.

The actual gameplay is turn based RPGMaker, you run around open chests, get items, fight enemies, There's a real item, weapon, and equipment system in the game, with leveling up characters gain new skills which are crucial to learn, so read them carefully. You spend money for buying consumables mostly cause the best gear is found while exploring.

The bosses are challenging, you need to create a strategy and keep using it until you win, there's a generous retry button if you get killed, Items which grant special resistances are the key here, so read carefully what they do, and NEVER SELL ITEMS!

The story is, you are the leader of the demons jumping out of the underworld to conquer humanity with all the demon forces with you, but this time to avoid the mistakes of the past, you as the leader are tasked with carefully conquering human cities and replacing their tyranny with prosperity and stability, since literally 40% of the humans have been enslaved. You look human but actually you are a demon because <spoilers>, the strong desire for justice against the evil humans who enslaved so many people and the preservation of the demon race is the main character's motivation, and in the end you manage to conquer the world and remove the evils that caused slavery (ehhh not quite, <spoliers>).

The music is really good too, it has some classic RPGM music for ambient and for combat and for story events.

So, why is this game not a 5/5 then you might ask? Well, let me tell you.

The bad parts:

The item system doesn't have a "equip the best gear" button, so you need to spend a lot of time manually scrolling through your inventory to equip the best items, it's annoying.

After you meet new characters and when they join your party, the chains and metal collars which kept them imprisoned in slavery are never removed, at all, in the entire game. How can your companions say "We have conquered another city, we freed the slaves" wile, literally being chained, and fighting like this? The answer here is that some artist was too lazy adding another character sprite where they are not in chains, so they just left it like that, really dumb.

There's one flaw with the story. The story path is linear, there's exactly one ending which is ummmm, at first, yay we beat the final boss, we ended slavery, but then, bad things happen <spoilers>. This game desperately needs multiple endings where, where somewhere in the story there's key decisions where you decide to be a defender of peace and an ally to humanity, or a typical demon who seeks to destroy humanity. There could also be ending variations based on how horny/corrupted/abused the main character is you get different ending. But nope, none of this exists in the game, it has only one linear path.

The only "alternate endings" are one part in the story where you get killed during the story when a big dramatic moment happens, to avoid this you are required to open a fucking guide, so that's what I did there and select the second dialogue option. The other "alternative ending" is where you get defeated and captured as a slave. More on that below.

When you get captured and enslaved, you are thrown into an evil dungeon where you and your companions get horribly abused, the game quickly turns into a horror game pretty much. In terms of story, this shows tyranny which is well made according to the rest of the story. But the problem is that in terms of gameplay you only options are, talk to people in the dungeon and see the evil here so nothing changes, or try to escape in the labyrinth which REQUIRES A GUIDE! This makes this horror section a terrible waste of time. And that guide says what? it says YOU NEED ALL THE CHARACTERS WITH YOU TO COMPLETE IT. Really really dumb.

And now, the H-scenes, the main reason for a 4/5 rating.

All the H-scenes are 2D images, absolutely no animations. And what are these scenes exactly? Well, you would expect to see in-battle H-scenes where your companions get stun locked and they need help to break free, or something, right? Nope, that doesn't exist.

One type of H-scenes is, you and your companions selling sex for special currency inside of a kingdom best described as "Horny Disney Land", and everyone hates this OBVIOUSLY, but the main character says "guys, we need info, we gotta farm money to buy the info, please endure this pain", really really dumb, If you actually wanted to see these scenes you need to grind and wait for RNG, which is really really dumb, so even if you wanted to watch porn you can't have fun, you just can't. In this kingdom every companion can lose their virginity in a "wholesome way" by filling in a personality test and having a magical human appear only once to match them and to make them feel safe and happy, which is kinda wholesome I guess, but again, this is a kingdom where your goal is to sell sex for money, that's not wholesome at all.

Another type of H-scenes is the slavery dungeon in the Bad End. That's just a horror show, you will not have any fun.If you don't believe me then open the game's gallery online and see that you won't have any fun.

And the last type of H-scenes, there's only one actually, there's a story moment where the main character gets vulnerable and alone with one of her long-time companions <spoilers>, and there your companion decides to rape the main character while she is drugged and cannot fight back. This is unavoidable in the story. The last time I saw "Your own allies raping your for fun haha lol" Was in Monster Girl Quest, and it is just as stupid here. And, during this sad rape scene, the game plays joyful happy music, and the game event text is saying that this is a cute remantic moment between these 2 characters. THIS IS NOT A HAPPY SCENE, THIS IS TORTURE, THIS IS RAPE, YOUR STORY WRITERS MADE A MISTAKE IN THIS CHAPTER! After the scene ends the main character realises she was raped by her own companion, she says she will remember this tragic moment, but then she decides to thank her companion for keeping her safe while she was vulnerable, otherwise she would have been caught by the enemy and it would be game over from there. Bullshit like this needs to be optional, a.k.a. to either politely ask for consent, or to just refuse to rape your own ally. I just hate this scene.

So, TL DR, story good, normal fights are a grindy meh, bosses are good and challenging, no alternate endings, read the guide, fun porn you will not find here definitely. 4/5.

I love and hate this game!

Despite being an amazing game, both in graphics, style, music and level design, some story decisions are dumb. You are on the verge of death? Don't worry, you have the plot armor! You have unbeatable enemies and you will die now? Don't worry, you will remember that you are actually more powerful than them!
And the end has too be a beautiful tragedy, isn't? No, it will be smoothened up by some anime bullshit.
I hate this game...
But I have to give this game a good rating because of the amount of effort that was put into it... and it sucks...

Excellent story with great graphic which make me confused that H-game plot can be this good. "Hopelessness" is the main theme of this game. which is similiar to Nier automata. Although the combat is repetitive and tedious.

I'm not really sure how to convey how much I enjoyed this game in words, each of the main cast members are so interesting but hit those cliches that you'd expect in anime.

The story went to places I did not see and made me care about the characters more than I thought possible, after finishing the game I couldn't hold back the tears and had to let it out. The end run is so good and emotional, leaving me with that post-game depression you get after finishing something with a really good and meaningful story.

The lewds were alright, at least the consensual ones, I had no interest in the bad end mode, especially not after seeing how wholesome and sweet the main characters are, especially Polca and Lily.

Man, this game is a roller-coaster. I have never seen such a game that has a refined story yet. The game-play might feel a bit lackluster and a bit repetitive but it doesn't hinder the overall experience. Everything fit as well as a Lego block. The ending had me. Although this game is called Eroge, the lewd elements were not the main focus and this game feels fine with it.

overall I give 5/5 stars for a game long enough to be enjoyable but not too long to feel it grind y or boring. The only other hope that I have is this game should be remade into a 3D Action adventure RPG game with AA quality. A lot of people including me would be willing to pay for it.

An eroge game so good it made me buy the game legally through steam.
One of the rare cases where the story is a lot better than the porn, hell throughout my 50 hour playtime i didn't fap at all to the hentai scenes.

My god this game is good, it's the first time i play a rpgm game with a story like that. I know it's not perfect but it's better than most of the other rpgm game i played. And the H part of the game is really good too even if it's mostly bad end.

Sorry if my english is broken,i don't speak english very well.

Demon Roots is a high production rpg maker game that has a very good anime artstyle. Sadly that is the only praise this game is allowed to have. You play as a girl demon that desires to bring demons back to earth, kill everyone and exact revenge on humanity. To do this you will slowly and single handed conquer nation after nation. The entire core of this game is its length story, its very long texts and the many, many fights you will get into. At no point whatsoever in this game the main genre marketed is properly used. After a tortuous one hour tutorial followed by two hours of story and boring, repetitive fights that abuse the most basic of rpgm elements, I saw only one miserable scene. A pathetic static image that had almost no relation to the story and was about a random npc. I strongly believe this game was not made with intent to be a hentai game, but used this as a crutch to farm attention, proven when you reach the nonsensical carnival. Nothing in the gameplay is remotely enticing or sensual with the exception of one or two character designs. It is so detached from the main genre marketed that you have the option to turn it off and will affect absolutely nothing. This game was designed to be a very pretentious story about the evil of men and the not so evil of demons that were actually the decent guys all along. Again, the only positive factor is some parts of the artstyle, nothing more. I dropped after two chapters because it is a bland, repetitive, obnoxious, game with amateur level storytelling without a single memorable character.

I can't point to a game here that does the rpg gameplay as good as this one (main complaint is money was completely useless to me after an hour or 2 of gameplay, there are incredibly expensive items from very early on, when you have enough money to buy them you already have better items... Also Ange+evasion is ridiculous, but without her I would've died x1000 times more so it's cool with me)
The story is incredible, again, VERY FEW games in here compare to it.
The lenght, it's probably not accurate since I've let it be in my computer in stand by, but definitely 25h+.
The H part is nothing crazy, but the art is great, it mantains the 5 stars.
One of my favorite h-games, despite it not hitting any of my fetishes, which is sick. More of a game than a H-game for sure. I'm here for H-games, but this one I had to play, and so do you, you'll get invested, trust me.

The 18+ side of the game is cool and all, but I'm so glad you can turn it off. This game is a masterpiece with the most heartbreaking story I've see in a long time.

The story is a long one, with so much suffering, struggling and heartbreak that the fact that it ends the way it does is just tragic. It actually drove me to tears, that's rare for a game, especially a game on this site...

Great Amazing Wonderful Game, THROW THE GLAZING I CAN EVER GIVE, DR is one of the top-tier Hentai games I played, came for the porn stayed for the story, and made me cry on the Princess Lily backstory cutscene, I love Kudan and Diablo, they're everything the Emperor is not.

I'm just upset that Polca's victory is bittersweet and real Diana died, Overall, Fuck the Emperor blessing curse bastard.

Overall 5/5. A mediocre game packed with an amazing story, an absolutely amazing story.

Gameplay 1.5/5. Very basic RPGM gameplay with a few tweaks, the experience however, is boring, tedious, and grindy. The gameplay / combat is the worst part about this game and you only bear with it for the story

Story 5/5. A basic premise of "Demons fighting for survival", that is just extremely well made. The writing leads to a story that kept me hooked throughout, i felt happy, sad, scared, angry, and curious but always wanting more. The world and its different regions, people, and culture are quite detailed which really compliments the plot

Characters 5/5. A cast of characters with well written personality, background, and motivations. By the end I just wished the game could be longer so I can spend more time with them

Art 3/5. Its fine, its more than enough to serve the game

H content 3.5/5. This is a game first, porn second. H content has 3 parts Doremi, Main Story, and Bad End. Doremi is side stories which are happy and vanilla, Main Story is few and plot heavy, and bad end, which is the really messed up shit.

I'm conflicted on this game. I've played first on the idea of a Hgame, but at the end I've stayed for the plot. Nearly all CG is tied on losing combats and being send to the Bad end Dungeon, something you will do a lot on the 2nd part of the game if you surrender. Problem is, plot is simple but effective, revolving around enslavement and racism, and enemies are so little charismatic and so wicked you don't want to lose to them. This takes you to the most frustrating part: Combat. This is so boring and makes you grind a lot so at the end it made me use a savegame editor to bypass that.

Plot, as said, is straightforward and simple. May be too simple, but at least everybody is evil with demons the less ones thanks to the main character and some colleagues. It fails to deliver any conflict on the conquest as humans are retarded and rotted. Plot have some twist/wtf at the middle and some twist at the end, leaving you with the promise of a second game. How they will do it, I don't know.

There's nearly zero secondary missions, if you consider a secondary mission a country founded around sex (where you can grind for some bonuses) , some extra hard dungeons or some treasure hunting.

On the graphical aspect, game is good (for a RPGM game). I can't give my opinion on FX's and music as I play mute.

Final verdict: It's a good game if you forget about being a Hgame. Even more, the H scenes are not well integrated on the plot (you're a demon, FFS). It would have been easier if you created a plot where everyone is rotten and has a reason to be as it is.

I'm sorry, ok? I feel really bad about doing this. I don't want to be this person, but you guessed it... What the hell is up with everyone, who reviewed Demons Roots?

I'm blaming the Martians, and the Mandela effect, and the coming zombie apocalypse, and time travelers are real, and all the conspiracy theories are actually true.

Have you actually PLAYED Demons Roots?

Did you experience this abysmal combat system, where there are no exciting skills, no loot to look forward to, and every round gets you closer to dementia, cause enemies and party members are pretty much "chopping wood systematically". How do you tolerate combat encounters that last never-ending minutes, number in the hundreds, and proceed at a snail's pace?

Why are you not telling like it is?

This is not freaking Dragon's Dogma, where every terrible mechanic is outshined by a stroke of brilliance or genius. Don't give me any of that sass!

There's more though, you thought that was it? "Non non non, ma petite cherrie". There's "someone" else who needs to stand on trial, for crimes against all of the "videogame enjoyer population".

Your Honor, the defendant is: "The crappiest dungeon exploration since the 16 bit consoles become antiques". What. In. The. Actual. Hell?

How can you remove (not completely) random encounters from an RPG, and actually make things worse? What's the point of carefully placing enemies in narrow places, so that they can always catch you? The random encounters are there after all, you "sorry puppies" (it's the same feeling). Is this the end of the rant? Nope. Cause the sadism went further, and they decided that "noticeable, but hard to get secrets" are now "hip and fashionable".

So there I was, with a handful full of this, and another full of that... Hah! I wish! (...) So there I was going back and forth, trying to get the treasure, while being constantly caught by the enemy, like a headless chicken on the verge of a stroke. Give my back my random encounters and a (cheap, accessible) "repel system" any day of the weak.

This is not freaking Fallout New Vegas, where the initial, slow, boring pacing, is eventually replaced with an epic sense of discovery, exploration, and adventure. Don't try to be cheeky with me!

Ok, I feel better now. So here's the deal:

Yes, there is some good in Demons Roots, I'm not painting a complete picture. For instance, story, characters, worldbuilding, setting etc... The thing is, that this is not a VN, it's an RPG, with horrible RPG mechanics. That's the honest truth right there, I'd swear it in front of the executioner. I just had to come here, and try to put things into perspective, so that maybe at least one person, doesn't end up disillusioned like I was after playing this.

This is a 6/10, and it's one of less than a handful of JRPGs, where I just gave up and quitted. Remember that your existence in this world is not permanent. Add to that, the fact that I started with Golden Sun in the GBA, and make of that as you will.

- plays terrifying track, loud screeching sounds, and a distorted voice - You have been warned!!! (I wasn't)

This is my first ever time writing a review for a hentai game, but I feel like there's enough reason for me to do it here.

First and foremost, the hentai aspect of this game is kinda bad, the scenes are rare and far between, and the majority of them are in special areas of the game you have to intentionally want to access, and that's all those areas of the game do. However, if you're going into this expecting a good time, you're still going to get it.

Demon Roots is a fucking masterpiece. Best RPGMaker game I have ever played, erotica or not, and I've played my fair share of these types of games. I'm personally not much into the loli MC aspect of the game, but the story builds it's characters and world so well that you just forget on what website you actually got this shit on. It slaps.

However, it lacks a bit in the combat department. The encounters feel really grindy, and towards the end of the story I just started skipping and running away from optional encounters, because it just gets really tedious after a while. Genuinely, the only thing that kept me playing is the story, worldbuilding, and the interactions between characters, although at times these can be a bit cringey, the journey is all worth it to see the end.
Please, play this game, because you'll be doing yourself a favor

Porn is so-so.

Second best RPG I've played in 2023 behind Baldur's Gate 3- and you could get me drunk and change my mind.

Probably not worth it if you're not horny- but not a lot of porn games are of "play this RPG if you want to play an RPG, you eunuch" good and this one is.

If you want a genuinely touching and dark JRPG with most of the pro and contras of the genre, Demons Roots is the game for you.

If you want a game to fap to, you need to have either very specific tastes and/or tolerance.

I heavily recommend it, but in both directions it has elements that I'd say drag it down heavily.

I'm sure a lot of people have written extensively about the combat and story, and while the latter is fine, the former is indeed excellent, but I want to make a case for the heart of this game.
Yes, it is cheesy jrpg Bullshit. But the emotional core of the story, the two-three characters the story is fundamentally about, are genuinely great.
The game also has coherent and mostly well executed themes, for the most part.


Now to the big minus points.
Characters introduced in the second half are just a lot less good. I won't go as far as some others, I still enjoyed them both on their own and as group members, but the game may genuinely have been better if the two last introduced party members had been cut.

The hentai. It's sparse, except for two dedicated areas where like 95% of the scenes are. Content wise, they vary between a few more lighthearted ones, many creepy ones and many, mayn genuinely dark ones.
Unfortunately, there are also 2-4 characters (out of ) with way too childlike designs or behavior for me to feel comfortable with their scenes. By the time I'd reached them I was invested in the story and just skipped my way through them, but it has seriously worsened my experience, and I came close to dropping the game thrice.

The ending.
Unlike some reviews I've seen, my trouble is less with what happens and more with how it's executed. It needed more direct buildup and more time to stew. As it stood, it felt like a cheap gutpunch, after which the devs come back and say "jk, lol".
It didn't ruin game, story or even ending for me, but it certainly worsened the game in my eyes.

Overall, I give the game a clear recommendation. Just don't play it to for the porn, unless you enjoy loli content I guess.

Good game. Its strength is in the setup of its story. It held my attention for quite a while and I'd recommend playing it. There were some sore spots that I'm going to focus on in this review, but they didn't take too much away from the overall enjoyment. Basically, this is going to be critiquing the game rather than simply praising it.

1) It does have standard RPGmaker combat. Don't go into this game expecting some big formula change. While it's not done horribly, unique gameplay isn't a strong suit of this game. If standard RPGmaker combat is a dealbreaker for you, then don't be surprised if you end up getting bored when you play this. Truthfully, there were times in the game where I was getting sick of it as some areas they really lay the encounters on thick. They're often not single turn encounters either.

2) I praise the overall setup of the story. There's some real tearjerkers here and there along with some surprising reveals. However, there is some shit in this game that's entirely nonsensical and feels tacked on. The biggest offender happens mid-gameish. Japanese writers really just can't help themselves sometimes I suppose, but there is a fucking isekai section. This part and the character you gain from it feels completely out-of-place and out-of-tone for the entire game. It doesn't even integrate it very well either, it's just one of those things where you go "well that just happened I guess" and then its ignored. I feel like they felt compelled to include it just because its mainstream in glorious nippon land. Whatever. There's some other things about the setting that can be nitpicked , but probably the 2nd most bothersome thing about the game to me is the ending. A lot of the game is centered around overcoming insurmountable odds through friendship and sheer dumb luck. You know, typical shonen writing. Then it does a complete rug pull at the end. It's like Patrick Star sitting you down and telling you the story about The Ugly Barnacle. The good still outweighs the bad, but I couldn't even take things seriously anymore once I got to the end.

3) Full CG unlock on game completion only available on the easy difficulty. Somehow it feels like I've been punished for wanting to beat the game on normal difficulty without strictly following a guide on unlocking all CGs. Poor decision I feel because again I was getting sick of the RPGmaker combat enough that I felt no desire to do NG+.

4) Characters are far from created equally for combat and there is no real build variety. You either use characters the way they're intended or you just suck eggs.