RPGM - Completed - Demons Roots [v1.03 + DLC] [Quick nail Aristocrat]

Even bought it on steam because I liked the characters and storyline a lot.
Might not be a good porn game since the h-scenes are brutal and you kind of don't want to see characters that you like being brutalized but it's a good rpg, a way better rpg than a lot of other ones I've played recently for the last couple of years.

And yes there are plotholes or whatever but the game has soul and Deathpolca is a peak protagonist.

PEAK game, imo it have good story and good character develpment. It also have a banger of a music and some feature that i havent see in many RPGM games. Such as getting item from interacting with surrounding item and hidden rooooomm. This game is recomended for you that yearn the experience of good RGM game. BUT i must admit, the H scene may be lacking anddd if you aren a fans of Gore and Violence. Then this game will be hard for you to play. So there that. Play this game if you like a good story game

This game is the prequel of the game King exit, I think it is better to play it because one possible ending of this game is king exit. And you will more understand the facts that demons are really terrible and should maybe be erased if deathpolca was not here.

The H-scene are .... meh. I didn't fap at all in 60 hours of play. It is not a good H-game.
But it is an excellent RPGM game. One of the best RPG I played. It is, for me, on the same level than a chrono trigger of a Final fantasy IV.

TL;DR : If you want to fap -> don't play.
If you want to play a really good RPG , GO GO GO !!

One of the best games I've ever played here.
Though I won't recommend this to anyone that don't like torture/blood/grim stuff cause there's a lot of it.. and rather than an h game. this is more like a real game with some h in it.

10/10 Great story that follows slaves/underdogs trying to beat an oppressive regime to get their freedom.
9/10 Great Music
6/10 Hentai scenes are either half torture porn

The story written by the author of Hongye Steamed Bun is very mature. You can experience a series of psychological changes in the story, including blood, anger, betrayal, despair, compromise, humiliation, hope, weakness, and comfort. The protagonist is a Marxist who struggles endlessly for happiness and the future. Her attempt to break the spiral of fate and the endless chain of hatred between races is grand. She shines brightly as she tries to confront the awe inspiring difficulties of the vast gap. Her encounter with Princess Lily, who has been isolated for thousands of years, is grateful, and everything she strives for is despairing before being powerless to bring the world to a close. But the ending was good, and everything she did did did not disappear, but opened up a better future beyond prophecy.

I was expecting a game with a simple story, the usual simple gameplay of Rpgmaker, a not so interesting casting: and I found the complete opposite. The game starts to get good from chapter 3 onwards, but it is worth the journey. It is not a pornographic game, it is a story to tell.

This game was an interesting ride and a fun little story to run through so here's an arbitrary review by a dumb reviewer!

CGs 5/5
Fun little snippets of lore and lewdness, along with Game Over CG's to boot as well with the basic CG's you can get throughout the game each with a happy amount of fappability! while there are no animations each bit of art was made with love and intentions to keep the players hooked.

Story 5/5
Haven't seen an H-Game with such an intriguing story and plotline like this, with each note having different points to the story and several chapters too!

Gameplay 4/5
while this ruins the perfect score, doesn't change the fact that it's still the fun RPGM combat we all know and love and for that I still give this game high praise!

Final Score 14/15
This was an extremely interesting ride with each moment in the game making you forget that this is an H-Game (till it reminds you) as the story unveils and introducing new characters that fit with the games plot points and narrative too. All in all I'd suggest getting and playing this game! check it out and maybe even go support the creator as well for making a masterpiece like this. This was Soma, my opinions don't matter and have fun with this game!

I played it on Steam and put it as a candidate for best RPG that year.
It is very unfortunate that because it is a controversial genre, it will not be taken into account and forgotten, but I have high regard for the music, the bosses, and the story it wants to tell. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to play a good rpg made in rpgm about its sexual content it is not the best and not to the liking of many nor is it its main focus

so if you are looking for a game for a quickie look elsewhere

If you are looking for an eroge game with a good story, this is your game

(I also recommend king exit, which is from the same creator, it has a bad translation but it is related to this title if you were left wanting more)

The 18+ content is mid and the BAD END is anything but fun.
The story is amazing. I never felt so angry at a game story like this before.

This game was my first impression towards H-RPG genre, I'd say I enjoyed it very much and singlehandedly changed my opinion on porn games

This game is truly a masterpiece and has changed my life forever

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.