RPGM - Completed - Detective Girl of the Steam City [v2.01] [Clymenia/Kagura Games]

Good drawn art, pixel-art is really good.
Music is prime rpgmaker material, sounds too.
Gameplay(combat if you go gangster) is too easy and simple, you can also skip 99% of it besides bosses. Not that much of variety in items since not that much variety in fighting. The skills/levels etc are very simple.
It definitely has its charm and it has a bit h-scenes(some of them very similiar though)

extremely short if u do the main police quests.

furthermore journal is half existent, sometimes it's there on top left but you have no control over it so if you dont pay attention you will be lost because half the time it's useless either it doesnt appear or it shows a different quest than you are interested in

sex scenes are nearly nonexistant if you play it as intended since the game is over before you can increase your corruption (aka decrease your "reason")

and even the available sex scenes are not that interesting either. when you max out your corruption there are some nice sex scenes... but by that time you are a gigaslut so it loses its oompf.

so it's a mediocre game. even a bit grindy. if you don't play it through in 1 sitting you will be guaranteed lost.

i was planning on giving it 2/5 or 1/5 but o well some nice art, some nice characters, some funny scenarios, some interesting sex scenes so all in all mid.

The art is pretty good, and the scenes are well-written. I really like the corruption, and despite being a hentai game, the story is interesting enough. I also really like the RPG elements in this one. Really good game.

(english is not my main languages)

Story (4/5) :

The context of the story is simple your are the daughter of a famous detective and you want to become like your father.
I really like the story and different branches, all the event got a little story i really enjoy it.

Characters (5/5) :

I really like the main character, she is cool, pretty and handsome at the same time (i want to cry we have a skinny and petite woman not the usually big-breasted girl), Sherlockomesque (meticulous in all the aspect), she have a lot of insight.

The sub-characters are really unique too, they all have their background so we are really engaged in the story (like the blonde-thieve).

Art (5/5) :

The Art is beautiful in generals : characters, map, scene everything is of a high quality and enjoyable

Scene (5/5) :

The scenes are hot (thanks to the main character) and diverse with different kinks for you to discover .

Combat (3/5) :

The combat are simple : you have an attack button, abilities, give up it's not innovative but it's okay nothing more to say.

Map (5/5) :

At first the map feels a bit messy but it's really to easy to understand each zone.

Map/Slum (2/5) :

I didn't like it, it's tedious to move (i already play the game 3 times so now i move freely but im talking when it was my first playtrough)
You don't have like a travel point or anything so when you need to go back to each slum to farm the upgrade, you do the two zone and after that you need to go back yourself to the exit point and you loose a lot of time and patience to do it.

Event (5/5) :

I really like the many event of this game and the repeatability you can easily miss something ( )

They are 22 secret event to discover so take your time to found them all ! (or not )

Items/upgrade (2.5/5) :

The other items are decorative only the hat is give you a little stat but in this game you don't need much.

Length :

You can finish the game fast if you rush the event and the main story maybe like 2 hours but if you take your time you can 4+?

Music (5/5) : Good

To finish this game is really good and fun to play, a little bit of grind for the upgrade but the story, event, scene, art counterbalance this little flaw.

Thanks for reading ! (see ya for the next one)

A simplistic RPGM game has no reason being this good.
Music? Banger
Content? Hot
A mission that tests if you're actually paying attention (for 3 sentences)? Hilarious

The tomboy thing is just the cherry on top.

Perfection if u love tomboys, my favorite game cause i love tomboys really there arent a lot of games with this theme so its really important to say it. Fight mechanics are good a bit too easy but good but the protagonist is so sexy u wont notice

If i had to rate this game against bigger titles like Karryns prison, Celesphonia, Demons roots, Ideology in friction etc. then its gonna be B tier

The game mechanics are average and combat mechanics are honestly pretty pointless since you only have a set skills and theres no min maxing equipments which is either a plus or a minus depending on how you enjoy an RPGM game

The exploration aspect is pretty good tho with the night vision and grappling hook mechanics but theres only a set map area you run around in which is again something up to taste

The story however could be better executed cause everything past the prologue phase feels like its forced just to satisfy the H criteria it needs

The H scenes are great and with goodangles but it lacks variety across different corruption stage which is fatal for a corruption game

The story is atleast okish, nay its fkng average and its honestly a slog to play through

The character especially the MC is quite refreshing and endearing which is the only great part of this game while the rest can only be considered AVERAGE

Ill be honest i came in with high exceptions but was left disappointed

Interesting game with good story and attractive mechanic. For fans of Victorian Britain and Sherlock Holmes is highly recommended.
As minus can say that is a bit short and replay doe s not give much.

Game is one of the best I've played on this site, It's mechanics are interesting, the content is a lot, and its all pretty good quality, the art is fantastic, it does get grindy at times but I say its worth it

Just finished playing this RPG and it was pretty good. You basically play as a young female detective that has this tomboyish appearance, solving crimes across a steampunk themed city of London. Most of this game however doesn’t revolve around you exploring a crime scene and finding clues to solve a case. That would only occur for a few missions but I’m not saying it's a bad thing. The storytelling was very spot on and some of the dialogue was pretty funny. Although I wouldn't say its very compelling.

I’m not sure why there are people out there complaining about this game being too linear since there really are some events that you can miss if you don’t pick the right choices. I was able to collect all the main events but not all of the 22 mini-events and I don’t feel like they’re that important to go through.

As for the H-scenes, they aren’t bad at all. They’re not too long and some of the dialogue during them does provide some insight towards the main story which is pretty clever to ensure the player doesn’t skip them. Plus they also provide some background information for the side characters allowing us to get to know them more.

Overall it was quite enjoyable and intriguing to play as a boyish female detective having sex with multiple guys while solving crimes. What’s not to like?

I would have liked to have enjoyed this game more... But it has some problems...

For a game that has the premise of being a detective story, there aren't many things to research in the cases. Yes, I know it's a H GAME, and that the objective is very much the detective part.... But even so, I thought it could be something different.

As far as the H game goes, there's the problem that it takes a lot of masturbation to unlock the scenes, which makes the game very repetitive and there's also the fact that the game forgets to explain its own mechanics... I finished it without knowing how to do the lockpick.

As for the scenes, I liked almost all of them, and most of them are very much to my taste. Apart from the urine scenes.

Overall, it was a good game, but it lacked polish, especially in the mechanics.

Sorry, but after the last warning I fear that this review too is my own opinion of the game...and so I must delete what was written. I am sure the good moderators understand this....or maybe not? Who knows one says so the other .....

Don't understand how this has such a high rating.

Game is decidedly average in basically all aspects.

Interesting premise that doesn't get execute well past the introduction. Aesthetics of the map are different to most RPG maker games and that's kinda cool I guess, but not enough ot make the game worth playing.

Scenes get repetitive very quickly, and most of them are just 2-3 pics with meh writing. Combat is simply not fun - made me wish for an autowin mechanic because its simply a time sink with no interesting mechanics.

There are far better games to spend your time on.

More Kagura slop. The map is uninspired. The controls are not explained anywhere. HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO FIGURE OUT YOU CAN CYCLE QUESTS WITH V???? Have these guys not heard of MENUS??

Personally not a fan of the MC. While there is a lot of content, you have to purposely be defeating in combat for any of it to show up which is not explained anywhere. I played through half of the game's content before realizing that I had to lose reason before being able to see the actual cgs. Usually corruption occurs naturally, while here you have to go out of your way in the most asinine way to make it possible. I think this is the first game where I've accidentally been cucked into a virgin playthrough.

The writing is your average convoluted japanese slop. They can't write a storyline that makes sense to save their lives. Every character is absolutely paper thin. When the narrative finally presents a moment for character development apart from the MC becoming a massive slut, the game plays it off as a joke.

Other Bullshit:

1. The menu design seems to have been put together in 5 seconds.
2. There is no quest design. You do not feel like a detective. 3/4 of the quests are just fetch quests with optional lewd events. The other 1/4 have challenges that involve moving carefully or just barely rubbing two neurons together.
3. To actually see the map, you need to activate an item in your inventory. Even then its just blank boxes with words in it.
4. You can't load from inside the game, you have to quit from the main menu.
5. The map is absolutely empty and 1/2 of it is just copy paste. It would be nice to know where everything is with an interactive map, but ui design is simply beyond their skill set.
6. The combat system is stupidly easy. Once you learn the healing skill, you are pretty much invincible.
7. The powerfist and grapple rope are just stupid. There is no need for the power fist if you know how to heal. The grapple rope is just some tedious nonsense to grab a chest with materials that you can use to improve the grapple rope.
8. Interspersed with night vision sewer sections to increase the runtime

Way too hyped for what it was, from the reviews I would expect a extremely high quality game, it is by porn standards, but it feels like the same as usual, 5 jpg variants per sex scenes and the amount of cgs felt lower in this game+no group sex, it's not that this game is good is that the rest of the porn games are so bad at satisfying the player, this game gives you the minimum, virgin run and slut run, when you do a slut run FMC enjoys getting used, relatively easy to get h scenes, I want a story when I'm doing a virgin run not when I'm jacking off, running around and putting different costumes for sex scenes is just annoying in other games, and the protagonist is very hot, way better than the basic big boob blonde bitches.

Again, it's not that this game is good it's just the fact that the porn game market is overrun with rape, ntr and annoying things you have to do to get sex scenes when you try getting them all and different routes that make you restart.

Clymenia games always hit. The story is well written and the art is great.

But the best thing about this game has to be Sophie, her appearance and how she is written. Even when fully corrupted, her character doesn't just become a slutty cock loving whore that most female JRPG characters become. She's still the confident, intelligent, and steadfast detective who just so happens to be a nymphomaniac.

Her tomboy/androgynous looks played really well into setting up her character and served well for the setting of the game as well. I feel like there aren't too many tomboy JRPG hentai characters and I felt it was a bold move from Clymenia to make such a character.

Been following Clymenia for a long time now and am hoping the next game is better than Detective Girl and Liz.

Good corruption game with a cute girl.
Can't give full points. It would mean that this game is without fail..but nothing is without. The 2 biggest failures are the lack of interesting quests and the much too easy fighting part.

Reading through the reviews I see many didn't like how "unrealistically fast" the corruption element in this game is but honestly the low-key nature of the corruption is one of my favorite things about this game. For starters, Sophie isn't that embarrassed by sexual matters to begin with; even while still a virgin she doesn't get flustered easily like the typical shy, feminine hentai heroine.

My favorite thing about this game is that the female lead has a strong, consistent personality that shows through. Sophie has a pretty stereotypically masculine personality. She is composed, intelligent, methodical, and straightforward. And, very rarely for a female hentai protagonist in a game with a "corruption meter", Sophie doesn't fall into self-loathing or lose her mind (except for in one 'bad ending').

Even after her 'reason' attribute plummets, Sophie's personality doesn't actually change very much at all. She's still the same smart, self-assured detective she was at the beginning of the game, just one who's realized she is a nymphomaniac masochist. Her relative lack of shame and angst is refreshing and only serves to make her more endearing, at least to me.

Minor quibbles? Despite having a very androgynous appearance in her default outfit, the game does surprisingly little with the "cross-dressing" aspect. Everyone who interacts with Sophie seems to recognize she's a girl right away. That's probably realistic if they're hearing her talk, but some more 'mistaken for a boy' scenes besides just the bathhouse scene would've been nice. Also, there is a lot of teasing about pregnancy risk in the dialogue with Sophie frequently fretting over it, but nothing ever comes of it, I think a lot of us would've liked to at least see a bad ending slide where Sophie is knocked up.

Favorite moment? The very rare scenario of a hentai game heroine cuckolding another woman. One of the cases involves a girl who thinks her boyfriend is cheating on her. When it's investigated it turns out the girl that the boyfriend was secretly meeting with is his sister. At which point Sophie thinks "Oh, this guy is actually really hot...*, puts the moves on him, and ends up fucking him all night. Meaning that the original girl created infidelity where there was none by hiring a detective that looked like a really serious, no-nonsense tomboy, but actually turned out to be a dirty little slut who jumped her man's bones at the first opportunity.

Final note: I haven't seen much mention of this but I feel llike someone looking at this game could easily assume it's going to be a lesbian/yuri oriented thing, as is common in games with a "cross-dressing" female protagonist. Those who make this assumption will be sorely disappointed. Sophie is straight and all her scenes are with men. The sexual content in this game is 100% hetero with no girl-on-girl, not even a token scene with the blonde cat burglar lady.

I've played around 50% of all of the games on this site, and I still firmly believe this is one of the best. Fantastic.

The art is perfection, the writing is above average, and the scenes and scenarios are FANTASTIC. I wholeheartedly recommend this game.

Full 5 stars, the writing is great, the art is amazing, and the gameplay is engaging but not tedious. Many other corruption games tend to fall under the category of either VN where you just collect scenes, or they bog everything down in a ton of unnecessary game mechanics. But Detective Girl feels like a proper game that also happens to have a lot of good NSFW content. It's been a while since I played it last, but I seem to recall that I just started to enjoy the game for the game itself even though the NSFW was very good.

I believe I remember the only thing that was a little frustrating about the game was that some of the gameplay concepts seemed a little unclear at the start; but that also may have just been me not paying close enough attention.