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

3.5/5 would be more precise.

First the important stuff, the sex scenes. Nice amount but with some reused scenes, still a good variety despite that flaw. Great reward vs grind. The art is great. The scenes are good. There are few kinks, thing that doesn't add nor take imo. It has a GALLERY, and it's a good one.

Story, it's ok but the setting is pretty cool so that adds a bit more.

Gameplay, it's ok. It's not tedious and it's fun enough to move the plot. It has some puzzles.

Overrall: Good h-scenes with an average gameplay and an OK plot with an interesting setting. It's not tedious nor grindy, it feels rewarding. I recommend it for people that likes RPGs or steampunk settings... or if you like to fap, lol.

This is a serious step down from previous games.

Paths of progression are completely obscure. Foreplay is completely removed. Hardcore kinks like monster sex are nonexistent. And because of a desire to create two separate play paths, neither are fun.

Do not listen to the Clymenia fanboys that praise this game unconditionally. The truth is, its bad. Its less than mediocre. It is not worth your time.

1. Good story, content and lots of optional fetishes
2. Not too tedious and grindy, not confusing
3. The technical miracle of a working RPGM (first in my life)

All in all, just awesome, addictive, funny and a source of great many wanks

Oh my, I held off writing my final thoughts on this game a full day after finishing it. I just wanted to give it some time to sink in and make sure my hype for this game didn't influence/bias me.

Ok, I'll start off simple. This game is... lacking, but by no means it is bad. It feels like Clymenia is trying to do a culmination of all their games into this one, but it ended up to be lesser than each of their own. I don't usually scrutinize a h-game for more than just a couple of angles, but this is Clymenia and I love them.

First of all, the hand-drawn art is top notch as expected from them. We have an added bonus of them being uncensored for the first time ever which tops the cake. Characters are so meticulously designed with minute details, even though there are only barely 3 of them that gets illustrated. Scenes are hot and aplenty, but half of them are reused with with minor variations and different flavoured text. And, that's pretty much the extent of their focus in visuals. The world design and everything else are uninspired at best. London never feels alive, so much I'd even say it felt dead. Custom character sprites are okay at best, but I don't feel like they are necessary if you aren't going to see them do more than just being props in the game world. No other playable characters and no costume swaps.

Now, I am one that relies heavily on context to get me into the mood. I want good reason and good build-up for MC's eventual corruption. Well, this game fails kinda hard at that. They went for a more open-ended quest design this time around but I think they did a poor job at gating/pacing its tier. For example, you're able to have the MC before she's even engaged in any sex. You're able to have her allow before she's even seen a dick. Most events are tiered and tied to your corruption level but not all of them feels well-earned. There's post-game, but it's nothing more than just a way to finish up the side activities that you might have missed. Thing is, they've done this before and did it well in "XIV Liz of the tower". It's quite abit more linear but it's well paced, and it's also the reason why it's my favourite game from them.

Let's get to the gamey part of this. It's all over the place. For a "Detective" themed game, it doesn't even have a core gameplay that's "detective-ish". The game started of having you do detective work, and couple of them are indeed quite interesting, but after a while, you'll start realizing it's nothing more than just clicking on highlighted objects. There's very little deductions that you need to do. There's also combat, but it's just levels and levels of dungeon navigation to get to a boss. Collect materials from boxes to upgrade your weapon to do better. There are options for you to choose how you'd want to engage an enemy. You can do a first strike to get them weak or engage directly for a typical turn-based combat. After a while you unlock the ability to talk them out of the combat, or fuck them off, literally. I feel like it's wasted potential for something more in-depth, maybe like something from one of those Scale Garden games. It's just simply shallow, there's just not much to work towards to combat-wise since you can unlock majority of the scenes in town without even advancing the dungeon.

Sorry for the wall of text. I really wanted this game to be the best of Clymenia yet, but it fell quite short on many ends. Perhaps the best thing I got from this is that they are now working closely with Kagura Games to get their games out in English AND uncensored. I'll just have to look forward to the next one.

A solid game, though ultimately a little light on content and it uses padding by way of mazes and the like to get more play time. It also, by nature of using a published tileset for its specific setting, does start to get a bit samey and repetitive, but it doesn't outstay it's welcome.

No whacky British accents, though there is a car chase at least.

Amazing Game it's very free and almost everything is interactive. The story line can split into two routes and if you finish one the other route can be teleported back to. The graphics are great and enough H-content to view with different scenes depending on situations

In this place of half finished games and unrealised concepts comes Detective Girl of the Steam City, a game made by Clymenia I assume some time ago, which lacked a translation until now. If there's any reason why fan translations exist it is precisely for the purpose of bringing awareness to Clymenia and games like this.

If you've played RPGM games the game play beats will be very familiar to you. However, right off the bat you can see that the creator put in a lot of effort to create the world and atmosphere of Steam City, populating the landscape with lots of extremely adorable steampunk inspired pixel art like broken machinery and riveted plates. It won't be a challenging game to play but the immersive surroundings really add to the story.

I also like the protagonist of the game a great deal. Straight away I thought I was looking at Naoto Shirogane from Persona 4 and then and there I realised how much I wanted to play a Naoto detective game. The pervy side of me certainly doesn't mind the sexual events that "Naoto" (actually Sophie) finds herself in. Porn-wise as well, it's quite rare for tomboys to be the subject, much like you won't see many muscular or very fit girls, so this was a refreshing change.

There are some interesting situations as well, for example Sophie has to enter a men's bath to pursue a suspect and since she almost passes as a boy she thought she could disrobe and blend in. She actually has small and very noticeable breasts and her escort at the time, who knows that she is female, takes the opportunity to molest her and tease her, suggesting that they find a corner. Honestly that was hot, the thought that bathers might see two gay men having fun but actually one of them was secretly female.

Also, much praise to the translation or localisation. I don't know how much of it is faithful to the original Japanese text, but when it references Charles Babbage and English lords who dabble in engineering you know that you truly have something special to read.

I pretty much went to buy this game on Steam right away. I hope it supports more efforts like this. Also it's funny to have a game called Steam City on Steam.

I'm a hardcore Clymenia fan, but I was a bit disappointed with this one. The concept/theme of Steampunk Detective is fantastic, unique and is very refreshing for an otherwise stale meta of Hentai games. The is art is wonderful, as always, and you can find them in all their uncensored glory here. They actually have some quality-of-life improvements that you don't normally see in H-games, like a well-made player map.

However, something felt off with this one. I felt like for a hentai game, there was too much emphasis on the game and not enough on the hentai. The world is very large, but not detailed like previous games. Detective Girl is still a great game though, but for me personally, it didn't feel on par with previous titles. I'm still hoping for a sequel to their hypno-aristocrat game, but they have already begun previewing their next title and it is not.

As a side note, I was hoping for more "x-ray through clothes" content. When I saw that Clymenia released that mini-game where you can see through two women's clothes, I thought it would be an easy combo with a detective girl.

No idea why no one rated it yet but here i go.

First of all, good game all way around, good UI, easy to understand, missions are clear and well explained even if you're part of the "Skip all dialogue" party. Minimap is VERY useful and so is the main map and the way the area are named. And most of all You can choose by the touch of a boutton wich mission you wanna have on your UI Man that detail is SO good and is missing on so many games i'm glad it's there.

Then on the gameplay itself: Simple, easy to move around (no slow ass walking) you can also skip battles using skills learned (One is unlocked after helping the fotograph the other is at the brothel). upgrades can be tedious to grind but other than that the battles are easy enough yet still interesting as the story goes on.

On the Hentai part, very good. Nice art, well balanced kink tho some are rarer than others, and such. Frankly good all round. Can't go too far into it without having to repeat myself on how nice the art is.

Only malus i can say is that the "detective" part is kinda weak, small things that force you to act a bit like one especially during the main missions but other than that, a really easy game when it comes to missions.

But still, very good game !