Unity - Completed - Dungeon Tavern [v1.0 GOG] [Wallimog & Friends]

I think Dungeon Tavern is an entertaining game. Its biggest problem, arguably, is that it's an indie game. (Note that I've only played the story mode.)

The game itself seems to have a bit more potential than it offers, since, for example, the building itself is small.

The story is simple: you're trapped and you have to stay in the tavern for a week. It seems to me like waiting for the Demon King to come and pass judgment on you.
Meanwhile, the "antagonist" protagonists, the witch and the dark elf, try to tempt and corrupt the MC and his main love interest, Celeste.
And that's it. The loop consists of talking to the character you're interested in a couple of times a day, and then the day goes by.

As I said, it's simple but effective. You decide who catches your attention the most and you see the story.
I find the art interesting. I haven't played many with this art, but I think they're quite good and all are beautiful.

Has voice actors both the text and the sex acting. It's not the typical voice acting that suddenly goes silent during the sex scene, and the moans, etc., make generic sounds, which I really appreciate. It's currently being done, so most of it isn't dubbed, but the voices seem pretty good to me.

Its biggest problem is the bugs, at least it seems like you're trying to fix them as soon as possible.

I don't think it's expensive, it's about €8 considering it's being dubbed, but the number of scenes seems a bit low, and while I appreciate the fact it's being dubbed, it's not that decisive (on this point, I'm a bit conflicted myself, lol, on the one hand, the dubbing is very good, but on the other, if that raises the price a bit, then I don't mind that much. But if it's not done, the game loses value since it makes it simpler, lol, and then I get into a loop). I'll probably buy it on sale or when I get the urge and get it.

In short: considering it's clearly an indie game designed to be entertaining and eye-catching, I think it's pretty good. Its biggest problem is fixing bugs, finishing the dubbing, and adding more scenes, since it seems that most of them are just watching the character in the game performing an act (as if they were two moving sprites). Still, I encourage you to try it.

I would like to emphasize that this is just the story mode, it has a sandbox mode that also looks good and I will play eventually.

I love the art styles and scenes this game has got to offer, I would say dont pay much attention to old reviews as they are pretty outdated but yeah fun game with lots of hot stuff for you to enjoy. The animations are also pretty good.

Good art, both the cg's and the animations, nice and short history, cute characters and the tavern theme music make you feel like you playing d&d, so the ambientation is also good, i barely can't wait for the endings.

The game has great art and great animation. If you just found this, you might find this quite enjoyable. If you are like me and has been watching this game's development for some time now, you would deeply frustrated. The game development started with great promise. As mention before, it has really good art and animation and the story wasn't half bad.

Problems began almost immediately. The game was a buggy mess that would break in one way or another with each update. At the beginning progressing beyond one day in sandbox would break the game. Then the game would swap two characters in any of their animations because the devs were lazy and gave them the exact same animation sets and still do today. Then, instead of fixing these bugs, progressing the story, or giving existing characters more animations, they started adding cameo characters from other games and comics that no one really cares about. They spent time on this when their core game was still bare and broken. Eventually Bugs were patched and they came out with a big update. Yay! except they had gutted the original flow of the story and most of the added scenes were gay. If you like that, fine. Not my cup of tea.

In short you can still enjoy this perfectly fine but they definitely lost the plot a bit during development which left a sour taste in a lot of people's mouth. Euphemism not intended.

Almost an interesting idea, but MAN does this fall flat on its face hard. I know it's super early, but some of the problems that are already present are not going to be fixable, even in future patches. The framework that is already there has serious problems and the whole project will be very negatively affected by it. Came in hopeful for something interesting, but was sorely disappointed.


Pros:
- Decent art, most of the characters are good looking. Decent animations.
- Has voice acting, makes the whole thing seem more professional and higher effort.
- Izzy. Actually one of the ONLY likeable characters in the game. Sure, she's a bit of a walking trope with her 'Hmph' and her bored and deadpan demeanor, but she's one of the only characters that feels like there's a certain charm to them and the banter between her and the main character feels like just that, actual banter. They talk to each other, not at each other. And her getting slowly more attached to him as you hang out with her more is a very nice thing to see. A very loveable shortstack, and honestly the best girl by a WIDE margin, not just because she's hot but because she actually feels like someone that ins't a complete dickwad to the main character.
- You're not forced to fuck characters you don't want to. You can turn the witch down, and even when you hang out with characters to build relationships you can still turn down sex itself if you're trying to stay loyal to Celeste.
-The fact that you can walk in on animations of the other characters fucking around the tavern in different areas, very good touch.

Cons:
- That piss stain yellow that the main characer's and Celeste's outfits are. Ugh.
- The game play is bland and repetitive. Just talk to 2 people every day and watch a ton of cut scenes. No mini games, no real game play of any kind. It doesn't feel like living in a tavern, it feels like a walking simulator with some very clunky stairs.
- The stairs. It shouldn't be three buttons just to choose to go up or down. You need to interact with the stairs, choose up or down, then confirm. Simplify this but just having it be the up or down keys to use the stairs for God's sake.
- Music is... not the best. Not the worst, but it does get boring really fast.
- Characters typically aren't likeable. There's a huge difference between a character being a bad guy and being unlikable. There's no redeeming qualities in most everyone at the tavern. The sorceress in particular is flat as a board and has some real forum-grade philosophy bullshit that is eye rolling at best.
- The plan makes no sense. The drow guy had the main characters captured and in chains. His nonsense rambling about how he didn't want to hasily kill them was retarded in the extreme. Sure, I get the whole sowing dout thing... but he literally had them unarmed and in chains. Just kill them and he wins. The story shouldn't be happening at all, and only is because the drow's choices are dumb.
- Choices don't matter. This REALLY pissed me off. I refused the witch's advances and offers the whole time, never slept with anyone but Celeste... and she STILL fucks other people in the story even then. Even after getting her to confess her feelings for the main character and get into a relationship with him, literally the next day she's upstairs getting fucked by someone else and screaming about how good it is while the whole tavern listens. Zero respect for the player's choice to try and have a relationship with her, zero way to prevent her from being a whore. I know it's an NTR game, but come the fuck on, this is just stupid.
- Weapons grade gaslighting. Especially from the witch character. I know she's supposed to be manipulative, but she's just genuinely not fun to be around and to read her dialogue. If you don't agree with her clearly manipulative intentions and don't let her get away with using you, she gets all pissy and bitchy at you for having a backbone, and ironically enough says that you won't just randomly fuck her because you don't have a backbone. Because yeah, that's totally how it works, the only way for you to have a backbone is to bend over backwards for her and do whatever she wants whenever she wants without any regard for other people. Uh-huh. Sure thing. But honestly the biggest thing with her dialogue that pisses me off is how it feels like it's the writer trying to shame you for not going along with it. The dialogue just feels bitter and nasty, and not in a way that feels like it's the character saying things because she was denied, but feels more like a moral judgement from the writer onto the player for... not being a literal whore for a clearly manipulative and deceitful person? Stupid.
- Celeste. She is NOT a good person, and it's frustrating how she's portrayed. Honestly Percival should just dump her toxic ass and run off with Izzy. She has feelings for Percy, loves him, wants to be with him... but the second any temptation is thrown in her face she'll throw Percy out the window just to indulge in whatever she wants. She's not faithful, loyal, or even remotely reasonable about anything. The second she has a disagreement with the main character she gets all huffy and annoyed, refusing to even acknowledge when he has a very valid point. She's wanting to have her cake and eat it too, and has some really stupid mental gymnastics to try and give a half-assed justification of why it's fine for her to do it. She's WAY too easy to talk into doing clearly bad things by clearly bad people. She's not even naive, she's just fucking dumb. It's extremely hard to feel anything but frustration at an NTR game that has a female love interest like this. She's not being corrupted, she's just a dumb whore with no real care towards the guy that she claims to be in love with and is fine with cheating on him even after confessing her feelings.
- The whole 'controlling' and 'insecure' bullshit. I swear to God, it's like some people are offended by the very thought of someone having clear boundaries and healthy limits to what is actually acceptable, and that sometimes it's not the person with the boundaries that is at fault in situations. Don't want to see your love interest fucked senseless by a bunch of strangers? Well you must be a big, dumb, mean poopy head then, you literal bigot. I swear to God, it's like the dialoge was taken right out of a Reddit debate or something. The main character has every right to feel uncomfortable and even upset that Celeste is doing the things she's doing. She says to just trust her... but clearly she's not trustworthy when she instantly gets up to EXACTLY what he was worried about in the first place.
- The game SORELY needs an option for the main character to just say fuck it to keeping Celeste around and break things off with her for her bad behavior and disrespectful attitude to him, thier relationship and his feelings. Fuck that bitch.

TLDR:
Somewhat interesting concept but game play is bare bones, the music boring, and the writing is not very good. Characters fall flat, aren't likeable, and the gaslighting and nonsense that others spew out at the main character doesn't make the villains seem like competent manipulators, it makes the stoyr mode of the game grating to play. Was really hoping this one would suprise me and beat the low ratings, but it's not the fact that it's a super early version of the game that makes it bad, it's the writing and the characters. More fleshed out gameplay would be better, but the overall story would still suck, I'm afraid. Disappointed.

Is this a game or a cut scene simulator???
Feels like a kinetic novel that drags on wayyyy to long, with stiff and repetitive animations and unlikable characters. Art is cool, but it is the only redeeming quality right now.

As another reviewer said, this game has not yet implemented a proper story yet (it is very short ) but already has a decent-ish amount of assets ready and available in the sandbox mode that is actually just a gallery.

This project has a lot of potential, but it is not a game yet. Hopefully I'll come back to this game at a later date and give it 5 stars instead.

Don't know why this game is so badly rated.
Most people are saying it doesn't live up to its potential. Potential that it undoubtedly very much have.
The art is refreshing.
The story however simple is well introduced, mostly voiced, and strike his targeted kinks very precisely.
There isn't much gameplay so far but for what is foreshadowed its on point and well refined.

The very reason i guess people think it's not living up to their expectation is that the game kinda spoil the fun out of it as it is made right now. What story there is is quite short and doesn't offer the mean to explore the entirety of the content. The story ends abruptely, inviting the player to keep on going in the sandbox mode, which isn't scenarized at all and yeah it's pretty much a scene viewer.

But in that aspect, the game looks exactly like what it is: a beta.

Not the beta of a porn game but a beta of your average video game. Feature and animation are made first, and they are not yet implemented in the story mode. It can be unsetling 'round here cause most porn game aren't made that way, but it's actually the usage for most beta.

So for a final note, the game is very much engaging and i think it deserve you keep an eye on it. If you're not into beta testing, refrain from trying it right now, but you should definitely check it out when it'll be release.

Cause i really think that game is a gem. Not refined enough just yet but it have the means to be a classic.

It's bad. Mostly watching cutscenes here, not much game. Art is nice, but animation is rigid in most cases. Voice acting good, but didn't care considering I just wanted to play a game. Just get the gallery unlocker and do that instead.

Oh, and yes. Bugs everywhere, janky prompts, no skip function for dialog, etc.

The game is claimed to be "a sandbox simulation with minimalist presentation". However, for about half an hour from the start I've only encountered a notably kinetic-ish VN-styled narrative sequence (in effect, an expanded intro cutscene) without a single moment of expected sandbox gameplay, after which I've just terminated the game, seeing no practical reason to continue.

As such, the attempt to set up a background premise for the story scenario is duly noted, but denying players the actual gameplay process for an unreasonably long time through an abundance of the very said "presentation" is an extremely bad game design decision.

Sent the game out with a TON of bugs then updated it to still have a TON of bugs and hasn't updated for a while, great art, and animations but a lack of work put into actually PLAYING the game, at least make the damn gallery accessible, some times I can't even click into the gallery and when I can I can't watch the scenes. Hoping this is being fixed, good luck.

i quite liked the very little of the game that is there and the premise seems interesting enough, but as of now it's not only super bare bones, where single "ending" takes only like 20 minute to reach, even the sandbox is quite rough around the edges, where i got softlocked like 2 or 3 times before the first sex scene that i got which was with a wrong fucking character that i weren't even trying to bone

in the future it could be better, it may get even worse, but as it stands, there's very little reason to play this game

Review of Version 0.2.5

The game looks nice and the scenes are good. But other than that there really is nothing. There is currently 3 choices, 3 different ending(?) pictures and a sandbox mode that is not explained well and is a bit buggy. I would love to give this game a better score and I can see it being deserving of that but there just isn't enough of the actual game right now.

The best word to describe the current game is potential. It currently features (ingame) 2 days worth of content which features a high quality of both art and story. The sandbox mode is probably what the game is intended to be once they have finished the introductions, which is a bit worrying since I can't really wrap my head around how you use it. Another worry of mine is that the story will have too many branching paths which may hinder the quality or quantity of content in the future. A personal wish of the developers would to include mlm and wlw content since I feel that it goes within the theme of the story quite well but that is merely personal preference.

outright just a mess to play with abysmal quality, hoping that skeletal rigging carries most of the product, as is usual with Tinyhat games. Just a sheer waste of time, effort, and money if you're enough of a sucker to pay for this mess.

I should have read the tags, even then for a sandbox there's so little freedom i trying to start the game but i keep getting flooded with countless walls of text let me get to the gameplay. Had to turn on an autoclicker to skip all the text only for it to bug out and lock my screen.

It might be a bit presumptuous of me, but I'm going to go ahead and say 5 stars. This game has a lot of potential from what gameplay there is. Lets start with some pros and cons.

Pros- the artwork and animations is beautiful. each character has their own personality and it shows in their animations of everything they do. Mostly smooth transitions to different and real smooth room to room transitions.

Cons- it is buggy with several interactions. Trying to have other characters follow can be a pain as if they do it once it won't happen again at times. Animations can cause characters to be temporarily unavailable if you zoom out of a scene, it takes a min to find the right spot for them to become available once more. The gallery does not work, clicking on any scene does nothing. At day 5-7 the adventure board doesn't work and time cannot progress. Giving an item to a character with an already held item removes the giving item in total. The story has a bug that stops the scene, going to the MM and back seems to fix the scene but it seem to remove part of the story.

It seems more cons than pros but its still early access and I do believe those can be fixed and improved upon. Now I do understand the story is pretty linear in terms of content. That being said, it seems to be purely from the Paladins POV, maybe for more in depth allow players to choose a character and follow from there with different choices available. Maybe some riddles in terms of hints for Gallery scenes.

Overall a good start to what can be a fantastic game. Keep up the good work.

Here was a big review for [0.1 alpha] version which had 5 stars for good quality graphics/animations and potential, now it's edited for 3

As mentioned, I liked graphics and animation quality and that's pretty much it. Had and has a lot of potential in terms of story, but not quite yet

"Early access," emphasis on EARLY. Like, this is non-functional and "if you told me this was uploaded solely as a proof-of-concept to an investor, I'd believe it" brand of early.

My experience is that an attempt at Story mode bugged out on day 2, and upon reload, it was somewhere completely different from where I'd quit. A short scene played and then I got a "thanks for playing early access" screen and tried Sandbox mode.

Sandbox mode was equally non-functional. The "hints" weren't helpful because most of it was "just try exploring bro," which probably isn't good advice during Early access when there's loads of unfinished assets. Some of the items mentioned didn't seem accessible either. I did a raid thing for mystery meat, but then it wouldn't show up anywhere, no idea why.

Interactions were bare bones and like one sex scene per partner combo. No dialog, no gameplay aspect, no nothing. Sometimes I could click the "gib sex scene" button, sometimes it wouldn't work. An attempt at interacting with the world (making a character buy and drink beer) proved equally fruitless, as it provided the same sex scene it already had before.

Hey, maybe this is all just early access and it'll be great in the future. Still odd it was uploaded THIS early, because this is extreme.

Two nitpicks as feedback:

1) The text speed isn't the fastest, and unlike in other games where clicking makes the text instantly appear, here you're forced to wait for the text box to fill up, because clicking will skip the dialog entirely before it's even loaded in. Seems better if click #1 makes the text appear and click #2 skips, but no: either you sit through the slow text to read it or get nothing at all. An option to increase text speed would be great too.

2) Camera is ass. You know how most games let you move the camera yourself or click somewhere to focus the camera there? Here, you start zoomed out in Sandbox mode, click someone to control, camera zooms in on them, and then when you unselect them, you cannot manually move the camera, but instead have to zoom out and zoom back in on what you want to see. The result is the best way to navigate is to repeatedly zoom back out and let the camera auto-zoom in when you click a character. Problem is that I had one sex scene that repeatedly triggered to the far left of the screen so that a character was cut off, and unless I missed something, there's no way to simply pan the camera over without zooming all the way out and zooming back in.


So yeah, unless I'm missing something, there's currently no game here, but rather a proof-of-concept. No idea why it was uploaded in this state.