RPGM - Completed - Encode Encore! [v1.25] [Golden Pot]

Let me first make one thing clear: I don't hate grind.

However, the grind in this game is nonsense. There is no reason for the game to have to check the rng 7 times to see whether you succeed or fail at your job, and then display the results each of those 7 times without letting you skip. There is no reason for jobs to cap out at 5x the pay when the cost for H-scenes increases exponentially. There is no reason for action points and stamina to be separate stats. But most of all there is no reason to have the grind in the game in the first place, as soon as you can get lust to zero making money becomes utterly mindless.

Let's start with gameplay. The game can be grindy, but there is an option to start a new save with boosted stats now. The gameplay loop is thus: work a part time job to earn money, give money to girl in exchange for sexual favors, progress relationship. You must balance your lust, stamina, and action points with your every decision. After two weeks, you get an ending based on how far you developed a relationship with the girl. It's challenging, but fun, imo.

The story is, while decent, pretty basic - you're a ridiculously horny otaku blessed and cursed in equal measure with a fat cock and huge loads, and a cute gyaru offers to let you sexually harass her if you pay up for her boyfriend's birthday gift. You can work hard to earn more money to pay her with, and over time you can surpass her boyfriend or even steal her and make her your woman. It takes a really weird sci-fi turn in the finale. But besides, you're not here for the story, are you?

You're here for the porn. And the porn is top tier. Every scene is really good especially the more you pay up. The art is lovely, the writing is delectably lewd, and the fetishes... perfection... Nearly every fetish in this game feels like it was made specifically to cater to me personally. I almost feel like the dev pulled the ideas from my wet dreams. Gyaru, cheating sex, stealing a bully's girl, lovey dovey sex despite it being transactional, CNC, a girl getting off to the smell of cock, marathon sex, public sex, cosplay sex, bondage, breeding... the list goes on. If any of these appeal to you, this is the game for you.

10/10 Game of the Year Every Year

Lots of content for long gooning days. But there is sooo much grind that it will helps you to let off steam...
Cheating is fun and all the content is sexualy related
Would be a 5/5 if so the grind was at least faster to do

Incredible content held back by being extremely grindy. The entire game consists of nonstop grinding for hours on end and you don't get the ability to speed up the grind significantly until very late into the game. It feels like half of your playtime is spent waiting for the part time jobs to finish.

Would absolutely be a 5/5 if it wasn't this level of tediousness. Highly recommend using cheats to speed it up.

Absolutely superb! Sensually immersive with stunning graphics. A definite 10/10. Highly recommend to everyone.
Will wait for more games like it. Or for the other games from same developer
Encode Encore! for the goty))

This game was an amazing experience and I almost didn't want it to end. I got really invested in the story to be honest, and it's kinda bittersweet that the true ending is so open ended.

Apparently there are new updates and the translator will pick it up eventually, so I'll wait for that and play the game again in the future.

Fantastic game that is a solid upgrade from the original. Gameplay loop is a bit grindey but not so much so that it feels not worth it or too much. Art style is great, story is pretty non existent which I like. Just a good time all around.

Good game, bad grind. The grind is exemplified by long scenes and waits. Example, early on working often consists of an excruciating 5-10 seconds of waiting on a black screen. Now consider that you have to do this MANY MANY times. It's only alleviated when you are able to work 10 or 20x as hard where it skips the bullshit but by that point you pretty much have unlocked 90% of content.

Cheating sex is fun and all, but the grind is not. I understand the need for build up but this isn't a good way to go about it. At least some minigames for work would've been nice where lust increases the difficulty. Oh well. At least the game is hot.

Version: 1.07
Playtime: 7 Hours (Completed as of v1.07) - 100%

Overall Review: Fun game with unique in-game mechanics and interesting story. Art was great too, nothing much to complain except a bug where a scene couldn't be played and you had to restart the game. There are two difficulties Normal/Quick, I'd say there was barely any difference. Gameplay was chill barely no rush. One minor complaint is the tools (After reaching E3) are barely explained on what they do but you'll kind of get gist of it, well, most of it though.

I liked the game enough and even 100% the game. Good scenes and the time loop stuff is a good concept. Game is pretty grindy but it tells you straight up so you know what you are getting into. The NTR stuff is you cucking the boyfriend which isn't too heavy and more like hidden sex also the bf is portrayed as a scum bag who cheats so don't feel bad about NTRing the dude. I liked the progression of the gal and the scenes take a bit to get but they are good (maybe not enough for the grind but whatever). There are 5 endings which are kind of hit or miss. The forums have guides which will help ya get all of the endings/scenes since some of them has some weird prereqs but none the less its a good game.

I really enjoyed this one!

I liked the art/content. At the time of review you are able to reach the multiple endings. The trophy's are a little bit grindy as others have mentioned, using a cheat engine really made it more enjoyable. Would have been better if they introduced time skipping before the final trophy

Can't wait for the next update!

Good shit. It's a little grindy, not too much- but all the best netori needs a little bit of a grind the same way incest porn needs someone screaming "step-brother" over and over.

Christ, I felt that summarized everything. If you're into Netori this game hits all the right spots.

Hidden gem, great mechanics. Not as grinds as some say and an actual story. I highly recommend. The base game was great and the encore edition only makes it better. This should be a top game on here. I'm shocked it isn't more well respected.

This is obviously subjective, but I quite like the art and the premise of the game, so that inherently elevates it in my opinion. The porn is actually well integrated with the gameplay, which is a huge plus compared to most porn games on this site, although not necessarily done perfectly at times. However, this game is a massive grindfest. On the normal setting, it will take several hours to get all the content, most of which is grinding work at stores and repeating sex scenes you've already seen. The saving grace is that this grinding is rewarded with new content. There is lots of content that gradually unlocks throughout the game. That being said, I would still strongly recommend the use of a cheat mod to skip the tedious grinding.

This game is pretty good, but it's unnecessarily grindy and the reset mechanic makes no sense.

Basically, you have 2 weeks to complete your goal, which seems completely impossible. then you can start again for another 2 weeks, but your stats carry over. Just make it go on after 2 weeks, this is pointless!

Then the first 2 or even 4 weeks are just grinding. It's not explained very well, but once you get the hang of it you just repeat the same steps again and again. it's a lot of waiting.

The art, sound, story, and dialogue are all pretty good. This could be a great game if the grind was fine.

I played this on the easiest difficulty btw. 3/5

I'll start this by saying "I don't like Netorare"... which is good, because this isn't Netorare, but it's 'cousin', Netori.
You aren't the guy getting cucked nor the girl, but the guy who gets the girl.
And the best thing, no guilt built on it either, because the girl's boyfriend is a cheating asshole jackass who deserves it.

The art is good, the flow is good, the translation isn't bad (though I barely read anything by perma holding ctrl key to skip)

If you are going to play it though, I recommend getting the MVMZ Cheat for RPGM games, since it works for this game and having the ability to just increase you action point, give yourself gold and increase your maximum lust and stamina does wonders for you to enjoy this game.
10/10 will save and play again a few times.

This is a really good game but either it doesn't explain itself very well or I'm a dumbass (which it should have expected and therefore still doesn't explain itself very well lol). The character progression, the sandbox, the art, the corruption, the scenes - truly a netori masterpiece (AKA you steal the girl and make her your eager cock sleeve) in the making.

I'm really only knocking a star off because I had to cheat to progress, even in quick mode. Again, could be me, but after playing through the 2-week cycle twice will full carry over and still being stuck at confidence, like, 9 or some shit, I had enough. Even after cheating in ridiculous amounts of money, stamina, and action points, it still took me a while of trial and error to figure out how to get confidence above 24. I can't imagine how long it would have taken me without cheats.

So yeah - Based on that last paragraph this game should probably get 3 stars from me, but it was a really unique experience and just a really solid game. I am hopeful it will get better, maybe easier? So yeah, I'm going to give it 4 today and hope to give it 5 in future.

Easy 4 stars. Treat it as a 4.5.

The one star dropped is for the simplicity of the game, and how the game doesn't reach much outside the limitations of RPGM. In short, it's a lot of walking around maps and pressing Z, but in a good way.

This game avoids all the obvious pitfalls so many other games fall into: There is no combat, there is gameplay (though it's a simple game of grinding up stats), and the environments are small enough to not make you waste time, while effectively communicating the "space" of where the game takes place. No bullshit, and no unnecessary inconvenience, and instead the time has been spent fleshing out things that enhance the fantasy of the game.

There is one interesting mechanic, where the goal of the game is to keep your lust as low as possible by managing to "relieve" yourself as often as possible, ie. giving you gameplay-rewards for getting to the sexy stuff. The thing you're doing, is the thing the player wants to do. That's how you build a game with a strong theme.

The CG's are pretty good, and there's attention on all the right places on details of clothing, facial expressions, stat-tracking etc. Even has some writing for the main heroine that connects to the fantasy that the game wants to invoke, how 'bout that. Nothing you've not seen before, but it's kind of all you need for a simple porn-game.

Simple and easy to get into. I hate sandbox games but I played this one till I could get ending 3. There are 5 endings but I haven't tried to get the last two. My only complaint is there's not more content

What a great game. Definitely in the top 10 of my uncurated list of great h-games.

Story 6/10

Pretty straightforward story. You have a disease that makes you produce too much sperm so you need to constantly ejaculate. Your friend, Nenena, wants money to buy her boyfriend an expensive wallet. So you solve each other problems by paying her for "favors".

There's 3 endings and there's no happily ever after ending. 1 is nothing happens, the other 2 are continued sex.

The reason I'm rating the story so high for such a simple story is because of Nenena's dialogue. She has a great attitude. She's super chill, down to earth, and just it's just overall great to read her dialogue. The things she says are just fun and sexy.

Gameplay 8/10

The gameplay loop is 1 day, you get action points to spend on either earning money, earning stats, or sexing it up. After 2 weeks the game's over but you can start over from day 1 with all stats carried over.

Honestly, the game's still grindy. You have to spend a full 2 weeks or even more just grinding your stats up. That being said, the game has a slow and fast mode, where I played slow.

The map is nicely sized for what the game is. You're not running around like a chicken with its head cut off but you do run around finding Nenena around town.

The game's pretty good with tutorials. Talk to everyone because they all tell you how to play the game correctly.

As you trade money for favors with Nenena, the favors escalate. The pacing of favors to escalation is also well done. That part wasn't grindy. Save for the grinding if you know what I mean ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

Art 8/10

The art is what attracted me to this game. I absolutely love the thick eyelashes look. Nenena herself is cute and sexy.

There's a decent amount of scenes that vary with decent dialogue that really gets you going.

Overall 7/10

Great game. Nenena is the ganguro girl next door. It's a pretty short game which took maybe 3 hours to beat.

If this game had voice acting that'd really be the cherry on top of the cake.

Lastly, I would like an ending in which Nenena breaks up with her boyfriend and ends up with you. Which I hear may be coming in an update to this game soon.