Others - Completed - EraTohoK [2022-06-05] [Wamekukyouzin]

Three things that the guide does not emphasize enough:

• Characters with high ambition are bullshit.
  • Even when raped to 'Slave', they will still revolt unpredictably, despite what the text says.
  • Revolting one shots all of your units on the field (they go on 1 turn cooldown)
  • Revolting steals slightly under half of your troops
  • Revolting kidnaps MANY officers and prisoners at random
  • If you make a character with above an 'A' in ambition an officer (including your initial officers) expect to lose several turns of progress at random some point later on.
    • Seija, with her 'S' Ambition revolted on the same turn I made her an officer.
• Diplomacy is not optional.
  • Even when raping everyone, if you ignore diplomacy, nations will form coalitions against you. Allied nations can teleport units to each other, so you effectively lose any territory that is not thoroughly protected during a coalition.
• Do not enable every special faction on your first playthrough (or disable some of their events in settings)
  • Keep it to 1-2 factions to learn how they work.
  • Almost all special faction rape events cannot be resisted and are not preventable. If you do not know what you are doing against special factions, the game will be artificially much longer.
  • If you want to be the only rapist in the world, be careful with special factions.

The (File -> Open clipboard) button is useful for the untranslated text. I copied any sections longer than 5 or so lines into DeepL and the quality of the MTL was not poetry.

Unfortunately it is impossible to kidnap the civilians in exposure play during a night raid. Although the raid will end as though you succeeded, the generic character will not appear in your character list afterwards.

The game does not hand hold you through anything, but it is simpler than it lets on. If you keep in mind these surprise mechanics before your first playthrough, you'll likely have a better time than I did.

That said, there was a ton of love put into the sex mechanics. After playing for a few hours, you may want to revisit the content toggles. Although I personally think fear pissing is hot, there is no chance that I would ever care about this before my rape count hit the triple digits.

Since this is a text-based game, the UI and mechanics took me a little while to understand at first since there weren't visuals, but the overall gameplay becomes much easier to understand the more you play; it just requires a little practice.

Content-wise, you're able to be pretty much as vanilla or as kinky as you like. You can train your 2hus into slaves or slowly build up a romance with them.

My one complaint would be that the game is harder if you're playing as a girl or a futa than if you're playing as a guy. Lesbian relationships take more time and effort to cultivate within the game and so it can take a lot longer to get the bonuses for seducing a certain amount of characters.

Great game. EraK is like rance but with your imagination.
Really fun mechanics I wish there are more like this.
AnonTW also great, I've been playing it for a week now. Great gameplay and ok story.
Also, Imagination is RULE!!!!

*TLDR:
I'll be brutally honest as usual, i did not expect a mere text game to be this good. It was a pleasant surprise. Recommended for fans of the hardcore.

*Hardcore content:
Want slaves? Sure. Want to brand them? Sure. Want to tattoo filthy words on their face or anywhere else on their body? By all means. Want to pierce their fun bits? Can do. Etc, etc.
And you can also do a lot of fun stuff to your own mc if you so wish.
This game doesn't mess around, and i love this to pieces.

*Actual gameplay:
It is there, and it is good.
Can play as a leader of a faction vying for supremacy or as their officer. Various scenarios available.

*Highly customizable:
You can customize just about anything.

*Touhou-based:
This game takes place in Touhou universe's Gensokyo.

*TL quality: Mostly good but there are girls with untranslated text that do pop up on occasion, sadly.

*Afterword:
Honestly enjoyed myself quite a bit, mainly due to non-vanilla content.
Been a while since i played something on non-virgin level so this was a blast. Have fun~

Era games while built on an older engine, are an awesome source of entertainment and replayability once you get the hang of the mechanics.

EratohoTW is my absolute sandbox, comfort game as an avid Touhou fan.

Edit: Correct ton of poor English words

There is a summary below this review, for anyone who prefers quick reading.

Introduction
4/5
The game is very different and made for specific type of players, so if those types of players play it, they will really like it. But if not the target audience they would really hate it.

How game work
Before we play there are scenarios we can choose, and will bring us to the map of the games such as Gensokyo, EU, and Japan. Then we choose an area with a group of Touhou characters in there as our ally. We can select any specific character we like, that is also an option. And the objective of this game is to control all countries by being friendly or just attacking everyone. We have to do all of this by management protection, Attack, and Relation country development.

While playing, player can develop relationships with Touhou characters starting with strangers to marriage.

Good thing

Touhou relate
There are a lot of Touhou characters over 150. I am not truly a Touhou fan so not sure if some characters haven't been in the game yet but I am pretty sure 90%-95% had in this game. Some characters had special talent details like Satori who had reading mind ability or Doremy could enter people's dreams, these were like fan service for Touhou fans who know the lore.

Strategy
After starting the game and entering mid-game where AI starts more active. Players can send people to attack. Or give away our people to ally country. For me, this is the most fun of the game, the creator did really well.

Dating and Segg system
As for me, I enjoy it but some wouldn't like it. So the system works by simply clicking the option what to do on the screen like "Kiss", or "Invite go outside" and the same as the segg action. Players can choose many positions and fetishes such as Oral, cowgirl, etc. Also, we can combine many things such as "Touch body" + "Kiss" so these two things can happen at the same time(It sounds good but still needs imagination because there none any video or picture).

Passion of game creator
There are so many details for over 100+ characters, many events, and options for action.

Bad thing

Incomplete translate
95% is English other than that is Japanese but this can be fixed by clicking on the "File" at the top left of the program and going to the "Clipboard", this will open Notepad with the current text on the game so you can copy Japanese text to Google Translate. Most of the incomplete are just minor problems and not seen often, so many event choices right now in the game most of the time is English. But still it should be 100% translated but not a big problem.

Hard to learn game
This game doesn't have an easy explanation. Don't have a tutorial with some showcase of how the game works and not even a beautiful screen tutorial, everything is just text... There is a help option on the menu, it will explain how the game works but is still hard to understand for new players. So I recommend play the game a bit first and then coming back to read the explanation again. There is a guide for new players in the file game but hard to understand.

Dating and segg action
Even though it Hentai game and has the segg system it's only just text. There are 2 types of images, The first is when the character is naked but only the top half of the body to see their expression, and the chest when naked. The second type of image is a gif animation of semen going into the female womb which happens whenever the player has raw segg with the characters. Even dating and segg action seem basic but still have a few problems for new players could be confusing. This is caused by the game not being fully explained so the only way to know is to try out all the action.

Summary
4/5
This game is very specific for some players who follow this.
1.Touhou fan
2.Like strategy game
3.Like reading and novels/Don't mind text-based game
4. Have great imagination for segg scenes, as every action of the game is only explained by text
5.Okay with coding background and a simple background screen. The whole game is only a black screen like came from CMD or a coding program, with only a picture of the top half-body character.
6.Have a lot free time to waste(This would took me 2 days to complete, like actually 2 days = 48 hours from know nothing to complete the game)

If you have all of this I mentioned, I am pretty sure you can enjoy it a lot like me and would maybe replay it again.

This game has a "Help" option on the menu screen and a notepad in the file game called "new_player_guide.txt" but still needs to be played at least for an hour for more understanding.

4/5 I cut one score for incomplete translation and no tutorial.

Kind of hard to distinguish what version I am rating, so I guess this is for the 7/17/2023 build?

Nifty concept, terrible design and execution.

I have played many text games and even helped make some text games and as some other reviews have pointed out, there are good, intuitive text games, and then there are games like this.

Zero explanation on how to play the game in the game, untranslated text, a mess of text walls that don't explain anything, and so much random crap that seemingly has no purpose that when you first take a look around it makes you want to just quit.

I gave this game a shot for maybe an hour and all I could figure how to do was go to the cafe, talk to people, do scouting events, and have sex in the extremely limited and honestly disappointing sex system, which had a small few options and very quickly got boring and repetitive since you can't read what is going on since all of the dialogue is in Japanese.

I've played games with steep learning curves, but there is no learning curve here because that implies that there is some way to actually learn the game.
In this game, you either know how something works, or you don't and there is nothing that will really help with that process.

If you want to give it a shot for shits and giggles, go ahead, but I personally would recommend avoiding it unless you feel like wasting a large chunk of your life learning a poorly designed text game that has zero intuitiveness.

Practically perfect for a text-based game.

• ~160 girls, each with their own portraits.
• Portraits with varying expressions (normal and erotic).
• Customizable characters.
• Various events.
• Various factions with their own strategic actions.
• Various settings let you play in various ways (including as evil factions).
• Fun strategic game that can vary in difficulty.
• Fun punishing/torturing/night-crawling/sex actions.
• Nice interactive dating simulation.
• Replayability is high.

• Things can get extremely messy and overwhelming at times.
• No erotic imagery beyond portraits.
• Some segments are not completely translated.
• Some texts/info can break immersion sometimes.
• Long gameplay segments.

TL;DR It takes some time to learn the game, but it is an extremely rewarding experience. Highly recommended for Touhou fans

Honestly, the first time I opened this game, I played it for about 10 min, got bored, and bailed out. But as a massive Touhou fan, I gave it another chance, and now I waste more of my life playing this game than any other text based game I've experienced by a long shot. There is a decently large learning curve to master all the systems (especially if you want to play higher difficulties with strong special factions,) but I am incredibly impressed by the variety and nuance this game offers. If you get bored of hashing things out through brute force, it is totally possible to conquer the world through diplomacy (and my new favorite way to play.) If you want a quicker game that doesn't require constantly managing combat, you can play as an officer instead of the ruler, and your ruler's AI will manage a lot of the combat for you with decent efficiency. A lot of things can be adjusted in the settings, including turning off events you don't like, and additional modding can be done without special software (though the base code is still in Japanese with limited English notes, so that is something I'm still getting the hang of.) All in all, if you are a Touhou fan, willing to put in the time to learn the systems, and want a potential challenging and fun game, then I highly recommend giving this game a shot

make sure to stay updated for sure, this game has always had loads of content, but it's always nice to have more, highly customiseable with great looking touhou portraits immediately, and supposedly you can also have custom ones, but i haven't figured that bit out yet myself, could perhaps do with some more attention, all said, it's a very good game with diverse and unique content.

Seeing how highly rated the game was on this site, I simply had to provide some form of counter-balance.

I'll be frank- this is barely a game. To compare it to Romance of the Three Kingdoms is incredibly unfair to the RotTK games, of which I'm not even really even much of a fan. Even the 1985 version on PC-88 is significantly more playable, with a better map, better and more numerous graphics, and a significantly better idea of what the player is supposed to be doing and how to do it. This game, despite looking like it came out in the same time period, is from decades later- even so, it looks worse and plays worse.

My problems with this game have very little to do with it being text-based; I've played a great number of text-based ero-games, most recently ones like Corruption of Champions and Monster Girl Dreams, and in general, they do a good job getting across to the player what is going on, where to go, and what to do. In fact, the relative simplicity of text-based games is a big part of what makes them so easy to approach... usually. Every now and then, though, you get games like this. Text-based games where the screen is cluttered with hard-to-navigate windows, eye-straining text and a glut of seemingly random icons and multicolored letters. Games where something as simple as opening the interaction menu makes you want to say, "Fuck it, I'm done", where you can barely tell what's going on, where nothing you do seems to have much of an effect one way or the other. This is a game where you will waste an absurd amount of time doing absolutely nothing, simply because you have very little way of actually interacting with the world. You simply press the same few buttons every turn, churn through every interaction, and repeat each turn forever. There is very little to actually do in this game, even if there are a large number of things that happen which the player has some level of control over.

I suppose that summarizes the whole game pretty well, actually- a large number of things happen, but the player has very little to do. You simply grind the same few actions you're able to over and over again, slowly taking territories, and then the game is over. The h-scenes are only erotic by technicality, not because they're text-based with no images, but because they're clinical and not particularly well written. Even once you get over the absurdly steep learning "curve", there's very little meat there. An enormous amount of content, yes, but virtually no substance whatsoever. I would not recommend this game under any circumstances, unless you are a major Touhou fan, in which case I suppose you might get a kick out of it.

great game with lots of possibilities and events, sadly not every event is translated to english, but a majority of the game is playable and there's still work being done on the translation. me being new to the touhou universe still really enjoyed this game and sparked my interested in the touhou franchise, wonderful game.

The average human being has around 5 liters of blood in them.

In one orgy with 8 women, my MC managed to ejaculate 5.421 liters. On the one hand, I'm a little sad that he's more of a man than I'll ever be. On the other hand, 10/10 would do again.

holy shit is this one a gem. Like a better sengoku rance. ill start with the bad parts because they are few and far between, parts are still untranslated and the only other problem i have is the avatar system, its great it randomly makes a portrait for characters from a template, but the girls are rather child looking anime girls. Its not my taste, But i cant fault it for this since its a taste thing. Another thing is the scorlling system this game uses, i sometimes click on things that were clickable before but arent now. But you get used to it. Now the good:
honestly almost everything. The ui is hard to adjust to but once you do its actually pretty dope. he gameplay is varied, interesting and dare i say engaging? Theres lots of events that can happen, so far from what ive seen they all are pretty interesting and unique, from a simple you went to a tavern to a weird you watched the moon with a suspicious girl. Its fun af.
This game is worth it if youre into gameplay heavy fuck games. My gripe with rance series was the main character himself, and this game fixes that. So far its one of my favorites ive seen on this site.

Text based games aren't usually my thing. But this is an exception.

Basically, I've dreamt of a game like this, but didn't know already existed. There is almost total freedom as you conquer a map filled with an assortment of waifus leading opposing nations. You can make babies, with friends or enemies. Use Diplomacy, make alliances. Execute prisoners, go on dates with your offers. Do mischief with dignitaries from bordering nations.

Pros:
It's a power fantasy that can be customized to a ridiculous amount. The strategy element is really fun and engaging. Unexpected and interesting things happen often. There are images and animations (clothed and unclothed), but the text and your own imagination do the job. You can set any characters to be related to you at the start, so you might discover your long lost sister amid battle. Or recruit your mom as an officer.

Cons:
The UI is not elegant, but the freedom it gives you makes up for it. Numpad shortcuts make input quick and after awhile you get used to it. You have to get used to the fact that this game progresses by scrolling text, so the game runs as a long window. Again, you get used to it. I would change these awkward aspects of the game but almost nothing else.

Era Games has a Wiki with a bunch of similar games, some based off of this one. Essentially, whatever you could be into seems to be represented here. This is a flawed gem, but well worth high praise.

[Reveiw of v1.28.13 on 2/20/2022]

Jesus, I just about lost 24 hours to this thing.

Maybe I have a compulsive disorder of some sort. Or maybe this game just yoinks you in that hard, like one of these Tohou girls whose damn Submission stat won't go up because she just demands to be on top, even when you're the one choosing every position or action. It's as irritating as it is deeply satisfying when you finally fuck them unconscious and force their submission up through sheer mindshattering, near-constant orgasms.

That was a bit of a tangent, though, wasn't it? Well, that's what this game is about in a nutshell. It initially comes across as a Rance style country conquering game, and then quickly devolves into a custom slut-training sex simulator, complete with an absolute bevvy of various sexual stats and skills for everyone involved to know and learn, with the ultimate goal being to use the Kama Sutra to recruit overpowered women as officers into your holy war. It's a devil's playground, not least of which because of the level of descriptive depth, options, random events, and mechanical intricacy available within the game.

Admittedly, this game isn't perfect. It's still being translated by /hgg/ posters on 4chan, and it is currently at version 1.28.13 (if I'm reading the most updated source, that is...). They're busy translating what probably amounts to a Charles Dickens novel worth of unique dialogue for the... errr... how many characters are in this game? Way too many. I'm pretty sure it's the whole Tohou roster, and I don't know a quarter of enough about the roster to tell you anything. All I know is that there's probably more than 50 characters, and that there is still work to be done. There were plenty of unique dialogues that I ran into which were still coming through in moon runes -- it didn't affect my ability to play the game or enjoy most of the sex scenes, but it certainly limited my ability to enjoy the character's individual personalities.

All that being said, everything content-wise needed to get about a dozen good wanks is translated and available. For players who enjoy Grand Strategy games, Touho, and humanity's all-powerful imagination, this is a truly fantastic porn game.

As a strategy game, Eratoho is hobbled by its interface. Trying to parse out the game state just takes significantly longer than other strategy games and is a constant drag even when you have a good idea of what's going on.

However, the strategy game part is more a backdrop to the real Eratoho experience: a complex Tohou story simulator. A super flexible faction and relationship system creates interesting scenarios that you can take in whatever direction you want. Go ahead and romance and marry you're 2hu waifu then turn around and film an enemy ruler losing their virginity to a pig and spread the footage to their subjects to humiliate them. And you won't be starved for ideas as a huge variety of random and scripted events happen over the course of your playthrough, again running the whole gamut of cute to depraved. As well as a steady drip feed of new bedroom/dating items.

If you have the patience and know anything about the Tohou franchise, I'd encourage you to give this a shot. I suggest getting Translation Aggregator and enabling the game's "copy to clipboard" to deal with any untranslated sections.

This game excels in the freedom you are given after you climb the learning cliff, which you either have to stumble through or just read the wall of text meant for new players.

But after all that, you can get to victory in so many different ways, you could invade, annex rulers through love or submission, create permanent alliances, join the winning nation, and more.

There's also a very good replayability, which I love. Once you win, you can carry over pretty much whatever you want into any scenario, and to avoid the game becoming too easy you can increase difficulty by directly changing it in settings, adding special factions, or renouncing an alliance early on to make all the rulers hate you, building up coalitions against yourself.

Perhaps my greatest pet peeve is that there aren't any stat checks for a lot of events, and you can somehow get drugged raped by a random hunter despite having the abilities of a demi-god even if you make reasonable decisions

This is not really my first time playing a text-based game, but it certainly it's the first time doing it for long enough to make a review.

Gameplay wise is really good... for a text-based game, that's it.
Most of the scenarios you are in the middle of a war, but before making your moves, you can interact with your fellow officers, to train their stats or to have some sexy fun with them.
You can befriend characters, train various stats, explore to trigger events, manage a military, a very detailed sex system that surpasses even most slave trainer games, impregnate girls to breed new characters, there is option for gay romance (fxf and mxm), lots of very specific stats to level up, some random characters appearing mid-game, officers that can treason you and create their own new nation, gaining new officers on the most random ways, etc, etc.
The number of interactions, stats, and event is absolutely amazing to see!

You might not get bored fast if you want to explore all the options and variants the game offers for it's overall gameplay. (Both the main one, and the side one)

Graphic wise is basically a 404.
Almost everything is exclusivelly text with different colors.
The only images are the portraits of non-random characters and kinda the map. (I'm perfectly aware this is text-based, but still.)
Even the interface is kinda simple, i have seen other text-based games that had better interfaces.

There is no Music, not even sound effects, so can't qualify Soundtrack.

Plot varies according to the Scenario you select, most being in a War scenario, full of aliances, treason, and sexual events.
As the guide indicates, the 1st scenario is you better choice to start.
Characters is the entire Touhou cast, and all of them are programed very true to the original characters... or the fandom most common headcanons. (if you are a touhou fan, you know what i mean)

I don't know how to feel about this game in general.
I play it because is the only Touhou parody h game (with more than just 1 or 2 characters) i found so far.
I not a big fan of text-based games, and while this game made me like them even more, it isn't something i would like to revisit much.
The Game only excels on the Gameplay aspect, but it does it very well, like, really well!
So, based mostly on that aspect, i decide to give the 5/5 score. (Even if the "real score" would be just a 3 or 4.)
It's just that the game is really good for what it means to be, and even if it could be "even more", it doesn't really need to.

PD: Shouldn't this Game have the "Parody" tag too?

i have played 20+ hours of this in the last 3 days since i first came upon this...

Its a strategy text game with next to no visuals, all you get is an UI and some portraits to non-RNG characters.
you may pick one of several scenarios to play in (played 2 different ones so far)
and you may pick who you want to play as (this includes a developed character from previous playthough)
as well as what is your status (wanderer, officer, ruler)
Ruler: is self explanatory you lead a country (hopefully) to sucess
Officer: You are a tool of war for the ruler.
Wanderer: you do not belong to any faction, this means that your means of getting paid are minimal and you will get less events as well...

You can become any of these as you please, if you are a wanderer then you can get hired by any ruler you want (maybe not if they hate you, but i have not tested that) or you can even make your own country

as a ruler you can abdicate and set your lover or slave as the new ruler and so on and so forth...

Whats a big + on this game is that no outcome is necesserarly bad unless YOU personally dont dislike it.... you can start out as a ruler and get decimated by other countries, however still win at the end as a result of joining the winning side...

What happens after you win: there is no definitive end, once you win then you can start what is called a newgame+, and you can carry over anything you please, from your characters skills to traits and relations that npc characters have developed thought out the previous game.

For example: you spend the entire game impregnating a single character as well as honing your skills to A
the character got impregnated so many times that the character gains a trait:. (likes being impregnated) and you end up with many children...

now you can choose for the character to keep all favor as well as the trait you gave her, and you can choose for all your children to start in the next game as well...

this game is highly versetile and you can trurly do anything you want with little fear of the consequences.

definetly try it its a text game it wont destroy your storage or fry your cpu

sorry for any typos/incoherent review first time trying to review a game on this site.