Others - Ero Hunters [v0.5.0] [Madodev]

Anno is probably one of the last games I foresaw ever playing a porn parody of, but here we are

Very addictive loop of conquering, building and optimising your economy and slaves / party. Very regular updates, too.

It's ambitious. Played both Ero Witches & Ero Dungeons over the years, & the mechanics from prior games build into the next, a 'sequel-but-bigger' feeling, something like Frostpunk->Frostpunk2 (with similar issue of sprawl).

So, Ero Hunters has the Ero Dungeons core, but adds strategy/town-builder/management. This is an extremely hard genre to develop for h-games; most common are slave trainers, some card games, but near-zero true map-oriented games.

So the real standout thing here is the map. When I first played Ero Witches years ago, my initial feeling was 'the game engine is running the experience more than the dev'; Ero Dungeons had so much other stuff that I lost that feeling, but now it's returned specifically for the map stuff.

I'm rambling, but that's a lot of what this game is. I myself have struggled with seeking to combine h-games & at-least-possibly-hardcore strategy, and Ero Dungeons was brilliant & so rare for this. Ero Hunters is 50% more rare & complex, but in taking that path, it perhaps inevitably struggles with developing a satisfying core & sort of unravels into several minigames (1. Ero Dungeons combat, 2. Town-builder, 3. Slave-trainer, 4. Pokemon, 5. Idle game). But I get it- how the heck can a town builder be sexy, so it forces mixing in these other elements. Though... I do think a town-builder or even grand strategy (please somebody find out how to make sexy grand strategy, I beg you) can have intense personality, e.g. through pop-up events & strong worldbuilding, maybe that's a different path for someone to take.

In the end, I think this /can/ be refined into something outstanding. There are games out there which do synthesize a million different minigames into an epic whole, Stardew Valley comes to mind. But what's really missing here is a strong editor's will-

Finally, my #1 Ultra-Specific Issue: it's a crazy/impossible mess to have all captured workers showing up in the same interface way as key fighters (an issue that overlaps with many slave trainers); perhaps there could be an interface 'drawer' for designated workers/slaves that moves them out of immediate mindspace & in practice kinda turns them into resources, but with the option to explore this bucket & pull out characters you want to use as fighters or that you're focused on. But I get this clashes with other elements, just... ugh, I want to love this game, this interface overload's brutal, even Ero Dungeons / Darkest Dungeon had that problem & this is significantly worse for that.

At the end of the day, this game inspires me. It's getting closer than almost anything else to something specific that I really want to exist... (& fantastic creative sexy art too ofc, as in prior games, but gameplay will be more decisive here.)

[Would give gamerecs, but rules. A handful of truly outstanding HTML games exist, including a card game. A few bartending/waitressing games are good. There are no outstanding slave trainers yet imo, but I think it's possible. Otherwise, almost all indie h-games are VNs & Japanese do those on a way higher level, see vndb for that. But yeah, Ero Dungeons is definitely in the current top 3 for most hardcore h-GAME on the western-internet; hope Ero Hunters will surpass it.]

Madodev is one of the Best H-game makers out there, and this may be his best Game yet! It's a strong sequal to Ero Dungeons that trades off the masochistic/subby aspects of it's precdessesor to learn hard into the management/domination fantasy of the capture->train loop. It's a little less arousing than Dungeons (for now- the game is still early in development) and still needs polish, but this is one to look out for.

nice following game after ero dungeon. You can see more and more deep mechanics growth from the privious gameS, and some cool new ones. Waiting for the various mods, like wiht ero dungeos and best wishes wiht the game)

v0.11

While it is still very early in development, the game is showing a lot of potential. Visually, it resembles their earlier Ero Witches and Ero Dungeon, and the dungeon gameplay shares some similarities, but it is more of a side adventure. Mainly, you're focused on the town map.

Its core gameplay loop revolves around clearing land by fighting groups of enemies, building structures in the cleared land, and then staffing those structures with captured enemies, having them produce and enhance resources for you, or crafting items.

I particularly liked the strategic aspects of the game; I feel there are way too few proper NSFW strategy games, and this one, despite its very early state, has the potential to become one of the best.

This game is still under alpha development so I would love to see what new things Madodev will come out with. The tutorial was hard to understand. I didn't know rations was your capture gear. I thought rations was well food, water, and healing stuff.

Forsooth, it seems to this most humble reviewer that cowgirls - a female monstergirl with bovine features and large breasts - should be included as an adversary into this game posthaste, as I yearn to see their humongous milkers on my screen. (this was to fill up the required amount of characters, need cowgirls asap)

and here's my actual review: it neat

Did one of those guys say "Factorio Gameplay"? Really?

MadoDev is making quite a name for themselves with their unique (and very often well executed) style, and here we have the next entry in the Ero X series. This is far, far earlier than I normally put a review up for a game, but MadoDev is showing his expertise already, so I think it's safe to review it based on concept, knowing the quality won't be far behind.

Ero Hunters trades in the character building complexity of Dungeons for Base Building Complexity. Your first few fights will be collecting resources, but soon after you'll get into the real meat of the game: exploring territory, capturing monstergirls, and forcing them to work at your base. That's right, in Ero Hunters, you're putting the equipment on the monsters.

It's a continued evolution from the solely dungeon-based Ero Witches, and the dungeon and base building Ero Dungeons into a game with a more robust overworld on top of dungeons, keeping much of what worked and adding a few new ideas.

The combat is interesting, streamlined with new abilities (and given you're given access to the monster girls, I'm sure we'll see a lot of interesting new skills to follow), and the difficulty is slightly less hellish than Dungeons; kidnapping is nowhere to be seen, and you're healed to full after overworld battles, making this something easier to play casually.

Yet I have to rate this lower than Dungeons.

Firstly, the help interface is more confusing than Dungeons, and it might take you a few or more minutes to work out how to get the guidance you need. This is especially egregious with the new mechanics immediately thrown at you, especially in battle.

That didn't factor too much into my review here, since I imagine that will be polished ahead of time. That said, I kind of forgave Madodev for the music in Dungeons? Not this time. It's the same music, it just doesn't feel good to me. It's a bit more personal than I like to be in reviews, but there's been a lot of good changes in Hunters and I wish this was one of them.


Also, Madodev is learning mapbuilding and it shows, intensely. In the recommended start, it's extremely easy to lock yourself in and waste resources having to move buildings around, and some of the requirements to advance the early quests are a little painful on top of that. The options of various areas are nice (even if I haven't explored all of them), but maybe it would have been a better idea to start with 2-4 and not 8.

The same caution I gave in Dungeon holds true here: this is a BDSM fetish game, and little else. There's not a man in sight on this island, though given previous works I expect Futa in the near future. MadoDev has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that their games are good for equipment and BDSM fetish but you shouldn't expect outright sex out of them.

Ero Hunters is the level of quality that I'vecome to expect out of MadoDev; if you like BDSM and the idea of making monstergirls work for you and aren't afraid to use your imagination a bit, you'll have an amazing time with this game. In the end, this is a great game for fans of MadoDev, one that could well serve as an introduction to new fans, as long as you're aware of what you're getting into.

I'm generally a sucker for these types of turned-based strategy games... but the lack of real dicks and actual sex for an eroge is a huge disappointment. The focus on toys and lesbian-only stuff leaves a hole in my heart, much like a long foreplay session ending and leaving you blueballed without any rawdogging.

If you're doing a fantasy eroge, I demand equal representation for my fellow men. Add some orcs, goblins, tentacles, wolves, and all sorts of villains to molest the girls and make an enjoyable world!

As a hot-blooded male; when I see monster girls, I expect snu-snu and savage breeding sessions ending with wombs filled with seed. Impregnation by dildo, seriously?

Too bad, since the game seems to have some good depth and intricate systems... but the same reasons turned me off from the prequel as well. I guess I'm just not the target audience for this game.

As a sequel to EroDungeons, it's a step up in many ways. Everything that has transferred over has been reapproached to feel smoother. Dungeons no longer vanish after completing them allowing you to continue farming them (though takes some time to refresh) or get loot and battles you missed. No longer will you have girls that become useless because of randomly cursed items with conditions you can't fulfill and traits that make it hard to use them. Combat feels better and has some potential for some great combos at higher levels in the future. And if you have one of your party members get defeated, they don't get kidnapped. And chests are handled in such a better way rather than continuously failing the checks.
At the same time, this game does not diminish from it's predecessor. They are fundamentally different genres.

But, at the time of writing this I do have some problems with it. I do understand that this is still in pretty early state so I'll give it leeway.

The game's still in its early stages, but turning out really well! Dev is receptive to feedback as well. Particularly enjoying the factorio aspects and focus on player-dom rather than player-sub design.

Engaging visuals, hot theming, really creative concept, this dev somehow keeps coming up with amazing ideas to make an actually lewd world while keeping it interesting and fun, capturing enemies and training them to work for you is such a great idea, thanks for the quality games Madodev! Will keep looking forward to future builds!