Unity - Completed - Escape Dungeon 2 [Final] [Hide Games]

While the combination of roguelite with game over rape is a great idea and Escape Dungeon 2 does a lot right, it doesn't understand the core design tenants of the genre and doesn't make up for it with it's porn content. As a result it will probably hold you for a while, but get boring well before the end.

To its credit, trying to kite rooms of enemies while balancing out the safety but unreliability of ranged attacks with the certanty of melee is fun and relatively fresh. The actual H scenes also look good and have fairly effective writing. The technical implementaion is also very solid. However, the praise ends there. The biggest issue with the gameplay is a lack of variety- which is what the entire genre is known for. There just aren't many systems to play around with so a lot of the random skills feel very same-y and the meta-progression actively removes variety by giving you fixed skills. Then there's the level system that gives you more skill bonuses than the game really has skills to fulfill so a bug chunk of them is just incrementing basic stats. It also doesn't take very long to get enough meta bonuses to trivialize the early game, but it doesn't go much faster or have anything like bonus challenges to make up for it. So it just becomes a slog until you actually get to the new content, with a nearly identical build to last run but higher stats.

The gamplay shortcomings would matter less if there was good integration of porn and gameplay but the only thing you get other than game over rape is the ability for the PC to get her clothes torn off. But the sole gameplay effect of that is making one skill bad so for all intents and purposes it just puts a jpeg of tits in the corner of the screen. And since you quickly build up enough meta bonuses to make anything but bosses feel safe even the game over rape scenes feel very distant from the gameplay. I'd like to see enemies that have some sort of sexual abilities that apply debuffs, or sexual traps, or items, or reason to worry about the PC's clothes being torn, or anything to spice things up.

Despite all my criticisms, the game does a lot right and feels like it could become something great with a rebalance and more features. So I'll still keep an eye out for Escape Dungeon 3.

Alright, so I've played Escape Dungeon 2. As a preface, please keep in mind that I played the Demo version, so it's clearly not the full game that I'm rating here. Moreover, it's primarily the game-play that I will focus on.
I will revision this rating once the full game is released.

The gameplay reminds me a lot of For the King in terms of the art style. If you played that game, this will remind you of it - minus the way battles work. The game is quite fun in terms of game play, and I imagine that you can create various builds focusing on specific gameplay. At least that would make the game more interesting and add variety.

Variety is in the demo one of the weaknesses of the game. You walk around maps that look the same. Your skills aren't particularly different either. Why not add, say, a spear/sword/magic/shield build etc. These things could make the game more interesting, and add different types of game play as well as weaknesses and so on. I think that could benefit the game a lot.

Now, this is an adult game. I'm the type of player that never loses intentionally. That is unless the game is too easy and at some point I just want to see what happens. Unfortunately, the demo did include the one scene I intentionally lost to see. Thus, it's very hard for me to judge how good of an adult game it is.
But what I did see, was that you had to lose to see anything, which... well, that just never really sits too well with me. Adding to that, it plays into the over-used "I'm an innocent virgin who has never seen a dick - why do you want to undress me" type comments from the MC.

So, let me break it down:

The Good

• Different skills to improve the MC. Skill system is interesting, and I look forward to seeing more skills added.
• The combat is decent and different than most other games.
• Good looking MC.

The In-between

• The combat quickly becomes repetitive
• The game could've been a tad bit more difficulty, but that might come with more levels unlocked.
• I think her breasts need some more weight - they are sort of floating around like water-balloons in low gravity.
• I hope to see different play styles over time - and also different maps.
• The overused trope of "I'm innocent virgin" is used. That said, it's not like this game is text-heavy at all, so you can get past it.

The Bad

• The maps was all very alike.
• You have to lose to view any art.

And so, I've decided to give it 3 stars. But the game has potential that can be developed. Lastly, like I said, this game is a demo, so I'll review my rating once the full game is released.

Very good demo!

+ The primary gameplay loop is simple but deep if one cares to try out strategies.
+ Beautiful CG:s


-very little nsfw content
- Unclear content in the demo (you dont really know when you have seen it all)

gameplay is awesome! I havent played a game with this type of combat before and i really like it.

cg looks really good - though i wish there was more. I do understand this is a demo though.

sound effects are pleasing. I wish there was some variety in the music, but for a demo, I understand.

i am excited for the updates!