RPGM - General Rowenne [v1.1 Fix] [RowenneTheGreatG]

I never like telling someone that their game is no good, but honestly this game is really bad.

I highly doubt the developer has even once played their own game from start to finish without cheats. The grind is unbearably slow. Early quests require you to collect a total of 520 gold. You get 3 from each bat you kill. every once in awhile the bat will drop an armor piece or weapon that you can sell for 10 gold.

That might not sound so bad on the surface. Just fast-forward through it and kill a bunch of bats, right? Wrong. You are a pathetic weakling from the beginning and can only kill 1 bat before you have to heal. You do have a healing spell which you can use between battles, so you will spend all your MP on healing, which will last you for maybe 3 bats total. Then you have to TP home to restore your health and mana, and walk all the way back to the dungeon, past the guards that harass you with the exact same event every single time, just to kill another 3 bats.

That's about 8 minutes of work, and you got about 18 gold. If you're lucky and got a piece of armor, you'd have gained 28 gold. There are a few chests around the dungeon which you can collect once, which totals to probably about 100 gold.

Alright, well one of those "collect a bunch of gold" quests gets you a tavern to work at to "bring in mercenaries and provide income." The income is 2 gold. You get 2 gold from doing the tavern minigame, which amounts to walking to each table and interacting with them, and then watching an unskippable slideshow where Rowenne gets spanked.


I am 100% confident that the developer has intentionally made this game a grindy slog because he believes he's filling out the playtime. Instead, he's made this game completely unapproachable.

Heck, the game starts with some church requesting that you do work for them to raise your church reputation, with the promise that you will eventually be given permission to build a church in your town. How do you raise your church reputation? By doing one of two events over and over and over, getting 1 reputation point each time and watching 30 seconds of unskippable cutscenes where Rowenne gets her tits groped or forced to kiss.

The one and only positive I have to give to this game is that Rowenne looks okay. I like her appearance, and if this game had better gameplay, better writing, and better grammar, I think it could have been a really hot game.

Imagine... building the inn by earning money from the pub would require doing the pub "minigame" 100 times. You'd be rewatching the same event for about an hour while skipping all dialogue, just to buy the Inn. And what does the Inn get you? Merchants who ask you for another several hundred gold to teach you a spell. Seriously, stay far away from this game. If you fight through the tedium, your reward is another objective, and even MORE tedious grinding. There's hardly even a plot to follow.

I'd stay far, far away from this game. And to the developer, the game doesn't need more content. It needs a higher quality to the content that's there. Better writing, less grinding. It's okay to have a short game. Short games can be very good. And it's always better to start with a short game, and make it longer by expanding on it later.

I actually played all the content and think i am good to review it without bias.
It has a rough start where things look a bit sparse, but soon you find their is a lot more under the hood. The story is about humiliating Rowenne and if you enjoy games like this (female protag, humiliation, harassment, corruption etc) then stick with it! Rowenne gets a good dose.
The H stuff is were the game shines and my score is biased towards that.
Getting to the content is not that hard if you follow the story and avoid grinding etc like other rpgm games. Just do everything it says and it will flow nicely. 4-5 good hours of entertainment. I even saved some of the clips in my collection the scenes were pretty hot.

Too buggy. Every second scene would freeze and you'd have to exit the game. Not worth downloading at this stage. Dev needs to focus on making sure the game runs before adding more content. Content that it there is a little bland.

TL;DR Skip this game

When i downloaded 4 gb of something, that I though would be like other 2d game but with nice management and different graphic I did not expect this.

Lets talk two categories - combat & everything else.

Gameplay is insanely grindy and boring. Typical combat however further degraded with % chances, wrong descriptions (parry=/=guard), no special attacks/TP spenders at the start, low xp gains and hard difficulty. This is quite bad on its own, however I believe I would still give this more time if there wasn't, well... EVERYTHING ELSE.

Everything else:

• You can't use mouse (not supported). So sometimes, among other related problems, you wonder if NPCs are not interacable or if you are standing in the wrong spot.
• Fast forward is clunky, because some animations takes long time.
• Skip option for already seen events doesnt exists.
• Open map has lot of places, but you cannot access most of them.
• You are rank of "general", war hero. And you start at level 1 and can get killed by a single bat quite easily.
• Point system... exists. You can only see it physically in your house. By interacting with object. Nowhere else.
• Gold rewards sucks. To get a building, you will need to gring and grind.
• And those building are not rewarding enough. This game has, without any doubt, the worst boring Bar/Tavern in all the porn games I have ever seen.
• No direction given whatsoever

Overall, this game looks like pre-alpha version and I can't recommend it, sorry.

V .9? Is it almost done if so read some revive and fix some of the problem.

i don't know that to say, that everyone already say it just bad

gameplay - .5/5
note i cheated and it still was a grind if feels like a steam scam that making to burn though the 2hr so you can't get your refunds. Same two enemies bat and maybe 2 bats, with chest the drop the same as the bat, it got to the point i just ran pass all of it. (drop are dog shit)

Looks \ Graphic - 2/5
Basic fantasy RPGM Assets, but the so call dungeon long with the same enemies with no change what so every just make you go zig zag thought it, with no checkpoint and be able to get back to important part of the story

(i forget to add, The world is static nothing is moving no wondering NPC no random every so frozen in time still)

Characters and NSFW - 2/5
Characters look good i think from DAZ or something like honey select, but you will only see the characters in nsfw, that it very rarely in cut scenes, and the cut scene, just boring one move and the other is stuck frozen, like someone interacting with a doll

story N/A
i don't know i stop paying attend some what a the begging and i get it hit with a all female gone story so i don't know i give up on it

Overall - 1.5/5
It need a lot of work, at this point the big the is the grind, just work on it get, or use this as a learning tool but at this point way to much for so little

Genuine waste of time. I'm not gonna repeat what's been said below me. But everything is still true. This game is the biggest piece of dog shit I've played in a hot minute. So much in fact, that I felt the need to come here and give it a bad review. One star ⭐

Well I risked it because I liked the art. What everyone says about the grind is true. You need 300 gp 3 times to build the buildings and can only get 3gp getting carrots or around 5-8 killing bats who also drop stuff. But the writing is also not good story wise or English wise. So you are a general and come back blamed for some reason ok... Immediately get groped by guards without teaching them a lesson. Then the town acts like you are a monster for smacking a penis at the bathroom glory hole. At one point you need to get past a guard and the pc's first thought is prostitution. .. what you are a general and a soldier.

Great Concept and Game . City Building and Militia Development. The overarching scheming villain troupe is a bit cliche, and the UI/UX could be better that's why 4 stars. Definitely worth at least one play-through.

It is a real shame that this game is designed and implemented in this way.
The concept and the potential are very good, it's probably plenty of things to do but getting there is just too frustrating.

As other have said the grind is real, in a couple of hours of gameplay you get nothing done.
I'm ok if there are paths not meant to be taken at the beginning of the game: if the combat system is designed to be hard by yourself and combats are meant to be done when you have an army, i'm totally ok with that, BUT you have to give me alternatives to achieve the goals.
The farming route is a joke, it's even more frustrating than the fights.
I get it: low risk, low reward, but you literally have no other choices: getting wrecked in the dungeon (high risk low reward anyway) or bore you to death farming carrots.

On top of that, everybody is telling the dev that the system is unbalanced and too grindy and very little action has been done. Some corrective actions have been done to ease the beginning of the game but i feel it's still too little.
All you can do requires A LOT of effort and you always get very little reward. If i wanted to play such game i'd just get back to my ex wife.

I personally can forgive a junkyness, little bugs and lack of QoL (unskyppable scenes and such), but a bad design and a stubborn creator is preventing this game from being enjoyable.

I liked the idea. The description on the page is the best part. It's the worst game i ever played in my life though. So bad in fact I'm left wondering if this is a troll or something.

Even with the starter kit in the dungeon(considered cheating you'll be insulted for picking it up) the "great" general Rowenne can't fight bats. In fact that's too generous she can't fight A bat. Usually when a game force you to get wrecked by monsters you at least get some content out of it. In this game it serve no purpose. It's just a big f you go do something else(even though there's nothing else).

Only other way i found to try and make some money is pick up carrots for 3 golds every time you do the minigame(you need 300 gold to build anything).

Speaking of that stupid farm. You don't get the carrots in the field behind the farm(like any rational human being would assume). No you enter the farmhouse and get magically teleported to a new field in some swamp where you pick up the carrots. If not for the fact there's nothing else to do than go click on everything hoping something will happen i would've never known you pick up carrots INSIDE the house.

Also, once you try and go figure out how the building system works(to learn this grind is absolutely not worth your time) you get a warning to use the construction deed immediately after getting it because if you have more than one you will bug the game. That's after you picked up 2 of them because they're the only stupid quests in your village and the very first thing you run into(flawless game design lol).

The art and animations are ok(at least the only 2-3 I've seen were)but the game is just so bad, so unintuitive and so grindy you really should consider going outside, making a friend and taking turn kicking each others in the balls until one of you end up in the hospital. It would be a better way to spend your time.

Reviewing version v0.4, things may change in later versions.

TLDR, look at the images in the game files, or cheat a lot of money (and possibly) stats in, since this isn't worth it as a game.

Pretty much the only good thing I can say about this is that the game is that the renders are generally good.

Well, I skipped a version or two after the initial release here, and I have to say dear god the balancing of this game SUCKS. It did in the first version, and it's just as bad now.

There's a difference between a challenging / difficult game and a painfully grindy game. Seriously, having to spend literal hours trying to legitimately level up and unlock scenes is not what makes a difficult game. This is with the "cheat" equipment chest, which in just about any game would let you one shot most enemies. In this game you get basically just the 1st stage improved armor (IE doing / taking like 15% more / less damage), a few healing potions, and the equivalent of like 7 fights worth of gold. Then the developer insults you in game for daring to reduce the grind by the TINIEST amount.

Like, having experience with bats myself (damn things get in my room at night a few times a year) I wonder how the hell a bat is able to do more damage to a human in "armor" than that human can do with a sword. I can usually ignore it for immersion, but mostly if the character ISN'T meant to be a trained military officer.

You have to fight (and win) between 23 (If you got MASSIVELY lucky and get a sellible equipment drop every time) and 100 bats in order to get one upgrade for your town. It'd make sense that by upgrading your town (or being in charge of a town in the first place), you'd get something outside of a shitty house to live in. Like a (small) amount of gold per day, that you can improve as you build up the town, or a set of low level healing items (farm vegetables) but you don't get anything like that (or I didn't find it if it's somehow hidden somewhere.

There's unskippable, identical scenes that require you to use your mouse to click to advance them. This might not be an issue for someone used to using their mouse, but i always default to keyboard for RPGMaker games. So you want to get a tiny amount of gold from the farm or (once you grind for it) Bar, better enjoy seeing the exact same scene repeatedly.

Once you get the bar, you can hire a new party member for 10 gold per time you enter the dungeon. He has literally nothing when you start, so better hope you didn't sell the drops from the bats to build the bar sooner. He also doesn't heal between times in your party, so if he;s at 25 HP and you leave to rest, he'll be at 25 HP the next time you hire him. You also always have to go back to the bar and talk to him there every time you want to be able to hire him again (right outside the dungeon).

The game has the issue of using video files which ignore the audio settings of the game engine. This is more of a game engine thing, but it's still annoying to adjust the audio in a game, only to suddenly have it start playing sound much louder than I had set it too.

I like the general idea and currently implemented scenes.
Still at the very start of the development so I am willing to ignore bugged/broken parts and unbalanced gameplay.

If you want to try this game, do not forget to use a save editor

Game is terribly balanced in terms of combat and grind. Not worth it unless you use an online save editor to cheat some gold in. Other than that the art is decent. It's a shame since I really like the concept behind the game, but the plot as it is now seems pretty bare bones and the game is kinda poorly implemented.