Others - Going Deeper [Beta 2.1] [NRFB Games]

Going Deeper is a rogue-like dungeon crawler game, with the twist that the player character is an inquisitor sent to investigate the dungeon, without being able to enter it him/herself (you can choose gender). Instead, you met a group of knights who explore the dungeon that you can give commands to, although they have their own personalities and quirks that affect how they act to some extent, which you can later influence to some extent.

As a rogue-like, it is an okay game. Naturally, it doesn't hold a candle to the variety and fun of games like Binding of Isaac. But this isn't that kind of game. This is a porn game. So how does it hold up in that respect right now (aplha 7.1)? Well, it's a start I guess. So the big problem is that...there just isn't much porn in this porn game right now...

To clarify, when the girls go crawling in the dungeon they can encounter mobs and traps. Some of these encounters can lead to the girls getting hornier, start masturbating, become naked, or get astonished by a nude painting (yes, seriously). Some of that is kind of hot, I guess, but it just isn't that much content right now, nor is it that hot...

Recently, more content was added to the camp, where you rest and interact with the girls outside of the dungeon. You can unlock the ability to invite girls to your room and mind control them to influence their desires and drives, as well as weaken or strengthen curses you can make the girls get (with random chance involved). This is a decent start I think. I like when porn games have these aspects of influencing the characters' desires. But it's still too simplistic right now. What I want to see is something more like a body weakness system being implemented in addition, where the girls might for example get more sensitive breasts that makes some mobs and traps more effective, etc...

Another big issue right now is that, besides being able to spy on the girls bathing or having sex with each other, most other porn content is locked behind lose scenes. That sucks. I wish more of these games allowed more hot events without you having to lose.
An idea might be to allow the player character to become more involved in the 'heart' magic of the goddess of the dungeon, maybe becoming able to influence the mobs and traps the girls encounter to subject them to lewd things without them being defeated necessarily. That would be a good excuse to add more lewd, non-defeat events.

In any case, good start to a porn game, but depending on how it progresses it could end up mediocre or great. Time will tell.

for what it is right now it's a very good game, thought out story. good writing. fun mechanics. not a lot of lewd stuff yet but still enjoyable. looking forward to the final product. game is difficult so you need to pay attention to what you're doing. you won't see a lot of content if you intentionally play poorly.

The developer clearly knows what he's doing and game design seems very thoughtful. There are a few UX issues that waste way more time than they should but I trust they'll be ironed out in time.

Just don't bother if you're looking for H scenes. They are very few and far between.

LEAVING THIS REVIEW FOR VERSION [ALPHA 6.5].

Okay, this is an extremely solid foundation for a great 18+ roguelike that I've lost a couple of afternoons playing already and it's not even close to being out yet, so I figure I should probably talk about it a bit.

PROS
+Very nice artwork; even though the developer has said themselves they aren't an artist the portraits, the backgrounds, the icons and everything else are all great as far as I'm concerned.

+Solid gameplay; unlike a lot of roguelikes where emphasis is placed on a player's input skills (i.e. Dead Cells) this is more along the lines of Darkest Dungeon, though the comparison isn't very sturdy. You are 'the guy in the chair' for this game; your job is collecting information, managing resources and occasionally deploying some long-range assistance. There will be plenty of times when you simply have to take a risk, and times when it won't pay off for you. I find it a very interesting way of making the player's ability to strategise important to victory, while also preventing the game from turning into a complete cakewalk.

+Replayability; the game has already implemented a New Game+ system where you can carry over certain benefits from previous runs by purchasing them prior to starting a new run. The currency with which you do so isn't consumed when you use it, so it's less like 'currency' and more like 'capacity'. With every new run you'll be able to start the next one that much stronger.

CONS (bear in mind this is a review of an alpha build; a lot of the stuff here is probably gonna change)
-Limited Content; at the moment just about everything to be done in the game happens in the dungeon, and the camp is just the place you spend a couple minutes re-arranging spells and doing research before heading back in. The developer has already stated they'll be fleshing out the camp greatly in time, so this is less an issue with the game overall and more with just this build.

-Lose to Win; I have to admit that I'm not the biggest fan of this particular style of implementing 18+ elements in a game. Not in RPGM games, and not here either. Pretty much every 18+ scene I can think of in the game requires you to position a knight in such a way that they're at pretty severe risk one way or another, and if you want to try and collect every scene you're gonna end up doing some serious damage to them over time. Effectively, you can either play the game to reach the end of the dungeon—in which case you can get there with well under 20 corruption if you play carefully and methodically—or you can play it to unlock scenes, in which case you'll more than likely lose the run before getting that far. Now, the scenes are good, and once you've witnessed them you'll be able to replay them on the Research screen after completely researching the trap or monster that caused them, but I'm not sure they're worth the sting of defeat, especially in a game that does demand a certain time investment. Perhaps I'm just not quite compatible with roguelikes in general, but either way I count it as a flaw. That said, the developer has mentioned that other H-content will become available with time, including content outside the dungeon, so this issue may well be resolved.

-Considerable Grind; some people might call this a bonus, and honestly I don't mind it personally, but I feel like it should be talked about. If you want to unlock every scene in the game for your gallery, it's going to take you a while. With a number of monsters and traps totalling somewhere around fifty at the moment (I think, count may be inaccurate but I don't think it's any less than thirty) and an average of somewhere around four or five scenes for each (though some have only two, and one has something like twelve) it's gonna take time – especially when many of those scenes have rather specific requirements for them to trigger, and those requirements can be difficult to finagle, not to mention risky. You could view it as just another aspect of the game's difficulty, but I think that's just a matter of interpretation.

CONCLUSION
Going Deeper, in its current state, is a pleasantly challenging and occasionally titillating way to spend a few hours. Frankly, it's very impressive for an alpha build, and the developer's dedication to bugfixing and their active engagement with the community is both promising and worthy of respect. I'd encourage anyone who's looking for a tactical roguelike with interesting story, surprisingly complex gameplay and the occasional lewd surprise (more if you're actively searching them out) to give it a shot and stick around for its development. This one feels like it'll only get better.

The stats should be simple but for some reason doesn't make sense to me.
The Corruption system is th worse because you can't NOT get corruption per level andwith no way to reduce it, it becomes a game of how long you can last before the game forces a game over. there is a camp but nothing to do there. Dungeon is equally boring as you just aimlessly wander until you find the stairs and earn nothing but more corruption that leads to a game over. New scenes aren't shown by default. The game reandomly decides to play itself and you lose ten or more turns worth of control as you try to wrestle the controls back from the game. It has a lot of potential but so far has failed miserably at every turn.

Only a few days in and its evident there's a lot of depth of mechanics and interesting things going on in this one. The tutorial is a great balance between detailed and concise. Looking forward to what happens as the girls get more corrupted! For those with the patience to let the tension build, gotta recommend this one.

I liked the basic game , it has a certain charm but I also feel it is unique here on the f95 platform .

I like art quite a bit, I also hope that what corruption and lewdness of girls is deepened.

Also with eroticism from the camp.

Keep it up man, this great game has a future and so do you as a developer.

Just got past the tutorial but honestly this seems like it could be an interesting game. Has some pretty nifty gameplay elements and an interesting story. Art kinda slaps too.

Excited to see where this one goes