RPGM - Completed - Headpats & Handholding [v1.05 FINAL] [Insomnimaniac Games]

v1.05 FINAL

To put simply, i enjoyed my experience with this well made game, yet it is pretty rough around the edges to be given a full 5 star rating. What i mean by that as an examples is that the story is weak, yet gets carried by characters and their interaction. The animations are well made, yet the characters models are generic. And the gameplay is mediocre for an RPGM game, yet isn't the focus of the game, so it's pretty short and non-grating.

What im trying to tell is that the game has a LOT of effort put into it, but it didn't have enough of either time or skill dedicated to truly polish this rough diamond. Despite its medium-rare cooked nature, i would still give this game a solid, fat 4 out of 5 rating. Do give this a try if you are even mildly interested.

It's good enough, I suppose. If I could rate it 3 1/2 I would, I'll err on the high side.

It's a little too filled with memes and fourth-wall breaks, but the story is servicable, if you can sort of mentally filter out the MCU quippyness of it all. I suspect the writer is afraid of sounding sappy or 'cringe' and so they're being sUpEr WaCkY to prevent anything from sounding too 'melodramatic'- somewhere in there is an earnest story about two childhood friends who fall in love.

The game also seems to be terrified of being lumped in with NTR games and is always quite insistant that the main love interest will NEVER EVER EVER touch another person's dick EVER and she isn't even a cuckquean she doesn't even LIKE TO WATCH (but she is totally okay with the MC banging literally every cute girl they come across)- in part I get it because the NTR-obsessives are obnoxious but really this feels like a 'the lady doth protest too much' thing. If you want to make a game about a loving open relationship just do it buddy.

I see people complaining a bit about the models and say they're Koikatsu-like... I'm not really sure whether Illusion's software was used to make them or not, the characters are cute and easily differentiable at a glance. The characters do suffer a bit from resting blank stare syndrome, which isn't helped by how many of the dialogue avatars are straight-on neutral expression still images of the models.

It's also a bit of a slow burn which... doesn't help when the game also clearly wants the main couple's first time to be together(meaning specifically the first time pp in vagoo). Apparently every single lady in town wants the MC's futacock but they all just want to jerk her off, at least until we hit chapter 12 or whenever they first banged.

All in all though it's still fine, if you're into the tags you'll probably enjoy it enough, there are plenty of sex scenes and lots to do. It does basically boil down to a scene hunter, especially if you turn on 'easy mode' like I do (I don't play RPGM pron games for the deep combat systems...) but if you do actually like the combat of RPGM games this game sure has a combat system of one, and it's pretty modular with how you can build the two main heroes- basically because they're the only party members, so.


It fine 6.5/10

TL;DR;
Low expectations at the beginning, but honestly a spectacular game!
With a cute simple story, and lovely characters.

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I normally don't like RPGM games, I play these games for the story and the porn, not the fighting, so I came in with low expectations.
But this game pulled it off so well, I have no choice but to award it 5 stars.

The style, while rudimentary, has a certain flair to it that draws you in, the characters are cute and have the right amount of diversity.
In early game it could be considered "bad", but as you continue playing the game you can see the developer improving his skill in sex scenes.
One thing of note is that in a lot of scenes the camera and character position are poorly done, so you don't always get the best angle. But this did not ruin my interest in the scenes.

Gameplay is not too difficult too, allowing you to enjoy the game and not get mad at the boss fights.
Even late game, you can easily kill bosses without much of a sweat.
One annoying thing is that the boss health bar is unproportionally big compared to his and my damage, they feel like bullet sponges.

Quests could take quite some time, but I never once had the idea that it was super long.
If anything if they made it any shorter it would probably be less enjoyable.

The story is absolutely lovely, I highly enjoyed watching the MC's life progress and improve.
But this might be biased since I am a sucker for cute love stories.

I do wish the story continued, there were so many hints at developments of the MC which have never been properly utilized.
Including the "becoming a goddess" part at the finale
I could also envision more interactions with the MC and the king, for example. Though this might be pushing it.

My only real complaint is that it's not clear what key binds are available to you. (e.g. D for teleporting).
And I would have loved more scenes with Krystal

Story: 2/10. For me was a boring story, at the start was ok but the more you go and the more it become boring.

Gameplay: 3/10. The quests are long and boring, the bosses have just big health, and most of the time you feel like that you are trying to shot down an airplane with a blowgun. The weapon stats maybe are good in early game but in mid/late game you feel that are too much weak.

Character's design: 5/10. Just ok, are not good and are not bad.

Character's writing: 6/10. Pretty average nothing more and nothing less.

Mc(writing/design): 5/10. Same as Character's writing.

Graphics(overall game render quality): 5/10. "".

Animations: 5/10. Seems just ok.

Sex Scenes (overall quality): 4/10. Some are alright but only few are good in my opinion. Usually i'm even a fan of the pregnant sex, but i don't really like how were in this game.

Overall experience: 5/10. For me this is an ok sex game. The breaking the fourth wall was a little overused, at the start was a little funny but for me is better to not over breaking the fourth wall otherwise it get boring. The story was boring and the gameplay is average. Overall is not a bad sex game but not even a super good either. There aren't so many good or average futa games with pregnancy, and even if this is a average sex game, is worth trying it.

English is not my main language so if there are some errors, sorry.

Liked this one very much.
Cozy vibe, sweet romance and fun little animated scenes that make it feel more alive.
Most characters are likable, Koikatsu-style model are done pretty well. Excited to see the next game from the author.

Headpats & Handholding is a game with a clear dev vision which gets executed from beginning to end. It has empathetic writing and hot sex scenes, but also varied enough environments and plot to keep you engaged outside the porn.

Sometimes it feels like the dev is preaching through the characters a bit too much or overly concerned with justifiying certain choices, but it's a small downside for the pay-off of an actual good futanari RPG game, of which I can only count maybe 5 in my extensive library.

Very nice game, cute story, enjoyable story and the epilogue feels nice
The fact that you easily switch to easy mod and turn off random encounter is also good for people that just like to enjoy the story
Even if the game doesn't require much grinding without it

I don't disagree with most of the stuff in other reviews. It's a bit uneven in places, a little too simplistic in others, a bit lacking in depth occasionally, and certainly I'm pretty eh on a lot of the Koikatsu art. Would have been nice if there was more fetish content.

But ultimately, what really matters to me is that it kept me engaged and interested the whole way through. When I finished the game, all I could think was... I didn't want it to end.

Despite (and often because of) the porn, this is a very cosy game. It's not setting out to surprise, shock, challenge, or push boundaries. It wants to be an enjoyable little adventure with engaging characters, and it does that very well.

If you think you might like it, you probably will. Give it a go.

Story : 8/10 While it is generic, it has a lot of heart and engages throughout the play-through.

Gameplay/Pace : 6.5/10. The quests get stale after sometime, and the chapter by chapter missionboard system becomes a bit boring. The gameplay is pretty decent for rpgm adult game standard even though the rpg mechanics arent too intricate or well developed its serviceable.

Characters' design : 4/10 I mean its Koikatsu style, not the biggest fan, and there hasnt been any major art editing and stylization.


Characters' writing : 7/10. Good story lines for the characters, wholesome.

Mc(writing/design): 6/10 Good writing, the design is same as other characters.

Graphics(overall game render quality) : 5/10

Animations: 3/10 Basic

Sex Scenes (overall quality): 4/10. Basic.

Sex Scenes (variety of fetishes, quantity, spiciness): 4/10 mostly vanilla but some variations, a few scenes grabbed my attention

Sound: 6.5/10 pretty good music.


Overally experience 7/10. Liked the game overall even though I wasnt a fan of the art style. And even then I still found a bunch of scenes enjoyable. more wholesome then spicy. Would've preferred more fetishes or kinky stuff.


Need more futa games.

I love this game. I only ran into one minor issue during my playthrough, and besides that, I can only complain that there isn't more pregnancy content, but that's my personal thing. I do think it is a little weird we need to input 200 characters to write a minor review or even throw some stars onto anything.

One of the few porn games I played where I genuinely enjoyed the experience. Skills remind me of Persona or Pokemon where you have limited slots for skills, so deciding what to use is a choice. Humor was both low-brow and top notch, couldn't ask for anything better. And of course the porn is great. Hot futa protag with hot gf, and able to bed other women, AND it's not NTR? Hell yeah

Only personal gripes is I wish Lily was a little stronger in terms of damage later game, but her versatility makes up for it. Fetish wise, with how much cum Ali floods into the ladies, I'm surprised there isn't more of a belly bulge, and I do wish the milk would flow but hey whatyagonado

This is a wholesome Futa game. There's no NTR and nothing is forced. That alone is already a rarity in the genre, but then you also get a great story with all the elements you want from a wholesome game. It's hard to go into details without spoiling the whole thing and for once I believe you gotta experience it for yourself and draw your conclusions.


For the scenes: they are tied to main and side quest completion, not battle (so no need to lose to get a scene). They are all divided into chapters due to the game's release schedule, but they follow a natural progression with each character. They are all Koikatsu scenes, the best ones of that kind I've encountered in a game so far. They are repeatable and there are frankly a lot of them.


For the combat and gameplay: The gameplay tends to get out of the way. There are a few puzzles, but you shouldn't get stuck into any of them. The combat is the turn based RPGM style, but there's a lot of build customization in the non-standard equipment system. You can make most things work and overall you shouldn't have much issue with most fights, anything that's harder gives you a warning before hand. Those are mainly story bosses, if you get caught off guard for a hard fight, that's fully on you. Now that the game is complete you can beeline the main story but, not only will you miss out on a bunch of scenes from the side quests, you'll also miss valuable gear those quests award.


I absolutely love this game, as evidenced by the fact that I felt the need to come back here and post a review. Give the game a try, I guarantee it will be worth your time.

Pretty mediocre game. Story is meh to ok, personally i found it boring.
I didnt finish it because i forgot to save after a hard fight which took me 7 tries and for some reason there's no autosave feature in this game resulting in losing 30mins of progress...
The porn scenes follow the same queue with ALL the characters which is also boring going from handjob>boob>blow>whatever is next. Why do all the characters have to follow the same queue? Thats lame.
The animations are ok, models are standard anime characters nothing new, combat is RPGM standard.
Overrall a mid to low game. If you wanna try it remember to save often.

The models looks like riped from Artificial Academy, the old one. The movement of the characters during the sex scenes seems like they are with lag. The narrative is very poor, the dev need to work a bit more on it. The only good thing about this are the characters, the girls/futa are likeable. It was to be 1, but I'll give 2 to encourage the dev to improve even more for his next game.
2 Stars!

The dev should be congratulated on making a character who is two parts sexy, one party beautiful and one part handsome. Also, joke is on you, I like *that* song; I wouldn't have nuked the poor lad out of the game for it.

The plot, such as it is, features the two Main Characters you see in the first page and their world-saving journey/adventure thingy. It's not that short of a game, so take your time and do side quests and stuff -> primarily for the scenes. Furthermore, it's got plenty of well written characters and a whole host of them completely evade the "one-and-done" thing.

If you're like me, infinitely impatient and unwilling to play most RPGM games (nowadays; I wasn't always like this), you can give yourself a ton of exp and boost your stats immediately. There is NO "supposed to lose fight" that keeps popping up in these games. (It's quite the annoying trope.) There is an in-game setting to turn off random encounters so all you have to do is the mandatory fights which isn't too bad.

As such, I can't comment on the combat but I did appreciate the whole "equip skills" system as it was unique.

Do recommend if you're into what the game blatantly tells you it has -> and if you wanna avoid some stuff, the game will give you a clear warning - or two - on what is to come -> so you can avoid it.

One more thing: I did appreciate the fourth wall breaking.

This game is a real Gem, it has a lot going for it and is overall an excellent game with just a few knocks against it but in my opinion is one of the better games out there (and completed!)

So firstly this is a very cute and fluffy game, which is very rare to find in the futa genre and I appreciate that so much. At the end of the day when you strip down all the layers, this is a story about a couple who love each other and their adventures both sexually and to save the world. The main couple genuinely love and care for each other and the story never makes you doubt that for even a second.

The overall story has some intriguing parts to it for sure, it felt like the dev was doing some basic world building here and I assume we'll see some of this present in their next game.

The general flow of the game is good too, I appreciate that I pretty much was never lost and wasn't scrambling around trying to figure out what to do.

Finally I felt there was a good variety of characters, a girl for every taste and a male partner as well. I would have liked to see maybe an additional male partner or two, but I understand that is really a preference thing and others probably feel differently.

The renders in general are beautiful, the characters are visually wonderful and really there isn't anyone who is 'unlikeable' in this game and I think thats quite a feat

My only real issue or negative for this game is the dialogue, it just...it feels rough at times. I do like the casual speak that a lot of the characters use, and I feel like in sex scenes it flows really well. i think maybe some of the humorous moments just feel a little too on the nose. I kind of think this sort of game doesn't need to try and be funny, if something funny happens that thats great or the characters being oblivious to it being funny is maybe a better route. But i don't want to get into the weeds on this too much, overall it's a solid experience even with this criticism.

All in all this is a real gem, one of my favorite games and I think when the dev makes their next game it's probably going to blow this one out of the water, and this game will still be a favorite to come back too.

I highly recommend this one. A great story, great characters, lots of love and lovin'. No NTR but plenty of sharing and threesomes between consenting adults. Only gripe I have is that the last quest says "Check the quest board for epilogue content" but all the epilogue content available was an enjoyable extra sex scene. Pretty sure that means I need to wait for another update.

The history, the game has a good mechanic, skills, equips and magics combinations. the battle have some challenge, but it nos too hard. The missions are quick.

The sex scenes are good, good animation, good history, but there are kinda quick, but there are plenty of them.

Love the game's animations.
I'm not a fan of RPG games - since I don't like the mechanics and the need to think at least a bit while playing this kind of game -, however, I like this one, since it's rather difficult to find wholesome games with futa protagonists.

There's a way to go about writing wholesome and loving shit without it being entirely embarrassing to read (and not in a good way).

The dialogue makes me cringe without warming my heart like good fluff-shit does, the humor falls flat every time, what I assume is meant to be cheeky writing on behalf of the developer just comes across as abrasive and gets under my skin, and the 4th wall-breaks just irk me. You don't have to show me how witty you are in your porn game, dude. I literally have my penis in my hand.

However, I like the renders, so good job on that!

Edit: I've edited this like 3 times because I keep thinking of stuff that annoyed me, and I think I've uncovered the real reason: the dialogue reads almost like a Marvel movie. Overly self-aware tripe with lines no better than "erm, that just happened!" Impossible to take seriously when the game itself refuses to, much less jerk off to.