QSP - Jack-o-Nine-Tails [v2.3] [ImperatorAugustusTertius / qwertyu12359]

A game as notorious as it is old. If you'd ever thought about H management games, this would easily be in the conversation.

Pros
- Complexity
- No story, plot or contrivances.

Cons
- Complexity
- No story, plot, or contrivances.

This game is not kidding around. If you've had the unfortunate experience of playing this game without a wiki, you'll easily find it one of the hardest learning curve game that have ever existed, never mind H games. Chances are good you'll have restarted the game over 5 times within the first hour, head firmly in palm as you question what the fuck you're doing with your life.

And yet, once you've gotten the hang of how the game works, it all mysteriously click. Suddenly you'll be scouring the most repulsive, bull-headed slave for kicks. You'll feel like a real slave master, and every and any bitch on earth is merely another challenge.

So, do I recommend people try this game? Hell yes. But mostly because its an experience like no other, with complexities that'll make calculus look like elementary math by comparison...and also because its free. If you're a H game connoisseur, you owe it to yourself to play or at least try it.

But I'd caveat this recommendation.

This is not a game for those who are looking for meaningful relationships, or imagining training the perfect slave/companion. The game allows only for one slave at a time, so I think you know what that means...no matter how much love you may have for that perfect girl, eventually you'll realise, much to your horror, that this game is about training and selling slaves. Yes, there's very little your charming, well trained, princesses can do in this game except to be sold. At best you can put her into stasis, but there's no escaping it, money only comes from selling slaves. There's no favorites in Jo9, its all business at the end.

For a less cold slave training simulator, I'd recommend brothel king, strive for power, monster bifrost, games that are made with a more pleasant goal in mind. Im not kidding about having a heart of stone. you can legit raise tons of cash simply buying cheap slaves, break the living shit out them, and then selling what's left of them to the closest degenerate in the game. Its as close to North Korea style slave labour as it gets.

I know, I know this game is a masterpiece during the porn game history, it is an ero Shakespeare's work. But I can't just start playing it. Because the text& font is fucking my eyes every second! Yes, the font is just like that. I am not a native English user so I really need to read every info that the game presented. Then my brain starts to ache. For this fact, I give 5 stars for its fame and 0 star for my poor eyes.

This is not the first but might be the most famous and successful slave training stimulation game. The game mode designing has been learned and reused by many other latecomers.
Amazing that so many contributors are still working on it for new contents.

My favorite Hentai Game. Maybe one day it will be animated in 3D VR. It was easy to pick up.
Just lower difficulty so you can enjoy playing while learning without knowing much! I used the training debug menu to get started and restarted a game only once (Only played normal difficulty) Chart your own path!

best management game i've ever played. my first playtrough with fenris was so much fun. i threw up when i found out that my mc eat human flesh or when i took my slave to the "butchery" lol.

also please let me change jhonny pfp with fenris pfp lol

This HAS to be the best and most developed sandbox H game out there. Free Cities tries to come a little close - but the lack of images for me is a little too hard to enjoy. I've been playing this for a few days now - and it does have an initial learning curve, but it is a fun learning curve and thats the most important thing in a sandbox/management type game. There is so much I don't know yet - and thats what fuels my need to play the game.

In an ideal sandbox/management/trainer game - you'd want a good template for the player to play around with - to mold and shape them to their will - which I think they have here. But at the same time, have some preexisting NPCs that you can obtain - maybe after finishing their story or enslaving them or exploiting them in their story itself. This REALLY brings the fun and control of the player in this universe.
I only know of 1 for now, its when you get a house and visit the slums for the first time - you get your first assistant. But I'm hoping there would be more.

They have a really good tutorial in the menu screen - although I would stick with easy mode for a beginner for both tutorial and normal/custom games. After finishing the tutorial, you can have a normal or a custom start - and this is where the game is at its hardest in making you try to quit it. The game is a little too open ended in my opinion in the beginning, and navigating the different locations can become too much information. But this sort of thing is to be expected, and in fact I'd appreciate this more, rather than having a small sandbox to play with at all. Game should have a little handholding in the beginning is all.

The images classification according to action-hair-age-skincolor-etc is genius, and would always be appreciated to have even more images added. I'd imagine developers must have overhauled a lot of images from the several booru sites with their relatively well categorized 'tags'.
Sometimes you get a character from an established series which ruins the illusion a little, but this is still always welcome.

I've seen so many new 'sandbox' games that just have preexisting well fleshed out NPCs, that you can just fuck around with repeatable events and just call it 'sandbox' - but that has no meaningful 'change' in their character. It really brings down and dilutes the essence of a sandbox eroge game. It really is a shame that such great games like this one, is essentially hidden on F95zone by the constant updating 'new' games.

Just looking at the description and seeing that this game is still being developed by the Community since 2014 is just plain amazing. And props to the several current/past developers that are still working on this.
Games like this really inspire players like myself to finish the game, and then maybe contribute some content in the future - just because how well developed this game already is and you REALLY want to make it even better.

this is.. one of the best games i ever played. There is some grind to it, but the game is amazing in itself. The game does not care about being proper and is as questionable as it gets and i love it. I love how we get to have such a gem like this, while living in a world full of feminists and other.. groups.

combat is meh, but thats fine. Why? because im not here for combat

also, slightly dead game, aka very little patches, but its a game thats already finished one could say

This is a classic slave trainer game with managing a living. Slaves are cast into a dark theme world. You play as a Master/Slaver who in general wants to be respected in society that is Eternal Rome. Training slaves through ranks to their selling requirements to gain reputation with factions or buyers. The end goal to be an elite individual.

In my opinion, the best game experience is to play this in <easy mode> because <obedience> is best gain in days than weeks for <normal or hardcore mode>. Guild contracts are timed. Plus the grinding becomes less stressful.

Pros: Immersive roleplay x Training
Mixed: artwork not original but fits and the extreme content -yikes-
Cons: Needs more development /content than tweaks

4/5 A game I've enjoyed would come back play again.

Pretty complex and long game, it keeps improving and I'm sure it has a lot more of potential. It let's you explore some dark stuff that other games don't offer. Despite playing it for years I some times feel like a fucking noob playing it and I see it as a plus.

Great game, it has great potential and already good content.
The game is quite dificult at first and depending on how you like to play, it may take quite some time to get used to it and not fail.
I personally like to be challenged and bc of that i got pretty stressed when i didn't understood the game mechanics and tried playing in the hardest dificulty.
My advice is to play the VERY EASY mode quite a while and then, when you don't feel completely lost, explore the game a bit more.

There is a bug. Aura can't be seen even if you use auraex spell.
Nothing pops up. Dev please fix this bug please
overall I like the game. It is grindy and hard but once you know how to do it is fun game. But it is nothing like other games in F95.

- Very Difficult to play game. And also not rewarding at all. The instructions are too vague and so are the mechanics. Unnecessary complexity makes it almost impossible to play.
- It is also very stress inducing , because of constant clicking required for progress and god damned UI. Also , the small things that are required to optimize the training is frustrating , which is not optional because of the difficulty level.
-For example , if you play as m'lord. You have to buy wizard robes, then cast spells and then switch back to noble clothes and that you have to do , every day for first five days , otherwise you never get any magic. many such small stupid things . ( dev should have easily made these things just as constume checks , but they intentionally went for fuck player route )

I'm not surprised there's some bad reviews for this game, because it's quite challenging. I've been playing this game for a while, and I still have trouble when I try to play a new version after a while.

With that said, I think it's still a very enjoyable slave trainer once you understand how the mechanics work.

However, I'm giving this game 4 stars because I think the game lacks diverse content and events. It gets pretty repetitive after a while.

Most of the updates seem to be oriented towards gameplay tweaks instead of adding new content or events. I first played this game 3 or 4 years ago, and I don't feel like much has changed except for the gameplay being more challenging.

The take-home is that this is a pretty standard slave trainer, just more fucked up. Unless it is completely overhauled I just don't see this game being worth the time. If you love slave management games, but have always wanted to be able to murder girls in weird ways, than maybe this game is for you.

My biggest issue is that it isn't flushed out.

The combat for instance is awful even with maxed stats, and armor on(easy) mode I couldn't beat a single enemy after 10 attempts.

You can only have an assistant, and one slave. You can increase this(sort of), but not in a straightforward way.

The only real way to make money is by selling slaves, passive income isn't(really) a thing

A long long time ago some guy made a plotless "brothel simulator" where you aimlessly buy slavegirls and train them into whores. Back then it seemed somewhat novel and the scene for english H-games was practically nonexistent. So it gained some traction.

This is a mod of a mod of that game.
There is no plot.
Gameplay is grindy.
Gameplay is overly complex for no reason.
Gameplay is bad.
Art is random stolen pictures.

It's definitely one of a kind, with more hardcore options in place. The potential, alongside devs' creativeness, is huge, that's why I give it 5 stars. Now, it has lots of flaws, like "invisible" slave customization, and repetitiveness (lack of events).

No matter what i do the game is crashing non-stop. for me and someone else i asked it to try. No matter what we do, every other interaction - crash.
Games old like that and with so many "polish" and "fixing" shouldn't crash 10 times a minute. Can't rate this with a good score.

Edit:
I originally rated the game 1 out of 5.
The current developers and users seem to show a lot of interest and help in problems like that and try'n fix it. This deserves some respect, given that most projects these days are a money-grabby milking-farm where nobody cares for the customer. I remember the game being kinda fun, back in the day (when i could launch it) and therefor i'll changed my rating.

Addendum1: If i get it to work somehow, someday i may be able to give proper insight and a 'real' review.

This game is not for everybody, neither for it's content, nor for the time it takes to play somewhat comfortably. The first is something you can see on "genre" and the second only requires to run the game.
That said, it's one of the best management games I've ever tried, I enjoyed learning even if it meant restarting the game over and over.

To add something to the positive things usually said about this game -the level of detail, the huge variety of options, specializations, etc.- I want to defend that I really like the concept of Ethernal Rome: the very strange and heterogeneus mix of elements, somewhat works by leaving a lot to the interpretation/imagination of the player. It reminded of a certain book by a couple of russian brothers who might have inspired the author (I've no idea if that was the case).

Finally, I want to congratulate the people who further developed the game and kept Ethernal Rome alive. Thanks.

This game's content is good. It's a worthwhile try on a slaver game, although personally it can't beat my opinion of the premise of Free Cities. It has a lot of kinks that satisfies many audiences, but it's just that some kinks that seems too extreme for the faint of heart. Like for example, the cannibalism content of this game, combined with the pig that I saw slaughtered by our local witch doctors for sacrifice IRL, made me keep myself from eating pork for a week. It's that uncomfortable, but I guess everyone has different tastes. I just wish I could play the game without coming across those weird kinks unintentionally. Fortunately, it has a non-loli version, so it's cool.

And setting aside the content that I don't like, there's some stuff that I like with this game. The girls are all attractive anime girls, and I can't believe they also even used the official art of Ryoko Otonashi from Danganronpa zero! I like how they found that rare jewel. Also that plant guy from the Carmilla house is my favorite. I'd definitely gave him that cringy vegan teacher to eat if it's possible.

best trainer out there, immense possibilities, slaves need time to be tamed which is more realistic, and multiple gameplay(slave training, fighting, ponygirl races) with their own rewards, money management with (finally) rents and supplies to pay...
Will really be hard the first time you play it, but when you understand the gameplay, the most enjoyable