RPGM - Completed - Karryn's Prison [v1.3.0.102 FULL + DLCs] [Remtairy]

It's a great game, but my time with it was painful, first that emulator starts to have really heavy performance issues later in the game, because of that, it was impossible for me to finish the game on prisoner difficult(have to end battles very fast), but I was able to enjoy the gameplay, corruption and sex scenes... The story is just average bad, but that didn't stop me of having fun with this game.

Ok so the drawing is hot, and the story is garbage. The gameplay is also horrifically repetitive. It tries to act like there is a hint of NTR since you are supposed to like the emperor who exists for 1 scene at the beginning and involved at the end. The only thing that even makes this game stand out is the voice actress.

The art is great and the sex scenes are plentiful.

Some of the gameplay is a little unintuitive but maybe that is because the sex scene in the background is distracting. It seems a little strange that there is a theoretical “purity” route. I wonder if anyone has tried it. Great game.

This is surely one of my favorite rpgm games that ever made. Im just so inlove with the battle mechanic and the idea about the edict tree points and stuff. The battle fuck mechanism inspired me the most.

I wasn't particularly focused on the plot between the emperor and karryn but i just grinded it out until the ending

Based on v1.3.0.85

Gameplay: 2.5/5!
Worldbuilding: 4/5
H-Content: 5/5

Pre-word:
There's several dozen of mods, (most of them add more H-Content), though some can be used to fix the core gameplay issues.
For this review, im going to talk about vanilla (keep in mind that I didn't finish the game completely at the time of review).


The gameplay has a really good foundation and nice mechanics, but it's hampered by the awful balance.
Note: I played on Prisoner/Hard Difficulty, which highlight the issues. You can probably avoid em on lower difficulties.

There are 2 core main issues: Battle-Fucks and the Economy

During battle, the enemy (or you) can initiate a battle-fuck, which is sexy ngl, but you can't dodge or block it no matter your stats.
This is mostly an issue, as you can get stunlocked in orgasm after orgasm and makes your combat builds worthless.

You can alter the chances with mods luckily, but the core issue of stunlocks and unblockable h-attacks shouldn't be in the core game.

The actual combat mechanics are really good, giving you a lot of tactical decisions due to enemy weaknesses/strengths and your own attack specialities.
A lot of special attacks/moves are unlocked via the economy.


Aside from the combat, there's also the economy (prison management).
You have security and your income.

With money, you can buy further economy (prison) upgrades, alter enemy stats/behaviour or improve your own stats/unlock combat moves.

You mostly gain money via prison income (unlocked through upgrades) and funds (based on security).

If you have 0 security it leads to a game over, which leads to NG+, which makes security very important.

On the other hand, the lower your security, the higher your funds.
Security increases, when you win against enemies.

See the problem?
Combat successes lead to lower income, which can punish the player in the long term.
There's no regular income for defeating enemies (without mods), which could have trivialised this entire debacle.


Worldbuilding

It's strange to review this, but i'll keep this short.

The npcs in this game are lively and makes you somewhat feel like the prison is inhabited by actual people.
Depending on your upgrades, those npcs will have something to say too.

This is good, as it makes you feel like you are progressing further into the game.


H-Content

The H-Content is really good and very sexy (but I suggest you turn off rimjobs in the settings, unless you're into it).

Combat can be won (or lost) through H-Moves, making them integral to the gameplay. It's not seamless however, as explained earlier.

Through continuous H-Content, your character can unlock H-Actions during combat.
Your character can also have altered stats unlocked this way.
A few of them are positive, but the broad majority are negative, which can make both your combat and slut builds worthless.

This is mostly a gameplay issue, which is reflected in the gameplay rating.

There's also a plethora of defeat scenes, which don't lead to a gameover, but can temporarily debuff your character.

Of special note is the voice acting (english included!).
It's nice to hear an actual voice, that isn't stock rpg material.

THE battle-fuck and corruption game, more or less. It's great; the lack of CG animations (there's small cut-in animations) holds it back slightly in my eyes, as well as the over-bimbofication of the main character's body type, but you can adjust the tit size to something SLIGHTLY more realistic, at least. The only problem with that is it breaks some outfit mods.

Great game, tons of depth, lots of non-sex build strategy and a surprising amount of difficulty if you play on the harder levels. Harder difficulty slut runs are near impossible; and it feels like the prison is genuinely corrupting the MC slowly rather than you just getting bored of a purity playthrough and going ham.

Everything is cool. But as soon as the slut level increases above a certain limit the game becomes LITERALLY unplayable. Every fucking move she cums, and the fucking passives only make it worse. I bitch parked on MAXIMUM FUCKING ENERGY, she still fucking loses because she cums EVERY MOVE. Damn shit

The gameplay is quite exciting, featuring some typical resource management elements of role-playing games; unfortunately, certain fundamental flaws limit the game's potential, and the lack of animations is also a disappointing factor.

Karryn's Prison is special to me. I truly believe it to be one of the GOATs when it comes to adult games in general just because of its quality and an amazing game for people who love the style of gameplay loop it offers. I've been following it since its early stages of developened, finished countless runs, unlocked almost everything there is to unlock in it. But then why I'm only giving it two stars? Well, because the game could've been so, so much more than it is now.

Honestly speaking, the game just feels bare bones the more you play it, both in terms of gameplay and porn. And I played it a lot, as I'd mentioned already. So much could've been expanded, revorked or improved and it pains me than it wasn't. Instead of actually meaningful or interesting stuff, like say, more interactivity or expansion/revork of side jobs that need it or complete overhaul of the absolutely nothing burger of masochism tree of passsives (yeah, I'm still pissed that there was dogeza planned but then scrapped and forgotten for no apparent reason) we got the option to choose different sizes of boobs. And pubes, I guess. Some of the art feels dated and could've been improved insted of that. Some art has absolutely retarded angles and proportions, especially at the later part of the game. Well, it was rushed so no wonder.

So, yeah, I adore this game because it hooked me in and kind of never let go but I'm not delusional to glaze it for what it's not, but absolutely could've been if Rem haven't burned out or lost passion for the project or whatever. You can't have it all, I guess, but it is...well, sad, really.

The Art and Storyline is great. What makes this stand out to me is that it also has amazing gameplay. I find Karryns Prison to be replayable simply because of its gameplay and many different story paths to take.

The story: very classic, it's an H-game btw, so I can't say it's bad, but at least it has been written perfectly, not a redundancy one.

CG: All is well-made, with a ton of scenes that can be obtained easily by combat with the enemy.

Combat: This is the thing that I like most about this game. It's so good and unique. With the combat-fuck system in this game, you can just straight up defeat enemies or tease and have sex with them to win. Depending on your lewd status, you can have different CG and voice-over while you are in combat. A lot of H-games out there can rarely do something like this, and this game is the top-notch in terms of the combat-fuck system.

Overall, I suggest this game is worth a try if you want a decent combat-fuck H-games to play with one hand.

Can this please stop being recommended to me I've tried to sit through it countless times. I do not care about the "battle fuck" system I think it's just lazy design, there feels like next to no action and in order to get "scenes" you literally have to work for anything to happen what so ever. A "full save" would give you nothing in a game like this because all you do is attempt to screw the same actors with the same reused CG doing the exact same things, sometimes even in a SCRIPTED ORDER. This game is trash and no one can convince me otherwise. How is this one of most highly reviewed things on this entire site?

4.7 out 5
Very good game, good sub, good eng dub
Japanese Hentai games with English voice is very rare, sub is good, dub is also good.
This game got both official cheat and dlcs but not enough. Not trying to say this is bad, just saying that I think this game need more official mods and dlcs like pregnancy or impregnation and stuff... Or maybe not? This game is already big for poor laptop.
Anyway good game, recommend it, and thank you for sharing it for free to hentais like us.
Someday will buy this game and other games officially to support the creators.
I suggest that 1st play to lose by reaching Order 0, 2nd New Game + ( Reset if first kiss and V-card was stolen) get pure end with low slut level, first kiss and virginity, 3rd New Game + with descension (reset if u want stolen first kiss and virginity titles) and win as slut.
1.Lose the game
2.Win as pure virgin.
3.Win as slut.

interesting game with a lot of mechanics hold back by Grind, slow gameplay, insane difficulty and mind phase not being passive

bar for good lewd game is low, but this game cross tedious line by a mile
SPEAKING OF BAR - imagine minigame you "have to do" daily taking 10-40 minutes of active gameplay "optional" while yes, also seems mandatory to get real money for upgrades
if you manage to overcome the tedium game have some cool stuffs:
Lewd stuffs are optional - just don't lose duh
Music slaps
you can gain the game by making character in specific way, grinding stats, losing on purpose (order 0) to unlock titles early and retry once you grinded out perfect character (weird design direction, but works, i got incorruptible pillar by moving my NG+ character 300 days of farming cash into the future and abusing every system in the game to win)

Gameplay is relatively addictive until enemies scale out of control
for NTR-asking people NTR/Cheating is optional, cheating happen exclusively in happy ending and its possible to go thru whole game with barely seeing erected nipple in act 2 bossfight

Difficulty is sadistic
Secretary (easy) - is sadistic unless you go for Control 0 build and sit on 20 order for 500 days buying everything - thats the only way i play this shit
Warden is stupid bossrush or lose
Prisoner is only good to unlock Bankruptcy (2) perk and lose

I can't rate it too highly. While the core of it is a good game, it's way too grindy and slow and the way to progress is not immediately clear.

I wasted a lot of time in defeat scenes before realizing there was a massive pile of settings that could slightly improve my experience and even then it only goes from really annoying to sort of annoying.

Mediocre game at best. Very cliche and plain is art and plot plus unbalanced as hell.

Plus no variativity in gameplay terms. Example: Game IMPLIES that you may complete it without corrupting your character, but it's literally impossible due the way the game is designed. After first level protagonists begins to receive arousal from each attack she makes. Once you reach 35% arousal - Karryn begins to be sexually frustrated, which lowers her stats to the ground, making the game impossible to beat even on normal. And the only way to remove this status is... sexual activity. Which corrupts your hero and ruins pure route.

Only sex route is also broken, since you'll be overspammed by enemies eventually. So basically game has only one way to complete it with zero replayability.

All this makes Karryn's prison really dull and irritating game. No idea how it is got certain reputation, because it's nothing if you check it for real.

absolutely loved this game, spent too much time finishing to really finish the game though XD, idk why i need to do 200 characters to review game
game good, adding the little mods it has, better game on top of already good game

I'll start off by stating that I have played this game before months ago. Treated it more as a placeholder until I find another game, but came back to it this year after being reminded of the developer for Melty's Quest, and seeing the mods that adds pregnancy.

This game is a complete skyscraper in terms of content and quality compared to Melty's Quest. You can trust most of the positive opinions and recommendations for this game. Its combat system has layers to make the combat a bit strategic for the player. The management system for the prison poses challenges in terms of deciding which upgrade to go for. The big noticable improvement is the H content being the thing you can easily fail a playthrough for.

You go through each level of the prison defeating prisoners and then a boss to subjugate that level. Each new level allows you to have more Warden levels and new edicts to unlock and manage. During combat, you have stamina and energy to worry about the most. Stamina lets you perform moves and fight, while energy helps you defensively and recover stamina to continue the fight. Each fight you enter you will always start out at max stamina and energy, but another factor is fatigue, as each fight increases fatigue which lowers the maximum stamina and energy you have. Enemies will do whatever it takes to wear you down each fight. Increasing your chances of being defeated and taken to the levels punishment room. Karryn's level of corruption will increase overtime for more harassment she gets. So the game doesn't try to beat in every fight you go through, it just tries to win in the end making you run that much more fun or difficult. It also has a system for managing the prisons level of control and order. When order goes down to zero you lose. Keep control of the prison good and order can increase. Most of this is either winning fights or buying edict to promote both.

Even though I give this game a 5 star review, I still have annoyances with it. The edict system or management of the prison feels at times an impossible grind when trying to play legitimately. Even then investing into it can both a good and bad thing for your playthrough. You either get more money, control, and order. Or increase enemy aggression/stats, or corruption. A lot of it also involves you managing the economic side of the prison, balancing income/expenses. The game can feel sometimes unbeatable when in the later stages because so many enemies wear you down for boss to have an easy win. Lower the difficulty is what I ultimately did to enjoy most of the content, and installing mods gave me more enjoyment.

One of the things I don't see many people talking about are performance related things. But maybe I'm just unlucky...?
FPS lock is necessary, but FPS lock causes font issues somehow which makes a lot of the text hard to read.
Game pretty slow/laggy overall.
Game crash a lot, especially as you keep playing. Seems like the engine was never meant to handle hundreds of "passives" triggering all the time during battle. On level 1 floor, I crashed once, on level 2, a few times, from level 3 onwards, I had to put a mod to enable manual save to properly save before every battle since so many of them crash.

This game keep me playing 24/7 for at least 3 weeks. It means a lot. The gameplay is pretty fun and the graphics are a 10/10. I wish this game last longer but it is what it is. Some mods add a little more of content and add some mechanics I recommend. One of the best ero games I ever played.