Ren'Py - Completed - Knightly Passions [v1.34] [FEYADA]

First of all, I want to say that if you wanna try the game purely for the sake of porn, you will be definetly disappointed. Treat this product as a full-fledged game with elements of non-necessary 18+ content.
Drawing in the scenes is great, but the text in the scenes are quite dry.

So I was the one who installed the game expecting a typical harem like. And just for the 18+ Was I disappointed? I didn't have time for this, because I was immersed in a decent plot in fantasy world, very colorful characters and their interactions with the protagonist. Of course there's nothing over the top but it's still not bad.

But this is not the strongest part of the game!

What struck me is that this is one of the most advanced game I've seen made on RenPy in terms of game mechanics and their quality of implementation.
The developer is a great game designer and it's just an awesome combo. Great gameplay, great balance, everything is intuitive, you don't need a walkthrough. You are always surprised with something new. The puzzles and mini-games are not annoying and engaging, they are very diverse and almost never repetitive.

The gameplay is very engaging, with its system of RPG skills and level ups. Heck, even the music is cool, and I even added some of the soundtracks to my playlist. I really liked the OST 'Between Life and Death' DLC
It's a full god damn game.

The only downside that this is not an finished story, the dev should have labeled it chapter 1 or something like that.
The game has to have a sequel.

The DLC though very awesome, but it's a filler and I'm a little confused as to why spend so much effort on a filler DLC when that same effort could have put into the main game especially when the main story isn't finished. DLC have great ideas, mechanics and story development, this would look great in the main game, not a standalone filler.

I definitely recommend this game

Story-wise, it’s a great game. Even though the main idea of the story is fairly plain and somewhat not compelling, after a few more minutes of playing, you start to actually enjoy the fight mechanics, and then the story begins to get more intriguing.

Every character has a well-developed story and an interesting, unique personality, so you can easily find a favorite. The game isn’t that long and doesn’t contain much (although still plentiful) relationship-based content. Unlike most games, this one doesn’t offer game-changing decisions, which is a pleasant change, as most games offer such choices but then make them lackluster.

I highly appreciate the combat system, as it is very similar to Slay the Spire and similar games, while still keeping the simplicity without making it boring. The game doesn’t bombard you with an impractical number of lined-up combats that make you feel overwhelmed, as that’s the only thing you do. Quite the opposite, as you feel like you could enjoy a few more fights in the later parts of the game, when you’re trying to finish up all the side quests and enjoy the less explored characters as well. This makes it more one-dimensional in the later stages, as the fights become less challenging and less frequent.

The DLCs were also super enjoyable, both on the story and porn content sides. Unfortunately, while I felt sad about the lack of more content in the base game, the DLCs didn’t fulfill that desire in me. Still, I highly recommend this game to anyone, and for the sake of all of us, I encourage buying it on Steam, as it may lead to more great games like this one.

Just finished the Game + DLC's just now and I gotta say the art is pretty fuckin good, the scenes from Arachne and the "Between Life and Death" DLC was masterfully done. The only gripe I got is the sluggish UI for the card system where you need to either spam the "end" your turn button or right click to bring up the quicksave menu and it refreshes the sprites.

All in all I'll rate it at 4.5/5.

A five stars game even though there were some things that I personally don't like in games. The gameplay is pretty straightforward. I really enjoyed the battle system and the grind to get the better gear. I thought the system was pretty balanced until near the end of the game where you become just too OP with all the upgrades, gear, food, and potions.
I want to say the story was pretty good, but around the middle, toward the end, I just had to skip cause it was getting to me. I don't mind having some talks and lore but it just seemed to me there was just too many text.
The art is beautiful, hands down. The world, the town, and the characters were just beautifully drawn. H-scenes are far and between but I thought they were pretty good.
I'll surely buy the game to support them. I hope to see more games from them. I'm sure the next one is going to be even better.

the story is not really interesting and a little disconnected with the erotic work. the gameplay is... well, what you should expect from any erotic game. everything else is tolerable, and the aesthetic and character design are better

To enjoy this game, don't try super hard mode, or cheat. Skip the puzzles if you are lazy, you are not gonna miss any content.
And use the cheat code to avoid needlessly grinding: basically the card game is fun, but becomes boring after a while as unlike more elaborate games like StS there is no deckbuilding so the strategies are kinda always the same. No, you won't get a threesome or more in the main game: that's only for the (short) DLC. The scene in the banner will never happen.

Now for the positive points... The CGs are nice, the story is interesting, the exploring is not tedious. Each girl has distinct kinks, personalities and own story. It is a typical MC is good and best guy with the girls being damsels in distress, but that's typically the medieval fantasy anyway and it plays well into the setting.

The game has a massive promise, yet execution is rather... lackluster.
LIs are very nicely drawn, yet a lot of them feel rather bland.
So why am I giving it only 2 stars?
The story feels odd, and oddly written at that too.
Mayhaps because the game's story was originally written in Russian, and translated afterwards into English, but the English has Russian linguistic feel to it, but this is just nitpicking at this point.
Near the end, the game's story becomes all over the place, and the ending... the ending is really disappointing, as if the game was cut off just to make a sequel.

The DLCs should've been in the original game to not make it feel so barebones.

Cmon, you don't even get to fuck the sexy vampire...

Art is great. Writing is not. Some choices the MC makes is choices I wouldn't have made myself on occasions where your given no choice at all. You just have to go with it. Combat is meh. It's an alright game but nothing to hit home about. It's an alright porn too, it's better than the writing and gameplay at least. Sum it up stayed for the art, but nothing else really.

I wanted to love this game. Great original art, few bugs, serviceable story, and the scenes are good (though *very* far apart).

But the game has a litany of issues - most notably that it wants to be a full-fledged RPG, but its mechanics are broken or mistuned or irrelevant. (At least in the tactical "how it's meant to be played" mode, as of v1.21.)

A sampling of issues:

• Combat wants to be a deck-building game, though you can't modify your deck. Early on the deck-building is irrelevant, as your cards are all the same, but later you unlock lots of "upgrade" cards that are strictly worse than basic ones. Eventually the only challenge to combat is that your deck is full of situational cards you can't use.
• For the first half of the game, combat tuning is broken. It's designed around an extensive crafting system, but all the early crafted items require mats that don't drop until after the midgame's hardest boss (the rock golem).
• Combat feels bad, and every fight drags on forever (until you outgear the enemies). Monsters get tons of special moves - stuns, bleeds, debuffs, summons, taunts, heals, anti-heals, etc. You get nothing - no counters, nothing to be countered.

And that's just the combat! For the other elements:

• The story is verbose and often forgets it's a porn game. There are tons of very long exposition scenes, where someone delivers 50 dialog lines about their past, and none of it relates to the story or is ever mentioned again.
• There are lots of insta-deaths for some reason. Like you find a button - press it or no? And one of the two options is game over. But you can mousewheel up and carry on, so I'm not sure what the idea was there.
• The ending is very obviously not planned. Somebody clearly wrote a story arc, and the game gets through ~80% of it, and then stops mid-sentence. It's like if LotR ended right after Aragorn spits out Eowyn's soup. Presumably the devs ran out of time/money, so I don't mean to bash them for it, but still it's jarring.

tl;dr: if you like verbose linear VNs, play this on easy mode to skip the broken combat mechanics.

(All that said, still 3 stars because great art and okay scenes and few bugs.)

The art is amazing and the story is alright.
Tha pacing is a bit off though. You will hardly see any action at first, but then every girls questline reaches the final stages and the scenes happen one after another. Which, imo is a bit much. All at once. I mean, 1 gal in the morning, onein the afternoon, one in the evening, then one at night, and when I go to sleep, another one jumps in. MC literally wakes up half dead the next day, and the cycle continues.
The combat is great, however suffers from being too easy. Even on "hard"difficulty, once you get some armor or a weapon that is not a starter one, the fights become a breeze.

The developers, who are Russian, have done an outstanding job. The gameplay was engaging, the graphics were stunning, and the overall atmosphere was captivating.

However, I would have appreciated a bit more intensity in the storyline. While the plot was well thought out, it could have been even more gripping. Nevertheless, the developers have poured their hearts into this game, and it shows. The attention to detail in the art and the overall design is commendable.

Loved the story btw. Art was really good. Game mechanics while not perfect was definitely solid and well implemented.
There were some things I wish were a bit different, but all in all, this was very entertaining to go through.
overall 4 out of 5 stars for me!

I liked the game, good art, good characters, and fun story. My biggest negative is that the story ends in a weird spot that feel a little unsatisfying. I assume there will be a sequel because of this and I will check it out as well.

I'm giving this game two stars solely for its promising start, if I were to rate my overall experience, it'd be a solid one star.

The game kicks off with intrigue: mysteries, plots, mechanics, and, of course, attractive girls. But as the game progresses, the mechanics become dull and pointless, the girls a massive letdown, and the plot, while not terrible, is ruined by an unsatisfying cliffhanger.

The biggest disappointment lies in the lewd aspect with the female characters. It's all extremely vanilla with no proper conclusion. Routes with the girls end abruptly, leaving players frustrated.

Adding to the annoyance are the repetitive quests that always follow the same pattern: talk to him, take that there, talk to the witch, bring that here, talk to the witch again, kill that, talk to the witch, talk to the witch, talk to the witch. The quests lack depth, although the writing occasionally shines through amidst the mundane hauling.


While some reviewers complained about grinding, I didn't experience that at all. I completed all the side quests, contracts, and never felt the need to grind for better gear. The game flows smoothly in the combat area, and once you grasp the combat mechanics and stock up on potions, it becomes quite easy.

In summary, what initially seemed like a promising 4/5 star game, with its cooking, crafting, trading, hunting, leveling up, challenging puzzles, and finding cards, turned out to be hollow and unfinished. The variety of options felt shallow and lacked depth, much like the unsatisfactory sex scenes and the endings of character paths. The cliffhanger at the end only adds to the frustration. This game doesn't deserve the 3.5 stars it received. A remake is sorely needed.

Dont bother. The game has a great start, but its very clear that its NOT finished. The main story is all over the place, jumping from "your sister might be dead or worse" to "eh anyway heres someone who needs your help right now", the side stories are literally cut (you meet an elf, have a whole line of quests where you need to help her, where you get to know each other, only for her to be replaced with an early version scene where you dont even know each others names and just fuck), the minigames look like they were supposed to be updated later, with how simple and bad they are. all in all, was very promising but its another case of devs losing their passion i suppose

Bit of a hard one to rate this, I really enjoyed it at first then just kind of got bored of it.

The artwork is great, but has a real problem with character proportions randomly changing when in a sex scene, as in the character will have a completely different height and bust size in the sex scene compared to the regular sprite.

The plot starts off well with a quest to find the mc’s sister but is then immediately side tracked by other random unrelated events as the mc seemingly forgets all about his sister and her potential mortal peril.

Some scene’s can’t be unlocked unless you take specific routes, this is personal preference but it’s something I’m not a fan of.

The combat seems to get ‘updated’ frequently but not much actually seems to change. And every update requires a new save, while they do provide the ability to start at the new content, old content is often updated or changed and there is know way of seeing that without a complete restart.

I think the most egregious thing about this game is the fact it’s labeled complete. It is not It is far far from being complete, as I mentioned earlier the main quest to find the sister has barely even started, the only reason I can think of for the Devs saying it’s finished is so they can continue the game in a ‘sequel’ purely for the excuse to sell the same game twice.

Oh and the game has been in development for 4 years but doesn’t nearly have the content you would expect for that amount of time.

This game had some real potential and I really want to like it but the dev seems to be doing everything in their power to self sabotage. It's a real shame to see what has become of a game I use to really like.

The game mechanic is good, crafting, combat, and flow. It would stand by itself as a game without porn, The lewd parts are good, but there is a drop in the drawing on the animation.
It seems that there are more to explore in this game, there are too many characters that just had 1 or 2 scenes.

Let me ask you somethings. If an artist says the sky is yellow despite it being blue, is it yellow? If a chef heats water to 40 degrees below boiling point but says it's boiling, is it boiling? If a game developer doesn't complete a game but says it's finished, is it complete? The answer to all three of these questions is no, with the latter applying to Knightly Passions.

If I was someone who donated to these devs for the game's development, or perhaps even followed this game for the last 4 years of development, I'd be pissed and would probably hit this with a 1 star rating. Thankfully for me, I wasn't. The game is a genuine 3.5/5 but we can't give half stars so I'm giving it a 4 because it's overall enjoyable, but my God does the game have some issues. Listen, this game has 90 reviews and is sitting at a 4 star rating, it's worth playing if you dig the art from the previews. I'm going to use this review to point out my main detractors instead of positives, which I believe might be universally shared opinions. This review contains spoilers.

tl;dr: This "completed" game feels like a prelude to an actual game. It feels like a free demo with the purpose of getting you hooked to buy the actual game, however it is the actual game. Everything in it feels like the beginning of something better, however nothing ever gets to that better part before it all abruptly ends. I was genuinely interested in the story and the characters. I was having fun with the honestly mediocre gameplay and minigames. I love the art style and point & click layout. So when I hit the credits scene as well as anytime I unlocked all of a girl's scenes I just felt confused, unsatisfied, and disappointed. Thinking to myself, "that's it?" Where's the rest of it?" It's called Knightly Passions, but I don't feel any of the passion.

Gameplay
The problem is that you have a deck builder in which you can't actually build a deck. The quest system, the minigames, and the quick time events are all fun and the crafting actually serves a purpose, but since the core gameplay (the combat) is inherently flawed the gameplay itself takes a massive hit.

The Main Story
The main story is less important than the side stories. In no media should this ever be the case. You don't progress the main story at a reasonable rate with notable plot moments, aside from the beginning and end. The major side stories (I'd consider there to be three of them - the Elf, the Nuns, and the Wolf/Vampire) are great, but that doesn't excuse this issue. The main story is also framed in the lore as though it is time-crucial, but the pacing says otherwise. This is a story-heavy game, the main story needed to be executed well and it wasn't. The DLCs also have continuity issues, however I'm not too certain on if they're supposed to even be canon or not. For some reason in the Christmas one, the drunk is aware yet unconcerned that you're sheltering an elf (a major plot point in her storyline) and the Arms Trader knows the elf well enough to either agree to a threesome with her or get close enough to be captured by the elf and agree to a threesome. It's hot as hell and leads to what might possibly be the best h-scene in this game, but it's still random. In the Halloween one the townsfolk switch from acting like they just met you to acting like they've known you for months. It's confusing. All that aside, the most egregious issue with this game is that the story ends on a cliffhanger that was put in place in order to sell the promise of a sequel. Not only that, but the Elf and Nun side stories are also incomplete, with the Elf's cliffhanger feeding into the main story's cliffhanger and the Nun's being up in the air, hell it's practically forgotten. Right when you feel as though the main story is about to actually progress somewhere, it ends on a cliffhanger. My God, it's ridiculous. This doesn't feel like a full game, it feels like a prelude to the real game. You'll be 3 hours in and have gotten nowhere with the main story only for it to half-assed "conclude."

Character Development
This bothers me more than the main story issue, since the game is called Knightly Passions yet there is barely any passion. You develop these romantic and sexual storylines with these girls, but once that storyline is finished all romance dies. There's no miscellaneous romantic dialogue, only two girls have repeatable sex scenes, and for some girls their character story and sexual relationship ends before it really gets anywhere. For example, with the blonde nun you have six sexual encounters with her without any meaningful dialogue between the two of you. Then her story twist occurs, the two of you barely talk about it, then her story ends. The Halloween DLC, which focuses on her, doesn't even do anything to mend this issue. In fact, it kind of enhances it. Here's another example: the Maidservant is clearly head over heels with MC and you start building a budding relationship with her. Then, you randomly drunkingly rail her and there is no dialogue afterwards, it's as if it never occurred. Her story then ends right there. This isn't a dating sim, by you need to have some meaningful and permanent character development between MC and his harem and have it reflected in the game.

Hentai
There is no sex scene with the vampire. She plays a prominent role in the game, more so than some of the other girls, yet she has no sex scene or any exploration of her character. She has a title-screen still image, but that's it. The one DLC adds a still frame of her naked like a pin-up girl, but that's incredibly disappointing. There are hints at a story for her that would naturally lead to sex, but there is none. The Blonde Nun has one animated scene of her masturbating and then six "scenes" that are still frames (some good, some bad) and no meaningful dialogue. Until the DLC (which does not excuse the base-game issue), she is the only girl in the harem who does not have a proper animated sex scene (aside from the vampire). The Maidservant's and Governor's wife's scenes feel quite random, almost shoehorned in. The effort for their scenes could've been given to the Redhead Nun and Blonde Nun respectively, as the former lacks a proper amount of scenes for how long her story is and the latter lacks a proper animated sex scene (until the DLC). The Witch, who is the most important girl in the story, doesn't have a proper "normal" sex scene with MC. That feels wrong. Her scenes are great, but she lacks the most crucial scene of all. It doesn't help that the quality set by the Arms Dealer, Elf, and Black-haired Nun scenes (which are fantastic) sets the bar so high that all other girl's scenes are negatively impacted as a result.

The Mermaid Issue
The game confirms mermaids existing in the game via a quest, there are mermaids drawn on the map, there is a specific mermaid item for crafting, and there is an unused jpeg of a female mermaid. The dev straight up did not include any mermaids in the "complete" game but left all commentary towards mermaids in. It's misleading. If someone on a forum doesn't tell you they're absent, you'd spend a lot of time looking for them as the game clearly indicates they're a real thing that you can and should seek out.

I want to say so much more, but I'm already saying a lot and this review has gone on for far too long. You get the picture.

Overall 4.5/5. A Sandbox VN that has a good story along with excellent art and relationship building. The catch? The game abruptly ends.

Gameplay 2/5. Played on "tactical". An open world sandbox VN with card combat. The open world sand box feels like a chore and could have done without. The card combat is more about stats and equipment and less about strategy, interesting at first but gets old fast. Also there are quite a few basic mini games.

Story 3.5/5. A "good" story, thrown in a fantasy world with lots of new things to discover, overall nothing great, nothing new, has usual plots and tropes, but interesting enough for me. There is 1 main overarching story with many sub stories that you must complete to progress the main story.

Character 4/5. This is the strongest point of the game for me. Meeting different characters, learning about them, and building relationships with them was very pleasant for me. Relationships are built slowly with scenes ranging from mundane task to feats of heroism leading to a stronger connection and a more satisfying final scene. BUT, this is only happens with 1-2 characters, the other characters mostly had short "ok" stories, others abruptly end, heck, some didn't event start

Art 5/5. Lots of well drawn scenes, the art style really appealed to me

H Scenes 4/5. Most scenes take a long time to unlock, for me in was worth while, but others may not like it. Scenes are mostly vanilla, the artwork do make the scenes more satisfying.

Gameplay: Combat is excellent considering that this is an indie game, and also a game with a focus its art and CG, with plentyful upgrades, and items, although it gets too easy later on, and this just tels your character snowball by getting all the card upgrades untill you can pretty much oneshot bosses, I would recommend to the dev to change how you aquire points so you only get a limited amount of points from each enemy.

CG: it's extremely good. Artstyle looks good, and the animated scenes are almost all well done, there are some where you can recognize that they are older, or where the animation software does some wierd things but all in all good fap.

Story: Great story, especially the stories of most of the NPC's I barelly found myself skipping. The story generally takes a lighthearted tone, but with a few jokes from time to time, but its got its dark, sad and emotional moments. but just a note, that as for the time of writing, despite the game being tagged as completed, the story isn't finished, and there are some characters missing scenes, (vimpire girl footjob and sister incest when?)

All in all great game I would recommend it to anyone who likes VN's with more gameplay than reading text.