Unity - Completed - Lab Sweeper: Dorothy's Secret Research Records [v1.08] [MHR Lab]

Played version 1.08

Good

1. Taking too much damage damages the character’s clothing on screen
2. Receive status effects that alter the character on the UI. “Aroused” changes the character’s facial expression
3. The gallery lets you view defeat illustrations without having to read all the scenario text. Just look at the image and its various stages. Ability to zoom in, move it around the screen.
4. The gallery lets you view the character with all possible permutations. Change facial expression, outfits, tentacles, etc.
5. The gallery is fully unlocked from the start in the menu
6. Internal x-ray view can be seen at all times
7. Good character art
8. Selecting to use a Charged Ammo item causes the character’s gun to glow
9. The character shown in the main menu cycles through different variations when you leave and return to the main menu
10. Achievements to unlock, which grant game bonuses
11. The revealed traps in the grid don’t automatically affect you unless you choose to target them. This means you decide when to lose closing, get tattooed, become aroused, etc.
12. There’s a button in the menu to unlock all the gallery, all achievements, and complete all levels

Issues

1. Game starts Japanese instead of providing a language select. You have to randomly click menu buttons to find the language select.
2. Game starts fullscreen, but low resolution
3. The first level tutorial has screenshots with explanatory text. The explanatory text is translated, but the text in the screenshots isn’t
4. Spelling mistakes
5. Many icons in the UI that don’t have a tooltip when moused over
   1. Red down arrow: # unrevealed enemies remaining / total enemies
   2. Blue briefcase: # unrevealed items remaining / total items
   3. Orange crate: # unrevealed locked crates / total crates
6. When a level starts, a popup shows the mission name and goal. The window doesn’t last on screen long enough to read it.
7. Starting level 1 always brings up the tutorial, even if you’ve seen it before
8. Can’t drag an item on the field on top of an item you’re holding to swap them
9. The Skill Setting is a confusing menu. What do the stars in the top left mean? Does 3/4 mean I’ve spent 3 of 4 skill points?
10. When an effect is triggered like an enemy dying and them causing damage to anything nearby, all those effects happen very fast and it’s hard to keep up with everything that happened
11. Unclear what “upgrade cap” means on items. An “upgrade cap 9” item can’t be upgraded more than once?
12. The tile art for the area 2 levels makes the light which signifies it can be clicked very small and hard to see at a glance
13. The Skill menu doesn’t let you mouse over and inspect skills that you don’t have access to yet
14. The description for enemies in the gallery runs out of space to display text and there’s no way to read it all

I enjoyed this game way more than I thought I would, despite never having played minesweeper before.
The game-mechanics are engaging, and the art is good!
If nothing else, at least I've learned the basics of minesweeper!

Recommended – 7.5/10
Mouse only

Summary

• Length: 5-10 Hours
• Experience: Mine Sweeper dungeons
• Really good art but not much cg content

Story: 2/5
There is but i didnt stumble onto most of the game

Gameplay: 4/5
Was different and fun. Mine sweeper with skills and items

Originality: 4/5

Scenes: 4/5
Very hot but i wish there were more and they were a little longer

Environments & Undertone: 3.5/5
Great dart undertone but wasnt built upon because the gameplay is just chose level and complete.

Amount of Content: 3/5

Characters: 5/5
MC is cute

Performance & TL: 5/5

<3

Minesweeper +RPG game, at least won't let you feel like a waste of time

Game completion: complete √
Gameplay: fun √
Art standard: high √
Game content: short x
Game repeatability: short x
Unlock Gallery/Difficulty levels: very easy √

This game has alright art, but the real fun is the gameplay. A great combination of minesweeper and an RPG.

Honestly kind of almost got a bit of rogue-lite elements to it. Whole concept revolves around playing minesweeper, but the mines are a whole bunch of status effects or enemies. Plus you can upgrade your character to make things easier. Even has a NG+.

Game is average, hence 3 out 5.

The art at first glance looks good, but then you realize it's the only thing you'll get. There's no animations, there's barely any variation, and the "story" is non-existent and poorly translated. This makes it a pretty hard fap and playing the game doesn't really elevate the experience. You might as well just fap to the images in the previews.

The gameplay idea is intriguing. Getting to attack the mines in minesweeper is kind of novel. Unfortunately, it's not really better than a dungeon crawler or a card game at the end of the day.

This game has potential but just misses the mark. If there was more gradual progression of corruption or a sense of danger it'd be better. But really, it's minesweeper, and the game isn't really punishing, so it's easy to breeze through the game and never really take too much damage, outside of mimic chests.

I love the dungeon crawler style games like Maiden Snow Eve where you walk around with cum dripping down your thigh, worried you might stumble into a boss room where they will gang rape you. The atmosphere, the tension, and the sense of impending doom really make these games. It seemed like this game might have that, but unfortunately it doesn't at all.

Skippable game, unless you really dig the character design or play minesweeper for fun in your spare time, then it might bump to 4/5.

If fractions were allowed I'd knock off a half point for a couple typos in item descriptions, but overall great game.

There's no animations, and not a lot of what would really be considered sex scenes, but the art is great and there's a wide variety of lewd things that can be done to your heroine as she goes through what is, essentially, minesweeper story mode.

If you're one of the people who has spent entirely too much time on minesweeper, this is that but with rpg mechanics and porn. Which I have, admittedly, seen once before but this is imho a more fun and sexier implementation of the concept.

I'm be deadass I had more fun with the minesweeper with items. You can miss me with the hypnosis effect. NG+ is kinda hell not worth it. But the gameplay and effects are solid. Couple Hour game in my personal opinion.

Dont do NG+ ever.
Overall game is lacking sexual stuff wise and overall it is minesweeper if it didn't suck and was not disgustingly offensive in its lack of tits. There ain't much for me to say here that ain't already covered by other reviews.

I'll sum it up quick. If you like minesweeper you might enjoy this. The art is great but there is very little of it at all. I'd genuinely suggest just hitting the unlock gallery button in the options menu and save yourself the trouble.

And for the love of god don't waste your time with newgame+, all you do is repeat every level in 1 sitting with no upgrades. It's the most boring way to do this sort of challenge; it takes ages and you basically become unkillable with the right items anyway so it just becomes a tedious slog.

Good fun for short sessions. The gameplay is solid, even pretty good for a porn game and what is there in terms of artwork is good. Unfortunately it's pretty lacking in porn content apart from what is happening on the game board.
It's definitely worth a try if you are intrigued by the artwork.

The gameplay is pretty good, but the lewd bits are kind of lacking both in terms of integration into gameplay and the dedicated scenes are a bit lackluster. The UI design means that the text in the corner is really distracting from the CG, which there aren't a lot of.

Also, NG+ is really really annoying. Gotta play so many levels of stuff you've already played, and if your eyes glazed over from the boredom and you screw up, you have to start over. Just hit the unlock button in the settings.

Minesweeper + porn art & mechanics is a surprisingly fun and simple combo. There is a game over scene for each of three areas, plus lewd standing sprites reflecting the various conditions of the main character, and a few ending scenes. Very minimal story. The only drawback is you may want more content, but that's really more of a mark of how good it is.

Good stuff, fun game, nice eyecandy, lovely build-up of predicaments
Beat it completely and even made it through the NG+ (don't underestimate it! you're going to run the whole game backwards in that one!)

[v1.06]

It's okay, its fairly short, has both better and worse aspects than a standard Minesweeper formula but other than some subjectively diagreebale design, its well polished.

The amount of polish for art and gameplay features clashes with weird balance and design;
It's overall okay, but not much more.

Surprisingly decent idea, disappointing execution.

Pornographic minesweeper with combat wasn't on my bingo card, and despite how ludicrous the idea may seem, it works. Basically, the game focuses on minesweeper mechanic in the early game. As the character grows stronger, it offers more options to reveal some monsters for free and then take them down in combat, instead of fully solving the sweeper puzzle.

That said, when it comes to the lewd parts, it's sadly lacking. First, it leans heavily towards porn as game over model, which isn't very encouraging. Art is scarce, nothing is properly animated, and the accompanying prose is typical generic Japanese slop. The game is also not very polished and has some usability issues, like the challenge mode annoyingly requires you to play several levels back to back without an option to save and continue later.

It's decent for a small lewd game title. Nothing revolutionary here. If you want lots of CGs as rewards for completing levels, etc, this game doesn't have them. If you enjoy statuses and effects on the other hand, even if they don't do all that much in terms of gameplay, you might enjoy this one for one or two sessions.

Gameplay wise it's Minesweeper-like in the sense that the board has enemies and items, and you won't lose immediately if you discover a bad square. However, even if you don't know how to play Minesweeper this is trivially easy once you get any HP per move restoring items and shields. The only times I lost were when I was intentionally running around seeing what I could find. I did appreciate the game came with its own unlocker in the settings too so you don't need to download a save to see everything the game has to offer.

One thing that could've definitely been improved was the enemies affecting game overs. Granted, there's a few tiles which'll appear with the standing figure and mess with her, like a tattoo machine or getting a visor stuck on her head, but that's as far as it'll go. Losing against particular enemies won't yield a specific ending and neither will being hypnotised with a full set of restraints. Shame really but I'd assume the budget didn't stretch that far.

There's not much more to say really, it's just a solid little one-and-done lewd puzzler with a focus on standing art, statuses and effects. If that sounds like your idea of fun, give the game a try. Just don't expect anything elaborate from the game over scenes or hidden ways to position the character for specific bad ends. What you see the first time you lose in a region is all you get.

Art is nice, though there's barely any of it, mostly just standing cg variations. I enjoy minesweeper, though this doesn't really fulfill that niche as once you get the health restoring equipment you can just click on everything with zero repercussions.

Do note that this is not a true minesweeper since you can only open tiles that directly adjacent to opened tiles, meaning you can't do diagonals in this game (this limitation is make sense from the world building, but not gameplay wise especially when you already done so much minesweeper and get tripped by this limitation, just a small rant lol)

Most of the content is standing images that you get from getting into a trap or being ambushed by an enemy (only 2 of them, a face hugger and a mask drone), and there's not much here

Scenes is also very limited, which kinda disappointing since the art is really good, but yeah, its one of the better minesweeper porn (definitely better than mindsweeper, but I like that one better from my personal perspective)

i looooove minesweeper, but you dont have to know how to play to enjoy the game, it is very lenient. knowing the patterns/algorithms will help but its not needed. in fact with the right items you can play the game as reckless as you want and still win, but its still fun to play carefully. i would say the initial learning curve was quite confusing though (i think the tutorial changed after version 1 though)

picked up the game cause the art style/character design looked really nice, but ill be real the h content is quite baron, my main motivation was the gameplay. the standing picture that adapts to status effects was really nice though, and its fun to mess around the gallery with it.

the writing is also pretty minimal, dialogue shows up on the bottom left but its so out of the way that i keep forgetting about it. theres a lot of descriptions in the gallery but they arent really that engaging to read. the endings were also kinda nothing.

my main complaint would actually be the bugs, though patches seem to still be rolling out and i havent updated recently. i havent been able to get the "clear stage with 1 hp" or "reach perfect ending" achievements even though i unlocked the cg for that one lmao. as a completionist its frustrating, but it doesnt really matter that much, im sure later versions will fix them.

regardless, i personally enjoyed the gameplay and the art, even if there was very little. getting all of the side objectives was a good way of keeping the gameplay in line.