Unity - Lord Goblin [v0.25] [BBBen and his Big Brass Band]

I have discovered that I love management games, and this one is special because of its EXELENT voice acting for the 5 characters that are voice acted. the number of erotic scenes in this one is a little chronically low and it took an extremely long time to get the only sex scene the rest of them are just hand jobs and stuff. I like managing my kingdom despite meany of the events being repetitive and the management unintuitive and grinding the only sex scene tedious so definitely a game you should use some cheats from kosgames once its overstaying its welcome its going on steam witch is cool I guess though I wonder if that's why the game is so restrained about the sex all in all good management ok porn I like the story.

Decent (although short for now) management gameplay with clear ideas to be implemented later, fun and decently written (even if not completely unique) storyline and characters. Animation not too bad either just needs more of them, the Voice Acting is better than it has any right to be with each character feeling very unique and different with some nice comedy added in too.
Great start of a game.

[v. 0.24.2]
A very competently made game, with well-written scenes, and themes that go together.

The experience of the lead dev really shows in the pacing and writing. The game's opening sets the scenario very efficiently, and the game does a good job of quickly getting you into the swing of the training/managing gameplay, while leaving room to build the story up as the game goes. The dev does a really good job in creating characters that are built on obvious archetypes, but are built-up enough to have their personality weave into the gameplay- and story-interactions. The game also features some high-quality voice-acting for the genre.
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The character-art is obviously excellent, though we'll see if the ambition of focusing on animated scenes costs a lot of development-time.

On the gameplay side, things are simple, and kind of rigid, but the game still has an element of skill to it's management. The biggest problem I have with the gameplay, on a very quick look, is that even though the cross-section view is beautiful, it makes it pretty hard to parse information from it. It's not like the view is super-large, but when the information about all the room-upgrades is frontloaded at the start of the game, it can be hard to get a handle on all of the rooms, and plan out your upgrades well. There's a risk that players might even miss some of the smaller areas, so there should probably be some improvements to the visibility of room-upgrades in the final game.

(There's also a bug with the current version, that prevents you from selecting a room for cleaning, if you select one, then cancel that selection)
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The game is still kind of early in the making, so plenty of content is still missing, but this is looking to be a very fun, light, well executed porn-game.
If you've played the dev's previous games, I guess you could argue that it hits on very similar themes, just ported into a more visually appealing form.

Considering it still hasn't gone to full release, I like the way the management mechanic. Although it is still rough around the edges, I love the backstory and development of the Goblin and Az'ea. Hoping for more scenes of the other girls, and usage of the clothes items bought at the shop. Also, managing the sweeping is a bit hard since it's hard to offset by simply assigning one maid to deal with it, unlike laundry. Looking forward to harem/multiple girls scenes with goblin. Also, there are a lot of lines that are not voiced.

Interesting at first, but quickly gets tedious and unrewarding.

The gameplay is okay.
Visually game looks pretty nice, quite clean, mechnically not janky.
Girls are authentic and sexy.

Game becomes tedious very quickly, because tasks are really repetitive and screen transitions (especially between the time of day) are TERRIBLY SLOW.
Game needs better stats menus, otherwise too much time is just wasted switching between characters/buildings/places to see the numbers they have/require. There must be a way to show stats/costs/numbers better.
Grind is real and it feels very unrewarding.
The number of sexual scenes and personal interactions is very small, there's really too little of that for this to be a good XXX game.

Better than most, but still far from perfect - 6/10.
I do see, however, how this game can be made into something really great.

(Game is in 'v0.23.1' version during this review)

Without a doubt, it is a promising game.
The mechanics of the maids and making decisions at all times is really cool.
However, it seems that the Dev is more concerned with limiting the game to different versions than focusing on the content, we have several examples of good games destroyed by poor project management... anyway...

As of Now Lord Goblin is a game that oozes Talent, Visuals, and without sounding to corny Passion in its Hscenes Story and Main Girls that unfortunately is stuck in as of now a clunky and slow management sim not to mention a bit buggy that is still worth a try a watch and I think you should give it a try.

There are few Porn games I can say just by playing them money is being used every second, Screenshots of the game don't do it justice and before playing it other reviewers didn't seem to really explain that how sex scenes are animated with smoothness followed by the addition of each girl having talented VAs make each scenes so much better. Whether it is a sex scene or hearing one the girls backstory. Time and money is clearly being dedicated to each moment of this game from drawing to rigging it for movement and voice direction. It's safe to say this isn't just some guy with some free time messing around with Honey Select and RPGMaker and throwing it out into the world for a quick buck. Just saying gotta respect BBBen and the dedication.

I've seen a lot of people talk about the slow grind or how its nearly impossible to upgrade places because resources are random. so use cheats and fair enough i did it for my first playthrough. It's on my second i realized just how little the game makes clear. Please if you take anything from this review USE SPELLS THEY ARE CRUCIAL FOR THE START. Not only does the game never guide you to use Az'ae and her spells which at the start help with marinating your girls' energy/gaining authority and Soldiers .How during play testing no one thought to direct players to such an important part of the game is wild. Besides that the game needs to ease people into management. It doesn't tell players to upgrade the barn first as its the cheapest upgrade and will let you grow food meaning all your basic needs can be maintained without worrying about reaching 0. Honestly the first month should be skewed in your favor either with better or maxed starting resources or have better events that only bring positives.

Listen there's Three stats your girls have Love Lust and Obedience and Obedience beats both easily it unlocks the majority of Sex Scenes. fair enough but its the only stat that is use events somehow having a loving and lustful maid is useless compared to one that's obedient. Each girl will randomly tell you they wont work that day for reasons and the only way to make them work no matter what is to have a 100 obedience stat. so much for just one stat Love and Lust are never used during events and seem to be WIP or just not thought out as much as they should be given the game wants you to romance these girls. Have Events or the Earl or something test your love stats and lust stats make each stat feel as important enough that i wanna see 100 for each girl not just because.

if you've played a BBBEN game you know theres a time limit to most of these which sounds lame but given as of right now there isn't really a reason to build your kingdom other than the hot big tittied goth witch told you so is kinda apparent given that theres little scenes and story to do makes sense to wrap this story give about 2-3 ingame months to seduce your girls, raise an army you know make it short and sweet.

You're gonna be doing the same routine over and over each day its the fun that comes from managing it's not the sexiest thing to focus on an update but this game is gonna need alot more events each time or its gonna be boring really fast there's only so many times i can get the same peasants are angry do you kick them our or bribe them. or oh no demons are here what do. Should really consider having events tied to your girls like infighting becoming horny making there cooldown reset. Recurring events should take your girls stats and story progress into consideration.

Listen I've rambled long enough at the end of the day the porn aspects of the game are great so much goes into making this story the girls and making you want to see what happens next but it's stuck in a messy management sim that needs alot of tuning for it to be enjoyable instead of being just meh or annoying. I mean it made me wanna write all this and give some money so hey it's gotta be doing something right. it's good but it could be better.

The art is rlly good and but the amount of scenes isn't great and by the time the main story cutscenes dry up around the first month there is not much point to continuing. Updates are slow and the biggest gripe is how you can easily get softlocked if you choose the wrong upgrade since (for ex) the ability to recruit more villagers is locked behind a requirement of 200 villagers. So you essentially have to wait for an random event(it is a very low chance of happening I played 30 more in-game days and had no event to increase villagers) to potentially gain enough to reach the requirement. There is no other way to do increase that value. Then it cascades into preventing progression from other buildings which would allow you to recruit other types of villagers for other buildings and unlocking new scenes and so on. Needs some heavy resource balancing in terms of costs and everything and much more content in order to be really worthwhile, but overall, solid foundation just needs some more work rn.

This adult game's got some serious potential. Like the voice acting is top-notch, really sucks you into the story, and the artwork is breathtaking. But yeah, gotta admit, the gameplay can feel a bit like a grind at times. Good thing there are cheats to help you breeze through the tough spots if you're into that. and let's talk about the characters! They're so hot, like you really get invested. Overall, I'm totally hooked on this game. sucks that the updates are so slow

Love the game so far.

Great sex scenes and the voice acting is a great addition.

With use of the cheat codes it doesn't seem so grindy

Can't wait to see more development on this game and future works from the developer

This game has a lot of potential. The character designs are eye-catching and the few scenes currently in the game are fine. Hopefully we will get new characters to join the castle. It seems the dev cycles are kinda slow so hopefully it doesn't get abandoned.

Game with a lot of potential, the voice acting and art amazing. The gameplay can get a little grindy but the grind can always be bypassed by using cheats.
characters are extremely unique, Love the game

i supported on patreon for 4 months because i love the art and like the gameplay loop, but ... the update speed is painfully slow. i appreciate the existing handjob animations, but the spanking animation isn't there yet, and is almost identical for all four women.

i'll be happy to pay a little more once there's more content and gameplay is expanded. i dont even care to see lord goblin have "normal" sex with these people, i just want more options for their existing services.

Slow builds, I would wait a couple years to see if it gets updated more frequently or when it gets abandoned.

Art is decent. Gameplay loop definitely needs QOL- its not fun - probably because its not completed yet. The "upgrades" definitely need a buff after going through all that grind and effort to get enough resources to get them. Definitely needs better reason and story as to why you need to do XYZ events. Would think that more events would happen more frequently when you are commanding the land as a lord.

v0.14
+Really good art
+good voice acting for the girls
-There is very little content (grind is not content) even after a long time in development.
-very buggy.
-more bugs added than fixed every update
-no hotfixes. you have to wait until next major release for game breaking bugs to be fixed... but then that next major release introuces new major bugs instead of the ones they fixed. so sometimes you need to wait 2 or 3 updates until an actually playable version is released
-Poorly balanced
-Very Grindy
-laggy (made in unity, and not well)
-only 1 save slot hidden somewhere in a system folder which is overwritten automatically if you start a new game. You need to occasionally start a new game as they have updated the intro as recently as v0.13. They were told by users it is a huge problem but they don't seem to care to fix the saveslot problem.

I am burned out on this game.
What a waste of potential.
I might come back to it one day with heavy cheat use. Maybe.

Lord Goblin (v.0.13.2)

has got nice art and amazing voice acting, but very much fails to deliver in their core department: sexual content!

I’m unsure, if the dev and his team have got their focus in the right direction.

The game has got management aspects with lots of grind. The grind is already in the game, lots of it, but there is hardly any benefit to it, like spicy rewarding scenes.

You can unlock multiple upgrades of castle rooms so far, but most often to no real effect. Especially they don’t trigger certain story scenes, which are supposed to happen at some point, because those scenes don’t exist, yet.

Let’s be honest here, hardly anybody would give this game a chance without the prospect of sexual content! But after one year of development time, there is just very few sexual content: 1 missionary vaginal sex scene, 1 boobjob, 2 handjobs and 1 (rather silly) footjob (never understood the foot fetish).

So this game should really focus on adding way more sexual corruption scenes, because that’s the main selling point of this game. But so far many of the recent updates keep to disappoint by adding just minor improvements to the game.

My impression so far is, that the dev and his team is preoccupied with the icing, but doesn’t even have the cake, yet! At least their discord channel gave me this impression, where people were talking about adding new silly outfits, instead of expanding the so far very much lacking sexual content. After all nobody is interested in this game for seeing fancy, but silly new outfits. Those can be added later on as a nice gimmick. Instead they should focus very much on story events and sexy time between the mc and the maidens!

For the time being the development is rather slow, which wouldn't be a problem if new updates made at least a big difference, but so far they don't unfortunately!

We’ll see how this will turn out in the future. For the time being I’m willing to give 3 stars (1 for the nice art, another one for the voice acting and a third one for being promising.) I just hope that they don’t waste too much time on unnecessary minor content, but focus way more on their main selling point.
I'm not sure, if they really realize this...

There isn't nearly as much content as one might expect with the version being 0.9.0. Not only that, but progress is glacially slow, with no reward. I even went in the save and gave everyone max stats and essentially unlimited resources, and I still somehow fell behind in the maintenance tasks in just 2-3 turns, which feels way too unforgiving. The cool sounding things like potions and spells were either broken or not implemented yet. Perhaps in another year or two

[v0.15.0] Review update 11/28/23

Pros:
great art
great voice acting
good story with a chance a great
funny in a good way
The random events and decisions are good, they just arn't very impactful, except the bad events, which are somewhat preventable.

Cons:
The Grind is REAL; 4 girls, 3 opportunities to improve stats per day where most attribute or corruption increases are +1. If improving rooms in the keep helps this at some point, but as it stands, you're well over 100 days of grinding without being done.

cleaning rooms requires multiple cleaning jobs to finalize, this adds significant grind early on.

there is a low number of events tied to building up your kingdom related to soldiers and artisans so you are gated behind rng to finish upgrades in several rooms.

gold balance is way too generous to have any impact on tax decisions.

certain resources are irrelevant while others are insanely overvalued for upgrades, often with no sense to their need or cost. the balance is out of wack when it comes to Crown points quite often.

Resources are generous for the most part, but sourcing them relies on you having to check the scheduled optimal time for a maid to go and fetch them for you. This is fine mechanically, but is another draw on time in a time intensive game.

The larger issue is the splash screens for daily updates and phase changes of the game. They take enormous amounts of time away from the player in the long run because they are deliberately slow. This is the single largest issue with the game in it's current state.

conclusion:

Overall, there is a good game here. Some of the grind has dissipated through the upgrade system. The game play loop is solid. The characters are unique with their own quirks. The random midday events fit well, but need some tweaking when it comes to cost as the values of certain resources are not dialed in. The splash screens NEED TO BE SHORTER or removed.

There should be some form of reward or random encounter with the girls that does not progress time. Spontaneous encounters would give the player a sense of progression as real change in the behavior because the girls behavior has been adjusted by the player's actions and there is a reaction by the world, not the script, that the player can enjoy.

Gallery does not include story sex scenes.


It's a 4 on quality, but the negatives pull it down. Dropping the .5 score to 3/5. On second playthrough the negatives stick out so much more despite the general great level of polish of this project.

I love the concept, most the art is good or at least okay, story is told in a confusing way that makes me feel like I missed something.

Every room upgrade is a WIP, cleaning some rooms just straight up doesn't work. It's super gridey with not much existing content.

I'll be real, this isn't even a Demo, this is a Proof of Concept at this point (0.8), not a demo, not a alpha.

(v0.6.0)

This is more of a teaser demo than a pre-alpha game. There's only a handful of hscenes and not much to do around the castle. The story is barely developed as well. The art and animations are undeniably hot but besides that, the game is a bit of a mess.

There is quite a bit of instability in the game. The game crashes pretty often and every time I start a new day it gets stuck on a black screen for a few minutes. The crashes mixed with the lack of content mean that I wouldn't recommend this game. It's just a waste of time at this point. Maybe later when the issues are ironed out and content is added, I'll revisit this. I really hope this becomes a game worth playing because the gang of girls looks great but until then I recommend staying away.