RPGM - Lust Doll Plus [v79.1 Public] [Indivi]

4/10.

The sad thing about Lust Doll is it could be a really good game if it were remade with more passion. I don't want to be cynical but considering the game's been around a solid decade, updates are drip-fed and content is locked behind paywalls it's hard not to feel like maybe the dev is half-assing and dragging their feet on purpose to milk money.

The big pro with this game is there's a lot of customisation and freedom. Combat's pretty good.

The cons limit the pros, though. The game is slow to get into and it is ugly. The map is just coloured squares which is very boring to look at and there's no actual map so you have to remember where everything is.

Graphically the sex scenes aren't interactive at all and a lot of the art is poor quality - particularly on the player end of things, which is an example of the customisation not being as impactful as it could or should be.

Technically speaking this is a text based game so some might be inclined to forgive the graphical shortcomings but I can't because honestly the writing is nothing special, especially on the descriptive end of things, and the things you can do just aren't that interesting - especially compared to other big name text based games like DoL.

This game greets you with the most shallow start possible. You run at squares, find one type of enemy, for some reason able to get in city by sewers (there is a post at main gates that lets in only those who have proper papers or enough money), get hired just near the rest spot (you can get several hundreds per day while resting costs 5 coins).
OST consists of something like "almost white noize" with occasional music in clubs.

Like, what is the point of all this? Why would one care to continue? Idk, maybe this is some "masterpiece" of sorts, but if devs never cared to make at least somewhat interesting entry expirience, I do not think that everything else there really matters.

Okay so apparently the version you download from here is not the "full" version, which is not made clear in the OP whatsoever. Part of the content is behind a Patreon paywall. That usually foreshadows the egoistic pride of a dev straight off the bat.

So a little history for this game:
This shit has been around since the debut of Corruption of Champions from fenoxo. They did quite a bit of advertising for this. Which means the conceptual birth for this was almost 10 years ago. Yes, let that sink in. This shit has been up for milking on Patreon for TEN YEARS. What does 10 years of Patreon milking amount to? An empty and boring world, with subpar writing, subpar visuals, and essentially barely any meaningful content.

For example the "pregnancy" tag is just like in 50% of the cases on this site is barely worth a mention here. It does not play into it to any sufficient manner. The game barely plays into anything in fact, it's mostly empty. All the "galore" of the character and content customization provided is ridiculously misleading. Most of the content you can turn off barely exists in the game. That's what 10 years of Patreon milking yields you ladies and gentlemen. One would have to be out of their damn mind to support this with their money...

The game is supposed to be text based. You have representations for each character but they're very basic and shit looking. So what's the writing like? It's fucking boring, cliché it's not engaging at all. The worldbuilding is very lazy, nothing really makes sense for the most part of the game. You will understand barely anything of what's going on. I don't know if this is supposed to be the point but the immersion of this fucking sucks. So is the smut any good? Nah man, there is no way anyone will be able to fap to this. At least not to what is present in the "demo" version.

So the only thing which could save this is the gameplay, which, you guessed it, it fucking sucks as well... it's a very basic RPGM system of stats you level up as you gain XP from fights. It's supper basic boring shit. So there is essentially nothing in this game which could save it from a 1 star after 10 years of rolling this ball of manure like a dung beetle.

Yet the dev dares to put shit behind a paywall... what a psychopath.

The world design is very rough. you have no map so you have to remember where everything is, only using some not very unique squares in the same color per zone...
Furry heavy, which is okay, but the "furry off" function is not really relevant as you still get cowgirls, just more human looking.
Nothing feals really meaningful in this, you can just wipe as much as you want without consequences.

The good.
Seems to be pretty direct, no walls of text wasting your time.
The bad.
The entire point of a H game is the H content and I can't tell if it's because most of the effort is spent on H content behind the paywall, or if the stuff behind the paywall is more of the same.
Either way, if you like bad ends then this isn't the game for you unless your willing to pay. And I wasn't.

I played this game in the browser a while ago. Playing this game, it seems to me that everything was done with the intention of saving time and effort.

GAMEPLAY 5/5:
This is the only positive point that carries this entire game. You have total freedom to walk wherever you want, a high level of customization for the character and several options when fighting monsters and enemies.

CHARACTERS 1/5:
The characters are basic, they are not very detailed, they are there only to generate content.

ART AND SCENERY 1/5:
Perhaps the lowest point of this game. The scenery is ugly and made to save time and effort, the art is very average.

SEX SCENES 2/5:
It is basically text and your character on the right side of the screen acts as the text unfolds, there are no images, nothing like that. What is interesting is that there is a wide variety of fetishes, but everything is done this way.

The game has no story, you are just thrown into the middle of the map and you are left to fend for yourself, which works well because the gameplay is good.

Would I recommend it?
No.
I only gave it two stars because of the gameplay, otherwise I would only give it one.

v70.1 Review

Love the game, it has a lot of freedom in all aspects, character customization, exploration, interactions, and the art is cute as well.

Although it could have more interactions and repeatable events, and some contents are incomplete, the game is still in progress so its understandable.

It's very enjoyable and feels promising, so I give it 5 stars. Looking forward to updates.

The game is not for everyone I will admit, but the old school UI rpgm system makes the experience feel unique and very enjoyable for me.

TL: DR paywalls on a text based game with a fancy GUI for movement and combat. The free version seems to give you a small sample of what to expect from the bad end, so perhaps the paid version does offer some sizable content. But I'm not paying to figure it out. Either the H-scenes are short and bland, or most of the effort in the H-scene are kept behind a paywall.


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The good.
I've played text based games before and some of them can be pretty good, like Lilith's Throne and Corruption of Champions. This game offers a smoother GUI then most text games and offers a more interesting paper doll avatar and a portrait of most enemies you encounter with maybe one or two pics related to the scene if you're lucky. The art style is not very good but serviceable for a text game. There's no animation, no sound and no other bells or whistles besides that paper doll and the JPG or two. But those JPG or two is more then what you'd get in most text based games.

The maker seems to put some effort in bug squishing and the game is pretty stable.

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Now that the good is out of the way, time for the bad.

For a text focused game the text feels a bit bland and lacks flare. Most scenes is 2-6 paragraphs and it's over. In the events that you get a game over, you'll be greeted with a give me money if you wish to see the bad end or reload your save. This paywall on what is hopefully the part of the game the maker spends most of his efforts on makes the free version feel pointless. Updates also feels like they're lacking content despite the fact the maker seems to be making enough money to be working full time on this project. (Again there's a possibility that 90% of the content is in the game over scenes that are pay walled and in that case he could be making a decent stride but I have no way of knowing about it because I refuse to pay for it.)

Like others have said, it can be confusing and hard to figure out where or what you need to do and most of the game needs to be played in windowed mode with a wiki... This is pretty poor game design in my opinion. It's not a pure sand box as you can't just spawn in and wonder off.

Played this first back on version 0.34, about 2 years ago and replayed it again recently; wow, less than 2 hours of content added in 2 years; amazing progress.

Art: First off this game is really light on the art, super basic stuff, more text centric than anything.
Combat: There is a battle fuck system, its servicable, nothing in depth, no x ray, no cross sections, and alot of the time its just your paper doll giving reactions to the text descriptions.
Erotic text descriptions: They can get lengthy at times but for the most part are short and to the point.
Content: There is about enough content in the game for you to play with for about 8 hours if you are going in blind.
Characters: Characters are decent, they have some characterization that services to make you care about them.
Story: The main premise is that you want to find out why you were in a lab, and up to now, there is very little in game that even references the fact that you want to find out why you were in a lab to begin with, feels like the dev either doesnt care to explain this despite making it seem like its our purpose to figure that out, or the dev forgot about it; basically the story is horrible and doesnt answer the question nor provide even hints about the answer 4 years in to the games development.

Content addition and pace:
Enemies and locations: from version 0.34 in 2022 or whatever, to now? there has been an commendable 2 new enemies added. a harpy and a humanoid slaver. (in 2 years!)
3 New areas, being Bathhouse temple and island and desert.

The dev has 2,616 paid patreons, with atleast 50% paying for the 5$ sub, this dev is raking in thousands per month, most of the content is drip fed, onle 2 new enemies and 3 new zones in 2 years,
There is no graphics its all blocks
There is no voice acting
There is very basic paper doll art
There is no cross section or X-Ray on the lewd fights
Most enemies arent actually drawn committing sexual acts against the player.
There are no animations
There is no body part progression
Most of this game is 70% text, 20% art, 10% moving your square block to other square block, why has this dev who can devote themselves to this full time taken so long to add so little?

Lust Doll Plus [r62.0b] REVIEW
A very detailed exploration rpg and turn based ero game
Sorry for my poor English

GAMEPLAY: The game plays fine and fluid, you have random encounters, each and every one of them offers you various optionsto beat them, your stat block is dynamic, meaning, if you wiss to get more strength you better punch stuff or do heavy stuff, if you wish to get more nimble run more or escape more,the balance of the game requires for you to grind quite a lot, and becomes quite boring after a while,just to give you an example, if you buy the best possible attacking gear, that being 2 hammers, one for each hand you will easily oneshot every enemy in the first 2 zones,at 10 strength, yet you will suffer still with enemies in the 3rd zone, the other option is to grind your erotica stat and try to figure the puzzle like way to beat enemies by making them horny, yet that still consumes a turn and does not prevent them from damaging you, and losing health weakens your character making it quite an useless mechanic, since you still can rape your enemy by beating them up, all in all poorly balanced in the combat department.

EXPLORATION
In this same category let me tell you the BIGGEST flaw and sin of this game, exploration is crap, trying to not repeat what other reviewers has already told here before you run like a headless chicken trying to figure out what to do, the game offers you a logbook but you have no way to know What the fuck to do, in one of many grind runs i decided to go visit a cow character to collect some items, and suddenly she dissapeared, the game simply tells you she wandered off somewhere, i visited every avaliable map and every corner and didn't find her, most characters and events are so cryptic and nonsensical that playing blind is impossible

EROTIC CONTENT
The biggest thing this game has going is it's ample variety of content, for every fetish there is mostly, the only downside being that there is practicaly no visual content, 99% of it existing in text form, yet here lies another problem, that souns quite small yet annoys me a lot, the game has an arousal bar, when that bar fills up you get more and more horny, this being a debuff and also a secondary hp bar, since when you are 100% horny you simply lose any encounter, at the same time, every time you beat an enemy you get the option of rape, BUT YOU CAN'T RAPE ENEMIES UNLESS YOU ARE AROUSED, at the early game you have to farm up this debuff to spend it on a one time use fuck essay for one enemy and of course one sex position, so it's another grind, but then you gain 1000 credits daily and find out you can just buy 99 potions of lust so this problem becomes trivial and just a waste of a turn af of course of your time.

All in all this game suffers from a problem that sadly i see a lot of times in so many games, and that is a lack of respect for the player's time, it has a lot of potencial to being an amazing exploration sex game, but it fails in most categories, and sadly at this point of development, unless some drastic changes are implemented it those problems can't be fixed

RATING: 2/5 OR A D RANK, Play it once and cheat your stats to the max, see (or read) some scenes and never touch it again

Whatever good game that might be here is completely shadowed by this games piss poor navigation and progression. Some of the art is ok, and it's cool that you can build your character a bit, but none of that matters if you are going to mindlessly click around hoping to get the magic eureka moment that lets you progress. You should not have to live on the wiki page to learn what to do, that's awful game design. You're supposed to give an indication of where to go and what to do, and that doesn't happen here. "Gain cassies trust" is the most vague bullshit ever. Also, you have no choices in certain things, you have to get cassie to be friendly to you to even proceed. So you have no choice, and no guidance on where to go. Couple with that tedious navigation and you have a disaster. Very sad.

I don't understand the good ratings or people saying it has a lot of content.

I have been wandering for hours and am yet to find anything interesting or meaningful to do.

I have 3 quests.
-Gain trust from Cassie (How? I can only talk to her with the same exact lines of dialogues)
-Get acquainted with Sammy (How? I have been spamming the baths and nothing is happening)
-Visit the Succubus (How? The graveyard is locked, all the houses are locked, and the random NPCs don't do anything)

Considering those are the only 3 locations I can visit, and that I can't do anything anywhere, it hardly qualifies as having a lot of content.

This might be my favorite adult game.

In terms of gameplay it's somewhat similar to corruption of champions and trials in tainted space, but with less micromanaging/depth (depending on how you look at it.)

There's a lot of character customization, making good use of the paper-doll style graphics.

Fetishes can be individually toggled on and off, and furry can even be toggled on a per character basis.

I'd describe the adult content as medium depth but high variety. Only a few fetishes, tickling for example, are found nearly everywhere you look but some others like (soft) amputee only have one proper scene.

The depiction of BDSM is also pretty well done, at least within the Fawn route.

Some other positives are the fast update cycle, consistently once a month, and the writing is... pretty decent (with how terrible the writing and spelling in some other games is I kinda have to count this as a positive.)

If there's one thing I'd criticize it's that it's sometimes not easy to tell what to do. There is only a logbook and a hidden (weird design decision) tips NPC, but if you're really stuck you can always check out the wiki.

Some interesting character customisation, but that's pretty much it, the erotic content is very limited when compared to most of the games of the genre (variety and control), the mechanics are very barebones and barely changed over the last years.

Good balance of sexual content and gameplay in my humble opinion. The diversity is pretty neat as well from what I can tell. I enjoyed getting to know the characters and exploring. The graphics (or lack thereof) don't get in the way as much as I thought they would.
Plenty of femdom without too much forcing fetishes on the player as well, which I personally enjoyed.
I recommend at least trying it.

The one issue for me is lack of animations. There are only pictures and text and sometimes the pictures aren't interactive at all.

I really wanted to like this game, but it felt way too complex for me - I've noticed that there's a dozen guides for it, which I don't think should be necessary for a lewd game; we're trying to get off here, not to get 100% completion in Ocarina of Time back when you had to buy physical guides.

Still, I'm giving it 4 stars, because that's a pet peeve of me, and not an issue with the game itself, which features a wide array of content and can offer countless hours to those willing to put the effort.

I think some of the harsher reviews are exaggerating their complaints.

The game updates monthly and has for over a year, I don't understand the particulars of the road map and wish certain things would happen sooner rather than later but at least progress is progress.

Dev gets a lot of points from me for not succumbing to patreonitis or building an echo chamber.

I am genuinely impressed. Even with such meagre graphics this game only updates every few months and adds like a single scene and 4 cosmetics to a random shop. You would expect a game to not be as barebones after a few years but It is.

The update speeds are slower than a sprinting snail and the variety of content in those updates is as large as an ant. These updates are like opening a present box and then sand getting thrown into your face.

Basically no graphics, shit updates, and overall confusing gameplay. The only reason I am not rating it a 1 star is because the pre-existing content was half decent, its just that it barely fucking changed in 2 years.

Nothing special over here. gameplay is simple and boring, graphics is ilusional and after spending 2 hours I'm realy not recommend you to spend your precious time. 2\5

Well game have barely any graphics, there are no even sex scenes not even single picture, all sex is just text dialogues...

At first look this game may look like WOW so much cool content so many locations so big maps...

But well... after exploring You see that most locations where u can interact are just shops and simple "press button to get _____" other locations are just empty...

I dont understand why u can make Your character OP while creating... because there is option to set all stats to like 99?... well I was not cheating i set my stats i think FAIR... and i only added myself 40 credits ( and u could like probably 99999 ) but at time when creating character i didnt know if 40 is a lot or not... well... its not... its like nothing xD even piercing cost like 70 credits.

Combat is done little better than in other RPG Maker games...
While in combat u can undress Your enemy ( "attack clothes" ), grab them, molest and do other things, but combat is pretty paper made...

So far i found only 2 weapons Hammer ( 4 dmg ) and knife ( 1 dmg )

Well i did played this game for like 3/4 hours but i think its not worth more than these 3 hours... at least not in its current stage...

It's really hard to guess what You need to do in order to progress in that game...