HTML - Masters of Raana [v0.8.3.4d] [GrimDark]

I don't write many reviews, and rarely do so unless the game in question is either so bad that it warrants it, or is excellent enough to stir me from my apathy and give it much deserved praise. Masters of Raana falls into the later camp. This is an ambitious game, not only for its in-depth gameplay, but also for its chosen medium: HTML. The majority of HTML games on F95 tend to be text based, and stright forward with their choices. There are of course plenty of good ones (i.e. Casting Director, Trials in Tainted Space, etc..) and some up-and-coming potentials (SlutEd), but generally speaking there is a lot of continuity between the games in regards to how they play. This is where MoR begins to shine.

MoR is meant to be an almost old school RPG, the usual trait, atributes, and skill tree's (though inplemented in a novel way) so that you can create your character into a relatively unique variation. Create a character who is a brutal mercenary, another who spends more time running shady mob related missions while developing and selling slaves, and another who was mostly academic focused with teaching, investing and building rep as primary pastimes. In all cases the game accomodates gameplay and ensures different experiences. Not bad for a work in progress.

Other interesting elements of gameplay include a slave management system, but with a more in-depth interaction mechanism that allows you to build relationships and either corrupt, degrade, build confidence, fuck into submission, or keep a casual relationship and employ the girls after building up their skills. For instance have one girl making money as a proffesor, another as a dancer, one working as a fighter in the Arena, and another that maintains the household and builds reputation with domestic skills and servicing guests (in several ways). Or buy a girl, corrupt and break her will while improving her sex skills, and sell for a massive profit (pro tip: assesing slaves at the Town Hall can be done repeatedly, and can help with the corruption).

There are currently about 8-9 available girls to buy, find or win. Each has a different personality, disposition, hidden kinks and triggers, and inherant skills. They have the same RPG attributes and skills as yourself, and they can be further developed in the way that you choose. Outfits, bondage gear, piercings, armor and weapons are available to be equipped. Their personalities can also be directly affected by your choices. Want to mind break a sex slave into a meat puppet? Build a strong willed and capable fighter? Want a Waifu? Want a pain slut who also hates you? Surprsingly yes, as I found by accident. The developer has managed to create a extremely versatile system for managing your whims with the female NPC's (to include mercs you can hire).

Feature wise, the combat system is very similar to RPGM, skills are necessary to take advantage of better weapons and armor, there is a decent amount of management available for making money and influencing, hidden quests, major quests with side quests, bounties, etc.. A hacking system is being implemented sometime soon, as well as a pregnancy/wife feature. A functioning wiki ( a little out of date) is also helpful, and frequent updates are always a plus.

TL;DR Masters of Raana is a very good game that is shapping up to be an excellent one, with extensive sandbox features, excellent writing, compelling characters, and many hours of gameplay. It's worth your time.

Good game for the genre. CoC-likes tend to play a certain way. While Masters of Raana plays in a sandbox, it isn't abstracted. Its layout is graphical and you move on a map of each area before proceeding to the next.

The tutorial story is interesting enough. I never tried to go my own way or to reject the main story. I do wonder what I'm missing out on, but my impression is probably not much. The main storyline (noted by the quest "Masters of Raana") is incomplete, but I never made it far enough in the game to make that a problem.

Masters of Raana isn't without its problems.

I'd like to bring some criticism to the battle system. In MoR you fight with near present day conventional firearms. It seems like there's no real incentive to diverge from simply using the most expensive rifle. There are differences between the weapons available but I only noticed a slight accuracy loss in exchange for what was a great boost of damage.

The combat events are certainly well designed - in the back end. Graphically, it's weak with awkward animations and lower quality character drawings than you'd expect given the neat look to the rest of the game.

In my experience combat mostly revolved around equipping my hired hands with expensive armor so they could draw fire while my character mowed down the enemy. There is some strategy that I'd like to see emphasized. You are rewarded for looking up the enemy units you're up against and focus firing the biggest threats first. More of that please - and a greater variety of weapons and minions as well.

Also- hopefully some events where you are rewarded for carrying a melee weapon? Perhaps Duels should be a thing in Ikaanos? Just a thought.

I'll wrap it up and come to my biggest issue.

This is a slaving game but I never achieved more than one slave which seemingly everyone gets. I could spend money on another but the way I see it I already had one so I played for a few weeks to explore the content with the slave.

... and it was disappointing. I tried to be nice from the get go. The slave hated me. I knew that approach wouldn't be great, but I was interested in playing the story so I thought I wouldn't be a complete asshole if I could advance slaving content without much thought being put into it.

That was a failure. I reloaded my save and tried another approach. Not full asshole - I also thought that wouldn't work out well. Instead I tried to play more in character as a disciplinarian. Whatever initial progress made in the relationship would get set back by random event failures.

That's about when I dropped the game. I'll try the game again when it's done and given how it's been developed so far it likely deserves it's 4-star rating. The dev is clearly trying and it already has a solid foundation. It just needs content expansion and some parts ironed out.

In short the game is amazing.

The world building is extremely well done as is all of the side content. The game features various factions, districts, tribes, and religions all of which have interesting lore and backstories that keep you interested in learning more.

The game allows you to really create your own character and their are many ways to do that and all routes are to some extent viable you can play a character who can't fight but is extremely intelligent and progress through the games combat system using mercenaries and slaves or just uses his intellect/charisma to avoid combat all together and earns money working a job at the academy and training slaves in his free time. The character building aspect allows for a lot of replayabiliy and as more systems get implemented new playstyles are becoming more and more viable.

As for sexual content it definitely exist in the game and what is in the game is really great but overall I would say the main draw of the game to myself atleast is the world building. Their is even an option to disable NSFW pictures which an option like that on a "porn game" is a testament to its quality.

I thoroughly recommend this game to everyone who enjoys RPG's and just good games overall really. The game however is still in early access and does have a few typos, glitches, and bugs as well as some WIP systems, quest, and slaves but the developer for the game is really great and is constantly updating the game with significant amounts of content.

Was fiddly to get into it at first, there was a lot of clicking and I didn't understand what I'm doing. Almost ragequit a couple times because all the low level punk enemies still obliterated my character's party every time.

But holy crap, is this game worth getting into!!! It's a monumental slaver RPG with its own fantastic lore and instead of "random pics + stats" type of girls, you get fleshed out unique named NPCs that you enslave. The actual interactions with each girl have unique text and personality.

The sex aspect of this game is vastly more erotic than I expected, since I thought it's a simple HTML game. Far from that, this is an awesome "live your life how you want to" RPG style of game.

Yeah it's bare bones in many areas, combat especially is very underwhelming right now, a placeholder instead of a real combat system. But over time I warmed up to it and it got sorta satisfying in its own right to fight different enemies. Almost all of which are also unique and named BTW, once you kill them they are gone from the game forever. Also, there is no hand-holding, endgame enemies are often available for you to engage right from the start, it's up to you to get wise on who you fight and who you give a wide berth to. Forces you to learn the culture and setting better as you go, and it's delicious.

The attention to detail and scope of Raana is so exciting that I keep coming back to it and waiting impatiently for every small update. Highly recommended, even though at first it might seem clicky and bland, stick with it, this is a gaming experience not to be missed especially if you're into BDSM themes and "life simulation".

Masters of Raana is one of the better HTML games on the site. It places you in the shoes of a newcomer to the city of Ikaanos, a high-tech, yet culturally regressed metropolis filled with slaves, bandits, factions, and all sorts of history and lore.

I'm very impressed by the world creation. While it's not unskippable or aggressively in your face, Raana is chock full of lore and depth. You can learn about the history of Ikaanos, it's relations with the surrounding areas, and influential factions. I hope the game will have more non-slave citizens and factions to interact with at some point in the future, as it should make the city and world feel much larger.

The mechanics of the game are deep as well. It feels very much like fallout with all the skills and attributes of the various characters. Unfortunately, lots of the character growth is based off of repetitive training events instead of anything more engaging. That said, I can definitely see a point in the future where different types of characters can experience Raana in very different ways, which seems nice.

I think the most development focus has been spent on the slave girls and sex system, which is unsurprising considering where I'm writing this review. There's around a dozen slave girls at the moment, all with different models, backstories, and goals. You can befriend them or destroy them, depending on your preferences. As to the sex system, there's a variety of different ways to sexually seduce, dominate or humiliate the girls in order to obtain their obedience. The bondage system seems very deep as well, though convincing your girls to experience it takes some effort.

The combat system is pretty thin unfortunately. There's a turn-based combat system, but without tactical decision making you basically just click on enemies and dice rolling takes place backstage. The game would benefit greatly from character abilities or a battle map for tactical positioning. Character abilities could also help non-combat builds do something productive in combat.

The game isn't perfect, but it really feels like it has the scaffold for success. In general, most of the problems I have with the game feel like they'll be solved from just adding more of what the game already has or giving attention to areas that seems like they haven't received much. I could definitely see truly spectacular things coming out of Raana in the future.

I didn't know that HTML games can be this good. The writing is awesome and something new to experience. The various quest and gameplay feels like an open world RPG. There's still a ton of placeholder art rn (at least in my gameplay). This game is some complex mechanics that feel like it was made by a professional game development team.

I love this game. Huge props to the dev and his team.

A very promising management / RPG game that could go from good, to amazing, with just a few minor changes.

Starting with the good:

The story, lore, and general dialogue is more than satisfactory. I never once cringed as I read through the game, which tends to happen a lot when it comes to adult games.

The RPG mechanics are solid with dozens of choices in character creation, and meaningful skills and upgrades later on.

While the art is not perfect (some faces are slightly uncanny), it's far above average.

The bad: I had two hurdles with the game.

Number one, probably the biggest issue, is the world map. The locations are jumbled with basically no visual guides, to a point where I get lost after going through 3 districts and it becomes a frustrating puzzle game to navigate my way back home.

My suggestion is to have one large map you can drag with your mouse, instead of a dozen small locations interconnected in a confusing labyrinth of clicks. Of course, if it's possible from a technical side. If not, the map interface should have a lot more clarity, because right now I lose a large amount of enjoyment from the game any time I have to travel .

The second, and smaller issue, was the combat. I can't help but compare it to my favorite game on this site, Portals of Phereon, which is aiming for a similar style of turn based top-down battle system. Whereas PoP's combat feels fast, responsive and a joy to pilot, MoR is clunky and feels like a placeholder with practically no room for tactics. I think a purely text based combat system would be much better for this game, because any time I enter combat, I feel the quality of the game drops from a 9/10 to a 2/10.

Overall I think this game is one of the most promising projects on this site that's heading in the right direction, with regular updates and a developer who clearly cares. Once it receives some polish and quality of life features, I will definitely visit it again.

Despite its early stage and incomplete quests, this feels like a full game; one with the body of a manager and the heart of a RPG.

Your character is build in-game, so organically that I've found myself with wildly different MCs than originally planned. The girls are so distinctive in looks and personality, that I've found myself being a kind mentor to one and a sadistic monster to another.

The slow build of skills and relationships gets tiresome at times, especially on repeated playthroughs, but this can be bypass through cheats, which don't require mods.

And there is so much to do. Don't be surprised if you found out you should've gone to bed 3h ago, but got lost on the world of Raana.

Speaking of which, the worldbuilding is solid. There is a lingering feeling that this world existed long before you found yourself into it and still will long after you're gone. A world with people, customs and places that feel distintictivly alien, but never odd or incoherent.

Finally, the dev reads all posts, answers most and even invited members to chat on discord about more promising suggestions. Deserving of a pledge on Subscribestar if you can afford it or, at least, a like and a nice review if you can't.

I'm really enjoying this game. Lots of content already even though there's lots more to be added or completed. It reminds me of management games like brothels but it's close to classic RPG and adventure games with lots skill use. In my current playthrough, I haven't bought a single slave but have two females living with the MC after rescuing them from bad situations.

Finally some serious CRPG on this site.
Absolutely well-written story. Beautiful character models. Highly customizable MC with background selection, attributes and skill point allocation. The outcome of each quest depends on your stats and decisions.
This is a very serious and ambitious RPG project that's much much more than a sexual game for a quick fap. This is the type of games that I'd still play even without the erotic content. Definitely looking forward to more of this.

This game is a great life simulator with regular updates and honestly deserves more attention.

Also one of the few games that doesn't have forced scenes or quests, so it's a true RPG where you can build a character in whatever image you want.

Gameplay is a bit repetitive sometimes, but plenty of quests you can do in between and the gameplay isn't that grindy regardless.

Ok everyone, I am here to explain why I enjoy this game. Although the combat is not to my liking and we have all discussed this with the Dev, he is constantly trying to make improvements on the game, enjoys talking to his community about the game and what to add/fix/improve, and he humbles himself a lot with understanding how his community enjoys things. I know a lot of people are having issues with the first Kymanto fight but it is fairly simple to understand if you do one thing, create a new character, put your points into range combat, and your passives in range combat. Do the fury missions for money and get you either a rifle or assault rifle. Now there is a mercenary that is fairly cheap named Aiko. HIre her and recruit the two free slaves. You can train them and they are fairly good with combat. You can either give them a pistol or train them up with their range combat. They make early fights very easy and that is how I was able to do Kymanto first fight with no issues. But if you have any questions or want to give your opinion better on the game please come join Grim's discord for Master of Raana, you won't regret it, and you won't regret giving the game another try.

It looks good at first, but the further I go the worse it becomes.
As other reviews have said, it is very poorly balanced. After a few hours, I just said fck it and cheated my stats to have a somewhat funner experience. Also, yes, if you grind enough and understand the combat system you can definitely manage without cheating, but the fact the I played 20 minutes and I quickly get into a main mission that seems undoable without grinding 5 hours first is poor balance.
Now that my stats were high enough to survive and earn money, I could turn properly to what I first came for - the slave management part. Which is just as confusing and grindy as the rest of the game. Also, doesn't help that so many images are still "WIP".

This is a fantastic game in so many ways. Advanced and deep interactions that make the slaves feel alive and unique, a rich world with so much stuff to do (I didn't even buy my first slave until day 40) and a lore-history that spurs your imagination.

Fighting is hard until you get the hang of it. Some people here think it's too hard but my advice is, DO NOT go out alone unless you're targeting single enemies. You'll be killing it with a good armor, a rifle and two medium mercenaries.

Sex scenes are nicely written and renders are very pleasant to look at.

Keep up the good work! I'll be following this already nicely polished gem. Can't wait for the final product!

The game has huge potential but as of 0.7.8.1 the slave training and stats training mechanics are absolutely horrible

Pros:
-In depth sex activity although with somewhat limited renders for now
-Limited yet nice looking renders on your slaves
-The world is pretty fleshed out and consistent to its world building
-A personal one but the BDSM and submission related dialogue made me absolutely coom

Cons:
-Training for your and your slaves stats is completely RNG A.K.A "imma savescum this shit until the stat number goes up"
-Slaves have a lot of stat yet i dont see too much implementation on said stats beside small flavour text
-Combat is lackluster, not to mention the limited number of armaments to use

these are the things i can think of on the top of my head. overall like i said, this game has a huge potential and i do reccomend you to at least try it if you liked the theme of slavery games

Well realized post-apocalyptic setting, interesting and expansive skill system, very nice renders and generally consistent art style and mostly excellent writing .

What could be improved:
Combat is a main part of the game but is not very tactical nor impactful and could be improved (this is something thousands of games do well, just steal take inspiration from an RPG that has it figured out).
World map could be touched up and could use a minimap (good source of inspiration could be Sunless Sea and a lot of city-setting D&D campaign maps).

Great game! Loving the art and gameplay. Please update and you have my support! 10/10. I hope you guys finish this game soon and cant wait for the next updates. The story is amazing, Love the dice rolls combat, especially the customization for the girls dresses!

I think this game is a Hidden Gem. Am imaginative story around challenging game play. It does take some effort and repeated attempts to quickly progress through the game but careful attention adds to the imaginative experience. This game highly rewards the effort you put into it. Very much looking forward to discovering all the wonderful treasures of RAANA!

The game has a great framework and I love the game

I think the combat part needs to be adjusted, and skills have very little effect on hit rate and damage.

And the accuracy of melee weapons is low. I have increased my melle combat skill to 60, which is still very low.

anyway I hope this game will be completed , it's a great game.

Thank you for your efforts

Sure seems like a ton of work went into this. Really impressive. Many locations, many quests to go on, and tons of things to do at your house with and without slaves.

There are also many things that could be improved. For instance, when you turn off the sound under settings, you would think that the sounds would be turned off. Most sounds are, but not all.
The grind factor is way up there as well but others have mentioned that a lot and I kinda like games with lots of grind.. My experience w the dexterity stat, for example, was that I worked on it twice a day for 10-15 days for a 2 point bump. I tried a few different things, but it still seemed almost pointless to try to raise any of my stats at all.

The game is setup so the MC has a distinct disadvantage in most everything. When you click on Raiders for example, you don't know how many there are, what weapons they have or anything and you can't back out of it, so basically it's a suicide mission every time which means you get robbed as well. Of course if you hire the mercenaries to go with you, you will win sometimes but it doesn't really seem worth it.

Again, I got my stats up some, in the low 40's I think, but still had to shoot at 1 enemy a good 10 times. Almost all shots missed by 1 inch. I noticed the enemy didn't miss. Since ammo is sooo expensive, it's not worth fighting, especially since you can't aim in this game.

My slave that I 'rescued' was mad at me the whole time and didn't do much. So it seems the only punishment is to tie them up to the rack and spank them or slap them, which didn't do much in my case. Again, I'm probably just playing it wrong.... I ended up just leaving her tied up on it hoping she would go ahead and die but she never did.

Seems like the main thing this game needs, other than the sound fixed, is just some tweaking of settings to get the balance of power to a more equal footing. It's such a great job otherwise. Just seems like after a while you just kind of give up. Also, you have to play the game a bit before you can even change the sound or other settings, I think. Sorta weird.

Anyway....just a couple thoughts.... I'm going to try again and I'll come back and edit this if/when some of this changes....or I figure it out.....