Unity - Completed - MazeCave [2024-10-27] [Tokyo Dairy]

The game is pretty fun if you like management games, I guess. However, it is also way too easy, and you can beat the game with 1 week left over.
The art is pretty cute while questionable sometimes. There also isn't really any variety in the animations. It's like 90% tentacles, which becomes stale quickly.
Sometimes the game would randomly pause and it got annoying. I think they should add keybinds for speeding up or slowing down the game.
Not a bad experience though.

I played this through. The gameplay is soporific, as you merely buy and place things and then stuff happens and it takes forever to progress. The storyline might as well be non-existence. The ending CGs are poor. Overall, the graphics for sexual content are not of a good standard. It lacks gameplay, it lacks interesting adult content, I found it an uninspiring waste of my time.

It's pretty good. As others have said the gameplay is pretty straight forward and it's admittedly quite short but the animations are smooth and appealing if you're into that sort of thing. Would have loved to see more content but what the game does have is good enough to merit four stars.

you ever play cookie clicker? imagine if cookie clicker was about abducting women (hiring? i honestly can't tell) and sodomizing them with tentacles. that's this game.

kinda falls on its face with the progression, though. after, like, day four i never had to worry about money again. weirdly, the game is also stingy with level 1 tech points but showers you in level 2-4 points like a van-wielding pervert handing out candy. it's hard to stay invested in an idle game when it's not dangling the next upgrade just out of reach, unfortunately.

speaking of upgrades, gating 2x and 5x gamespeed behind the tech tree is bad design for something that seems intended to be completed in a night, even if you're on a clock -- win in 35 days or don't. would've been nice to know about on day 1 instead of day 15ish, but it's hardly a challenge anyhow.

oh, and the art is okay. it's decent for pixel art, but doesn't have the autistic level of craftsmanship that i've somehow come to expect from pixel art, and the CGs are, sadly, censored. womp womp.

subjectivity aside -- the core concept of MazeCave is solid, but it's flawed enough to make a difficult recommendation. the biggest points in its favor are how short it is and the fact that it is complete.

The game is good, but a missed opportunity. I really like the idea, but it's just too simple. It's also pretty hot, but too short, and could have been much better with some more content.

The gameplay loop is basically, you invite girls to your "dungeon", first make them less alert, then throw them into traps, produce crystals and tech, then finally when they lose their sanity or catch "addiction", you drain their personality and throw them onto "butt-wall". After 35 days you either win or lose, depending on did you get the last technology or not. I found it grindy at first, then I realized you don't actually have to pick up the crystals - they get added automatically after a while. That made the game a lot easier. You also get automations as the game progresses, like moving girls depending on their status.

But the main problem is, the victory is binary. There's no point optimizing the "process". It doesn't matter how many crystals or tech you have, as long as you have "enough". The layout of the dungeon also doesn't matter - it makes no difference where the rooms are. Animations are ok, but yes, there should have been cum animations. So, good idea, but too simple.

Arbitrary time limit with hard game over if failed? Yup! Thanks, I hate it.
Overall, no animation variety and no girl variety. CGs are rare. No gallery. Also pretty grindy with shit like x5 speed locked behind tech wall. In conclusion, pretty disappointing, because all the tags I like are there.

It's not bad, but it's nothing special and it has several problems. The animations aren't enough to jerk off to, the in-game economy isn't well balanced, you can have more than enough money in a few days and the points to learn skills are obtained in a rather uneven way. You'll have to wait for the CGI that appears every few days to see something really sexy, but at first it's a bad idea to fast forward the time because there's a 35-day limit to unlock the last skill.
Overall it's not that bad, but it's far from perfect, the one thing that has disappointed me is the animations, which I expected to be better.

Its a coherent easy to play game with clear objectives and fun mechanics. The game is not very story focused but what remains is serviceable. I could see how a lack of automation early on might drive someone away, however its very easy to win with only a small setup before getting those unlocks.

Review of Version 1.0

You are a previously defeated Demon Lord/King coming back from defeat to build a maze in your favorite mountain. But beware! A powerful wizard could crush your attempt before it even started.

Cons
-The sound mixing of cumming is unbearable.
-No cum animations.
-The hitboxes to collect magic is way to small if you zoom out. And you want to zoom out because this game gets big (management wise) pretty fast.
-The balance of getting magic and getting research points are way off. You sit on a mountain of magic (gold) but need to wait to get the reseach points. Makes the "every 5 day you need to pay rent" mechanic easy.
-No visual pregnancy
-No variation in the girls. Level 2 or 3 adventurers look like lvl 1 and even those are just four body types: small girl with big or small tits or big girl with small or big tits.
-In the facehugger room arent any facehugger just a repeated animation.
-After 3 dialogues I stopped reading them. Got an game over. Dont know why and wont try again.

Pros:
+Non-Generic Music. I liked the simple loop of the intro. The rest is fitting background noise.
+Thank god you can unlock 5x speed or I would fall asleep. The gameplay loop is so boring in comparison to other side-management games.
+Pixel art of the backgrounds and pieces are good.

The pixel animation is wasted. You dont want to zoom in because except for the decent loops there is no cumming and the cum sound effect will discourage you. And its ONLY tentacles. Gameplay wise its boring to play since you dont have any "breaks" where you could just look and enjoy your maze.

So, at first glance it looks like it's gonna be something like MBM. Which it is, if MBM wasn't 2.0.16 and was more like v0.0.16.

So, let's start off with the good:

• Progression system is decently thought out
• Game actually does not overstay its welcome, took about an hour to complete, with MBM I could lose 7 hours instantly.
• The purple skin demon girl is qt.

And now the... not so good.

• The system, while decent, is just too small. Even the basic rooms and building, cap out at about ten. You only really ever have two "trap" rooms and it never really changes from there. Compare to MBM which there's a grand total of 8 monsters, and the slaves which I believe are 7 races and 7 specialty? You don't really see much variety in the adventurers you trap, either.
• Very few CGs, no gallery. I've seen idle clickers on this site with more rewards, and that's not the kind of thing you want to be compared to as a management game.
• Transition between manual management, which is an utter slog, and automated management, is practically instant and a quarter of the way through money is no longer an issue. For the first... 30 or so minutes it's actual work, then the latter 20 are pretty much watching the numbers go up. And it's a clear divide because you get upgrades that instantly manage things at the speed of light for you.
• And now for my main gripe; the dark content. No, not your usual bitching that it exists, but it feels like it doesn't. Yeah you've got some of the ones people shy away from, like Personality Excretion, but because there is no actual completion animation you can just leave the adventurer there and she'll keep screaming she doesn't want to become a vegetable for all eternity. I don't even like Fan no Hitori's lovechild but he at least carried it to term and even dressed it up to hell and back. This feels like you're given two pages out of that book then told the rest wasn't made. The entire game is like this. The "swallowing" trap room is a joke. The Slime Room could have been so much more if you unlock "how many holes does a human have?" in your creativity circuit. I think the wall of asses (why just asses as well...?) is completely silent.
• And now that's out of the way, I can complain about the animation. It's very basic, even for pixel standards. There's no completion/downtime animation for ANYTHING. Adventurers get the low hp/"death" symbol but don't actually flop or die. These little things go a very long way, but the game has none of them.

Honestly a few things that would have made this game much more and stand out far better would have been taking what was a good idea (the progression and overall game system), and taking it to the drawing board, and growing it from a tree sprout into a massive fuckin' oak. Have the game build off of a tunnel through the mountain. Small "abduct" minigame for the first segment of the game that becomes automated later. Change the "rest rooms" to at first standard chain rooms and then later "flesh" style rooms, change awareness to "resistance/willpower", make the game actually hold water to draw people in, and of course, more than 2 major trap rooms for 90% of the playtime. But, too late for that now I suppose.

Regardless of it all, it feels like this was supposed to be influenced by MBM and other management games, combo'd with a love letter to Fan no Hitori, but the creator either gave up, wanted to sell a half baked game, or did not realize just how much actually goes into things. Play it if you want to burn an hour for 3 cgs total and looking at cute eldritch horror girl, but otherwise, just pick another well-storied management game; it'll last you longer.

This game could have been something great, but due to a lack of variety it becomes painfully average.
Nothing much happens as you level up. No new lines of dialogue, almost no scenes, no ending rewards. Nothing.

It's a 'Numbers goes up' kind of game. Initially a slow start but eventually the ball gets rolling. A LOT of micromanagement which makes it a bit of a grind at the beginning but after that it sort of just flops(?)

To be honest there isn't much to go on about this. Repeated animations with not much variety, simple but boring gameplay, and just relatively a chore. It gets boring after a while even after you complete it.

Somehow this games feels complete and incomplete at the same time. Which is how I would describe it.

Gameplay time: 3 hours

Pros:
- Good pixel animation
- Easy to understand

Cons:
- Really grindy, had to play like 3 times to get the ending without CE
- Lack of animatios, just 1 animation per room and thats it
- No variations on the girls, big tits or small tits
- Short and too direct, gets boring
- No gallery to see the CG

Overall: 2.5

Nope.This game is horrible.

I know some people might come here thinking Monster Black Market or Crow's brothel game, but this game fails at both.

-Grindy, to the point of it being tedious. It took me forever to figure out how to even generate the 'hearts,' and I wasn't even sure if I did it right when I did. I just slap a bunch of yo-yo devour rooms down when I got them.

-Lack of variety. All girls look basically alike. The scenes are the same for each room for the girls, no difference of pixels. There isn't even that much scenes also from the unlocks. Maybe, just maybe ten total? The CG scenes wasn't that great either.

-Music. Horrible. It just sounded like farts, I am not even joking, when you hear the tune it sounds like pooping.

-Gameplay. Boring, again see above, very grindy.

-Story. Story? Oh, nothing grand here.

-Animations. Meh, maybe a few good scenes, but that isn't saying much considering the lack of quantity for given scenes.

Overall this is a flop.

I really wanted to like this more, but solely as a lewd game it feels painfully unsatisfying once you finally reach the end.

What you see in the screenshots is what you get; a base builder slash tycoon sort of game with hentai styled trappings. The assistant girl only really has the one idle animation seen on the main image. Pretty much every "CG" is in the screenshots. The only additional sexual content is with the randomly generated girls in each of the rooms. The general theming is okay, but each room only has a singular animation no matter what.

Gameplay wise this will probably run you about two to three hours (you can save) with absolutely zero replay value and no branching paths, choices, etc. It's also quite easy once you understand what the game wants from you, and if you don't 'get it' by about day seven to ten of the game, just reset and try again. I "beat" the game by unlocking the final option at day 31 and probably didn't play very well, but you definitely wouldn't want to get to the pre-defined cutoff point and realize you can't make it.

The game just needed more. More unique characters. More story. More animations. More things to buy for variety. If a sequel ever got made it'd really benefit from leaning more into the you versus increasingly powerful adventurers concept. Maybe levels or smaller deadlines revolving around building specific rooms for different characters? Having a sort of A or B option on how you wish to deal with a character? Something like that.

Summary? Meh. If the images appeal and you want to lazily play a one-and-done game with some lewd elements, I'd say go for it. Otherwise? It probably isn't worth your time.

played this game cause i really liked the designs of the characters and their pixel art models. i quite enjoyed the first half of the game but it kinda gets boring later on, i think the game is pretty basic and the adventurer designs are all kinda bland/very little variation, but me likey likey tentacles and sensory deprivation

i wish there were more cg scenes, theres only 6 and... i wont lie it became a lot darker than i am personally comfortable with but maybe others would like it.
the first two scenes were pretty fun and what i was wanting more of as it went on. but there is only one ending and i feel betrayed. i mean i wasnt expecting wholesome... but man...

anyways im not knocking my rating down for the sexual content, i just think the game itself is just aight (and kinda buggy)
i hope in the future more content/variation gets added, i think they should have utilized the high detail pixel animations more

An all around good albeit kind short management game. Not super easy but not hard either. Fantastic art as well.

It's a in game deadline of 35 days and by day 42 you've seen all the evens and art, so you play through the game in a hour or two depending on how good you are. If you are good, however, the game becomes a bit boring towards the end where everything is automated and you just sit there waiting for the next event to happen. Especially day 35 - 42 where there's nothing left to challenge you or do. Though putting in on max speed do help with that.

It's also really buggy. No game breaking bugs but I've gotten plenty of visual bugs. So remember to safe early and often.

There is no gallery mode, which is a bit annoying.


TL;DR, if you like at the preview pics, like management games and got 2 hours to kill, go for it! Beware of visual bugs.