VN - RPGM - Completed - Monster Girl 1,000 [v19.3.1] [TwistedScarlett]

It's becoming increasingly common in the dev industry that as standards grow, so does scope. A dev that increases their scope and their quality end up finding out that they've added so much work for themselves that they have to cut, but more often, they either burn themselves out or drag the game out.

MG1k is a rather large game in scope (dang if I wasn't expecting a literal 1000 girls, though 100 is still insane, funny enough I believe Alice jokes about it too), but instead of just being a game that really aims to have a literal 1000 girls, it actually has an even higher ambition of being a game with a full story and game component.

I think the biggest surprise for me was that the combat was actually relatively well balanced and fun instead of being a complete slog/trivial/ or a waste of time. It balances with the philosophy of everything being so crazy that nothing is, and it actually works. It's tough.

As far as story goes, I think it sets the tone early for being an often silly and tropey game at times, especially towards the end, but it is enjoyable. It plays out about exactly the way you would expect, but you enjoy every second of it. It's simple, but effective, and good.

I think the lewds were a slightly weaker part due to how copy and paste the scenes became towards the end, especially for a monster girl game, where a lot of games in this genre will have some of the weirder things that this game lacks. Some of the scenes clearly show more effort/quality than others, where the more minor characters get images that don't even show the heads. It sometimes felt like a sperm donor simulator.

Still though, it's hard to undersell how large of an achievement it is to make a fully fledged game, with visuals, gameplay, and a story, especially a game of this size, even having an entire coliseum/battle challenge section that you would expect from a classic RPG.
Especially with how frequent the releases are and how large each update has been, the game shows a lot of love.
But the biggest accomplishment here is that it is complete. Many games of this size burn out, or drag out, or are cut short, but the dev keeps delievering and keeps delivering.
Therefore this game joins the shortlist of fully fledged h games that are really good, and are also complete.

What I wonder now, is what is next for the dev? How do they follow up on such a large work? Go even bigger? Do smaller set pieces for a bit? Make a sequel? Do a new project?
Whatever it is, I will be watching it with great interest.

This is one of the top ero games that I have every played. They storytelling and world building was incredible, so much so that they could stand on their own with out the sex scenes. Combat never really felt stale. There were some sections that were a bit grindy but could have been passed with less grinding that I did.

It's a finished western monster girl harem game with lots of CG, a combat system that's actually playable, and a decent story to accompany it. Don't expect a lot of hardcore tags but what is there is hot enough at least.

My first rating wasn´t fair
Game is really good
Story is great even after the main story is over you (me) can´t stop playing till you have everything
Art is nice my only negativ point is no animated H scenes

This along with Zombie Retreat are easily the peak of NSFW RPGM games. Excellent story and characters, strong writing, interesting world, high quality art, and a tonne of content (55h to full clear on my current save). The only (very minor) complaint is that there are a lot of in game systems and currencies so if you plan to pick up and put down the game, you may need to relearn how to do a lot of stuff. I also appreciate how Scarlett went out of their way to make optional challenging boss fights for the people who enjoy min-maxing their characters to test against. Highly recommend to anyone who enjoys RPGM games

According to Scarlett on the discord, next patch (v18) is the final story patch adding over 10% more game length. Afterwards epilogue patches will be released to finish off all the side stories and talk about what happens to the characters after the world is saved, so lots more content on the way.

Absolutely great game and I have nothing but praise for it. The music is excellent (would love a ost list), artwork and characters all look unique especially the backgrounds which really set the tone for the game. Storywise it nails it from the underlying themes it sets up and as long as you're paying attention you'll spot them. All in all give it a shot if you haven't played before and theres still more content to come in the form of the last episode and epilogue which im highly looking forward to.

Easily one of the best games on this site in terms of actual gameplay and visuals. A well crafted story, world, and cast that make it a genuine pleasure to play. I look forward to its completion and full release.

I really love this game. So much so that this will probably be my only review. However some specific scenes make me like the game a lot less. All of the main characters are very unique and interesting, and there's so much variety with the monster girls that I wonder if the title isn't hyperbole. There's catgirls, elves, slimes, lemurgirls, mousegirls, squirrelgirls, reindeergirls, dolls, ghosts, dolls that get posessed by said ghosts, and even an automaton. There's SO much variety that I almost worry that I worry the good ones will run out at some point, but luckily not anytime soon. The overarching story is much more compelling than I expected from an H-game, sadly somewhat too much so in my opinion. I was so enthralled in the game's bright and cheery atmosphere that some points in the story really threw me off. All throughout the game there's basically zero consequences, visually or gameplay wise. "Dying" in this game is really just a fleeting suggestion, since after every failure you and your party are essentially revived as if nothing happened because you can always: 1. Retry the battle, only losing the consumables you spent, 2. Simply leave the fight and return to the world map, or 3. Just reload a save, which you should have plenty of since the game lets you save basically whenever and wherever. There's not even any blood in the game, defeated monsters go translucent and fade into the floor... until you're a few hours in, completing a certain advancement contract. At the end of , the Another scene I wasn't a fan of was The former scene was hardly the worst gore I've seen, but these scenes just feel so out of place that they made me uncomfortable when I was surprised by them. The latter scene killed my interest so much that I just wasn't horny anymore and quit the game after the party went back to the house. Again, they're nowhere near the worst things I've ever seen, so maybe I'm overreacting, but the juxtaposition between these very grim scenes and the colorful fun-loving world everywhere else in the game felt like a slap in the face.

Even without the sex, this game is amazing! TwistedScarlett60 puts one hell of a lot of effort into their games, and this one is no exception. I'd wager this is the biggest undertaking they've tackled yet, and though the game isn't finished, it's well on it's way, and it gets regular updates.

DISCLAIMERS:

• Review written and updated for version v.18.0.0 at time of writing.
• As of writing, I am a supporter for the project.
• As is usual with my reviews, they are awfully lengthy.

This is something I am very well aware of but I feel it would be a disservice to compress a complex opinion like a review into a short handful of sentences, and to combat this, two things: First, I'll be sectioning the different categories into spoilers for the sake of readability only - and second…

The TL;DR upfront:
Man, how I managed to sleep on reviewing this game, let alone supporting it, despite me playing it since version v.8.0.0 is beyond me. If you wish to tell me that RPG-Maker games are not worth the time, I’d like you to reconsider when checking out this one. This game has been polished to a mirror shine when it comes to characters, their development and overall story writing - packed into a nice combat-focused core with only some smaller issues along the way. If the story manages to grip you, you are in for a solid 20-28 hours worth of playtime as of writing this. Despite minor issues I had along the way, any score other than 5/5 I could not honestly give in good concience, and I’ve been playing adult games a lot.

We need to start on the basics, with the story and writing:

Well, since I’ve mentioned them, we might as well start talking about said characters:

But story and characters are for nerds, and here we need to talk about the gameplay, since, you know, that is what you interact with 90% of the time after all:

But now for the part everyone is here for and that some will probably have skipped to, the lewds on display:

But with all good things come with some bad sides, and we’ll have to talk about some Problems, otherwise this would just be me fanboying over the game for however much time you give me. Note: this section seems so bloated mainly because I need to describe certain problems in closer detail, the game is still in active development and balancing is always an iffy act to get right - you can't please everyone, and after having experienced the game so goddamn often and having figured out most of the quirks it throws at you, there is some merit in these statements for veterans, but for anyone who just goes in the first time or has little experience in turn based combat, these "Problems" might not even exist. Therefore, take the following with a grain of salt.


Well, this is it, the end... here just some closing words to finish this little novel off:
Well, what is there to say for a game with a completion time of 20+ hours? It is nuts - simple as that. The story concluded in just the right way and left very few unanswered questions, not to mention the post game is being developed on. Not just that, but the writing and storybeats hit so well, I replay the game occasionally, not for any type of choice that you could or could not make, but simply to keep experiencing such qualiy that is quite the rarity nowadays. Like I said at the TL;DR, what problems I have mentioned are only smaller niggles that plunk off a very solid core gameplay loop - that is, if you can allow yourself to get immersed in writing and characters, which is where I put the focus on. Like I said at the start of the review, if I were to rate this piece anything other than 5/5, it would not feel justifyable, regardless of what smaller nitpicks I could take from this.

For those that actually read through to the end: Thank you for your time. This must've been a chore to read through and if you feel like you learned nothing from this review, I'm sorry to have wasted your time.
EDIT: After revisiting the game a couple more times, altered some smaller parts, edited out typos.
EDIT2: Adjusted the Review for the newest version, altered sections to be more reflective of the current state.

This is going to be a piss poor review and I apologize for that. I'm mostly writing to remind myself that I played at v15.0.3.

This game is... fine. I'd say my experience was more so along the lines of 2-3 stars. Why? Well, it just took forever to get to anything worth jerking to (side characters with like 1 scene aren't that compelling) and I ended up spending like an hour just cheating to get decent content. Does that mean there is little content? No. Does that mean there is bad content? No. I just didn't find content compelling enough without cheating. The two main girls have a decent number of scenes (oral, vag, anal, etc), but most others are limited to 1. However, you don't seem to be able to get the main two girls pregnant (what an odd choice lmao, kink lock your two best characters...).

At least the game does have pregnancy. At least the game does have good art. At least the game does have a number of nice models.... but so does a deviant art page. This game DOES have a compelling story, and it DOES have relatively interesting gameplay to boot, it's just I wasn't (and rarely am) looking for this in an H game. However, since many H games try and fail miserably at these things, I've been more favorable with my rating. Honestly, props to the dev for those achievements, it's just that even in story mode (auto-win RPGM-style fights) this game takes a LONG TIME to get GOOD content to fap to (even with cheats, imo). And then, once you get it, there's really not enough GOOD content worth doing so with (again, imo, I'm sure someone else will shit talk me for this, but that was my experience).

Great game, great story, great everything and it also get's updated often. This really deserves more attention. I give me respect for twisted scarlet as he constantly works on this game, listens to his community and makes such great lore without even demanding money in return.

I'm generally a fan of TwistedScarlett's work, and Monster Girl 1,000 has, so far at least, not disappointed. The characters, story, and gameplay are engaging enough that I'd quite happily play through all of the currently available content and be left wanting more even if there wasn't any sex; but thankfully, there very much is.

I generally prefer RenPY to RPG-maker, but this feels like a game that is capitalising very well on RPG-maker's strengths in combat presentation, management, and mechanics. Outside of the (excellent) combat segments, scenes and dialogue are smooth, the game window is nice and large, there's a skip button that goes quite quickly if needed, and wandering around is limited to only specific, nicely contained areas. No endless screen transitions here! The only engine-related drawback I've found is the lack of a rollback, so I have to go to the log if I accidentally skip some dialogue. The game is even fairly forgiving about saving, allowing saving almost everywhere outside of an active battle.

Mechanics are largely RPG-standard, but with enough added flavour and complexity to keep it fresh and interesting. The "blessing" system feels nice and ties in well with the story and characters, and while I might wish that elemental vulnerabilities played slightly more of a role than they do, there's plenty of meaningful decisions to make both during equipping your party and during combat, and most battles have story-specific flavour and unique challenges to deal with. I'm actually finding myself looking forward to playing through it again on a harder difficulty... I reckon I've learned enough to make it a fun challenge.

Character-wise, to some degree everyone has TwistedScarlett's typical cheerful and enthusiastic disposition, but even so, every character is quite well fleshed out with solid backstory, plenty of unique characteristics, quite enjoyable cheerful art, and moments of glimpsing the real girl beneath the facade. Most characters have arcs of lengths proportional to how important they are to the story, connect to the overall plot in some way, and often will have unexpected significance. I absolutely adore the character designs, too. A wonderful variety of people and personality types, and presented in a gorgeous and colourful 2D art style.

Also the world is extremely interesting; much more than a standard fantasy setting. There's depth and interest.

The sex scenes are quite satisfying (to me) as well; a good arc and a good balance between action and erotic conversations, and a shockingly consistent commitment to making the sex meaningful and part of the world. There's plenty of porn-logic here, but less so than almost every other harem game I can recall playing, while still ending up fully in the center of harem porn. My only complaint is that so far, at least, the fetishes available have been fairly tame; mostly oral and vaginal, with a few options for anal. There's a heavy focus on story and relationships to drive the eroticism of the scenes rather than more hardcore fetishes, which is lovely and extremely well done, and more effective for me than most material this cheerful and wholesome. All that said though... goodness would I love to have the option to experience TwistedScarlett's take on bestiality, for example.

Overall, I absolutely love this game, and I'm so, so looking forward to it being completed so I can play the whole thing.

0/10 could pop the cherry with the stepsis. there's no option for abstinence either so it cannot be done later in the story. but i suppose the art style and the ui are good.
i actually had some expectations from this game but i am slightly disappointed and too uninterested to continue playing.

I love the art, and it's well written. Gameplay is also well thought out, if you care.

Considering they're monster girls I wish the artist put more time into differentiating the characters during the sex scenes. Weird nipples, weird pussies, etc. Occasionally you'll get a monster girl who actually has a unique look but for the most part the genitals/titties are just palette swaps and not super unique.

I couldn't do any better, and it's still a great game, but I think at this point it's gone on long enough unless they start mixing up the art a bit more. It's only motivating to see the same handful of palette swapped sex scene so many times.

Not much to say here...

Good RPG
Amazing hot girls
And the story top too

If you like monster girls and a good story then this is for you.

Don't let RPGM fool you this is one of the few good ones.
It even let's you completely skip the RPG elements if they aren't something you like.

Solid 5/5 for me. Would definitely recommend.

Amazing game, I don't usually find a game I enjoy the story of that is also good jerk off material but this is an exception.
The story is addicting and the characters have personalities that make this game amazing, all the scenes are well illustrated and keep the quality through the whole game.
Loved every second of it from the story to the sex scenes
Easily in my top list of games.

To give context to this review, I'll mention that I absolutely fucking hate RPGMaker games. I just don't like em. The need to grind out battles and walk around while playing a porn game just doesn't suit me.

This game, however, is a gem. It not only offers a story-mode for those who feel the same way I do, but also doesn't require you to walk around or do any other monotonous chores to get scenes.

Speaking of scenes, they're absolutely wonderful, IF you're okay with not having animation and instead beautifully drawn, varied CG's. The characters are interesting and attractive enough that, for me personally, you don't even really need animation. Again, to each their own, and you might have a different opinion regarding this.

To sum it up, if you're looking for a non-grindy, VN style, no-beating-around-the-bush harem building game, give this a shot. You're probably going to love it.

TwistedScarlet, I must say that I have really enjoyed this whole game so far and that is saying something as I am not usually an RPGmaker game person. Great art, and a great story. Good game mechanics as well. Looking forward to more and a sub is on the way. Thanks a bunch for all the effort.

Most of the time, like many others, I'm just on this site to find some decent fap material and be on my way. If the gameplay and story is also entertaining, it's just a bonus.

But damnit, every now and then I stumble across a game where the gameplay and story are just as quality as the H scenes.

The scenes are abundant and the artwork is cute. With the wide array of characters, there's bound to be a little something for everyone. My only complaints here is that the scenes are pretty short. A handful of dialogue with about 3-4 different images to go along with it. Maybe as a side project the dev can revisit scenes and add more images or dialogue to help flesh them out. It gets a little jarring when the dialogue is describing a scene but the image doesn't quite match, but not so much as to knock off a star.

The gameplay you'll either love or hate depending on how you feel about RPGM combat. Usually I'm in the middle about it, I don't particularly care for it but I'm not turned off from it either. But in this case, there's enough interesting systems in the backend that keep the combat interesting. If you play on the higher difficulty you truly do need to think about strong/weak elements and phys/magic damage. But there's also a "story only" mode that turns on auto battle and you can largely avoid the combat if you choose.

But the story I feel is really what sets this apart from a lot of the other H games on the site. The world itself just feels alive and like a character in and of itself. Note at the time of this review, I'm still very early in the game itself. No spoilers, but I've just returned to Mistral Village after leaving for the first time in the first ~10 minutes of the game. But even in the relatively short amount of time I've played the game, the story is just genuinely interesting and has me reading every line of dialogue where in most games I just skip through it to get to the next scene.
Every character truly does have their own unique personalities and reasons for doing what it is they do. They all have the common trait of MC-philia and are ready to hop on your dick the moment they come on screen, but even that is grounded in a way because of the story. The characters truly do shine in the downtime before and after scenes. There have already been more than a couple times that tugged right at the heartstrings and made me sit back to decompress for a moment.
Oh, and there's a fair amount of humor too. The one contract quest at the beach town with the crabs nearly had me in stitches.

TL;DR - Game good. Art cute. Scenes a little short but abundant. Story interesting.