RPGM - Completed - My Live-in Girlfriend is a Tormentor [v1.0] [Circle Studio]

This is a nice game which is complete, has fairly good pacing, has hard fetishes, and an interesting story and character development. Best of all, it's 100% femdom. You can expect a VN-like RPG with no gameplay beyond raising the heroine's "kind" or "cold" affinities with choice of household chore or shop to visit, where RPG Maker's sprites are used as visual aids for a linear story where many brief scenes are optional.

The main heroine Sakura's concept is based off the motif of a miko, like a shrine maiden who is emotionally removed from the world in order to cultivate her special sensitivities as a torturer. By falling in love with you, she'll discover new joy and hope in her life, and consequently supposedly risk losing her savant ability to read others perfectly as a neutral "observer". There's also her estranged friend Enka, the other heroine who she has a complicated history with.

The dev stated outright that this game is kind of a test and their future works will be more full-fledged, but still, I'll point out some of these flaws too: there's no backlog or auto (RPG Maker has plugins that can implement these features), it takes far too long to replay the game with different choices due to excessive affinity-raising events and no real skip feature (also fixable with a plugin, I believe), and it's nearly impossible to get the alternate ending (I'm one of the many people who spent an hour replaying the game, but still couldn't manage to see it! I think there's some hidden flag I've missed).

IMO, there's also the flaw that there isn't enough art; you don't have a clear depiction of Sakura's personality changes because most "events" like them kissing don't have any sprite art, just brief sprite movements and bubbles with a <3 in them to indicate what's happening. Many of the sex scenes have art at the level of "cut-ins" which just display a simple body part, or are otherwise drawn simplistically; almost no art actually shows a physical interaction between two humans, it's often stuff like a CG of one person and another person's sprite overlaid onto that CG. Even if the next game takes longer or is shorter, I think the ratio of art to story needs to raised.

But overall, this is an impressive offering for fans of serious femdom, and the scripting of the game experience was excellently done. The writing was satisfying overall, too.

Thought this was pretty good

My main gripe is I would have liked a choice between the Brunette and the Blonde but unfortuneately the Blonde is a side character but the content there is still satisfactory.

Going through the days can be a bit of chore whilst MC completes his but it's not exccessive

Decent art and translation makes it worth a look

Ok, I would have given this a higher rating but for two main areas knocking it down. I think the art in the sex scenes is alright, I think the writing and story are not bad, I like the femdom (though a bit too Japanese for my taste, too much feet and overstimulation relative to other BDSM). Still, overall, not bad.

The first main gripe is the UI and mechanics. I really don't like these Japanese RPG engine games unless there is a really great interesting adventure RPG in the game. For a simple linear erotic story with no combat, items, or stats I don't see any reason why it shouldn't just be a visual novel. It massively lacks quality of life: No way to auto skip through already seen scenes, very few opportunities to save or load during scenes, dialogue endlessly interrupted by punctuation speech bubbles over the character's heads, being forces to watch slow scripted walks of characters across the screen. Much of this is simple time wasting.

The second gripe builds on this time wasting. Throughout the game you often have choices that will tell you that the main mistress character grows 'kinder' or 'colder'. As far as I can tell this 'stat' affects almost nothing and may not even be recorded. You choose a harsher or gentler scene with these choices, but there are no follow on consequences - nothing you do in the game alters any dialgue, locks or unlocks any options, or changes the ending at all (unclear what really changes the ending, piano events?). This is a skelatal illusion of choice and wasted a couple of hours of my life replaying it to see how things would differ if I leant the other way!

So yeah, those two elements really marred the experience. It's reached the stage now that I will be very wary of games using this engine/style.

I already commented the same message but might as well rate it to boost the game's visibility.

I like the game, I really do, I'm just not very satisfied with the whole "your options lock you into specific ending" thing. I want to explore every part of it so having to min-max stuffs to see both endings is very annoying.
Plus what if I LIKE polishing shoes AND I don't want it to be just cold, hard feelings between us two? Just because I polish shoes why would she get colder like it gives me headache cuz doing my comfort activity GETS me the opposite result of what I want.

Haizzz but honestly good game, just some suggestions if the author ever wanna change the points/ending system. Just let the player pick the ending no need to make it a whole game-length thing, the choices in her interactions weren't too different anyway I don't see why I gotta do mental math to get endings or purposefully avoid stuffs/waste time grinding for ending.

Barely Recommended – 5.5/10

Summary

• Length: 3-4 Hours
• Experience: Chose your path with a domme
• Can be wholesome

Story: 3/5
The only redeeming part imo, pretty decent.

Gameplay: 2/5
Chose the same tasks to do over and over to increase either kindness or coldness on which the path depends

Originality: 2/5
Not original nor the best in the genre

Scenes: 2/5
not very hot, but different atlease

Environments & Undertone: 2.5/5


Amount of Content: 2/5
Not a lot to do

Characters: 4/5
I liked the characters

Performance & TL: 5/5
<3

A short, but good Femdom Game. I like the unquestionable dominance of the main protagonist over the MC. But she do it with love. The story is somewhat of bittersweet. i like it. It should be more of this kind exists @ F95

Incredible game! Best one on the femdom genre I have played for a VERY long time.

The story is incredible (if a bit generic, but the ending is insane)
The scenes are all great... I feel the female lead is one of the most realistic, loving, yet twisted dommes ever.

Play it, if you like femdom games. Seriously. This game shits on ToT and Domina, by making them seem like low effort generic shit.

I like this game, has a nice story and decisions that change the attitude of the girl. The few game mechanics or interactions are tighly related to how you serve your girlfriend and how she perceives you as a slave (For example, choose between cleaning her shoes or make the laundry, among other tasks) Has much dialogue so it's a bit slow in that regard, but it's worth it I think.
The CGs I find them OK, I specially like the high heels and the fact that has shoe related content.