Unity - Pure Onyx [v0.12] [Eromancer]

It's... not good.

First things first, this game has been review bombed a bit, because of the dev's history, and the amount his team makes being disproportionate to the amount of content produced... Which is what I am NOT going to consider. I am acknowledging that the game gets regular updates; it's not abandoned, and that's all you need to know.

That out of the way... the game is not good. It is not offensively bad either, but it lacks a lot of things that would make it interesting to play, save for the lewd animations, which are very good.

Some of the things the game lacks are not critical given the genre, like story. But, again, given the genre, some issues are really worrisome, especially considering how much time has been spent on the development. For example, itemization is pretty shoddy. Progression is nil. The way gallery is powered by basically random item drops is just bizarre. The core combat is not some skill-based masterpiece, it's bland, and in my view very easy mechanically. Bosses are just dull damage sponges. Now, none of these issues can't be rectified. However, if Onyx gets a fix today, it means the devis fixing fundamental design flaws some 5(five) years into development; it's not a good look. Alternatively you don't fix these issues at all, which is even worse because they make the game feel like a shoddy beta—which it is.

Basically, it has gorgeous kinky animations, great models, and a refreshing cel-shaded look. But it also has absolutely uninspired gameplay that at times feels nothing more than a temporary stub, and not the real thing. There is no story to distract us from shortcomings of gameplay either. For a title that wants to position itself as gameplay-rich, that's absolutely not a good look.

Many people feel salty because the dev abandoned "Malice and the Machine", but I don't really care, here the devs have added a large ammount of very well animated very messed up H-scenes, the music is again fantastic, currently it's just unfinished demo levels, you kill enemies to unlock the gallery and that's it, but it doesn't matter, the H-scenes alone carry this game to success. 5/5

Graphics in the game for 5
Animations for 4
Optimization for 3-4. Although I have a gaming laptop, but even with a minimum of graphics, it lags.
Game - 2 stars
Terrible controls, combat mechanics. Enemies are 10 times stronger than you. There are cheats here and you can quickly end the game. I went through it in 5 minutes and watched all the scenes, animations in the game. If the developer continues to make his game without improving it, I think it will turn into garbage

You know you messed up a game when parasite in city, a 2D game, with a smaller budget and better scenes, not to mention what its about makes sense, has a preg content(not ending), which it didn't even have to be there, but there it is anyways, and it is better for it. A BETTER side scroller, you're not stuck to one part of the map all time w/ it, no censors(if you get the patch) no need for translation as long as it was readable(it was and still is), is better than your 3DIMENSIONAL game, on a higher budget, coming out during the times of avenger's assemble: endgame/infinity war, or better yet a lot of block buster games, with a LOT more staff(maybe not that much, but don't matter), and over FOUR years in the making.
couldn't be me.
Edit: as the times change: may or may not update the rating. use this feedback as your source of fuel to make your game better.

best animations ive seen on this page so far. But the content is not existing right now. Only few animations. Only few enemy types. This game still needs a long long time. Come back in a few years. Not really worth right now. So in conclusion, great work so far but very very little content.

Review actual as of April 2023

TLDR: A solid base for a good game, with lots of potential to grow.

I love the fact that it has the right foundation - fundamentally a good game with sex/nudity added on top of it, which elevates it above the usual "good for a fap or two" adult/porn titles, and actually lets me judge the game mechanics favourably!

The beat-'em-up mechanics are solid, albeit shallow as of right now. Would love to see a deeper move-set, combos.
Balance needs some work, as while opponents have attacks that do damage both upwards and downwards, the MC can only attack in 2 dimensions. Stunlocking is also an issue right now.
Game features a simple progression system which grants higher stats as you level up, as well as a inventory system, which provide yet another avenue for stat increases, but unfortunately the various items (knuckles, clothing) are not visually distinct, and all use the same basic model/texture.

The sex scenes are varied, and well animated.

The setting is right up my alley. Retro cyber-punk? Sign me up, fam!

Love the synth-industrial soundtrack, but would like to see more tracks.
There is no voice-over, which is outright criminal. The protagonist needs to have groans and moans for both fighting and sex scenes. Funny quips and other voice lines would be an excellent addition as well!

Graphically the game looks great!
Models have sufficient poly count, and textures are good enough. Animations are smooth and i did not notice any jank.
Performance is also top notch: 400-700FPS on max graphics at 4K on a decent gaming PC with the one caveat - post processing needs to be turned off. Some of the shaders used here are poorly programmed. (Will try to mess around with reshade later to make my own set-up).

The game supports both xbox and DS4/5 natively right out of the box, which is absolutely amazing! Even AAA studios fail to properly support DS5 a lot of times! Here it just works, no workarounds/emulation needed!

Bottom line - if the game were to come out to steam EA, i'd buy it for €30.
But i do have an issue with Patreon and other subscription-based services when it comes to software/game development, as time and time again i see that it does not provide an incentive to deliver a finished product, but instead the project ends up lingering in development hell. Therefore i'd be down for a one-time purchase to add the game to my library, but i refuse to "support" the developer with a Patreon subscription.

despite the effort in animations and development that survives...
it will never get to what was malise and machine, because it clearly lacks soul, perhaps lore or perhaps because the mechanics shown with malise and machine still not even a game has managed to emulate them.

[Update] after researching the freshest development news I note that there may actually be potential,
if there are more characters in the roster selection it could become the worthy successor to Final Fuck,
not to mention that a 1v1 mode could be implemented [offline]
basically a scrolling story mode and a mode that looks more like mortal kombat than street fighter by design.

This game is rough for something in development for 5 years. It has great scenes and the framework for an intense beat-em-up, but the poor game play holds it back.

Art

This game is gorgeous. The enemy designs are great to look at, their

H-Content

The scenes are inventive, taking advantage of each foe's quirks. For example, One Vioreaper will try to carry and fuck you, only to plummet to the ground since you're too heavy. Midget thugs may shove chain enemies out of the way to get a turn , then bows for their audience after they plaster you in cum. You also keep up to two layers of bukkake on your head and hips, adding to Onyx's appeal. If only her chest also had a layer, eg when the runt hoses here with cum. It's a shame that the exhaustion system prevents you from entering an endless fuck fest, but I'm guessing that's to avoid soft locks. I'd also like clothing to be adjustable in the gallery and that female like Fem cops could be grabbed by other enemies.

Combat

Unfortunately the secondary draw of the game is it's weakest aspect which is the main reason for my 3 star rating.

• There's only two combos, one of which is two attacks long and neither has cancels.
• Running is garbage as it only boosts your horizontal speed and the few attacks where you would theoretically need speed like blade bunny' s slash auto target you anyway.
• Low attacks are finicky which makes hitting knocked down enemies annoying. Its doesn't eve change your hit box so you can get shot by a vioreaper or punched mid slide.
• That makes the special attack and the final punch combo less viable. They could've been decent for CC but when you're flanked (aka the time that CC would be useful) you're stun-locked anyway.

Mechanics
Many of the non-combat elements leave me scratching my head. It's like they slapped in stuff becaue it sounded cool rather than because it amplifies the gameplay.

• There's a durability system but only two foes utilize it, in both cases only targeting Onyx's pants. This combined with the liner upgrade system makes the limited inventory pointless as you only need one pair of extra pants and you can find more fairly quickly.
• The drops are generous, to the point where you can easily fill your inventory with first aid kits. It's so bad that most of the money I gained was from them instead of trash loot.
• Stats outside of HP and Stamina are useless, so clothes are more of a suggestion than requirement.
• Stamina is only useful for running, which runs out in a second or two even with cat ears doubling your reserves. Even so you can bunny hop out of running to move at the same pace while conserving stamina.

There's also the performance. My system is not the best admittedly, but 56-40 fps on low settings with drops down to 12 even in the gallery is ridiculous. I suspect it's due to the models far in the background as the spider cave has no drops even up to wave 40.

Despite my score, I still think this game has a lot of potential. However the slow rate of development combined with the dev's refusal to leave their abusive relationship with Patreon gives me doubts.

28.02.2023 release is promising right now but content is a bit barebones considering this game is in development for 5 years! It offers 1 hour or so playtime right now, but you will definitely enjoy it I think. It is a 2.5D beat'em up game with controls that are bit hard but you will get used to it in 10 minutes. Animations are solid with sound and so on but there are not too many unfortunately. I got to wave 45 and that's it i think, won't play this game again without a big update. It is worth checking out.

Absolutely phenomenal visuals and animations. The H scenes in quality, length, and content are the best in this genre of games. The combat and movement animations and other visual elements of the game are top notch as well. Gameplay is pretty average and content overall is lacking. The enemies aren't half bad, they look great, function pretty well and present a reasonable challenge (mostly). However the mechanics for the player are woefully lacking. Hit detection on the vertical axis is really poor, large enemies are easily clipped through (both beneficial and detrimental at times), animation lock is the big threat to the player, and everything to do with sprinting is poorly responsive (it's difficult to start and stop sprint, really needs a dedicated button/key).

The extremely low ratings for the game are based off of the rate of progress and people's expectations, but I'm not going to rate a game still being worked on by those subjective standards. When the game is finished it's fine to be critical of what wasn't delivered, until then I'm rating it on what it has and most of it is extremely high quality with a moderate amount of content. My previous complaints are ultimately minor.

I had never heard of the Developer before and thought one person made it which would’ve been more impressive but doesn´t change the fact that the Game is terrible.

Not only was this game developed by a team but also was in development for 4 Years.
I think going away from the standard VN or RPG Games and making a
Beat 'em up game is pretty ballsy, but this just shows what you can do all wrong in a Beat em´up game.

The Controls suck.
Animations are lame.
Characters have no voices.
The Game gets boring really quickly.
The drawings are ok.

It kinda proves the point of many other reviews that this just feels like another cash grab and it feels like the Devs didn´t even try to make this even acceptable and that's why it doesn´t deserve more than 1/5 imo.

Two balls, two stars.

Life is for the living. The dead can only but dream. Anyways. I pirated this gaming software thanks to f95zone.to which is a forum wher-... oh I am on f95zone yes. Sorry.

Doesn't matter how I got my hands on this, okay, so this is a game. This is like belongs to a genre called "Beat 'Em Up". In real life, it's YOU yes YOU gamer who gets beat up but in gaming, you can be the one beating them up. This is good. Yes. There are many good games in this genre.

But who are we kidding? We know very well what ya'll end up doing in these games. Keyboard spam and that is okay. If you can rhythm your fap motion and finger motion on keyboard right you DO have a shot at this.

GRAPHICS: Shit. Some drawing ok. Anime artist. Otaku developer draw some stuff. Looks like he did draw plenty cartoon/anime/hentai/yuri before. Tentacle is there? Not sure. I have only but tasted the latest alpha beta gamma theta.

You gets 1/5.

Gameplay: Rape! Okay. So there is lag between inputs, but as long as your input is proper you can get off.

You gets 0.5/5.

Sound: There is sound of the world, sound of the fight, music rock n roll cyberpunk, there is sound of literally the universe itself but... sadly no sound of your characters moans, grunts or you know basically no AH aHN~! AHHHH! That is not nice. Probably is sex kuchi kuchi.. splash .. squash.

You gets 0.5/5.

Conclusion: As a recently fired game journalist I would give it 2/5. This does not impress me. If this impress you, good. This review is not IGN review. I wasn't paid to review this. You like or you NOT like. Okay? OKAY!? Okay.

Thank you for your time!

Despite this game being in development for almost 4 years, I just found out about it now.

It has amazing art, 2D CGs are really fantastic. Animations flow well, girls are very hot and the sex scenes are great to watch.

Gameplay is interesting, but gets old very quickly. In this regard, it's a very bad beat 'em up. You have few moves possible and you'll probably end up using just 2 of them all the time since most moves are usually useless.

It would be easily a 5-star game if it was a new one. Dev wouldn't have had much time to polish the gameplay and to test new stuff, so it would be quite excusable. However, being almost 4 years old makes no sense.

I'd be excited for further releases but considering how much content we currently have, I'll likely just look at it again in 4 years time.

Welcome to the 90s, where retro style, music in this genre, the picture will inspire you, and the game will be a lot of fun and you will play it for hours
NOT ABOUT THIS GAME
I liked the concept and idea at the beginning of the release, it was interesting what would happen next, and then worse
Every update makes the game worse
Combat controls are terrible
Graphics - good
PC game optimization is poor
She lags, although I have a good laptop
Enemies are typical bots
Animations - there are interesting animations and moments when enemies grab you
But the biggest disadvantage of the game is expectation and reality.
Waiting - wow what a game, download it and it will be fun
Reality is such shitty control in battle, everything lags, played for 20 minutes and deleted it
Bottom line: a typical 80-90s style mini-fighting game, there is a beautiful picture but the game optimization is terrible

Simple idea, but an exaggerated development time, incremental small updates, and an unrealistic roadmap makes this project unbearable to support. What started off as Streets of Rage with rape, has now turned into a politically correct H-Game where; every sex act is now strictly consensual... somehow... Never mind they're trying to rearrange your face with knuckles and chains, but the protagonist is completely fine fucking guys trying to kill her.

I get it... but consensual or not, there has not been any valid studies that link "violence" in video games to actual violent behavior, much less sexual. At least leave the original concept/animations in the options menu, instead of bending over backwards towards the politically correct crowd. Do they even pay for H-games in the first place?

So these virtuous saints are so stoic to watch a woman being spit roasted, fucked by animals and insects, but the moment she's being forced to have sex for killing off a few dozen gang-banger and cops... it's suddenly too real?

Not only did the developer spend almost a year undoing every introduction animation before sex (to make it consensual), but the amount of work needed for this simple H-game is completely overblown for what it is. All you need is 3-4 stages, at most 7-10 minutes per stage, a build up of plot for the protagonist/antagonist, and a payoff in the final stage. Instead, it's been the same beta phase for the past year(s), none of the items/equipment/progression system to actually save and carry over, and there's still no actual story/plot. Not even a character bio...

When you actually see what's going on the developer's patreon, you see all this concept art, all these huge levels planned, characters, yet none of them seem like realistic goals for a game of this scope. Unless the developer is purposely holding back another build of the game that's half-way done, there is no way this game will ever be finished at the pace it's been going.

This is an H-game, yet the developers are trying to push this game like a Double Dragon remake.

[Review edited on January 26th, 2024]
Pure Onyx is not recommended at the moment due to its severe repetitiveness and lack of content. It has its challenges, of course, but people should be able to master this game rather quickly.

After a few sessions, I replayed it from the beginning only to collect all the H-scenes since you can ace the game with the cheats provided in the console commands.

For people who want more content, I suggest not playing this game immediately. Pure Onyx has at least one or two animations monthly at best, while the rest is focused on bug fixing and more bug fixing each update drops, and any new enemies or stages implemented in the game may take a couple of months before they can be released as a fully-fledged content for the game. As an estimate, it took Pure Onyx four and a half (roughly) years to implement clothing damage and removable equipment (per January 2023 Update).

One thing that can be praised from this game is that its performance on lower ends (at least with 8GB RAM and 4GB VRAM) is something that I did not expect. It's smooth sailing with a little hiccup here and there and the art made by XXOOM, one of the buff lady BDSM artists out there. The visuals looked nice and the characters are enticing enough, but as far as positive points go? Only these that are... seem reasonable. Clunky controls and a slower pace don't make the game any more fun than it is: A beat 'em up, Cyberpunk-themed game with scene collecting at the forefront.

SFX is pretty minimal, so I don't know if I can even give my thoughts on it.

The art direction is nice, it fits the theme in some simplistic way

Do note that this was advertised as "Beat 'Em Up RPG" and yet after 6+ years in development, none of it was present.

Hours played:
Totally newbie:
More or less, 25 minutes from the very beginning (no scenes at all).

Have some scenes already:
More or less five to ten minutes in the Slums level to get the majority of the scenes you want to see

Rough estimate(s):
Impatient for content: Maybe 5 years from now?
Including unmentioned Development Hell: Maybe never?

Well... Hello!

Great animations. Nice level designs for a side-scroller fighting game. Totally EPIC lewd animations and scenes. A very big potential.

So you just discovered this game, right? Yeah... I was saying all this stuff too when i first discovered this gem.

But let me tell you this;

Spoiler: Truth.

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Remember kids. Greed is a sin. It makes you a corrupt person. A loser at the end.

I started playing this a month ago, I thought this game looks nice and decent and is in early development, and could've give this a 3-4 star rating. However when I heard this game was in development for +4 years, I can see the frustration, disappointment, hatred surrounding this game.

You play as Onyx fighting against crime gangs, corrupt police officers and some other grotesque things that are trying to rape her and survive in the city of Babylon.

The gameplay is like streets of rage, double dragon, and any arcade beat em up games. However the combat mechanics, and everything surrounding it is very messy:
-Sometimes the hit detection won't connect
-Enemies won't give you a chance to attack back when you are knocked down
-Lack of combo moves
-Hard time attacking the smaller enemies
-Inventory and equipped items are irrelevant (except healing items)
-No struggle animation when grabbed (April 2022 version).
-Lack of progression/skills when picking up items or leveling up.

With all of these things, you can die a lot, or easily exploit the enemy AI by just kicking or running attack moves.

The Hentai scenes contain regular rape, monster sex, some unborn cock vore (Don't look it up, if you dare), insect sex, futaXFemale (Only background) and some lesbian sex (favorite). They are nice and well animated. There is also a gallery to obtain the hentai gallery and they're easily dropped by enemies, which means you don't need to get grappled to see the scenes.

And That's it I told you everything that this game has to offer. There is only 3-ish stages, they all play the same, but also have 10 waves of enemies, "a" Boss fight. No story, your just in the map and start the stage.

+4 years in development for a less than 1 hour game? Is it worth paying $5 (itch.io)? Or Supporting them on Patreon or SubscribeStar?

First time playing this game. I was really impressed with the initial artwork and 15 mins of the game.

I'm amazed that after 15 mins of gameplay that I saw everything this has to offer and it's been in develop for 4+ years. Definitely shameful given the size of the team.

I hope no one decides to back these guys.

Review for the update of the [2022-05-22].

Nothing to say that hasn't already been said both in the rate and in the thread:

+ The only remarkable thing about this game is its animations and its artistic section. Of course, Onyx is a pretty hot girl.

- However, writing all the negative aspects is pointless, so I will just limit myself to mentioning that the developers in question continue to scam their audience, with mediocre updates and little content (content that should have been released months ago, they barely do, among other examples).

I strongly recommend that:
· Do not pay for this game.
· See for yourself the scam, there are many evidences about this.
· Try it, but nothing more.