so, as someone who always tried to avoid died, i have a trouble to progress the story.
turns out you need a few times to died and rewind to get some skill, flag, item and other thing. but be careful cause exp and item mostly gone when you rewind.
the art is really good... well, some of thing are weird but the color is still really good. some event will change based on your progress with different girl (cat girl and the academic girl?) but because of rewind thing just progress with your guts.
The game starts off slow. I ended up playing a for a bit, but gave up after a few hours of making very little progress. However I came back after a couple months, and payed more attention to things, ended up playing this pretty much none stop. I don't stop till I'd done everything, which took a couple weeks at least. Lots of gameplay here. Multiple deaths, which I tried avoiding the first time I played.
Piece of advice don't avoid death, it's fine, in fact it's required to continue progressing, it's part of the story.
The premise as far as I can tell is unique, while also being classic RPG in style, as in you start off weak and useless, and you actually have to work and grind until you become a God.
I didn't care for it at first, but after actually giving it a proper chance it became one of my favorites.
After grinding for 30 game days you have to fight a chicken then win or lose you have to start the entire game over from scratch. ???
What?
....ok....someone helped me with part....you have to lose and win several different times, each time basically starting over thus getting stronger...
However....I'm not sure how I'm supposed to know that I need to kill myself and start over just to progress in this game.
Need logs to upgrade the tent...There was a suggestion to kill the mc and start over to acquire those....Or some have had luck cheating but those options didn't work for me.
Graphics are nice.....weird but nice.
Great colors
Great backgrounds
The game is fairly pointless and doesn't really give you a sense of direction.
Not much sexual content if you want that.
Extremely slow game maturity and not much to show for four and a half years 'development'.
Just found a button to commit suicide!
Maybe that will make the game better, lol
This game needs a little more story to grind, but once you get the hang of it it's a fun game.
Wasn't a fan of starting over but as I got used to it as being part of how you advance it isn't so bad. I doubt those looking for a purely porn game are going like it that much. Reason 1 for those 1 star reviews. But those of us who enjoy a good RPG then this game has potential.
It does need more story though so I have to subtract a star..
2010 gacha levels of grind for absolutely 0 content. The characters look nice but there is nothing to do the game, might aswell rebrand and tag "no sexual content"
I dont know how you can call something an H-game after 5 years of development and no sex scenes.
I was interested because of the unique character looks but , they don´t look good in the game just boring.
The sex scenes are boring too.
Music/Sound there are none.
The personalitys very shallow of every character.
The story is very bad and terrible written, the dialogue is bad too.
The sandbox gameplay is very bad and just boring and there are too many things happening on screen if you look at the inventory, or stats and stuff like that.
Obviously no games are perfect, for me early access games that get 5 starts are rare, but they are games which have not only offered good content, but also great gameplay, Rewind is one such game.
If I had to describe it I would say its a roguelike RPG, where death is an essential part to advancing the game. The adult content Is high quality, and the mechanics of the game are actually very fun and interesting, I have put many hours into this game already.
PRO's
The character advancement system is complex yet approachable, you can spend an entire life pursuing a single objective, then move on to the next and reap the benefits.
The adult content is really good, the character art style looks really cute.
There always seems to be at least one more thing that I can do, for an early access game it certainly has a lot more content than most.
There are dungeons and lots of items, and so many things to unlock.
It is just a fun game in my opinion, I would play this if it wasn't an adult game at all. It is more fun than 90% of indie games.
CON's
Event tracking would be very helpful, for a game of this magnitude it would be very nice if I could at least keep track of the things I have or haven't seen, I don't need hints of how to unlock them necessarily, but it would help to know if I have missed anything, or if I am simply wasting time on a task that I have already maxed out.
Advancement maximums would also be helpful, just like events, it would be useful to understand when I have reach the maximum advancement for a title or any other thing so that I can know when I should stop working on it, a good example is the temple, is there anything to be gained by getting my temple level over 9?
There is a cooking system, but no concrete benefit to any of the dishes, it would be nice if they had lasting effects for the day so that cooking a specific dish actually did something. What's the point of eating a bag of dicks if the only thing that it does is make it less poisonous?
More items/merchants would be good, there is only 1 place to sell things that I have found, and I have explored all areas that I know of, and once you get all of the pieces of equipment the only thing you can do is rewind with them again so you can have a set for each character, most of the items are either too weak to be used in the late game, or so powerful that you would always put them on any character that you have.
I wish that I could revisit dungeons that I have passed on through the dungeon screen, it appears that you should be able to go to a dungeon at any time from it, but you cannot, and you must find it again if you have skipped it, kind of just adds to the grind in a game that already does have a lot of grind.
Really the cons are just a wishlist, I think this game is really good for what it is, for 3 years of work I can see that it has made steady progress, there is plenty of room to grow still. I would like to see more progress in some of the scenes for sure, but really if I had to ask for one thing it would be something like a gallery so that you can keep track of what you are missing. I am pretty sure I have unlocked all there is to see, but without knowing for sure I just keep playing, which is likely to cause burnout and disinterest over time and make me less likely to play future updates. I likely will keep following this game to see how it progresses, but as this is the first update I have played that will depend on how substantive the updates are.
Story = interesting and original for these types of games, and a new spin on a cliche in manhua/manhwa/manga, interesting world, interesting characters, and interesting premise, the content itself is not that much but what is there is fun to watch.
Gameplay = grind done right to get all the scenes you don't need to grind as much as most sandboxes, but if you want to max out your titles and stuff the grind can improve in many areas, it seems to me that the dev is preparing the base before continuing the story and such and that is actually good but it would be nice having a cheat menu to like "make temple/guild exp *10" or even less "*5" would be more than enough to diminish the grind right now but if the titles or rewards are to be given being lvl 10 it needs more missions/tasks or a cheat menu like I said, also it would be good having some choice on suicide like "make and drink highly concentrated poison" to get the title as my characters chances of actually being poisod are low right now, save with the potion thing, take the restriction out so that you can drink potions with full health as after the 3 rd incarnation I was so overpowered that I didn't even get damaged.
extra = love seeing the interactions between the characters and the stories forming, my main caveats are as said above.
The game isn't insanely grindy as the other reviews seem to suggest (Though I just might not have gottten to the grindy part yet) however that doesn't mean the game is very good.
Most of the gameplay is just clicking things to farm out stats and maybe if you're lucky you might get a few lines of dialogue which is not great because the gameplay is 99.90% of the game, There are 4-6 very short h scenes in this h game, you can't even fuck the main heroine in a H-game.
The protagonist is about the same as every other h game protagonist with his 4th wall breaks, neutron star density and a blank personality. The only real redeeming quality of this game is some of the art. If you're wondering if you should play this, you should probably wait a few more years.
Such an amazing high quality game with furry/monster girls I love it! I really hope for more animations because for now is like 2-3? if I remember well I finished playing for now because no more content. I really love the small Neko girl and I hope that soon I will can fuck her and that I will get an animated footjob scene :3, Of course, I also have hope for more content with other girls + I also have hope for incest.
lots and lots of grind.
missing Voyeurism tag (so if you are not into looking at others having sex and you are just left there blue balled) give it a skip.
game dont have any sex involving mc (well i didnt found any).
there is a footjob and blowjob scene ( what i heard) but I played for a good 2h and did not get anything (i skiped the text, its a porn game not a book)
Someone was seriously screwed up in the head to come up this this one.
The characters are creepy and the story is randomly pieced together.
If that doesn't turn you off, then perhaps God who looks like a demon, calling you a worm might do that for good. That and it's difficult and a grindfest.
It's a Visual Novel done by someone with some pretty serious issues I'd say. Stay away from this one. It seems like it's purposely meant to fuck with you psychologically. Very difficult to fap to.
I enjoy the art of this game, and the concept of it. It's pretty and right up my isekai alley. Also a lover of incest.
That said.
This game is grindy and takes ages to get anywhere. I'd rather have a 5 minute good experience than a 20 hour grindathon for 5 minutes worth of good content.
Could have been fun if it wasn't for the pointless grinding... It's already annoying enough to do it the first time but you have to do it all over when you die.
I'm sorry the the renders are really not worth that kind of investment... at all.
2/5
Truly enjoyed this game so far. Great story and game mechanics. Cant wait for more. The artwork is pretty good. The only complaint is having to wait for more content as i can't get enough. Keep up the great work.
okay before playing through once i was hesitant about the character design and the story that it would offer but I think the creator is headed in a great direction with the story elements slowly falling into place, the whole mystery behind the world of magic we've stepped into and the incredulous adventure that awaits, its exhilarating to say the least, I love the otome love concept that they introduced for the mimi tribe, and if a better time frame could be added it would become a story about growing up and everything, also when the map enlarges this shit'll be magnificent to say the least. looking forward to future content.
This is an updated review. I first played and reviewed this game in the [v0.2.5.2] version where I gave it a score of 3/5. Now a lot has changed and I'm bumping it up to 4/5 for reasons explained below.
Genre: Sandbox stat grinder combat RPG with a lot of mechanics and story being unlocked by dying.
The story is a comedy isekai.
The lewds are at the time of writing this almost exclusively of the voyeur/spying variety.
Early access warning: This game is still very much in an early development phase and there's a lot to add/fix before it's a complete game worth sinking hours into. It's more than a demo, but not by a lot.
Positives:
+ Super unique concept & game design. It's unlike anything I've tried so far.
What I really like about it is how it poses some really interesting questions to the player, like: How much time will you spend on stat grinding and improving your gear if you know that you'll most likely fail and die at some point in the future, meaning it will then all be lost?
You can't skip the stat grind entirely because then any enemy you encounter will just kill you. And sure, if you grind a lot some of it will carry over as "titles" making the next run way less grindy, but it's also possible to go way overboard with it, grinding a lot more than necessary, creating a lot of wasted time investment when you inevitably bite the dust.
Dev is truly an evil mastermind. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
The mechanics really reward planning and using your brain. At least in theory. There's still some really weird shit to fix/balance but there's a solid gameplay concept being presented here that I can really see becoming something great when there's more polish and content. This stuff really tickles my brain.
Neutral:
+/- Decent/good writing with some annoying elements. The inteactions between the main characters are often humorous and well written.
At times the author goes a bit too much off the rails with 4th wall breaks and references to modern things like Kpop and weeb culture though, so it's a bit of a mixed bag. The dev self-insert as Kermit was super cringy and unbearingly not funny. Just remove please, or at the very least tune it wayyy the fuck down.
+/- Scripted death. I'm unsure how I feel about this. I get that in order for this game to work, the player needs to die at some point. The best solution so far is the scripted deaths in the succubus dungeon where it makes sense from a story perspective and also lets the player figure out another way to solve the problem. I just don't know if this is the best solution, and with the stat grind being a bit over-the-top it always feels like such a slap in the face to die and start over. I don't have a solution for how to make this work, I just know that it needs to, at some point.
+/- I expected more lewds. Playing through the game takes several hours and there's not even 1 lewd scene per hour (not counting the nightly peep-scenes). Dev's next priority should definitely be on adding some more hot stuff. Right now it almost feels like an afterthought.
Negatives:
- Too grindy/repetitive. I think Dev needs to think long and hard about what kind of time investment should be necessary to enjoy most of the content this game has to offer. Personally I feel like it's tuned to 4x what it needs to be, or what is warranted given the story and visual content. I would also like to see some things change between "respawns" so it's just not always just more of the same.
- Combat is too grindy, with too many trash mobs to defeat. Killing wolves in different colours really loses its charm after wolf nr 735. The dungeons and guild missions are too long and repetitive.
- No auto combat feature, no hotkeys in combat UI. I feel like I'm halfway to carpal tunnel syndrome clicking through the shitloads of clicks needed to get through any combat encounter. Give me "auto resolve" button for when the enemies are so weak that the targeting priority doesn't matter. Make me able to press space bar to close post-combat screen and the level-up notification. Give me a keyboard shortcut to "attack first enemy in queue" to lessen my clicking pains. Just, clean it up, please. This clickety-clickety-click shit has got to go.
- 4th wall breaks. Story wise, where the characters discuss "oh but this is a 6-star dungeon it should have such-and-such level rewards" et c, and the lore about how the dungeons are somehow sentient and that everyone "knows" that they are in some kind of computer program was cringy as fuck. Numerical stat levels are for the players to know, not the characters within the game. Just chill it with the 4th wall breaks and save it for between respawns only. It's way too much.
Ok, so to summarize:
This is looking promising from a gameplay perspective, with a completely uniqe and actually kind of fun take on grind, which is why I'm bumping the score up to a 4. There's a ton of potential here.
But don't expect a complete game if you're going to try this, and don't expect many lewds at all.
I've just been through as far as I can go of version 0.2.3 and I found myself enjoying this game more as I went through what others might call "grind"
10 second review:
This game is different, it's funny and intelligent, and worth playing if you want to try something that isn't just a run-of-the-mill porn game.
To add a little more detail:
It's a fun game! The dialogue is intelligent and witty, and the characters and scenarios are clever and well thought out.
The graphics style is different, but in a good way. The style is along the lines of a parody cartoon-ish/clay-animation-ish 3D PC adventure game, which fits the whole "this isn't meant to be taken seriously" vibe of the game.
The stat building might appear to be grindy at first, but the dev has gone to the trouble of adding variation in the dialogue and scenes to make increasing stats more entertaining. There are some nice hidden bonuses mingled in with the stat building.
As the game itself will tell you, the current version is lacking a fair amount of desired content, but has provided a good skeleton for the content to be added in without changing the structure of the game at all.
Final point, a bit of a rant...
I've read a lot of comments panning this game and the dev due to the lack of porn so far.
If you want instant gratification, there are hundreds of fuck-fest games and websites out there. Have at it!
Some of us here enjoy the idea of playing an adventure game with enough lewd content to spice it up, but not enough to ruin the story and gameplay by making it into yet another mindless porno.
i have been avoiding this one since it came out. everything looked "Cute" but something felt off. IMO anyway i say a good review of it and said heck i'll try it.... I Love It , so sorry to anything i may have thought about you, this is looking to be a master piece i am still a wee child 'adult' says the captain. but i am really looking forward to what happens.....(like reading a best sell.. I.E. a book) much respect to the authors! fun read, sense of RPG without the 8bit look and feel, dialog and story writing is funny, intelligent and English. graphics are clean and simple. models are cute and rpg classic. LOVE IT
I finished playing for now because no more content. I really love the small Neko girl and I hope that soon I will can fuck her and that I will get an animated footjob scene :3, Of course, I also have hope for more content with other girls + I also have hope for incest.
