RPGM Abandoned Rina: Elementalists of Manahold [v0.4.5] [RareRiroRie]

[HoneyLibido]

It’s dead. I was in their Discord, and the creator mentioned wanting to “kill” Rina and start working on something else. They haven’t updated the game in over two years. Any art you see is from before that. They wanted to shift the game’s direction from an “H-scene-connected trash game” to something better, but then never followed through. It feels like they got overly ambitious but were too lazy to see it through. Now, they’ve decided to abandon the promise of finishing the game entirely. (This is from a chat on 28-Aug-25.)

Ah shit. RIP.

 

[Karlos Marcus]

R.I.P.

To think I'll never see Bobby and Don Keyhoof getting their turn.
Dark times indeed...

 

[itsmeluigi]

Oh wow I am so surprised, the game that everyone called would die when dev announced the changes, is in fact dead.

That's what always happens. Everything goes well at first but then the devs suddenly get some sort of epiphany and decide to rework the entire project, only to realize it's easier said than done. Even a scuffed game that's completed is far better than over ambitious empty promises. I don't think no one was complaining about the gameplay or anything.

 

[itsmeluigi]

R.I.P.

To think I'll never see Bobby and Don Keyhoof getting their turn.
Dark times indeed...

I really wanted the janitor to do his thing, maybe also Don Keyhoof and something more with the goblins as well.

 

[Skylark97]

That's what always happens. Everything goes well at first but then the devs suddenly get some sort of epiphany and decide to rework the entire project, only to realize it's easier said than done. Even a scuffed game that's completed is far better than over ambitious empty promises. I don't think no one was complaining about the gameplay or anything.

exactly. I'm Shocked. Shocked! well not shocked at all actually. Its a super easy to call a game as dead when it happens.

 

[jokuur]

RIP
hope someone else take over ...

I doubt it. And even if someone takes over it won't be as good since the main selling point is the art. Anyone can make an RPG game using RPGmaker, it literally doesn't take coding skills to do so. The main factors are art and the script.

exactly and everyone got different vision for their games, its the same like when garden changes the owner and he starts changing everything to his own liking, there are very little artists who would just let their art be used as others see fit

 

[FatPig]

 

[Destruction9000]

guess its time to unwatch this thread and forget about this game forever...

 

[Neina Zakis]

Is it dead or there will be a update?

 

[tantan0210]

Is it dead or there will be a update?

i doubt it will receive an update, i joined the discord over a year ago now and from then till now, not a single teaser was shown. all we got was a "im working on it"

 

[potatopower]

It's dead dead and I'm sad sad! Somebody with a dream who can RPGM, hire Rare as an artist and make the mc Rina

 

[Karlos Marcus]

Is it dead or there will be a update?

I would say to let the dead rest.
But I honestly wish the dev has some necromancer powers and resurrect my poor Rina.

 

[chillybop]

It's always the ones with good art.
Shame, so much potential.

 

[Latetoparty]

I hope the dev goes into comics, or makes a non combat game (like claires quest) for their next project. Game production especially with rpg maker kills off so much of people's passion for their projects because of the restrictions.
Damn shame.

 

[livingdead360]

Playing around...

 

[livingdead360]

Another one, this time professor gets some action

 

[takohama69]

It's not really an "as of late" thing. Just by their nature, it's unfortunately kind of expected of adult game makers to have either terrible work ethic or terrible work output from external factors.
For one, it's usually a side hobby, with the added pressure of it being a non-socially acceptable hobby, which leaves very little time to be allocated to it if the game maker is a regular member of society with actual jobs for self sustenance. Most of them also are not engineers or software developpers, so they lack the skills to make clean functional games (and it is not just about coding), and they lack the general experience and design/management acumen to scale, estimate, and deliver.
Another main reason is that adult game makers are sometimes (and I would even say most of the time) NOT a "regular member of society" but rather porn addicted coomers (usually self-proclaimed too), which comes with its own set of lack of self discipline and other problematic habits/behaviours.

Came to check in more than a year later. Zero surprise here. The creator broke his promises multiple times, there was no reason to believe they would uphold their promise to finish the game. The discord is a circlejerk of coomers that has nothing to do with the game. Multiple red flags from more than a year ago. It was nice to get the content that was made while it lasted though.