VN - Unity - Rise of the White Flower [v0.12.5] [NecroBunnyStudios]

Amazing game, very lengthy and gives an amazing story. I love a good rise to power story and I hope this goes the distance with Catherine rising to be everything she can be! I'll be honest a lot of decisions don't really affect how your future shapes up in the overarching story but I love how the details make a different playthrough in very enjoyable ways.

This game is a 5/5, and there is no argument; it’s one of the best visual novels I’ve ever played, let alone erotic visual novels. It’s leagues above the usual offerings you’ll find here:

1. Well-written characters
2. A plot that matters and is going places
3. An art style that makes it stand out (call it bulbous or whatever; at least it's unique, and the artist is clearly improving with time)
4. Just about every flavour of kink

If you haven’t played it, do so. Play it next, play it now.

Oh, also, I’d like to add that this is a female-friendly game. I didn’t hesitate to show it to my partner and encourage her to play it. Not that some girls aren’t into it (or that this game doesn’t have it), but it’s nice to see a game where women not only have agency instead of being living fleshlights, but where there also isn’t wall-to-wall dub/non-con.

And one more thing: the setting—it’s Warhammer meets DnD/Pathfinder, and it’s not subtle. It’s not a wink at the camera; it’s not “oh, they’re X with the serial numbers filed off.” They’re “X with the name struck out and written over in biro.” For example, the ‘Azorites’ are 8th edition Dark Elves from Warhammer Fantasy, down to having a civil war that blew up Not!Ulthuan, sailing to Not!Nagarroth, and living as sadomasochistic slavers. This is a YMMV thing; it doesn’t bother me, but it might irk some people.

Now, simply because I am prolix and overvalue my own opinions, I’m going to state what are, in reality, minor inconveniences that, even at their highest, wouldn’t drop this rating below a 5. I think this game has two major pain points:

1. The format
2. The patron model/iterative development

The Format
This is a CYOA visual novel; however, the choices never really matter (not that you should expect them to, given how narrative-driven the game is) and often detract from the game in two ways:

1. Cat (the MC) is not an empty vessel for the reader to self-insert as; she has her own history, personality, opinions, beliefs, and ‘voice’. Don’t get me wrong—she’s written as a morally flexible, slutty, omnisexual, versatile switch to make it as easy on the author as possible to facilitate—but it still makes some of the choices jarring if they would be out of character for Cat, which hurts suspension of disbelief.
2. Because most sex scenes start with the ‘HAVE SEX (if you want to) HERE’ button, some of them can feel tacked on, as if the author wanted to do more storytelling but felt they ‘needed’ a scene for players to get their money’s worth. For example, there is a scene where Cat’s having a conversation with the Dark Elf Azorite character in a tavern, and you can have hot exhibitionist sex in an alley, only for the scene to return to the tavern if you haven’t exhausted all of the world-building dialogue yet, as if both characters didn’t just have brain-melting orgasms.

The Patron Model/Iterative Development

1. Scope Creep

Due to Patreon voting, the author’s interests changing over time, or just plain boredom, the scope and direction of the game have changed at least twice. Case in point: the initial conceit of the game fell by the wayside all too quickly (not that ‘hijinks to get out of debt’ was very compelling). I’m also personally of the belief that the intended villains have changed at least twice. Needless to say, many less integral plot threads have fallen by the wayside over time—perhaps for the better, perhaps not.

1. Too Many Characters

Something of an extension of the above, but it’s plain to see that as characters have been added over time, the relationships have (necessarily) flattened. Some characters go for vast sections of the game just disappearing entirely, only to pop up again at the start of what was doubtless a new update. Some characters have clearly been added to fit a certain freak/kink or trope and either were unpopular with the patrons or perhaps the author and have just been left to moulder. Some characters have been in the game for years and still don’t have scenes.

The most obvious example is Elenore. Because she is Cat’s first companion, she goes a long time as the only one competing for Cat’s attention. Hence, her relationship with Cat is far better characterized and much deeper than the cat boy. Although even Elenore is having trouble competing for the spotlight at this point. Not to mention they are still adding what, in my view, are shaping up to be new love interests/fuck buddies to the story. It is unfortunate, but the product is clearly becoming shallower and looser over time.

All of that said, despite the ink I've spilled, these amount to minor annoyances at best. Don’t let them distract you from playing this game.

I'm genuinely confused about this title, because how quickly it has changed both pace and epicness of narrative. I thought it will be a lighthearted game about going on adventures, manage your debt and mingle with sexy and kinky denizens of dnd-like world. But after some point, plot changes to meeting gods, leading armies, exposing corrupt nobles and traveling in time. Holy shit! I didn't sign to all of these.

Because of that, game will regularly introduce new characters and situations, and I'm not entirely sure that I care about most of them. Yet I'm forced to interact with them because outfitting my army and similar businesses. I just want to focus on my favorite characters namely the tough masochist warrior, who became my submissive, cute demonic pupil, who is learning magic under my wing, and adorable mind-flayer lady. But due to scale of the game, focus constantly getting sidetracked. What's this game trying to be? A porn game about adventuring mage? A game of thrones? Both? I'm unsure that you could do both, to be honest, and if dev will manage to do it, I fear that the depths of both epic saga and character development will suffer.

Besides, I found that some characters are not portrayed in a believable way. Marius is the prime example. I kinda like him, but I don't get him at the same time. One second he is cold and rational, the other he is hitting a pathetic helpless person, who was his best friend in the past. The one moment he is extreme pro-aristocracy, but in the next chapter he will take almost pro equality stance. Is he split personality neurotic, a man who is being torn apart by the doubts and passions or what? It either written brilliantly, or not good at all and I can't make my mind about all of this.

The game has many good moments, and I really like sexy times with my beloved companions. The protagonist is likable nymph-type character, that I enjoy playing. But I don't find amount of scenes with my favorites be nearly enough to justify so much reading about things that I have no emotional attachment with. It's like game somewhere during development process has mutated from being one thing to the other, in many ways different than the original.

I can't even make up my mind whether to recommend this game to people who are reading this or not. I guess it won't hurt to try it.

Absolutely gorgeous art and pretty hot sex scenes. Seriously for art alone this game is in my top 5, Cat is absolutely stunning.
It does focus a lot on lesbian content which doesn't do too much for me but if that's your jam then you'll really like it.

The only downside stopping me from rating this higher is that there's just too much text when it's not necessary. I found myself often holding 'S' waiting for the topic of conversation to finally move on. Like there will be dozens of panels of conversation about a minor event that happened in a side character's backstory and its just "yap yap yap", like christ this stuff just isn't important please move on.

This game is gorgeous, very nice 2D art, gorgeous menus and everything is very very smooth and responsive. AAA devs struggle to get this type of polish.

If the dev stripped out the futa and sex, found an editor to clean things up and then did a bit of marketing or otherwise got a good spotlight from a major storefront like Steam, GOG or otherwise, they'd have a real shot at a sleeper indie hit.

As it is, it isn't to my personal tastes as an adult game and isn't quite strong enough as a non-adult game---but it's very close on the non-adult front.

It's really an impressive feat. This and Quickie a Love Hotel Story just look like professional products, rare gems in a sea of struggling and learning devs, many of whom put no passion into their projects. I believe this dev is passionate, and it shows. Passion and talent are probably 95% of the package, that last 5% is luck and a little help.

The author is a graphomaniac. Too much text (which was repeatedly mentioned in every second review).
And I can assure you, I'm not some only action dude who can't read for more than 5 minutes in a row... I've played dozens of visual novels with a duration of 50+ hours. But here... text for the sake of text. It doesn't make sense, 80% can be cut out of the game and nothing will change.
And yes, it's a matter of taste, but I don't like sprite of MC. When I saw her for the first time, I thought shw was some milf in her late thirties...

The game is very good, both the art style and the story are very well polished and invite the player to invest more time into the game. Plus the variety of different romantic interests that the game offers enhance the replayability tremendously and cater to all kinds of fetishes. There are very few downsides that I can think of but the main one would be that the protagonist's actions don't seem to have long lasting consequences besides missing a few sex scenes. All in all the game is very enjoyable and I encourage everyone to give it a try.

[Version reviewed: v0.11]

To each their own.

The game is overall nice, the art is beautiful and the interface easy to navigate. I like that you can shape Cat however you want, and that she can be very promiscuous right from the start (when most of these games have a prudish MC).

However, I find that there's too much description, especially when it comes to sexy stuff. See I don't mind the fights being entirely told and not shown, it's a porn game after all. But the kisses? Showing off the goods? Souldn't just be text, and certainly not that much text. Less is indeed sometimes more. Also, while some will find describing the magic process to be immersive, I find it pretty boring after a while. As I said, to each their own.

Drawing scenes takes time, you can't add one for every action sure, but sprinkling some here and there outside of sex scenes would have made the experience more enjoyable for me. No need to go all out, generic scenes like a close up kiss/showing off (with just enough to recognize the character and thus make it reusable) would go a long way to make it more immersive than plain text.

Now, while I complain (and feel bad doing so because the game seems to be made with much love), I'll definitely follow the game and play the future versions (and most likely update this review if needed).

Phenomenal game! The story is exactly my cup of tea, it gives off "homebrew Forgotten Realms meets kink-savvy DM". The companions are adorable, or hot, or fuckin' smokeshow depending on your taste, and I love how responsive and interactive they are as of 10.2. It seems like most of the plot lines are getting the love they need to be closed off and considered as the plot moves forward, which is phenomenal! It feels like a succinct and concise story, not in brevity (there's plenty of content already!) but in how much it feels self-contained and internally consistent.

Wishing this game and NecroBunny nothing but good fortune. Can't wait to see where it goes! Already love where it's at now <3

I originally stumbled upon this game by accident years ago when I was going through my “searching for lesbian games” phase, and when I learned that you can avoid sex with men and do a lesbian only playthrough, I became curious and downloaded it, and I’m glad I did as it's one of the best adult games I've played in a while.

What I like about this is you can decide Catherine's personality, whether you make her a hero, a selfish bitch, only interested in girls, or a nympho who fucks anything she comes across. Again, the choice is up to you, and I wish more adult games would offer this level of freedom.

I also like how almost all sexual situations aren’t forced upon you unlike many adult games as you can just choose the appropriate dialogue option rather than the main character being railroaded to being groped or molested by whatever perverted person or monster she comes across.

I really like the art for the background and characters. Plus the small details like Eleanor and Seralli blushing are cute in their own right. I just wish there was more CG art rather than the ones for the sex scenes, you know, to help flesh out the world more. Like the fight encounters for one.

A gripe I have comes from the plot. The whole plot of Catherine trying to pay off her debt gets tossed aside very quickly around chapter 5. Same thing with Jean who was built up to be an antagonist to Catherine but that gets quickly resolved with very little payoff.

Another small gripe I have is with the writing. No offense to any of the writers, but when I read it in my head, it doesn’t sound natural. Almost like Engrish.

Another gripe I have with is how the character sprites are handled as some of them are inconsistent. Like for example, in the opening scene, Catherine is supposed to look tired and disheveled, so naturally, her hair is supposed to be let down until it is put up when she’s inside, but it’s not. Another scene says that has let her hair down, but her sprite isn’t changed to reflect that nor for the upcoming CG art, same thing when Catherine is dressed in a bunnysuit but doesn’t include the ears. On top of that, some characters that are named don’t have sprites accompanying them. Plus some sprites are like I mentioned, are inconsistent with what’s going on, such as at one point, both Catherine and Eleanor are supposed to be naked, but for whatever reason, Catherine still has clothes on. All of these just ruin the immersion in my eyes. I wish the artist would have gone back and correct these inconsistencies such as giving these aforementioned characters their sprites.

A final issue I have are technical ones, like when you start a new game and you get to Catherine’s house, other tabs show characters you haven’t met up to that point, there is also one task that has me meeting the Emperor and I keep getting the same task repeatedly. Also, there’s the issue of both the scene and CG art gallery as some are unavailable or don’t unlock regardless if you played through the scene or not. There was even one I unlocked and I haven’t got the art for the scene which is a straight scene and I try to avoid all straight scenes in my initial playthrough. Plus, I have encountered a few typos and grammatical errors here and there.

I would’ve ranked it a little higher if it weren’t for these aforementioned issues and I hope these aren’t carried over to the final product.

I got bored pretty quickly.
Tons of average level reading with every single action described fully from start to finish. Sometimes less is more.
I would have liked to give it more time but impossible since I found the story unappealing after a couple of hours. A shame because I had great expectations for this one.

Review for v0.9.7:
Story is great overall and worth playing even if it didn't contain any smut.
Plot is amazing in first 3 chapters, after than you get railroaded to typical heroic path. Still not bad, not least because you can say "I never asked for this" on every occasion.
Characters are on par with good chunk on "big" rpgs I've played, and some even better (Kyo).
All that descriptions of Cath casting magic was amazing, it makes game very immersive.

For me, this game is a hidden gem! Usually, the female protags are not my cup of tea, but since the pure lesbo route is possible ( to be honest, I think 70% of the scenes are lesbo ) ... then why not?) Solid writing, interesting story, hot and likable characters... my only complaint is that the game eventually ended (and possibly there can be more pics/animations)!

Awesome work devs! Thanks for the pleasure of playing this masterpiece!

A good game. It's a VN so I won't complain about it being text-heavy as I believe that to be a stupid thing to say, but the writing is undeniably verbose. My one true complaint is the sheer amount of lesbian/futa content that I was definitely not expecting, and not being a fan of either, having to read a lot to get very few scenes that I enjoyed was a bit upsetting. The game is skewed towards these two things quite noticeably.

Nonetheless the game is of good quality with good art. Definitely recommended.

It looks pretty, its decent length, but theres so much text it reminded me why im not a fan of vns. There are many good parts here, characters are sexy looking, scenes are pretty ok tho very vanilla, dont expect any big fetish scenes, theres a lot of lore to read (i read more of it than i did of any dialogue) and generally its a pretty well thought out game. The music didnt hurt my ears which is always a big plus for fuck games. And its not very clicky, you just select a place to go to and thats pretty much it. But theres also some bad, the sheer amount of dialogue being the biggest problem for me. If you like c- tier adventure stuff it might be cool for you but its a miss for me, its definitely one of the hold the skip key until a scene happens type of game. Also the scenes arent very varied, even if its mostly vanilla stuff there isnt a lot of variety here, mostly its just a similar scene but the girl youre fucking has a different color of skin.

In general, if youre into vn and vanilla mostly lesbian sex i dont think youll find many better games than this one, hell you might even enjoy the story, but there isnt much there if youre looking for anything more hardcore in terms of scenes or gameplay or really anything but dialogue skips and watching scenes. 3/5 for me because of the amount of text to skip, if you dont mind that its a solid 4/5.

Great characters, story and sex scenes. Honestly one of my favourite games on this site.

Bit text heavy, if that's something that puts you off.

Played V0.8 (pros and cons sorted by personal importance)

Played till the last scene (or at least there was no more content that unlocked for me)

- Bit to verbose and text heavy for my personal taste. I liked the story at the start but after 30 to 50% the writing started to get way too excessive for me. From that point on I skipped through the whole text and just picked the heart options, to get the rest of the scenes. A lot of the sentences and phrases could be easily way shorter.

+ I liked the art style and the bits of the story that I read (the first third of the story)
o to + The scenes were nice and creative. Sometimes a bit (more) animation would have been the icing.
o I was also a bit confused that all different outfits where unlocked from the beginning. Buying them, or unlocking them during the story would have made more sense with me. (not necessary a negative thing, but might be a more intresting gameloop)
- the brothel storyline starts early but is unexpected short
+ liked the strong female mc


I do not think I would pick the game up again after a update, therefore my rating only with 3 stars, the 2nd half of the game just lost me too much.

One of the better games on this site. It has great scene , A great story and consistent updates. One of the few games I come back to every update.

The characters have actual personalities and character development and aren't just faceless self-inserts. The game also isn't riddled with pointless mini-games and endless grinding. I highly recommend recomand it

I'm reviewing up to chapter 8 for the record.

This is a really well made and varied DnD-inspired fantasy game, that's maybe biting off a little more than it can chew in some areas? The wide choices in kinks and partners is the major strength of the game, and you'd be hard pressed to not find anyone you're interested in, but as a result, each character only really has a few sex scenes at most, and even less have consistent story relevance. Likewise, the UI hints at eventual plans for full inventory and alchemy systems which probably sounds quite exciting at first glance(the game already makes fun use of a futa potion), but I'm really not sure how that would be implemented in a satisfying and deep way on top of everything else that's already here and everything else story and art wise this team needs to implement.

Regardless, what is here is excellent quality, and I look forward to what the final release will look like.

I was not expecting to love this game as much as I do. I'll start but saying the art is very good, it's not traditional anime-esque hentai and it's mostly still shots that change a little to fit the ongoing description, but it's very unique and the pictures are all well drawn. Also, most of the tags are optional, it will give you a choice in who you want to pursue and sometimes options on how so if you see something you don't like you can just skip that character or interaction.

The story and character dialogue though, that's what hooked me. It's so good! The characters are all so diverse and entertaining while still being complex (and horny). the conversations you have reveal a rich world lore and lots of backstory for each character which is very rewarding to discover as you play. Also I just love the D&D style adventure and you get to watch the main character get stronger/level up as you play through each chapter.

All in all, I highly recommend this game to anyone wanting a good entertaining story with lots of variety in fun and horny side characters and a well written and very horny main character.