RPGM - Completed - Roundscape Adorevia [v6.8 Steam] [Arvus Games]

I love it your game was great the choice between your starting perk as well as gender although i disliked the cheats hate them but your game was orginal and i liked the fact that you could choose to either team up or leave someone behind , also i noticed it was hard to find the purple ghost girl? i encountered her once but completely forgot how i did it and it seems nobody talks about it well i hope to finish your game in all routes in both female and male thank you soo much for creating this wonderful game

Ah, my beloved game Roundscape Bugseria I must admit the bugs were worse enemy than Murkhal himself but it was enjoyable I would prefer one artist because too many porn artists mean they are all using their own style, combat was boring and hard difficulty is just turning enemies in the sponges story was good not something that would make you shocked or literally mind blew but for a porn game in the rpgmaker, it was good as for the writing well it was enjoyable my first-time enjoyment would be 4.5/5 and then my critical rating would be 3.5/5 because this game has too many game-breaking bugs and glitches and some were present back in 3.4 and I get that this can happen but it's meme when the same funny glitch was in this game around version 3.4 is still present in 4.7, combat is turn-based and becomes quickly boring and you will avoid the battles.

companion abilities are from good to crap for example you got Ruksana who's a good damage dealer but her abilities are all TP focused then you have Meredith who becomes Demi-god who can heal each round a huge portion of her health and has only one good damaging spell and you only keep her around because she has good dialogues + she is a healer and evil Meredith is worth of corrupting and then you have there Roderick who is UUGH HE IS SO BAD all his abilities suck his damage is weak and I would get it if he was a joke character but what's the point of him there if he is not worthy of taking with you, I feel like I'm missing plenty of rich dialogues but no most of his dialogues sounds dumb instead of being cunning evil like encouraging your hero into doing evil deeds he just shouts dumb stuff so I'm slowly accepting he is just a meme character.

Combat could be really better I mean it's boring there is nothing enjoyable on it your abilities are super bad and you have to pick certain companions to feel strong not to mention your hero eventually becomes a one-man army completely nuking companions concept of gameplay.

So this game is awesome for porn, character development really varies from Meredith who has different banters to Xyless who feels like she has been abandoned, but the weakest parts are super annoying bugs and glitches, repetitive combat not to mention same looped battle music and terrible skills and spells for your heroes. So I would give it 3.5/5.
You might also wonder why I gave it 4 stars but here I'm giving it 3.5 that's because the f95zone rating system won't allow me to give a half star.

The extent to which you can control the fate of the character is incredible. Free-roam, Incredibly large amount of content, and fantastic scenes. The amount of tags the this game encompasses is also immense, allowing it to cater to quite a few players. Probably the best erotic RPGM game I have seen.

UPDATE 04.APR.2022
So It's been awhile since I reviewed this game. It has worked since that review and I just remembered I left this poor review here unedited ever since. The game has a fantastic storyline, good art, and lots of lewd moments. What more is there to like about an erotic RPG than that?

(I've put the old review in the spoiler below for historical references!)

Wow.

Positives>

1. Great story.
2. Great characters. And lots of them too
3. Immersive.

Negatives:

1. In desperate need of a detailed map, character locations etc...
2. Very easy to miss scenes, which you can't play later.
3. Spawning enemies are tiresome.

Having taken all of this into account, it's still 9/10 effort.

Roundscape Adorevia it's a great game with a fair amount of content , pretty nice gameplay (for a RPGM) and good artwork , the history can be a lot better. But that's not why you´re here right?
I hope someday they stop focusing on adding new mechanics and concentrate all his efforts on adding more artwork.

Greatly built game. Story, length to game, can avoid what you dont want to see...though, why would you do that? And, of course, plenty of nudity. what more can you ask for? What is stupid, is that you need at least 200 words or whatever to leave a review to just rate a game. But, hey, whatever. This game is pretty stellar though. Could maybe use a little more choice option on how things play out, but...its great how it is regardless.

gem is good but it a too extreme for me to handle. scene sometimes forced for reward, but you have beast, or insect i do not like. gameplay is very good though, I give 4/5, only thing i do not like is a lot of extreme scenes. the art was high quality.

This game is amazing easily one of the best hentai game I've every played the story is amazing the art is very well drawn but sometimes a little stylized it also feels like a real game with tons of mini games and character development has replay ability to get different scenes definitely give a try even if you don't like grinding in games Also it gets constant updates and already has 30-40 hours of game play not to mention 2 different unique paths to play as

Good game, with nice story good mechanics, game is gret not only as fapmaterial but also as game, and with these cgs its even better 5/5
Everyone from this site should try it. PREPARE YOUR RIGHT HAND!!
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I think this game has very long storyline and perfect combat mechanics but drawings are quite bad there is too much thing to do I have been playing this game like 24 hours but still I didn’t finish the game yet its very good game to pass the time

To start off, Roundscape isn't a porn game. This is an old-school JRPG with adult content. If you're just playing it to fap then stop now and go check out something else.

Now, for a RPG, Roundscape is a bit of a mixed bag. The game does many things, but it does too much and sort of half-ass everything.

World building
Better than most RPG Maker games but still insufficient. The game uses a lot of fantasy clichés, such as tribal orcs known to raid and pillage, isolationist elves living in forests, underground-dwelling dwarves good at smithing, etc. It also features the usual "Christianity with a polytheist flavor" you see so often in fantasy settings. Occasionally you get a deeper insight about how the various communities work but it's often by the way of a big infodump given a single character. There's a distinct lack of show, don't tell in that the game's towns are little more than backgrounds for quests with a serious lack of any sort of environnmental storytelling or even NPCs of note.

Characters
A lot of Roundscape characters share a flaw: their lack of distinct voice. Party members fare a bit better than the rest, particularly the Succubus, Roderick and Kathlyn. Others tend to be a bit samey aside from the occasional quirk or superficial trait. NPCs are especially bad with this, to the point you would sometimes be completely incapable of recognizing the speaker without their portrait and name above the text box.

Gameplay
Roundscape has a lot of combat. Maps are relatively small and often feature several enemies bee-lining for you as soon as you cross their (mercifully small) field of vision. Furthermore escaping doesn't disable your collision box, meaning you often re-start combat immediately after. This is a serious issue, because combat in Roundscape sucks. It's either a trivial affair or (particularly in higher difficulties) a matter of whittling down monstrous damage sponges. Skills are useless in the majority of cases: all you need to do is stack damage boosters attachments on your equipment and attack. If a character can't dual-wield, they're useless too, because they have less slots to enhance their damage. Enemies, even bosses, never do anything interesting and just use one or two attacks over and over.

Story
Pretty standard: find relics to defeat the evil god. Nothing wrong with that. The execution isn't terrible but it's not particularly good either. It's adequate. At least until Act III, the final act, which is a terrible mess but fortunately much shorter than the rest of the game.

Graphics
A real strong point. Roundscape really managed to avoid one of the worst issues with post-XP RPG Maker: the garish, square maps. Good use of tints and fogs to avoid being too cartoonish, heavy use of parallaxes to smooth out the edges of every tile... UI elements are pretty okay too.

Porn CGs are hit or miss. Multiple artists contributed and while it's mostly a question of personal taste a few of the older art pieces are simply bad. They're a minority though.

Conclusion
Roundscape is average. It has porn but far less that pure porn games and it's gated behind a RPG Maker game that isn't as good as those without sexual content. The whole package is heavily flawed, but not un-enjoyable either. It's, well, average. The game equivalent of a jack-of-all-trades, master of none.

I have so much to tell that i will end up writing a roman about that one, seriously...

Art is nice, it just goes well with the game itself. But what is really amazing is the size and replayability of it...

Like seriously, it gets a bit hard to go in blind from time to time without the Walktrough file but i can tell you that, if you follow it you can go trough most of the game easily.

So, in succint, if you have a good memory and long gameplays doesn't scare you, go in. If not, take the Walktrough pdf with you x)

This game is great, ppl can write all the shit they want, but you get what you expect here.
If you play male you bang everyone, if you play female you get banged by everyone so ppl who like either can choose what they want, plus the game has a huge variety of scenes and characters, from normal humans to more exotic stuff ( they could go crazier here with monster girls but I don't think they will), the rpg part is nice, basic and does the job well (being able to find new jobs later in the game is really cool tho).
Overall its a solid adult rpg game, the biggest flaw of the game are some really bad drew scenes, but they are changing those for way more quality ones tho.

Mediocre for an RPG, terrible for an adult game,
definitely not recommended.

Let's be honest here, people play adult games for a reason. And that's not running around for over 2 hours doing generic quests with generic rewards and no porn in sight. That reason is adult material. I'm not asking to be able to bang everything that moves, but at least a taste to peak my interest? Remind me of it every once in a while?

Where's the reward?! No, a 100 gold is not rewarding. Not in this kind of game.

I ran into two succubi, sex demons, yet neither of them had the option for sex. Succubi who didn't offer sex. What the actual fuck...lessness.
I ran into numerous bandits, monsters and such. Not one rape option. Is the rape tag just a decoration, or will I be the lucky bastard to get raped in 2 more hours?
The first sex scene I found was over an hour in, it was blowjob scene so short it didn't even give me an erection before it was over, offered by a fucking sex addicted bandit, not because of story, or because you beat her, but because she's a bored sex addict. And then goodbye.

This game tries to be a standard pornless RPG, but with a scene or two hidden here and there. Adult material simply isn't the focus (but neither is story or characters, in case you were wondering).

The gameplay part?
It's fine. The engine was used to it capabilities for the most part, game mechanics reflect that.
It has good graphics for a RPGM game.
You have castle upgrades, weapon and armor upgrades, it's cool.
Skills and combat in general? Also interesting, skills can be customized via upgrades, and it makes combat more interesting, but mostly on harder difficulties. Why?
Because as colorful as your team can be, your enemies will alway be generic health piñatas, and they respawn after every transition. Enemy group spots you, attacks, it's 2 bats/3 wolves/2 rats/4 spiders/3 skeletons etc, etc. They consist of the same enemies using the same generic attacks. So while the player party can be heavily modified and colorful, there's not much variety amongst the enemy parties you will face.
I'd advise against easy difficulty to make combat more challenging and so, less boring.

So the gameplay is fine...except...
RPG stands for Role Play Game and it lacks severely in that department. The world, while beautiful, is also static and feels dead; nothing you do affects the world in a notable way, nothing changes, and there's hardly anything in the world to interact with. Things like story, characters, exploration, progression, quests and rewards, freedom, game mechanics, these are needed for a good RPG, and here they are all lacking in one way or another.

Characters are simply uninteresting. Companions just decide to join because of nonsensical or unexplained reasons, no compelling story behind this decision, no buildup, no "meet them a few times / get to know them before you can recruit them" or even "buy/enslave them", no, that'd make sense and we hate making sense. They just conveniently join, or at least they offer to join out of literal nowhere.
Sometimes you can tell them no, other times it's mandatory. No, nobody actually forces your character, it just happens "naturally" because...it's dangerous to go alone, take some companions?
But only to fight, because they have like 2-4 dialogue options, some of which are just one-liners, with no character progression or development tied to it. They're disappointing as "characters".

Generic NPCs are of course no better, they offer generic quests then say goodbye, no quest chains, adult rewards are very scarce and can be missed easily.
Random noble chick wants her castle rid of the undead? You rid it of them. Reward? The castle. Because that makes perfect sense.
Sex?
Haha,
NO.
NPC wants you to get ingredients from the forest? It'd be such a shame if you couldn't access it because of some nonsensical "i dun wanna get lost" excuse from the player character, wouldn't it... So how do you enter? Who knows! The game sure doesn't tell you how.

Dialogues are pretty much devoid of humor or even personality, characters lack "character", they are rather empty and flat. That's because of two reasons;
-first, because they don't offer much information, relevant or irrelevant (yet character / world building) and you can't milk them for it either, and
-second, grammatical errors are common and phrasing is often simple, basic, and on-point, devoid of unique traits, which makes for monotone conversations. It's bland, including the flat jokes and flat responses to them. Hell, reading just about anything is a dull experience.
It's bland to the point if I couldn't read the name-plates and see the busts of characters to know which one is speaking, I simply couldn't guess it,
because they just don't make an impression with their bare-bones personalities, they all "sound" alike.

There's a morality system in place that needlessly complicates things. Apparently doing bad things corrupts both player and companions, and they need said corruption to engage in sex other than tender love-making (not that I actually encountered any of that). On the other hand, doing good things makes you a celibate priest or something, but at least you'll make platonic love to your followers?
Now this wouldn't be so that bad if some characters didn't lose affection for doing things that raise their corruption (1:1 ratio back and forth). So you either be a celibate priest and maybe get some softcore porn 5 hours in, or you be an ass and get hated but maybe hate-sex (or r*pe?) will be more interesting before the inevitable loss of your companions? Good thing it was all explained (haha, no it wasn't...).
As for player morality? No, still no idea what it does. Nobody knows, probably not even the dev(s). It's a secret.

It's really fleshed out but at least totally unnecessary. Yay.

Bugs are still present and sometimes they take away from immersion greatly, i.e. NPCs acting like I've saved their lives when I just met them,
or a follower getting pregnant from anal. Luckily, I suppose, I didn't encounter a game-breaking bug yet.

Maps(/zones) are small, often fairly empty save for a group of enemies or three, nothing to harvest and finding something is rare. The only thing you use for upgrades are crystals, so if you're like a maximalist, you'll comb through these empty maps hoping to find one. It's boring.
These small maps are numerous and there are lots of transitions between them (which means enemies respawn and of course attack you again which means half the time you spend "exploring" you actually spend fighting).
These maps have no name plates either to help you navigate, and there's no in-game map (as in actual map, a chart) you can look at to know where you must go and in which direction that is. Quests don't mark the transition points either to guide you.
Just go and find one specific place on one specific map out of ~20. Good luck exploring, Dora.

Oh and by the way

the game needs an NTR tag and it needs it yesterday.



Overall, massively disappointed in this one. The amount of work poured into it shows. The details are there.
And yet it somehow wholly misses the point of an adult game (or an RPG for that matter), as if the dev(s) lost sight of their objective and shifted their focus to insignificant or outright irrelevant aspects, and going overboard with details and complexity of some mechanics, wholly ignoring others.
It tries to be deep and manages to sacrifice its deepness for it.

Now, even IF it wasn't an adult game (because it barely is one), I still couldn't give more than maybe 2.5/5 (if that was an option but it isn't, so 2*) because it's just lacking in the most important departments while going nuts in others.

But shit, it IS an adult game.

Pros:
- Literally the best 2D game nowadays. Perfect in almost every sense.
Cons:
- The introducction is slow and if you don´t now nothing you can feel that this game have no h-material.
This is a complete game that REQUIRES TO BE PLAY IT. Is not for a 5 minutes fap.

I probably have more mixed feelings about this than any other game on here. I alternate between liking it and been bored with it.

In many ways it's one of the better games here it is also actually a game. The latter part arguably isn't the best thing in the world, there can be long periods in between content even after that. There are times it frankly bores the arse of me.

What swings it for me is they have a instant win for the fights and super speed which cut down on the time considerably. That makes progress a lot quicker. I'm serious at the beginning I was wondering if there was much content in the game. Turned out there is a LOT and there's a lot of variety but getting to it is behind bog standard RPGM gameplay . Don't get me wrong the work that went into this is impressive it's just a bit too excessive for an adult game imo.

Overall there is a good variety of scenes covering numerous fetishes. The art ranges from good to bad but on the whole it's good. The MC choice of male or female also adds a bunch of scenes. I enjoyed the game overall but cannot imagine it without the cheat codes, waiting 1-3 hours to see a scene is not for me.

The game is much too slow and the sexual content is a real crapshoot as to whether it will be decent or disgusting.

I spent two hours running around doing menial tasks, you know, the standard RPG filler quests. Kill 5 wolf packs, find a lost ring, find some dwarven ale, find a family heirloom, distribute flyers for a store. The only fun bits here were two brief blowjob scenes, one from a nymphomaniacal bandit, and another from the storekeeper. The second one was rather underwhelming, so I'm starting to get bored of the game due to all the aimless wandering and tedious combat.

Eventually I gather up some recruits and head on out of the starting area. The first real sex scene of the game was with a beautiful young orc warrior named Ruksana who joins your party. I was excited that the game was finally getting good and I was hopeful that it would only continue to improve from here. Those hopes were shattered ten minutes later when I walked in on Ruksana fucking her nasty old uncle.

NTR is something I never want to see, especially when its sprung on you by surprise in a game that doesn't have the NTR tag.

Before you start to play this game you must understand something. This is NOT a porn game with some fantasy story behind it, it is an old school, well-developed RPG with some adult content in it. Seriously, if you expect to play a game with one hand, this is seriously not the one for you.
The story is a bit generic fantasy setting, but a pretty well-written at that. There are some trope characters, but they are also interesting enough to keep the player's interest. Most of the quests are interesting, but the best part is the skill tree and the combat system. Seriously, many modern RPGs from huge companies don't make such balanced and interesting combat system as it is.
The very same game reproduced in a big budget 3D version would be a huge succes. At some places it's a bit rough around the edges, but other than that, it's a masterpiece.
Just don't expect it to be a porn game, because it is not.

UPDATE (2024.02.21)
I had to withdraw one star from the game. I gave it a second run now that it's finished and I must say, I have conflicted feelings about it.
So, in the five years I spent away from it, the porn content in the game grew a lot. Sadly, the content is very little if you are not into bestiality, and tentacles. But okay, I can let it slip, as there is still decent enough amount, and you can skip watching anything you don't like.
There is another problem with sex scenes though. The art quality is EXTREMELY inconsistent. I can understand that with so many artwork, they had to employ several artists, BUT that doesn't justify the quality difference. Some images look professionally made, other images look like the product of a horny 16-year-old boy.
And the problem doesn't stop there. For some reason ALL the sex scenes are drawn with comically out of proportion women that look nothing like the character artwork. It doesn't matter whether the big titted mage, or the supposedly small-titted elf rogue, in the H-scenes both has beachball-sized tits, and thighs that are so wide they would make a professional cyclists legs look skinny.

Going further, the story, especially for an RPGM porn game is really good. In the first two acts. From the third act it becomes a disjointed mess. Some dialogues sound like it was written by the writers of Madame Web.
"You bastard, you killed X! Tell me in this instant why you did it!"
"No, I didn't. I was framed by Y."
"I believe you, let me break you out of the prison."
And yes, the dialogue goes almost exactly like this in the last act of the game. The last act is full of new characters, political intrigues, entirely new regions with mostly unrelated stories to the first two acts, yet EVERYTHING happens in lightning speed. A new character appears, they seem to be a new major part of the story, then immediately turns out they want bad, then they die. That's exactly the three appearances the character has in the game, yet the treason is treated like a huge twist, and the death is depicted like a huge uplifting moment.
The last hour of the game literally has three main baddies, all looking like the last one, just to have a new bad guy appear out of the thin air.
It's bad even from a regular porn game, but the first two acts of Roundscape are mostly well written, and could serve as basis for an actual, mainstream RPG, so compared to that, the last act is dreadful.

And then we haven't mentioned how many bugs and oversights the game has. In some cases, characters are treated as well known friends in scenes when the player hasn't even met them yet (because they appeared in a sidequest the player hasn't picked up yet at that point). In a lot of times, major sidequest are entirely untracked for the entire time. In some times finished quests appear as unfinished in the quest menu. In some times a character has the questgiver icon above them when they don't have a quest for the player at the moment. Several times NPCs appear in different areas at the same time. It goes as far as a certain character appearing twice in one room.

Don't get me wrong, the game has a lot of fun. I spent almost 50 hours with it. There are several entertaining characters, and well written sex scenes. But there are too many things that sadly drag down the overal experience.

Rich in gameplay poor in fappable material

Let's be honest. The only reason you are reading this is because you want to decide whether this game is worth fapping to. It's not. Many of the reviews here are misleading or tend to focus too much on the gameplay aspect while ignoring the fap content.

I think the developer somewhere along the line lost sight of the PURPOSE of why people play an adult game and focused WAAAY too much on the RPG gameplay. Honestly, at some point, I forgot it was actually an adult game and that made me rage quit.

If you are someone who wants to play a mediocre RPG then this is the game for you! Had this been a review for an RPG it'd be 2/5. But, since it's an adult game it doesn't 'reward' your time playing it.

About 2 hours in and only 1 blowjob scene, 5 sidequests (I completed 3 of them but, there is no easy way of tracking the locations you have to go to complete them and no way to talk to NPC's again to see whether you missed something). The art isn't impressive enough to keep you playing it.

I can see the developer is very ambitious with it but like I said earlier I think they are missing the point of adult games.