RPGM - Completed - Ruins Seeker [v1.01] [Nupuryu no sato/Kagura Games]

A delightful erotic game that has gameplay on par with normal games. Reviewing in order

Lewd stuff: The lewd times are basically all game over scenes, but the gallery auto unlocks for all enemies you fought after reaching the next level. The lewd scenes themselves are mostly nicely animated and have decent sound, although the specific lewd thrusting sound is reused often and mildly annoying. Overall nice for lewdness, but due to gameplay its much easier to just play this as a regular game and then view the lewd scenes after the levels.

Gameplay: It is fantastic. Movement is quick, fluid, and responsive. Weapons feel nice to use and are fun to collect and level, enemies are dangerous but fair, and bosses have interesting mechanics. This is a game I ended up playing for over 10 hours already because it is simply fun.

Art: As good as the gameplay. The game is mostly in a pixelated style but with a level of detail and fluidity not normally seen. Characters are gorgeous, enemies are distinct, and the environment is detailed but not overwhelming.

Ruins Seeker is a good game for gameplay or lewdness alone. Thankfully the creators decided to make it a great game by having both. The only negatives I have is some enemies don't have animations for lewdness and that I want more game. The worst part of Ruins Seeker is that I want more of it.

This is a decent game, but a bad H-game.

First of all, it requires both hands to operate, which is already a red flag that the developer doesn't expect anybody to masturbate while playing the game. Second, there's barely any sex, I've played for about 4 hours and the only sex scenes were 'monster defeat' ones and I had to specifically seek them out. And some of them aren't even shown on screen, you just get a text blurb in the style of 'and then they had lots of sex'.

It's obvious that the devs wanted this to be a regular game first and then they tacked on some porn scenes. The scenes themselves are nicely animated, but getting to them kills all the mood and the fact that you have to constantly reposition yourself from twohanded gameplay to onehanded sex scenes ruins the great potential of the art.

i play the game expecting to be another generic ecchi game but i was punched by the game and proven wrong, it got good game mechanic, replayability and a really compelling story and i found myself enjoying the game's story more than the h content itself

The art is nice and so is the story somehow, I expected either no plot at all or the typical it's all about sex so it's a nice surprise. The combat is fine, leveling weapons by grabbing the same one is nice too, just it feels like every single melee weapon is the same but different stats and range. Would have been nice that the battlehammer had had some kind of stun for example.
Going back to a dungeon is choose your own path, that was kinda confusing at first used to the regular connected rooms.
Many choices are choose right or reload and go through all the trouble again since you just can save at the crystals and such choices happen far after saving. That can be a problem if you'd like to see what'd happen taking each.
I read some people asking if it has a recollection room and yeah, it does, but you unlock it after certain part of the story (no spoilers~). I was trying an undefeated run thinking next time I would lose to each enemy and boss but nope, you don't need to, scenes unlock either watching them or progressing through story.
Something I have no clue about is what those "upgrades" for HP/MP/BP are for. My guess was they were consumables for just a single run so I used several of them at once. To my surprise my HP just went down a single one (20HP less so I'm at 180 it seems permanently) and my MP and BP went back to normal. Not sure if it's intended or a bug that if you use some in a row it won't reset all of them but just 1 upgrade. To be honest it feels weird that you can't actually level up your own stats but just your attack since enemies deal lots of damage. It's not actually hard, just if you aren't good at dodging you'll die fairly fast, or have tons of potions ready.

But of course it has bad things, like staggering from time to time. It especially does if you use some spell like regeneration: you'll stagger on each step you take. Sometimes you get random damage as I got in the swamp dungeon: you finish enemies off that were dropping poison on the ground but when the chest appears and poison puddles despawn you get their damage and are poisoned. It seems if you stay far away enough it doesn't happen. Thankfully such bugs will be eventually patched.

Overall very good and a surprise expecting something average. Considering to buy it to support the devs for more.

This game was a nice surprise. I expected a classic game of this type and instead I found myself in front of a certain attention to detail. Characters characterized very well and with their own personal growth, a linear but well-defined plot and which in certain points has not proved trivial and in a certain sense speaks in a mature way of love, of very interesting and even dramatic and even secondary side quests here with nice characters and not bad gameplay where you have to go all the way to the dungeons facing increasingly stronger enemies and an interesting weapon upgrade. It really surprised me and in some places it was a pleasant challenge.

Pretty good game. Game play,Art and controls are pretty solid I suggest using a controller I use my PS4 controller on my PC. The game has decent content but honestly there could have been more. Overall I recommend it

This game is great and fun to play.

Gameplay: Unique and really fun to play. At first, i thought it would be like those typical MRPG with turn base combat but hell no. This one is fun, challenging and super fun (although i played it using keyboard but i think it will be better if you have console) . Everything is balance, not too hard or not too easy to make you bored. Boss fights are fun and challenging (damn i really like the final boss, so epic). Using AWSD to move and mouse to attack, you can easily control and play as you like. So yeah, i haven't enjoy gameplay of H-games for a long time until this one. 10/10

Story: Smooth and connected. Everything has its own role, NPC has deep and enjoyable background story. Love how they explain the tragedy of the dungeon through NPC's stories instead of telling directly. 10/10

H-events: Good and live2D. However,.... they wasted a lot of 18+ potential. There were so few H-events and 18+ scenes, not only that most of them happened in the dungeon (you get defeated by a monster then xxx), only about 2 of them are in the city. They have a slum, a brothel, a bunch of NPC that want MC's body and even MC's has a lewd curse. But they decide to skip all of those thing. Like what is the meaning of showing us "hey, i want your body" or " oh no, my curse is activated and i want to fap" but just end up as a chat and then that's all.....Wish they could add more H-scenes to this game. 6/10

Moral of the story, if you want to find a game that keep you busy during quarantine, choose this. Although there aren't many H-scenes, the game is still really enjoyable and challenging. The story is unique, gameplay is awsome, and H-scenes are really well made. WOULD RECOMMEND

You ever sit down to enjoy a nice relaxing session with a game that you though was going to be just your average run-of-the-mill schlock, only to realize you should’ve been asleep 7 hours ago and you can only barely tear yourself away from the game so you can get some shut-eye? That’s the Ruin Seeker experience in a nutshell: a game that is way, way better than it has any right to be.

Pros to the game:

- The controls and gameplay might honestly be the best I’ve ever experienced in a porn game. Smooth and easy to learn, but also very rewarding to master. Whoever’s idea it was to put a low cooldown dash that you can curve needs a raise, because that central mechanic creates an extremely fast-paced combat system that is an absolute delight to play

- The story. No, I’m serious. I had played the japanese demo of this game a while back, and even back then I was impressed by the above-mentioned controls. Little did I know that I was missing out on one of the best parts of the game. Everything, from the main plot to the side quests to even the dialogue between the two main characters has visible effort on display akin to the likes of Witcher 3. They really put a ton of thought to every last detail, and it serves to both flesh out the world and the characters in it.

- Depth upon depth upon depth upon depth. Just when you think you’ve reached the end of what the game has to offer, it gives you even more stuff to see and do. I’ve played this game for over ten hours, and I’ve only just begun to see the light of 100% completion.

- The aesthetic details are all top-notch, far beyond what I’d come to expect from an h-game. From the gorgeous artstyle, to the ambient music that matches Ariadne in term of quality, you can tell that the developers made sure that every single last piece of art and music was put into its perfect place.

Cons
- My only complaint is that, strangely enough, it feels slightly rushed, which is unbelievable considering how much content is already in the game. There is a brothel location in this game, and given that this is a porn game you would expect there to be sexytimes had there, right? Nope, you can buy some potions there and that’s about it. Also, there are mini-bosses that you can encounter, and defeating them earns you the right to claim a gold bounty. How many of them have unique h-scenes? Two. And one of them is a side-quest boss instead of a random encounter. Some of the enemies in the game don’t have h-scenes when you lose to them, instead you might get a few text boxes describing what happened before it dumps you into town. Sometimes you don’t even get that and you just pop right back at spawn. All of these feel like scissor-marks of a game that was cut-down at some point. It might almost be too much to ask, considering that what’s already in the game blows a good ninety-five percent of other porn games out of the water, but if this game ever got any DLC add-ons, I’d buy that in a heartbeat.

But honestly, if my only complaint is “there should be more of it” then you already know it’s good. Games of this caliber come around maybe once every three-to-five years and even when they do they are very, very rarely completed. If you like game-over rape with a female protagonist, you would do yourself a disservice by not playing Ruins Seeker.

(P.S. If you don’t like the censorship of the fun times, kaguragames put out an uncensor patch. Get it here.)