RPGM - Completed - Ruled by Rule [v1.2.4] [KineticDog]

Gameplay: 3/5, works well but lacking in depth. Plays like a rouge-lite, just needs more items and to be fleshed out. Some scenes can be absurdly long such as the sleep scene while in a slave state. I think starting with like 15~ rules is a bit too much and would've preferred starting with 1-2 and building up how I like from there.

Art: 4/5, consistent style, those familiar with this style will enjoy it.

Overall: 3.5/5, would've liked the rougelike parts to be more fleshed out with more available items. More control of the rules would've made it a much more fulfilling experience. Not a bad game just way too easy and way too fast to build itself.

What little story there is pretty stupid, but actually in a somewhat clever way, so that's actually an upside of the game.

Because as a game, it's about 0 stars: maybe a lobotomized monkey couldn't finish it in about an hour without ever losing. Which makes it about a -∞ as a porn game where all porn is locked behind losing.

Now, since you're here, you're probably used to pretending you're dumber than a lobotomized monkey by finding clever ways to lose, no matter how hard it is (it isn't, and you don't have to be clever; doing nothing works in this game), so...

What's there in porn content looks decent enough, but it's not much, and much of it is pointless because who gives a fuck about the special rules you can activate for fights (which might actually make them legitimately losable) when the option to actually fight with those rules active isn't working?

Would rate 3 stars (acceptable for what it tries to be) were it not for the latter problem.

I really like the fetishes so that's always a huge bonus point for me, the art is top quality and the gameplay is alright but the performance is so abhorrent im gonna have to rate it 3 stars, im playing it with a rtx 3060 and it nearly crashes which is insane for a rpgm game. I wont even bother saying something about the rest because the game performance will be the make or break if you're gonna download this

EDIT: I have now completed the game, I agree with some of the comments about the gameplay, it is pretty brain-dead but if you are playing to get defeated and collect "new rules" that do something lewd to the main characters, it's not that bad for a combat system. Really the main thing that makes it hot is the art. The rest is really mediocre, there's not a lot of gameplay. As a framework however, I extremely like it, it has an incredible amount of potential. For example, it would be really fun if the items you get from chests after you defeat an enemy were lewd-themed instead of just mere stat boosts. More degrading comments from civilians would be nice, more ways to pay off your debt, more ways your debt negatively affects you. There are a lot of possibilities. I think the dev has good taste in lewd clothing and art quality is really good which is why I'm rating this so high. Also shout out to the system where you slowly get surrounded by more enemies. I know that was a thing in a previous game you made and although it still can be improved it was pretty nice to center combat around it. I hope you make more games in the feature or expand on this game because you have the potential to make top quality ero games, I'm changing it to 4 star because I did enjoy playing it and I did finish to this multiple times. Leaves you wanting more, good game

(MAKE SURE TO SAVE THE GAME A LOT AND RUN IT WITH YOUR GPU NOT WITH YOUR CPU OR ELSE ITS UNPLAYABLE)

Here I am playing and thinking: the system of debts, prestige, rules, combat system, a lot of this has become the author's calling card, but the implementation leaves much to be desired.
The plot is the most ordinary (it takes a couple of hours), there is no variability and, unfortunately, it is impossible to change outfits. There are improvements in the game that we get at the end of each fight. And it would be possible to make each improvement change the appearance of the characters. But what the author has not been lazy about is CG. Now, instead of a static picture with some variations, we have several different CGs, and the drawing has improved compared to previous games, which undoubtedly flies into the piggy bank.
BUT OPTIMIZATION... I have Cyberpunk on ultra with RTX gives out more than a pixel game on an RPG maker. Apparently, everything was done "На похуй".

Frankly, I liked KineticDog's two previous games of Profession School and Endless Arena. This newest installment lives up to the previous two games; that is to say: the combat is really oppressive and snowballs out of control until you lose looooose loooooooose with quite a bunch of naughty animations with decent variety.

With all that said, this game is by far the easiest game of the three because I beat it from start to end without slowing. Combat has become an energy-based system where you keep acting until your energy is spent. Having some energy left over allows you to block boss attacks. Under normal circumstance, you recover 50 energy every turn.

Speaking of which, unlike the previous games, the enemies are split into two categories: boss and minions. Beat the boss to move on while the minions surround you and have a chance to prevent your attacks from going through, making you waste energy, or preventing you from blocking, allowing a boss attack to go through which stuns you for a turn. Also, you can't aim at the boss while surrounded by minions.

What ended up happening to me is that the third girl got two items, an ability + a passive that takes down 5 minions in one hit. If uninterrupted, that's 60 energy to clear out all the minions to allow the other two girls to go full power to take out the boss. I also got a drone that boosted energy regen by 30%, so I was recovering 80% energy every turn. The final boss was a breeze, especially when I crit him for 13K damage.

Once you start losing, the game starts snowballing even harder, making it severely unlikely you'll accomplish anything in combat whatsoever, let alone win.
You have complete control on additional rules and you can revert/close them as you please. There are a lot of possibilities and stuff for what'll happen and I found it all amusing.

As for the plot, it is nonsense at the start but that's typical for games like this. Somehow, it comes together and makes a decent amount of sense by the end.

Overall, it's no Succubus Acadamia, but it's still fantastic. I hope KineticDog continues to make these games.

Game's not bad. The premise is cool, gameplay mechanics are very unique and I really dig the art style. However, the game seems under-developed: very, VERY easy, there's no proper balancing or challenge; undercooked story that don't have much apart from the actual premise; lack of gameplay and story depth; it's also criminally short, you can complete it in less than an hour. There are other small issues, for example, there are voice samples during dialogue, but no moans during sex scenes.
Overall, good for a quick fap if you like the art style. Shame, could've been much more.

I love the extreme, the art, the experimentation with rules and all the improvements from older games of the studio. Only the game really being demanding for no reason is kinda annoying since older systems will struggle at times

it might just be my pc but it had so much lag to were i could not even close the game it looks neet and the time that i was playing it it was nice but i only went to 2-3 before i just gave up on it but hey my pc is shit so it might just be that but because it is that for me i just cant really play it all of it is very nice tho so it is one you should at least try

I like this game and this style of game a lot.
The content is nice, the setup likewise and though I don't like slow burns, this one has enough content that it doesn't force you to grind for 30 hours.

The issue of the bugs and such to me is minor, since lots of games in F95 have similar issues, though they do exist and they do cause a lot of issues: save often.
The game is a bit vanilla in content: most of the stuff is vaginal intercourse and the gamefuck mechanics while very detailed and very damn good do come up a bit slowly and only make you a passive taker, rather than being able to actively "fight-fuck".

I like it for what it is, though it doesn't have much complexity and I guess you can probably skip all hentai content by just rushing enemies and not forcing yourself to lose.
4 stars because in spite of all detriments, the hentai is what I am here for and it is top notch, much better than many other games.

This is totally dogged down by bugs. After two different game breaking crashes I gave up on it.

Otherwise I'd recommend it to those who like Ahriman games (Moral Sword, Emblem Knightress Nord, etc.). This isn't as good as those, but the translation seems much better and many of those are also subject to game breaking bugs.

Game is short and quite easy once you get used to the game mechanic. Unfortunately it has bugs that needs to be fixed.

On first levels, just murder everything as it goes. Try to find Swallow Flock to be able to hit 3 enemies at once before advancing on the higher levels. Save before boss battles. For last levels something like Leaping Snake Bite to hit 4 enemies. It's good idea to have 1-2 Healing Drone for quick energy recharge.

Normally I give a proper, thorough review, however I am unable to even give such due to how unplayable the game is.

If you haven't seen other people already complaining about the bugs, sudden crashes, horrible fps, then take this as a heed to wait for the developer to either fix these issues, wait for some dedicated people to optimize the game somehow, or just straight up avoid this game.

Why you might ask? A more thorough review since I really like this games trailer?

Well, I apolgize, but I can't even do that. the FPS runs as fast as a sloth moves, which literally made it impossible to progress the game. on top of that, the game suddenly crashes midfight, causing a redo of the same slothlike battle.

So, if you're in that, really horny, I want to fap to this amazing looking-game. TURN AWAY NOW, go fap to some math books or something. Like I said, the fps is so bad, that it literally also skips over the nice animations, so it's better to fap to a math textbook, at least you can get excited over some nice Laplacians or something.

Until it's either better optimized, fixed, I will keep it a one star, otherwise it will forever stay one.

If you're familiar with Kinetic Dog's other stuff, this is basically the same but more.

The "gameplay" is mostly a vehicle for sex. It's very easy to break and purposely easy to grind for. There are some interesting features, like the "Surrounded" debuff, that make it so that your attacks have a higher chance of failing every turn the more stacks you have on. Unfortunately, the blonde haired girl can get an ability that removes ten stacks at once, making all combat boil down to:

1) Blonde haired girl removes all stacks on all party members.
2) Blue and red haired girl clean up.

Therefore, losing is completely intentional. There's no real strategy, which sucks since some of the ideas at play here could be interesting in a traditional RPG.

That said, the reason I give this four stars is that the art and concept are exceptional. The art this time is a huge improvement from the previous two games, and there are a lot more interesting scenarios and unlockable scenes. The rules system adds a lot to the eroticism as many scenes have changing values. The girls can completely devolve into cock-hungry sluts and demand their partners have sex with them immediately. The slave status can cause the girls and their master to have long, exhaustive sex for literally hours at a time (tracked in-game). Etc.

Point is, the game has great art and a pretty good setup. It plays to basically every hypnosis/brainwash/defeat fetish known to man, and has lots of great details. It's worth the price for how hot it is. Unfortunately, the 1.0 release is incredibly buggy and locks some major scenes, including some of the ones that are consensual. When the final release comes with the bugs all fixed this will be a pretty solid little game. It knows what it wants and delivers it immediately.

Big thing is that the game is mostly broken, since sometimes initiating sex will just crash the game.

But I assume that someone's going to eventually upload a non-broken version. And there's a bypass for the issue if you save in the room right before you have sex, outside of like, combat. Anyway.

The game's actually pretty good. There's no gallery, which is okay I guess. There's nothing locked behind anything, but yeah, scenes are good. The story is extremely short and is essentially just a set piece for sex.

garbage tier
first character win all fights in first turn except last boss (also trivial fight)
you have to lose on purpose and in theory you can turn on some restrictive rules to make combat harder but it just doesent work
all those rules and stats dont matter cause game mechanics are broken - difficulty is easy or impossible
game crashes often
all h content is few great character sprites

Fun game to jack off to or just play casually, it's got a classic jrpg fighting style with some tweaks and it's kinda rogue-lite which definetly makes things better, the translation seems to be actually made by someone and not just a machine which is appreciated too

The game has good art and the premise is interesting, but I can't tell you if the dialogue carries it or anything else because simply put: the game runs like shit.

I've played dozens of RPGM games from F95, both old and new, from all versions of RPGM, but I have to say: this one takes the cake. People will post in the thread with "oh you have to change the NVidia setting to X on the control panel manually because RPGM blablabla" - I've NEVER had this issue or had to do something like this, ever. If I need to do something like that, it's because the game is so badly optimized or done that it's beyond saving.

Nonetheless, I DID do all of that, annoying as it may be because it shouldn't be necessary and never was to me in any RPGM game. The game STILL lags and consumes memory like it's trying to destroy my computer, but it was more tolerable.

Then, came the slew of bugs. Battle bugging out and never starting, missing image files, random "can't load from null" errors, and a bunch of other shit that's annoying. And again, people on the thread will go "well you can change the language away from english and then that specific scene will run" yeah, and now I can't read shit and I'm left with laggy image transitions.

I can barely play the game as is, when it runs I either can't enjoy the dialogue or I can't enjoy the art, and there sure as fuck isn't enough gameplay in this to keep anyone even remotely interested; to top it all off, there's no gallery unlocker OR viewer so I can even check out what content is inside the game outside the first 10 laggiest minutes of an intro I've ever seen that took about an hour to try to play, so how the fuck can I say anything good about this game?

The only possible explanation is the dev never opened his game or playtested it at all. It runs horridly.

Highly not recommended.