Unity - Completed - Salvor DEEP [v1.00.3] [Delusria]

Unique style and setting. Gameplay is pretty boring and super slow.

Gameplay
Direct your salvor around underwater caves to collect loot. Unfortunately this sounds a lot more interesting than it ends up being.
In practice you click where you want her to go. Wait for her to move. Click on an item. Wait for her to move to it. Wait for her to pick it up. Look for next item. Repeat.
This gets exacerbated by water slowing you down. Carrying a lot of loot slowing you down. Some events like spore clouds or aggressive pursuers slowing you down.
The last two are H content which should be a good thing. It's just the same still image every time though. And you even have to go out of your way and take a picture of the situation to even see it at all.
The atmosphere and sound design are great and really pull off this claustrophobic feeling of being deep under water and possibly not alone.
There is just never any pay off to that feeling. Your guy keeps talking about pirates, curses and monsters and what not. But even if you do encounter something it will just show up as another "!" on your map that nets you a new still image and you move on.
Some of those events also didn't trigger for me. No idea if there is an element of chance involved that I kept missing or if they are just bugged.

H
You can take a picture of your salvor and her surroundings at any time. You get scenes by taking a picture while she is interacting with things. And by scenes I mean still images. They look kinda nice but there is only one or two per event not counting variations with different boob and butt sizes.
And that is all you get. A single picture. A single line in your event log. And off you go.
Honorable mentions for the probably worst gallery implementation I have ever seen. All the scenes you have found are just in a single list. Ordered alphabetically by their event log name. Including all body mod variations. So you can enjoy scenes like 'Idle Search T1/B1' which is of course right above 'Idle Search T0/B1' because the order for the body mods is completly random.

A very unique style of art and gameplay. I absolutely LOVE this game, and would LOVE other games like this. Exquisite game. Guide your salvor to riches and precarious situations. There are various enemies, be them human, or monsters. I am a very picky person, with extremely niche fetishes, and this hits many (and some that I never knew I had!)

A neat little game!

The only gripe I have is that I would've liked more Dispatcher X Salvor scenes aside from the ending.

Gameplay wise, it's simple and effective.

Keep it up Dev, rooting for a sequel! I bought it on steam for like $6 after beating it.

I tried to like this game but it is average at most. Let me explain:

Pros:
-> The story is pretty cool, with a coherent narrative and a captivating world
-> The characters have personality and are easy to like
-> Mechanics are interesting, not your normal RPGM/VM standard

Cons:
-> Very limited adult content
-> To display the content you have to continuously use the sonar, which interferes with the text and gameplay
-> VERY CLANKY AND SLOW gameplay. Salvor moves slow as fuck, the game is sometimes unresponsive, and you either wait a lot for the text to come in or skip it in an uncontrolled way missing all scenes.
-> Also quite grindy, but In my case I just used Cheat Engine to get money.

Shame cause it looked very interesting. I was debating between 2/5 or 3/5 but since it could be polished I leave it at 3. Still very promising dev.

Functionally similar to an RPGM scene collector, Salvor DEEP sets itself apart with a gritty visual style, serviceable worldbuilding, and enjoyable interactions between you and your salvor.

Although you control the female salvor's movements during her missions, the game positions you as a character watching over her actions, which gives a voyeuristic edge to the H-scenes in this game. Reading the dialogues as she tries to gloss things over is one of the main erotic highlights of this game, but this couldn't be possible if the non-erotic banter was stilted and awkward to begin with. The dev did a good job writing for this game.

This game is heavy on transformation/inflation and the aforementioned voyeurism. Like the other reviews might have mentioned, I don't really consider any of the scenes to be NTR.

Incredibly fun and unique gameplay loop. You got to work for the "plot" but the actual underlying story is surprisingly deep. Pun intended very much intended. If it had animations it would be easily 10/10

Good concept, very poor execution. The gameplay consists of nothing more than click to move and watching your salvor, displayed by an arrow, slowly collect stuff in empty corridors. There is less gameplay to be had here than in a Vampire Survivors game. This would be better off as a VN where at least there wouldn't be repetitive, "I found mushrooms. Should I eat them? *munch munch* Now my tits are big woaw." and "I found something. . . . Oh it's just trash."

The art's okay but with basically zero animation and not nearly enough content to justify how dry and slow paced the game is.

I really liked the dialogue and premise but this is not it at all. This guy should not be a solodev, let me tell ya. Put him as a writer in a small team and then something good would come about.

the concept is cool, but the gameplay is incredibly slow and boring, and the scenes are few and far between and theyre not really that great, i get that it's pixel art but theres just not only so little of them but they're so boring most the time too.. don't bother with this game honestly

Review for v1.0

Salvor DEEP is perhaps one of the most unique lewd games I've come across so far, and I'd go as far as saying it could have been a favorite of mine had it just done more (or gone DEEPER). Regardless, the game as is works as a heavily atmospheric exploration based... voyeur game? That sucked me in for hours not wanting to put it down, which doesn't happen often.

It's a concept I've seen done in non-lewd games a couple times, but I was genuinely surprised to see it in a lewd game context. Having just spent all your money on a diving pod, you play as an independent dispatcher for salvors, who are essentially scavengers that dive deep into the ocean to salvage what they can from wrecks/facilities/caves and what not. While browsing for salvors to contract, you come across an inexperienced girl who only wants to work for food. Thus you team up and start salvaging.

I think it's important to note that while the game is tagged as male protagonist and you're seeing things from his perspective, you're controlling the girl salvor as she explores. I say it's voyeuristic for a reason. The MC and Salvor have a very platonic relationship (mostly) and most of if not all of the lewd scenes with her are things she encounters exploring. It's not like you barely have any input, as there's a lot of dialogue between them as they chat with each other, but you're not romancing her. There's even a toggle for more "NTR" geared events and you could make an argument that those scenes give that vibe. I think the shop keeper is your real love interest anyway though.

The gameplay itself has you moving around a top down map exploring and collecting from scavenging points, while also running into various events in each new location. What's nice is the game often tells you how many new CGs are in an area. It's a very causal difficulty I'd say. You aren't really punished for anything and there's nothing like combat, and the small amount of resource management is easy. I could write a long list about all the cool little mechanics and features, but suffice to say it's very well put together.

As I've played more and more games, one thing I've come to appreciate is when a game has good sound design. If you're someone who likes to play on mute especially, I implore you to turn on the sound for this. The whole game is incredibly atmospheric, and the sound is a huge part of that. There's little noises for every little action, and there' a lot of detail to make it sound like you're actually listening in to someone exploring a cave if that makes sense. The way things echo, moving through water, diving, etc.

The sex aspect of this is both an area I have a lot of praise for and an area I wish more had been done with. Given you are sort of a spectator monitoring your salvor, the lewd stuff revolves around this "echo graph" mechanic. Often you'll get some kind of indicator that something is going on, and clicking that button scans the environment and displays a pic of the moment. This works very well in tandem with the sounds, as you'll often hear a noise accompanying a scene. Suddenly you'll hear some plapping echoing off the cave walls, do a scan, and then see the salvor is being fucked by tentacles as an example. The salvor has a very nonchalant attitude about some of the sex too which I find hot, and often she'll simply comment something like "Oh I'm back", 'I handled it" or after some plapping sounds "these guys sure are... friendly" etc. etc. The game has a very good balance of showing you just enough while also letting you use your imagination.

Now a lot of CGs are transformation based (which I'm pretty neutral on) as you encounter weird things, and then slowly builds up to actual sex later. This is where I wish the game would have kept going. I don't have a transformation fetish but I didn't mind the lewd shots, however when you finally get to the real meat after some nice buildup, there just isn't enough. I seen someone else talk about it but more context-based scenes would be nice too instead of a more generic "you've been caught" scene being reused. There also comes a point where your salvor decides to start going nude, but the live portrait doesn't match that (which I get is a lot more work, but still). Also the gallery not having sounds or dialogue for scenes kinda sucks.

I almost want to say this is more a transformation fetish game with sex in it, but that simple explanation doesn't really do this justice either. If it revolved more around sex and kept going with that I'd probably love this game, but even for what it is now it really is great. A very unique lewd game experience for sure. Easy recommend if it seems like your thing.

1.0 version

4.5/5

Gameplay - this type of gameplay is a very unique and a joy to experience. You, dispatcher, guide your diver, Salvor, through underwater wrecks, caves, facilities etc. You interact with your Salvor through texts, and experience her surroundings through a microphone and your own map. Seeing as you're in your own apartment, your map is very simplistic, which I absolutely love, and everything interactable, be it loot or a living thing, is marked with a question mark. You click where you want your Salvor to go, loot the place, and extract.

H-Content - most of the content is your Salvor "interacting" with things she encounters. The artwork works very well with the UI and the overall theme of the game which I loved. The game contains what it calls "NTRish scenes" which you can disable, which fits the tag of voyeurism (thank you to the reviewer that mentioned it below) more than straight up NTR. I never liked NTR which is why I never explored voyeurism, but I absolutely loved it in this game, so if you're in the same boat, and are deterred by the NTR mentioned, don't worry.

Sound - Starting up the game, you're met with the "Headphones recommended" screen, which I absolutely agree with, the sound is brilliant. However, there are no moans during H-scenes, which is just the biggest blow to the rating. Someone who played might think this is due to Salvor trying to hide it from you, but that seems impossible with the size of some of the "interactables". IMO, a stifled moan would work even better than just a normal one, but anything's better than none. All you hear is thrusting followed by an ejaculation, which I really wish the developer would improve upon when releasing on Steam. Games like these are special not because of artwork alone, but because they build up the scene so well, you send your Salvor in a cave alone, you're texting forth and back, you send her to a question mark, only to see it start moving towards her, you feel that part of you excited by voyeurism stir, only to be met with normal thrusting sounds, which really doesn't fit a game so reliant on and proud of it's sound design.

Conclusion - I loved the game and will be buying it on Steam upon release. The biggest gripes I had was with the lack of sexual sounds during H-scenes as I mentioned, and, just like with most games, lack of content. Salvor ending is quite abrupt and unexplained, but I also wish there were more caves to explore, more H-scenes, and a wider variety of enemies.

Neat idea, execution is a bit lacking.

I like the game is basically trying to do: You're basically playing as a guy who hires a girl to explore for him, and you direct her remotely as she explores and gets into lewd situations along the way. I liked how the girl was basically a cute slut from the start, but she tries to hide this from you since she doesn't realize that you (the MC) are able to see/hear her as she's exploring. This does lead to a bit of an NTR dynamic, but basically thee MC is pretending that he can't hear her in order to watch her fuck everything on her journeys.

The game caters heavily to inflation / body transformation fetishes in particular, which is not exactly my cup of tea but I liked the way that it facilitated gameplay, that you would have to transform your body in some ways to unlock particular scenes or areas, as well as find other salvors that can help you. I think the game could've leaned into this more to make the exploration more interesting, and really have decent puzzles... I'm kind of imagining an H version of Pikmin, where instead of collecting Pikmin you collect different follower types that allow you to do different things (and have h-scenes with them along the way.)

The game is divided into distinct areas, and the world map lets you know how many scenes there are to unlock in each area, although it doesn't give you much information beyond this. So you basically explore and try to unlock scenes, while collecting resources along the way. The main problem though is that the exploration can be a bit of a slog, and oftentimes it's unclear how to unlock particular h-scenes and it's not fun to have to retry areas.

Ultimately the H content comes a bit slowly, and it repeats a bit which makes it not to rewarding. Animations are recycled even when it doesn't make sense, eg. sometimes the girl will change outfits in the pictures just because the dev didn't create variants for all the different outfits (swimsuit vs. nude, sometimes with scuba gear). Not having a nude main status image in the latter areas where the salvor starts going in nude (hot!) is also an obvious miss.

One other major complaint is that the UI is fairly minimalistic, which is both a plus and minus. I appreciate the presumption that players should figure things out themselves, but I do feel like there are important mechanics that are not well-explained. For example, I'm pretty sure that in order to progress the storyline you need to accumulate money for the salvor, but this is never really made clear and I only started doing this when I ran out of other stuff to buy and just started giving it to her because why not... but this seemed to unlock new dialogue with her, which I think is what unlocks the actual ending, if you could say that an ending exists.

So summarizing it up overall:
- The dynamic with the main girl is great. There's also a side girl who I liked and it's a shame there's no shared scenes between them.
- Overall the h-content is lacking, like having dates always use the same artwork and only having a couple sex scenes with the MC. The h-content while exploring can get repetitive and not knowing how to unlock scenes in later levels can get frustrating.
- I really liked the core "exploration while getting fucked" mechanic even if the kinks don't overlap well with mine. However having to replay levels was unpleasant, and it would've been good to have more puzzles that involved more h-related shenanigans.

Overall it's 4 stars for me, there's a promising idea here and even decent execution but it is somewhat.. undercooked, I'd say.

It is a good concept that can lay the foundations for a different genre of h-games that focus on groping and exploration. The story telling is unique, not too deep, not to in your face, it could do a lot more with it and take full advantage of the core features of the game.

You guide a female MC through underwater facilities and deep flooded caves, of which all those places are in complete darkness, so you help her get the loot and get out. Each map introduces different h-events but there are no wrong chocies or stakes for that matter, each map is played like a linear episode, same dialogues and same layout, so you end up going through each "episode" mission, get the h-scenes and move on downwards to deeper caves. I don't understand the purpose of the equipment other than making the "exploration" of a pre-dispositioned layout tedious to get through.

The h-events are okay, it leaves a lot to be desired, there isn't much variety actually there is a major lack of it and for how simple the approach is, I would expect way more to be honest. The h-scene viewer is very basic, it doesn't provide any sound, the whole point of the game is sound mind you and since I mentioned this let's get to the sound issue.

Not a whole lot is done with sound, there is a lack of it. I might be asking a lot but I feel like there is a whole lot more to be done with sound to make this more interesting, since we have no visual. Like I said I like the concept and belive it can be expanded ten-fold with the right direction.

It is a cool proof of concept for an h-game, very linear and time wasting with how slow movement is and the speed of messages delivered, it's killing a lot of time for what the game has to serve. Will keep an eye on if future patches and edit my review.

Fantastic game with great atmosphere, and I have fully enjoyed playing through it, but two things are stopping me from giving it a full 5 stars.
1) It ends semi-abruptly as far as scene pacing goes, where the Salvor is now encountering monsters, tentacles, and pirates for only one scene and there is no further scenes involving them.
2) The romance scenes are the only real culmination of the endings (unless I missed something). I wish there had been a couple of more romance scenes earlier on or after instead of just one romance scene which serves as the final hurrah.

This dev is adding onto one of his other games so hopefully there will be more scenes in the future, in which case, I will likely update my rating

I know a potential game when I see one, this one definitely a good game, both H game and game wise. It just 1.0 but I do hop for more update in the future

This not a must play game but if you look for some interesting game play then you really should try this

If you‘re a fan of voyeurism you will love this game. Since I am a fan of voyeurism, I absolutely fell in love with how the scenes in this game work. Although I am not a huge fan of transformation/expansion, it was executed in a really funny way in this game.

I really like that deep diving simulator where ur essentially telling her what to do, with different mechanics and interactions but I do think that some of the dialogues and interactions on the map could‘ve been faster. I know that it‘s used as a tool to mimic the communication aspect of the game but especially in the later maps that can get quite big and confusing, stuff like this takes away the fun a bit.

There is sadly only standing CG‘s in this game but I really love the variety brought in here. The girl has to deal with all sorts of stuff and u can only hear/see what she‘s doing and only interact directly with her in one of her endings. For people that hope for some action between the mc and the girl, this type of content is really scarce but she does get fucked alot by anything else.

Overall a very unique and fun experience, I hope the dev adds more content in the future or we get more games like this.

For gameplay, its exploration with great sound and atmosphere. Pretty slow going but interesting enough for 4 stars.

For hentai, it is a slow burn of still images and a few portrait animations. An interesting art style and nice pacing make it pretty decent. Not a huge amount for those like myself who enjoy more visual hentai.

[0.62] This game is fantastic. Its simple to understand, well made and very entertaining. It perfectly blends being a porn game with an actual game, which at this stage can have much development in any direction. If you enjoy voyeurism, this game is certainly for you. Its a bit slow to start with, but that is perfectly fine as the gameplay itself is enjoyable. Give it a go!

This game really surprised me. I went in with low expectations and left with a supercharged voyeurism kink.
Salvor DEEP is a point and click exploration game with a black and white pixel art style. This style at times seems to be a bit lacking in the detail necessary for an exploration game, but it doesn't detract from the overall experience. You play as a dirt poor salvor manager and hire a newbie who's down on her luck. As you play the game, more scenes unlock and the more exciting they become.

The gameplay can feel a bit slow at times due to the way that your character and the salvor communicate in game. That coupled with the only response options being Y or N, mean that sometimes you may feel a bit confused about how your character is going to respond to her. The ambiance is perfectly done, especially if you are wearing headphones. The music and effects will make you feel like you are actually overseeing her dive. Currently, (build 0.62) there are only ~4 full on sex scenes which is a little underwhelming considering how many levels you have to go through for the first one.

In regards to the scenes, there are plenty of lewd scenes, but most are stills of the salvor in enticing positions or her body being affected by certain mushrooms. There is 1 scene where she expands to a comical degree, so be warned or be excited (you do you, man). This game also perfectly captures the idea of voyeurism, having all the scenes involve the salvor by herself or with other salvors, but as for now, none with your character (Not really NTR, but if you see her as "yours" then beware, but there is a toggle to turn those scenes off). On top of this, she doesn't seem to be aware that you can hear and see everything she's doing, which is the icing on the cake for voyeur fans. For these reasons, I give it a 4/5 erring towards 4.5.

Bro this could end up being like a hentai equivalent of Duskers! Love the concept, and the art style. As others said its lacking in many ways but its early days yet. Conceptually its top-tier. The potential is outta this world! Dev, if you're reading this, and you haven't played Duskers, go play it for some inspiration. I feel like its essentially the same gameplay loop just without the terminal-based gameplay.

quick little review, at version 0.6 the game is a bit slow but very immersive and above all with excellent gameplay and interesting scenes, I recommend adding something more to the shop, even permanent perks in addition to the equipment to make everything more sequential and smoother