RPGM - Star Knightess Aura [v0.45.0] [aura-dev]

I really gave this game a fair shot. I played for a very long time (weeks in, in-game), actually reading the dialogue, getting into the story, etc. And let me tell you, "slow-burn" doesn't even begin to describe how glacial the pacing of this game's corruption is. Practically every scene in this game goes about like this:

"hey sexy girl can i touch your boobs over the clothes"
"ew no"
"i will give you 100 gold coins"
"ok fine"

And, another baffling mechanic: if you do too many corruption scenes in a short period of time, a bar will fill up. If it reaches the top, you instantly get a black screen + game over... what?! I swear, I had to fucking ration out my corruption scenes per in-game day so I could avoid a game-over. When I'm playing a porn game, I'm trying to get off, not do the math in my head of whether I can allow pervert #29 to grope my boobs without risking instant death...

Also, the game is tagged with things like "rape", "vaginal sex", etc. This isn't really the game's fault, more the tagging system on this site being ambiguous, but I wanted to point out for anyone who was reading this review and wondering: there is not only no 'defeat rape' scenes (which may be a good or bad thing depending on what you are into), but pretty much no rape scenes I could find whatsoever. I'm sure there's at least one, hence the tag, but I really cannot find it after searching for it for quite a while. And, as for vaginal sex, it took me hours of questing and generic JRPG grinding before I could get to that. Which I guess is par for the course for an uber-slow-burn corruption plot, so take that as you will.

Anyways, the adult content in this game is really lacking, the gameplay is timewasting, and the scenes are really not a good reward for it. The art is fantastic, though, I'll give them that.

Fantastic game.

The high concept is great, and it's very well executed on.

It has the best gameplay in any h game I've played. It's complex and compelling, and consistently provides a challenge that you can't grind your way out of. This in turn feeds into the corruption system, which is excellent design.

The writing is fantastic as well. The characterization is good, the plot is interesting, and just wanting to find out what happens next is reason enough to keep playing.

The H content isn't especially impressive in a vacuum, and the art quality is inconsistent, but the writing is so excellent that it doesn't really matter. The context in which things are happening is the real driving force that makes it good porn.

As many have mentioned, it's a very slow burn. For me, that's a big positive. As a wise man once said, it's all about the antici...

The biggest flaw with this game is that it's not complete. But there's constant visible progress, so I'm not worried, just impatient.

Honestly I don't think I have the ability to praise this game enough in one review. There will be things I leave out. But suffice it to say that this game is a legitimate masterpiece.

Star Knightess Aura is a very serious game masquerading as one of those dime-a-dozen RPGM H-games.
Which is kind of insane.

Don't get fooled by lewdness, first and foremost Aura is an actual JRPG with a rich world to explore, monsters to fight and character to progress. The amount of thought invested in the actual game in terms of mechanics, world building, exploration and customization is ridiculous. You could even take the story, make a solid anime out of it and no one would know any better.

Speaking of, even though the plot in its core is the classic "defeat the big bad demon king" trope (with a twist or two), the writing is superb, and never failed to get me immersed so far. The parts where you control Alicia feel vile and make you question corrupting Aura even if you embarked on the quest of collecting all the H-scenes.

Continuing with lewd scenes - these are also taken quite seriously, there are no typical defeat rape (thanks aura-dev, I hate those), rather the idea is that as Alicia erodes Auras values the later becomes more susceptible to taking shortcuts to achieve her goals. The world of Aura is challenging and unwelcoming, and one's body is just another tool or weapon after all, so shouldn't one be trying to maximize all chances to success?
Well, I guess we all know where this is going.
The corruption progression is slow and gradual, taking just one tiny step at the time, so that it never feels rushed or out of place. It will take time but that is also what makes it feel more believable.


Ah I could rave for a while about this game. It's insane. It's too much. And it will eat a big chunk of your time shall you allow it. I shudder to think about the amount of content that expects us shall this game be finished one day.

Star Knightess Aura is long, tough, serious, quite dark at times and is definitely not for everyone.
But boy does it leave an impression if you give it the time and attention it requires.
5 stars

It's a really great idea and the polish on this game is unreal, I still can't love it. The writing is definitely good and I'm sure many people will enjoy the in-debt world building and dialog, it's just too much for me personally.

I played this game a year ago and it felt promising. But I played it again now and I have changed my mind. There is not much progress in development, the game is veeeeeery slow paced to the point it gets boring. Actual erotic content is very limited, it feels like very early stage of development.

Art is good but holy FUCK you better remember who and where everyone is because this game won't assist you with it at all. Even if youve never met the NPC it simply says "Go see them" with no indication where they are or even the city, and no symbol to indicate you found them before speaking to them.
So hope you like talking to EVERY NPC on a map hoping its the right one.

FFS dude game design 101: Don't make your game tedious to just turn in quests.

2 stars ONLY because the art is good. But depending how annoying it gets with these NPCs it may go to 1.
YOU'RE MAKING A H GAME FOR CHRIST SAKE!

this is borderline not a porn game and more a game with some porn in it and a LOT of text.

if you're into corruption then you have to be in a pretty far end of it for this to work, as not only is it agonizingly slow going, it's a very emotional and psychological sort of character erosion that i don't think would be attractive to someone interested in the typical 'progressively seeking deeper sexual satisfaction' trope of corruption

it's also worth nothing the game is intentionally as obtuse and difficult as possible, even on an easy mode, requiring a guide unless you wanna stick with an experience that'll feel incomplete through no fault of your own. i think the game should be commended for the dev's commitment, it just feels counterproductive to the purpose a h-game should serve even if this ticks all of your boxes.

Always wondering how people can ruin good game concept. And why.
At base it`s has interesting corruption+mind control combo with non standart approach. With enough to be good writing.
But, despise all creativity in this, game meets you with standart tileset parts, sounds, images. Hell, it`s has overstandart demon king. A Villain type that more common than sock. Where gone all fairy tales from childhood?
And game has slow pacing. Very, very slow. You can play a week and see nothing new, content and story wise.
Very standart JRPG gameplay amplifies that. You do same shit over and over in hope of something. That may be not exist at all.

After nearly ten hours of grinding, I have seen one sex scene. I have just reached the money domain where I've just basically found out that I need to gamble all my stats away on story decisions. I would advise anyone without brain damage to stay away from this cancer inducing nonsense.

Despite having some interesting mechanics, and a promising central gameplay loop, it basically fails on all levels. It fails as an eroge, having few sex scenes and literally hours of gameplay between each. It fails as an RPG since the mechanics are, frankly, frustrating as fuck. You are required to grind and yet you are punished for grinding.

"But it has a new game plus mechanic!?!?!"

I don't fucking care. I've wasted ten hours on this nonsense. And, by my reckoning, that's about nine hours too many.

Pass. Fucking hard pass.

I played v0.33.0 a while back.

This is a fun game with lots of content. It gets pretty dark at times, but the protagonist's determination takes the edge off. The art is solid, and gameplay isn't boring. I'm eager to see how it progresses.

I'm all for slow corruption games, but i would expect a little more than 12 lewdness for 4h30 of game. It's slow but not realy in a good way, it actually drag on quite heavily.

The story, combats and mechanics are good though

It's just too sad that i don't download games from this platform for the story

Real game for real guys. It is really ez to corrupt but really hard to pure. If u want authentic, original and real story, u should try. If u want to just fap there is others ton of games for u not this one.

Very dialogue heavy, which sometimes takes me out of a scene. But generally solid as jrpgs go. And the corruption is done as a slow but meaningful burn.

If I had a complaint I wish you could opt out of certain corrupting aspects like bullying.

Shoutout to everyone recommending this as slow corruption.
Slow in this case being the understatement of the year.
The game tries so hard to compete as an actual RPG, it forgets the platform it was uploaded to.
Consider the preview pics as A+ bait.
You'll end up sitting through this bs for hours just to see a kiss scene.

First of all, you should know that although the game is full of H-tags, first of all it is a Game, and then everything else... So if you came for fap material, then you will be disappointed.
But I was looking for the Game , so I'm satisfied.
Although, I played only a third and decided to postpone until the release. The game, though long, is linear and plot-oriented, so playing now will reduces the pleasure of playing the full game in release.
Anyway, great plot and dialogues. Suitable music and Umenico vibe. The only thing I would like to see is more sprites of minor characters... and CG without lewd or h

Good RPG, not great H game.

It just asks too much of you in my opinion, regarding fetch quests, extremely long strings of dialogue, lots of grinding and tough, occasionally lengthy boss fights - the slow corruption aspect is compelling but it's just an insane crawl to get there.

As far as rarity goes in an overall sense (gameplay/combat/story/script-writing), this would be at the very top.

I was looking for a game to wank, instead got addicted in playing the game and having lots of fun.

As for the lewds, in comparison with it's other aspects mentioned above, by far it would be the weakest of them all. (no animation and art scenes not hot enough imo)

"Hi
First of all, let me say that i an a bit biased toward corruption games so the 4star is 3star rating if i want to be honest.
Lets start with graphics: up to standard compared to similar works.
Sound: genric rpgmaker
Gameplay:long, balanced,proper new game+,limited resources,2 sided gameplay
Story:corruption of a smug 'genius' heroine.
H-content: sparse not a good fap material
Summary: it is a well made corruption story/game that may cause you mental/moral conflict that ruins the h-content.
Playing against yourself is a really really idea."
Lets give this rating an update outside the above.
First of all it finally deserves 4x due to deepening the corruption story line. To be honest the content too long and h-content is too sparse for a h-game, that and the idea of playing against yourself prevents 5x rating.

To anyone wondering whether they should hop into this game: "Not yet".

It's closer to a text based RPG than an actual H-game, but thats because the story was fleshed out first without CGs. As they update the game, they trickle in CGs for previous events. While this is fine, that means you could play for literal hours without seeing any nudity.

I think when the full game comes out, it'll be really good. However, until then it feels like an extremely long grindfest with very little payoff. If you have hours (and I do mean, hours) of time to kill and like extremely slowburn text corruption, you'll enjoy this. If not? Then I'd say to wait for the full release as the current pacing of the game feels extremely sluggish for the content you recieve.

Loved the game , so far development seems very good and decent level of dedication by dev. Can't wait fo full release , i just wish it had animations , it'd be iciing on the cake


Pros - Very good art, decent plot , good nsfw scenes

cons - little slow on development side.