RPGM - Star Knightess Aura [v0.50.1] [aura-dev]

I would say that this game is leaning more toward being an RPG game with lewd tendencies. Prepare for a slow corruption, but with a lot of detail and various ways to do so. It takes a lot of time to invest in going through the game, and things can get difficult and tricky at times, but if you do then you will be rewarded with the game's strongest suit, it's story. Amazing and engaging writing. Everything from the main story, to characters uniqueness, to simple side quests, and lots of twists and turns. If the dev wasn't making this I'd advice the dev to get into general writing.

Best corruption game i've played so far.
Art is currently a bit lacking but the story makes up for it thanks to the great characters, dialogues and the very good and motivated corruption pacing.
If it gets finished with some more cg it will be a masterprice.

to be honest the game is coming well nicely.. game mechanics are interesting ..speaking of the corruption factor I dont think any other have done it better well i know for now as i write this its still unfinished but great job so far .. its a biit too long till next H scene anditfeels rewarding if you can unlock it .. but its also frustrating cause of how scarce those scenes are and mainly enjoy the slow corruption on moral level not sexual level .. and keeps you wantig to see that charachter devlopement..I dont understand why I like it so much cause i know I shouldnt buti truly do

It's a good game. The dev cares, the bugs are smashed quickly, the story is written well. The main mechanic is a new and interesting take on the corruption element that I really enjoy. The game is really easy to just get into and play, but unfortunately, as of 10/2/21 there still aren't many images. If you are a highly visual person you may need to wait for those. There are standing portraits and a couple of visual scenes, but most things are still text with one of those standing portraits.

TL;DR : Great game, good dev, well written and fun. Lacks most of the artwork. Only reason it's 4 and not 5.

Surprisingly amazing!

Gameplay:
The gameplay is great. It's not grindy, has breaks and transitions with surprise elements so you're always looking forward to what happens next. Usually, I don't sit for long times playing adult games from start to finish but this got me hooked. Definitely a good, balanced video game first. The dev has shown great game design fundamentals, not sure if they're a veteran.

Story:
The story may appear relatively linear but there is a lot of player input, you get to decide what order a lot of things happen and you're not necessarily forced to do stuff. I REALLY hope the dev reads this and keeps it that way (especially in the appearance of MC, at least have options that make minimal changes, I love her as she is, excited for tan though).


Graphics:
Now let's address the elephant in the room: The CGs. Usually, I only play full CG games, I have abandoned some games I liked because reading text got too tedious, if you are the same then I can assure you that this game misses nothing so far[0.11]. The scenes that don't have CG don't necessarily need it and the ones that do are great. I HOPE the dev keeps it that way, I can't mention another game but trust me, it is a major buzzkill to have missing graphics in sex scenes. I will try to support the dev so that they can afford CGs. But so far, it is a PERFECT BALANCE.


TL;DR A MUST PLAY!!! Enjoyed every second of it and the WIP stuff is very interesting. (very keen on the tan implementation lol)

A fantastic game for people with a triple digit IQ. Don't expect an easy fap, expect to be engrossed and taken for a ride. Very challenging gameplay at times, but don't let it discourage you - consider going story mode if you are having issues. It gets really good after a few hours in.

The corruption mechanic and ordinary (non-playable) day / fantasy-world (playable) night cycle is very well thought out and implemented. Like others are saying, I can't wait for future updates.

Also, quick tip to newbs:
This game doesn't play like most other RPGM games. You can die in 1 hit, and you often have to perfectly plan out an encounter in order to survive it.
Pay attention to the "Tactical Advantage" mechanic (a gear showing up over you / enemy's head). You get it by using a specific form of magic/attack on that type of enemy. It makes the next attack a massive crit.

Loving it so far. Agreed with the guy who said that this game's biggest problem is simply that it isn't finished yet. Really cool corruption system, great flow of gameplay with the Persona style school events -> evening RPG exploration and questing. Also, the music is fantastic and similarly reminiscent of Persona.

I would probably play this even if I wasn't jerking off to it, which is the highest praise I can give.

The game is really good! I like the story and I was really giving attention to the plot, the scenes are not the best but have big potential , if you like an rpg like final fantasy/Isekai, that's the game, and the female character makes everything better. Play this game and have many fun as I.

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A game with lots of potential and decent current content.

Disclaimer: Don't expect much in the line of sexual content as of v0.10.1.

I highly recommend not skipping the prologue as it's very important for lore and get you very invested in Aura. As an aside it made me so pissed off that I went for a complete purity run the first time.

The corruption mechanics are fairly novel and makes a lot more sense than the alternatives. The game is very good at showing you the effect each individual change has done so far and truly excited for the future.

Main & side quests are actually consequential - expanding the world, the scope of problems, motivations of various characters and also diving into who Aura is.

Review: You'll love the game and hate that there isn't more yet.

At this version 0.10 the game does not have a lot of lewd content in it but it is clear to see where the game is heading and the framework that has been prepared is close to perfection, a mind control game that I am almost certain will blow the others out of the water once the flesh of this game starts appearing.

Looks extremely promising, so promising that I stopped playing after an hour or so because I noticed content was missing and I wanted to wait until I get the full experience. This coming from someone who is easily bored by 99.5% of the games, adult and normal ones.

I just love this game and am curious to see where it will go. The corruption might be longer than in some games but in my opinion it is really good since it does not break any immersion. Well handled. There is not a lot of cg content but I think that will change in the future. Any person following this game will see how much love actually goes into it and I really like the gameplay. I feel like there are so many things to explore and new things to learn. Even in my third playthrough I noticed a few things that I missed or did not interact with. It's always fun to see those or new interaction. I love it!

Well, at least in this stage of development, you have to like really slow, gradual mental and emotional manipulation/corruption to enjoy this game...and I do. Whenever I play a game with corruption of the noble heroine, I actually lose interest once she becomes totally corrupted. For me, it is the journey that interests me, not the destination (as long as the journey seems like a natural progression and not just a game developer milking the audience or not knowing how to wrap it up).
If you are the type to want the heroine to rapidly fall into total depravity and fuck everything around her, this is definitely not the game for you. If you enjoy a very gradual psychological transformation then this is an absolute gem. This is one of my favorite games I have played on this site and I very much look forward to the continuation of the story.

...If this comes out on Steam, I'm buying it.

Aura-Dev has been one of the most responsive, active and sincere developers I've seen on this site. Not something you'd expect from an adult game developer, but something that I appreciate and notice in the game's quality.

Though unfinished, this game is already higher quality than some "completed" games I've seen, and I'm not even limiting that to adult games.

Yes, it's and RPG Maker game, and I know that turns a lot of people off from the get-go, but this game's narrative quality and sandbox-style progression almost makes that irrelevant to me.

In short, this is one of the few high-quality games I've seen, that the developer themselves uploaded here, and I'd be willing to spend money on despite being able to play it for free with the dev's blessing.

It is a very well made corruption game with visual changes and great story. Currently it is still in its early stages but the developer sets a fast pace with meaningful updates. The art style is consistent and really makes the game appealing.

tl;rd: Mixed bag, rpg elements are very good but all characters are unrelatable and I don't like anyone.

Game offers quite novel structure - de facto those are two games in one. One part is typical RPGM corruption game where main heroine does quests and gets corrupted on way. This is quite standard but I enjoyed difficulty, plot and quests. 5/5 for this part.

Second part is corruption of schoolgirl. You spend points earned in fantasy world to change subconscious of main heroine and then watch results passively - scenes from her school life. This part seems quite random and lacking. I often unlocked some part and nothing happened or something was locked because some other corruption had to be unlocked first. Scenes are written well but because it's all passive I bet in long run this will be just linear VN pushing forward by unlocks (with "pure" route as just skipping this completely).

The weakest point imho is characterisation. Antagonists are irrational and scheming convoluted plots to achieve their goals, but this is typical for all genres, we can live with it. On the other hand main heroine is stereotypical nerd with superpowers (in real world she is self-defence master), she is cool, has a lot of friends, reads a lot of books, top grades, always protects weaker (resorting to violence at slightest provocation). On the other hand is super prude getting "corruption points" even when pretending to be someone's girlfriend. I feel motivations behind her are arbitrary or she is just emotionally immature. This character reminds me protagonists from movies like Karate Kid who are "good" even when bullying or beating shit out of others because writer's license. Also adults are absent in school, rape threats seems something normal yet our heroine laughs at them, there are few scenes like this and for me it's unbelievable even in games.

Novel concept, novel execution, and very fun writing. Currently, the erotic content is still somewhat minimal, but this is the kind of game that does in fact make up for it with fun gameplay. Looking forward to every update.

The story for this game is well told and interesting the gameplay is fun and balanced well the characters are well written and unique like the d guys are clearly bad guys and the hero is character who changes based off the decisions you make this game has loads of potential but is early in development definitely needs more lewd content and draw out lewd scenes but as far as gameplay its solid support the creator if you can would be 5-5 if there was more lewd content but still a good play

Pretty decent game. So normally in this kind of game I'm pretty much "How fast can we turn this girl into a raging slut?" But man, the villain protaganist (Alicia) and main antagonist (Richard) are SO IMMENSELY HATEABLE that I'm defaulting to a purity route.

Anyway, so as you'd expect, the game is mostly about doing things the easy way (which progresses corruption) or the hard way, which usually involves either some trial and error, strategy, or coming back later with levelling up to succeed at. It's worth noting that a purity run on story mode is still not 'faceroll' easy until you've levelled up some, and even then you can lose fights if you're completely afk braindead'ing on them.

In normal mode, you really have to work at it to avoid having to use the corruption increasing IWIN button. Some of the fights are pretty hard if you don't know the strategy or if you just aren't properly prepared.

Anyway, so there's not much lewd content yet - The farthest it can get is you give a handjob to a rando basically. The art where it exists is pretty good, but most of it is just dialogue descriptions currently.

I believe this is either a single or very small dev team, but I hope they implement a 'turned slutty but still kicks the shit out of the 2 villains" route.

I have played around 6-8 hours of Star Knightess as of update 0.9.1 and I can safely say that is a very good RPGM game with a lot of potential.

Positives
- The worldbuilding. The universe that exists within the game is fun and interesting enough to explore that I almost didn't mind the complete lack of 'real-life' content at the school. The Demon King Richard and his horde are a solid threat to the world.
- Female Protagonist/Mind Control. This seems to be the main hook of the game that differentiates it. You're basically playing as two female protagonists. The main character and the secondary main character who is attempting to corrupt them and alter their mind. It's cool. I wish there was more to it.
- Combat System. The turn-based combat in the game is perfectly fine. No complaints especially since there is an 'easy mode' if you just want to experience the story and the sex scenes (which will go in the negatives) .

Negatives
- Too Grindy. By this I don't mean it in the traditional sense. You have to grind through a lot of the 'fantasy world' story with unfortunately almost no developments to the mind control story or the corruption element. Almost all of my 7 or so hours was spent in the 'fantasy world' rather than the 'real world' or in the mind palace making meaningful changes.
- No Content. The fact of the matter is in this current build there is no sexual content. You have an animated kiss scene which is the most you get and then a description of a handjob. In 7 hours that's all there is that I experienced in terms of that element of the game. Which wouldn't be a problem if this game wasn't on F95.

Conclusion
What this game needs is some quicker progression on the mind control and corruption components. I was disappointed with how little time was spent making actual changes to the main protagonist and seeing those changes occur in the 'real world'. That's when things will begin to pick up but as of now I would say Star Knightess is well and truly still in the beginning/introductory stage of the game and it could be quite awhile until we see more.

Final Verdict
Put it on the watchlist; keep an eye on it; wait and see.