VN - Others - Completed - Starless: Nymphomaniac’s Paradise [Final] [Empress]

Starless: Nymphomaniac’s Paradise presents itself as a luxury product within its genre, an ambitious and uncompromising work that is, however, not for everyone. Like a film by an extreme auteur, it divides its audience sharply and irrevocably, leaving little room for indifference.
Strengths: An Undeniably Rich Production
The first impression is stunning. The artistic style is of the highest level, with detailed character designs, well-crafted expressions, and backgrounds that help create an atmosphere that is both opulent and claustrophobic. The visual quality is far superior to the average indie production and promises a premium experience.
The story, although linear, works as a solid framework. Don't expect intricate branching or a complex choice system; the game aims to guide the player through a precise narrative, almost like witnessing a decadent drama. This direct approach has its merits, especially for those seeking a coherent plot that progresses smoothly.
Finally, the production effort is monumental. The game is very long and offers a huge amount of content. The scenes, which are lengthy, are built with a dilated pace, giving time to immerse oneself in the events and dynamics between the characters. In terms of quantity and duration, Starless undoubtedly offers a complete experience that seeks to fully justify its price.
Weaknesses: A Taste That Defines the Experience
It is precisely in its ambition, however, that its most evident limitations lie. The main criticism is not technical, but related to content and taste. The statement "many scenes that last a long time" becomes a double-edged sword here. While the length is a sign of generosity, it also amplifies the core content, which is extremely explicit and non-vanilla.
The game's sexual content consistently pushes beyond conventional boundaries, immersing itself in themes of pronounced domination, submission, and fetish. The sex scenes are absolutely not vanilla, and this aspect is not a marginal detail, but the very core of the work. For an unprepared player or one not interested in these specific themes, the experience can quickly turn from intriguing to unpleasant, oppressive, or simply boring.
The long duration of these sequences, combined with their extreme nature, risks creating a sense of saturation and fatigue, making progression a arduous march through territories that can be disturbing. The game does not ask the player to adapt, but to fully embrace its vision; if this does not align with one's own tastes, the entire structure collapses.
Final Judgment
Starless: Nymphomaniac’s Paradise is a paradox: a technical masterpiece for a very narrow niche and a potentially inaccessible experience for the vast majority of players.
Final Recommendation: This is a game to be purchased only with a full and conscious understanding of one's own tastes and what the title offers. It is not a generalized erotic experience, but a total and uncompromising immersion into a very specific fetish aesthetic. Its technical excellence is undeniable, but its content is so polarizing that it defines its accessibility.
Final Rating: 3 (Average)
This rating reflects the balance between a high-level technical execution (which alone would deserve a 4) and thematic content so niche and polarizing that it drastically limits its appeal and enjoyability outside of its specific target audience. It is "average" as a universal experience, but it could be "excellent" for its ideal viewer.

This is what you get when you take the Aristocrats joke and stretch it across 50 hours. It fails at everything. It's not arousing. It's not profound. It's not engaging. It's just a mess soaked in blood, piss, shit, cum and other bodily fluids, with nothing to say and no entertainment value. Plus, it is a colossal waste of gorgeous artwork.

I want to rate it 0 star. Degenerate, disgusting. So this is how the concubines from the past times were tortured...

This is the ultimate femdom game, a lot of things are well made(femdom, various fetishes, art, distinction personalities), but man, it's just too over the top and unrealistic. I know it's a porn game, but realism is what separates a mid vn from a top tier one.
And after witnessing the degeneracy level, all the later sex scenes felt like nothing to me. got only 1 fap out of it. But I still finished it just to know the ending plots and how they came to be.
If I ignore those disgusting porn parts, the story is pretty dark and interesting. I think there were like 10 endings and only 1 was good. Which was satisfying if you ask me. And the bad ones were also equally interesting if not more.

So, just for the interesting plot points, I give it 3/5. Man, even thinking about the sex scenes make me feel sick...

If this game was made at the time of slaves, maybe this game would become a eye opener to that society!

Hello,

I dropped this one, but I played for a good few hours. I didn’t like the story; it was kind of confusing to me, but it probably gets clearer in the later parts of the game. I really can’t get behind the Empress character's design; something just feels off to me. The background and art, in general, are done well. Good, sexy voice acting and pleasant music. Definitely, the biggest selling point of this game is the vast amount of more extreme/uncommon fetishes, and I think that they made those sex scenes very hot and fun. I probably need to finish this game.
Have a great day lads:3

Some appealing elements but the execution is off. Most of what I’m going to say is echoed in other reviews.

The art is high quality although I am personally not a fan of the lack of body variety among the characters. All the men are twinks aside from some faceless ugly bastards and all the women have HHH breasts. The interface is not as bad as some Japanese games. Nevertheless, one primarily engages with the game by clicking millions and millions of times to move dialogue onwards, which is tiring. Also, there is sound, but I had to mute because I can’t listen to the same squelching sound effect 2000 times during a scene without going insane.

The game is focussed on femdom, a fair bit of it quite extreme or depraved. This is fine by me, it’s searching for this that brought the VN to my attention. So on paper the sexual content does it for me. And admittedly some of the scenes are pretty hot, although I think there’s a bit of an over-focus on fluids rather than BDSM.

In practice, the writing robs the scenario of a lot of excitement. The MC is hard to bear – even after days of perverted fucking he maintains a general reluctance and awkwardness about sex as if its all new each time. After the first day anyone with two brain cells would realise that being at this place involves depraved sex acts and stop being so surprised every time! Classic erotic game problem – if the MC is going to be such an idiot just make them a blank cipher for the player, don’t tell me their every moronic thought!

The other writing issue is that it’s overly long-winded. Each scene, even just walking down a corridor, has many lines to click through, and the sex scenes are really long. Longer than they need to be. For me it sucks considerable energy out of things.

So yeah, overall I think that the game is a glossy and intriguing exploration of some quite fucked up femdom, which is appealing. But the execution drags.

P.S. Also, I wish it had an ending for each of the major characters.

Great game, Superb design and voice acting, perhaps its most atractive feat.

A bit slow and lagging at the beginning, but it pays off in the end when the plots advance. A very immersive experience.

Came to the game after watching the Hentai adaptation from years ago, and just with a couple of endings achieved it totally expanded and improved the lore. There is just a limit of how much you can fit in a couple of OVAs.

The art style and voice acting are good!
Mature Ladies are always beautiful and gorgeous.
It is not really bad as other people said in my option. ( Never mind )
This visual novel is not for everyone.
Hope you all still have normal day or night after reading this visual novel. edited

Overall it is a very good game and it probably has some of the most creative and imaginative scenes I’ve seen in a H game. I spent 11.5 hours and unlocked all the endings. Even though it says 30-50 hours to complete, this is only if you listen to every single voiceline and don’t make any saves during the choices (which determine the ending). For anyone interested in playing this game, I would highly recommend you to play it fully to completion and unlock all the endings – if I had just stopped playing after unlocking my first ending, I would have been unsatisfied and disappointed with the game.

TL;DR

Good
-Incredibly creative and imaginative scenes
-Art is high quality and character design is hot
-Has a huge range of fetishes (including some of my preferred obscure ones like: cum drinking, cum bath, wedding scenes)
- There IS a good ending, amongst many bad ones
-The game does a good job of balancing multiple endings without being overly complex
-There is a button to fast forward (thank god for this)

Bad
-The scat & bestiality patch is mostly scat, there are only a few bestiality scenes during some of the endings
-Scenes can sometimes be too long with too much text and unnecessarily many ejaculations
-Audio is quite repetitive
-MC is a bit too retarded at times
-A bit unrealistic at times (e.g. the fact that no one has tried to kill the Mamiyas is absurd)
-Only buttons to progress dialogue is ‘enter’ or mouse1, can’t use space bar

Good & Bad
-There is a logical, albeit retrospective, correlation between making a choice and the ending pathway it unlocks, but there is often no way to predict what outcome you will get beforehand
-Very fucked up game in terms of depravity and fetishes


Full review (SPOILERS)

Being a VN with multiple endings, the story is quite important. The story is fairly interesting at the start with certain elements of shock and mystery, and you can see from the internal dialogue at how the MC gradually adjusts to life at the mansion. After I unlocked my first ending, I was quite disappointed with the choices in the story, I felt that they had very little relevance to the outcome and MC’s fate. However, once I began unlocking the other endings, I did see how there is a correlation between the choices and the endings. Despite this, I still think it’s not possible to foresee how some choices can lead to certain outcomes. One example is the ‘New Family’ ending which is triggered once you peep on Mikako. I get it, you peep, you have sex and form some sort of ‘connection’ with her and then when she is getting sold off you can buy her – I do see the correlation between the choice and the ending. But my problem with this is that you absolutely cannot predict that this would happen when making the choice in the first place. There really should’ve been a choice between choosing to save Mikako or not (and if you choose not to, then it just circles back to some other ending pathway); there is absolutely no logical reason that the MC would spend the entirety of his earnings to save her at that point. Even though the choices are unpredictable (and maybe it’s like this intentionally?) I do understand the difficulty of having multiple endings and balancing that with having meaningful choices, and I think the dev did a good job of balancing having multiple endings without being too complex (compare this to GGGB which is just way too complex).

The first ending I got was the ‘new master’ ending, which occurs if you peek and then don’t lend the money. Again, when making these choices, there was absolutely no way I could’ve predicted the outcome from just these 2 choices. When I first got the ending, I was really disappointed because of how stupid the MC was for letting the vase fall to the floor. I felt that this plot decision was bullshit, unprompted, and came out of nowhere, and I felt like the author had to do a plot twist to get the MC into a shitty ending. However, once I began unlocking the other endings, it obviously became clear that the Mamiyas did set MC up and it wasn’t ‘out of nowhere’, so this certainly shows how the game is better when you play to completion and get the whole experience. And once again, for the ‘new master’ ending, I do see in hindsight some correlation between the ending and the choices. By choosing to peek initially, you see the sort of ‘sex slave trade’ going on between the rich families which does correlate to the MC being sold off as a sex slave later, and by refusing to help Sachie, she steals all of the MC’s money, leading him to become a sex slave.

I do like that the game does have a good ending (New World) given that the majority of other endings are just so horrible to the MC or Mitarai or Sachie. I wish there was an ending where the MC gets revenge on the Mamiyas and either kills them or successfully steals from them. It is a bit absurd that in the whole game, not a single person has tried to kill them, and I’m not counting Mikako’s husband’s attempt, because the game has clearly shown it would be easy to do so as the MC has easy access to all the Mamiyas.

The characters in this game are pretty good given that they aren’t completely one-dimensional. Even though the Mamiyas are very clearly sadistic, and they aren’t likable (they aren’t meant to be), there is still some sort of personality. I think one issue with the characters in this game is that the MC doesn’t really get time to develop any relationships with them, there is no character development because the game essentially just time skips whenever there is no ‘plot’. I understand that this would obviously ramp up the time taken to play the game but I think it would’ve made some of the endings a bit better. For example, the ‘New Family’ ending would’ve been better if there was more development of the relationship between MC and Mikako because then it wouldn’t have felt so forced when the MC pays for her. I think there is a pretty good amount of dialogue and stuff with Mitarai, but with all the other characters, it just didn’t feel like enough. I think there should’ve been more interaction with Makoto (as he’s the only other guy servant) and Sachie (during the work rather than just us seeing the MC’s thoughts at the end of every shift) and others.

One thing I didn’t like about the characters – more specifically the MC himself, is that I think he is just so spineless, and he isn’t really a likeable MC. I’m not expecting some sort of gigachad or anything, but my guy is just such a pushover, he allows Sachie to be a lazy bitch and he does nothing at all when the Mamiyas say he has to get married to Mikako (in the New Family ending). Even in the ‘flower of evil’ ending, he only goes down that path because he is a pussy. Games and shows and other media are generally more enjoyable when the MC isn’t such a pansy because we have to see from his POV and it’s just not interesting when he’s so spineless.

The character design and art are really good and definitely a highlight of the game. The art is high quality, and the characters are designed so that they don’t look like carbon copies of one another. Even though there isn’t much variety in terms of breast size (Which personally is fine for me because they are a good size), the characters do look unique and that can’t be said for some other games! For the actual scenes, I do wish there was some animation, but it’s not the worst issue because the CGs are still good. The scenes are still good because the text description is pretty creative and good, and the voice acting is good (even though I skipped most of it, but it still adds something to the game). However, in general, the scenes were just way too long and there were too many ejaculations which felt unrealistic, unnecessary, and it would’ve been better if the scenes were shorter. I also think the audio is just way too repetitive, not just the sound effects, but also there are like 3 different songs that play depending on the atmosphere of the scene and it’s just kinda lame. The scenes are pretty easy to obtain as I used the ‘endings chart’ to make saves at certain points. I am glad that there is an effective fast-forward button, but I do wish there was either a ‘skip option’, or the fast-forward automatically stops when I reach new dialogue, as sometimes when I was trying to unlock a different ending, I would accidently fast-forward too much and miss some content.

The main draw to this game is the fetishes and the depravity. I do really appreciate the abundance of different fetishes, especially obscure ones like cum baths and wedding scenes, and I really like the cum drinking. There were many other fetishes that were either enjoyable or OK for me. The only fetish I didn’t like was the scat, and this is technically an optional one since you have to download the patch, but I only downloaded the patch for the bestiality and not the scat. I wish they were either separate patches or if there was an option to toggle scat, especially since there is so much more scat than bestiality, and the bestiality pretty much only appears in the endings, so I just watched a bunch of scenes with scat for no reason.

One last 'problem' is that the only buttons to progress the text is either the 'enter' key or 'Mouse 1', which is annoying that the spacebar doesn't have any function and there's no option to change the keybinds. It's only a small thing of course but it does detract a bit from experiencing the game.

Overall, despite quite a few issues, this game is still very good and I would recommend it. If you do play this game, I implore you to play it to the fullest and unlock at least a few endings, don’t just stop at one because it’s a completely different experience. This game is probably the most fucked up game I’ve ever played and I guess if you’re a H-game enthusiast, then you just have to play this one to tick it off the list.

Not as bad as people say it is but definitely has kink that some people will find appealing... or not. Plot wise it's simple: Survive the really high paying job with your sanity and life intact for two weeks in the household of a morally depraved but extremely wealthy family.

Scat and bestiality is common later in the game should you keep making the wrong choices, and I would even argue there are no clean vanilla routes as desires from the rich claim victims of our main character and fellow workers' sanity. Theme:

Art is best quality a VN can ask for and kink factors are mild. Voice acting is your typical hentai. Recycling scenes is quite common. Cannot recall precious decisions except through saves. Long game. Some decisions carry weight while others don't carry anything.

Kinks are what they are. I'm not rating those. The only thing to note on that front, is that there is a LOT. There should be something to love and something to hate for everyone.

I also have to preface, that I don't really like VNs all that much. Usually. But I was willing to try this one, because the art is sooo good. The eclectic mix of fetishes also appealed to me. But nope. This is not for me. I didn't make it far.

The main problem here, is how long winded every scene is. They are awfully looooong. It's not that I hate reading, but it's just way too much. Looking at an online gallery of Starless, you think, that there is a lot of art. And indeed, you get about 2-3 pictures per scene (not counting variations), which is good. But every scene is the length of a short story in itself. And that is not an overstatement. More the opposite, actually.
That wouldn't be so bad, if the writing was any good. But it isn't. It's painfully unintersting. Most of it is just superfluous filler. Endless descriptions of things, that you can already see in the pictures and endless repetition. Every scene has to have at least 5 ejaculations, usually many more, and each one is a little story in itself.
If you plan to have a wank during a scene, forget about it. No one can stay erect for that long. It's a marathon. Of boredom.

Another negative are the choices or the lack thereof. Very rarely do they have any impact on the story. Usually you just get one or two different lines of dialogue.

Also, the sound effects are terrible, but that seems to be par for the course for these kind of VNs.

All in all a pitiful waste of a VN. It had potential. Interesting characters, an unbelievably debauched setting and, again, phenomenal art.
Fuck.


tl;dr
If you need a tl;dr, you shouldn't try out this VN, because it is freakishly long and the writing uninteresting. Read an overview of the story and find a gallery instead.

if you are here, then you have found what you are looking for, because are good, but have some extremes be warned, art is wonderful, story is engaging and gets dark... but have 13 endings so maybe you'll find something you like in the end

Has some fetishes that appeal to me, and the art is pretty gorgeous. But it's bogged down by an infinite amount of aimless dialogue. I couldn't get through it due to boredom. Marika being a futa also took me somewhat by surprise.

*Minor Spoilers*
For games with pure debauchery this is a top contender. If you're in one of those moods where vanilla isnt cutting it for you and need something really fcked up, I cant recommend this enough. The premise is a college student in need of money who answers an add that seems too good to be true, and soon finds out that it is. A family of very wealthy and powerful sadistic nymphomaniacs are hiring "help" at their mansion, and basically turn them into sex slaves. The story is nothing revolutionary, but its straightforward and relatively believable seeing as the ultra rich can get away with pretty much anything. The characters are great, each have their own unique personality, dialogue is top notch and doesnt feel cheesy at any point, and the females are voiced! As for the spicy content it has a wide array of fetishes, mainly femdom themed, often pretty extreme, but very well done. Personally I would of liked a bit more foot content, but other than that I cant complain. I am also not a huge fan of rape, as I like everyone involved to be getting off, but that is somewhat remedied in this because everyone in the mansion is constantly drugged with aphrodisiacs, so even the non-willing participants are usually writhing in ecstacy. Plus there are multiple endings which range from good, to worst thing you could imagine. All in all, for those that need a dark taboo itch scratched, this game will do the trick.

I was afraid the game would make me angry with some NTR but suprisingly enough it didn't. You get to fuck some beauties, you get paid for it, you even get to take a girl's virginity.

I would have liked to see more futa scenes where Marika fucks a girl or she herself gets fucked in her pussy by the MC. I didn't like the scenes where Marika(the futa girl) fucks the mc with her dick in his mouth and ass...
I also didn't like the fact that in the Marika ending she tries to get pregnant with her own sperm and not the MC's...

But above all, what I don't like the most is that you don't get to take SOME FUCKING REVENGE.
It's way too unrealistic, even for the setting of this game, that no one tried to kill either Marie, Marisa, Marika or all of them. Well Mikako's husband tries to but that's such a poor excuse of an attempt. I would have liked to see the Mamiya family tortured or at the very least killed.

Oh yeah, the game is way too long too. Way too much useless text. And after you sit through all of that you don't even get a satisfying ending unless you can get a hearty laugh out of the bad ones because the "good" ones aren't good enough as a payoff. I mean.. there's no revenge ending you know?

great art and voice acting, the story is so vanilla it actually bored me away from this game. the characters have little variance from each other and seeing the same body template with a different face isn't that fun.

The game has a crazy amount of scenes and fetishes that it covers with amazing art where seishoujo always does a great job. The premise of everything is very interesting but in the end I'd almost just call it a nukige (which I find boring personally and would typically give a 1-2/5).

Spoiler TLDR: Good premise, no pay off, therefore disappointing story


PS: make sure to uninstall the extra uncensor patch if you want the good stuff.

Version: Final

Ah, the classic game where boys become men. Truly a fucked up experience of either simple vanilla or truly fucked up fetishes. Its been a few years since i last played it, but im still going to Putin this review here for nostalgia sake.

guys, i think its necessary to appraise tihs game:excellent!! if u haven't play STARLESS,just try to once,this is the best game i have palyed, soooooo amazing !!!!!!!just because one word"Empress".i have palyed it many times

I normally don't care for "cartoon" style artwork. But these are done EXCELLENTLY!!!
They are beautiful models, well drawn and believable proportions, rather than comical breasts and asses.
The story is enjoyable. Lots of action with multiple characters. Something for most people's tastes.
I envy the MC and wish that I could find such a job. I wouldn't made being a slave to 3 beautiful woman. Bathing and "entertaining" them with plenty of lavish care.

This game is pretty good. The body proportions for the women are sexy as hell, and the art is great. A few downsides that I consider are how there is way too much text that it becomes a hard off sometimes. There is also some extreme content such as belly bloating, reverse urethral pumping, faint Beastiality, and guro. But since I'm the type of person who doesn't really give a damn about anything since I'm pretty much deep in the abyss it doesn't affect me as much. For others who are light of heart, I can't say though. Overall I'd give this game a 7/10.