RPGM - Stigma of Corruption: Nightbound Courier [v0.43] [Lactose Quest]

People in the reviews are completely ignoring the vanilla route, which is pretty good to great I'say. The developer has clearly worked on it with passion, it's not an afterthought. I mean, the story isn't particularly original, but it's still well executed and engaging.

The art is fantastic and (imo) so is the art style, there are great additions you don't see in your typical RPG Maker game, like the animated sprite of a gigantic dragon, (but the game itself is slightly buggy, maybe that's due to the English patch) which doesn't look out of place at all in the map and sound is great. The "voiced" tag is missing but FMC has a few voice lines (more like 4 noises and 3 words) actually, they help with immersion more than you'd expect.

By far one of the most outstanding (vanilla) H-RPG games I have ever played.

They haven't completely ducked up the pacing with this route either. I can't think of any moment where the story felt rushed to me.
Hopefully, hopefully, they won't drop the ball with the full release and maybe even fix the absurd NTR pacing. Please devs, (mostly) stick to your ideas without listening to vocal minorities that want your game to be just a clone. 0 ->100 in half an hour = cheap and stupid, only fitting for interactive gallery garbage with random default RPGM battles to .

Edit:

I love this developer. Almost made me want to donate my entire lifesavings.

This is what he had to say on DLSite. Sorry brother I won't talk shit anymore.


PS: I forgot to mention. MC is NOT stupid in the vanilla path, beyond the usual Japanese passiveness. Of course I should keep from the Hero the unimportant information that both his buddies have already been corrupted. Before I found out, we talked about the powers of the evil guy and how he may have already corrupted his friends, but he also told me, out of pure hopium, he needs to trust them! So now, I won't do anything with this new information. Duh.

The game started off really well, with the pacing feeling natural and every event flowing into the next. Nothing came across as forced or rushed. But once the game became popular, the dev made the mistake of thinking the people complaining about the slower build-up were the majority. Instead of staying consistent, he suddenly pushed the corruption from 10% to 100% in a single update. The transition feels abrupt and skips over all the tension that made the earlier parts so engaging. What could have been a slower (NOT SLOW), rewarding progression turned into a rushed payoff, and it really wasted the game’s potential.

Very, very promising. I loved the art style, the CG scenes were creative, the NTR situations were good (ofc, in NTR games the MC is just stupid).
The current work left me wanting more and more. Unfortunately, the game will be released until Jan. 2026, but rest assured that I'll wait for it and come back here to make a proper review.

Has a lot of potential, with a cute main heroine alongside side character ntrs, and one of the few dlsite games with English included. The path diverges at the end, following either the merchant (fat bastard archetype?) or blacksmith (ace of spades route?), so will likely take two playthroughs to see everything. Several of the current scenes offer different perspectives (MC, heroine, man), and art style is fairly good so far.

Downsides are the battle system is very limited and moving between areas/finding scenes is irritating + slow, but from the dev’s cien it seems to already be being addressed. They also partially write and respond to comments in English, so can bring any concerns directly up with them.

Love the scenes and especially the art. Female main character looks great. Nice build up so far. Great concept with the many branch choices for ntr. I think grinding parts are simple enough. Looking forward to the finished game.

I’m genuinely excited to see what the future holds for this project. While it’s still in the early stages, there’s a lot of potential here. The features that are available so far show promise, and it’s clear the developers have put thought and care into its design.

I really like the design of the protagonist and the type of NTR the game is going for. Obviously, I hope the corruption progresses slowly, with scenes that gradually push her further. It would also be great if a few more NTR characters were added, like an older man or even the protagonist’s father, for example.
Of course, I understand it’s just a demo and still in an early stage, but I think it has real potential. I just hope the protagonist doesn’t turn out to be a cuck who enjoys being cheated on. Other than that, it’s looking good

Played using Demo v0.1
Pretty standard RPGM scene collection game so far. The gameplay loop seems to be in the morning you get quests to either help the men NTR your girl or help the girl avoid the men. Then you can do the mail courier job where the houses are assigned a number and you deliver the mail to the right house. At night you do various minigames to get the items for the quest. Then the next day you either give the items to the girl to avoid NTR or to the men to further the NTR.

Nothing really special about this game so far. There is a simple menu where it tells you what sexual experience the girl has and what her feels about you and the other guys are. There are no voiced lines only noises the girl makes when she talks. The guys are generic fat bastard and stereotypical black foreigner. The courier and other minigames are boring and repetitive.

It is only a demo but while not a bad game nothing in it makes it standout among all the other NTR RPGM games out there. I don't see the potential to be a great game here.