Others - Succubus Manor [v0.97] [JuicyDots]

Genuinely a really good game in almost every aspect. The animations are really good, the background art is great, the controls are great, the puzzles are unique and interesting and in my opinion very a reasonable level of difficulty. Not so easy as to be pointless but not ridiculous wild goose chase either. Plus, the walkthrough isn't hard to find and follow if you really want to.

The major issue with the game is being forced to replay the entire thing for each individual scene. The puzzles are very cool and well done, but once you've figured it out there's really no replay value. This is perfectly fine and normal for most puzzle games but it's a huge problem with this one since I have to replay the game 4 entire times if I want all the animations. I'm hoping the only reason for that is that it's some kind of technical limitation and the dev can't easily reset the summoning glyph so they just make you start from scratch. Because I refuse to believe that a developer that put this much time and effort into an otherwise really good game somehow thinks the "fuckin replay it 4 times lol" idea is good somehow. This game would easily be 4 or 5 stars otherwise.

Minor nitpicks: it would be nice if you could scroll the camera left/right a bit faster in the main room, also it would be cool if you could replay the dialogue in the gallery and not just the animations.

Puzzle are frequently broken and unsolvable. This game lacks any ability to bring reference material with you, so you have to waste a bunch of time going back and forth between rooms rather than having a button to display the sheet of paper you are references. Then you finally get everything entered correctly... and it doesn't even work, since the puzzle is bugged and the correct solution does not function. You should not release a puzzle game this isn't functional.

Fantastic game, my only critique is that it's too short! I want to see the dev expand this game to more of the manor and add characters and scenes.

The art is really really good, for characters and environment. Characters need just a little more work, design is great but execution is B+. I can't wait to see how the artist improves upon this.

The interface is good and so is the gameplay. Once again, great game here. Hoping to see more from this dev.

The puzzles are quite hard to figure out for the first time. Then they become easy to solve, including the matrix equations part (I solved all 4 times by mentally trying out different numbers).

I can't give this game a higher rating because the scenes are, for the most part, bad. The sex scene with World and Empress are alright. The others, in particular the Demon scenes, are kinda bad.

The game is also very barebones and you have to re-start it in other to exit from the gameplay and from the gallery.

[0.91]

This is, somehow, after a difficulty patch, still miserable to play. These are great animations, but they are not worth these puzzles. The dialogue I've seen looks good, but the gallery feature doesn't include it, and I'm not a cheat engine wizard. Even when the math puzzle does not glitch out, the potion brewing section is a mouse-only timing minigame. I regret perusing the puzzle tag if I need to do impossible math and have rhythm to jerk off

Game had potential, puzzle game where you summon succubus by solving puzzles with answers that change each session is a fun concept, at least in theory. The execution is quite poor - the biggest problem are two the solutions to two last puzzles - drawing a sygil and chanting spell from floating words. I tried drawing each of the four sygils multiple times, but the game wouldn't recognize them, no mater how exactly I replicated them. Then after trying for the n-th time while I was only halfway done the game accepted the sygil. Unfortunately, that still wasn't end of bugs - when I tried to complete the summoning spell the game wouldn't accept the words. I triple checked my answers to the math puzzle, matched correct words to them and their ordering, every time getting the same answer.

I'm giving it 2 stars, because the art assent used in the game look very nice (especially the four demonesses, though I only saw them in the preview pictures) and it's clear author put some work into making the game. Unfortunately, it could use a few more play-tests before publication.

Kudos, seriously, I like little puzzle games that actually have me busting out a small scrap of paper to work out solutions.

Gameplay: Well done puzzles in an elegant escape room format. Very short, pretty sweet

Art: Pixel art of the scenes are great, the small bits of dialog are adorable. The succubi are hot

UX: I wish there was better navigation for exploration. This is especially true with the endings, where to see and/or unlock the next scene it requires completely closing the game and starting anew.

Head Scratcher: The pedestal and the candles were probably the roughest parts simply because there's not a lot of feedback despite knowing roughly what should be done. I think there's an error of some kind with the pedestal even it'll accept extra inputs as long as the correct answer exists.

[v0.91]
Interesting GODOT point and click.
But I got stuck and don't understand what to do.

-Story, Originality
You get in an old house of your relative and find a way to summon succubuses.

-Renders
Good 2d art.

-Sound
Some basic sounds and h-sounds.

-Playability
Point and click with several puzzles...
And I don't understand how to progress.
Clicked everything, but candles and red stone don't do anything.

-Performance
Runs okay.

-Bugs
Gallery is locked, but animations still play.

-Animations
Probably, good 2d animations (I couldn't see any).

-Voice Acting
Heard only h-sounds.

-Grammar
Didn't see any mistakes.

-Amount of content
Nice puzzles and point and click system, but I couldn't progress to the "fun" part...

:|

Puzzles are actually interesting, logical but lose alot of points because of the randomness with each playthrough, I get that its probably to avoid cheating and just using a walkthrough but it means I have to solve the puzzles 4 times just to see all the content and it became very tedious. Arts pretty nice, girls were nice a varied could easily be a 4 were it not for the puzzle problem and a 5 with more content