RPGM - Succum Brewery [v0.4.5] [LimeJuiceGames]

Main cons I would say are pacing issues past day 40 or so and the minigames getting repetitive, but hot damn this is some of the best corruption writing I've seen on the site.

Not even necessarily in terms of slow burn/fast burn or realism, but just really finding the balance between "the character wants it" and "the character doesn't want it", and having both the dom and the sub experience it.


If you can stand a little grinding and want some good corruption content, definitely worth a look

Recently the art has taken a big hit in quality, and the writing has as well. This is a big declaimer on this review, but I'm going to talk about the content that happens BEFORE the art decline.

This has some amazing brainwashing and cum fetish support, which are two of my favorite things. The majority of the writing (except the most recent stuff) has a lot of charm and engaging dialog, and the majority of the art (except the most recent stuff) is also very well done.

The only downside (before the artist changed) is the MANDATORY nature of the minigames. You eventually get someone to handle the first mini-game, but as of writing this review there is nobody to handle the second mini-game. I think the author will add someone to handle it at some future point, but with the art taking such a nose dive it's hard to say.

So play it for the first 90% of content!

Good game, great even. The writing is really good and the story definitely hits on all the cyberpunk themes.

Some very hot scenes.

I think some of the game is not really that interactive - and it gets quite repetitive with parts where there's not really much going on. But the art style is wonderful and sensual. Look forward to seeing more.

Gameplay 7/10

Decent management game. Not much to do, but has active gameplay. Still in early stages at first glance.

Art 6/10

Art itself looks good but no animations and repetition is way too much.

Story 6/10

Bland and somewhat boring, didnt really get it. Probably still unfinished (0.4.3).

Amount of content 4/10

There isnt really much here, a lot of repetition and not enough actual content.

Overall as a foundation it isnt bad but it need a lot of work in the "Amount of content" department .

Will replay it in the future for sure.

TLDR: I like the game, but the first sex scene doesn't make sense and fucks it up for me.

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So I've been a follower since the beginning, and i was even a subscriber for Succum Brewery for a while. But stopped subbing a little after the first major sex scene was released.

It may be nit picky, but to me, it was a massive disappointment.
In logic, pacing, and corruption.

There's "Training" sessions with I.O. that normally let you know exactly what you're getting into next. Which I love! But that first sex scene man. It felt like Lime just caved under pressure for a "sex update" and tossed that randomly in with no real logic behind it besides "Having Sex."

Don't get me wrong, Catherine having sex at that point in the game could be fine? I'm under no assumption that she's a virgin or anything. But it's the way it was done. Awful! She invites a working chud into her room when she gets horny. They IMMEDIETLY jump straight to raw creampie sex. Which makes no sense when you look at the scene as a whole, because it starts with her taking two raw loads, THEN does she decide to start using condoms during the rest of the same scene? WTF is the point of that!?

This doesn't work with the rest of the Game's corruption/logic at this point either for at least a few reasons.

1. Who the fuck does that? Creampies before condom? (Looks like the only reason they use condoms at all towards the end of the scene is so she can drink them all for a random cumplay scene?)

2. Even worse there IS a training session LATER on that trains her on creampies! Why not use condoms on the first encounter here. THEN later after the training session for creampies, she goes without?

3. To top it off, sex is still locked out at this point in gameplay! Fucking the working chud doesn't fit with the rest of what you can do. Besides that random one off scene... YOU CAN'T FUCK YET!

Yeah, i know. Logic in a porn game might be asking for too much. But when it's a very slow burn, corruption and mind control type game. These things matter!

The art itself for the scene was fine! I even said so when it came out. But it really needs to be separated into multiple encounters that follows the established logic better. Because besides that, the corruption/slowburn is fantastic.

Aside from that blemish, i'd give the game a 4/5 in it's current state. (A lot of teasing, cumplay, and some handjobs/blowjobs.)

I'd wait a few months before checking in again, as it's a little slow to update with anything meaningful.

Tldr:

The game is a disappointment, it tease, it goes around, senselessly grinding , achieving nothing, for something that as been dragged on for so long, there's a surprisingly thin amount of content, as we're basically at the same spot we were, 3 years ago, when we first landed on that rooftop.

Preface:

I've been supporting this game since it's first iteration, as it was a promising and original idea, and even though the DEV grew with experience, resources and partnership, the production value of the game went downhill, shorter patch, endless reworks, removed content... I thought it was about time I gave my opinion and leave this to rest.

Art:

Visually It's OK, if you look at Genno's work (in general), you'll realise that he's a "one trick pony", all of his characters look the same, the drawing is typical of someone that's self taught, with horrible anatomy and inconsistencies, it's all saved by outstanding colouring skills.

Another component of the inconsistencies is the recurrent (and unsolicited) rework of the game's illustrations, making Cath look like two completely different peoples from one scene to another, all the while saying that "there's just so much new art that can be added to the game because it's expensive and take a lot of time to make".

Sound wise, the choices of music are ON POINT, it's catchy, even for copyright-free music, showing the DEV's great taste and is cohesive with the game as a whole. ...The VOICE ACTING is a complete miss for me though, Catherine sound like a chain smoker, with her low and raspy voice, and that really doesn't do it for me, fortunately there's an option to mute the sound, so, no problem there.

Writing:

Either the DEV is a very cultured individual or he's smart enough to make a ton of clever references, all the characters are well though out and distinct, the dialogues are great and the plot was well put together... until recently, as unfortunately, dragging on a game instead of giving it closure is far more lucrative. so instead of having the SEWER quest line and Catherine's initial objective to escape the rooftop, we're left with loose end and plot holes, as now it's (the sewer) becoming an extension to the bar, and all the other girls join to bar-tend instead of being designated antagonist (as they should have stayed).

Fetish:

Silly you would think (for reasons) that the game offer depiction of corruption, bondage, group sex, exhibitionism ? you would be wrong, as time passed, the MAIN focus of the game revealed itself to be... cum play, even if it doesn't bother me one bit, there's a VERY strong emphasis on that, and solely that, sadly, if you were expecting anything else (as the game doesn't advertise itself as such) you will be in for a disappointment.

As for the (attempt at) corruption, it fallow this same weirdly (and uncharacteristic) stupid notion that sexual acts goes gradually from handjob and blowjob, to sex (vaginal penetration) as it would be the pinnacle of corruption... if it didn't sound idiotic enough, it's exacerbated by how it play out, since low corruption is just being a exhibitionist eye-candy, shoving a bottle in her vagina in public and sucking dicks at the local glory-hole... while consensual lovey sex in a bed is accessible only for the most depraved.

it's completely backward.

Gameplay:

It's a bar-tending sim, You play as Catherine, assisted by her lover/provider/tormentor IO the artificial intelligence, You have a routine, wake up, tend the bar, tease the customers, check the stock and supplies of booze, and scout the rooftop in order to find a way to escape.

that was the original plan, at least... since the DEV decided to remove the "brewing" and planning aspect, you're left with "customer want beer, clic beer, task finished"... there are (of course) pleasant visuals to compensate for the most boring gameplay loop, and instead of having what would have been a fun, intriguing rpg adventure, all you get is always more of the same.

Conclusion:

The DEV built himself an echo-chamber, and grew complacent, that's really the gist of it, Succum Brewery started as a great narrative with spicy elements, but as the story was ditched, it now stand awkwardly midway between porn and game, failing at both.

v0.4.2 - Frustrating experience

Tedious dialogues:
- the writing feels compulsive
- no dialogue history
- no option to change text speed
- no key to hide dialogue window
- no hard pauses between dialogue screens, so skipping just skips everything

Tedious progression:
- no quest log or event hints
- be prepared to train your memory and to vacuum the map for triggers

Poor sound design:
- the music kinda ignores scene transitions without even trying to match what is happening on screen
- voice acting ages the main character, and feels unnatural in places

Fake corruption:
- things happen as if in the background, when the heroine is going to sleep
- no awkward moments during daytime, no resistance, no shame, almost everything is consensual, boring and bland

And, no praise for now...

In my opinion this is one of the top 5 NSFW games I've ever played!!
I think the voice acting and art are both awesome and the story was fun too. The fact that I could recognize the characters anywhere speaks to their design, and in general the game play loop isn't terrible- but it's not fantastic either which is why I don't think I'd put it above Third Crisis: Neon Nights. Still an awesome game with great VA, Art and the scenes are cute :3

Introduction
wow. this is up there with some of the best RPGM games ive ever played. i really like this game and want to give it due praise with this review. there's only one thing i dislike which is why i'm giving it 4/5 (a 5/5 in my opinion should be a perfect game with zero complaints)

Game Description
a sandbox carnival scene-collector RPG with corruption and nymphoism. you play as a girl named Catherine and she gets transported to a rooftop of a giant megabuilding which she cant descend. she takes shelter in an abandoned building and accidently reactivates an otherwise sleeping and sophisticated AI named IO. she makes a business contract with IO to start and run a bar together, from which point on you decide if you want her to stay with IO or find a way to leave the rooftop, and whether to encourage Catherine to act more sexy or not

Things I Disliked
- Catherine. one of the best female protags ive had the pleasure of playing a porn game with. she behaves like a real human being. she shows a fantastic personality and she is very sexy. i don't think words do it justice you should play the game to experience this yourself
- the corruption. excellently paced. Catherine is presented as a very normal girl who has had boyfriends before but nothing crazy. then as the story progresses she gains a potential need to open up to more lewd acts, to which is encouraged and aided by IO, to whom we owe Catherine's corruption. she goes from normal -> sexually curious -> slut it is very well executed
- world building. you would think "oh no, overdone futuristic world setting... zzz put me to sleep" but nope. this is one of the most unique game worlds ive played lol. how is it that you make dudes called "chuds" have their own society in the sewers, followed by cyborgs on corporate payroll (who dislike the chuds), with a whole ass top grade AI tucked away in a random defunct building and whatever else you can observe about the game world. id be lying if it didnt make me think about where IO came from, what da chuds doing, what the corpos are up to etc
- artstyle. so unique. very adorable and very hot. attention to detail is so carefully considered here when you recall the art got overhauled into something even better than what we were already experiencing. its not just the drawings either the way sprites and buildings and stuff are used is unique and makes a refreshing setting to play around in
- scenes. there are lots of them. they are not too short not too long. they're easy to unlock, i unlocked 90% of them without a guide. and most importantly, they're very hot. the situations Catherine finds herself in are great. although theres only one vaginal sex scene its really good and between Catherine and a classic and beloved (at least in my opinion) side character
- gameplay. the whole bar and waitress minigame is something id expect in a game that wasnt made in RPGM. it isnt difficult, its low effort (as in you dont need brainpower to play it), the porn is mixed in effortlessly and above all its fun. outside of those minigames you're wandering around collecting scenes which is fine, no complaints there
- characters. the rest of the characters aside from IO and Catherine were not that impactful but i still quite liked them. you got the rude and annoying Alexa who runs the general store, the bitchy and uptight landlady (forgot her name) who wants rent paid, the helpful and semi-perverted but also quite nice Annica who runs the mechanics shop with Nora, followed by all the chuds with names (working chud, fedora chud, mecha chongo) who are all great characters as well as the bossman cyborg.
- mostly anything else that ive missed. chances are if there's something ive missed it is of high quality

Thing I Disliked:
- repetitiveness. this is the only thing i disliked. at some point, i realised that the gameplay loop got very repetitive. this is because around halfway into the game's playtime if you want new scenes you're just going to have to repeat the same cycle of go to sleep -> do the bar minigame -> do the waitress minigame -> see if IO is going to train Catherine -> go to sleep -> rinse repeat. i understand why, because it takes Annica more than a day to be able to install IO's new components. however i still think its a problem, it makes you play the game for way longer than necessary and may feel annoying because you're never getting new scenes until you raise Catherine's corruption via training. i propose just shortening the amount of days required before a new training scene and that might fix it

Small Suggestions?
- on each new update whenever someone hits all the new content and there's nothing left let them know so that they're not wasting time thinking there's more content when there isnt
- at some point allow Catherine to bring men back to her bedroom. at many points she's all like "my fingers aint enough" and stuff well if she needs a chud or cyborg in those trying times (assuming she's corrupt enough) give it to her
- clarify some small things. when an upgrade is "Not available in this version", it aint that descriptive as to what's actually in development or not. when the landlady says "Reduce rent", do i take that to mean reduce rent just for that day or for all rent costs henceforth? when i got into the sewers there was a lack of hints to even get there in the first place, and how to get more bottled drinks from the machine. stuff like this would make it a little better

Conclusion
play this game. you wont be disappointed, i know i liked it. yes, the game has been in development since 2022 according to the starting date of this thread, and it sucks that its unfinished, but almost every porn game of high quality is like this currently in order to build traction and generate money for the developers - which in turn gives them more motivation to finish their game projects. based on what ive said throughout this whole review i hope ive convinced you enough to give it a try, happy brewing

There is a nice and natural progression to the corruption, which I like. The bartending mini-game is engaging, waitressing not so much, but it's fine. I mostly used the cheat chicken to bypass grind, and just.
Good sense of progression and an actual story really is nice.
Art is pretty, hits my kinks, what else is there to say? I'll keep checking back on this one.

Rubbish. Slow updates, missing the full game, despite offering an ending. The game doesn't certain contain talents that show more content. After multiple updates all that's changed are a few A.I pictures. Not much in the way of story or content.

Any disappointment comes from playing a bar, an easy fun minigame, and then going into waitressing which is a tediously boring comparison, it takes a much longer duration and doesn't deliver the same H, like the bar work. She has an assistant that skips the bar, and they add nothing H on the bar except complaining about it, despite of getting corrupted, but all they manage to achieve is skipping any H events, and leaving you to do the tedious waitressing without much H.

As far as the game, it's kind of unique in settings, set in a bar, but its a slog, grindy, and it hasn't got enough variance.

Solid corruption progression, good art, hot scenes, and entertaining writing held back by gameplay that just isn't developed or varied enough for the amount of time you're expected to grind through it.

I can tell that the dev is putting in effort to flesh out the gameplay and make it a sort of battlefuck and bar tending combo that would work well enough for a porn game if you didn't have to do it so much.

Still, the grind only becomes a big problem when you're replaying sections of the game after a new update. So the other virtues the game has will still pull you to the end of the content on a first playthrough.

Painfully slow grindfest with very, very little payoff.

What little art there is isn't really up my alley but that's subjective.

The reaction-based button press minigame is a horrible idea to be put in a porn game.

Corruption game done right! Other Devs take note on how to do a proper corruption progression story and mechanic

Other people commenting on how the corruption is a slow burn needs to get checked for ADHD

Will be keeping an eye on the development cause the amount of content is already better than most generic Game on this site

EDIT: sadly this game seems to have been caught in the western dev disease. Dont expect the game to actually finish and dont donate any of your money since its clear the dev lost their vision and is fumbling around with other ideas without intent to finish what they started. Will be turning my original 5 start to a 1 star. Such a shame since this game had solid potential that the Dev grew lazy to finish and expand on.

well what more can i say , great progression, great story, great concept, litteraly one of a kind as there aren't many bartinding games with those groping and and the rest of the mehcanincs, keep up the work

Fucking great corruption/mind control story, with trigger words and everything. In addition, well-realized characters, a compelling story, and well-drawn scenes. Very slow burn up to now, though, and it does take some effort to not go bankrupt, so keep that in mind if you want to pick this up. I'd definitely recommend it if you like hypnosis or mind control.

Replayed this again to catch up with the latest updates. My opinion about this game is still the same as my opinion when I first played it - it has good potential.

The art is good, the voice acting is great, and the corruption is slow, albeit a bit too fast at times but at least it has the 'hypnotism' aspect going for it. I would love to see more of this game, but they really need to streamline the mini games... I played this from start to finish for more or less 6 hours straight, but I could have completed it for less than half the time IF I COULD JUST SKIP THE FUCKING MINIGAMES. The minigames were fun in the beginning, but after 6 hours of unskippable mini-games I just wanted the game to end.

6/10 for now, will probably leave to cook again and come back after a year or so... or at least until the next update.

The art is mid at best, the scenes are also mid. I found progression in this game confusing and lacking any indication wherever you will get a new scene or not and what you have to do for it.

Minigames are kinda bad, overall it is hard to enjoy this game. Something about gameflow is wrong, and scenes could have been massively improved, along with a gallery and quest log options.

I don't think it's a good corruption game either, heroine gets brainwashed by a robot, but that is most of the corruption, there is no tension, suspense, no gradual fall, she just becomes a whore after procedures.

This is a fun bartending corruption game. The cgs are unique, and convey a nice quality to the active story, which is a true highlight, with the AI steadily "training" our beautiful and charming bar maid into a much less inhibited person. The side characters add a lot of humor to the mix as well. Over all a fun little romp of a game, if you don't mind a large amount of grinding. The pouring mini game does get very tiresome.

It could be partially subjective, but didn't enjoy game that much. The main problem is boring and unengaging main loop: basically you are forced to click same button over and over to survive and get enough credits to progress every morning, which was extremely tiresome.

I like idea of slow-burn corruption, that's why I'm here, but after first 2-3 weeks progress gets way too slow and content way too sparse for such repetitive gameplay. Content itself is fine, but mostly it can be found in other corruption games. I liked idea with AI a lot though, it's well written and makes perfect sense - rarity for a porn game. Manipulation and gaslighting are there, but not to a degree it's often described in recommendations, MC enters this route quite proactively.

Not a huge fun of this art stile, but art on itself is good for the most part. Also, some scenes are voiced. Overall, if you are into corruption, finished most other corruption games here and don't mind to repeat same action again and again, you can spend an evening playing this.