RPGM - Completed - Succumate [v1.04.04] [DojinOtome/Kagura Games]

A bit grindy and the minigames were carried over into the author's future games with summer and winter memories.

Don't expect any open world H scenes. You need to have at least 400 stamina so you can actually start to enjoy the game.

A casual resource farming game with fantastic 2D animated and voiced H-scenes, grinding the endings is a horrible pain, so don't do that, import a save instead.

The story is trying to take itself seriously but you probably won't be taking it seriously at all. The only real gameplay are cash earning mini-games where you need timing and memory.

Fun and simple premise. Love the smaller graphics here, it brings a certain charm to the game. The OST is amazing in this game and there's many positions and scenes for you to try with multiple girls around the neighborhood. A simple and easy game to play.

Gameplay:
+ Life management with eating, sleeping, earning money and fucking
- Events have hidden requirements and are bound on timing, which are not always easy to meet/find out.
- Money earning very grindy

Frequency of scenes:
+ Frequent enough, since you need to satisfy a succubus daily

Dialogues:
+ Not too much, which is perfect, because game has heavy focus on management.

--> All in one: The game looked very tempting. The gameplay was also okay, but the money grind was annoying. To unlock all ending, you need to replay the game, while keeping your stats, but certain stats (imho very important ones) are not kept. 4 of 10.

Should I give it a try?
Yeah you can. But play it at easy, it is not really worth the trouble on normal level based on how grindy money earning is, regardless of difficulty.

Kagura games are the goat, but this one feels rather unfulfilling.
first of all, succubi characters are almost always just breathing fleshlights and this time its basically no different. She shows up, your main character has to fuck her, some non h-related "drama" happens and thats the main plot. Boring.
Much more interesting are the side stories, which end just about as soon as they begin. There is incest, cheating, voyeur etc but they all basically get 1 or 2 scenes before they finish. The majority of the game is spent grinding, sleeping and eating, which I didn't mind too much, its just that the H-related results are lackluster.
If you asked me, I'd say throw the whole succubus story out and make the game revolve around the side stories. but thats just me. The sprites are still beautiful and the scenes are.... ok... its just that the best content either ends too quickly, or takes too long to appear. Or both.

v1.04 (GoG)

Good
- The art and pixel animations
- Amusing character interactions
- Some cute things such as playing music for animals

Bad
- The grind. It would be okay if you could skip jobs after maxing them or if some of your vitality was restored by sleeping (like in every other co-habitation game), but once you figure out how the systems work you realize you only need two days to meet your quota and the rest is spent grinding stats/money.
- "True" Ending. Other reviewers weren't exaggerating when they said it takes the plot and dunks in the toilet. The first twist was reasonable. Could've been set up better, but okay. However, instead of leaving the ending a bit mysterious, the dev decided to add in a second twist which explained everything in one of the worst ways possible while also completely changing the tone of the game.
- Two of the voyeur animations aren't included in the gallery.

YMMV
- The translation is a bit dodgy in places. Yeah, it's mostly little stuff you might only notice if you do some translating yourself or play a lot of MTLs, but it shows that KG skimped on the QC.
- The diversions aren't particularly robust. Instead of experimenting with gifts to find the most efficient way to raise the sub-heroines' affection you can just feed them all your spare pulls from the gachapon. There's also a whole tutorial for the fidget spinner minigame when all you need to do is dump all your points into spin power and go make a cup of coffee.

I played this game because I was such a big fan of the creator's later work, Summer Memories. While I think Summer Memories is the better game, Succumate isn't bad. It's just not particularly amazing either.

The animated cutscenes for this game are fantastic and I even prefer it over any of the animation in Summer Memories. And some of the heroines for this game have really great stories that build up to satisfying and hot endings.

However, note that I said that this applies only to *some* of the heroines. There are some women in this game where, for example, their story ends with your character peeping on them having sex, or ends with a blowjob, or a titfuck. Not terribly satisfying.

The actual gameplay is also so-so. I don't mind minigames too much, but there at least needs to be a variety of them or else the game gets too tedious. In this game, money is very important, and there are basically two minigames used to earn money. Repeating those minigames dozens, maybe even hundreds of times over the course of reaching all the endings gets old very quick.

Still a good game worth playing, but just with some flaws that get ironed out in the creator's later game.

A cute little simulator game. The plot is whatever, it's not really the main focus. The lewds are quite good, though kind of difficult to access (more so because of specific requirements than actual difficulty), and the characters are all really cute.

The amount I'm using the word 'cute' here should probably tell you if you'd like this game or not: if you think that doesn't sound like something you're interested in, you probably won't like this game. On the other hand, it's quite a fun little experience, and not too difficult, so it's maybe worth a shot.

I really like all those functions, like playing band, encountering different heroines.


Especially how the true ending reveals the secret of the story

Of course, for a game who need to be in this thread, it's almost perfect, this company's works are brilliant, waiting for winter memories.

a game with great animations, characters full of personality, decent gameplay and amazing sex scenes. the gameplay gets pretty repetitive but the events keep you going, not a lot of content but enough to last you a couple of hours. the secret ending fucked me up though, why would they put this in the game (

The game is overall pretty good, the animations are solid, the banter between characters is cute and good, and it has a overall pretty comfy feeling going on for most of the game, besides a ovearching plot that you have to resolve that is fairly simple.

Here is the problem
It has 3 endings
two of them are fine
The last one sucks complete ass, and i wouldnt even recommend you to go for the "true end".
When you finish the first ending, and you go into the recollection room, dont even try to talk to the npc there that will indirectly try to force you to see that true ending.
Because it just ruins the entire narrative, like i cant believe that the whole game was pretty good, but the author just had to shit on the whole game, by doing one of the cheapest moves known in stories, without any reason, besides maybe coming off as some amazing plot twist that no one needed, not even the game itself, since it was already solid.
In case you just want to know what it is

Underrated game, animations are perfect and the characters are well defined. The big problem with this game are the endings, which are all disappointing and are not satisfying at all, but I think the game might definitely be improved in the future. Or at least I hope so!

The animations are good, you have simple minigames and even on normal the time and resource management is trivial if you give some throught, albeit you may feel you are farming money every oportunity you can and the story is interesting to keep you invested, but is all for naught once you discover the true end and everything you had builded over your game doens't even matter. It just kill the rating

Godlike game. This developer rocks. Compared to Summer Memories I would say its subpar, but the minigames are all here, and there's plenty of stuff to get lost in. I would say the weakest part is the beginning, but once you figure out the gameplay loops it's a really solid experience that isn't hellish to 100% complete.

This is maybe the best game I've played from this site. The gameplay is fun, the scenes are good, and there is plenty of content. I almost missed the blowjob scene of the brother and sister from the store in the area behind the store.

Really 10/10

This is actually a pretty good game all things considered, however, as an adult game, it's kind of a flop.

Story, Characters, Setting:
- Characters lack any depth
- The game is kinda funny, but the story is "meh" at best
- They call it a harem game, but there's like one girl that has 90% of the scenes, and you don't even fuck all the other girls so...

Gameplay:
- The succubus quota mechanic is interesting enough for you to get through a single play-through, but you'll probably want to put it down at that point.
- Only two ways to earn money (both are mini-games, which are both boring), and this game is super money dependant
- They made stats carry across saves which is cool i guess, but i prefer to be able to get all content in a single play-through personally.

H-content:
- Pixel art, which personally I'm a fan of, and while this isn't the best pixel porn, its still pretty good.
- Wide variety of sex poses
- lots of hidden un-lockable content
- Biggest issue with the H-content is that most of it is too short lived to really get off too

It's not a bad game by any means, but as far as something to get off too? Nah, I'll find something else.

Game in overall is really enjoyable in the entertaining player, though it was way repeating and not much of exciting afterwards and the way they made game in RPG maker is genius. However there were multiple issues in it, which i will mention.

Storywise was some what okayish, it had like japanese animated cartoonish adult cutscenes which were good. If it was possible, there should've been way more content, it shouldn't been ending at 6th chapter, it looked like it could've manifested way further than it should've, it was bland ending in my opinion

Characthers didn't have much of side-questing, deep information, background check, or any that all, it was more like meet & fuck thing after getting to max relationship.

There wasn't lag issue at least for me, however i didn't like the scaling, there was annoying issue of text going instant in cutscenes, your stats bars/traveling pops up in it also. I did have one crash once in 3-4th when i had done the work for succubus already before, was doing sex at the end of day over the time limit about 3-5 hours ingame and died by the door for some reason, then it crashed

If you were to play this, don't take story too serious since it is 'Short', you will spending about 3-4 hours grind money to do things, and a lot of waiting.

A very nice compact experience.

Rather easy game with nice pixel art and good animations. Not that complicated.

It's a rather relaxing time with some pretty fun bits. I was having a heated giggle doing the "I wanna be the very best fidget spinner like noone ever was" sidequest. Unlocked either from completing the resturaunt work or just by certain amount of time passed.

Highly charming and would recommend.
9/10 would say no to Leannan Sidhe again.

Sigh. How disappointing. Dojin Otome, the studio that made Summer Memories, also released Succumate. However, aside from the art style, they are completely different tiers of games.

Spoiler Warning.

Story 3/10

This game tries to be a type of mystery solver. And they went full Lost season 6 on you. Nothing was real. You're some beggar who got fed some questionable drugs by a crazy pharmacist. The entire game is your hallucination.

Personally, I dislike the All Just A Dream trope. Imo, it's lazy writing.

Putting all this aside, let's talk about the character development. It's quite sparse. The main character, Lilim, has almost no character development. Which to be fair, she doesn't exist. But still, I'd have liked the demon world plot to be further developed. But no, Lilim's character is just "fuck" and "likes sweets" and that's it.

Gameplay 6/10

The gameplay itself was decent. You go around a (small) looped town while making money to buy dick drugs and try to bang your neighbors. What more could you want?

However, the little side quests didn't really tie the game together very well. They feel kind of tossed in. e.g. You perform on a guitar to a group of animals and the final animal gives you a sex move. Okay, that doesn't make any sense.

Gotta call out the lag. As you play more, the game lags more. Until you can't take it anymore, save, close the game and start it up again. In about <10 hours of gameplay, I restarted the game probably 20 times.

Art 7/10

Solid art. I love the cute "high res" pixelated style. And some of the scenes have nice higher quality animations as well.

One thing to call out is that Dojin Otome doesn't draw vaginas particularly well. I'll leave it at that.

Overall 5/10

Solidly mediocre game.

To make a better version of this game would require throwing away the "True ending" and making a real true ending. Then expanding more game options. The side-girls are really limited in their interactions.

And fix the lag issue.

This review is based off my experiences playing the modded version of the game as well as using the guide in this thread.

This game is interesting to review because some people might despise this game and some might love it. Let me just preface this before I get into the meat of the review, this game is a MUST-PLAY with the guide that's in this thread. If you play without the guide, you are not going to have a fun time. Secondly, I HIGHLY recommend downloading the modded version of this game so that you can give yourself as much money as you want so you can buy items without worry. This is really the only cheat you need. Also, do yourself a favor and play on easy, there is literally no point in fucking over your mental state just to play the tougher difficulty.

Story: Unlike Summer Memories (Which I actually like more overall than this game) this game actually has a story that I reallllllyy enjoyed. It's a simple concept but works so well because of the Mystery/deduction elements. I'm not going to say much else to not spoil but the story in this game, despite being short, is actually very enjoyable and interesting once you get the third ending.

Gameplay: So this aspect is going to be the biggest dealbreaker for some people. If you have played Summer Memories, the gameplay of this game is pretty similar but can be a lot more annoying. There are a good bit of "meters" and stats to keep track of and, like summer memories, when you start out, it can be daunting and confusing, but once you get the hang of it, the routine becomes simple and rewarding. Like I said earlier, use the cheat to give yourself money. The guide makes things easy to understand, and if you are a completionist like me, the guide tells you how to 100% the game. It will probably take 3-5 in-game days to get used to the cluttered HUD and meters but you will get used to it I promise. Having to constantly use items to keep your "tiredness" down and "hunger" up is BY FAR the most annoying part of the game, I could have really gone without these 2 meters existing. Certain girls and activities are only available at certain times so that is also annoying.

Sex Stuff: Pretty much the main reason to download the game. Like other dojin-otome games, the H-stuff in this game is some premium shit . I'm a sucker for pixel stuff so I love the scenes in this game. They are also animated very well with sound to make the experience so much better. Scenes defiantly feel rewarding to earn. Dirty talk is also decent but could be better ig.


All in all, if you got like 4-6 hours to spare, give this game a shot it's worth it imo