Unity - Completed - Take Me to the Dungeon!! [v1.6.0r3] [Hanabi Fuusen]

Good art, cute character interactions, mediocre porn scenes. But in my opinion, none of that matters because the gameplay is FANTASTIC.

Lots of people have been comparing this to Slay the Spire, which is true on a basic level - you have energy which you spend to play cards, you pick up special items and card upgrades in the dungeon, etc. However, there are several key differences that make this game a fun and unique challenge. Your "deck" is highly limited, and you have to lose a card until your next rest to refresh it. You also don't add cards to your deck during a run, so it's a matter of clearing fights quickly and consistently, strategically discarding cards, and avoiding the fatigue which comes from drawn-out battles. This makes the combats feel nice and snappy, and encourages strategizing.

And speaking of strategizing, there's a wide assortment of builds for all sorts of playstyles, which can be arranged by enhancing your cards with various runes to give them new or strengthened effects. You can do this both during and between runs, with options to save multiple different deck configurations. Lots of people have been saying that the game forces you into limited options near the end, namely charge and shield builds, but I wholeheartedly disagree, as I personally beat the game both with a combo deck and a burn deck.

This game is not a walk in the park, and has a significant degree of ramping difficulty. If you're looking for a one-handed left-click simulator, or you're expecting this to play exactly like other well-known deckbuilder games, I highly recommend playing something else instead.

This is one of those rare games I would mostly recommend for the gameplay, not the lewds. The card game is very carefully balanced and a lot of fun: there is no way to just spam click your way through the monsters, especially at higher difficulties. You will legit have to think. I found it very satisfying, but obviously that's not what everyone wants out of their porn game.

The actual lewd art, while well-done, was not quite as interesting as I'd hoped. If you've played any fantasy HRPG ever, you've probably seen most of these scenes a hundred times before (clothes-melting slimes, tentacle monsters... I guess they're classics for a reason, but some more creative scenes would have been cool.)

Basically, if you liked Slay the Spire and you wished there was a lewd version of it, you should for sure check this out. It's worth your time. If you're looking for a power fantasy where all the monsters instantly fall to your mighty sword and then all the girls instantly fall to your mighty dick, look elsewhere.

Also of note, regarding the lewd scenes: there is a good mix of story progression scenes, rape-on-lose scenes, and random event scenes (which happen randomly in the "event" rooms in dungeons). Which is all well and good, but some of the random event scenes involve the girl getting raped, with no real way to avoid it. I didn't mind, but it's a weird design choice, and means that keeping your waifu pure is not practical (although it can technically be done, with savescumming).

Final verdict: a game with flaws, but truly fun and engaging gameplay. A hidden gem.

Features a more in-depth Cardbuilder and actual good gameplay, quality animated h-scenes, with compelling and humorous dialogue.

Was fun a blast 100% completing it. (Although Final Boss is heavily reliant on how good your RNG was that run.)

Upgrade your Runes. They make up the majority of your build.

Rev @ Take Me to the Dungeon!! [v0.30.7 Demo]

This annoys me for a ton of petty and subjective reasons.

Art's quite nice for the most part. I could deal without the Smash Bros yeeting of defeated enemies.

Writing is not great. Scenario's boilerplate, characterization is either nonexistent for her or grating for him. Writing voice makes everybody involved come across as vapid.

Porn was fine, but as rote as the writing.

Gameplay didn't light my fire. Having a too-small deck size that just gets smaller to punish the player for playing doesn't feel great. I wish the skip dialog did a better and more smooth job of skipping the dialog. The whole presentation comes across as a bukkake of meme-y homage to a dozen different projects that seem more like memberberries than necessary or coherent additions.

TLDR: I didn't care for it. Your results may vary.

Nice deck builder / roguelike (clone to slay the spire and many more)

But this one has porn elements, decent animations, and the overall visuals are really good.

It has1-2 hours of gameplay, which is ok for demo

Looking forward to it

Liked it. The art and animations are surpisingly good. The translation is good as well, on top of the pretty satisfactory voice acting.
The gameplay is very decent, although it can certainly be better, hence why I dump a star here.
I think the core idea is good, although I'm not sure about the discard mechanic, it seems to be very limiting for later, unless we also get ways to create bigger decks.
Card abilities can be confusing as well, especially with how the UI handles it, between standard effects and discard effects, it could be cleaner here.

Also no gallery unlocker once we beat it, maybe in the final version ? Who knows.
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Full version revision :

I'll give it its star back, because turns out the variety in cards and different runes makes for a much more in-depth and interesting gameplay than the demo.
I'm still not fond of the discard mechanic (yes, even if you can build around it), but it's not as punishing (although it can be at times) as first thought.

The story and writing was also surprisingly decent, certainly not worthy of any kind of award but definitely medium high and kind of open to interpretation on the end.

The different event cutscenes are, for the most part, pretty funny and add to the atmosphere. And the voice-acting of Yuna does such a good job that they're pleasant to follow and smile-inducing.

I'll give credit to the music as well, even though again it's nothing groundbreaking, but I can later see myself listen back to a track or two.

There's 3 endings, so at least there's a little variety although the branching is pretty poorly done. Thankfully the game gives you an option so you don't have to redo the entire game to unlock the other endings.

And again, the scene animations are really good, even though the scenes all share the same one structure and thus feel pretty redundant.
All in all, that's the type of game that make me write up the developper's name so that I can check more of their work. A good enough game that makes me wish for more.

The art is nice.

Story wise, is quite lacking.

Gameplay wise it's interesting, it's not just a game where you turn your brain off, you need to think a bit.

For the CG, you can get some from some event, the story, some might be locked when you lose.

I want to like this game, the art is pretty and the animation is okay. However the 8 card limit to your deck is far too little. And you don't even draw cards every turn, you need to burn a card to redraw. They tried an H game slay the spire but changed too much to the core gameplay loop. Maybe they will fix the game in the future but for now it's kind of meh.