RPGM - Completed - The Curse of Pleasure [v1.0] [RanneRo]

too long between updates. and honestly the game isn't that fun to play. rpgm isn't utilized well and the writing is fairly weak. The characters act stupid and there isn't nearly enough sex scenes and it just overall isn't great. Not great for story enjoyment and not great for jerking off.

[UPDATE – After Final Release (v1.0) - (Original review for v0.9 below – kept for context)

So, it actually got completed after eight years in development and several years of hiatus in between — which, to be fair, I’ve got to give the dev credit for not abandoning it entirely. But talking about the final update… yeah, it’s a very disappointing conclusion. None of the paths really went anywhere.


I genuinely liked the twist at the end of v0.9 because it opened up so many opportunities for multiple endings — something I’d been hoping for since the start. But in the end, the corruption path and the buildup for all the characters just stopped out of nowhere. The main story (Seita’s path) didn’t go all the way either — it basically ended right as he was starting to have a change of heart. And to top it off, even the core premise of the game — the curse — wasn’t resolved at all.


What we got instead were a few random scenes with NPCs that weren’t even “real,” a couple of uninspired moments with Seita, and an open ending that doesn’t feel earned.
I won’t say everything in the game was bad as a whole — it had its highs — but given how bad the ending was and the fact that everything that happened didn’t mean anything in the end, I’m dropping my rating to 2.5, which is probably still pretty generous.


The only positive thing I can say is that I actually predicted Boo was the avatar of the Demon of Lust — so at least that gave my ego a little boost


Original review for v0.9

Info for new players: If you are wondering why a game from 2016 isn't finished, it was abandoned for quite some time, but the developer came back in 2024.

I played the game a few years ago, and back then, I would rate it a 5. Now, I replayed it, and to be honest, it felt like a different game. The reason for that is the change in content. In the earlier versions, you got an even amount of content on different characters; by now (0.9), 50% of all scenes feature one particular shota character. While I'm okay with shota here and there, it's too much for my taste. (As it's subjective, this won't affect my rating.)

Now for the game itself.

The Good:

• Lots of content
• Pretty art & attractive main character
• Simple but nice handcrafted maps and locations
• Slow corruption
• Great story arcs (Bandits > Goblins)
• Seita is a great character!
  I'm happy that it's not the typical blind, deaf, and brainless NPC. The sad thing about this is that aside from the main character, it's pretty much the only character with any development. ^^ Sure, there is a portion of non-realistic behavior, but it's an NTR game, so somehow you need to get things to progress. But even if he doesn't always understand what's going on, he's aware that something is wrong and does speak up, which is extremely rare in the NTR genre. The end of 0.9 was a positive surprise to me, regardless of his character development.

The Bad (for now):

• No quest log or hint system. This is actually very significant because you need to see all available scenes, sometimes in a certain order, before the story progresses.
• More quick travel needed. I liked the idea of implementing the recollection room as part of the game. It would be nice to get a traveling device as well.
• Some locations and many characters have no purpose (that can change in future updates).
• Grindy
• Stats system needs a rework
• mostly flat characters

Other notes:

• You can't use quick travel at night. WHY? All houses are locked, all streets are empty; that doesn't make sense at all ^^
• All kids are studying in the afternoon... but there is no school

As for the end of version 0.9, I think that is the perfect moment to set up multiple endings in future updates. It doesn't have to be super complicated, just one or two decisions to split the story by the end.
Considering how the story has unfolded, I can see a good, a bad, and a neutral (cuck) ending.

Overall, I liked it. It's not finished yet, but you can clearly see that the developer put much work into this. There is actually much potential, many unused characters, and locations.

As for the rating, I would say 3.5. If it weren't for the end of 0.9, I would probably have given it a 3, as the story seems stuck.

Extremely bad, boring, dull.

Most if not all scenes are about tits pinching, there are no proper sex scenes or good story in this game.

Recycling of same CGs over hundreds of "scenes".

And from 2017...

Beautiful woman, genuinely kind, makes it all the more satisfying to see her fall into lust. I appreciate that she's self aware of the fact that all the men in the game want to fuck her - the curse being a subtle one where her inhibitions are lowered enough to make more excuses for the men, but she still feels uncomfortable.

Her specific soft spot I can't type out is a nice touch too, given her family situation. It makes sense that it's a vulnerability.

I decided a long time ago that I would replay this game whenever it gets updated, and that's exactly what I did. I replay the game from the very beginning to the very end without missing out on any scenes. It was a pain in the ass due to lack of quest log, no way to dash/sprint, the map is too damn big for this kinda story. But I actually had a lot of fun as well. This game has always been held in high regard for its quality and slow corruption. I expected the quality to defintily drop after the long development period and behind the scenes drama, but it did not. Actually, I think with the assistance of AI, the art actually looks a lot better now. Once the actual sex starts, which is quite a bit into the game, there is plenty of different scenarios and they all are insanely well done. There is a lot of shota in this game, that is the primary focus after all. It is very clear that this game was inspired by games by Scale Garden, but In my opinion it has surpassed those games.
One thing to note is that there is no updated recollection room, so downloading saves from there and playing aint gonna help. I would have loved to see more from this update since it did take so long to come out, but I am also satisfied with what I got, probably because I replayed it from start. This game has enough content to keep you busy for atleast 6hrs,so go ham with it.

Just a old recycled game.

pro:
- amazing art
- a lot scenes
(around 100+)

cons:
- ancient engine
(20 years ago it was already outdated)
- even its stated, there is no NTR in this game
(you are not in a relationship with anyone, you just fool around with your brothers friend)
- 95% of all scenes are just recycled
(Every men in the village is obsessed with her breasts and butt. The first 4 - 6 scenes of every men is just where they are playing with her breasts or spank her butt. The animation is pretty much always the same, just the text changes a bit. The same with the very less sex and blowjob scenes. You have always the same static penis and animation.)
- very slow development time
(one new scene every year)
- veeeerrryyy slow corruption
(the mens have groped her tits / butt for 90 of 100 scenes)

The game is in development for 6 years now and we seen already every part of her tits. We should expect more and better quality content for $3500 / month.

It's worse than what we expected...
A lot of us are fans of Sangeki no Gear and Sarah of the Rotation Cut, both games that differ from million hentai games we have around there.
RanneRo was bold enough to keep the game "cooking" for 6 years, but heck... it's using an ultra outdated engine, all his perfectionist art gets lost using RPG Maker XP... please, try to migrate for MV!
And it's not the end... 6 years and the game still is 0.9! We waited like 3 years since 0.8, I think?
He has some creativity, and I recognize it's a good work.
It's just too late, and doesn't offer anything better than replaying Sangeki no Gear, aside, maybe, being barely uncensored.
Again, it does offer an amazing art, but we can't see it properly being locked in a old engine!
Even using tools, everyone has big screens, so the art gets all stretched...

This is a game heavily inspired by the early RPGMaker Eroge masterpieces by the likes of ScaleGarden and HO Works. Where it truly stands out from those games is in its art, having a quality rarely seen in Western developed eroge, and almost never in western RPGmaker eroge.

At its core its a slow burn corruption game, with a unusual twist of the primary corrupter being a Shota. It has light NTR themes, though the one being NTR'd is a younger brother, not a lover.

As with most corruption games it is the tease of the big moment that is the most fun, but I believe RanneRo managed the unlikely - making the full fall where the MC is fucking left right and center still engaging and fun.

It would be a five star were it not for one flaw - RanneRo, likely due to the sheer quality of his art, takes literal years between updates. Wait for it to be 1.0 and buy it, it will be worth it.

it's probably the best Hgame i ever played. i wish there were more games like this.
The pacing of corruption is the best, nothing even comes close, and each scene is something new to discover on the path of corruption.
Art is also great and clearly done by a professional. joy to look at.

The game's base controls suck ass. It's the most backasswards i've ever seen from a rpg maker game and i have no idea why they couldn't just use the normal kind that every other game has. You can customize the controls but good luck figuring out how to do so. It doesn't tell you what any of the buttons being mapped actually do and it feels like you need to solve a math equation before you can swap your interact key. "If x= y and y= the "a" function, what do you want to map y to?"
Other then that the game has no method of grinding xp and you can end up softlocking yourself in the thief encounter if you try fighting him too soon. Not to mention common enemies like bats can take upwards of 12+ turns just to kill. And there's a cave filled with like 6 of em. Have fun slogging through that, hope you enjoy the upskirt panty shot for all your hard work. The combat floods your screen with a bunch of useless information like hit chance, evade, defense, attack value, who the fuck cares? this is a porn game, i should be able to button mash through the combat and kill little shitter enemies without needing a periodic table to reference on screen at all times. By far not only the worst exhibitionism game i've played, but the worst RPG maker game i've played as well. At least the character model looks pretty.

This is one of the best I have ever played.

Really love the engine it is made on.
The art is super good, even on today's terms.
Storyline is great.

Hope that the creator finishes this and makes sequels.
Would even love to pay for this once it finishes.

I don't know why people don't like the RPGM. This is more interactive than the newer ones.

The game has a lot of good things about it, but at the same time a lot of bad design decisions made.
To start off, the art, cgs, animations, characters, even story and plot is very polished and feels high quality with a lot of effort put in.
Now talking about the gameplay and progression, that where all the bad things start to occur:
- The map is massive and designed in U shape, which is super annoying to navigate.
- You can skip text with Q, but it will auto-select, meaning trying to be awake on night is slow as you need to slowly go through dialog (and you will need to be awake at night for a lot of events)
- Combat is rubbish and outdates, feels not necessary and does not contribute to the game in any way
- Hidden stats makes the game frustrating as you do not know how much exposure level progress you made, more frustrating when you keep running into locked events that ask you to have certain level, but without any indication how to achieve it, hence the player has to wonder everywhere to try and find events
- Genre of the game is complete miss, H-content is very mild and mostly it's teasing, with abnormal slow phase

Given all of the negatives and positives I would rate this game as average. Recommended to look at the art, but not for it's gameplay.

really liked the game, but its on rails and too much of that boo character. Tried getting raped at the bandit camp (did every event, dont think you have to) but no dice. think its been a couple of years since i played/ and no updates yet so hopefully something changes

I had a great time playing chatter, I haven't laughed that long, it was fun.
Very easy and intuitive system for moving, saving and fighting
The game is basically without frequent bug-splat(crash).

Decent main character art and interesting story concept, however this entry fails in many ways. I'm rating this a two, and perhaps I'm being harsh. If this game ever gets an update (This may just be gone for good at this point) I'd be willing to come back to it. The reason I don't give this game flat out a 1, but also am writing this review, is that while everything is in a mess right now, it actually has promise. Things could be changed or tweaked and suddenly the game would actually be fucking amazing. Granted it would take a lot of work to do, I would love more than anything to be proven wrong and shown that the game can be amazing

So.. I'll start with what the game does right. You get put into the world and you start to be able to immerse yourself into things rather quickly, the game makes the erotic nature of the game clear early on and how a lot of things are presented in the introduction start off interesting

You start off basically as an oddity of a character, rather unique in concept, being that she's a small town girl, but is also a strong fighter. She lives in the type of town where nearly everyone knows one another and the community is rather closer knit than most. You're presented with several bits and pieces of information that seem to present story points. Yuuki's mother has been missing for years and the monsters in the forest nearby are getting rather riled up. She goes to confront the source of the distress in the creatures only to end up cursed!

Unfortunately, that's about all it does good... The story is kind of a mess. The concept of this story is good.. The application and content of the story is poorly done. The characters themselves.. Yuuki included.. are all rather boring, plain, and predictable in nearly every aspect. Seita is actually lowkey the most interesting character in that world, because I have no idea how in the world he's managed to stay so pure and innocent when his friends, family, and everyone else are all the biggest pervs in the world behind his back... The game is like taking a dump on Seita the whole entire time.. Just for the sake of it.. No rhyme or reason other than to try and call itself NTR.. which.. Need I remind you.. This isn't NTR.. She's not in a relationship with her brother.. And the Developer themself often enjoys reminding people that they strongly dislike incest content, while simultaneously using her brother as the backdrop for every single bit of "NTR" that is currently in the game (Which still sounds incesty to me to make the brother the cuck).. Though it looks like a setup between Thaff's brothers, Earth and Fire is in the works.. I personally think despite that it's very clear a certain someone wants her to get swayed towards Fire to give in to pleasure.. Earth actually presents some room for the story to actually start to progress. It would start to give you some hope that maybe she can start to pull herself back together again.. And then if you want after that.. maybe you can dash it then..

After becoming cursed, the game very quickly seems to forget any pretenses of it being an RPG. The game presents itself in a fashion as though you'll have choices to make, or meaningful advancements to be had, both in the plot, in the corruption, and in leveling, that you'll be collecting weapons, and accessories.. But.. It's all a lie. You're presented with a stat tracker that may as well be useless, A Virginity Tracker, which is actually useless.. and quite often in the story, you're told "You made these decisions." when you in fact.. Had absolutely no choice.. Unless you just wanted to stop playing the game... Why even TEASE the player at the IDEA of having actual choice, when you don't have it.

At the end of the most recent patch, I was hoping to see some ideas or notions of the game starting to take a direction towards the main point of the quest. Yuuki has been going around and doing all kinds of other quests and settling all kinds of other matters, but has been basically ignoring her curse and indulging in it instead. Considering her main goal should be to find a way to remove the curse or to defeat the demon who placed it on her... She's doing an EXTREMELY Shitty job at even getting started in that direction. This comes off as though the main plot of the game is weak, useless, and may as well not even be there. Yuuki would be far more interesting of a character if the demon wasn't there and she could just naturally fall into depravity on her own and it would make more sense why she's wasting her time sucking dick, and fucking around in town instead of trying to fight the curse even a little or finding solutions to her problem. (I am not stating that I want the game to go this route.)

All in all.. The game just ends up having no real direction to go. It'd be far more compelling if the player had choices, but it's pretty clear that they don't wanna fool around with different flags, different checks, and having to create branching paths.. so they opted to create the illusion of it instead.. and didn't expect anyone to feel ripped off by it (Or maybe it was planned at one point). The way the story is going.. The only way that Yuuki will end up defeating the demon is if she manages to fuck him to death. Which I imagine her fucking the demon is probably what they wanted the ending of the game to be.

I apologize for the lengthy review.

TLDR:
Pros:
+ Interesting story concept
+ Decent immersive introduction
+ Yuuki is in concept actually unique, small town hero
+ Characters have room for improvement and could be made better

Cons:
- Story in its current state is a mess, has no real direction either
- Characters are all bland, including Yuuki, despite her having an interesting background and cute character
- The main plot doesn't seem to have any pay off and doesn't seem as though it's ever going to
- Lists NTR as a main selling point, doesn't have any.
- Presents Stat trackers, acts as though you'll have choices to make. It's a lie
- Rate of corruption tends to fluctuate back and forth
- Namesake of the game may as well not even be there, as it would make other plot points and elements stronger
- Men are all horn dogs, liars, and sex offenders for.. basically no reason
- Taboo stuff is kind of very obviously hand picked for creator preference
- Apparently corruption also turns you into a shitty person pretty quickly
- Some scenes hurt the game, and the protagonist never seems to feel pressured to actively fight against their curse
- immersion can be broken fairly quickly
- Really oddly setup railroad


God.. I need to stop typing so much.. Probably gonna edit this and cut out a lot

A 10/10 MC, with very good art and CG (it even has animations!!), is stuck in a mediocre game made in an outdated and janky rpgm version. Oh and the game is like 80% breast fondling/molestation in general.

As the other reviews said, the main issue here is that the maps are big and designed for a traditional rpg game, but this is anything but so it results in a LOT of walking around between points, wasting time. All the maps could have been condensed and the game designed more as a focused roamer like Karryn Prison. Condensed maps and event progression would already improve the game a lot.

Also the game presents stats and other things as if you'd have a choice in corrupting her or not, but nope it's just a railroad into corruption and NTR, which is fine but why pretend like your game was going to offer different routes if all of the encounters and relationships are mandatory anyways? The railroaded relationship, specially with a certain boy may put off a lot of people so be aware.

Grab a full save and check out the gallery. I'm giving it 3 stars just for the sake of the MC and art alone, but other than that its a mid game at best.

Really like the story of this game, feels like sangeki of gear kinda game which I really live. Maybe the early combat will be kinda problematic if don't really understand the combat method. Looking forward to more updates and scene with those kids

A RPGM game with a ambitios but weak story that couldn't keep up with it's incredibly hot female protagonist,a tease not by any kind,mostly touching,a few sexual interactions with a few not so interesting characters,a interesting shota playthrough that had so much potential but poorly executed,all together with a lack of time of it's developer,and as old game with only a few content,it's nothing more than a mix of hot pictures that teases you and makes you wonder.

This game really is amazing and has a great story and nice anime drawing or moving.
The RPGM makes them a bit slower and it doesn't have an option for sound
And it's fine.
With gameplay or anime drawing those things take place you can see it, and it works great.
I can't wait for the new update this game is one of my top anime games.

Rating the 0.8 version

The only real compliment I can give the game is the artwork. Though I give that compliment a lot of weight. The art is stunning, with the protagonist being insanely sexy. Also, just having an RPGM game with animations is a nice change of pace. However, anything else I say in the game's favor comes with caveats.

The corruption system is a very slow burn. One of the slowest I've experienced. If that's your preferred style, then this game may scratch that itch. However, don't expect to engage in it outside a set path. Despite what the GUI might imply, the protagonist has a set amount of opportunities to engage in more serious sexual escapades. For example, the protagonist has only one way to lose her virginity.

The game is often frustrating to navigate. Often the player will reach event flags without being told anything has changed. I reached a point where all the obvious flags had been tripped and still wasn't getting anywhere. I finally figured it out, but it took much longer than I would have been comfortable with and it could have been easily fixed by more transparent game design. Hopefully some of these issues will be fixed in the future, but as it stands I would not overall recommend this one.

As an addendum, don't ignore the fact shota is in the genre labels twice. Almost every sexual encounter (and nearly all the plot important ones) is a shota encounter. If shota isn't your fetish, and especially if it's a turn-off, you will not have a good time because it is unavoidable.