Unity - The Demon Lord's Lover [v0.12.19] [ayumu98]

Wow. The phrase "hidden gem" gets thrown around I think willy-nilly but this is 100%, without a doubt, a Hidden Gem.

Let's start with the obvious: the art and animation are incredible. Some of the best erotic pixel art I've ever seen, in a field where most are just fine or good. That on its own would have made this an above average game.

But the fact the art and animation are tied to (as far as I can tell) many girls, spread out across a cozy town, each with unique personalities and artwork, on top of a very simple and fun NetHack/Rogue inspired dungeon crawler, makes this a treasure.

Is this for everyone? No. If you're hear to fap there's going to be the most complex mini-game you've ever played interfering in that process. If you're like me and prefer your lewdgames to live up to the second part of that word, then you are in luck because Demon Lord's Lover is doing both quite well, even in this early and very functional state.

My criticisms are (so far):
- combat is messy/confusing, especially with multiple party members doing whatever/whenever
- lack of mini-map (that I can tell) so finding the downstairs after you've finished clearing the map can be tedious because
- tiles blend together a bit too much, visual fidelity is lacking when it comes to things like stairs compared to floors/weeds/plants

Keep in mind these are preliminary thoughts that I had to get down because I'm blown away at the quality of this game(!) so far and I may be wrong or have to change these later but so far this is one of the most polished and sexy games I have come across on this site.

Review for v0.9.7

The pixel art and animated scenes are the best part of this game by a mile, but the rest of it is decent enough to enjoy too. As the overview mentions, it's a sort of dungeon crawler dating sim with serviceable writing and relatively simple gameplay mechanics.

It's a basic isekai plot where you play as a sort of pervy nerd who got transported to a new world where people become adventures to explore dungeons and take down a demon lord. While I think there's a couple cute moments and the sex scene dialogue could certainly be worse, you aren't playing this for the story. Most of the girls you meet and then the second event acts like you've known them for extended periods of time where they've developed feeling for you for seemingly no compelling reason or just straight up offer to have sex with you in the case of the pornstar girl and her companion (even though they just tried to kill you moments ago). I think the idea of your childhood friend being the demon lord could have been an interesting dynamic with the adventurer MC, but I don't think the game will go that deep with it. I also find the MC not very compelling to play as himself but whatever.

The dungeon crawling stuff is neat but pretty easy to blast through, and then trivial even when you get companions. Every floor is more or less the same with the exception of scenery and a few new enemies as you go on. You enter the floor, optionally find a key for the locked loot room, move to the next floor. Sort of becomes filler after awhile where you then just focus on hunting down whatever item or encounter you need to find to progress the girls routes.

In it's current version I don't think I'd say I got invested in it, but it was a decent time killer with some nice art and good animations.

A game I've been waiting for!!!...a basilar gameplay that is intuitive and easy to play but not banal, pixel arts that I love the style with characters that have their unique personalities and a pretty cool story, and not the usual crude and vulgar story!!...oh and also the animations, bloody sensational!...I hope the developer will continue on this road, so far there's no mistake in this excellent game!!❤

This game really reminds me of Tales of Maj'Eyal, and I like it a lot. The story, while not particularly deep at this stage, has a cozy and straightforward charm. That might evolve over time, especially since it’s still very early in development. The UI is clean and intuitive, making it easy to navigate right from the start and very accessible to new players.


Given how early the game is in development, many things are likely to change. At the moment, there are only a handful of quests, but there's already plenty of opportunity to find good loot. There’s also a shop system for buying and selling items, though it doesn’t feel fully balanced yet, as most of the gear can currently be found with ease.


The art style is very nice. There’s also H content with animations that show attention to detail and quality. Each H content is tied to a specific character and can be unlocked by following steps outlined in the in-game guide.


All in all, I’m genuinely impressed. It’s been a while since I’ve found a game that feels this promising. Definitely one I’m excited to follow and support.

Gameplay is fun, classic dungeon explorer stuff. Graphics are good, everything seems like it belongs. Main character is nice. It's a hentai game with actual gameplay and likeable characters. Worth a try if you like dungeon explorers

Rev @ The Demon Lord's Lover [v0.7.29]

is nice~

Like the art.

The writing is thin but fine, the characterization leans a bit emo for my personal tastes.

Gameplay is more 'an RPG with porny bits' than 'a porny RPG'. Fine if you prefer that, but I'm an eternal prisoner in horny jail so I'd prefer more lewds.

Not really a fan of the sex noise SFX, but I never am. Tends to come across as hokey, like the audio equivalent of '90s flashing text.

TLDR: Good times.

The pixelart is georgeous. The UI look very good. But my god the beginning of the story disgusted me. Can you please make it a little more believable that someone just woke up on another world. Or just Retcon the story so it look like its an average day for an habitant of that villlage already. The gameplay is a little fun but kinda grindy and not worth in the balance with the stroy-telling.

Gameplay is straightforward and allows for a variety of builds. The difficulty is also very forgiving and the dev includes a built-in guide for collecting H-scenes.

Each H-able character, 6 so far, has a unique personality and each of their stories are thought out with multiple scenes with well written dialogue.

The pixel art is phenomenal and I can tell this will be a great game, even at the very early stage build I played (V0.6.17).

v0.6.17
The pixel art animations for each character is extremely high quality, however that's the only thing good about this game.

The actual "gameplay" is still extremely unpolished and unbalanced in this current version. The UI is clunky garbage, going through the dungeon is a chore, and the item variety is so limited that strategy doesn't matter.

I'd recommend just getting a save with gallery unlocked, but if you want to waste your time doing it legit all you need is platemail, 2 force rings, and a lifesteal spin attack weapon. Then just buy level up scrolls at the store to become unkillable and turn the dungeon into a joke.

Hey!

I just finished the game and had a great time with it.
The dungeon was kind of nuts at the start, super hard, but once I leveled up and got the hang of it, things got way easier (as it’s supposed to be).
I really dig the pixel art style, and your animation is awesome—seriously, great work! I was thinking, though, adding more sound effects during background stuff and maybe some character voices would make it even better. But honestly, it's already such a solid game.
Thanks a ton for making and sharing this with us!

Cheers,
Ayumu98

the game is promising
there is a though that dev can add on this game

even though you can clear this game after 1 hr
it fun plus the pixel art look so goddamn good
hopefully there are more h scene
7/10

Played the [0.6.6]
Amazing game, truly a pleasure to see something with high effort. The gameplay is quite simple but engaging, the game is not that much balance yet but you can see where the dev going with diversity in mechanic or gameplay. People seems to play a sword spam whirlwind, but i'm really enjoying a big armor big hammer oneshooting one by one the ennemy style.
Simple but nice writing, the character are charming and have a nice simple story
The game is not perfect yet and some of the thing need to be improve but the dev look already working on it (To name a few, the usual scene reviewer, bit more sound design, keybing on some tome and item could be good, easier way to go diagonal)

I wanted to put 4star because the game is still in dev and lack polish there and there, but compared to all the usual bad game we have, this one is really good.

The Demon Lord's Lover manages a lot of balancing acts just right. It's easy for an H-game with dungeon combat to focus so much on the combat that it forgets it's supposed to be porn. Combat here is simple, but it isn't shallow. Combat mostly consists of walking toward enemies to attack them, but you need to be strategic to get through the dungeon. The game gives you potions and spells and expects you to use them. I recommend trying to get healing and teleport spells for survivability. (It isn't immediately obvious that spells are infinitely rechargeable, but they are.)

The writing is surprisingly good too. It gives you just enough for scenes to feel a little more grounded (I particularly liked Paila's arc for this), but it doesn't forget it's a porn game either (Nanako, lol). You don't have to bust your ass hunting down scenes either. Most of the available girls will fuck you soon after you meet them, the trick is getting through the dungeon in the first place.

It's not a perfect game. There badly needs to be a way to hotkey spells, and the town is almost hilariously small. But it gets to the point quickly, and has enough to it that it definitely feels worth the 2-3 hours I put into it.