Ren'Py - Completed - The Princess and the Tower [v0.9c Public] [y.v.]

The models are nice and imo the grind is not so bad once you get the mechanics, the writting and characters are fun as well.

Now I still give it only 3 stars since the sex scenes are barebones at best but unfortunately most of the time worse. Often you have only one or two pics with no real text to describe the scene.

It is disappointing because evrything else for a good game is there but it has no payoff / reward whatsoever since the porn falls completely flat,

Shame, it has way more potential.

I love the trainer games.

But I don't have nice time with this game.

I think the good things about this games is the optimization (is the best), the art and the idea.

The bad things I think is the easy frustration 'cuz the game is so scripting and so easy be lost. You need search in the thread topic and the walkthrough (this walkthroughs result useless for me)

The art is good but the animations is "meh" the voices dont help... ins't a fappeable game.

The minigames are fine but the dungeon with 5 or 6 sorcerer's is SO ANNOYING and easy to get angry.

I don't recommend this game, maybe i try again when the game are finished 100% and polish 100% but now result a waste time for me.

Good and entertaining, I started with this game on the 0.7 release and can say I have not regretted following it further, the story is certainly not groundbreaking but far from bad.

By far what I have enjoyed most in this game is the gameplay loop, which some have described as friendly, about that, I won't deny it, if you don't know what you need to do, you can certainly spend way more time than necessary doing minor tasks with little reward, and that can be pretty annoying, however I haven't experienced it but I digress.

The porn and scenes are generally really vanilla, with some scenes scattered with slightly more kinky stuff, although never to a significant degree, the animations are far from perfect, but still enjoyable; the art is really good for the 3D render stuff, which I generally avoid due the uncanniness of many other games.

The endings are alright, but I can't stress enough how obtuse the whole spider amulet thing is (Which is a real shame because that is what opens the, IMO, better endings), once you get it and manage to give it to the princess it is pretty straight forward.

Overall, a fairly good, fun and entertaining game.

I really liked the game. The author has a lot of ideas and a great implementation. There is a moderate fetish. Quests sometimes make you think that it is also very good and brings the game to a high level, do not let it fall to a banal clicker. The plot changes with different characters from good to bad behavior, which also gives zest and gives a new look. With pleasure I went through the game several times to open all the scenes. I recommend to all"!

First off. Congrats to the dev on finishing the game. that in itself is worth 5 stars.

I really enjoyed the game. The characters we unique and extremely sexy for me. Irith's nipples are to die for!!

I loved the game mechanics, they way it's presented is all top notch.

But I just feel there is something missing. Some of the character developments seems a bit off (Nyx becoming a stripper and working girls, came outa nowhere)

Irith and Gwynn characters were much more consistent.

The endings for me was also a bit bland.

The game was relatively bug free, but there was a totally out of sequence event (Involving a training plug), that occurred in my playthrough.

So, was this a good game? Absolutely! I would recommend anyone reading the review to play it.
But it just does not have all the finishing touches for a 5 for me.
A very good 4 from me.

At first glance, the game looked intriguing to me.
I've put a lot of hours into it up to the point where for every progression I want to make, I need to look outside the game how to progress, rendering the game not intuitive at all and not guiding the player in a satisfactory manner. I had to look for answer to the riddles in google, searching a lot of time in the forums for how to progress the game and what was the last straw for me is unlocking the burrows, which I couldn't manage to do (even after searching here for the answer, which talks about some spider amulet that I have no idea what it is, or who is this goblin girl that should be in the brothel etc.) and thus just dropped the game.

Pros:
+ The game has nice models. Not the typical models that you see in every second VN here.
+ Progression in games is always fun (up to some grindy point), so it was nice at the beginning progress and unlock stuff.
+ The game adds new mechanics as you progress and manages maybe to keep from the game being bland faster.
+ Good option to skip mini games. Some of them are pointless and have no reason to be put in the game to prolong it.

Cons:
- Grainy renders
- The animations are just few key frames
- It takes a lot of hours to see insertion in the H-scene, if you will see it at all. I played up to about 100 days and didn't see even 1 insertion scene where YOU ACTUALLY SEE the insertion.
- You can skip time only in the main hall, forcing you to go there so many times just to skip time and go back to where you have been before.
- The biggest con is how unintuitive the game is. I was stuck soo many times. For example, I had no idea how to send stuff to the queen at the first time, and then again with the crystal plug, which I found that is "registered" as sending only after you "chat" with the queen. Then unlocking the burrows which I didn't manage in the game. Then again in the riddles in the Hall of Wisdom... so you see..

Overall, I felt very frustrated by the game up to the point it was hard for me to continue.
Kodos to the dev for completing the game. I'm sure you next game will be much better if you take the various points different people point out.

The Good:

• Good models
• novel gameplay loop
• solid scenes
• ok writing

The Bad:

• the novelty of the gameplay loop can get boring (details in spoiler)
• Would have liked more corruption/ training
• could have more scenes

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Besides the annoying early game grind fest!
The game is likeable and fun!
It has its flaws like very game!
But with the state that the game is in at the moment of righting this:
- The game has very little in the way of good scenes (every subject is hardly explored)
- Dungeon layout is some what interesting the first 100times! But after that is ... Yeah i have to grind for "insert name" and then same dungeon same enemy. You can just make a skip button that takes us to either the full clear or to the point where the new stuff is?
- There is huge potential in this game that is unexplored!
- The endings are not very interesting.
- Every little interactions with Nyx in terms of you know
- Late game its just boring... I had over 300 of every imaginable thing! Nothing is a problem by then!
- The game is ok so play it people!

Gameplay
Controls: Dialogue can be progressed via keyboard and mouse. Dungeon delving can only be done via keyboard. Everything else can only be done via mouse.
Interface: A main menu, an inventory box, a stat screen and dialogue boxes.
Grind: Enough to turn this 4 star game into a 3 star game.
Writing
Plot: Interesting enough, with 3 different endings.
Characters: The usual entertaining cliches.
Typos: Uncommon.
Art
Models: Unique and appealing, with different proportions and pubic hair between all.
Animations: Slideshows.
Semen Effects: Looked decent, but actually seeing the semen is very rare.
Audio
Music: Changes between scenes to be more thematic.
Effects: Well used in every scene.
Voices: N/A.

I like the game, the mini game and the characters... but grindiest GD game I have played in the while... Cut it by half and I still would prefer the more story oriented porn games here.. I have a fk ton of steam games to play.. also if the grind is too long for me it's hard to keep the mood or care sorry. Is in it has all the right parts but adds needless grind to add time...

Wow, it was really fun to play through the game. Character models are somehow unique but still very hot.
The story is pretty unique and the gameplay has some different approaches, but overall it's strategic.

I would really like to give the game 5 starts if not from these Cons:
- Even though you get later help with gathering gold and other resources the game is still very grindy and repetitive, you have often to repeat the same action day after day to archive progress
- It lacks of guidance. I often miss the point and couldn't figure out what do I have to do exactly to progress with some quests. Thankfully there is a Walkthough
- The work to reward (sex scenes) ratio is pretty low. Most scenes you get basically at the end of the game. The last ending is worth it, but I wish there were a bit more scenes with side characters
- Animations have no naughty sounds and some like handjob or blowjob are only seen from far away instead of a POV or something

I stopped playing this game until it was complete as having to re-do the grind with every iteration was mind-numbing and starting from scratch through the Act selection was not at all helpful. The walkthrough on the OP was helpful up until the end of the fourth act and defeating the queen for the first Endgame. After that...

The walkthrough becomes irrelevant as certain required actions which have changed in the game from previous versions are no longer relevant. PRIMARILY - MC MUST go to the second level of the Archives through the Portal A SECOND TIME to retrieve the spider amulet from the chest. The Evil Irith quest is REQUIRED to finish the Goblin King quest, Gwynn's Institute quest and the Belt Mastery research. There is no hint of this in game which breaks the flow of the game into haphazard sections of grief and frustration while the player searches endlessly for the one action that will allow them to continue. Once the Evil Irith quest is finished, MC now has the location of the Mistveil Burrows and the ability to access the institute for Gwynn's Demonologist ending. This is the ONLY way to give Gwynn her demonologist outfit as, contrary to the in-game directions, IT CANNOT BE RESEARCHED. Kind of like Nyx's Milking request which was robably only inserted for her humorous reply. I really missed Gwynn's Demonologist outfit in the Goblin King ending.

I am, on the whole, very pleased with this game. I prefer petite women and Irith and Nyx are right in my wheelhouse. However, more planning was required to allow multiple endings and maintain the game's 'natural' flow without requiring a restart or save-game manipulation. That and descriptions for the locked gallery items would have made this a five-star game. My opinion, of course. I look forward to the next game in hopes that the developer has learned from their mistakes.

[Rev @ The Princess and the Tower v0.9b Public]

Enjoyed this more than I expected.

Art's fine, if you can get past the weird Daz or whatever proportions.

Writing is good. Scenario's been done but it's a parody so that's the point; fluency is fine and characterization is strong. I felt the Princess not being an uberprude was a novel touch.

Porn was fine (or better) for the most part; I don't care for buttplay or plugs but girl/girl and piercings is nice.


TLDR: Fun times~

The character models look great, but the game is terrible at signposting. It's really unclear on how to do anything. There'll be some vague bullshit in the questlog part, but it's never clear enough and it never feels like you're doing things efficiently which isn't the end of the world, but it feels really bad. I have no idea how to unlock The Burrows and there are no gameplay prompts to help me get there.

The other issue I have is the sex animations. I think the models look great and I like the character stuff as well, but I've never even tried to cum to this game. It'd be pointless. It's not arousing. It's a fun game and it could be pretty good, especially with a bit of impregnation material for me lol It would probably be a 5/5 for me if it wasn't obtuse as fuck and if the animations were more varied and actually good, but 3/5 is the rating I'm going to give. I did enjoy playing the game, so thanks, dev, I just wish I had got what I wanted out of it (cummies).

This game is an absolute masterpiece. Best of its own genre as trainer games. I can even say that this is the best adult game i've ever played.
Lots of bdsm elements, collars, chastity belt, slave, anal plugs, training, bondage, humiliation.
Thanks to the dev for creating such a great game. <3

The cardinal sin the game commits is too much grind for too little payoff. I honestly appreciate grind when it sits between rewarding scenes, but after hours of slamming through this (even with liberal cheating) it leaves a bad impression.

There's a bunch of somewhat interesting minigames required to progress, which are fun the first three times but then become dull and RSI-inducing. There's a full 12-hour day cycle but only a couple of times a day where there's anything to do.

I love the look of the characters in this game, which are apparently the Daz "Toon Princess" model. Unfortunately, either due to limitations of the model, the developer's personal experience with Daz, or the developer's own preferences, the models aren't used to their full potential. There's scenes of stripping/dancing and some light BDSM, but very actual sex acts depicted in reasonable fidelity. Outside of the titular princess none of the characters are at all interested in sexual activity at any point which also makes it less sexy.

I appreciate that the dev made some endings, but the latter stages of the game feel incomplete. Tons of elements of the endgame frustrate:

• Getting past the "normal" ending requires repeating a tough dungeon for no obvious reason (maybe this is hinted in the game? I just read the code)
• There's a long period of time when you are "defending" from the queen's attacks which means literally sitting and doing nothing for 30 seconds every night while she moves pieces around
• Characters in the endgame are sent elsewhere for "training" but rather than it yielding a scene the characters literally say "I don't want to talk about it". You have to do this over multiple days even though there is no payoff and nothing else to do during the day.
• Many more examples of having to gather expensive resources or solve tricky puzzles over and over to make progress without getting rewarded for it at all.

I wanted to give this game four stars because I think its a three-star execution that ears a bonus star for being [Completed]. But after accessing all the content I'm a little too frustrated to rate it that highly. Still, I hope their follow up game improves on this one and ends up being great.

The most recent version of “The Princess And The Tower” (v0.9b), which is supposed to be complete, was rushed, because a lot of scenes are still missing in my opinion. Since the dev is already occupied with his next game, I doubt, that he might deliver the lacking content for this game.

But first things first, “The Princess and the Tower” is a trainer game featuring lots of rather time consuming redundant mini games. If you don’t like mini games, this game is a pain in the ass concerning completion. I’m really not a fan of mini games. Therefore I appreciated, that at least those late game castle maps were made skippable. But it wasn’t enough, because in general there was way too much time consuming grind, instead of rewarding sexy scenes with the characters.
This is a common tactic of devs, who want to hide the fact that there is little nsfw content actually, by distracting and occupying players with time consuming grind and mini games. Therefore the gameplay turned out to be very much redundant and tedious, if you play from the very beginning.

During my playthrough I've got the goblin king harem ending and didn't bother to check out the other endings. Unfortunately the gameplay isn’t much intuitive. You'll need to consult the walkthrough most of the time, which is pretty much a mess and missing critical information. It’s absolutely not a step by step guide, it just gives you broad directions. The array of the info within the walkthrough is also suboptimal, because it begins with the end of the game. Lots of riddle solutions are also missing within this so called "walkthrough". I had to google some riddle answers and check out the f95 forum frequently in order to look for answers how to progress the game. The in-game quest tracker isn't that helpful either from mid-game onwards.

In general there are very little hardcore scenes, where real penetration is shown. Most of the content is just teasing (like 80 %) and dressing up with some bdsm content. For me this was a huge disappointment, since I expected more sex and not just teasing. Even those epilogue scenes, where the real action started, didn’t feel satisfying, because these were very much limited (f.e. 2 of the characters just have an anal scene and if you’re not into anal, well, bad luck).

The training of the different npcs is done quite sloppy in my opinion. Hardly anything is shown. There are some training scenes involving the mc, which aren’t bad, but all the scenes, where an npc is sent somewhere else in order to gain experience or to be trained further aren’t shown. It really sucks in my opinion. Especially concerning the training of Nyx, the rogue, a lot of potential was wasted. There are no tavern wench scenes f.e., except for the stage dancing and no brothel scenes, same is true for the princess as pet in the brothel and Gwynn during her late game demonologist training. In a trainer game the lack of those scenes can only lead to disappointment on the player side.

Apart from missing training scenes, there are many unsatisfying teaser scenes concerning the keep and the training / suffering of the npc court ladies. A lot of bestiality indications are actually given, but aren’t delivered in the end. So why are these in the game anyway?

The game could be called complete, if these above mentioned scenes were actually in the game, especially those missing main character training scenes, but like this it just feels incomplete and like laziness of the dev. How someone can already pursue the development of another game and leave his old one unfinished with so much missing content and call it complete is beyond me…

To summarize this game in one sentence: good ideas, funny story, but sloppy realization. I can’t give more than 2 stars unfortunately for the above mentioned reasons (it should be a 2.5 rating actually).

0.9b.1 (regular mode)

This dev is the real deal. It's obvious they are a real programmer and advanced 3D animator. There's a lot "game" here.

Cons:
It is a bit grindy and not a fap fest. The CGIs are a bit grainy and the 720p resolution is disappointing for a 2022 game. I recommend playing on easy if you don't like grind, yes there's an easy mode.

So why 5 stars:
The characters are well written and amazingly animated. I can instantly imagine this dev rebooting Akaburs famous Witch Trainer with his 3D, animation and coding chops. The dev clearly has skills that are being let down by under powered hardware for rendering.

Seriously dev, consider rebooting Witch Trainer. You may be 1 of 5 devs on this site who actually has the skills and work output to achieve it.

Version: v0.9b

Overall a good game, i came, i saw the descrtion, i played what was promised. A well build game with a fun story and characters, even if the characters felt like they didnt have enough interactions. I like the art and the minigames i think they give a distinct look to it.
Yet one thing that keeps this game from getting a 5 star review from me is the main gameplay loop. To put simply, its fucking boring and repetitive, i cant bully the devs about this too much though, after all, it is a Ren'py game, it would be a miracle to make a game with amazing gameplay using this fucking game engine.

Good, well defined game that delivered on the promised concept.

Cool game, content complete, nice girls and renders. Fun to play but definitely not a fap game; pretty grindy gameplay and the h-scenes are pretty vanilla. Recommend to use the console commands to get some of the items and lessen the grind.