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

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.

This game remined me of the old trainer game. its simple there is clear corruption progression, a bit grindy but have quite decent puzzle even thought a bit repetitive. The story is simple easy to understand, good length, so doesn't take multiple days to Finnish.
Yes the Mc is goblin, that may be the achilles heel for some and plus for others. but the main lure for me is the art style. This game have good unique 3D model, its refreshing. Even thought the sex scene is a bit static for my liking.

Nice game 3.5/5

+ The game has an original story, with a goblin protagonist (lol) corrupting a royal family.
+ Graphics are in 3D with a cartoonish look, which is a fresh air amongst all those Daz3D clones.
++ The dev is obviously a fellow pervert, who has respectable obsessions with sodomy, buttplugs and spanking (I wish it was possible to spank and give plugs to all the girls, and better see insertions/removals though).
-/+The game is grindy, but the minigames are not especially difficult or annoying.
+++The best point about the game is the humour, especially when it involves the complete airhead princess, who always has "some important princess stuff to do".
-The bad point is that the sex scenes are way too short, almost rushed, and often seen from afar. They come between long grinding sessions. As a result, the game is completely unfappable. I wish the dev could think of game mechanics that involve sex (I think it was possible to do that with the breaking of the chastity belt, or "breaking" the girls through spanking).

tl;dr: good for fun, not for fap

This is a surprisingly decent little game. It's funny and the gameplay has some variety, the characters are quirky and the princess is undoubtedly an interesting one

The renders are good, it would be nice to see more of them in different poses/circumstances.

The portal minigame takes some time to get used to but eventually, it gets easy. It is however grindy and it would be ideal if it can be shortened.
I was not a fan of the castle puzzle so always skipped that .

Overall I enjoyed the game, the characters and the funny tropes. I'm looking forward to the next game. Good luck with it.

I love it. I know its a game not for anyone, its quite grindy and progress is slow and hard thought for. Sometimes someone can get stuck not knowing how to process the story but if you check the log and think a little bit than you certainly can progress. The reward is progressivly kinky interactions with your girls. Even if the content seems realative small it is very lovely created and a lot of fun to discover.

Version 0.8b

Warning: This game contains non-avoidable sharing/prostitution. In oder to progress, you need to whore out one of the girls.

The game is fun and doesn't take itself too seriously.
However, it's quite a bit of grinding for very little sexual content.
Also, it's very easy to accidentally lock yourself out of content!

Overall I don't regret the time I spent on it, but it could have been so much more, and the ending feels rushed for now.

Pretty good game, a bit grindy, but not too much. I hope we could see a lot of new content soon! Really good character design. Especially thief girl (Nyx). Not too much content with wizard girl, but a lot of with princess. Nyx is my favorite character, will be waiting for more content for her)

I have to say it is a pretty solid , game so far (0.7). I haven't encountered any bugs, barring the rewrite and subsequent loss of save retrocompatibility was annoying I can understand the need for that.
The art is good and different from all the daz models out there.
The dev is extremely active on the forums here and helpful.
Game can be navigated without a detailed walkthrough, the one included ingame is more then enough .
Some of the puzzely minigames can be skipped, and the rest aren't completely retarded like in most cases. Mini games are a hit or miss, and and for me it's a huge one!
Play the game it's worth it !

Simple gameplay with medium grind and poor payoff. The slow build might be worth it if the scenes they were building toward were decent, but they ultimately fall flat and the gameplay grind is a bit too much. These issues don't feel like they can be fixed with updates, so feel free to miss this one.

The gamplay itself does a few curious and interesting things. It changes through the course of the game, transitioning from simple dungeon crawling to simple area control, then to simple dungeon crawling again. New gameplay interrupts the grind a bit, though the games are too simplistic to hold attention for the amount of time the designer is asking for. This leaves the player feeling they've traded one grind for another.

Figuring out how to unlock new content can be extremely frustrating. The in-game quest tracker is sufficient at first but soon falls short, forcing players to dig through the forum to figure out how to trigger a new scene. I eventually stopped playing when I had no idea how to continue, and the only thing the forum recommended didn't seem to work.

I feel the quality of scenes tapered toward the end. There are several scenes that feel like they should be big payoffs for a lot of work but are less-explored than most dialogue. Slow-build corruption only works if there's adequate payoff, and what should feel like triumph currently feels like afterthought.

For example: It's a long time and a lot of effort before the player can actually have sex with the princess. It should feel like a major accomplishment the whole game in the making. Instead, she literally tells you she's going to read a book while you're back there. The scene with the apprentice is similar, with her saying "Go ahead and do what you have to," and barely reacting to what you're doing. Why doesn't the sex feel sexy?

Another example: The player spends a long time re-building a room into a sex dungeon, full of devious-looking toys and contraptions. After teasing a pillory, chains, and whips the only content in the room is sticking the princess into a cage for a few hours to get the "sub" number to go up.

This game has some good ideas that aren't explored well enough to be worth the grind. If you're anything like me, it will leave you frustrated and wishing you hadn't spend so much time on it.