Unity - ThornSin [v0.7.5] [Scarlet Paper]

TLDR Everything is good so far in "ThornSin v0.7.5", other than losing everything after either dying or beating the final boss, so here's hoping that changes.

Combat is tight and fun, and as far as I have seen, "ThornSin" doesn't have guro/gore porn, which is a plus in my opinion. Also, "ThornSin" has a pregnancy mechanic, which I'm always happy to see. I'm not sure if every enemy can impregnate her, but the few that got a hold of and violated her knocked her up with parasites that she later gave birth to.

I have high hopes for this game. I expect this game to be at top runner upon its completion. Currently followed, with great anticipation. ^_^

A porn game that seems to despise the fact that it's a porn game. Absolutely everything about the design is hell-bent on killing your boner and ensuring that you have an awful, terrible, no-good time trying to bust a nut while playing it. I'm not exaggerating when I say that the art and, to a lesser extent the animations, are the only good things about this game. Have fun getting them, though, because you've got some roadblocks to jump.

• Saving is deliberately out of your control. The game has one single autosave that overwrites itself when reaching new areas and you're forced to reset when you die. We as a society unanimously decided that "game over rape" is an abomination of the highest order and it's been almost entirely absent from H-games for the better part of a decade because, obviously, punishing the player harshly for wanting to look at the PORN in your PORN GAME is stupid.
• No level select. If you die and want to, say, get back to level 4 to see some content from a specific monster, you'll need to replay the entire game to get back there.
• No gallery. The best you can get is to navigate to your save directory and make named backups of the save for each stage, then swap between them whenever you're after a specific flavor of content.
• The game itself is pretty awful to play. It's intended to be a rogue-like, with currency you can spend in a shop and Binding of Isaac style treasure rooms that allow you a choice between two items. The problem is that almost every item I've ever found has been inconsequential, and none of them have any real kind of synergy. On top of this the fundamental game mechanics are also lackluster, with combat itself being boring and mundane.
• Level design is boring as sin as well. Nothing much going on aside from basic platforms with enemies scattered about. Sometimes an enemy will spit at you, sometimes there will be a trap, but it's all quite boring.

It's very sad that, despite being in development for quite some time, no effort at all has been put into addressing the fundamental flaws with the game. There's potential for an easy 5/5 experience here, but the game and developer seem absolutely dead-set on trying to ruin what could be a great porn game in favor of instead creating the world's lamest rogue-like.

Seeing the gorgeous artistic qualities of this title and the great animations I had high hopes but the poor quality of this game reside in its game-design core ideas. The rogue-like type could've been interesting IF there was even something to win from replaying the game: I finished it and was just sent back to the hub.. So winning does nothing except seeing a little hentai animation.. and since losing makes you lose all progress, then what the hell was I playing this game for? Complete waste of time.

There's no gallery, you get PUNISHED for wanting to watch the hentai scenes (how stupid can that be, in a hentai game) and the gameplay is quite bad, on top of that.
ThornSin could be a great hentai game, but its core design ideas are just terrible and completely ruin the great art and animations, making it very difficult to enjoy playing. Very disappointing.

Utter dogshit game for several reasons:

1 - There is only 1 save slot and auto saves to it, the fact this brain dead garbage of an idea is in this game in and of itself deducts a star already when any competent dev would allow you to at least have some save points in at least some predetermined locations for hard saves. The worst part though is how this combines with the second point.

2 - Going down to 0 HP for any reason starts you over at the beginning of the game with no chance to redo anything, nor does it even short cut you to floors to make shit easier. Literally having to restart the game that will autosave to a new save is so unbelievably retarded that is just sad.

3: YOU ARE LITERALLY PUNISHED FOR SEEING THE H CONTENT, now this is the gravest sin since this is a hentai game... Whenever you get into any scene with an enemy you constantly lose HP and the status effects in game prevent youi from escaping so you could be losing a ton of HP just by forced scenes you can't escape cause dogshit balance which can lead to you getting 0 HP and having to restart the entire game. Even on the lowest difficulty that is literally described as "For those who just want to see adult scenes and have the combat be dull and easy" you take so much HP just by going through the rooms with almost no ways to gain HP unless you get super lucky with item and ability spawns...

This game not only doesn't respect your time by punishing you for playing it and making you redo everything constantly, it is just poorly balanced and not thought out at all. It is a shame cause the art isn't half bad at all. I refuse to believe this is highly rated and suspect bot reviews because this is ridiculous with so many unforgivable design choices.

Another side-scroller with a nun MC. Sadly, this game is overrated and I've seen much better ones in quality. The game has smooth battle animations I liked. But that was the only pro I found. Many other features in the game seemed not ready.

• Non-battle animations looked lousy at best with characters looking like real cranky ragdolls.
• I can't tell much about its story as it is not even half-finished yet.
• At this point of game status, 99% of play activities are running and battling without sufficient context.
• More detailed map or quest log would be nice because player mostly doesn't know where she is or what her goal is.
• Custom keyboard bindings are not allowed while two fixed sets are provided. But be aware the second set of keyboard binding does not always work, for example, when you choose clothing items.
• Loading/Saving is claimed to be handled with autosaving, meaning it allows only single save - this is year 2025, right?
• Another crucial absence is a gallery which is essential to review history of important scenes without playing the whole game again.
• Lastly, this game sets initial resolution very low like 200x200 so a first-time player can't even read the main menu nor adjust resolution UI. A couple of code lines detecting/setting screen resolution correctly would resolve this problem but it hasn't been fixed for a long time for some reason.

All in all, the game may have some potentials but seems 2-3 years of hard working away to be even close to an enjoyable side-scroller.

ThornSin [v0.7.1]

Wonderful game, magical music and very nice visual style, there is not much content, but for the first playthrough and familiarization with the game is quite enough

+ Roguelike - Replayability and all that, there are actually enough items at the moment, but they're not very varied, so for now the best strategy is to collect damage + HP, at least that's how it worked for me.

+ Music - Like I said, it's just magical, every track is very relaxing and puts you in a little melancholy mood, except for the bosses music, some fast techno starts playing on them, which personally causes a little dissonance for me, but overall I like it

+ Holiness / Corruption - Two scales, increase during the run from item selection and from some lewd events if we are talking about the corruption scale.

I honestly can't be sure I know how they work because there's no manual in the game other than the control buttons, but holding one of the scales higher than the other determines what type of portal can appear after a boss, the chance of a portal appearing I don't know, and whether increasing the scale affects that I don't know either.

So far that's the only thing the scale does, but I suppose the logical thing to do would be to add items that require a certain number of points of one of the scales, or both at all

0.7.1 version

4.5/5 for me, I want to mention a few aspects of the game

H-content - ThornSin is amazing in this regard. If you liked smooth, flowy and jiggly animations like in another highly rated side-scroller (I'm not mentioning it so this review complies with rules) , you'll love the animations in this one. Big variety of fetishes such as flesh "dimension", mind control, pregnancy and birth, enclosed spaces full of tentacles (imagine mimic chests etc.) . A variety of enemies that have their way with you like werewolves, slugs, goblins, insects, leeches etc. While most "interactions" happen when you are downed in combat, there's also cinematics either after game over, or in certain interactions.

Combat - I'm not a big fan of combat in side-scrollers, but I had no issues with this one. Default keybinds might take a minute or two to get used to, but that's probably the hardest part. 2 weapons as of this version, both have normal attack and special attack, one of special attacks is a block and riposte type attack if that's your playstyle, otherwise there is dodge. Every enemy has unique attacks that don't take to long to get used to. You can also find items and effects that buff you (e.g. enemies that stay close to you for long enough get frozen, dodging leaves behind a thunderbolt etc.)

Progression - This is a roguelike game, which means after dying, you start all over, losing all progress you made. Game is made up of zones, which are made up of rooms. You fight room through room until you find the entrance to the next zone. Every couple of zones the theme of the zone changes (2 zones are the forest, next 3 are ... etc.), with which the enemies also change.
It's important to note you can't leave the room before you kill all the enemies in it, which is an even bigger drawback since there is no gallery as of right now. So if you want to see animations from enemies toward the end, you have some work to do.

Conclusion - even as someone who's not a fan of either side-scrollers and roguelikes, I loved this game simply for its fetish variety and beautiful animations. The biggest drawbacks right now are the lack of gallery which, seeing as the game is still in development, I hope will be added in the future, and censorship which personally didn't bother me, but no censorship is better in any case.

Yeah the art and animation are passable, but for me personally the anatomy is too exagerated

Other than that the gameplay side of it is severly undercooked right now. A lot of neat ideas coming from the roguelike setup, but currently you only have 2 weapons and ZERO permanent upgrades between runs.
And because you there is no way to skip early levels means you have to replay the 1st level OVER and OVER and OVER. Most stupidest design decision ever. And how the hell are non-skippable cutscenes still in there? Did seriously no one scream at the dev yet for this insanity???

The fighting system is also very meh, only one combo chain mashing and a little bit of dodge timing. The enemy design is boring as fuck as every one get's stunlocked by your attacks.

The guy below me saying this is better than nights revenge needs to lay of the bleach drinks for sure. How you ever can compare this to the greateness of NR is beyond me.

My suggestion is to jump in, enjoy the first 2 levels and then wait a while longer till this is actually a game.

best H game i have played so far. awesome tentacle scenes. like the dynamic of holy and evil, but wish there was a waypoint so you can experience the ending scenes without having to restart at level 1

Best side-scroller h-game with great art. I have been following the monthly updates for a year now. IMO better than Night of Revenge and Alien Quest Eve. Looking forward to the full release, the only drawback is I wish updates were more frequent!

unskippable cutscenes repeating wastes your time combat is unintuitive and reminds me of ds2 idk if the skip button is even working or not. can probably keep playing but honestly everthing in the game feels super samey

Pros:
- amazing art with beautiful heroine
- variation of scenes
- extremly hot unforgiving dark fantasy world
- interesting rogue like 2d sidescroller gameplay (normally not into roguelikes or sidescrollers, but this kept me hooked. Very hard on normal for a pleb like me though, but thankfully there are lower difficulties)
- the tidbits about the story and the world seem very promising, if sparse

Cons:
- missing tooltips or explanations for many mechanics
- sex scenes mostly on losing and no gallery
- sparse story moments and background narration
- some interesting mechanics like breastfeeding are currently a bit to conditional to access
- sex scenes exclusively brutal rape or coercion (not a negative for me, but tastes vary)

Most negatives are related to the game being unfinished, so i won't hold them currently against it. The game is too beautiful and unique with outstanding gameplay for a porn game to pass up for these minor points.

The game's animations and art is definitely the selling point, and it's absolutely amazing. As of right now, the combat and story is lackluster, but the game's in beta so it's understandable. The difficulty isn't that high, but it's challenging and pretty fun sometimes.

Played version 0.6.5

Good

1. High quality application startup. Shows animated developer splash, splash for autosaving, animated main menu
2. Animated dialogue portraits
3. The clothing system is multi layered and you have multiple pieces per layer unlocked at the beginning for you to customize your look with
4. The “H Status” menu screen has animated close up pictures of pussy, ass, mouth
5. Shopkeeper will give you money if you go through an animated touching minigame

Issues

1. Janky camera. It tries to frame the scene so your facing direction has the most space to view, but when it needs to change the other way it’s too fast. Jumping lifts the camera up too quickly - it would be better just zoomed out.
2. Releasing a horizontal movement button doesn’t stop character movement immediately, there’s lots of skating
3. Controller is supported, but character movement is only on the D pad
4. Characters is metal armor over their boobs have the armor swaying
5. The movement has horizontal acceleration that takes a second to get up to max speed. The max speed is way too fast for how zoomed in the camera is.
6. The first room in the first dungeon has you progressing to the left. It should progress to the right like every other platformer ever
7. Elements appear on the UI with zero explanation of what they are, can’t mouse over them for a tooltip

[v0.68] I am very glad to say that I saw this game from 0.01 to now. It's shaping up to be a great and amazing h-game a la Night of Revenge, and we can't have enough of that stuff.

I'm not a big sidescroller or metroidvania or roguelike guy, but I did enjoy the gameplay. The h-scenes are great, nice battle cuts and kudos for not restricting it to only lose-to-see kind of scenes.

This really looks good so far.

The art style in this game is absolutely stunning. The way the characters and environments are designed really adds to the immersion. The depiction of nudity is nice, and the clothes ripping off as you fight is a unique and cool feature. I also love the pregnancy system;. Overall, this game has some fantastic attention to detail, and I can't get enough of it!

This is a fun game. I don't think there is another rouge-like, side-scroller such as ThornSin out there, where the porn is integrated so well into the gameplay.

You have pregnancy mechanics, lust resets and everything, with some basic hack and slash abilities which work fine. The movements is also fluid it is not clunky. The enemies, however are a bit of a mixed bag. They are either super stupid and easy to defeat or super annoying and hard. There aren't many in between. But that probably is the harshest complaint I could give. Everything else is good or at least ok. The art, the sound, the story, all consistent and feature rich even as of writing this. (v0.6.8)

If the dev continues this trend, and does the proper polish that is due for the 1.0 release, this would become an easy 5/5.

Cool game, would definitely recommend!

Very sexy game but one problem.

I don't like the save system. It autosaves but will not let you save manuallyy and load the save.

you'll have to grind to get the sex scenes.

There isn't a gallery for us to peruse the animations as we see fit as well, which is a cockblock but I guess the maker wants us to enjoy the grind lol

An instant favorite for anyone who comes across it. IF you're looking at reviews trying to decide if its worth a try; stop now and download it. Every aspect has incredible detail from the gameplay to the art. It offers a wide variety of enemies to beat/mate. Although it suffers a bit of repetitiveness as any roguelike will, it manages to keep things moving constantly and change things up continuously so you don't fall victim to boredom until you've beaten the game many times over. Other reviews will show better detail, I just wanted to show support. 5/5 will follow updates to come.

Great porn, and possibly good gameplay, but the controls are beyond horrible with no way to resolve this issue, so I genuinely cannot tell you if the game is good.

If there was a way to fix the controls then it'd get a 4 or even a 5, but the game's controls simply make it not enjoyable.