RPGM - Completed - TUNNEL ESCAPE [v1.0.8] [Elzee]

v1.0.6 (Steam)

So, out of fear that getting the cracked version of this game would crash my game + PC. I went ahead and bought, then refunded this game after 2 hours of playing. Oh boy...

To my understanding, there are 3 versions of this game. On R18, Itch, and Steam. Steam requires a patch off-site, sure no problem.

Fun at the first area, the second area not so much ....

The game as it is, was released with game breaking bugs, such as error "MOAN.OGG NOT FOUND" which causes the game to pause completely and make it unplayable. The demo was great, to say the least, but the actual game has massive performance issues.

Fine, no problem. One crash happens every now and again.
Did some grinding of the first stage just to have enough resources to CC, stunlock, and burst down one particularly bad enemy type only to get an entirely different error from meeting an NPC during the second stage. Not worth the frustration of the steam version of the game.

I don't really understand the decision behind putting a DRM inside a buggy $16 game. Maybe the game is buggy because of weird DRM code? Maybe make a functioning game before implementing DRM?

EDIT: The devs have a history of deleting posts pertaining to the extremely shady DRM code. They really don't want people to know about their very suspicious practices.

Was kinda excited for this game but after the first floor of grinding to see the NSFW content and No defeat scenes i was kinda disappointed. Artwork is still good though! I just kinda get bored with the similarities in enemies and repetitive gamestyle.

One of the most slowest game ever to be made. Artificially long and extremely repetitive. Do not play this game on hard. It's not hard, it's grindy. And transitions from battle to battle as well as animation transition is painfully slow.

For what it offers and what we get it's a solid 2.
Animations are good, solid 4, but few in between.

Good framework, awesome potential. Especially guns mechanic and survival aspect but it fails short on everything. Feels like dev bite too much for what it can chew and decided to call it a day.

Core gameplay loop is mid.
Animation feel so sloow between level it's frustrating me. ( this is the worst point in the game ). You get like almost 30 second for that padding animation transition.
Lackluster ending, fake pregnancy( her belly didn't bulge in battle ), lacks of kink.

One of those RPGM format games that is on the higher end of quality, in my opinion. I'm knocking a star off a perfect score for what I believe it should have but doesn't.

Pros:

• The protagonist, Beatrice, is pretty hot with more plausible body proportions
• Combat is gun-based, and differs slightly from standard RPGM fare (but only slightly)
• Audio is serviceable
• Decent number of combat skills
• Normal mode for a challenge, Easy mode for easy wins
• Good number of enemies, animations, and CGs when it comes to h-content
• Virgin run is possible, just protect Beatrice's hymen when she gets grappled by enemies by pressing Z when the game tells you to. Otherwise, it becomes sometimes unavoidable to get penetrated again via ambush encounters where she gets grappled without her being able to prevent it

Cons:

• While there is pregnancy in the game, it's a "semi-mechanic" that shows Beatrice with a belly only when she uses a special item crafted with a rare ingredient, and childbirth is a rather disappointing cutscene that has little by way of variation in how it looks
• After a while, the combat gets stale, though I don't know what else to expect from a RPGM title - it's expected
• Sex animations are mostly just passable, and could have done with more work and variations to keep things fresher
• Beatrice is only semi-voiced: she has grunts and screams when taking damage and getting raped, but she barely has any lines
• A bit lacking in fetishes, if that's what you're after (could have done with the aforementioned better pregnancy implementations, maybe some others that skew into the extreme violent end of fetishes, but that's just me)

All in all, one of the better h-games I've played, and with it being a RPGM title, that's saying something. It doesn't reach the highs of other RPGM games I've rated glowingly in the past like Karryn's Prison or Sol Rui, but it's definitely got more effort put into it to cement it as memorable among the dozens of RPGM games I've played.

I would give it a 4.5/5 if I could. The protagonist is sexy as hell and I loved trying to get to the end without her being sexually assaulted, then seeing her violation when I'm done completing all the levels. I just wish what wasn't there, was, and the pregnancy "mechanic" was more fleshed out.

[More of a shower thought: perhaps this game would have fared much better if it was in a different game format, like Unity or Unreal Engine. The weapons in this one certainly lend themselves to such a possibility. Then again, I've played enough bad to mediocre games in either engine to know that Tunnel Escape could go the other way and be actually worse. I'm merely wondering out loud that if Unity or Unreal Engine was used instead, maybe there would be more sex animations and a slightly more remarkable combat system]

Art: 7/10
Pretty good realistic but busty proportion with standard anime face

Gameplay: 6/10
Standard text based dungeon gameplay, but with rougelike events. Yes its somewhat tedious as you only have an option of few guns and grenade, but it tries to do something different.

Story: 5/10
You are in a zombie apocalypse and got your hand on the antidoe and trying to save the world or something. Pretty standard zombie story

audio: 6/10
Its decent

Overall: 6/10
its an alright game with good scenes. Nothing ground breaking with the art and gameplay but its enjoyable until you find the gameplay tedious.

The core gameplay centers around shooting mechanics, yet it diverges from the typical action genre, making it accessible even to those who may not pride themselves on quick reflexes. The erotic elements are woven into the fabric of the game, particularly during combat sequences, where the depiction of characters through elegant standing illustrations adds a provocative layer to the experience akin to absolute cinema.

For those seeking a well-crafted gameplay experience interspersed with erotically charged scenes that enhance the atmosphere, this game offers a compelling blend of both. I highly recommend it to players who appreciate the fusion of engaging mechanics and sensual artistry.

The gameplay gets tedious real fast, even if at the start feels very different since the combat is very opposite from the average RPG maker game. The dev has been real stingy with skill points, so if you want to unlock every skill you find you need to grind a lot. The CGs are good, even if not exactly animated, and there are some rare kinks. This game has potential but idk, it didn't click for me.

Version 0.24a

In terms of H-scenes - 5/5 amazing.
In terms of gameplay - 1/5 barely playable turn based

So the average is 3/5.

You run out of ammo way too fast, the kick is on a 1 turn cooldown, when it really should have 0 turn cooldown. Attempting to beat this game requires you to grind items repetitively, reach the final part of the level, use the white flag item to teleport back to base, buy ammo, go explore, use the compass to teleport to the last level, and now fully equipped and with fullk HP you should be able to clear it.
Oh and, the dumbest of all, a survival game with zombies where you have a knife in your inventory, but you can't melee with it, you can only use it to break free as a 1-time consumable, a.k.a. a shiv. Really really bad game design.

Oh and, the performance is abysmal, in combat I get 25% CPU usage and 10 FPS.

Do yourself a favor and drop a save, open the training ground with the code 100 and skip the actual gameplay.

Edit - holy shit what did the dev do?
https://f95zone.to/threads/tunnel-escape-v0-25-3a-sp-cracked-elzee.203787/post-13903078
Hahahaha

Edit
v1.0.4
Literally nothing has changed, just bug fixes.

I was uncertain about making this review with all the malware stuff and actions that the developer takes with the copies he leaks but at the end I will review only the game itself and nothing else.

If you ever played an oldschool zombie hentai game you will feel at home with this one, it feels like parasite in city X resident evil made into a modern game.

The porn is great, from the expresions that the main character makes to the very big variety of enemies (each with a Hentai attack) you will have plenty of fun with this game. From normal zombies to zombie dogs to plants to even lizards and wolves this game has lots of sex scenes to offer. And they take place inside combat so you dont have to loose to see all the goodies.

Even for been "under development" game it does have plenty of content and even an infinite mode, it does feature pregnancy (sadly you won't see her fighting with a big belly), it will show the virgin blood when loosing the virginity and even the protagonist will drip semen when raped (just like the resident evil progeny game).

The combat is also a big part of the game, you will have a gun, machine gun, shot gun, dagger and the almighty "kick", each enemy have different weekness and you can even throw them a molotov or a grenade.

There is even a misterious merchant that says the mighty "...WELCOME!!" (if you played RE: 4 you will feel sheevers).

What amazes me a lot about this game is that is made on RPGMaker engine but the game does feel very modern and plays very smooth.

[v1.0.6 Steam]

Disappointingly boring.

Unfinished, unbalanced, inconsistent, lacking in convenience.

You'd think there'd be some point to re-trying runs in a rogue-lite game, but there is just no point, upgrades are chance and grind based, the main game is boring and annoying, even the story they attempted to give it is ass.

• You can't bring more items than the carry limit, but if you get over the carry limit it magically gets sent back into storage.
• Out of all items, junk type (auto-sold) have 3x variations than all of the rest combined.
• Ammo management is a mess- must carefully manage, takes up reward space.
• Enemy weaknesses are shit, forcing to use CARRY LIMITED consumables and other unreliable sources of damage, can resist already unreliable effects. The game's advice of "Shotguns for large enemies, grenade launcher for hordes" gets not just ignored, but inverted.
• Scaling is shit- Stat boost items (get about 1 per 3 runs) give barely any stats, levels barely give any stats; but enemy stats basically multiply per level;
• "Supply runs" can't exist because it takes way too much ammo and consumables to break more than even.
• Excitement never matters- it's not gradual enough, falls fast, consumable that boosts it is capped at 1 for carrying.
• Chances to start in a trap (there's 1 type), attacked, grappled, chances to fail grapple escapes, chance based traits, chances for debuffs to not apply .
• Skills are acquired from random chance items or by intentionally getting fucked (fucked skills are just stat trade-offs).
• The game wants you to want to loose, wasting every "struggle" system there is.
• The only upgrades you actually get are miniscule RPG stat increases that don't matter (due to luck based encounters for hordes, elites, ammo refills).
• "EASY MODE" got turned into the default for release version, no wonder the game isn't balanced.
• Untranslated items, unskippable scenes, auto selected options, enemies with no drops, empty chests, missing (or lacking) explanations for items. "Q/E to switch tabs" where there are no tabs to switch, nested menus- full of space, must keep picking "others" for more options.
• The amount of money you can get from a rat event in the first stage is 100~500; same for last stage.

it's boring.

The game is boring, there's no point in grinding, re-playing, trying to get the scenes, the menus are shit, some of the animations drag on and are seen in annoying circumstances, core mechanics (skills, adrenaline bar, pregnancy) aren't usable without intentionally forcing them; the game stages try to be different through annoying gimmicks, but progress the same way.

Great H game from this dev's first creation. A good amount of animated combat sex H scenes as well as H statistics. A storyline feeding into the H content, short and sweet with each discussion. Each stage has decent amount of content to game and doesn't overstay it's welcome, streamlining an enjoyable experience and no game over to ruin your boner either. An easy recommend, and an easy title to get off on multiple times.

EDIT: A decent amount of content has be stripped form this title and slowly being reinserted. Not sure why the dev did this, but it might be a good idea to wait for the final updates on this completed H game.

There's not much to say about Tunnel Escape. It's a simple Turn-based combat game where failure leads to an H-scene. Nothing new, nothing innovative.

However, what makes Tunnel Escape stand out are the H-scenes. The Japanese 2D anime art style images make it the perfect fap material. The quality is better than most of its competitors. The character has an amazing body with perfect proportions without her breasts being bloated or ass being ballooned for no reason.

The sex scenes are 99% static images with 1% moving parts. There's heavy reuse of assets so often you'll see the same images over and over. There is no variety of sex scenes within the same enemy archetype, so once you've been defeated by a particular enemy, that's all there is to see. They don't take different positions, nor do they don't do anything different.

The Teddy Bear has the best H-scene so far, as it latches on to the character and suckles on her tit while the character makes erotic faces. For a game so focused on horny enemies, there is not enough breast play. Only two out of all the enemies actively grope breasts during a fight. The rest skip directly to her vagina and start inserting their knobs in her.

I certainly liked the Hymen system. The blood trickling down her thighs leaves an impact on the player, reminding her of the defeat she faced. The blood can be inconsistent and sometimes won't appear even though she was a virgin. It's very easy to lose it to a boss fight if you're not careful, but there isn't any advantage or disadvantage of doing a virgin run.

Only a few sex scenes show penetration, but the rest do it outside of the camera's angle, leaving the rest to your imagination. The lack of sex positions and camera angles is damning, as most enemies only have one set of images, and it gets boring after you've seen it twice.

The game behaves like a roguelite and defeat means doing the level completely over again. No checkpoints or autosaves. You'll undoubtedly be forced to replay levels multiple times to get better gear, grind XP and unlock perks. All of this adds to the grind, and yes, the game can be very grindy.

Ultimately, the game reminds me a lot of 'Parasite in the City'. You can see the similarities and even some of the H-scenes are directly inspired by that game. Sadly, both games commit the same mistake, they cheap out on the artist and reuse assets all the time.

Overall, it's nothing ground-breaking and the anime images get old fast... Still, the game is worth giving a try. To skip the grind, use MTool.

You proceed through a tunnel one stage by one stage, where the number of stages you have cleared and that of the dungeon has remaining is indicated by the blue bar on the left. You do not choose how the protangonist proceeds instead she sometimes make mistakes and go back 1 stage. You start out with a pistol but you will be able to buy the classic zombie survival weapons soon.

During battles you can get caught and get raped. Getting raped and ejaculated inside has a chance to make the protagonist carry the enemies' seed which is just ability that trade off 1 point for another bonus with additional nasty effect when you get hit by enemies. There is some motion to body parts during the sex scenes rather than them being completely static scenes to keep them engaging.

You start out with a set of skills that you can upgrade to but passive skills come from lootboxes you find during mission. Enemies don't drop skills. Only lootboxes. There are also lewd skills you can collect once you get creampied enough number of times. You don't really need every single passive skill to clear the game (I mean clear up to the current finished dungeons)

There are some minor annoyance like "pirate rat" QTE and other mini QTE games. I don't particular enjoy them but I guess some people are ok with them.

All things said, the game is actually well balanced and fun to play. This makes. the grind to max out everything enjoyable.

A great combat-fuck game if you are into that sorta thing. Good well balanced combat which has some depth beyond the normal garbage that you see in these sorts of games. Barely any story or overarching themes but... its a porn game so what do you expect. MTL translation isn't really an issue since there are like a grand total of 6 lines of dialogue.

If you're looking for a parasite in city type game: this game does wonders for you: If there is MTL, doesn't matter, the gameplay looks nice even if it's not a side-scroller, and game wise the story looks promising. can't wait to see the full game in action.