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

[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.