Review for v0.10.8
Sometimes you just want to look at a world map and strategically conquer territories, and for that this game is... decent. Fair mention that I didn't play all available content.
Truthfully I went in expecting not to like this a ton in the first place. It's very much a domination themed game, and as stated the protagonist is a "complete bastard." Just not really my thing at the end of the day, or at least in the way this game handles those themes. Still it should be said there's options to be less of a bastard and seduce instead of dominate, which I did appreciate. Made this playable for me.
The story is nothing new. Your mother/the queen poisons your father, frames you and throws you in jail to rot. Someone helps you escape, conveniently gives you control of a small fief, and you conquer from there.
On the strategical/management side of things, the game mechanics are very basic. Once you figure out the system it becomes almost monotonous. You skip a bunch of turns to generate gold and troops and occasionally get raided by people you always outnumber. Combat suffers in a similar way. With army battles, bigger number wins. You just click continue over and over while you watch a number whittle down. In more direct combat, you watch a black screen as you play rock paper scissors. It's dull after a point, especially with nothing interesting to look at.
My biggest complaint comes from what you gain after conquering territories. Women you recruit/capture become nothing but walking holes and fade into the background. I have absolutely no attachment to any characters because of this. Territories simply become another spot on the map to build the same buildings you have in your other fiefs. It's boring. I would have expected new events related to the places you capture, maybe even be able to visit them and do unique things at unique locations, but no. You'll get maybe one new event from a random woman and that's that.
The one thing I actually do really like is the infiltration missions. Every country has a mini adventure with the goal of finding an advantage you can use to conquer said country, and it's fun. But because I'm not much into the characters in the first place it becomes hard to truly get into it.
Graphically sex scenes look a bit dated, but there's also a good amount that were overly fetishized in ways I don't really enjoy. Fucking milfs while their sons watch, or women while their husbands watch, or the very large focus on pregnancy, the list goes on. Listening to and elf girl talk about being gang banged by orcs right before a sex scene with her just doesn't do much for me.
This game does sort of satisfy a certain niche, but I think that's partly due to a general lack of options with lewd games like this in the first place. I reached a point where I felt I had my fill and closed the game, and then I realized there wasn't really anything that would make me want to go back to play it more in the future.
Sometimes you just want to look at a world map and strategically conquer territories, and for that this game is... decent. Fair mention that I didn't play all available content.
Truthfully I went in expecting not to like this a ton in the first place. It's very much a domination themed game, and as stated the protagonist is a "complete bastard." Just not really my thing at the end of the day, or at least in the way this game handles those themes. Still it should be said there's options to be less of a bastard and seduce instead of dominate, which I did appreciate. Made this playable for me.
The story is nothing new. Your mother/the queen poisons your father, frames you and throws you in jail to rot. Someone helps you escape, conveniently gives you control of a small fief, and you conquer from there.
On the strategical/management side of things, the game mechanics are very basic. Once you figure out the system it becomes almost monotonous. You skip a bunch of turns to generate gold and troops and occasionally get raided by people you always outnumber. Combat suffers in a similar way. With army battles, bigger number wins. You just click continue over and over while you watch a number whittle down. In more direct combat, you watch a black screen as you play rock paper scissors. It's dull after a point, especially with nothing interesting to look at.
My biggest complaint comes from what you gain after conquering territories. Women you recruit/capture become nothing but walking holes and fade into the background. I have absolutely no attachment to any characters because of this. Territories simply become another spot on the map to build the same buildings you have in your other fiefs. It's boring. I would have expected new events related to the places you capture, maybe even be able to visit them and do unique things at unique locations, but no. You'll get maybe one new event from a random woman and that's that.
The one thing I actually do really like is the infiltration missions. Every country has a mini adventure with the goal of finding an advantage you can use to conquer said country, and it's fun. But because I'm not much into the characters in the first place it becomes hard to truly get into it.
Graphically sex scenes look a bit dated, but there's also a good amount that were overly fetishized in ways I don't really enjoy. Fucking milfs while their sons watch, or women while their husbands watch, or the very large focus on pregnancy, the list goes on. Listening to and elf girl talk about being gang banged by orcs right before a sex scene with her just doesn't do much for me.
This game does sort of satisfy a certain niche, but I think that's partly due to a general lack of options with lewd games like this in the first place. I reached a point where I felt I had my fill and closed the game, and then I realized there wasn't really anything that would make me want to go back to play it more in the future.