Unity - Completed - X-Angels [v1.12 DE] [Barance Studio]

Do play this game, but be advised that you'll be left wanting.

Great character designs, high quality animations, voice acting, and solid deck building gameplay. You may even be surprised at the incredible level of artistic detail on the cards and on the characters during fights!

But ,that gameplay is mostly random dungeon battles strung together by brief dialogue to move the lukewarm story along. And the dialogue is a bore. And your romance events are lame, most of which don't contain sex.

In fact, the replay value is strictly in the fact that you don't get to see your first choice of girl's "defeat" animation, you can't really max all 4 girls' affection in 1 run, AND, each maximum offers 2 scenes each, 1 which comes from "choosing" 1 girl at the end, and 2 more of which come from optionally brainwashing her in the playthrough following your true love choice.

TL;DR it's not enough hentai per hour, and what is there is wasted on an "alternate story" that you probably won't want to play. Thankfully, you can unlock the whole gallery after 1 playthrough.

Also, and this is a deeply personal thing, the one with the biggest tits doesn't have a titfuck scene. The fuck is that about, man?

Everything is good in this game... card mechanics, character design, progression, roguelite features...., but the dialogues are somewhat bland. You do get enough schenes with the heroines tho, and you get to choose your favourite.

One of my biggest ever disappointments. The art style is lovely, I love rogue-likes, and the gameplay looks fun! Sadly, it's extremely one note, and the story/dialogue that goes with the sex scenes is an utter bore. Really ruins some otherwise great art and character designs.

XAngel is a very well made card battle game with rogue-lite mechanics and beautiful art with simple but efficient animations and surprisingly good voice acting. You play as a hero of the savior kind, tasked by some weird and contrive reason to fight the once superheroes turned evil. But instead of actually fighting the expected happens and so you collect four girls. Following the deckbuild pattern, each girl gives you access to new forms of cards and builds, making the game quite variable and with some degree of deep gameplay. The cards have many different and wacky effects, allowing you to play for long hours if you like this genre. Each sector you explore you are presented with different branches varying in rewards and events. Slowly, you improve your affection with your captured girls and the scenes unravel. The game is comedy driven with exaggerated faces and sounds, but with special attention to personality and design for each character, offering the player a multitude of options to enjoy, consistently focusing on quality instead of quantity since you are limited to four girls. The story is a bit strange and inconsistent, being a product more focused on mechanics and gameplay instead. A sad point usually found in the asian versions. My personal gripes are few. It could have more scenes with the girls, better spread out, and more variation of tags, taking advantage of the fact that it’s a game. Something commonly missed for developers. It is a good game with plenty of high quality content. It’s definitely worth checking out, and for card game lovers, it offers an exceptional experience.

It was better than what I expected. The battles were quite enjoyable as well and it was not that hard to win (Use Cheat Engine for easier gameplay lol). Good animations with the H-Scenes, but quite few in my opinion. But overall, it was a good game! Finished it within a couple of minutes.

+ good animations
+ clean Ui
+ replayable
+ solid gameplay
+ no deranged content out of nowhere

- overall setting is just ok
- Ui can get cluttered
- 1 floating dick scene (these always look stupid)

Just a solid small game with good structure.
The gameplay is fast and fitting, girls look good and animations are high quality.

Easy recommend as a whole.

edit: nvm. after unlocking all of it i would put it down to 3/5
there is some degeneracy with tentacles, pregnancy and futa shit.

Okay, it's a game that made me stay for gameplay. The card game is pretty engaging, at least for one playthrough. I finished it four times, with each heroine as a starter.
CGIs are very high-quality, even if they're not in abundance.
The plot is boring. There is nothing else to tell about it.

Hope it'll get a sequel.

Writing: 5/10
Imagery: 6/10
Gameplay: 6/10
Kinks: 5/10
Overall: 5/10

A visual novel with a card game tacked on.

Ever play GWENT before? It felt like a part of that world, right? Well the card game in X-Angels is not that. You play out a story, a somewhat linear one, where you are combating the forces of good? Evil? By mind controlling their top fighters into your command, dicking them down good, and eventually corrupting them to your will.

I'll be perfectly honest, the story, was utter toss. It did not gel with me and I ended up passing over most of it at light speed so I could get to the card battles, which are, or should have been, the selling point. I did come to play a fun card game with hentai attached, but the card game itself felt pretty RNG based luck, and many of the mechanics felt frankensteined together.

They should have just kept things simple with a few mechanics, because when you got one hand in the pants and the other on the mouse, the last thing you want is to be crunching numbers to determine your next move. Look at Dick-Up from MILFs Control, simplistic and fun. Even HuniPop's Bejewled knock off was this way, simple and fun. Your rewards being sexy fun times. But that's not the case in X-Angle, card games are just how you progress missions, not how you earn the sex.

For that you must earn the favor of the angels you abduct, giving them things, talking to them, hanging out with them, the usual stuff you'd do in a VN. But with a droning story and a card game that feels broken as heck, the grind to get a girl's full affection is, annoying, at best.

If you're in the mood for a fun game card game with sexy times included, go try one of those strip blackjack or poker games, at least the mechanics there are easy to understand. But don't bother with X-Angel, you'll waste way too much time and end up softer than turtle soup by the time you get any good reward.

Fun, but a little bit too easy. First run I played on hard and finished the true ending without really meaning to. Second run, I decided to see if I could get the true ending without adding any cards to my deck at all. And yes, you can. It's not even that hard. The game gives you a lot of power.

After that, I didn't really bother playing again. The game is modeled after roguelikes where you play run after run, but I didn't feel much need to. There IS some content that you can't get in your first run to get you coming back, but like... 3 runs should be enough to see it all. I'd like it a lot more if it had one of the standard features for these types games where winning unlocks higher difficulties. It could actually be challenging. Maybe. But honestly, it's a bit too easy to make game breaking combos with your deck in this. Literally without adding a single card I made an infinite combo that killed everything turn 1. Where do you go from here?

Outside the gameplay, the rest of the game is well made. The art is good. It's decently animated. I have no real negatives to say about this part. It's good. Not great. But certainly good.

The sound is fine. Voice acting, music, and effects are never grating, but never moving. They do what they're supposed to do well enough that you don't really think about. But also, you don't really think about it.

The characters are fun. The nature of the game means it's a bit too short for you to have much character growth or attachment. But what's there is fun. More than you'll see from most things on this site. But that's mostly because most things on this site have nothing in the way of character development. What's here is serviceable. Not exciting. But it holds up.

The CGs are very, very good, though there are only 32, and minor 2 variants of 8 (as counted in the game).

character are hot , Felicity,and Clara much more than the others as far as it concerns me .

The writing is decent if somewhat too sparse, enough to get sufficiently invested but nothing worthy of praise (the main character is somewhat annoying at times), the structure of the story is quite weird, (in a negative way), the romance routes give me the impression as to be written as if one had to go through the corrupting routes first, but they are locked up to when one completes the romance routes, and it doesn't work, also the pacing is quite too fast.

The gameplay is decent, quite outstanding if one goes with hgame standards, its most severe flaw being its exceedingly repetitive nature for what it offers, one would have to complete 5 runs minimum to see all CGs (depending on how much one reads 2-4 hours long) and repeating the final stage 4 times. And variety not sufficing for those runs, arguably in part because each characters mechanics aren't different enough from one another and a severe lack of bosses for each stage. even though its fundamentals are good, it does not expand on them enough to reach its potential, but that is still much better than what one usually finds in Hgames. Fortunately the CGs are unlock-able at will so there is no need to do more runs one feels like.

I was waiting for this game I think almost since it got announced, so you could say a had at least some expectations for it, and it didn't disappoint me despite its short comings. So there is that. Also I think the corrupting routes miss the mark for the most part but whatever.

Very well done animated art, characters are hot, gameplay is pretty fun and the story is decent enough The difficulty is pretty easy tho and I did hope for a little more content after the fights, but overall still 5/5.

Edit for the sake of edit. Last review was negative, because of a bug. It was the same version, just off another resource. Downloading from mega here and replicating the steps on a new save seems to have fixed it. I wish there was just a "delete review" button...

Other than that - the game seems to be a bit bland, but well-animated and with some basic card gameplay. Nothing to praise here in particular, but, besides that bug - nothing to despise either.

Wait, are you telling me that affection is not kept between runs? I managed to beat it on hard the first time (too easy or too much Slay The Spire, I guess). I was going to try another build because the gameplay is good enough and enjoyable, and found that the runs are independent. It makes no sense to me, I was going to give it 5 stars because the content is good and the gameplay fun, but I will leave it with 4, unlock the gallery and move on (probably).

Forget about the adult content for a second: gameplay-wise this is easily one of the better Slay the Spire clones I've played, ever. And I've played a ton.

The sexual content is decent enough too, I guess, but it gets overshadowed by sheer quality of the actual gameplay.

Brother what the hell, I came for the plot, ended up staying for the actual gameplay! And this is came for someone who usually not a fan of card based game.

It's actually very fun and very well-done for a card game! And the cgs are nothing but great!

The only complain here was just that depraved route has to be unlocked by maximized each character's love route.
There's also a bug on Lia's love route, because her epilogue scene doesn't show the Hcg, it's just text and an alleyway.

Good card building overall.
Very short runs since we're talking an hour max for each with an infinite continue given if you lose a fight (only found to be needed in Hard)
There are both Corruption and Love routes with a True one I stumbled upon by accident in my first run which confused me... a lot.
Lore's good and the animations are there too.

Overall, good short game depending on how many routes you want to see.
The main fault is the same one every card building that doesn't have an infinite mode has: There isn't an infinite mode, make one please

Fuck this game.
You can get hard locked on the last boss. Which i did, the last stage was notably more difficult with normal fights being hard, but ya you either have to start a new game or quit.

"It's short just restart" Not short enough or good enough.

But ya fuck shitty design. It seems like its built for a new game+ design but if you make it so you can't grind and are stuck at the last enemy then it doesn't fucking matter.

[Final 2024-06-22]

It's okay?

Not better than most roguelikes (this is not a roguelite), actually kind of lacking, given you get 4 (3 other girls + boss) stages to beat.

And kind of okay on the Ero- Art is good, there's variation, animation, but most of it is locked under RNG and GRIND fro repeating playthroughs.

• It's kind of short, as mentioned just 4 stages,
• Un-polished, card sleection, card targetting, enemy skill interactions with game mechanics and clairty of explanations are all lacking.
• There is story, but it goes so fast, it doesn't matter and can be predicted.
• Never used or intended to use over half of the game mechanics, since the game is far too short and there is no place for an alternative / backup card deck, time or option to try new things.

It was okay as a whole, lacking as a card roguelike, decent Eros.
Making it better than the average H game, but not worth recommending.

Very simple, basic deck-builder.

There is nothing wrong with it. It is exactly what it's meant to be.

But not even one thing about it is interesting or original. Gameplay is a copy of a copy. Plot is a remake of a remake. And every character is a cliche of a cliche. It's almost like they were afraid to have any identity. Like this whole game is AI-generated.

It's one of these games, that you forget you've ever played two hours after you turn it off.

This review is made relative to other games in multiple genres, rather than itself as a whole, due to limiting factors.

Story/Writing
+ It has one. It's decently cohesive.
~ Characters are fairly unique, though still mostly generic
- Fairly standard anime plot
- If you're looking for character development/depth, this is not it.

Gameplay/combat
+ It's a decent imitation of Slay the Spire.
~ Builds are fairly obvious and cohesive, but nothing particular unique.
- That still sorta means it's just a worse STS experience.

Lewds
+ Voice-acted scenes
+ Fairly hot visuals+girls

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Pretty good. Better than most. It doesn't excel in any area other than gameplay and even in there you might be better served playing STS, but it still gets decently high (relative) points to everything else outside of that.
(also if you're on this site, you probably have some requisite for adult content to encourage gameplay, so that works out)