RPGM - Completed - Demons Roots [v1.03 + DLC] [Quick nail Aristocrat]

Fantastic JRPG featuring a rich, fantasy world with interesting characters and an incredibly story.

War, racism, intrigue, betrayal and death.

If you're looking for a more serious, somewhat tragic but extremely well-written plot - while still sprinkled with lighter moments to keep the story grounded and interesting - you've come to the right place.

And the best of all - everything is centered around one of the best (and cutest) JRPG protagonists of all time.

Just keep in mind, Demons Roots can easily run beyond 50 hrs of gameplay if you decide to explore everything its fantastic world has to offer.

...honestly, I wish it went on for longer.

Really great game. Story was great, but characters were AMAZING. Gameplay was decent. The frequency of H isn't very high, but honestly I wasn't playing for the H once I got invested in the characters.

Great story and characters. My only gripe is the ending - we already learned that the future is malleable, yet the final outcome remains the same in general.

Yes there is a difference in whether demon species survive or not afterward, but

Gameplay-wise, Demons Roots is just your standard RPG-maker fanfare with surprisingly great build customizations.

HOWEVER, story-wise, THIS IS IT. It is superb; exceptional; astounding; transcendental, even (might not even be hyperbole). It has been some time since a game’s story has moved me so thoroughly and it’s from an eroge!

If you’re looking for a game with a fantastic story, a great lineup of lovable characters, and don’t mind some hard-core-ish H-scenes reminiscent of something from Evenicle, give Demons Roots a shot.

I have never reviewed or went out of my way to comment on a game here so i feel like it means something if a random person comes out of his shell to say this. If your reading this, this game is most definitely worth it.

A great story, nice gameplay and unique and entertaining characters. There are many twists and turns that tug at your feelings (i was suffering lmao) and its lovely.

Don't treat this like a low quality porn game for a quick jerk. There was real effort put into this story and its probably my favorite h-game game now. Give it a try, i have a feeling you won't regret it.

Just finished the game, took me around 40 hours I think so it's a pretty long game with tons of content. I think this is a fantastic RPG reminiscent of classic 2D RPGs. You have a grand story line with a large and memorable cast of characters. The story is well-written and engaging with humour interwoven well. The art is from a hentai artist that I like so that's a plus to me but the adult part of the game really is secondary to being a fantastic RPG in my opinion.

Very good game. First you start slowly but the more you play the more character and teammate help you in the battle. All your teamate aslo have a story behind and different playstyle.
The world have many city/kingdom for you to explore.
Love the bad end mode.

I certain recommend this game for you.

Damn, this is one of my favorite eroge games so far. Yes, the story is well-written, as everyone below has said. The H-scenes are a bit lacking in the main story, but in return, the BDSM/torture scenes are really well done. It could be even better if it also included guro or something similar..."

A good game for those who enjoy violence and torture, although you have to progress a little further to fully experience all that scenes.

gahd, my heart... good writing really makes a lot of difference. This is really good, if only i can give a 15/5 rating.

the game part is really good, especially the story and characters, rpg elements are excellent too, good'ol hidden rooms and optional hard bosses of the old days, bgm is very well placed too.

h-part is a bit lacking, tho i haven't seen any of the bad-end ones coz i like Polca, really pained me to see those forced ones. i did view all of the non-bad end ones and i liked them except the one near end of story. Dress up is nice but needs a game clear.

Usually if i play a rpgm game my expectations aren't that high, but this one really blew me away, rip almost 30 hours of my life hahahaha

I'm in f95zone, yet I skipped the H for this game, stayed for the story. Absolutely couldn't put the game down, finished within 2 days, 30 hours. Ranks up there together with Sierra Lee's The last sovereign

A gem in a pile of rubble, sad that there aren't more RPGM games like this, you can feel the amount of effort that was put into this game compared to the garbage on the market, even with some of it's flaws it deserves a 10/10.

Demons Roots features a demon protagonist in a human body. It revolves around the demon realm invading the human realm. The world building of this cruel world is told pretty well as it integrates the sex scenes in terms of world (it's a cruel world so rape and slavery are rampant). The turn based combat is relatively simple and straightforward. One big foible is that even if you are way higher leveled, enemies on the map still chase you. There's also one character whose entire skillset revolves around finding non-treasure box items on the map so if you miss these items, her character is just forever gimped. The story focuses on being highly emotional and being successful at that; but sometimes it forgoes logic because if the audience feels super emotional, then they'll miss the plot holes and some of the weaker writing moments. The music is superb and this is a full fledged RPG with a plethora of side content; it'll take 22-30 hours to complete.

Astonishingly good plot and writing for a H game. Gameplay is generally fun and involved, well balanced for an RPGM title but to some extent held back by engine limitations when it comes to grindiness and such. On its own merits, the H content isn't particularly spectacular, though it has a lot of variety and features a mix of fairly vanilla stuff and seriously grim smut. What drives the whole thing home is the excellent character design and narrative, which holds up the whole experience.

It's not an all around flawless title but its qualities really stand out to make it shine as a hidden gem nonetheless.

This game really did not resonate with me. The combat is painfully boring, the prologue takes hours, and I didn't find the story to even be that exciting. Poor integration of sexual elements. Simply reading an interesting book would be preferable to going through and playing this game

This isn't a game you play for the porn. this is a game first and foremost, an utterly emotional journey, you should expect to be angry, sad and i'd expect tears cuz there were plenty of moments that did it for me. the story is engaging and you want to do anything you can not to lose, Polca is deeply engraved in my heart after playing this, a heart I had closed off to other people, Possibly one of the reasons she resonated so much with me. If you want to see Polca's journey on your own i highly recommend playing the game and enjoying every aspect of it

A brilliant story that just drags you in and truley makes you love or hate the characters that the game presents to you. A game that would still be great without the nsfw content. I didnt felt something lacking in this game at all, the characters felt realistic, the game design was something known, but still refreshing, the music was great and the humor fun! Took me aroung 40 hours to finish.

As a H game, it's ok. Scenes are usually 1 picture with a few variations.

HOWEVER

If you are into jrpg stories, I implore you to give this game a shot. The story of this game is just a treat to follow. The characters and worldbuilding are fantastic, plus it has one of the best pacing for a jrpg ever.

Being made in RPGMaker gives it kind of a rough edge, but it's well worth looking past it for the true diamond that is the writing contained here.

Give this game a shot, I think it'll be remembered as one of the H game classics going forward.

8.5/10

One of the best traditional-style jrpg's ever, it delivers in spades as a game-game but leaves something to be desired as an H-game. I've spent almost 40 hours in this world, so I'm going to take my time with this review, if you don't mind.

Gameplay - 8/10
In my opinion, the gameplay is about as good as traditional-style jrpg combat can possibly get. It doesn't do anything unique - if you've played any rpgmaker game or jrpg then you already know - but what stands out is the balancing. Most h-games have TERRIBLE balance. Tedious fights, bizarre difficulty spikes, zero testing, etc. This game always keeps the difficulty just hard enough to be engaging without frustrating, and you are never obligated to grind (the one exception being the end game). Aside from that, gear is super rewarding and you are very well rewarded for exploring and seeking treasure.

That being said, it is still traditional rpgmaker combat, which is limited in how good it can be even if executed perfectly, in my opinion, which arguably this game does achieve.

H-Quality - 7/10
Art is excellent, and there's significant scene variety. No voice acting or animation, if that's what you like, but the quality is good overall. But I have a bone to pick. There are seven characters, for each one you ultimately get 1 Bad End scene for that character, and 3 consensual scenes (mostly generic stuff like footjobs and blowjobs, etc). So if you count up the nonconsensual/slavery/no-no types of scenes, they only account for maybe 30% of all the scenes. There's nothing wrong with that in itself, but the whole game's CENTRAL MOTIF is slavery and bad ends. Everything about the world and plot is heavily centered around sexual slavery and similar dark themes, and yet the majority of the H-scenes are toothless consensual scenes. See the issue? There's a disconnect there. It's like if you played a game which had a lovey dovey romance story about people reading poetry and falling and love, and then three-quarters of the H-scenes are hardcore rape. Moving on...

H-Integration (How well gameplay and H-content mix) - 5/10
The game tries a number of unique ideas in terms of how it dissimates its H-content, but unfortunately they just don't work well. So pretty much all of the H-scenes in the game are localized into two areas - a prostitute theme park (yes really) called Doremi Fuckington (ruled by the fucKing. Yes really), and a Bad End dungeon. The theme park contains all of the consensual scenes (with a few dubcon ones) and the dungeon contains all the Game Over Bad End scenes. Okay, the theme park has a pretty interesting premise - you spend coins you collect on your adventure to see a prostitution scene of a character in your party, with different variants of that scene having certain rarities. It's a fun idea but doesn't actually add anything of value (if you're like me you'll end up skipping through the variants anyway). But really the main issue with the theme park is that... all the H-scenes are there. Makes the H-content feel very disconnected from the rest of the game. Because it is.

As for the Bad End dungeon - you can choose to get sent there whenever you lose any fight (the fact you can choose should tell you there's already a problem here). Then you have to go through this annoying and extremely pointless little mini-dungeon, where if you lose you get to see the Bad End scene for the character of your choice. It's fun the first time, but after that you realize it's just a gimmicky way of giving you one new scene whenever you unlock a new character for your party. Again, it feels very disconnected, because you just reload anyway, and also because the Bad End scenes don't have anything to do with the specific way you lost. Traditional Rape-On-Defeat style games get a lot of flak, but at least they make the defeat feel related to what happened in the game. Also, there's just not that many of these scenes. If you're like me, you'll get very bored with the Bad End dungeon very quickly, which is a huge shame because, again, the WHOLE GAME IS ABOUT SLAVERY.

Oh, one more negative - after you unlock the final character, there's very little left in terms of H-content, even though there are still 2 chapters to get through (including the hardest parts of the game with the most annoying fights).

Story/Writing/Characters - 10/10
Laying aside the story's addiction to deus ex machina, and perhaps a plot hole or two, this is one of the best stories I've experienced in any game, and certainly the best of any H-game. It starts out fairly unremarkable, but gets better and better and picks up steam as it goes. Chapter 3, in particular, is probably the most deftly executed story sequence I've ever had the pleasure to experience in a game. I think this game deserves a lot of credit for building a compelling narrative, which, in tandem with the highly competent gameplay, had me coming back to the game with eagerness to play more, even after the H-content became stale. The characters, while not particularly deep, are quite endearing, to the point where by the end of the game, you're more likely to feel wholesome feelings towards them moreso than sexual. Which, uh, is good and bad I guess (this is an h-game after all). I even developed a crush on the grim-reaper demon for some reason. Grim reaper husbando when?? Anyway...

In conclusion... great game that will certainly make a lot of people's top lists because the actual GAME part is awesome. Unfortunately, the h-part doesn't live up to the incredible promise of the rest of the package.

I think I can safely say I've found my new favorite hentai game.

Demons Roots was a game I downloaded thinking, oh, this'll be a nice couple of hours, needless to say 40+ hours later and going through every single emotion known to mankind, I completed what is not only the best hentai game that I've played, but one of the best games in general.

The story and characters are engaging, music is absolutely phenomenal, and the gamelay quite solid.

If you haven't yet played Demons Roots (and its prequel, King Exit) then you are doing yourself a great disservice.

And if after playing it and enjoying it, please considering supporting the Devs so that we can get more great games from them.

Very deep and emotional story. Good gameplay as for an RPG.

However, most h-scenes are gated behind losses. Scenes are not voiced. They don't even have sound effects. Art is generic. Honestly, when I play an h-game, I want something to jerk off to, but this is really just unfappable. The idea of game-over-rape is that it rewards the player for intentionally losing, but with a deep story like this, I don't want to waste time losing, I want to consistently progress the story.

I don't consider this an h-game. This is just a normal RPG with age-restriction at best.