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

Truly a gem of a game. The protagonist is great, art is well done and the story, while not perfect, is very interesting and captivating.
That said, this is not really a game to fap to, the H-scenes are very sparce within the story and they are mostly used to expand upon the darkness of the world. There is 2 (optional) places where you get concentrated H-scenes, but honestly I was too invested in the history to care for those.
Deathpolca is the best.

All in all I rate this game 5/5. It is as much a masterpiece as other giants of the genre such as UNDERTALE, however do not play it this if you're looking to get off. I couldn't. I do not recommend this as an H-Game, but that does not in any way mean I do not recommend this game. The characters, the story, the art, and the music are all top notch and the general darkness of the story contrasted against the unfailing optimistic struggle of Polka and her friends brought tears to my eyes. You don't know me, so that doesn't give you much context for how hard it is for media to manage this, but I was actually moved by this game and I often consider myself rather dead inside.

The story is a wild ride from the moment Polka announces she will 'Walk the path of Evil' to save her people, and full of ups, downs, sudden reversals of fortune and a few laughs that all lead to an ending that I at least felt in my core. It is also a prequel to a different game, KING EXIT, by this developer which, as of writing this, is not properly translated and after playing this I can only say that this is an outright travesty.

However again, do not play this if you want an H-Game, I was barely to get through the h-scenes, many of the fetishes are unkind to say the least, and I cared too much about the characters to see their suffering and feel anything resembling arousal as a result of it. I did however enjoy the pure catharsis of destroying the 'Bad End' and killing 'Bless Curse'. Instead understand that the occasional h-scene is more akin to what you'd see in Goblin Slayer or Berserk. Something there to make the world feel more gritty and real but not something intended to evoke much of anything aside from righteous anger

The H part of the game is lacking. Base only on that, this game would be a 2 out of 5. But the story makes all the difference. It has one of the best storyline and gameplay I've ever seen in a RPG. The game feel lively with many characters with a very diversified background. Since it's translated by Kagura, you can also feel safe about the translation quality.

Without spoiling, I'd say the best part of the game is that every stage feels different. It's not basically the usual boring stuff : go there, enter dungeon, beat monsters, kill boss, repeat. There's also multiple secrets hidden here and there, which also make the gameplay interesting. The techniques of each characters is also quite diversified. You'll get to a point you need to carefully consider their individual skills and equipment to get the best out of each character. The enemies aren't that easy neither, so you can't run through most of the fights while holding "x" button to speed up every fight.

The story in itself is quite beautiful and vivid. Although there's A LOT of dialogue, you kinda want to see what's next ! Every character have a different and big story to tell. You'll feel a growing bound with each of them as the story goes on.

Seriously recommend this game. I came for the H, but stay for the story !

I remember there was a lot of hype around Demons Roots when it came out last year, and now that it's finally here in English I can see why.

From a gameplay perspective, it's your standard RPGMaker game, but executed rather competently. Roughly a 30-40 hour experience for your first playthrough. Lots of hidden collectables throughout the game, ranging from extra character interactions, useful items, and equipment. Definitely recommend to explore around and to try and talk to everyone you meet periodically, as dialogue changes and scenes become available every time the story continues along. Combat wise, it's standard Turn Based RPG fare, but is still pretty competently done. Every party member feels distinct from each other and combat is usually pretty fun and decent aside from a few boss encounters.

From a story perspective, this is definitely where the game shines the brightest. Excellent cast of characters that we get to follow along this journey of world domination, with plenty of memorable and heart breaking twists and turns throughout. If I had to describe the tone of the setting, it has an almost "Berserk" feel, where the world is full of such pain and misery, and yet the overall themes and message of the story is ultimately of hope and change. While the ending has some issues that I'm not personally happy with, the overall themes and story that the developer was trying to tell was accomplished quite well. You can absolutely feel the passion and love the developer put in crafting this story and world. Definitely will be checking out Kings Exit once it has a more proper English translation in the future.

H-Scene wise, there's a lot to unpack here. Pretty much half of available scenes are Bad End related scenes or failing to find a party member in time, and the other half is relegated to the prostitution set up. If you like both, there's plenty to like, but if you're not into one or the other, then it's a real mixed bag all around. Still though, all of the CG's are drawn nicely and the Bad End Dungeon is pretty interesting in how it's executed here.

Overall, I had an enjoyable time playing Demons Roots. This is more of a really good RPG with H-Scenes tacked on the side to enhance the setting rather than a game that's just mostly focused on being porn. This game is definitely worth giving a shot if any of what you've seen of the game interests you even a little.

one of the best game. a lot of casts. huge story and twists. character development for each characters. combat is alos unique enough for h game. and story is simpily best it can easily rival most popular aaa games. it is that good. i feel sad to see it don;t get enough download it deserved. just go and see on steam most player spend 30+ hours playing the game and actually enjoy it unlike most h game where you just play for h sence . unless you are just looking for a quick f this game is for you.

I have to give it a 9/10, but that is a very confused 9/10. This game has genuinely heartfelt moments and clever twists, . On the other hand it also has deus-ex-machinas up the wazoo and a completely irrelevant land of sex pests ruled by a giant cat.

I genuinely like the setting; its comically bleak, surrounded by all sides by giant monsters that could crush humanity and stuck in several endless cycles of divine, demonic, and slightly Lovecraftian origin. This is a world where its not clear if humanity or demons could survive the coming century, simply due to the shit they have to deal with, let alone each other.

Only problem is that the story doesn't fully commit; the story can get dark... but it will never stay there, never induce actual consequences. Its like the game is afraid I'll take anything seriously and constantly undercuts itself. It turns what could have been genuinly heartbreaking scenes into comedy, because none of it matters. Give me enough time to have a sad wank before you cut the tension, at the very least!

The ending tries to backload the dark themes, but it just rings hollow. It reaches so close to greatness, that I'm actually angry that it fell all the way down to "an alright story". Still, I can recommend it (skip the bonus content, none of it is worth the time).

You might have noticed I said nothing about the porn, and you'd be right. But in my defense, the game forgets about it to.

Good rpgm game with great writing and characters with hentai slapped on it. Includes an isekai'd 60's kid and a modern fbi lady with 50k+ others. 10/10 would recommend playing this it's very unique since after chapter 3 you will play from a different perspective and the entire game feels different because it becomes futuristic all of a sudden kind of like two games mashed together in the middle.

Graphics :

It have a very good graphic CG drawn the sprites matches the character outfits.

Sounds :

The Storyline isn't voiced , the sound effects is decent most are stocks rpgmaker sounds. The music is awesome fitting to the parts of the game.

Gameplay :

The game is pretty straightforward and even have bad ending which you can play, you have the option to choose if your character died whether to restart , re do or play the bad end which is awesome in my opinion.

ALTHOUGH I have to mention my complaints that during certain part of the game the map becoming very laggy and sluggish due to the many enemies on the map and moving about it lags and kind of spoil my gameplay experience.

Demons Roots sets the bar pretty high and future developers will probably have to measure themselves against this game. And they definitely have a chance to do a lot better.
Demons Roots tells a stringent story and builds in a good portion of humour, despite the actually dark starting theme. The moral dilemma of the MC, when they do something good but their motives are completely misinterpreted, always makes you smile.
Where can one do better?
Many side tasks and secrets are difficult to solve without Google because there are too few clues. In a secret, for example, you walk across several maps and have to activate several stone pillars. But there are no real clues as to which side of the pillars you have to activate.

The clues in the bonus dungeon are also a shortcoming. You have to find keys, but sometimes you have to kill certain enemies to get them. Resurrection is scarce and if you attack the wrong enemy once, you can fail three levels later because of the one additional item you used up. Not bad in itself, if you didn't have to start the whole dungeon over again. At least an autosave every three levels would be helpful so that you don't get completely frustrated.

Despite all this, the game is playable even without this bonus content. Either through a little more grind to level up or to win the more challenging fights with the right tactics.

Well, if there is potential for improvement, there shouldn't really be 5 stars. But only 4 doesn't do the game justice either. My rating would be almost perfect.

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ahh finally this game is released !! really love with the plot and lore of the game.

PROS
+ Good story
+ Good CG art
+ Good gameplay mechanics
+ Good BMG
+ Good MC
+ Lot of costume
+ Good scene
+ Good OST

I would give 5/5

This is a 30-40 hour JRPG that comes with a couple of porn doujins baked into its sidequest/post game. If you approach it with that mindset, it's pretty good. The combat is a bit generic and it's easy to miss things that make it go much faster - weapon shops are relatively rare and it's easy to miss sidequests that give good equipment, and one character relies entirely on finding items for her scattered throughout the dungeons. If you don't find those items, she gets barely any skills, and is pretty useless.

But the game's writing is very strong - it's not *incredibly* deep, but it gets across its themes well and is pretty to the point for its length. I could easily imagine this same story taking 80 hours to tell instead. The characters are all likable, and there's some pretty funny lines.

That said, again, this is largely an RPG, and even taking it on that metric, the combat is nothing to write home about, and while the music's good, it feels like there's maybe 20-25 songs in the whole game. As good as the major boss theme is, you'll get tired of it by the end. So it's not flawless or anything.

In terms of the porn content, the content in the sidequest area is pretty forgettable, just a few generic scenes with minor variations. There's a bonus area you can go to after getting a game over that has better and more varied H content, but the scenes there are still fairly short, and it's all extremely dark content - BDSM, slavery, risk of death, some violence, etc. No outright gore, but it's pretty hardcore. If you're into that kind of thing, there's a decent amount there, but I still wouldn't recommend this game solely for the H content. And if you wanna see it, I'd recommend saving it for the late game, when you have all seven main party members.

So to go back to my main point - this is a 30-35 hour JRPG, SNES style, with some minor h content as a bonus. Think of it like if a download of FF6 came with a folder with a few hentai manga of it. If you approach it with that mindset, you'll probably enjoy it. If that doesn't interest you, this is a skip.

Before I played Black Souls, I thought porn games were just garbage you played for a quick fap.

Ever since i've browsed the internet for a game with a similar kind of dedication and soul that I got from Black souls.

This is one of them. the reason i took a star off is it dedicates itself to a RPG first rather then smut. Edit: actually screw it, 5 stars, don't care if it won't help you bust a nut, it's that good.

It feels like the people who made this really cared about it as a game first. Translation is also really good and must have been a lot of work because there is a lot of text.

Talking to the Dullahan after conquering the first nation had me laughing really hard. It is also not required and missable, so talk to people even when you don't need to.

Well, finished the game, and i have to say, IT IS ONE OF THE BEST STORIES I EVER SAW/PLAYED, the ones how have similar moved me, could be counted ON ONE HAND! Doesn't matter if Game or Series!

A good Game LONG (+30 Hrs Easily) with some utterly Boneheaded design choices (Lets Lock away your 2 BEST units for the end of chapter 4 up until you complete a series of stupid dungeons... One of which i might add... IS YOUR HEALER! AND THE OTHER YOUR TANK!)

So yeah...I recommend taking your time and stockpiling books/canned EXP (The game is fairly generous with them... but there are NUMEROUS points where stupid thoughtless design like I mentioned (and giving you level 1/Underleveled units as a replacement can and will fuck you over)

Outside the retarded bits (which you can work around with typically)... The gameplay and story are pretty good actually (with nothing feeling overly cheap in gameplay)

As for H rated content... Thats mixed in across the game (with most stuff differentiated based on area's your in... the extreme content typically being gated behind the "Bad end" dungeon (Slave internments camp... which is basically an extended bad end). Outside of that is mostly more vanilla/not depressing stuff.

All in all a good game... (Just... save up on books and dont get to salty when the game pulls its bullshit)

Beating the game in ~33 hours I can say this is definitely a story game first before it is a H game, now that's not neccessarily a bad thing its just what any person is in the mood for. The H scenes also aren't bad by any means of the standard just a little outdated imo for 2023 standards if you're playing this game now.

Really rich story and honestly glad I finished this game despite wanting to go in for the faps

Extremely gameplay-heavy, with lots of dialogue, and frequent battles. Even after skipping everything I could, it still took me way longer than I would have liked to reach the end. The CG was pretty good for the most part, minus one character. I ended up finishing the game just to unlock the gallery, but in the end, I don't really feel like it was worth the effort.

it feels strange rating this 2/5 but hear me out.

yes the game is a really well made quality game to porn game standards. rich story lots of characters, etc... but the porn in there is so rare that there is no reason to rate it according to porn game standards.

so if this was an actual game on steam without any porn, this game would be a mediocre less than average game, with a very boring gameplay which nobody would play and would have "mixed" ratings but more negative. yes it has some spin on the cliché stories that now you are playing on the demon's side and it's a bit unique story, but the text is childish, boring, uncreative, the funny bits lack creativity too, you would start yawning after 1h and either stop playing or get through it forcefully due to the interesting premise of demons taking over humans.

there are 2 reasons you play it: because you expect the porn "any second now"

and because compared to other porn games yes it has quality world building and stuff... but what use is world building if there is no porn in it. the reason other porn games have no world building because they focus on the porn aspect. if they focused on "world building" instead of porn then other adult games would have better stories too... but focusing on world building without any porn is tbh quite stupid. because without the porn to carry this game, as a steam game it would be garbage from the many little problems it has.

the first H-scene you see after 3hours... and even that is a still image. no animation, only text, quite boring as well. honestly for a game in f95, it should be given 1/5. but since it's a strange unique change of pace by playing an "actual" game, people get confused that it's "good" just because they rate the story according to porn game standards but since the porn is nearly nonexistant, that's a mistake.

so overall, play any other steam game with similar playstyle and you will have more fun because it will be less boring... and if you wanna play a porn game with story, or just want a quick fap, then avoid this 100%

so i don'T recommend this to anybody. if you are really bored then it's a refreshing change of pace among so much porn, so i guess that is why it's not 1/5 but 2/5

def recommend the game, as many said there are 2 area for the majority of H-scene the fuckingdom (a dungeon unlocked at some point of the story) and the warning dungeon (bad end option in the game over screen)

thankfully the game is not hard on you for losing a battle as if you lose you have the option to retry the battle with your current health and mana on the start of the fight or going to a checkpoint which is a certain point before you enter the fight (example being at the beginning of the dungeon or before the boss room),

don't need to say much about the quality of worldbuilding and story since so many people already said it better than me lol

This is one of the "They don't make games like this these days" kind of game. The game focus on developing the world, story and character more than majority of generic H-JRPG out there. Required 30-35hrs, So don't expect a quick fap at the first 1 hours.
The H content is unique, most of it contain in 2 areas: A fetish theme park and the slave dungeon, you can always visit it anytime. Outside of that, there is far and few during the story.
The combat is barebone generic, but the grind is actually not that bad, so it is keep entertaining me "enough" to finish the game.
Overall, this is a masterpiece for this genre (RPG maker game) easily top 10 on this site.
P/S: I brought the game for real on Steam to support the developers, totally worth it.