RPGM - Completed - Nebel Geisterjäger [v1.2] [BBQ Lover]

ll start off with the two main issues of the game: grind & RNG.

The grind is disproportionately high. RNG is just a minor issue for an NTR run, but for the true ending, you need to constantly save-scum to find your partner on time. Time progresses each time you enter a new screen, whether it's a map or a building. This means going to the wrong building causes the time to progress twice, once for entering, once to leave. Later in the game, as you unlock more and more facilities, it gets worse.

NTR Run: That's pretty much your typical NTR game—let the bad guy take your girlfriend.

True Ending: Now, this is the real pain. You need to save on different save slots and literally stalk your girlfriend to prevent any harassment

Endings: I believe there are 8 endings—6 bad, 1 normal, 1 true.

The story is simple but fine.

Unlocking new facilities is just grinding population.
Some mechanics I could never unlock, like the 4th & 5th status screens.
I also never found the Hospital map.

It's sad because the gaming concept was promising. You can install surveillance cameras either to help your girlfriend or to capture scenes (later, even record and sell them).

It took me 15 hours to beat the game for the Bad Ending & True Ending....with cheats...

Edit:
Apparently, I was wrong. You don’t need to save scum, and you don’t need to save the FMCs virginity for the true ending. As long as you can fuck back the corruption and don’t let her fall into submission. This is unusual and actually a fresh take. Therefore, I’m changing my rating from 3 to 3,5

Imho, the game is certainly not for everyone due to its flaws, especially the RNG. But I’d say it’s also very innovative in many aspects, so it’s probably best for developers to check it out for inspiration.

The only game I've ever hated enough to actually leave a review, seriously fuck this game for wasting my time. Boring grindy bullshit I'm deleting it as soon as I finish writing this. do not waste your time, it is inferior to real games and fails as an h-game for having it's head stuck up its own ass. Its like Demon Souls if instead of fighting it just fucked you in the Clock.

I'm a fan of unique gameplay systems. And games like Dwarf Fortress or RimWorld. Like in these games you also don't have full control over everything. "Stuff" will happen, you can decide to just watch, or influence events in different ways. This improves your immersion and makes this game something different from all the other RPGs.

It takes some time to understand the game systems, so the game needs some time commitment, but after that it's a a lot of fun.

The Build up for NTR is great hence the experience of the story progression itself leaves a lasting impression. Main problem is that the game is horrendously tedious when trying to complete it manually.

Short review: Overall 4.5/5. Surprisingly very well-made and high-quality NTR RPGM by a developer that has consistently made good quality product. If anything, it is probably the best NTR game released in 2023. Gameplay and unlocking H-scenes can potentially be a turn-off.

1. Story: The story is straight-forward, but the worldbuilding and setting were very well done.
2. Characters: While you don't know too much about the background of either of the protagonists, there is a bare minimum of trust and care between the two that is acceptable for an effective NTR. I thought the antagonist was very well-made. Quite irredeemable, but not just a generic ugly fat bastard or blond-hair/tan skin delinquent stereotype. The antagonist has ulterior motives, but he is essential to the protagonists to progress.
3. Gameplay: Half of the gameplay is the strongest element of the game, and the other half is the weakest element of the game. The heartbeat monitor adds so much more flavor to the NTR experience. However, it can be challenging and confusing if you don't know what you're doing. You're very likely to get lost quite often trying to figure out puzzles or hints, all while juggling between fighting and responding to heartbeat monitor. Could be really grindy depending on how you look at it (struggling helps flesh out the NTR experience fwiw).
4. Fappable: If you're into NTR, you could get numerous faps from this game. There's a good number of scenes, and they are very high quality art and well made. The corruption is slow-paced (which I love), but the scenes building up are very good and memorable. Voice acting is also fantastic. Progress system and trying to find out what happened behind doors adds so much more excitement.

Longer review:
I cannot express how much I enjoyed this game. It focuses on hidden NTR, which is a rarity in what is otherwise quite an over-bloated genre. Even NTR games that do hidden NTR reveal the H-scenes almost immediately, which defeats the whole purpose of hidden NTR. It's the mystery and curiosity that helps enhance the experience. While I did overall enjoy this game and rate it one of my favorite releases this year, the game does have some glaring flaws.

• As I mentioned earlier, the gameplay is quite divisive.
  • On one hand, you have the NTR-centric elements, which are: traveling in the overworld, using the phone outside and inside dungeons, CCTV cameras, and the heartbeat monitor. These NTR gameplay features are phenomenal, and I've never seen anything like these in other games. They effectively set the tone for the NTR experience and add a lot of mystery to trying to figure out what happened when you weren't looking.
  • The other half of the gameplay is the RPG elements. Leveling is slow and it can be a slog to progress through the game. Solving puzzles can be very difficult and frustrating, as you rely on the heroine to traverse in her world to help provide hints or unlock doors on your world. Your heroine can be the most efficient agent ever, or be the dumbest and stay in one spot. At one point, you might feel like you're not making any progress with the story, and that's because the path of progressing is not intuitive. You have to travel by yourself or without the antagonist to proceed. Again, the gameplay can be a miss for most people, and I don't blame them: I have certainly gotten frustrated with the gameplay plenty of times. It is only because the art and the Hscenes hard-carried the RPG elements that I was willing to overlook it.
• I will be honest. I thought the true ending was a letdown. After around 10 hours, I felt like the true ending did not live up to my expectations at all. I thought a lot more was at stake given how low she was willing to be corrupted. I feel the NTR might be the most appropriate ending (of course, I'm biased). I do however appreciate that the corruption is slow and it is not rushed. Plenty of scenes for sure, but the game takes its time to really make sure the heroine falls below redemption.
• Unlocking H-scenes can be RNG, and some scenes require you to do specific acts on top of the RNG to unlock, which can a buzzkill. In my first playthrough, I couldn't figure out how to unlock H-scenes and it frustrated me so much that I quit the first time. Luckily I tried again and looked up the unlock conditions, but I can see why other people would drop the game based on that experience. It would be nice if there was set requirements or conditions. I understand why the RNG was implemented, but there needs to be a balance between RNG and set events.

Overall, fantastic game for NTR lovers, average to above-average game for others. Lots of innovative gameplay features, but the repetitiveness, RNG, and grind can ruin one's experience.

This is easily the best NTR game I've ever played, I give it

8/10 COMPARED TO NORMAL GAMES LIKE ZELDA AND FROMSOFT GAMES.

but for an h-game? 10/10.

I have 3 complaints about this game.


1. it's too grindy
2. it's hard to get all animations organically [without just unlocking gallery]
3. there's a few animations involving piercings that during play that don't have piercings in gallery sometimes

... maybe 3.5 there's no animations? XD


The slow burn of her being corrupted while you learn about the past and your relationship with her feels really good.

The way they incorporated a heartbeat sensor at all times during NTR scenes you can't see is REALLY hot and exciting.

The voice acting is amazing and I even have the audio ASMR file as bonus content!

The art style is excellent.
The design on "check her progress/status" system is really hot too!

All in all, if this game had higher production value (literally more money involved with it.) I think it would be the absolute best NTR game ever made. More money would have meant animations and slightly better design which would have filled all the problems.

How good is a game that has amazing content but you never gonna get to it?

The graphics and the corruption arc look so nice, but you never gone see it cause its hidden behind unbelievably complicated gameplay (how did they even manage to do this??). Even if you master some of it you gonna miss out on a huge amount of content cause there is so many things you need to do in the right order. The game totally overwhelms you, you need to invest many, many hours to get your PHD to actually understand the game and yet it will not be enough. Its very sad to see cause I think the NTR corruption arc must be great. If one day there is a version out cutting all the unneccesary gameplay, this would be a great game. But like this... dont waste your time, your not gonna find the scenes (apart form rec.room). Believe me.

This game took 13 hours from my life to finish once. Because I cheated. On easy mode. But I played for 13 hours straight

This game is good. Great even. But it's not a a game where you can just press a few buttons and call it a day. I'm a great fan of NTR and the NTR content here is astonishing, with all the CGs being really great. You can go pure love mode but more for a challenge than for the reward, because you'll see like 3 scenes. The interesting part is that getting the NTR scenes however is really damn hard. The heroine interacts with the NTRer sometimes, but the meat and potatoes is their interactions during the missions. You get thrown to one of 3 places where you have to manipulate the environment to great detail in order to make the heroine suffer and be vulnerable. No joke, I understood how to do it efficiently after like 10 hours into the game. Hospital is especially bad.

But I'm kinda rambling. The thing is: THIS GAME IS GRINDY And I really have to emphasize this. But the atmosphere (which is a mechanic here but I don't understand it even after finishing the game) is worth it if you like slow paced NTR. And challenge.

Try this one. But be warned, this won't be a quick fap

It could've been a good, even great game, but is too unpolished both as NTR and as an actual RPG. There's barely any story related to the heroine herself, you can meet her for "dates" and you'll need to do them HUNDREDS of times if you play without cheats, except there's just one short dialogue for each date type. To progress romance with the heroine, you need to grind both dates without any new text AND repetitive gameplay. I recommend to use save editor and just increase your affection score after playing for an hour or two. The RPG gameplay has some interesting ideas and skills, but any sort of skill progression stops after an hour or so and then you just grind for stats. The puzzles of the dungeon counter-intuitive and you need to read the manual or some explanations in the comments here. Basically, other than ntr-scenes this is a two-hour game artificially made into a ten or even twenty-hour one if you aren't using any cheats. There're some hot scenes and situations, but the problem is that you just don't develop enough affection for the heroine, as she has very little content with the main character (unlike the previous game of the developer). The game also has no post-game content or DLCs like the previous game, so as a netorare game this is a step back, a big one at that. The game is almost exclusively netorare with just one ending giving you one netorase scene. A minor spoiler - there's a side heroine who has more story than the main one (if you go for the true ending, which is very short btw), but she doesn't even have any scenes. In the end, it feels more like a demo-version, a very long and grindy one at that. Also, the Japanese description says that there're voiced scenes, but I don't remember any, maybe there's just a couple of them in the entire game. I still recommend it for those who know their way around with cheats and save editor and like NTR.

NTR done quite amazingly, love this type of "it's happening slightly off screen".
But would be nice if it had an actual system for events with set requirements instead of RNG, to then being encouraged to just not bother and flip the "unlock all scenes" switch, it's just not the same...

Average cg, lackluster pure love route, subpar true ending, pointless grinding.

On the other hand, could be worth to play for ntr lovers.

Overall, the game is average, not good or bad. The RPG and exploration elements of the game were pretty innovative, but the same exploration mechanics become quickly repetitive and unenjoyable.

Just makes me sad.

This game had the most potential of any NTR game I've played in recent times. There are some incredible mechanics. However, it just didn't quite hit the mark. The dev did way too many convoluted things that will send you on a wild goose chase. A good example of this is there are different status screens to unlock to see what the female protagonist is up to. To unlock one of the status screens, you have to walk into a hidden area into an empty screen off the map, then fight an extremely strong boss you won't be able to defeat until late in the game if you are playing on normal difficulty.

There are some fantastic mechanics as well to the author's credit though. Being able to place cameras and move through screens as you try to catch them doing things in the dungeon is superb. It was so close to being amazing, but just didn't hit the mark overall.

In terms of the sex scenes, I thought they were generally quite good but would have preferred some aspects to be explored more in the beginning. The art is fantastic.

This game had huge potential but it bit more than it can chew.

The art is gorgeous and there is plenty of it, the story is unique, the characters are decent.


But it fails at delivering an erotic experience, it is most likely the most tedious game on this platform, in 3 hours of gameplay I managed only to get 1 scene.

The labyrinths suck, the game gets confusing at times without a quest of what to do or using names you aren't familiar with.


It truly heartbreaking, this game had so many good ideas yet it failed short and the most banal things.

Please do download this game and enjoy the recollection room, it is the only reason i gave it 2 stars.

PROs:
-Lots of CGs and content.
-Great game design
-Good looking maps
-Fantastic art
-Multiple endings

CONS:
-TEDIOUS you'll see this one a lot among other reviews and it's true. The tediousness comes primarily from the pacing and balancing. I feel like the tediousness would be less of a pain if the pacing was a little faster and number gains were bumped a little. Note: I went down the True Love Route, and NTR Route and it took me a full day each.

-Pacing, mentioned above pacing is a bit of an issue where the love interest will happily do an action with the antagonist, but in another scene be resistant and hate it within the same timeframe. Granted there is a lot going on behind the scenes for the scheduling system they have so I think this is largely due to a lack of scene variants in some parts and more in others.

-Visual Corruption, This one is more of a personal peeve, and while the game does have a little but of visual corruption it's not like full outfit changes or changes to the antagonists preferences in clothing or likes.
I'd like to see something like Star Knightess Aura does in it's corruption process where the hobbies, likes, topics, underwear, clothing are altered to suit the corruptor/antagonist more and more.
Again with the amount of CGs this game has that's a much more ambitious feat to pull off. Something to think about for the future.

-Translation, there are some rare spots where the text is still not translated. Like a bad end choice on the NTR Route, and I don't remember where, but a small bit of dialog in the old mansion? But it's not a massive issue since 99% of the game is translated.

Honestly, I'd love to see a sequel or a game that uses the same life-sim formula this game uses. Or a expanded version of this game with more content and further fleshed out scenes like an Atlus "Royal" re-release.

In reality, this game is probably just average (3/5) but there was so much potential here that I think it's better than most other RPGM games on this site.

The main issue is that the game mechanics are extremely obscure. You absolutely should read the guide so you even begin to understand how the game functions.

The second issue is that the game is tedious. I disagree with those that call it grindy, it's not that grindy. The game can probably be beaten decently fast. It's just that the game is slow (you are stuck escorting Kana through dungeons) and repetitive (you must revisit the same dungeons multiple times to weaken main boss, get better gear, and to unlock plot for the true ending). All this means is that while the game can be hot if the whole "is she simply fighting or am I getting cucked" part of the game is exciting to you (which it was for me), it's not rewarding to play. It get worst by the fact that once you understand the mechanics it's a) basically impossible to get cucked and b) way too easy to over gear both yourself and Kana. In other words, for a game about not getting cucked, the player has way too much control once they understand the game. Finally, my other big gripe with the game is that the scenes unlock at random and so Kana's behavior can therefore be disorienting at times which sucks because she would otherwise be an almost compelling character.

That said, while the whole blackmail cliché is frankly done in an extremely generic and boring manner, the game has unique mechanics that are overall interesting. The character art and voice acting are good. The fighting is above average. The story is interesting and genuinely sad at points. And if you find the whole "am I getting cucked?" part of the game exciting, then the game can (at it's best) be quite hot.

There was a lot of potential here that sadly was left poorly balanced and unrefined. I would recommend that you give the game a try if you find NTR exciting. It's not a good game, but it's better than average. 3.5/5. But please use the guide.

PS. You do not need to know where Kana is so long as you've left her only one path (she only goes forward and will not backtrack). You can also figure out what rooms she is gone through if the exorcism rate for those rooms is 100%.

This is a tough one.
The art is simply amazing, the story is far above average and theres a huge amount of CG/Content in the game. Mostly ntr ofcourse, but theres bascially something for everyone in terms of fetishes. The dev is known for creative storys and gameplay and is improving in that regard ever since his first game. The way to get new CG is extremly creative and has massive potential.
The fighting system is kinda unique and decent once you got the hang of it and theres some massive crafting part in the game too.
Basically a 5/5
HOWEVER sadly the game is just so fucking tedious. Never before have I seen such a amazing game ruined by grindy unfun features. The hentai is locked behind atleast two dozens hours of grind and planning (if you understood all the features from the getgo) after about 12 hours I unlocked about 20-25% of the CGs and then was faced with a ending which basically ended my run. Luckily the dev was smart about his game overs and let me start a NG+.
NG+ is pretty much what you need to actually play the game. So about 8 hours of grind till you get a NG+ start from the beginning and then you can actually start grinding the CGs.
Yeah, basically an amazing game ruined by unfun and extremly grindy mechanics. But there's light at the horizon, the dev already acknowledged the flaws in his game and promised to better in that regard for his next game.
Sadly a 5/5 game made to a 3/5 due to its unnecessary flaws.

A nice combination of gameplay eroge + NTR. Unfortunately, the game falls just short of fully satisfying the player on either of those elements.

First of all, there is clearly some thought put into the gameplay and combat mechanics. This is definitely enjoyable (up to an extent) as a true game when you compare it to the much more common low effort RPGM scene hunting games. I genuinely enjoyed the dungeon crawling and experimenting with different spell sets and powering up my characters. The lewd gameplay where you look for the GF in town and spy on her in dungeons was also interesting enough.

The issue is in the fine tuning. The combat mechanics are fairly unbalanced and you will quickly realized the missed potential here. Most spells are useless and you will come to realize the flawed balance in how these magics work, if you even bother to spend time understanding the elemental system. Some spells seem to be broken or bugged because they often do 0 or negligible damage even if you satisfy the damage conditions in their descriptions. (Quick tip: Fire + Frost combo is by far the mose useful).

The lewd aspects and the relationship building elements can feel tedious or grindy after a while. In some ways, it can give you a decent sense of realistic timescale in terms of corruption progression, but the RNG nature of the scene triggers can make it a bit annoying to raise her stats and it often leads to out of place scenes that don't match. The biggest problem with the lewd system for me was the fact that you need to be present in the area where the NTR takes place for it to show up later in the "dream replay room." That, combined with the whole spy camera thing made the experience lean too much towards netorase instead of NTR.

That said, there are ample optional in-game cheats for those that don't really want to engage fully with the gameplay. With all its faults, I still enjoyed my 15 or so hours spent playing this game. RPGM games that actually have legitimate gameplay are quite rare, and it even has NTR as a bonus.

Plus, the story is actually pretty decent and the pure route True End might be worth pursuing for those weird people that want to avoid NTR in NTR games.

Game requires a LOT of grinding if you play on normal difficulty. On my first playthrough blind, it took me over 15 hours to beat for the normal ending. I wish they explained that expansion of the town (I found out on the 2nd playthrough after reading the guide since I wanted it to be blind first time) was essential to getting any of the town upgrades/more variety than just park, pub, cafe scenes.

Despite my complaints on the game, the translation is great (found like 1 or 2 typos only), the art is fantastic, and Kana is really cute. I have been told the creator is making a new game after taking the criticism into account to make an even better game!

As others have pointed out, the grind in this game is seriously annoying. Art quality is great. Models are nice. Story is good (well, if you like male cuck protag PoV stories. Otherwise it's just okay. And if you hate it then just don't bother obviously), gameplay outside of the grind is somewhat unique for an RPGM and well done. Basically, everything about the game (as far as I bothered to play) is quite positive, 4 stars and up quality. But the amount of grinding you need to do for a lot of the story is unbelievably frustrating.

I understand it's tough to balance these sorts of stories to continue having engaging gameplay without grind while also not having the girl immediately go crazy for dick. But they failed hard there.

TL;DR: If it you ignore the grinding that is required for a lot of the story, it's easily 4 star or higher. You can probably enjoy the game if this is your kind of story. But you might want to just consider grabbing someone's save and gallery (most of it is unlocked already by OP's upload anyway, thought not all).

This is one of the most boring rpg maker games you could ever play, you have to grind so much just to get so little payoff, it's not worth it, just get the cg save and watch all the unlocked scenes (that you'll see were not even worth it)

The endings are boring and don't look finished, some aren't even colored, some are just 1-2 unfinished images with text.

There is 0 pixel art scenes, this makes the game boring because you have to roam around the map to get so little NTR scenes and most of the time you won't even find anything AND when you do it's just a completely black room with text. When it's not a black room, it's just the 2 characters standing in front of each other.

The dungeons are extremely confusing and boring, if you don't believe me, try it for yourself, NOT WORTH IT. You don't miss anything watching the recollection room, there is NO ROAMING SCENES, this should be a 2/5 visual novel, not a -5/5 rpg maker game.