Detective Girl of the Steam City

“The gameplay is just you doing quests (or minor tasks) that you need to complete but it doesn't matter since the story is on stand still and the story doesn't develop, it's more like a masturbating tool than anything backed with probably some of the best art I've seen from Clymenia which has it as a good eye-catcher.”

“Most of the gameplay mechanics can be boiled down to either a.) search the room looking for clues and spam action button on every surface until you find them, b.) follow behind someone who moves slowly and avoid getting too close to them, c.) choose the right dialogue option in a given scenario, or d.) basic RPG Maker combat.”

“The rpg mechanics and battle system were very boring and felt more of an obstacle.”

“Art: good music: ok sound: not really good, the sound seems unreal. Gameplay: ok, still have some bugs, like event images not showing or screen freezing but the game is still running and playable. Pretty fun game, it would be much better if they added a mission list page. Sometimes when you have multiple pending missions, one mission finishes and you don't see the suggestion for a new mission, so you have to remember the remaining missions or talk to every NPC in the city, which is very inconvenient.”

“The only thing I like so far is the art and the music; everything else is super annoying. After reading the other reviews, I guess I need to install a patch to get the experience I wanted. I understand why it's such a pain to get the 18 patch, but it's such a hassle I might not get it.”

“The music and art are decent.”

“While the controls inevitably feel familiar to any other RPG Maker game, the rest of it – gameplay, visuals, music, atmosphere – is all refreshingly different.”

“As far as the artwork, it is very well done, for both dialog and h-scenes.”

“I like the steampunk theme and the makers managed to have the art style consistent throughout the game.”

“The story of Sophie is a tad more interesting than some of their characters from previous works, and there seems to be a bit more character development throughout the story.”

“Not to mention the animations and character design seemed to have hardly any effort put into them; we just see in battle mode a blown-up version of the sprite that was on the map.”

“There are some interesting concepts like the steam meter and effective lack of leveling due to the gear that you upgrade through resource farming, but by and large the map is monotonous, the side-quests are thin, and the combat is boring as hell.”

“A little bit of grinding is required to progress through the story in more ways than one.”

“Took around 7 hours in vanilla, seeing both endings (difference in last steps of the game) with around 1 hour of farming.”

“The optimization in this game feels lacking; it often leads to frustrating performance issues that detract from the overall experience.”

“I found the optimization to be quite poor, resulting in frequent lag and crashes that made it hard to enjoy the gameplay.”

“Despite the interesting mechanics, the optimization is a major drawback, as it hampers the fluidity and responsiveness of the game.”

“A buggy game with poor dialogue and choppy translations.”