Star Knightess Aura

I loved this game :). I really liked that the corruption of Aura happens slowly in different stages. It feels real because you see her change step by step. There is a lot of dialogue. Some people might find it too much text, but for me, it makes the characters feel alive. You can tell what they want and why they do things. I also liked the feeling of playing two sides at once: being Aura while also controlling her corruptor. It created a cool tension where your choices felt complicated. There is an option to skip the corruptor part, but I didn't try it. The RPG and combat parts are okay, but they aren't my favorite. Sometimes they break up the story flow for me and are too hard (but there is an "easy mode"). However, the writing and character work make up for that. Verdict: If you like deep stories and characters and don't mind RPGM style, this is a great choice. I recommend it because of how well-written the main parts are.

Yeah, I guess it’s a love-hate relationship with this game. I love some of the mechanics, but at the same time, I absolutely hate them. I got beaten. Again. I learned something new. Again. I restart the game. Again. Maybe this time I'll finish it the way I actually want to. But don't you dare tell me this is an easy game. No way, far from it. Very far. Even without the H-content, it would be a solid game, but I need time to rethink my strategy. It feels like an invisible labyrinth, and I'm about to make Aura jump right back into it. This time, with both eyes wide open.

相当优秀的洗脑和精神改变类恶堕作品。虽然画风不是特别对亚洲审美，但是也还能接受。不建议跟其他游戏相做对比，因为这是一个特化型的游戏，在洗脑和精神控制方面有着相当的功夫

恶堕小黄游中的神作，用rm搓了一个相当有趣的战斗/日程管理和女主堕落结合的优秀游戏机制，高难度的战斗以及精神世界的debuff让玩家为了金钱或强化武器等战力buff自发地做出堕落抉择，但堕落事件的推进又会附加debuff让长远的后续流程变得更难，同时任务事件也像crpg一样有很多种解法有的还会改变队友flag从而影响整体结局差分（类似于巫师3结局ppt差分），总体是很有深度的游戏系统，恶堕本身也非常有创意，精神世界有十几种不同的房间从外表到价值观深层心理再到过去记忆全方面修改女主角做的非常精妙，主线剧情有王道热血有悬疑推理，玩到终盘更是有终极反转揭示无恶不作的魔王也是被清洗记忆改变价值观的受害者这段情节还是挺有张力，最大的优点还是逐步缓慢的堕落过程以及不吝用长篇文本加以全面描写的这份匠人精神，缺点是战斗难度有些过高以及cg画的一般般

(Don't mind the playtime, I moved onto the Patreon version quite early on) There are many corruption game (and by corruption here I mean "Falling to Evil") and stories on Steam, eroge and non-eroge. But few really can make you feel like you are playing from the perspective of a character who is being corrupted, who has to fight hard to win before they are changed, yet who also has to compromise and give in to corruption at times. But Star Knightess Aura fulfills that fantasy perfectly. There are several reasons for it... For one, the game is not easy - it's a narratively-driven JRPG made in RPG Maker. But unlike most games you expect here, it's challenging. You can't grind your levels, every piece of gold matters, all enemies have gimmicks and weaknesses that you must learn. Hoarding potions "in case I need it later" won't even come to your mind because you will be spending those badboys. SKA even slightly ruined RPGs for me because this is the first time I had to make use of absolutely every RPG mechanic there is. And I love it. It really makes you feel like a proper adventurer! And if you are like me and hate losing intentionally to see the corruption side of the story, you will love the fact that you don't have to do it here. Yet, it's not unfair. Defeat (usually) just ends the day, and giving in to corruption (doing evil things, lewd things, consuming drugs, etc.) can bring you many benefits - money, power, artifacts... you name it. This is where the allure to giving into corruption comes in, and if you want to get the best ending you can, here is hesitation. Yet, giving in also makes the game harder in certain ways, forcing you to depend on corruptive choices even more. Like drug addiction! (which is also present in the game) Then comes Aura herself, who is a defined character (and an intelligent one, which is another breath of fresh air). When you start the game, Aura is a goodie-two-shoes who will never make any decisions that are morally wrong - when such an option is given, Aura just gives a big (obnoxious) speech and you can't select the evil option. Only as the corruption progresses do you get the freedom to choose whatever you want. And then when it progresses further, Aura becomes a kind of person who only selects evil options. This makes the whole corruption feel even more immersive, and it isn't as limiting as it may seem at first (as most corrupt choices can be made later). Then there are the corruption systems, which are quite complex but also easy to understand. And, of course, the story. This is a very well-written game, with many twist and turns, rich lore, and its very reactive to your choices (which is important because it's not a linear game). The Corruption story is eerie and exciting, while the Pure route is satisfying in its challenge and the finale is the best case of "Everyone bands together against the Big Bad" I have ever seen in any story medium. Both the main endings have many variations. Victory ending will be quite different if you have managed to stay mostly pure than if your Aura is highly corrupted. And many decisions you made will also affects the endings, and some variations make it feel like its own corruption ending. Same goes for the Corruption Endings: if you did many evil things, the world is doomed. If you did many good deeds before succumbing, there will be hope for the world. And again, many individual choices will also affect the ending. Overall, if you are a fan of Corruption (Falling to Evil) trope, be it as someone who enjoys seeing the Hero fall or someone who wants an immersive experience in fighting against falling to evil, you owe it to yourself to check out this game.

i know im risking my friends seeing this but it has to be said. This game for SOME REASON has some of the best writing ive seen. I know how wierd it sounds to say this about a hentai game but in my defence, i consider this less of a hentai game and more of a visual novel that happpens to have sexual content. My best attempt to summerize this game, is that the gameplay itself is just fine. I wasnt blown away by any of the systems but i do love the dephts it goes despite how confuses me sometimes. The "sex scenes" are always just a fade to black or just characters reacting to something they are seeing without any CGs. This is the games weakest link. The writing has gotten me to audibly gasp multible times, had me get out of my chair in excitement and genuinely felt bad about the characters development. I would recomend my friends to play this if i wasnt a massive coward.

This game has so much potential - the premise is cool and the concept is great! But it has WAAAAAY too much unnecessary text to read. I just started skipping ALL text 3 hours in, once I started to realize that more than half of the text wasn't necessary to read for the overall story - it was just fluff. I then just started to skip everything and then make my own story in my head for what was happening. I shortly stopped playing after that - which was a shame because the potential of the game is so good! The overabundance of text just watered down the content in my opinion.

This game is truly a perfect example of a dev actually delivering on their patreon promises, even today you can find weekly updates in their discord for the game their currently developing and minor updates for SKA. That being said this game is hard to recommend as purely an eroge, it's an RPG first and an eroge last which works great for the game as the writing is way beyond what you'd expect. There is a lot of dialogue, and I mean an obnoxious amount of it that help with world building and also into the eroge part of the game, the corruption aspect of the game is a perfect example of this and it left me wanting to know more about the world itself. Now for the cons... Honestly the game is just obnoxiously hard when going for a pure route even on normal difficulty, while hard and nightmare feel almost impossible without doing a newgame+ and knowing the game well, if you're trying to get all the achievements then tough luck as one of them requires you to beat the game at nightmare, with zero mental changes or corruption stats and taking into account that to improve your stats, get skills, items and blessed water to reduce your corruption you need money... Well you're screwed, the only real way of earning money is through the lewd route so you'd need to min max as much as possible. Honestly, if you want to enjoy the game without much hassle just use a save editor or cheat, the game punishes mistakes too harshly and honestly it's the easiest way of seeing all the game has to offer as you truly can't see everything in two or three playthroughs.

I loved this game I've tried a few games with sexual content before, but they never really worked for me. Usually the sexual content feels like the main point, with the game and story mostly existing as a delivery system for it. Those types of games do not appeal to me personally. Star Knightess Aura is different. This is a genuinely good RPG with interesting systems, strong writing, and memorable character progression. The adult content is integrated into the corruption, sacrifice, and consequence-driven structure of the game, while still being mostly optional. What impressed me the most was how many meaningful trade-offs the game gives you. You are constantly managing limited resources, timers, corruption, brainwashing, favours, humiliation, and moral compromise. The brainwashing system in particular felt very unique to me, and I loved how it tied into both the mechanics and the story. The game is also much more challenging than I expected. I played on normal difficulty and finished on day 258, fairly close to complete corruption. That pressure made the experience much stronger, because every compromise felt tempting for practical reasons, not just narrative ones. The writing is also genuinely good. I usually prefer RPGs with a customizable main character, but Aura worked very well as a set protagonist. Watching her change over time, and seeing how the game tracks that change mechanically and narratively, was one of the most interesting parts of the experience. It does not offer the same kind of freedom as huge RPGs like Baldur’s Gate or Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, but it is doing something completely different, and it does it extremely well. For a game primarily made by one developer, it is incredibly impressive. I'd recommend this mostly to people who like RPGs, difficult resource management, corruption mechanics, and stories where progress often comes at a cost. The adult content is definitely present, but I do not think this is a game to play only for that. The strength of Star Knightess Aura is the way it makes corruption, temptation, sacrifice, and consequences part of the actual gameplay loop. Highly recommended!

Even without considering the H parts, this is a great game with challenging gameplay where many fights require finding the 'correct solutions' to various mechanics. Fun exploration and interesting storyline.