The Chronicles of Lancelot GOLD

As a bi dude beyond starved for RPGs and fantasy games in general with skimpy men and mlm content, I really, truly wanted to like this game, but there are some issues that prevent me from being able to fully recommend it at this stage, which I will outline below. I'll also list some pros at the end to encourage you to still consider supporting the devs if the following problems don't bother you. [h3] Performance Issues [/h3] Even with the graphics set to the lowest setting, it runs very poorly. And I'm not someone who's typically too fussed about frame drops or lag, so it's pretty excessive in this case. Even so, I wanted to try my best to fix it in case it was on my end. I have pretty good specs to begin with, so I updated my drivers and checked if other high performance games would run well. Only this game seemed to be causing issues, and even crashed my PC at one point while testing the Low graphics settings. I reset them to Very Low and tried to play through the lag but encountered further problems. [h3] Unclear Objectives & Controls [/h3] The game is immediately difficult. You are essentially dropped into the world with both of your only path choices leading to instant and certain death. Even the developer has stated that unless you perform a few random tasks first, you'll simply die no matter what. In my opinion, trial and error and learning from the environment are good ingredients for a game depending on how it's applied. Dying to something can teach you what to do and what not to do. But I was just confused from the get go. There is an NPC who gives you valuable hints, but I still found myself having to look up how to progress 10 minutes in. The first thing I want to do when opening a new RPG in a new environment is to explore. What does this place offer? Who are the characters? What can I do in this town, and this forest? But you're immediately blocked from doing so. It's clear from the NPC hints that you need equipment to proceed, but how to get the money to afford it is not very intuitive and feels a bit like a waste of time, like you're not allowed to start playing for real until you jump through those hoops. You're encouraged to read a manual before playing, which is true of many old games with physical booklets but it's not something we expect to be a requirement these days. If you don't mind doing that you might not find any issues with this. [h3] Language Issues [/h3] I draw porn for a living, and I find myself writing a lot of spicy dialogue. So I know it can sound a bit ridiculous; a lot of keywords are involved and repeated in order to heighten the moment. But even I found myself cringing at the text in this game. The grammar could benefit from some proofreading, and the dialogue unfortunately comes across stilted and unnatural. Even in a game with peen swords, if the people don't talk like humans it gets a bit tough to get invested. I just can't get over the term "horsey hole." [h1] Pros, despite it all [/h1] [list] [*]It's fun to look at. I love useless armour on hot men and getting to helicopter a dong around in the woods! The physics on that thing is honestly really enjoyable to just look at and swing around. [*]It doesn't take itself too seriously. I know I harped on the dialogue being strange but it's got humour and will make you laugh. Again, horsey hole. [*]The 3D models are nice and so is the music. [*]The battles are pretty old school Final Fantasy style and easy to grasp. You can also grind easily if you camp around the hp/mp regen spots. [/list] All in all, I experienced a mixture of fun and confusion. I feel like there's a LOT of potential, and I see this developer doing a lot of cool and sexy things in the future. But I just felt there were too many things in the way for me to enjoy this one right now. I would still recommend buying the game to support projects like this and queer creativity! But as an experience it's currently a no from me. </3

I recommend this game. We need to support more LGBT+ content and creators here and this such a unique one, we have 1000s of yucky hentai nonsense and heterosexual themed games, and there are hardly any LGBT+ adult games of this kind of quality anywhere. Honestly a sex themed game featuring only gay men is so rare, we usually only ever get visual novel type ones. Don't listen to all the complaints regarding the dialogue being bad. I think that was an intentional choice, they are trying to be campy and it's a literal gay parody of the Arhurian age, why are you expecting dragon age level of writing? My only issue is the grinding nature of the game, levling up can take hours and it's the same bunch of enemies you have to kill hundreds of times, maybe there should be skip combat animations or speed up combat option like in the game RAID shadow legends (yes i know the mobile game is ♥♥♥♥). They have a skip button because the combat part can be tedious AF. Also Hoping there's a cheat engine or cheat codes soon. Also once we complete the game let us explore the village again and complete the open quests. I was not able to finish the castle in the sky one, i thought we could go back and complete it.

There's good and there's bad. I think in the end it is more or less even, but I'm giving this a thumbs up because I think they deserve it. The bad: On optimization, it's sketchy throughout. There are moments where the game runs really smooth, and there are moments when it's just stuttering and the only thing that fixes it is restarting the game. I have an AMD Ryzen 9 and Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070, so I can handle most any game on the market at high quality settings. The optimization should not be an issue for me, but it is. There's also the issue with mob encounters. There are some times when I can walk a good distance and not hit anything, but most of the time I'm getting encounters every 5 steps. This is not enjoyable. The encounters should be spaced out far more. There should be more of a balance between encounters and XP gained so that many encounters aren't necessary. On quests, there should be included descriptions and goals in the quest information after a quest has been accepted. Some quests after you accept them have no information of what you're supposed to do, and if you go back to the quest giver, they don't repeat any dialogue that will give you information of what the goal is and how to achieve that goal. You're just running around blind. On battle skills and spells, they need balancing all around. When I finally got the top sword in game, I was still doing about the same amount of damage with my skills as I was with the previous sword and that was a let down. If it's the most power sword in game, it should be doing some nice numbers, but it doesn't. Often I just resorted to the bleed skill because nothing else did any real damage. On dialogue....hooo boy. A lot of it just seems like it was run through a bad AI translator. Some of it was pretty good though, but especially the kinky bits need a lot more imagination. When you're reading bad translations or just dry dialogue, it removes you instantly from the fantasy and it's not fun. The good: When I thought in my head "I want to play a freaking gay RPG", this is exactly what I had in mind. Not some crummy depressing stuff like Life is Strange, or carrot dangling games like Dragon Age (even though DA is pretty awesome). No, I want real RPG game with a bunch of hot naked dudes running around and slinging their schlongs at every other hot dude that walks by, magic wielding wizards raining fire down on foes and scantily clad warriors slicing and dicing through enemies. Achieve a goal, bang a hot dude. Would also be fun if all the rando guys having sex in the world had options to join, but hey. The story is also actually pretty good. It has a decent flow in the plot. I do wish there was more substance and interactions with some of the characters, like the archangel. There is a lot of potential there for more side quests and opportunity to build relationships with these characters. And, it would also be cool if you could add or switch out who your fighting partner is, but Jaime's dps is great and honestly what got me through most fights. The world and the mobs were pretty well designed too. At first I just died.. and died, but once I figured out how to navigate battles, it was alright. They did get pretty repetitive, but I like that they weren't just tank and spank fights. I had to use some strategy ( and a crap ton of pots) to beat some mobs. The character designs were good, a little rudimentary with some things like hair design, the long-dong thing is cool, but variety is the spice of life so switch it up a bit. Maybe implement in future games where you can design your own character, but I get that's a ton of work to implement. In all, I did like the game. There are some pretty annoying hiccups, but this is the kind of game I want to play and really want to see polished into a real game like you get with the AAA games. I like perving on hot naked dudes while I blast my way through maps. Give me more!

This game is actually hot and well made. My main issue and the ONLY reason I'm giving it a thumbs down is because the optimization is really bad. On the lowest settings it uses 90% of my GPU and makes my GPU hit 70c in temp. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to continue play it if and when it gets updates and more optimization :)

Even given the low bar of "Gay fantasy sexytimes," this game isn't worth it. The RPG element itself is jank as anything, with poorly optimized visuals making one seasick when playing, to ridiculous difficulty jumps (you can clear a major milestone and then get curbstomped by random mobs in the next zone), to a very unsatisfying RPG experience in general. As an RPG, this game is middling at best. As a game for gay titillation, it's even worse. Your options are- in order- a centaur, a man you trick into having sex with you, and a guy who seems to have no problems with you rotating on him at roughly 10,000 rpms. The game is neither serious nor particularly enjoyable. For me, this is a solid disappointment, as I wanted to enjoy it, but a combination of absurdly long grinding (read, roughly an hour to progress past the initial zone) and such absurd sexual content that I was left more guffawing than aroused makes this a waste of dollars. Go to other games if you want a fun RPG, a fun gay game, or both.

Amazing experience from start to finish. When its exploring or rpg elements the game is fun, deep and challenging. And when it gets steamy it really... delivers ;) Theres nothing like this game out there (yet). 10/10 recommend

I managed to play it for about 10 seconds before it crashed. ~10 other tries and it doesnt even run. I can run Elden Ring fine, but i can't play this game.

the motion blur makes me dizzy af. Is there any way they can make this an option?

Exactly what I was looking for honestly, sexy gay RPG, like old school FF! Needs more sex and definitely needs to be optimized more it does crash a bit, but very solid for an indie! the studio is also very responsive to customer feedback! Can’t wait to see where they take it in the coming updates! We need more studios willing to make games like this! Definitely recommend

This game even made me come back to Steam after so many years! Pros: Super nice graphics, really beautiful. Solid gameplay with lots of exploration — reminds me of old-school Final Fantasy. Tons of naughty quests and fun NSFW content that's both sexy and funny, perfect for pansexual players like me. Sexy NPCs and interesting questlines. Rare to see an LGBTQ+ 3D game made with this much love and effort. Good playtime length for an indie title. Cons: Takes a bit of time to get used to if you haven't played RPGs recently. A bit heavy on the system — but my GTX 1060 can still handle High settings at Full HD with only minor lag. Have to relaunch the game to change graphic settings. Some dialogues feel a little cringe. Basic attacks could be flashier. Overall: For an indie studio, it's really impressive, especially with the constant updates and bug fixes. Honestly, I saw many people not recommending it, but for me, it runs quite well even on an older PC. The support team was also really helpful whenever I got stuck. I recommend it because I hope more people will discover it and support the devs!