RPGM - Traveler Inn Tales [v0.95e] [Star Tree Games]

Before saying anything i want to focuss on three aspects of the game, how it feels for a Harem game, for Netorare game and for a Netori game.

Harem: this is the most well developed part of the game. For a simple story about getting laid and cock blocking an evil asshole, the character are good enought. The girls are charming in distinctive ways both physically and personalitie wise, it creates a decent build up given the amount of character present. In one hand it could've been better if the rosters was half as big but on the other i generally like all the girls (except the blonde older "sister" trio)

Netorare: as an NTR lover this is where it feels lackluster and for a long time i wondered why, so im gonna TRY to break it up.

I want to preface this by saying that the game focusing on Harem instead of NTR is not bad per se, if anything the possibility of failure enchances the satisfaction of the Harem. But people need to be aware that this a Harem with bit of NTR and not the other way around.

Lack of interaction between MC and Chad: there is little to no interaction between them inside the game. We are told that they hate each other and why but it is rarely shown throught dialogue or interaction.

Lack of reaction from the MC: he doesnt react in any away to Chad getting close to the girls or even when he spies any of the girls getting on with Chad. This especially annoying when it happens on High Affection scenes, speaking of wich....

The true Netorare feels frustrating: in theory is the scenes where Chad blackmails girls, that like the MC, into bed its Netorare on its purest form. In practice the contrivances that would be easier to ignore with a pasive MC, become frustrating when MC is super active. Take for example Sofia Mala and Ranny, Chad creates a plan to kidnapp and save Sofia wich in High affection fails because the MC saves her. But for SOME REASON he is conviniently nowhere to be seen when Mala and Ranny need him (even thought he know their problems) wich allows Chad to take advantage.
The frustration of this scenario overrides any enjoyment one could get from the Netorare. I will talk more when i mention the "lock in"system.

Edit: looking at the gallery room i found out that there is a follow up to the scenarios described above.....if you dont sleep with the girls before those trigger.
Lets take Mala as an example.


This is actually pretty good, it gives a reaction to Chads meddling and follows up on Malas backstory, while also mentioning that the MCs is planning on gathering testimonies to report Chads behavior.


With all the girls happens the same and in 85% of the cases the result is more compelling than the original scenes. Im 50/50 between this variation and the normal scene for Vanessa Rina and Riley and im 100% not letting Chad touch Alice nor Ranny.

Now we would only need a variation /alternative to those scenes that can be triggered if the MC already had sex with the girls.

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Active Harem creation and "but i liked them first" dont mix well: normally i defend BSS as a part of NTR but this is because the failure and humillation of the mc seing the sole focus of his affection with another person gives those NTR feelings. Those are gone when the MC can easily get other 4 girls on a bad week.
Worst case scenario Chad gets every other girls except for the two childhood frieds. He doesnt get his dream harem but gets two devoted beautiful future wives, thats a win. What even more, the MC could still steal Marida from Chad in this situation.
Therefore 98% of the low affection steals dont feel like Netorare unless those are the childhood friends and even then it doesnt 100% feel like it because the MCs lack of reaction

Netori: This is where the NTR truly shines in this game and for one simple reason, Chad reacts to getting cucked or cock blocked.
Chad shows frustration to the MCs meddling in his conquest attempts, especially so in the cases when he cant black mail his way into the girls pants, but more importantly he reacts to getting cucked by Marida .

He starts to show jelousy to both of them hanging out, even more when they start hooking up and in a final display of cuckery we get to see him REACT to them having sex.

To add insult to injury, Marida reveals that most girls dont like Chad because he is a selfish lover that more often than not ends hurting his girls because of his size rather than pleasing them.

This is the extra spice that the Netorare aspect lacks (as far as the version 0.95e) and makes the Netori shine.

At the end of the day i think the netorare is just fine and since Netori and Harem go so well together, i dont really mind that is lackluster but it wouldnt be the game i go for to scratch my Netorare want.

Now to briefly touch into other aspects.
The gameplay is fine, interactive enought withouth being a slogish grind.
I previously had a problem with point system to unlock new sex poses but the games has introduced easy work arounds.

Difficulty is weird, when its fair its easy to meta game even on harder dificulties once you get how it works. Therefore the only way to become a challange is to be random as fuck.

Hard mode is not an enjoyable experience, RNG can fuck you over no matter how good you are at planning. One morning can pontentially 3 of the girls avaible just for Chad to pick all three of them and you get jack shit, worse it can make unlocking Marida more dificult. Reloading for better rng defeats the purpouse of the mode and you just cant really enjoy yourself in this mode until you get everyone.

Only do this if you already played on normal or a custom difficulty and you're okey with waiting and potentially losing some girls.

Edit: i tried Hard mode again after understanding a little more about how Chad works and is honestly less bullshit than i gave it credit for. If you forgoe gifting until you start making money then you can have an enjoyable experience withouth having to manipulate the RNG too much or at all.

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I like the cross system mechanically speaking but i think its absurd narratively. Yes Chad is an evil fuck but i belive that there are better way to cockblock him instead of exorcising his influence like he was Satan. Especially given that the setting is in an Inn with a tavers, buy drinks for everyone, get a party started so Chad doesnt get a chance for a 1 on 1 with the girls.

In the same way the lock in system is good in mechanically but feels lacking narratively. Half of the girls will outright ignore Chad advances at high affection, so it already feels pointless.

Better would be to give the MC a short scene (for those can be blackmailed by Chad) where he notices something wrong with the girl in question (for example Mala) and he has the option to look into it or ignore it.
This makes the mc carelessnes at fault of the situation (instead of the narritve decinding for itselft when the mc is or isnt present) and goes back to what Marida says about a true Harem requiring care and dedication.

The redone first time sex scenes are great and much better than the originals (slight audio problem where licking sounds stay even after the characters finish the foreplay)

I really, REALLY like this game and when its finished and the rought edges get polished (the dev already showed that is willing to go back and re-do things) i will happily change my score to 5 stars.

edit: also this is a nitpick but it bothers me, do travelers have forbidden to wear a fucking shirt?

While I don't love NTR, the concept seems decent enough at first. However the dungeon grind gameplay has the depth of a puddle and just feels like it's there to waste your time. The actual game is basically just spamming gifts while slowing down Chad. The CG during the sex scenes is okay, but the style makes all the girls look really samey.

I feel like this would have worked better with less girls and more development for those girls; as it stands I didn't really give a damn if Chad took some of them because I barely know them. You can't really consider it NTR if Chad is 'stealing' total strangers.

I played vanilla mode and ntr on mode, but i just kept rival away and even cucked him.
10/10 game for having multiple female protagonists and nice looking H scenes with various options.
Ntr is not my cup of tea, but everything else in this game was refreshing andall the options made enjoy multiple hours with lost of replayability.

Criminally underrated game, in my opinion. I don't know what people are comparing it to that makes them rate it so low. There is a nice variety of heroines with a surprising amount of development, a lot more sex options than it initially seems as you progress through the game, and an innovative system for trying to navigate the NTR that ends up feeling almost like a tug-of-war. There was blatantly a lot more effort and thought put into this game than many others.

The Good -
Engaging NTR system
Wide variety of girls
Gameplay that isn't entirely 1 dimensional due to different girl abilities
Small maps instead of unnecessarily huge RPGM maps
Solid amount of content
System is surprisingly a lot deeper than it seems
ect

-The Bad
Can take awhile to get going
Amount of heroines can lead to them feeling a little shallow
Chad is a pretty bland rich run of the mill NTR antagonist
Somewhat complicated system that can take a bit to get used to
Getting to an ending honestly takes ages

Great premise, bad execution

With lots of talk about the chad, his wiles and his ability in bed expected to finally see the elusive ntr game where the bull doesnt rely on rape and blackmail but no, %99 of the "ntr" is rape and blackmail and the girls dont even enjoy the experience, effectively contradicting almost everything you hear about him

The gameplay is pointless but thankfully its fast so it doesnt bother

Sex scenes are passable, the designs are good for 3D, a lil repetitive and having to unlock sex positions for every individual girl doesnt make sense to me, doesnt help youre practically watching the same thing just with the different model of girls

Tl;dr if youre looking for ntr dont bother, the only one getting cucked would be you the player, by this game, if youre wait maybe till its finished and dont expect much

I think this game has a fun concept, juggling and trying to avoid NTR (which is actually relatively easy to do). However...

First of all, technically speaking, not all NTR is avoidable. For the girls story progression you need to increase their affection and talk to them, and some are far from being virgins, they talk to you about their previous experiences in details. Whether or not you consider this NTR is up to you I guess, but you do see scenes of these girls fucked (or implied to be) by other men, even if in the past.

Second, the gameplay... it's boring and grindy. You need to improve girls affection, so you need to give them gifts, with the rarest and most expensive one giving 10 points (out of 20 needed for a "level up"). The thing is - it's very easy to accidentally overcap any given level of affection and the rest of the points don't transfer to the next level. Which sucks, waste resources and wastes your time.

The dungeon section of the game is very mediocre. It doesn't take much time, thankfully, despite this game being an rpgm all the battles are instant and automatic. But it's still a boring experience.

A lot of sex scenes are also reused, kinda defeating the purpose of having different girls.

So while this game is far from being bad, it's a relatively mediocre experience that needs a lot of work to actually become good. And I hope it will be, because the core concept is genuinely fun.

I was hesitant on playing this because of the NTR. But I'm kinda surprised how easily avoidable and manageable the ntr is, if you know what you're doing. Combat is very basic, just simple run and touch combat. The girls are likeable and their backstory are interesting. The sex scene are decent and animated though not all of them. Chad is neither likeable or unlikable because you know nothing about him other than he's just a dude that likes to fuck. The endings are kinda lucklaster and could use more improvements. Overall not a bad game. I wish the combat, dungeon gets improve and the girls story gets expended more but it's a shame that the dev decides to focus only more ntr content.

Decent game, but the complete lack of care given to the sex scenes makes there very little point to playing right now. There is absolutely no unique dialogue, no unique scenes, nothing. The sex scenes are all just copy and pasted with as little effort as possible(the NTR "scenes" are literally just 2 sentences for example), just with different images for the girls.

It's strange, because the writing is actually decent besides that. Nothing great, but better than most games with anime models. All the systems are there, it just needs to actually provide unique sex scenes.

Also please change Chad's name and hair. They give me cancer, much like the Among us joke they put in the game.

This game right here has a lot of potential and am really looking forward to new updates and perhaps some improvements, if the dev actually accepts feedback. For now 3 stars, will update in the future depending on what direction the game goes.

First of all, the NTR: I like the idea behind it, the fact that the girls will only get invited to the rival's party if they do not make it into yours is actually more plausible that other situations often used in NTR games; the girls all need money due to various circumstances and they can't simply wait for you to pick them, so they go with the other guy in the meantime, simple but realistic. The only issue I have with the NTR in this game is that it is incredibly easy to avoid, even in the hard difficulty, regardless of what type of "schedule" you choose it is very very rare for more than 4 girls to appear in the plaza, meaning that your rival has less chances to pick them, also someone already mentioned this but some back and forth would be nice, once the girls getting fucked by the rival they are gone forever, you can see when a girl has been conquered by the presence of the rival character next to their portrait in the corruption menu, I noticed that once YOU get a girl to the max level they also get your icon next to them, but your rival can still capture them, I think allowing us to try and recapture the girls would be nice, and perhaps if we fail we get a more in depth dialogue from the girls as well as actually discovering in game that they are cheating, not just from the players POV.

During the intro, some of the questions as well as the dialogue during H-scenes hint at the possibility of switching partners with the rival or pregnacy (Yes, its mentioned in EVERY scene were the girls first have sex with the rival) but of course nothing of the sort happens.

Finally, for a game that lets you get so many girls and on top of that, they all know that you have others, the game never allows you to bring in multiple girls to your bed, while your rival can have sex with literally the entire party in one night.

Other than the above, the game is pretty cool, art is nice; only a couple of animations tho, and FINALLY an RPG game were you don't have to sit in exhausting battles or where you get surprised all the time by random encounters, it makes the dungeon really easy to explore.

The idea is great, the graphics too, but the executions is not that good. One of the selling points of NTR is feeling an emotional bond with the female character in question and getting her stolen from you afterwards.

This, however, feels like you're playing an uphill battle against "Chad" (a name that I don't personally like because it breaks the immersion a lot), and that the female characters are all whores that get stolen after being in chad party once, so it feels quite "forced"

I'm looking forward to 1.0 tho, CM3D2's graphics are quite rare and I find the idea fascinating, plus I found 3 girls quite cute already

I love the game concept and hope the dev keeps working on this project! In my opinion, there is already a solid foundation here that now needs more fleshing out and flavouring (which, I'm sure, will be a shit ton of work).

The models and few story sections that are written are good (not a fan of the engine, but I do like the girl's different designs). I especially appreciate the little details the dev has added, like that each girl has a different threshold for sex/cuddling and the story segments in the camp. The dungeon exploration system is fine. Honestly, it's there more to give the game some pacing while not getting too much in the way of the rest of the content. I also like the variety and interactivity of the sex scenes.

What I think this game could be improved upon is, as others have suggested, are these two main issues:
- the rival: the gameplay is unbalanced in this aspect and heavily in favor of the MC even in NTR mode; you really have to go out of your way for him to get more than one or two girls, and it's very hard work to make him get a girl you've actually invested in; I also don't like the fact that once the rival has had sex with a girl she's gone forever - the possibility of a little back and forth before she's fully lost would be great, especially if there was some acknowledgement of her past interactions with the other man during conversations or sex; I would suggest tweaking the game more in favor of the rival (at least in NTR mode) and adding things like unpredictable events that would allow him to gain 2 or more points in a single day, having some girls' relationship with you fall when you add someone else to your harem, etc...
- lack of personalization in the sex scenes: the girls all respond the same to every act, every act is possible and the text is exactly the same across every girl; I would suggest fleshing out the sex scenes with text to account for each girl's personality, preferences, experience, relationship level, story events, relationships with other characters, etc... as well as adding more variety to the NTR scenes as well.

Best of luck to the dev and thank you for taking the time and effort to create this filthy, shameful bit of smut!

For now, I'm seeing great potential. I really liked the use of the models from COM3D2 (I believe?). A very good looking and "cheap" method which would allow more H-contents.
The concept is interesting and that preview shows us what the game can become. Good fundations but still unpolished.
There's a lot of possibilities in term of interactions that can be added such as characters corruption progressions, more peeping-like event and scenes between 2 heroines.
There's a lot of concepts to think off but let's not rush and focus on what we have here.
3 huge problems from what I see is:
The lack of "resistance" from Chad, even in the hard difficulty it's pretty much easy to win over the girls. Which can be infuriating if we want to see the NTR scenes.
The grinding is too high. Notably the huge discrepancy betweens the level-ups. And the lootings a bit unfair but still managable.
Both is to be balanced.
The "corrupted" characters being unabled from being recruited is a good idea to give that feeling of loss but the problem lies as some starters characters needs to be friendlied too a certain level to unlock the characters related to them. Thus blocking a character too early will soft block said characters.

Anyway lot's of H-content which give us a rassuring idea of fap level which is a 5 stars to me. Maybe add some Ahegao (personnal kink ;p ).
Mechanics are still standards and to be improed but the ideas are here.
I'll be watching this game closely. Good Luck Devs !

The game has decent art and a few sprite animations. And if you are a fan of harem games and want the feeling that you are the nice guy protecting girls from a creepy giga chad, then you might like this game.

If you are looking for a NTR game, then this is NOT for you. The only way to lose the girl to chad is if you literally start ignoring them, and this can take a while if you put even a bit of work into winning the girls over. As chad has to now reduce their level of likability to you first. You see orbs in the game, so if you equate that to points. Say a girl started at 3 points. Then chad needs to take them with him 3x before she fucks him. But if you take her she gains points, so now chad has to take her 4 times.

So like I said, it can give you the feeling that its you vs chad. But really chad can only win if you stop playing. And even then chad might just choose the girls he already corrupted and not make any progress to the girls with high points already.

I tried to let chad get all the girls just going to the dungeon alone but he kept just taking the used sluts he already had. Finally gave up after the game froze when I tried to leave the inn at night.

The only ending I could unlock was to be alone, or go with some girl that got corrupted by chad on day one and I never met, lol. Which leads me into the "NTR" mode. That just sets the base point values low, so whatever girl you dont take on the first day will get fucked by chad. Not sure why I should care about some bimbo I never met fucking some guy.

Gameplay in the dungeons was fine, you run through a dungeon and enemies run into you and die. No turn based combat or anything. But it gets pointless as the game progresses as you only need to do that to earn money, and money comes easily. There's an option to skip it which just makes me feel like it's pointless anyways. Why add a feature that even the dev decided needed a skip for.

Ultimately I can see many people liking this as a way to give them the feel they are competing and winning against the chad. But the deck is so stacked in your favor that if you read this and see how the hot dogs are made you might just ruin it for yourself, sorry.

There was also a big part of the game where you control the sex with the girls, it looked neat but I only did it once as I was coming at this as a NTR game. In the end its just not for me.

Great concept, but imo it falls short due to a couple reasons:

1. The dungeon segment gets extremely dull after the first 5 or 10 minutes. The version I played had a bug where you can use any number of mp potions at once, but only one of them is consumed. Which means you can basically grind forever until you reach a dead end. The glitch aside, there is a lot that could be done to make the combat rewarding or interesting, but for now it only serves as an excuse to lead into the lewd content.

2. From my limited experience, it would appear that apart from the first-time intercourse, all sex positions are the same for every single girl. While the image changes according to the girl, the text stays the same, and this is what stopped me from playing further. My recommendation would be to flesh out the girls' likes and kinks, make them react differently to different acts. Or at least try to sit down and write different scenes for each position (I know it would take a lot of time, but otherwise it's pretty stale).

If these issues are addressed (mainly no. 2), I'll happily try this game again. Lot of potential, but most of it is wasted right now.