Little Witch Romanesque is a very cute Visual Novel game where you have to train two apprentices to become full Wizards. It features outstanding visuals, full-voiced narration with dozen of characters, and multiple endings. All of this is centered against a sort of “dice building” minigame and resource/time management. The high production value, beautiful artwork, and wholesome story make it a nice pick for any people liking rising games, or visual novels.

I came across this game jam on itch.io, already finished during the weekend. It seems to have been organised by people at dungeoncrawlers.org. Having nothing better to do (slacking on all my started games and personal projects), I decided to install a couple one and play them. Since most of them were fairly cool, I decided to write some lines about them. I didn’t play all the other entries nor I plan to do so, just selecting the one that looked appealing to me.

Isekai succubus ~My Genderbent Saga in Another World~ is an H-Game available on Steam. It is a DRPG, published by ErogeJapan and developed by Sakura Mangekyou in Unity. The uncensor patch is available on their website. Despite gameplay being reasonably fun, I could not push myself to finish the last third of the game. I will go on the gameplay first, because it’s what makes the game good, and will cover the story/presentation and lewd parts second.

Labyrinth of Refrain is a JRPG developed by NIS. It is my favorite game of 2021 coming close with Sequel Blight. Its genre is DRPG more precisely, close to Wizardry type DRPG. You explore several floors of a dungeon, moving on the map like a grid. You can encounter treasures, monsters, and horrible bosses. The fighting is a regular turn-based JRPG. It is the first time I played a game of this genre but I was entranced.

This time I won’t be covering a RPG but a FPS. Hired Gun is a first-person shooter set in Necromunda, a spin-off setting of Warhammer 40K. The game was developed by Streumon Studio, best known for E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy. They also worked on adapting another WH40k game (Space Hulk) to a video game and are believed to be big fans of the game. You are mercenary hunting down your bounties and delivering swift justice with your arsenal.