Lust Arcanum

Actually just started playing for the gameplay, which is high praise from me. Scenes are relatively few but mostly excellent. If you don't like the gameplay loop it probably runs a bit long, but overall I enjoyed the experience.

Played two of their previous games which both were interesting and well made, thought it would be same for this...it is not. Characters, story, texturing, animation is all great but gameplay? Interesting for first 3 or 4 teleports, thinking you get more cards, more animations with each jump but nope..then realize you have to jump in and clear all levels for progress and most maps need least 2 teleports. There are 4 biomes each with 4 levels and each got 2,3 or 4 chests you must open, that comes 36 teleports. Each map is more of a puzzle with annoying enemy encounters to slow you down or "keep you entertained" Their previous games are based of working consents which is why they felt better and this is their own creation that is trying to be combat, gathering, leveling game with gooning addedd to but it is none of those. Unless they add a lot more animations to this it is not really worth playing, just find 100% clear save and watch animations and story.

The developer has a couple of other games I enjoyed. This one in particular has quite a bit of gameplay as well as storytelling with multiple characters. The H content is somewhat lacking in general for an erotic game, but not compared to previous entries from the dev. Hoping for dlc eventually.

The gameplay loop is awful and the scenes are extremely limited and few and far between. The art style is good but very disappointed. Download and gallery if you want but don't waste your time grinding as the dev intended

An actual, honest to all godesses, game. Not just a spankbank with clicking, nor a minigame stretching out over some naughty images. A real game. Mechanics, Art Style, Story, Characters, Competent UI, No bugs over my 8 hours of play; it's all here. Just fantastic. I purchased it on Steam and am looking forward to the next project from this studio. I mean, holy shit y'all, it's a Game, honest to god with all the trimmings and boobies and girls fucked by monster cocks. I don't know what more we would be asking for. I'm certainly not asking for more. Well, more sex scenes, but who doesn't want more of a good thing.

Graphics and artstyle are nice. The NSFW scenes are mostly ok. But the gameplay is way too repetitive and not enough rewarding. If the mazes (main gameplay, exploration) were shorter by a lot and you didn't have to repeat the same maze over and over, and the H scenes were way better, than this game could've been bumped to 4/5

I was looking forward to this game. But It's genuinely a HUGE disappointment. So what's wrong with it? Short version: The NSFW scenes are very poor compared to previous games and there's a lot less of them. The main gameplay loop is fun for maybe the first 2-3 hours. But this game is like 12+ hours long. Longer version: So one of the main reasons why people play these games and why they played PixelBee's previous entries is the artstyle and genuinely well made H scenes and there was plenty of them in previous games. Usually you'd get one or two after finishing a level and those games were around 3-5 hours long. In Lust Arcanum you have probably half of the scenes compared to Tamer Vale or Zetria. But the game is like 3 times longer. You only really get a few H scenes early in the game that are a bit underwhelming. Then there's basically almost nothing until the end of the game where I'd say there's maybe 2 scenes that are pretty hot. But the rest were very disappointing. Now the gameplay. The combat is somewhat similar to Tamer Vale. It's okay for the first few hours but gets boring after. But unlike Tamer Vale we're controlling our character from a top down view. Navigating a somewhat maze-like map with puzzles and so on and this also isn't really deep enough or fun enough to do for 12+ hours. It's like playing some of the old flash games from late 2000s or early 2010s that are supposed to be played and finished in just a few hours. But you'd be forced to do that for 12+ This game has put more focus on the characters and the dialogue. Which is an upgrade from the previous games and It's nice to have. But If this was at a cost of having another 3-5 hour game stretched into 12+ hours then it really was not worth it. This game really needed to be shorter or have a lot more high quality H scenes and more of them throughout the game. Or if this was not the case the story and the gameplay would have to be a lot more interesting than they are. While I think these are the main issues. I have a lot more smaller complaints but I don't want to make review too long. I really hope next time the developers will make something closer to Zetria or Tamer Vale because this game was a big step in the wrong direction. It's way too long for what it is and one of the main reasons why people play these games (the scenes) are unfortunately a huge downgrade. Devs If any of you are reading this I'm genuinely sorry. I know this game was in development for a very long time and it must hurt that the game is not getting good reviews. But I do believe you can make another great game for your next entry. <3

It's almost all extremely repetitive low quality gameplay. You get tonnes of characters that aren't the player character thrown at you, and as a result, you get no sex scenes with the player character except for a couple barely-animated PNGs and pixel-art which is too small/simplified to enjoy. It's a shame, as I was hoping I'd actually get to play as the succubus woman (retconned to just be a 'dragon elf'...) and fuck around.

Lust Arcanum is a really good game. Emphasis on game! If u just looking for somthing to jerk off on.. this is not for you. L.A. is a rpg which shines through its inovative gameplay! It combines cards with dices for combat that makes the battles funky. While experiencing a funny and naughty story with lovly pixel art you are roaming maps and solving puzzles. So why 4 stars and not 5? A bit to many similar card mechanics and puzzles. In the end i wished for a bit more depth in the "skill diversity" mixed with the different dices. But... longing for more, in those cases, is a great thing So overall.. a really good Game

TL;DR: Okay game, simple combat, basically no H-content. Honestly I kinda like the gameplay, but maybe I just have a thing for simple games. But quite literally ALL of the adult content feels underwhelming to me, the in-combat (and gallery) animations of the enemies are basically the same, like there's 30+ enemies in the game and probably only like 4 or 5 animations from what I can tell so far, it doesn't help that most enemies are just a recolor from one you've already encountered before. The nighttime scenes are basically all just a slightly animated afterglow scene, and you'll find more satisfaction getting off to the text during the scenes when you bring back certain relics (the animations are even better too!) All in all, bizarre game, and I REALLY REALLY hope that the devs add ANY extra content to the game because holy shit it needs it bad. I'm going to keep grinding all the way to the dragon, only to probably be terribly disappointed.

Incredibly underwhelming and an incomprehensible step down from both Zetria and Tamer Vale. It feels like with each game the developers forget more and more what the core of a hentai game is supposed to be. First of all, Lust Arcanum integrates the actual sex scenes in a very lazy and boring way - they're just disconnected, gallery-style loops in a rather goofy fantasy setting that are just thrown at you whenever a new character is introduced. There's no integration with the actual story and no real erotic context other than "this character is horny". Zetria also relied on a gallery-style presentation for its sex scenes, but at least that game's atmosphere was taken a bit more seriously and the actual scenes were incredible. Speaking of the quality of the scenes, it baffles me what a downgrade they are compared to Zetria and Tamer Vale. The majority of them are in this weird POV angle and are so stretched that each individual pixel becomes painfully obvious. It feels as if the devs wanted to do 3D animation, but were stuck with pixel art instead. But wait! These are actually supposed to be the "best" scenes in the game! There are also these so-called "night time" scenes which are basically just semi-static PNGs with some idle animations. Ironically, I liked these more than the "main" scenes. Finally, there's the extremely low-res loops you get after defeating each monster which are not even worth mentioning. Gameplay-wise, it gets old very fast. Navigating through a labyrinth while throwing virtual dice and cards can only be engaging for so long when there's not much to reward your efforts throughout the level(or even after it as you may need to beat multiple levels until you unlock the next scene). Overall, I really don't understand what went wrong with Lust Arcanum during development. It feels rushed in many places and the hentai is slapped on almost as an afterthought. As it stands, this is the lowest-rated game from these devs and it shows. I hope they can get back on track with their next title.

Way too much work for what little you get. Combat is only interesting the first few times as it lacks any depth whatsoever. dialog is excessively long and results in spamming left click for 2 minutes each time it occurs. Animations are ok but excessively rare which being the main reason anyone was looking forward to this game is inexcusable. over all a frustratingly droll game with nothing worthwhile to unlock.

Good character design, music, housing option Decent exp progression and gameplay at first, get repetitive and tedious at fourth map Mediocre level design they are more of annoyance then engaging theme, sex scenes are mostly in small scale pixel art Janky unskipable dialogues and you have to spam left click, I didn't find any keyboard button could advance dialogues Bad reward scenes, [Night Time scenes] they called, they have little to no movement If they let me to auto the maze run, only focus on housing, dice management and character build, I would like it more. There's some management game not having many scenes or only with VO on CGI, but their gameplays are interesting enough to overshadow the lack of hardcore penetration.

Some may say rating it a 1/5 instead of 3/5 is biased, but how else can that be when game was in a development for multiple years. Keeping in mind that the same developer made Zetria few years prior, I am genuinely curious what went wrong here. Firstly, the gameplay is on the same level as doing daily tasks in some pretty bad gacha game, you have to constantly grind the same things, and for what? Well. for tthe said grind, you have to repeat, over and over, pretty simplistic and (in my opinion) really boring fights. "B-but tose fights have animations!" you may say, but 4 pixel resolution 1s loop feels more like an insult than anything. I guess the devs thought that those sorry excuses for h content will make up for the lack of normal animations, unfortunately they won't. Each character has only 2 animated scenes, those additional night ones are nothing more than a png with added effects, so won't even count them. Considering there are only 5 characters in the game, we get a total of 10 animations, which wouldn't be too bad, but you need to waste so much time on that shitty gameplay loop just to unlock them. But let's say you simply download a full save file just to check out those scenes. Honestly, even that little effort of swapping your save file and opening the game isn't worth it, since the scenes REALLY lack in variety, and to be honest, they are just super underwhelming. It still blows my mind how they had Zetria from a few YEARS ago which had high quality animations with whatever you wanted probably being there. In conclusion, I can only wish for the developer to finally decide if they want to make h games, or keep trying to make normal games with the h being added 1 day before release.

A big downgrade in H content if we compare it with Tamer Valer, which is also a downgrade in H content. Next game will be a christian game? The dialogues ares fun, the game too, the worlds, except for the dark one, are fun, everything in this game is good, but the H content is almost inexistent. A big shame.

The game has drastically lowered the pixel art masterpiece created in Tamer Vale, where everything was heavily stuffed. The animations here lack depth and perspective, just like the main characters, who are little more than cardboard cutouts. There was a popular Facebook game where you trained dragons and shuffled them to produce rarer eggs... Although the monsters have a fuck-em-all dynamic, they lack character and depth, resulting in sometimes only their color changing. The simplified card leveling system is very fap-and-play... However, your favorite cards remain cardboard cutouts with a cyclical animation. All this makes the game feel like porn for all ages and sometimes even a little too childish, to the point of being creepy mixing porn and gaming.

I'm bummed I have to give this such a middling score. The demo looked promising, but the final game has two huge issues: tedium and lack of animated content. First, the tedium. If you played Tamer Vale, you're familiar with the direction PixelBee has been going in, but Lust Arcanum is far worse. As with that game, the gameplay isn't bad , but it gets very old. There are four levels, and each level has four zones, and each zone is designed so you must replay it at least twice just to unlock the next zone. Replaying levels isn't necessarily a flaw in game design, but here it feels like a massive issue because of the second, and arguably larger, issue. This game has so little content. I adore PixelBee's games because their animations look phenomenal and because, historically, they have put a good number of them into each game, all fairly evenly paced out along your progression. Here, each character gets around 3 scenes, two of which are animated in the traditional sense and one which is an after-shot. The animated scenes feature new gimmicks like costume options and a stage system, but the only real progression in the animation stages is an increase in the fps and, of course, a final orgasm animation. They are underwhelming. A big issue with these animations is how they're distributed: you get one scene when you first unlock a character, the after-shot when you upgrade a seemingly random monster card to a high enough level, and the final scene much later in the game. These more major scenes are connected with Kyra's chibi-sprite animations during gameplay which feel noticeably less detailed and shorter than in past games. When you first look at the scene viewer for the monsters you collect, you would be forgiven for thinking there are far more animations (even chibi ones) than actually appear in the game because many of the monsters you unlock in the future are simple recolors with the same animation. The same thing goes for the number of scenes with each character: when you open their separate scene viewer menus, you see one larger scene on either side and many smaller scenes to fill in between, but these smaller scenes are just dialogue from the story devoid of any animations. Because of how few of them there are and how oddly spread out they are, you can go for an hour or more of repetitive grinding without seeing a single new animation outside of, perhaps, a single three-second chibi one. Comparing this to the number of animations in Tamer Vale and, moreso, in Zetria, this game feels like a huge step back. Why they would choose to include so few animations in Lust Arcanum when their first game had a dedicated chibi and major animation for each monster is mindboggling. It feels like they worked really hard on the systems and rushed the actual substance of the game, which was actually a concern I had when reading through their updates and seeing how quickly they moved from design to content to release. The gameplay loop could be fun if it rewarded the player with a dedicated animation (even a simple loop) for every monster, but as it stands, it unfortunately feels like it's there to ensure buyers blow past the Steam refund window. There are other issues mentioned here already such as the voice acting, and I personally do not care for the interactions between the characters and find that aspect of the story grating, but ymmv. Overall, since this is a big Steam release for them, I hope they consider pushing out some updates to simply add more scenes to the game, or at the very least that they correct course before they release their next Zetria game. This game is still worth playing, but from the person who bought the copy you're downloading for free here: I wouldn't buy it again.

2.5/5 Meh. This is what zoomers would call a pixel-slop. Game looks good, i love pixel-art games and played many of them from metroidvanias to strategy/action packed genres. But this one ain't it for me. - game would be twice better already if characters didn't say one of few voicelines like "hmhm" or "interesting" every dialogue line, some games do this and i never understood the appeal, hearing one of few random voicelines that repeats all the time is just bad idea - graphics look decent, depends what, characters look very good while map and world look just acceptable, sex scenes on other hand are disappointing and since game is all about "sex" since we play succubus that drains everyone it kinda misses the point for me - gameplay seems boring, you collect loot and do some upgrades/building in main area and then there is combat, which is drag one of dices on skill then on enemy, sadly there is no thinking here and you just repeat process, maybe on later stages this is more interesting but i doubt it - besides that game seems polished, music is ok, you can tell devs tried to make it mini- hades game with card battle theme, just sucks its so mediocre, reminds me of other games of this dev, they are very similar (look good but mid gameplay)

Solid four stars for the demo. As with Tamer Vale , I find myself largely uninterested in the smut, but the combat mechanics are engaging and the exploration is satisfying. The light story and dialogue have been decent so far (an improvement over TV ), and even the home decoration aspect has more purpose than I expected. If the level design continues to gain more depth like the last area of the demo suggests, with the addition of more skills to diversify the use of various dice and strategies beyond "seduce then extract", this could be quite good. Controller support needs fixing before full release; currently I was able to use mine to explore and collect resources, and advance dialogue, but not select and use dice in combat, furniture in homes, or other UI elements. The pointer was always locked on the bottom-left of those interfaces. I would also love to see more depth in home decoration, e.g. various NPCs preferring different types of items, or placement mattering somehow (diminishing returns for multiple beds, proximity bonus for putting plants close together, etc.).

Full game review update: First, I want to point out how many negative reviews on Steam especially are people with less than 2 hours in the game. They played the demo and didn't figure it out this isn't a one-hander game? Same old, same old.. Meanwhile, I've unlocked the first map in all 4 worlds (and each world has multiple maps). Have a nice stable of monsters/cards, and seen at least 8 full-screen sex scenes, and there's still a ton of game left. Anyways... Dev never fails to impress, 3 for 3 on games. All of them different but fun. There's a LOT of story and looks to be a long game as h-games go. The combat is fun and interesting. The animations are short during combat, but you can watch them on loops, and larger at your home base. As somebody who likes decorating a home in games, that little touch is nice. If you don't like it, just throw the furniture you find anywhere to get the buffs. But from an RP perspective it's fun. The main gameplay is running round fun little mazes filled with loot and monsters to seduce. Seduced monsters become new cards for your deck and the cards can be leveled up to by catching other monsters or other means. Combat is a kind of combo deck-builder with dice that, is just fun. There's depth, without it getting annoying or too complex. It's a 5/5 for me hitting all the points, plenty of h-scenes. a well developed and written story (and lots of dialogue), and creative and fun game play. The h-content doesnt feal tacked on, as the world-building is centered around sex and it's fun and light hearted with some high quality full screen animations you have some limited, but nice controls (camera pan, speed, climax, etc...). Also, it's supports 3440x1440 which is really nice. Game demo review This really shows you what the full game will be and it looks very promising indeed. While one reviewer complains the animations are short during combat, I want to remind them that they need to be short since basically you defeat every monster by fucking them. It would be really annoying really quick if they were any longer than they are. You can always watch the loops, and much much larger, back at home. But's it's RTS style world with card and dice combat that I really find unique and engaging. It looks there are a couple dozen monsters to that's cool to. It's basically of quality and depth similar to Tamer Vale and I can't wait for this to release. I especially like the little home builder mechanics and the and little puzzles as part of the maps that I assume will only get bigger with more levels. Small touches that just make it a bit more interesting than it would be otherwise. Highly recommended. Games like this don't happen enough. I especially love how there are full-screen pixel arts sex scenes that looks good even on my 3440x1440 monitor. In fact the game seems to natively support UWD which is nice. I could see maybe a little bit of grinding might be need here and there (running the same map a few times) but my hope is that it's not a lot and we'll find out when the game releases.