VN - Ren'Py - Completed - The Book of Bondmaids [v1.87c + DLCs] [Kamti Games Studios]

Although the visuals for the game are ok-ish and somewhat reluctantly try to be unique,they fail to be that,unique and although I played and enjoyed games with bad art aslong as they have a coherent and well thought out story,this game lacks both gameplay,coherent story and the certain something to make players invested in playing it and caring for the characters,I try to give games a fair chance but this one is too bad to finish.

This game has a certain duality which is: it attracts attention because it has porn content, so people think I'll get it and see what it is, but as porn content it is weak and at the same time if you remove the porn content it is not a good game , the gameplay is practically non-existent, it's a 2D game with static images, despite there being a change of frames, you can't call it something animated, the characters have inconsistencies in personality and skills, for example the "hero" who is supposed to be the protagonist, in the character's background and to a certain extent at the beginning of the story, seems like a very capable, efficient and skilled guy as a mercenary and assassin, and since the first game he seems to be a guy aware of the falsehoods and manipulations of the nobles, but over time the story shows him being manipulated, used and deceived by all the other relevant characters in the story, at a certain point for pure script convenience he is deceived by the Princess, and here I think it is the main defect of the game, the character you control it's not the protagonist, the Princess who is an NPC is the protagonist of the story. The game initially gives the impression that the choices make a difference in the final outcome of the story but have an irrelevant impact( The princess always wins in the end no matter which "path" you choose, the only difference is that depending on the path the "hero" gets more or less screwed), the story is very linear, and in the dialogue options the hero gives information to the Princess whether the player wants it or not again for the convenience of the script, and although in dialogue, depending on the choice you make, the "hero" can say that he wants power, a throne/kingdom, the game at no point gives that opportunity to seek this, he doesn't try to seek magical power through the Lich or Missalyna and the book, he doesn't seek political power through the Princess or any other way, all the time he is just a lackey/pawn being used by others. In an analogy, it is as if they were telling the story of King Arthur, but the narrative followed King Arthur's protagonism through the eyes of one of the knights who were extras.

Story 1/5
Dont see how on earth this got so high ratings with so many missing tags.

First its pretty much a pure femdom game which it has no tag for, you cant play the tuff guy or a male dom since that will only get you killed or worse and lead to game-over....
You also get to watch a girl suck some dudes dick? or your partner getting fucked.

The art is mostly really shitty and looks like something a kid made at most times and to make it even worse theres just not a single animation in any sex scenes and the sex scenes them selfs are really not worth your time and only stil images.

Also not sure why it dosent have NTR tah i mean girls MC is fucking is also fucking other dudes in front of him so be warned.

Also needs the gay tag since MC will also fuck dudes and get handjobs and shit, sure he might be drugged up willingly but that dosent change anything.

Girls 1/5
Personaly they just dident anything what so ever for me.

Animations 0/5
The only animation you see if maybe some lightning or some shit in a fight but as for sex scenes theres nothing, animated tag really has no place on this game.

Music 3/5
Just standard background stuff nothing special.

The rank (3.5 Stars) seems weird, but then some people like ntr and hate vanilla so who knows what people are into.

Overall it's portrayed as something it's not. You are hard-locked into either finding out that woman>man according to the dev or agreeing with them and still getting beaten. Personally I think this should have been between the dev and their psychiatrist but hey, its here thus the review.

This game looks like the result of someone paying a lot of money to commission a mdom badass game from someone who hates those games.

Over the course of the game the male MC is constantly outmaneuvered and humiliated by all female characters around him. Your best ending is you being crippled and exiled or being the partner (read bitch) of another evil female character who gains a lot of power. And that's the route where you try to play a good man being forced to make bad decisions.

There is no way to defeat any of the big plans set in motion by the female characters. Your early successes (arresting one or two unimportant people) is followed by constant failure. There are one/two domination scenes where you can't do much followed by being outplayed and literally fucked up the ass by another man.
Hard derec. This games feels like a mean spirited, spiteful take on this genre of games.

I like medieval genre, magic, ghost, witch and other fascinating stuff. Art work is amazing and rare among those VN. Story is good as well, especially it seems the developer try to make it more dramatic (like some unexpected plots in TV series), female protagonists get fucked or died, I can't tell it's good or not but at least it impresses me. I hope animations could be added if projects get more funds.

Don't know why this game only gets 3.5 stars...
I'm pretty sure it's better than 90% of other games on F95.

Though It sure does have some drawbacks, like instruction isn't clear, not having too many sex scenes, and so on, but the story is intriguing and the art style is unique.

I like this game for three main reasons

• female characters have their personalities, they do not just exist to serve the player's libido.
• choices do matter.
• It's complete.

So for the above reasons, I'm willing to give this game 4.5 stars.

This is very good!

* Art is excellent! Well drawn, and there is a lot of it
* Story is compelling, choices matter and you get drawn forward.
* I encountered no bugs, either with code or logic.
* Play was smooth and the UI unobtrusive and quick.

The diamond shaped attributes is opaque to me, and I hope with the Steam release there is some sort of guide to it. Saying that, it probably helped me to do what I saw fit, rather than chasing a "score".

Art work is nice but completely mislabeled game. Not animated at all. And takes up alot of hard drive space only to find out its just static images. The animated tag needs to be dropped. There are several comments in the thread asking about how this game is animated.

Up there with one of the best games on this site I've ever played. There's a bit of porn going on and some of it is pretty hot. It's pretty sporadic though. But I thought the writing was absolutely excellent. The characters were really well written and were each very memorable. The plot gets a bit rushed at the end but not too much.

In particular the relationship with Sparrow and Frydd on the good route were handled just so well. This is not a power fantasy fulfillment story though. The MC is a henchman, he's been an amoral henchman his whole life (the backstory makes it clear) and you don't suddenly turn into a shining hero/protagonist in the course of the game. You remain a henchman/tool of one power or another throughout the entire game, your agency is in choosing who (and it's not always clear who you're choosing either). Which I think was excellent! I've never seen a game porn or not, that really characterized or captured what being the tool of larger powers was like until this one.

Based on the screenshots of the author's previous game I seriously don't understand how they managed to upgrade the writing so much. The previous game looks like it was written by someone who just learned english as a second language. This one had a consistent, engaging writing style that painted a picture concisely without being overly long and wordy or overly descriptive. Did they get someone else on board to do the writing? It's honestly fucking night and day the contrast.

The story is really good, but sometimes I feel that you can't win, for what I saw the MC will end alone, doesn't matter who you try to romance, the princess, Sparrow, Frydd, every time you will be alone, and that doesn't make sense because all of them showed interest in the MC. I played trying to get the redemption, so I was a good guy helping the princess and Sparrow, and almost at the end when you are kidnapped and tortured, the princess say that the MC deserves that, but he shouldn't die because he was still useful, really?? That's the only reason why I don't deserve to die? Even after everything I did to help you and get a redemption? The story try to be realistic but in a fantastic world, but many moments and conversation aren't realistic at all.
Like the Orgy party, you and your "team" had to sneak into a party to kill someone, but they are "forced" to take an afrodisiac, but you think, "I shouldn't worry because one of the girls is undercover like a waitress and she will take care of us or help us", wrong. Without a reason she takes the drug too and got fucked for every guy in the party, and the funny part is that she is one of the love interest we have, so if you aren't interested in see one of your pretty girls being fucked you will have a bad time, now who is so stupid to take a drug knowing that she is an orgy and that she has to be working and making sure everything works fine? And the next day she wakes up shocked and asking "how many people I fucked yesterday? It Was obvious that if you take that drug in a orgy you would end up have sex with everyone.
The brothel is not finished, you only have one girl and 2 scenes with her.
The ending was really bad, at least trying to be a good guy, because the princess still treats you like if you were an asshole, no one wants you in the castle or the city.
You have 3 "stats" and they never take a moment to explain you what they are, you have to guess.
Personally I wouldn't play this again.
Edited to explain a little more and better why I didn't liked the game.

This is a f*cking masterpiece!

I played a lot of adult games (and when I say "a lot" I mean like "Realy A LOT"), but this game... for the first time I went so deep into the story! The atmosphere, the plot, the music, the art, everything is of the highest quality! And the amount of choices that have crucial consequances is unbelivable - this is what you realy expect from the VN game! And the most interesting thing is - you come for fap, but stay for story. Very soon I realised that I do not care about adult part so much anymore, I realised that I want more of this story, I want to explore it as deep as possible. Yes, adult part of the game is great, but sex here is not a main goal, it is just an additional part of the game that makes the game world more real and colorful. I realy like it. I can find only one subjective minus - static image. I do not like games without proper animation. Like seriously, if I wanted just an image of sex scenes I would use something like google to find what I want or just use my imagination, I do not like "dead" images... So, I downloaded this game only because I was bored and couldnt find any other good adult game with hardcore sex. But, as I said, very soon the adult part of the game became very insignificant and I was totaly absorbed by the dark and deep story. Im realy impressed! I want more of this world!

This is how real peace of art must look like. My deep respect to the creator of this game!

(61%)





Like

the art style so amazing

the story so deep to a degree that makes the game not about sex

decisions well set and well designed to take different routes

the female designing and clothing so amazing

the sound effect fit the scene so much

the music is really what i call a music not some free shit

the writing seems like a professional writer did it not some wired guy

male protagonist unique and well done



Dislike

too much text that makes me bored

not many art or CG to watch

few sex scenes

I'll be honest, this game would probably be better off as a regular game without the porn. It has a decent story that's toying with some really interesting concepts, but as a porn game it's decidedly lacking for a number of reasons

1) All your "romance" options are all kinda shitty of the "post modern sexually liberated slut" mold, and the game goes out of it's way to lock off several actually interesting options. This by itself is fine, not every game needs romance options, and you're playing as the minion of a dark lord, after all. Which brings me to my next point

2) You don't get many casual sex scenes either. Despite there being a "brothel collecting" minigame implemented, it doesn't seem to be complete, because there's only one girl available in there, and the game goes out of it's way to prevent you from abusing your position. Yeah you can strip search a couple of the girls you're sent to arrest, but that's about it. For a game that's sold on the premise of you being the villain it goes out of it's way to cut off any potentially villiany you could get up to in a sex game. Which brings me to my next point

3) You kinda suck. Not you personally, the character you play as. No matter which route you go down, you're kind of a stooge and there's very few situations where you get to feel like a proper hero or a villain. If you're picking up this game thinking you'll get to be darth vader or some kind of secret police chief that gets kickbacks in exchange for overlooking stuff, don't even bother.

Like I said this game has a pretty decent story that toys with some interesting concepts, but as a porn game it sucks is just about every way it can suck.

really good start, i was set from the first 15-20 minutes to rate it 5/5 but my opinion worsened toward the end toward a 4/5 rating.
first thing i noticed was that MC was kind of a... tool. after first impressions i was expecting a character similar to Geralt. cold, keeps his cool. instead half the time MC is acting like a little bitch, stuttering his words. i didn't like it but i could swallow it, then i reached halfway/toward the end of the story (first playtrough is on mercenary(green) path) and it simply is too rushed. there is absolutely no transition toward end game events, you are thrown at it which disturbs the flow of the story and to put it simply, ruins the great start of it to only "its good"
there aren't that many sex scenes either, which in this particular case i didnt mind, i enjoyed it as an actual "game" personally but its worth noting if anyone is reading this wondering if he should play.
i did all 3 paths but still have a quite a few scenes missing in the gallery and never managed to do anything with the princess beside gift her 10 pieces of lingerie and watch her, even though i tried work toward banging her. walktrough is not available unfortunately, so i cant look up what to do.
i didnt' play the dev's previous game, i hope his next one will be even better and will earn 5/5.

The game has great hand drawn art and good writing. The story is decent with 3 possible paths to take (Evil, Good, Neutral). The paths don't differ that much outside of a few different lines or scenes, but it's nice to replay because you also receive extra gold after achieving an ending.

The gameplay is going to one of the 5 different rooms and seeing if anything new is opened up (a bit tedious) to talk to someone and then doing missions. The gold is used to buy a few items for 1 character that can lead to some scenes.

Speaking of scenes, unfortunately the gallery is rather poor. Despite 3 full playthroughs I seem to be missing ~7 entries, and there are no hints on how to unlock. It also doesn't show the scenes, just still images instead of replaying the scenes. Disappointing.

Audio is held simplistic but is fitting, however the background music volume seems to vary a ton, had to go back many times and lower it because even if I set it to ~1% it will later suddenly blast at full eardrum exploding volume. Not sure if bugged or just poorly tuned. Game doesn't allow to alter settings (such as volume) in game, so you always have to save and quit to main menu to do so, tedious. Game disables rollback, which I find annoying as it only leads to save spamming.

I ran into 2 noticeable bugs, mainly an exception error with the Jester Quest (leading to having to do it twice), as well as a bugged Seamstress Quest that didn't reward gold upon successful completion.

Overall I think the game was good. Has some flaws but art+writing were convincing.

I enjoyed this game much more than I thought that I would. So much, in fact, that I was motivated to write my first ever review.

This lone developer, or maybe, small team has clearly learned much from their first effort and put their limited resources to better use this time, such that I would recommend skipping their first game and just jumping into this one, since the events of their earlier work are summarized at the beginning of this second game, anyway.

The artwork can vary from attractively polished to quite rough, most likely due to time or budget constraints, but even when the quality had to be dialed down, the visuals were effective and consistent.

The gameplay wasn't too grindy, speaking as one who's played RPGs that take upwards of 40 hours or more to complete. If you get stuck, just clicking around the various available locations will eventually yield the key to moving forward in the story.

As for the plot, it was fairly tight, logical and well-paced. This is closer to Game of Thrones, where you have an epic struggle between opposing forces with sex scenes appearing here and there where it makes sense to for the narrative, so don't expect a wall-to-wall gonzo romp.

I also appreciated the touches of humor, which were more on the dark and dry side, and erring on restraint rather than being overplayed. And it was refreshing to be able to play as an evil bastard / toady as well, with a somewhat fitting payoff. If there was one thing that would have made this game much better, at least for me, then it would be adding a little more art to the sex scenes rather than just using the same image over and over again.

In conclusion, if you like your fantasy tales gritty and darkly humorous with some side helpings of sex, this is definitely something you should try.

I really enjoyed this VN. The art the great and I found the plot very interesting as well. Found the scenes to all be pretty hot and all the characters to be engaging. The gallery shows the CG but I wish it actually let you replay the scenes, the CG by itself is meh but I enjoyed them with the dialogue.

If you're looking for crazy tags or scenes this isn't for you but its one of those games where I found the scenes really hot still because of the situations/characters/dialogue. H scenes well spaced throughout the game.

There are three routs, the evil route is different but I found neutral and good to be fairly similar. I enjoyed playing through all three and definitely recommend anyone check this game out.

Love the art style and am enjoying the story.

Have played 35 minutes and already decided to review and buy on Steam. That's a recomendation.

Story: Some early spoilers. It certainly feels like a well plotted and tight narrative. Not nearly as complex and expanisive as Seeds of Chaos but focused.

Art: What really hooked me in was the art, I loved the style of their previous game 'Three kingdoms' but gave up on it because I could not figure out how to play that game. Although, there is a lot of placeholder/basic art in transition areas the important e.g. hot scences are all excellently drawn. Art styles are subjective but for me artists captures the characters expressions and the emotion of the scene bridging the gap between fap fodder and eroticism.

Gameplay: Ren'Py choice based mechanics but so far it feels more complex than would you like to see the hard scene or not but don't expect Morrowind or Deus Ex levels of immersion.

Conclusion
I bought it on Steam. No higher review. Thank you Kamti for an enjoyable game. Think I will go back and see if I can figure out how to play Three kingdoms.

Finished it a few days ago. My overall impression is that the game's writing could use a lot more work, especially regarding the good/evil paths, with only the neutral path making sense.

Set in a medieval fantasy world, you play as a rogue mercenary, in service to a lich, seeking an artifact. The lich has only recently taken control of the kingdom, mostly thanks the player's efforts in the previous installment of the franchise, and the political sphere is anything but stable.

With the lich'es castle serving as the central hub between adventures, you are sent on various missions, for which you have to make various choices. These are mostly separated in the trivial choices, the moral choices, and the combat choices.

• Trivial choices are consequence-free character banter.
• Moral choices are always separated into three brackets: 1)Neutral, 2)Good, 3)Evil. Unfortunately, the neutral options are the only ones that will ~objectively~ make sense to you, and are therefore the first path that you will follow. Both the good and especially the evil options more or less read like a parody of how a good/evil character would act, and will be responsible for a lot of eye rolls.
• Combat choices determine how successful a mission can be, as well as give you instant game-overs (for example getting an arrow to the face because you decided to charge at the enemy instead of hiding behind your shield). To be honest, a lot of these are pretty much impossible to predict, so you'll be save-scamming quite a bit to get your desired outcomes each time.

Spoilers warning: There is no ending where you can support the lich to the end. In my first playthrough I did literally everything I could to support the lich'es schemes, but in the end the game decided that I was also opposed to him and therefore had to kill him. It is pretty irritating, especially considering how big a role the lich plays in the story.

The sex-scenes are good in a typical pornhub first page manner. They are all vanilla-favlored, with the typical dick goes to "X/Y/Z" hole formula and a heavy dose of basic lesbian stuff. Don't get me wrong, vanilla is a flavor that needs to exist. It is unlikely that anything in there will blow your mind, but it is doubtful that you will complain.

The art comes and goes, with plenty of sex scenes having completely different CGs for each option (so if your choices were oral/vaginal/anal you'd get 3 different CGs in the same encounter for example), while other scenes do not feature art at all. Where the art is present though, it is absolutely gorgeous...-ly functional.

Your waifus in the game are:

• A power-hungry sorceress who likes it dirty.
• A mercenary sorceress who will accompany you in a lot of threesomes with the other girls (but somehow leaves less of an impression than all of them).
• A bodyguard barbarian-chick who also like it dirty but with a less mean streak than the first waifu.
• The ~married~ resistance fighter who covers the cheating kinks.
• The captured princess who you can either humiliate or simp over.

After these 5 there are plenty of other side-chicks in the game. The main issue is, you can barely tell them apart in terms of covered kinks. Other than the resistance fighter, the rest are all pretty much interchangable in their scenes.

Overall, the game is not offensive, just blunt. I will probably buy it as soon as it gets a discount to support the devs, since it is clearly of a high production value, but both the writing and the variety of the sex scenes leaves a lot to be desired.

Thumbs up, but not too enthusiastically.