RPGM - Bones' Tales: The Manor [v0.20.0a] [Dr Bones]

I think I´ve pretty much completed all the available material. Really like this game, hot scenes. Gets a bit repetitive when trying to grind out scenes, especially since I mostly played without a walkthrough. Will be keeping an eye out for future updates, as well as leaving a tip for the creator on his patreon or whatever.

This game is so bad, I could not do a single thing cuz the game refuse to give hints or tell me what to do next. So what if she like to take baths in the mornings how does that help me move the story along. Also from other comments you will need to do same thing over and over again to build up trust, lust etc. STOP ADDING pointless grinding to games.

To ANYONE that wanna make a game like this. Do not do what this dev is doing and you will have a good game.

Not worth the time, SKIP IT

Ah yes. Bones'tales the manor. Game where every time there is a new update I just watch the best scene (glory hole) get a quick wank and forget I was supposed to check out new content. There is a reason why this game is so popular - it's a solid game with good mechanics good dialogue and unique art.
Art 4/5
Story 4/5
Gameplay 4/5
Fapability 4/5
Originality 4/5

Ok, this is going to be a very subjective Review, as I have been at the beginning of this game supported this game and eventually gave up on this game.
I don't like where the art is going.
I don't like where the story is going. (well story is not going anywhere anyways.)

If you like a story in a porn game (shocking I know) don't play it, this game squandered what ever left of its story.


After this part there will be Major spoilers, so read it at your own discretion.
This will be a brick so be advised.

This game, and its story and its tid-bits have been around for years now, I was here when version 0.03 that's how long I have been fallowing this game, and I have supported Dr. Bones for a while as well. Now the background is established, let's talk about my grip with this game.

First one is art, over the years Dr. Bones developed and enhanced his art, but around 0.13 when he decided to "revamp" the game I realised characters changed but especially "martha" has changed the most eeeverything was just 'more' more curves more boobs, change a little bit nipple colour, making the inverted nipples more visual, all was there and all was acceptable to a degree. But with this 0.19, the changes in martha's design is horrendous to me, in most shots (the new one especially) she is just "look boobalicios is she not?" and to be honest no, no she isn't, up until 18B martha had a decent "curvy, big milkers big ass" vibe now she is just "biiiiig" and to me it shows the way Dr. Bones decided to take the design of this character, and with the story as it is (or the lack there of) turns this game from "must follow, must support" to "get it the fahk away from me", for example in 0.18B (well to be honest since 0.15) martha's basement secene made sense, if you were on the passionate route, she was playful and while she was giving you a crazy fellatio she also pleasured herself, and you both "finished" in the new version she somehow miraculously "finishes" all by the act of fellatio itself, and I was sitting in front of my computer and thinking "how? how can you take a scene, a good scene, and make it worse, both graphically and its vibe" but that's what we got, and this neatly brings me to my second problem with this game it's story.

What is the point of MC in this game? to do things to the people who lives in the Manor and to have fun I am guessing, there is a ghost, and possibly it has some powers that will be ass pulled in the future. You have 4 "girls" that you can interact with, and their states (which hasn't been worked on for years) change their interaction. Now I like the "permissive Martha" bath scene more than the "passionate Martha" bath scene, but with this last update, she is not just permissive to the mc but doggo too? why?

Years ago when Dr. Bones wrote doggo and Martha scene because a high paying patreon asked for it, but now it is a recurring theme she just lets it to what ever he wants every morning? why? my ass pull theory is that "doyle's powers" so now as the story develops we see that doggo goes around and does the same thing MC does there are 4 girls and he can have fun with them, what is the point of the MC in this game? why not make the doggo MC then? like that japanese game with dog and idols? and when you think about it, "permissive Martha" goes to the basement every morning to be "taken advantaged " (I don't wanna say rape because she is "permissive to both doggo and the MC") by the doggo, and then goes to the bathroom and gets taken advantaged by the MC, possibly without being able to clean herself (well they do soak in the bath though), why? why doesn't she stop this? if the permissive tag allows doggo to "have fun" with her too why is it in passionate state? let say DR. Bones added more "spicy" scenes with doggo for the passionate state because martha is passionate and doyle powers allow doggo to have fun with her then questions comes again, WHY do we have the MC just make the doggo the MC at that point. The beasty made sense for Vera and Mia because, Mia is "special" and so she is "specially curious about everyhing" and Vera has been developed since day one to be have feelings for the beasties. But for Martha what is the point? permissiviness? why? and this is my major gripe with this game. Its story while already was bare bones, does not make sense anymore, and I play the games for their stories and for their PLOT, I mean I gave "Votan's Ring OF Lust" a 4 star review because it follows a very simple story and it has a lot of PLOT in it, and it is a snack to finish between updates, and then you come to this game and everything is in shambles, and I know some people will say "just turn off the beastie that is optional" and my answer will be look at the last update one big beastie update 3 little vanilla updates one of which makes an established scene actively worse, plus I had no problem with beastie actually had fun with it on Vera's story line because it was developed properly and made sense, but as of now, the game does not make sense anymore it is just jumbled scenes together with a thread that you can maybe call a story which is constantly slashed by the scenes themselves, also the art of it goes bad with each update (at least for me), so I am doing what I have done to Doctor Who and MCU, for me this game is abandoned with 0.18B there never was a 0.19 and it was a good game, shame it got abandoned.

Thank you for coming to my tedxxx Talk.
Thank you whom ever actually read all of my frustrations with this game.
Have an imaginary cookie.

I liked the visuals and the settings, but the story doesn't seem to go anywhere. To the point where 30 minutes into the game you actually wonder if there's any story at all past the very few first quests.

I see some past ratings talking about the decent plot, but I actually haven't seen a plot yet.

Putting that aside, very grindy game. Very little details to what the requirements are to view the next scene.

This was not enjoyable and seeing this game being developed for the past 4 years I think the developer should question himself at this point.

Not worth the time

With regards to v0.19.1

This game is fenomenal, great characters, pretty decent plot, awesome corruption system/progression, beautiful art and great animation.
Overall a masterpiece.
This Dev is known for his work having amazing quality, and this is just another great example.

Let's tease a topic, then not touch it for years, then tease another topic, then not touch it for years, then introduce a new character because it seems like we don't know where we're going with the story because we develop 5 minutes of gameplay every 5 years, and ignore that as well for years. This game is just a bunch of spaghetti story that goes nowhere, and that's just the tip of the iceberg of why you should avoid this game.

Damn this game hits me every time!
I love the setting, the characters and their progress in the game. But its not only that, you can see that this game is well put together with a lot of passion. Dr. Bones just do your thing and thanks for this masterpiece.

I don't usually rate things, but this one is worth it. After downloading the game and a completed save I enjoyed the scenes enough that I decided to spend the time playing it.

Characters are sexy and the animations are rather well done, and the dialogue/story doesn't make me cringe nearly as often as other games (I'd even call some of it good...)

Worth a download and 5 stars!

I love this game this game is amazing 5/5 there are some needed change that Dr Bones need to do but this game is amazing highly recommended for everyone even people who are not interested in incest game's the game takes a while to update I know that Dr Brown's is one man developer so

Terrible update frequency and they redone some scenes that I actually liked before. Please please please stop redoing the artwork and first finish the placeholders. Also maybe make the game less grindy. Decent game otherwise.

One of the most promising and satisfying games of the hundreds if not thousands of Games I've played, I have almost as many hours in this game as I have in Kingdom Come: Deliverance (a little over 200). The Best game you'll ever play second only to Claire's Quest in Recent times. (Even my Fiancé agrees)

The promise of this game is very intriguing, but it fails to deliver the expected output due to the developers' neglect.

There isn't much of a story here yet, but the game tells you at least what's going on. The art style is not bad and has its own uniqueness.

However, and this is the crucial point, there isn't much content. It's been almost 5 long years and the developer is still where he first started his journey.

The Manor" is the best game I've ever played. Thank you very much for creating it: I love scenes with animals.
It's a very complex game, and that makes it so funny, it has so many fetishes and a lot of scenes for each character that it's incredible; also it has a great animations.
I hope more games like this (scenes with animals) will be created.

It's great and to say that it is free, so thank you, Mr. Bones. I guess that I guess adding more to the game would be good as well, like some mini-games or something like that, but more characters or progress to what is in the current right now can be reworked but what it is right now is good for me at least so more polishing could never hurt the game.

One simple reason:

Controls via keyboard only!

Also a huge ass house where you have to run around like mad for 5 interactive places and every room has a short black screen while entering/leaving...

How high one must be to think this would be a good idea?!

A game where you are a totally legal and adult shota dude trying to get down and dirty with your family, which includes guilty titty mommy milf, angry titty older sister, dumb as a rock younger sister and totally legal and adult loli sister. Also some bestiality.

Pros:

• Decent art
• Something like 5 scenes with each girl, plus another 6 or so scenes

Meh points:

• Story is pretty bland and porn cliche

Cons:

• May randomly crash after a scene, had it happen to me in 5 different scenes
• Every scene has a "PLACEHOLDER" warning before it starts
• Lucile is absolutely fucking retarded
• Progression is brain-dead
• RPG Maker VX Ace. Can't resize the window, can't change key binds

Is it worth playing? If you enjoyed Urban Demons, yes, this is worth some play time. If you don't enjoy incest, controlling a dumb shota dude, then avoid.
Now, the game has been in development since 2018 and the dev has been giving less and less significant updates, when he updates at all.

if there will be a top 1bilion games this game will take the first place
everything was perfect characters, scenario, story, and our trusty ghost
I can't get over this game
ill be waiting for the updates :$

This review is a placeholder. It will be reworked.

v0.18b
Art is mostly great. Dialogue and story is weak. Game is buggy. Crashed several times over a playtime of 6-7 hours, which is about how long it took to 'complete'.

A few things;
Almost every interaction starting from the very first scene you might see after the intro, is either incomplete or planned to be reworked, which the game will tell you with big popups and sound effects. There's also a lot of 'not yet implemented' options in the events. The dev could remove the popups and blank choices and instantly make the game seem less 'half done'.

The MC is "18 I swear", but they still look twelve. This is even more strange considering you have a 'younger sister' who is also "18 I promise" but actually at least passes for it. I don't expect this to change though, as changing the MC to look 18 would require a complete overhaul of the art. It's just super weird.

On the topic of the MC; this is likely a bug but after certain scenes the character model gets swapped to what I presume is an earlier version. And it's a lot lower quality than the regular model, especially the 'fully straight leg' goose-stepping walk animation.

Each girl has statistic thresholds you must meet in order to unlock scenes for them. As it is, you have the option of sacrifing most of a day to gain +5 points in a stat, or keep replaying certain scenes to get +1 each time. And given that you might only get a scene that can shift stats once or twice a day per girl, you basically have to throw away your days to make progress or else grind old scenes for ages. Fortunately there's no day tracker, nor timer or somesuch, but it's a painful waste of time to 'spend days' due to the three/four fade to black transitions you have to go through just to sleep to the next day, and repeat. Spend a day should be scrapped, but the stat requirements should also come way down aswell, so that gratuitous scene grinding and stat grinding aren't required.

All in all, a promising groundwork. I'd love to see it expanded/finished. With a playtime of several hours there's an okay amount of content, but the dev is probably trying to stretch the game experience with stat/scene grinding when they could easily shorten grind intervals and maintain the corruption theme. What content there is, is clearly planned to be reworked. And this is from a game that has apparantly been in development since 2018. Updates do not appear to be frequent or substantial, and there's a lot of redoing current work promised.

I wish I could rate it higher because it was enjoyable for the short playtime I had with it. It's just plainly unfinished and reminds you of such at every step. Grindy gameplay and time-wasting design choices hold it back. The past update log does not suggest a lot of new content will come anytime soon, nor an ending. In fact the dev seems intent on just redoing a lot of the work they've already done.

3/5 - play once for the scenes of the hot mom, then come back in five years to see if it ever got finished.

The art itself is ok, but the gameplay is atrocious. Most of your time consists of grinding in the worst way possible with forced delays everywhere even if you keep ctrl down to skip. Anytime you progress time or change rooms there is also a several second fade-to-black, that quickly gets annoying because you just want those repetitive events to finish as quickly as possible. There is an alternative to the grinding, but that is in itself a major grind, and feels like cheating which kills any immersion left.

Despite raking in just under $5K per month for a game that has been 4 years in development, there is little content and the majority of events are filled with placeholders or "not implemented" messages. Donors are being taken advantage of.