Java - Abandoned - Lilith's Throne [v0.4.9] [Innoxia]

  1. 1.00 star(s)

    snapson

    Preface:
    • Likely the most robust interactive sex scene system out there, with many action and positioning choices.
    • Has an excessively detailed body part system which helps maintain good variety in randomly generated NPCs as combinations color, size, length, style, etc will rarely clash.
    • NPCs will have their fetishes and turn-off which impacts what actions they choose and their reaction dialogue to your choices during interactive sex scenes.

    Where it goes wrong:
    • The cost of having such wide freedom of actions during the sex scene is that every action is described in the same 1-3 ways (literally, most of the time is just switching the adjective or appending/prefixing their current mood).
    • Whether you're fucking a Story NPC or a randomly generated NPC, it is exactly the same. There is no unique behaviour, dialogue, action, or positioning that is rewarded for entering into an interactive sex scene with a Story NPC.
    • The interactive sex scene will not have an ounce of influence from the scripted story events/dialogue in the 5 minutes leading up to the scene or the fighting if it was a result of a battle.

    What is respectable:
    • The game really lets you adjust what content you get. You can specify what sex / gender / species (fox , slimes, succubi) / degrees of furry (kemonomimi vs full anthro) you want to encounter. You can opt out of transformation content or allow it one-way. Only thing that is set it the sex / gender of Story NPCs, which you can avoid by not losing or offering your body to them.
    • Honestly, if you just treat it as something you can play every few months for 30 minutes to get off, the game is great as a interactive sex scene sandbox type deal. Probably even a 5/5 in that use case. Any more than that, it quickly gets boring and dissapointing.
  2. 4.00 star(s)

    Grantley44

    It's a fun game for a text RPG, but the updates are slow. The game is ambitious in many ways, but the lone dev with a handful of community contributors has overstretched her ability to deliver. It would have been wise to hire somebody to help with the coding at least part time some years ago, though I'm not sure the dev has the resources for that.

    Sex scenes are pretty great because they're dynamic, but it can get...lore dumpy at points, and the setting is pretty fun, if grimdark in a few aspects.
  3. 3.00 star(s)

    BaloneyAmone

    If there's one word that summarizes this game, it's "stagnant".

    Lilith's Throne is one of the older projects here that are still in "active" (term being used loosely) development. Released in 2018 amidst Corruption of Champion's unceremonious end, the game promised to develop even further on the essentials laid out in that influential game. The main appeal of this game is its wide range of character customization options, all of which apply to randomly generated NPCs: races, fetishes, gender, equipment, and more can be tuned to your liking, and the in-game content options allow even further tuning of the game to have these generated characters and world consist of whatever you want it to have. Want all humans? You can have that! Want everyone to be a catgirl? You can have that too! Want a mix of femboy gryphons and futa hyenas? Fair game! Want nobody to have body hair? You got it! The only real restrictions are on major NPCs, which have their own preconfigured appearances and fetishes that generally only change during events in their story (barring the ~2 that you can enslave); fetishes, which there are a few you can block entirely (e.g. lactation, incest, NTR, cum inflation) while others you can have NPCs not have interest in but doesn't actually block them from using sex moves associated with them per se; and to a lesser extent ages and personalities, the former requiring some shenanigans to toy with and the latter requiring a specific item that only affects personalities that tangibly affect dialogue.

    In terms of being a dollhouse that allows you to roll a bunch of OCs and then slam them into each other, barring a couple of ostensibly random restrictions (multiple penises not being possible for engine reasons, some races being a lot more difficult to gain access to outside of cheeses/cheating due to race balance issues) and the occasional awkwardness (trying to get positions set up, especially for group encounters), the game is very effective in that regard. For that reason alone, I give it a 3/5, since it's carved out for itself a niche that none have dared match in scope and execution.

    The chief caveat with this game is that it is basically pure text, with only the occasional bit of artwork for story-relevant NPCs existing as to give a better grasp of what they look like. Your imagination will be doing a lot of the heavily lifting, taking the altogether relatively barebones description of whatever sex act is going on and transforming it into a graphical image in your mind's eye. Those with aphantasia will have a very difficult time enjoying this game.

    With all that out of the way, as soon as you test the limits of the established sandbox, or you try to interface with the game as something other than a sandbox, you very quickly reach the game's ugly side.

    With how many RPG mechanics it has, it's not a very good RPG. In fact, I would even go as far as to say that it sucks.
    Combat is very rudimentary despite how many apparent options there are, and the balancing is complete and utter whack: even when playing with enchantment capacity (itself a bandaid to stop the player from scaling out absurdly with expensive gear), melee weapon builds are dramatically stronger than everything else, and simply pressing "attack" 3 times with the highest base damage melee weapon you can find is a safe bet to winning just about every fight in the game. Ranged weapons require you to burn arcane essence, the secondary currency in the game, for no apparent reason. Spells require markedly more setup for less results than smashing with a melee weapon. Lust damage requires substantially more setup for less results than smashing with a melee weapon, especially as non-magic lust is extremely undertuned, and magic-wielding characters (so most of the boss fights) can't be insta-defeated by maxing their lust. To make matters worse, this bad balancing goes both ways -- players and enemies use the exact same pool of equipment and skills. While this in theory makes for a fair playing field, given that offense is so ridiculous and defensive options both few and largely ineffective, you run into scenarios where enemies attack for 100 damage at the start of the game on the easiest difficulty because the AI spawned with the right weapon and decided to select "attack" three times. It inevitably forces you to glass-cannon builds that nuke enemies right away, exploiting the fact that all draws are considered a win for the player, and only adding HP/defense when enchantment capacity allows; or alternatively turning enchant capacity off and then buffing your stats through the roof to roflstomp every encounter.

    Furthermore, the main story, for how straightforward it is, is still somehow woefully thin for its apparent driving role. On the surface, it should be pretty cut-and-dry: after you get your bearings in the starting city, you're tasked to go around and beat up a bunch of lieutenant demons and take their power in order to get strong enough to take out the big tyrant Lilith and stop her from taking over the world. However, the layers that are added on top of this chassis (themselves necessary to give a bit of variety, even if it's not super-important to do so depending on how you want to look at this game) have almost no development to them beyond the broadest of strokes: each of the towns you have to go to to fight the next lieutenant has its own array of problems; there's a couple other factions out and about that have an interest in fighting Lilith; the supporting NPCs are not interesting in the slightest and only exist to 1) feed exposition and 2) have sex with; and underlying all of this is some very, very poor worldbuilding that quickly struck me as being made up mostly on the fly without any particular concern for logic. The prose, too, is only ever serviceable. Especially during the later content, I could almost taste the developer's ennui coming off of the story writing, as if the game were simply going through the motions to fulfill its obligation of telling a story rather than trying to do something fun or interesting with itself.

    I had mentioned earlier that the game was best described as "stagnant". The reason for this is pretty simple: the pace of development is glacial. After the main Dominion content was finished in ~2020, it took two years for the next city, Elis, to even be added, and then most of another year for the main quest there to be expanded to something vaguely resembling "complete", and has stalled out there since. Furthermore, the barebones systems and mechanics have remained stuck in their current iterations for almost as long as the game has existed, despite the fact that several of these, chiefly the combat and skill tree, being labeled outright as "placeholder". Additionally, if you try to push the game's engine in a way that it doesn't like, you quickly run into trouble. Having too many NPCs active on the game world will slow the game to a crawl as the engine checks for status updates with each movement tick; moddability is very poor outside of developer-designated avenues of creating new races and items, and demand you fork the game's code and do a lot of Java hax to add anything substantial, not to mention making sharing said non-basic content mods an extremely difficult process; and with the long period between builds, any bugs or issues will likely be staying present for extended periods. For a particularly egregious example of the game's lackluster construction, the ability to have companions was disabled many years ago despite their popularity, primarily because the game happened to not be able to cope with the player having a party member at certain points in the game (you can still turn the option on, mind you, but it's both out of the way and will inevitably lead to said problems). For a more quirky example, the game is completely unplayable on leap days, as for some reason, the game tries to initialize the game on the current day of the year but in specifically 2019 when launched, but since 2019 isn't a leap year and thus has no February 29th, it simply crashes on startup.

    Furthermore, what few additions that this game does get tend to be the apparent result of momentary fascinations rather than anything resembling a vision or plan. New side locations and minor content will be thrown into the starting city of Dominion out of nowhere; major patches will be random hodge-podges of thrown-together placeholders; minor patches will randomly have an attempt at a system rework thrown in; new items (primarily contributor-sourced) will be added sporadically; and NPCs and side content pulled from nowhere will show up and be largely fleshed out despite the dismal state of what should be the primary focal content. If you start trying to take into account the developer's public statements and laid-out plans for their direction of the game's development, this becomes even more abhorrent, but given that the game's thread here is filled to the brim with bashing that, I'll leave you off with that.


    TL;DR: This game is at the forefront of "wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle". While a novel toybox and can be plenty enjoyed as such, the underlying game is built upon a never-ending pile of placeholders and duct tape. You can almost feel the developer's lack of passion and frustration with having to continue working on this game. For all intents and purposes, take this game with the assumption that nothing else really changes, and go from there. 3/5 when all is said and done.
  4. 3.00 star(s)

    Eroitch

    Another great example of failed hopes and dreams. While Lilith's Throne looked promising 3-4 years ago, it slowly but surely became an eyesore.

    Another potentially grand sandbox game with impressive content tailoring on par with many competing titles, but which is essentially managed to stay an echoey empty room. You do have a lot going for this room, you can choose where to put the doors, the windows and what to have as flooring and paint, but you won't ever get to the fun part.

    The most this game provides as of an experience so far is a very shallow fever dream of a furry who want to aimlessly fuck its way through strangers in what is essentially an alternative for London downtown, just to end up passing out laying in its own shit and vomit in a dark alleyway. It does that pretty well though, to give credit where it's due...
  5. 2.00 star(s)

    Nevermind_1979

    So much potetial, yet so many problems.
    One of the best txt games on the website, and basically the only one that can hang somewhere on the level of heavy-hitters like COC. However, six years in the game is in a terrible state - roughly 4-5 hours of content, completely unbalanced - no matter which class you take, 30 minutes in you will be one shotting all enemies. The game runs like ass as well - in a couple of hours every action will take several seconds to load. I would wish good luck to the devs, but sadly I can't see any solution to increase the quality other than a complete mechanics overhaul
  6. 1.00 star(s)

    MakaDaka

    Another game made for people who want to get fucked and allow little base for not getting fucked and i hate that. Why am I running on the lowest difficulty playing it safe and I randomly encounter a fucking officer who gets pissed off by me simply entering the room and wants to turn me. A 6'5" guy into a dog girl and fuck me. And there's no way of getting stronger to not have that happen just following the quest and boom get fucked pussy if you want to be dicked down then please install broken dreams submissive and bratty sub know as Lilith's throne.
  7. 1.00 star(s)

    A.H.

    Despite several years of development, this game hasn't changed much. It only provides 4-5 hours of enjoyment.
    It's disappointing and not worth the wait.
    The writing and scenes are decent, but the gameplay quickly becomes repetitive.
    Too much grunting and squealing in every action.
  8. 4.00 star(s)

    hyfka

    V.0.4.9
    Really fun little sandbox with lots of things to see and monstergirls to fuck.
    Mechanics are fun and so are the story NPCs.
    It has less noncon and transformation than similar games: Fights are relatively simple, and even if you lose not every NPC wants to stretch your anus with its horsecock - some are satisfied with jerking you off.
    In my opinion this game can be enjoyed by both Dom and sub, FemMC as well as MaleMC.

    The only (subjective) downside for me is that the writing in the sex scenes doesn't do it for me. It's a fun game, but I'm not getting off to this.
  9. 2.00 star(s)

    Satori6

    At first this game seems to offer a lot of options, but you quickly realize that there is very little underneath the surface - the apparent large amount of content boils down to the repetition of the same few scenes.

    After 6 years of development, this game features less content than many other games do during their first year.
  10. 5.00 star(s)

    The_Local_Brik

    This is always my go to game. There's something so fun about it, the Sandbox it provides is second to none. Everytime I come back to it, I feel like I can do anything, be it a dumbass challange run (Elemental Only, All Male, No Health Potions) or just to dick around (How many Boys in a row, Lets revive an unimplemented species, Slave Army) it's always so fun to play and learn more about the mechanics.
  11. 5.00 star(s)

    protegos

    Best open world game. Lots of freedom. You can customize so much and tailor yourself and your partners and entire world to your taste. You can create your own mods for the game, but if you are lazy there are mods from modding comunity in discord aswell!
  12. 4.00 star(s)

    ninon

    Great game cool story and combat system, serious competitor in this type of game.
    Maby need more pictures and would need more frequent updates.
    Realy like the character customisation and wait for the futher updade with eager .
  13. 4.00 star(s)

    Big Beef

    very good change up of the trials in tainted space or corruption of champions game type, turn based combat, many interactions, and customization far beyond both. Most races have special names for their demonic counter parts, one example is mine being a dragon-morph turned into a Zahhak. Sex scenes are many, compatible with many body types, butt licking, mating press, doggy, ball play, and many more dom and sub variants. Only two complaints against the game are one, not much in clothing or items, understandable considering all the sex scenes and new story parts with bad endings that have to be developed in a timely fashion, somethings bound to be left on the wayside temporarily. Two the java variant of the game is time sensitive, meaning you can't save but can still play the game after about two hours, why you would want to after that time i don't know, somethings just up with that version as of this post. Anyway play it, have seggs with many things in game now.
  14. 5.00 star(s)

    Domitori22

    I really love charachter creation system, propably most detailed I've ever seen. Also, the game has really interesting plot. These writings are way hotter than most of visual novels. Game mechanics are really amazing as well.
  15. 5.00 star(s)

    axeo1

    what could i say more this is one of the best made porn game i ever seen there is so much customization you have o much hour to do your best harem milk ranch and plenty other things like fighting exploring fucking with your daugther and yea fucking many things but really one of the best game i seen someone doing
  16. 4.00 star(s)

    kisa1234

    Great customization, but the content is too few despite being around for 6 years. It only took me 4 hours to complete everything.
    I hope modding is expanded upon or that the game itself becomes a community project.
  17. 4.00 star(s)

    Daba

    Lilith's Throne is very complex text based, open world, sandbox, adventure RPG game.
    I must say that I am impressed by complexity of this game, but on the other hand, that is not always good.
    You play custom character in alternative reality England where demons try to conquer the world. There are humans, some fantasy creatures, demons, and various animal-morph people in game, you can have sex with pretty much anything.
    Graphics are minimal, UI is quite terrible, but you get used to it. I know this is primary text based game, but I really think this game would need a better UI. Because of it I missed several times quite obvious things, like NPC needed for quest and such.
    Map is open, there are side & main quests so you have freedom to play as you will. There is also fast travel in map-mod (I missed this feature for quite long time). Game offers many hours of gameplay, depending on your playstyle.
    Writing is quite good and story is interesting.
    There is great ingame cheat menu (just type "buggy" ingame) for those that hate grinding (like myself).
    Also, you can play slave master who upgrades mansion and collect slaves (also quests, but didn't find anyone who would like to come). Slave training is minimal, but is still better than in some other games.
    Sex interactions are very complex with positioning of participants and many actions depending on gender/race/body type. Although this might sound good, it actually start to be boring very fast. You'll click like a slave and it will take you some time to understand positioning system. Also, if you don't like certain actions, you must be careful nor to click them. From my standpoint, this sex-system is done poorly, it's far too much work to be enjoyable. My strong recommendation is to add some form of quick-sex (not more than few clicks). I mean, I had full mansion of sexy slave maids, but I didn't much fuck as I dreaded the "endless clicking".
    As far as I can tell, game support many fetishes and pretty much all sexual orientations, but main focus is on dom/sub.
    What I really liked about this game is clothing system. It is very complex and well done (you can even dye clothes), also there are mods for additional items.
    Worst part is support for this game. This game is very, very complex, and no explanations for most mechanics ingame.
    As only few NPC have pictures, I coudn't even imagine how lots of animal-morphs ingame looks. Not that I really care for furies, but still, I was curious. This game really needs ingame tutorials & explanations. Thankfully, people here on F95 are quite helpful.
    I am not sure for how long is this game in production, but I got somewhat disappointed that main story is not even half-done. It ends just as story gets really interesting, but thankfully game notify you that there is no more content (unlike some games I won't mention).
    In short, I recommend this game to anyone who think himself at least a bit perverse and can handle some reading, because that is the most of the game (rest is imagination).
    Anyway, I was very impressed with Lilith's Throne and will definitively return to it in a future.
    Played on v0.4.8.3.
  18. 4.00 star(s)

    LastTurtleFR

    My second time playing a text-based game and damn, it's a great one. The level of customization is insane and there's always something new to discover. I have a lot of hours in it already, and I can tell I'll pour a bunch more, but I can't even imagine how much better the game will get when it's completed. Props to the devs!
    Likes: TheK
  19. 5.00 star(s)

    El Presidente

    It's a good experience even if is still not completed. You can read all other review to confirm but i can give one more incentive or another way to play:
    I played with my girlfriend and it was the best experience for both of us. We discover some fetish of each other and help us be together even if we are far away

    10/10 I'll be pegged online again
  20. 5.00 star(s)

    Old|Glory

    This is the best text-based games I ever find. Even without animations this masterpiece carving somethins special incide. The dialogs and actions are made with love and care, every single sentence from npc feeing alive. This game will make a fine addition to my collection. You should try it yourself. And if in the end you find enjoing it, don't forget to check discord server for this game, there is plenty of mods and presets.
    5\5