Unity - Portals of Phereon [v0.26.1.0] [Syvaron]

  1. 2.00 star(s)

    amaranta

    Sometimes I feel the dev think their game is too perfect. And he intends to spoil it so that people do not die from rapture.
    Game idea is nice, sandbox strategy with tactical combat and pokemon/persona pawns collection and improvement. With futas and breeding.
    But everything, exept combat, falls to boring loops due to restraints. All of this max lvl, world lvl and so on forces player to repeat already known reactions, instead finding new ones.
    Finding something new maded boring too. It`s not like uniqure pawns with uniqure traits spawn in uniqure conditions. It`s just random mess where you just sort usefull or not. All of this amplified by traits that dublicate linear stats. 5 str and strong or 10 str and weak!? Why not just extend stat range by aditional numbers and leave traits to be ... well, traits!? Uniqure effects.
    And something wrong is everywhere. Game has breeding mechanic, but most of MC, unlike pawns, can`t normaly improve stats and traits. So their offsprings always be worse than random ones. I don`t get it. Dev share with us his dream about that his children will be worse than others? let his dreams come true.
    And so on. Unlockables for next playthrough, instead of current, like in bad mobile games. Uniqure NPC that lose their uniqueness if you try to improve them.
    Everything indicates that the game was spoiled on purpose. A person cannot just make mistakes like that.
  2. 5.00 star(s)

    ElmerFapp

    Rewards the time you put in, a ton of different monstergirls and a ton of art in a very interesting style. You can get into the patreon for $1/mo. With the time I've spent I more than got my money's worth. There's a linux version which means it became another game I slapped on the steam deck and I've no issues there beside the custom cursor, which can be toggled.
  3. 5.00 star(s)

    mustafarr

    This has some nice porn in it, but more than that it's just a fun game on its own. Specially as you start to understand how deep some of the mechanics are.

    Probably the best game out there if you like managing games.
  4. 5.00 star(s)

    deptraivkl

    This game is great: A perfect blend between Heroes Might & Magic 3 and a farming breeding simulator.

    Looks like it is still in early stages but the amount of quality gameplay and contents here is admirable that it make the Patreon 5$ sub still feel like a steal.

    Though the devs should REALLY try using UI Icons instead of just hotkey-ing and right-clicking everything lmao.
  5. 2.00 star(s)

    Zelva

    I feel like there is a good game here. Maybe. Its beautiful certainly! But I've never played a game so damn uninterested in explaining what the fuck is going on in my life. The straw that broke my back was after I had created a character and tried to date one of the Monster Girls I had. I quickly found out that to actually do anything in this game you need to attend a four year college and get a degree on it. It is again, visually stunning, but Ive only got so much time
  6. 4.00 star(s)

    Eroitch

    Portals of Phereon is probably one of the best example of dedication and delivery in this industry to a project which has no reason 1. being so unpopular while 2. being such high quality. The best word for describing this game is: Remarkable. The amount of content, quality and CONSISTENCY of the art and writing is just simply REMARKABLE. Like a breath of fresh air after the constant smell of rotting, putrid garbage that is the porn/hentai gaming market.

    For that reason I can't go ahead and just give it a 5/5 because I feel like it would give out the wrong message. I don't think this game is perfect at all, and with that said I would like to show my respect to the dedication the dev has for this game by giving my unbiased and raw experience playing Portals of Phereon.

    Every time I open up this game, start a new run, get to a certain point, or get an ending I encounter the same problem: Confusion. For some reason my understanding of the game mechanics does not feel to give a proper advantage to me in most areas of the game. I blame the fact that there are just so many things to manage I encounter a too high wall which I can't climb without constantly loading up different save files. I don't think the problem is with the bad tutorial or the complexity, in fact I like that this game is so complex.

    I think the problem is that the experience is not streamlined. Exploring portals efficiently while managing what characters to breed for different scenarios while also finishing the king's quests WHILE trying to earn money AND FOOD efficiently is just so much I get overwhelmed every time and increasing the game's difficulty sounds like a bad joke.

    In Portals of Phereon each gameplay arc like the breeding, portal exploration, brothel work, and recently the dating could be taken out of the game and put up as a SEPERATE TITLE and some people would find engagement in that. Is that good? YES! But only if I the player can manage all that in a single game. This is where I feel the game has its weak point. As I said I don't have a problem with complexity but it is much more enjoyable when there are a few gameplay elements which have great depth and good attention to detail rather then A TON of elements with adequate depth but not much attention to detail.

    Since I myself am not a game dev and the aforementioned problem is just so niche I don't feel it in me to give out suggestions on it, so I will just leave that part out. I just hope this review helps either the dev and/or potential players to know what to expect.
  7. 5.00 star(s)

    XWOLKX

    Almost every update I return to this game to make the same mistake...
    - Hm, it seems that I have some free time, why not play PoP? It had update since I last time played.
    - ...
    - Wdym it's night already?

    I want to say that despite my intolerance to futanari I like this game by a lot. I just can't stop grinding for no reason, making the best of the best characters, raise relationships with them, searching for something new.

    Anyone who says that UI is bad never played Era games. And to be honest, you are just getting used to it. No one forces you to rush things. No once is going to kill you out of nowhere. Just take your time and enjoy this game. The whole complexity is that you just don't know what button what means. But after a bit of investigation you never will find yourself cursing UI. All is placed where it should.

    Imho, if you want porn - you better find some other game. But if you want decent management simulator with creating new species - still avoid this game cause you might occaisionally ruin your real life :D
  8. 5.00 star(s)

    kokmaker

    One of the few porn games that's actually a game. And pretty fun too. The art being as gorgeous as it is , is just the cherry on top. Oriel has only one portrait that I know of and it's the cutest thing I've ever seen. Its rogue-like mechanics also give it decent replayability. I only wish there were more representation in the sex pop-ups accurately depicting the variety of genital sizes and species in the game, some unfortunately are only represented by text instead of art. Sfx and music would be nice, but no soundtrack is better than bad soundtrack imo. Maybe some random events depicting the girls you put in the brothel would be nice as well.
  9. 1.00 star(s)

    MakaDaka

    Jesus I thought steam had a shitty UI design but this is pure chaos, There doesn't need to be 100 menus put in separate corners of the screen with unknown importance to each of them. Great character design I guess but It wouldn't surprise me if this creator only worked on this game while on Adderall.
  10. 5.00 star(s)

    Deleted member 573745

    I'm sorry. But it is stupid that this game is as good as it is. I was just browsing steam and looing through my library of games and... What happened? It doesn't make sense to me that three of the greatest games ever created are adult adventure games. Meanwhile, licensed game studios keep churning out garbage. Idk. It definitely bothers me more then it should. Anyway. This game is absolutely phenomenal. While it is still in development, if it keeps going like its going, 10/10. A profoundly wonderful experience.
  11. 5.00 star(s)

    arglblargl

    A real standout in the porn game space, a lot more gameplay focused than most/all other games, but still plenty of porn. To anyone who gives this gem one star because the interface is confusing and the tutorial is bad: skill issue. Maybe this game is just not for you, doesn't mean it's a one star game.
  12. 1.00 star(s)

    PHNpaladine

    I was hoping for some kind of tutorial for a game with THIS many ui elements immediately thrust at you, but instead I got a text wall with tiny font size explaining that things like arena battles exist. I stumbled blindly into my first combat and died in a single turn. I went back to the same encounter and died AGAIN in a single turn.
  13. 4.00 star(s)

    crappypoo

    cons:
    way too gay for a straight person
    constant misgendering (everyone is a she)
    almost everyone has a penis (still troubled reconciling this with the above point)

    pros:
    great gameplay
    interesting character design/art, just wish there was even more of it.

    conclusion, im more into the sexual division between males and females, making everyone have everything removes a lot of what is interesting in the natural world.

    still, the gameplay is good enough that its worth trying out if you can ignore/enjoy the transculture it is. unlike a lot of games on f95, it has depth, you can play this one for a long time if you like it.
  14. 5.00 star(s)

    SmaugTheDragon

    Impressively complex monster girl farm management rpg. Syvaron is a savant pumping out great quantity of gorgeous art and doing some crazy programming and balancing wizardry to make such a massive game work.

    The game has a wiki with a comprehensive guide and FAQ and a very active Discord open for beginner questions.

    Don't be intimidated by the complexity, the game start options have a very customizable difficulty settings so you can make it as easy or hard as you like.
  15. 5.00 star(s)

    empressoflune

    a slightly confusing interface, but it still has a very nice art style and overall good gameplay. and it's really hard (at least it was for me) But once you get the hang of it, things start to get a lot easier.
  16. 1.00 star(s)

    Konstantinus

    This game just throws you in without any good explenation on what to do but overload you with possibilities from the start.
    This game really needs a serious overhaul on how to start cause the way you begin does not feel like a start but like returning to a game months after you spent 50 hours and have forgotten everything about it.
  17. 5.00 star(s)

    lewdC

    You'll love it or you'll get overwhelmed by it. This a lewd game for gamers. Been playing various versions for a while and it's feeling rather complete these last few iterations.

    This might be the deepest sex game I know of outside of modded Free Cities. Much like it, this isn't something you're likely to get a quick fap out of, though it does ooze sexiness and the art is super duper good in a tasteful kind of way.

    The more you play, the more you understand and eventually become good with the various systems. It's legitimately challenging plus you're able to crank the difficulty up to ludicrous levels; throwing a bunch of cheats at it is also an option. There's a great achievement system if you don't and loads of "girls" you can unlock through breeding, capturing, evolving, events, etc. Don't pass this one up if you have the time.
  18. 5.00 star(s)

    Classic_Flavor

    Unexpectedly good gameplay that keeps you hooked for tens of hour. Great art, very varied with many new pieces each update. Regular updates (about 2 months) that adds each time new characters, events, bugfixes etc...
    Overall a great game made with love supported by an active community (especially on discord).
  19. 5.00 star(s)

    learg

    1 week later and it turned out to be one of the best monster girl games I've ever played, I loved it! :love:

    Now, there are minor things here and there, mainly balance stuff, but again, these are just details, the lore, the unique art, the management part of the game and the turn based strategy gameplay,
    all these are the strongest parts of the game.

    The disadvantage would be the sound, it does not exist, I personally do not care, but it is something to take into account. Dating is really good but there is room for more... maybe content, there are only minor events you can do on a date like eating, hunting, drinking, relaxing, exploring, fishing and that's all in the city? Its not a complain but something to keep an eye on, its not a dating sim after all :unsure:

    I loved the game and if anyone is reading this and hasn't played it before and likes H and rpg games then it's definitely worth the time (y)
  20. 1.00 star(s)

    DrakeMallard

    peoples saying the ui is a mess is an understatement its a pile of dogshit literally the simplest task is hard because the same fucking words will be on 10 buttons at the same time and you'll wonder why the game is constantly screaming No Character meets the requirements as you wonder why you are even bothering with this shit when you can get any vn or dating sim game and nut for less effort or play an actual game for good gameplay