Others - Smutty Scrolls [v0.8] [Team Tailnut]

This is not a review of the latest version. I'm reviewing the version, that, as of the time of this writing, is the one available on F95 and that is the version from September '22.
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If you are looking for something completely different, this is it. I don't think I have ever seen this kind of gameplay in any other porn game, or even any other game period. The art is also pretty unique.
It's a simple type of puzzle game, but not easy.

Visuals:
Excellent, from the girls to the UI, it's all good. Very pleasant to look at. Some nice visual hunour, too.
The girls are all plump, happy, fun-loving shortstacks, waiting for you to puzzle your way into their boudoir.

Audio:
Fitting, easy-going music. Moaning. Both aren't intrusive and set the mood well.

Gameplay:
This is quite a brain-teaser. You will need good observation skills and some basic deduction skills for the earlier 3-stage levels. There are multiple solutions for every level and each gives you one picture as a reward. The average player should be able to find most of the solutions without help.
The problem is the later levels, where you have to solve a series of puzzles to unlock all pictures at once. These are really hard and you will get nothing, unless you solve the entire level. I couldn't do it without help.

Fetishes:
Pretty vanilla overall. The protagonist is a slime, so you get a lot of that. A few tentacles. Some of the girls magically grow a dick once or twice in the game.

Fappability:
Easy. There is no gallery yet, but you can reach all the pictures very quickly. Each puzzle only takes a few seconds to unlock, once you know how.


Overall, this one is definitively worth a try, especially if you are fatigued by dozens of samey VNs, RPGs etc.
One star deduction due to the high difficulty in the later levels.

Really fun game. I love the whole trial and error discovery feel of the game. Wish there was more like it honestly. The later puzzles are indeed obnoxiously vague as another reviewer put it. I much prefer the the first few puzzles. And I enjoy having different images for different situations that you can discover.

[Review of Early Access 9/19/2022 on 9/30/2022]

Puzzle game with a cutesy art style and truly devious puzzles.

Honestly, I might just be dumb, but I struggled a little bit with this. A game that probably could be completed in less than 10 minutes took me around 30-45, because I just didn't see some of what the puzzles are trying to convey.

Sometimes the implied solutions via the clues in later stages are obnoxiously vague. My biggest hints for players is to notice that every hint has a visual correspondent in the stage, so try looking carefully for visual correlations. Also, sometimes the spacing you might assume that the clue visually implies is not the literal spacing that you need to use. I'm thinking mostly of the skeleton clue in the graveyard stage.

Regardless, after beating all the puzzles, I can say that while some of the artwork was a little titillating, I didn't really find anything to get off with in this game. If I was much, much younger, then maybe this would have more appeal to me, but I'm looking for more explicit sexual content than this now.

Still, it was fun enough, and not the usual HTML/Ren'py/RPGM stuff.