A new year brings with it a slew of new games for us to enjoy, both of the regular and naughty varieties. I already have my wishlist of regular games I'll be picking up in the month of February, but that's not what we're here for. There are already a number of dark eroge slated for release between the January and March, and I want to take a closer look at some of them.
January Releases
The month is almost over, but the last week still holds some interesting releases.
Injuu Kunoichi ~Chuugi o Koeru Reizoku~
Release date: January 26th, 2024
Focus: Rape, Bondage, Mindbreak
The Tsurumiku ~Another~ label was created to make shorter games and experiment with games that wouldn't fit Tsurumiku's usual brand. That said, aside from length and the time period, Injuu Kunoichi seems to feel right at home in their lineup.
The plot is quite simple: a feudal lord and his subordinate suspect a spy is among their servants and decide to lay down a trap. Of course, the spies are beautiful women, a princess of the Shogunate worried about the unsavory things done by the feudal lord in question and her attendant, a ninja.
The game seems largely focused on bondage and torture, and while Another's games are known to not be as bleak as Tsurumiku's main branch it seems the girls will be put through a very rough time until they break. As per Tsurumiku tradition, it seems there are also scenes with one of the girls, broken, helping torture the other one. Classic stuff.
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Shinshokukan
Release date: January 26th, 2024
Focus: Tentacles, NTR, Corruption
The third game from a company I never heard of, and it also seems pretty different from their previous work. Regardless, it sounds pretty interesting: the protagonist's brother, a biologist, just returned from overseas with a beautiful half-Japanese girlfriend called Sayama Milano, and they're conducting research together at a new company. They have a very active sex live and Milano's liberated lifestyle ends up making the protagonist grow a spine and finally get together with his childhood friend Hiroya Konatsu. Life seems pretty good, but soon weird shit starts to happen. His brother who had a timid personality starts being aggressive and even his appearance starts changing - something that started after Milano started giving him some suspicious drug. Konatsu, who works at his brother's company, is also acting differently all of a sudden. So he goes to investigate, and discovers something beyond imagination - a bizarre tentacle lifeform, that assaults Milano and Konatsu, breeding them like animals and reducing them to their base femslr instincts. The protagonist is certain that everything weird going on in his life is this things fault, yet he hesitates. He has two choices - either save the girls from whatever the fuck that is or maybe let himself be taken in by the curious pleasure of watching the monster degrade women into mere breeding sows.
It's been a minute since I played something with tentacles and the idea of the protagonist choosing to abandon his girlfriend and sister-in-law for the sheer pleasure of seeing them degraded sounds interesting, as long as it plays like it's being sold and not in the "pleasure of having it stolen from me" Netorare way. Because that's not what's being implied in the marketing at all, though the game does have Netorare elements in it and scenes with other human males. Like I said, as long as it doesn't lean too strongly into it instead of the whole "protagonist gets corrupted into watching the girls get broken over and over" it's fine. Looking forward to it but with some reservations.
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February
Isekai Choroine wa, Itomo Kantan ni Otosareru ~Are, Boku no Kanojo... Netorarechaimashita?~
Release date: February 09th, 2024 (DL version), February 22, 2024 (Physical version)
Focus: Corruption, NTR
Appetite is one of the Nukige companies of all time. I have made snide comments about them in the past, but they really are one of those companies that just lack an identity: they do everything, and it almost always feel half-assed. But every once in a while they get a good artist and setting and a decent game to waste a few hours comes out.
That's what I'm expecting from Isekai Choroine, a game with Inoue Nanaki art, which is a love-it-or-hate-it artist to begin with but I personally like his stuff, but he's paired with a really good colorist this time that makes his work pop, so I think even people who usually aren't into his style might want to check it out.
The idea behind this game is that an Isekai protagonist just got back from saving the world, and the princess came back with him. However, back on Earth without any of his cheat skills, the former hero is just a worthless NEET again. Meanwhile, the princess is an innocent, sheltered maiden who is eager to learn more about the world, but is also extremely naive and easily tricked.
So, this is the most overly Netorare title on the list. Though it seems to play out from the girl's perspective. However it comes with a very interesting twist: depending on what types of men the princess gets involved with, this causes different physical transformations in her. Inoue Nanaki IS known for bitch-ka (bimbofication, turning girls into vulgar sluts), but the few previews the game has suggest demonic forms and other magical things that may come from the Princess' innate power as someone from another world. That's not something I've played before. I mean, there are NTR games where the guys who get with the heroine influence her, but not to this extent. And I'm a sucker for innocent little princesses becoming deranged perverts and literal demons
That said, this is appetite, I wouldn't be surprised if instead of choices it's a linear progression of guys or something. Still, art and concept alone have me sold.
Consider me cautiously optimistic.
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Mahou Shoujo Sora - Saikyou Mahou Shoujo • Aku Ochiru
Release Date: February 22nd, 2024
Focus: Tentacles, Corruption
Tentacles are going strong in this early 2024. From ZION, a company specialized in monster sex and corruption, comes a game with a rather simple premise: Sora, the strongest of the magical girls fending off a demonic invasion, is captured by the Demon King and subjected to all sorts of torments. And when I say all sorts I mean mostly tentacles, but the previews show some breast expansion, petrification, and of course, the corruption into an evil form.
I have never played a ZION game before, and that's something I have to correct someday, and this may be the one since it looks more beginner friendly than some others that are more interconnected or just more complex with more kinds of monster stuff that may not be my cup of tea. ZION fans, sorry if I'm speaking nonsense, like I said, I never played their stuff, only know them from an outside view.
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Kan'in Tokkyuu Yotaka ~Juuyoku Rensa, Manatsu no Hanabi Taikai~
Release date: February 22nd, 2024
Focus: Rape, Sexual Slavery, Choukyou
Tsurumiku has another release on the list, this time from their main brand. More than that, it's their most prestigious series. Kan'in Tokkyuu is a series about a train (and its cruel conductor) that collects women and trains them (no pun intended) as sex slaves to be sold. Despite its renown, being the series that put Tsurumiku on the map and what they're most known for, they've been cautious with it, and it has only 2 mainline games, though it has several spin-offs. This is the third mainline game, so hopefully, it will live up to its legacy.
Now I have the embarrassing confession to make that I have never played this series. It's one of those I have been aware of the content and the impact but never got to play it myself When I saw a new one was coming I even downloaded the first one but haven't gotten around to playing it yet.
This game takes place in summer, while the others were in autumn and winter, as the new luxury liner is meant to make the rounds through fireworks festivals around Japan, that are being revived for the first time since a global pandemic forced things to close. Yes I shit you not, there's a Covid reference here.
Between staff and passengers, the game features 10 different heroines. Visually, everything seems to be very similar - lots of chains, anal training, the enslaved girls and staff helping break in the fools who are still resisting, and animal tags with the girls' names attached to their collars. All stuff I've seen in the previous games' CG.
I intend to play the series in order so this is one I won't be touching for a long time, but it's easily the biggest release on the list.
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March
Kagachi-sama Onagusame Tatematsurimasu Kai ~Netorare Mura In'yabanashi~
Release date: Marth 8th, 2024 (DL version), TBA (Physical version)
Focus: NTR
A remake of an Orcsoft game from over 10 years ago. The story is pretty simple: the main character's marriage has gone cold, and as a way to spice things up, he remembers a ritual/festival that happens in the village he was born, related to a local fertility deity. He ran away in disgust when he was young, but now it might just be what he needs. Said festival involves people wearing masks and fucking women to appease the emponymous Kagachi-sama. While the game is classified as NTR, what flavor really depends on how you play. The protagonist may be engaging in full cuckoldry having fun watching his wife be thrown to the wolves, or he may be joining in the fun seeing it as an opportunity to fuck his step-mother he's always had a crush on. He may rekindle his love for his wife, he may keep both women, or he might lose everything. It really is Netori, Netorare and Netorase all rolled into one.
I really like this kind of "fertility god festival" setting and wish it was more common in eroge, so I will definitely be checking it out, especially since it's been many years since I played the original, and I think the new art style (done by Minamoto instead of Sumeragi Kohaku) looks gorgeous.
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Kusozako Maou Shoujo Akari ~Ishukandaru e Youkoso!~
Release date: March 29th, 2024
Focus: Rape, Monster Sex
And for the last game we'll cover today, Valkyria's newest offering. It's an isekai where loser otaku girl Akari is summoned... As Demon King. All the demons are confused and arguing with each other because obviously, something went wrong with the resurrection ritual.
Thrown into the dungeon, the one who summoned Akari, the dark elf... Elfie (really creative day at the Valkyria office huh) explains that if she doesn't want to die, she will have to step up and become a suitable demon queen to the world.
It's not super clear why (the game has been announced just a while ago after all), but that entails a lot of interspecies sex not only for Akari but also for Elife and the oger girl Almea. Maybe she needs to rally the demon races to her cause? Or maybe she's just so pathetically weak she just keps getting fucked, who knows. With the release quite far still, this game will surely appear again in the blog once we have more details.
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And with that it's over. That was a big amount of news, I didn't expect so many games coming out so soon. And usually, April and May are big months for releases, turn of the fiscal year and all that, so maybe even more stuff in our ballpark will be announced shortly. I'll be here to report it if you'll be here to read it.
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