MonCurse

MonCurse is a casual game blending turn-based elements where players control a charming heroine battling against hordes of enemies. You must maneuver skillfully while pressing various keys to unleash the character's skills, defeating foes to earn rich rewards that boost your combat prowess. However, defeat triggers a series of random loss-related CG scenes and negative status effects; not only are various provocative animations unlocked, but the heroine’s body also undergoes a monstrous transformation. Ultimately, the ending unfolds differently based on the extent of her transformation and the battle outcomes. The game is constantly being updated with new story paths and intimate animations—stay tuned!

Features of MonCurse:

Dive into fully illustrated corruption scenes that blend RPG gameplay with explicit erotic storytelling.

Encounter diverse monster-girls with distinct personalities and tactics, ensuring dynamic and challenging battles.

Unravel an intriguing narrative exploring the heroine's identity and purpose amid seductive adversaries.

Customize gameplay pace to explore deeply or focus on tactical combat encounters.

Influence the storyline through decisions impacting gameplay outcomes and character development.

Enjoy visual novel elements where relationships and choices shape the protagonist's journey.

Controls of MonCurse:

Mouse (PC) / Touchscreen (Android)

Left Click / Touch and release: Take actions, use skills, proceed, drag the event log.

Right Click + Drag / Touch top-left for camera mode: Pan the screen around or bring up settings mid-conversation.

Middle Mouse Button / 3 simultaneous touches: Toggle the UI's visibility.

Scroll Wheel / 2 touches and pinch in or out: Scroll the game in or out.

Right Click on a character / touch and hold a character: Lock onto the character and talk to them.

Changelog:

I forgot I'm supposed to make a devlog every update so I'm kinda winging this one.

Quick list of the major features:

Two new bust sizes!

Lamia ending & Lamia loading conversations!

Elite Lamia! Elite Lamia TFs!

Internal view on certain things!

Japanese translation!

Then everyone's going to go "how can I get X how can I get Y"

ELITE LAMIA: She's in T3 tiles in the desert area.

ELITE LAMIA TFS: go into the sarcophagi over and over until the TFs become permanent.

BUST SIZES: get more milk. Same as other bust sizes.

And then I need the obligatory shilling section, FEATURES THAT ARE ON PAT/SUB VERSIONS:

Quad bust / multi-bust

Two new bust sizes!

Testing a new enemy (not Arachne yet, but soon will also feature Arachne)

Preg stuff (stlil working on it)

That's all the mandatory stuff. Then I usually have a long diatribe about life, the universe and everything. So.

This time around, i.e. the last 3 months or so since the last update, things have been very average and standard. Average rate of work, average getting stuff done-ness.

I remembered that the way I got into everything that I'm into, was I saw a bust expansion .gif from To Love-Ru, went to try and find the source, and then ended up watching the whole thing, then the manga (which ended just as I reached the end, before Darkness was announced). So here we are, adding even more bust expansion. It really is the most popular thing, isn't it?

In other news, I've heard someone might have posted about spaghetti code in the game. I'll say what I've said elsewhere: 

When I first started making the game, I had little experience, so old code from around that time is going to be awful. Over time, if old code needs to be changed or worked with, it gets reworked into cleaner systems -- if you have a Computer Science degree, you may still not like these systems. It's a common thing in gamedev that people with degrees will come in and criticise games' codebases. Many of your favorite games likely have awful code strapping it all together; people only complain once it starts causing lag.

I hear in the American oil industry, you'll be taught everything in metric but in the real world they'll force you to use the most insane imperial measurements. Bobs per squarepound or something. Game code is like that.

It's worth mentioning, code does not consume the most dev-time here. Animations, 2D assets, that kind of thing take up the most time, with about a 50:50 split between coding/animation/miscelleanous in-engine stuff, and art/music/SFX. It will vary depending on the game. However, a poor codebase does make it very difficult to mod the game... In future games, I'd like to try making a codebase that's much more accessible to modders, and modders could help add features.

This game's gotta be finished first, though. Once the new enemies (the current one and the 2 from the polls) are added, the desert will have all the enemies it needs (might get an extra one though) and the 3rd area will begin, getting close to the end of the game. It's getting there even though I keep adding stupid new things like the bust sizes and multibust and whatever!!!

okay anyway I need to go update everyone and ping @everyone and all that I'm going to stop writing no

edit: I forgot to make this point, but I do feel as if development/coding has gotten faster over the years with experience. The problem is, this leads to creating even more ridiculous transformations/enemies/features instead of just making the same thing faster. For example, the first game TFs were all just ears and tails that overwrote each other, or struggling to have ram horns be behind the hair and in front of the eyes.

Player Comments of MonCurse:

One of the best games I have come across in five years of this website in terms of smut mixed with actual game play. I don't usually bother with games that try to be more than a way to look at some porn with a story. We all know why we are here after all. And as much as I want to learn battle mechanics and type weaknesses, that's not always what I come here for. This game does a great job at having approachable game play elements that tie in wonderfully with the smut.This review is probably more of a 4.75, but that is only because some of skills from being transformed aren't explained incredibly well. Some seem to have cooldowns or otherwise refresh during a level, and some of their effects aren't super obvious.

That all said, the transformation content is perfect. It goes in stages so you watch yourself slowly changing in a not too slow that you have to grind for them, but not so fast that you just turn into a cat girl in one false move. The method of applying them coming from willingly or unwillingly taking damage ties well with the game play. The various endings you get based on who you lose to and what you look like when it happens are all incredibly hot. The whole "I was a man" thing might put some people but it is not a main focus for long.As a fan of monster girls, futa, mind control, corruption, transformations, fluffy tails, and basically every other fetish this game ticks off, I highly recommend it.

this game got good potential, good scenes, transformations, and good character design. ui is somewhat confusing at first for both pc and mobile but managable, and corruption system is kinda cool as there's levels to it as you get buffs from getting parts of a certain race, but also debuffs as well flaws though are the final level of this build can be tedious, the tar wolf boss is hectic as hell, got me confused for half of the time, and getting certain curses from certain races can be either easy or hard as hell.also some enemies are just annoying as fuck to fight, the rams and the kitsunes are a pain in the ass nitpick, but id want a choice either starting as a dude who turned into a girl, or just a girl protag but its a nitpick so you can brush it off.good game overall, looking forward for future updates.

It's just a great game. Good dev with minimum monthly updates and fast bugfixes. Really great transformation content and one of ~3 games I actively support. Not a lot of story yet, but it has good foundation for it code-wise and the content itself is very plentiful. Great art and holy booba.

Final Thoughts:

Movement across the overworld and combat both run on turns, letting players set their own pace. Each monster-girl enemy has a distinct personality that interferes with the player's moveset, so skills double as tools for tricky platforming jumps and as attacks in battle. Losing a fight does not end the run outright; it applies monstrous traits and conditions that alter the character going forward, for better or worse.