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The Book of Bondmaids is an adventure virtual novel. It should be called the Book of Bondmaid as there is currently only one Bondmaid available. This should have been released as Early access as additional Bondmaids are expected to be added and five additional story lines. Being as they are not currently available you cannot be sure that they will ever be released.

This game is a follow up to Three Kingdoms story: Conussia. You are a sell sword who is now serving the Lich. The Princess still sits on the throne, a prisoner in her own castle, while the Lich rules from the castle's depths.

The game is a complete game, but some portions feel limited. Whether this will be expanded upon by future free and downloadable content (DLC) remains to be seen. My main advise to you would be to save and save often. Any time you have a choice to make, save your game. Failure to heed this advice will result in you having to start back at your last save or the beginning due to a bad ending. It is possible to die in the first five minutes or so of the game.

Unfortunately there isn't much guidance on what or how to do things. You have your money, which is obvious, but there are three stats after which are not. The stats change based upon how you proceed through the story. As near as I can figure the ship is a neutral Worldview, the wine glass is a depraved world view and the head with a halo is a good world view.

In your room is a bell and parchment icon. The bell is to summon people to your room and the parchment is to go on missions. Some missions you will know about due to interactions, some will just appear on your list. Missions that have not been completed will have a diamond. Again, save your game before selecting who you will bring on a mission. At the bottom are the rooms you are able to access.

Adult content is part of the story, but not the main part of the story.

There are 36 static images in the gallery. Not all of these images are adult content.

I recommend this game. The story is good, but the need to frequently save does get a bit annoying as the correct choice isn't always obvious.

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I wanted to like this game. Honestly. The art and mechanics are very solid. The writing is so much stronger and well-thought-out than so many games in this genre. You can tell that the creator of this game put a lot into crafting this world and I want to give them credit for that.

My major problem is that for an adults-only game, it doesn't have much of the adults-only kind of content you expect and the content that is present is sparse and largely off-putting. It feels shoved in randomly, or used as a plot-device. You're frequently punished for choosing the horny option, and not in a sexy way. In a brutal, game over in a dungeon, having your skin flayed off kind of way. To me, it seems like the person/people who made this game just wanted a dungeons-and-dragons kind of story with a game of thrones kind of plot-line, and thought they'd only get to tell the story they wanted to tell in an adults-only setting.

The game is called "Book of Bondsmaids" but there's literally only a single bondsmaid you can summon. Which you won't have enough money to do so if you're completing the main quests, not doing the arresting side-missions, and buy something for the princess, which is all on the "good" playthrough. So you have to beat the entire game once just to see that stuff, which took me about 4-5 hours to do so. Throw in the fact that the majority of the scenes that *are* in the game are pretty heavily NTR, and with characters that are pretty unlikable. Also, if you have sex with one of the girls the game is specifically making a love-interest, you get tortured and murdered. There's about as much torture as there is sexual content, actually, and I really wish I knew that before I purchased the game. I spent a lot of time grimacing while playing this title. Lots of sadistic stuff in there.

So for the sake of anyone still reading this who is on the fence; don't buy this game if you're looking for adults-only content that would be gratifying or satisfying in any way. If you're looking for a visual novel with *some* choices impacting the ending (definitely not every choice though) in a DnD/GoT kind of setting, and you specifically like sadism, then you might enjoy this game.

This game is not finished. You can't even interrogate the princess, and only one bond maid from the book of bond maids, lol. You can never get to the point of the screenshots.

The writing is excellent so far. I failed on my first try, which took almost 2 hours (I was turned into a Zombie and banished to the sewers for 40 years before I rotted away). It is a very imaginative, well thought out game system, while at the same time being extremely easy to use. It is a click adventure. You are tasked with certain duties and assignments and you must follow them out and be successful. You must decide what is the best approach, who to use as your assistant, what armor/weapons to use, etc. With success comes gold to use to buy gifts, girls, etc. With failure gets you into deeper trouble with your liege, the Liche. The artwork for the sequences is very good, the artwork for the AO portion is OK. If you are looking for something fun to try, and enjoy this style of visual novel with adult content (nothing too serious so far, just some scantily clad ladies), I think you will enjoy this game, and especially at this price. I like to support small developers, so I hope this review (the first?) helps. Good Luck! PS - I liked it so much I just bought the first game "Three Kingdoms Story: Conussia" so that I can play them in the correct order. Cheers!

Pretty good game so far. Though this has lewd parts in it, I'd consider this game a Fantasy Decision-based Visual Novel with lewd humor. You'll see some titties and sex scenes (art stills), but there's raunchier stuff on HBO. I'll play it to the end, and I normally hate visual novels.

Finished 3 times in 3 days. It's not a classic porn visual novel, it's more like gamebook. So if you want a good visual novel, you don't need to look any further. Game is NOT yet completely finished though and it's very visible in some parts of the game, so it could be a good idea to wait some time before buying.

Bought this on the strength of the art and plot looking interesting.
As a story goes it seems to promise a lot but ultimately delivers very little. Your decision making changes almost nothing at all, and you seem to get railroaded into failure again and again and AGAIN...
You are denied choices at the most important moments, and your behaviour is decided for you in an aggravating large number of situations.
I completed one ending of this, and am no way inclined to bother going for the other two.
I paid less than £3 for this, and still feel cheated.
If you are playing this for titillation, there's a minimal amount - knock yourselves out.

I will try to keep some minor spoilers hidden.

Honestly, given that they likely had very limited resources in creating this game, I will say that it's actually not half bad. Some of their artwork/images are pretty well done, and the dialogue for the most part is solid. What rating would I give this game? probably 6/10. I will try to justify my rating for you guys.

1. Their artwork/images are really nice, but "inconsistent". They have many images that are clearly low on budget, practically night and day differences in quality.

2. One too many moments where you are stuck looking at one still image, while multiple things are occurring. For example, you knock on a door, someone opens the door, a fight breaks out and you barley make an escape from the back; this is all something you would see via text, but the main image would just show the front door and nothing else for that entire sequence. It would be much better if you could see a second image of you escaping from the back. Now don't get me wrong, this game does have what I am saying, just little of it.

3. Their background music could be better. They have a great track that is played in the sex scenes but it gets old after a while. The rest of the tracks/backgrounds can feel a bit off-putting at times. My advice would be to stick more with simple background ambiances that complement their images. For an image showing rain and people walking by, it would be much safer to just have rain/chatter ambient sounds with people walking by etc. All you need is mother nature to do most of the work for you. Also when it comes to games where reading is most of the work, anything to help people relax more is a big plus in my book. (The fly landing ear to ear was a cool touch, more things like that, maybe even asmr-ish type of sounds?)

4. Definitely not enough bondmaid characters. For a big book like that to practically only have one bondmaid, is a bit silly.

5. The playthroughs that they offer are nice, but they still have a lot more room for improvement. I would love to see more options for playthrough experiences.

A playthrough where you can actually be loyal to Lich, and have a good ending under his command. Let's be honest here, Lich is a joke character meant to be defeated:(

A playthrough where you can betray Lich and the resistance, maybe even sit on the thrown yourself.

A playthrough where you can choose to play hard to get and not have sex with anyone if you so please. Characters can react to your declines and bring interesting dialogues.You can kind of do this up to a point, but then it just forces your hand.

A playthrough where you can be more "physically" violent. Example: early in the game you have an interaction where you can violently choke Suspira, but unfortunately the game stops offering those types of interactions. (mean words or consensual bdsm doesn't count)

6. I felt like a good number of things I did, didn't have any value at all. For example, you show lich your loyalty, but in return Lich doesn't say anything; Lich could at least say something or pay good coin for being so loyal. Another one being you give a vital letter to the princess and nothing happens. This happens a few times, where your actions are not acknowledged in the moment at all.

7. They could do a better job showing what certain things mean/do, like the icons above and whatnot. Solution: hover cursor over icons to show descriptions.

8. Choices leading to your death. Some of the choices leading to death can feel a bit too abrupt in a way. I would describe it more like a very black and white aspect of this game. Also it would be nice if they added more death endings to the game, the less repeating going on the better. It also seems like you are limited with how forceful/sadistic you can be. Most of the time you will just die without much say so.

9. The time with the princess felt too short. Not enough interrogation options and whatnot. She gets the book pretty fast, and once that happens, there is nothing more you can do. I would have liked to force her to confess, by sexual acts, but that is not really an option they give you.

10. More variety from scenes. Example, there is a girl laying next to lich, but she is always on one side of him; what if the next time you saw lich, she lays in the middle or sits on his lap or something etc. Same can be said about other ones, maybe suspira is looking at the map, while in another image, she is drawing on the map, etc... Small creative differences like that would be cool to see.

11. Magic is a thing in this world, so it would be nice to see the protagonist use that to his advantage; mind control, time stop etc... Allow us to buy a how to conjure magic book for dummies from the shop. I am tired of suspira and fryd putting me in my place with their magic, let me in on some of that magic juice. Maybe allow players to use mind control/potions on the princess to deal with her "thing".

12. There should be an option to torture/interrogate people in the torture chambers. At the moment, only suspira is allowed to do that. they have a lot of potential here if they choose to capitalize on it.

13. Parts of the game/story are unfinished and some things like steam cloud saves still need to be implemented.

None of these things are reason to bash on them at all. I am sure they are doing their best with what little resources they have to work with. These are just honest justifications of mine on why I wouldn't give this game a 7/10 or higher. I will say this though, given the price tag for this game and my appreciation for games like these being made, I will 100% give them a thumbs up and recommend this game to others.

Also if you devs/publishers are interested in what made me buy the game in the first place, I will say this, I was hesitant at first, but when I heard the song that the trailer played, it sold me. There was another game that did the same, and that was a game called "Never Gone", it's a phone game that also has a dope theme for its trailer, take a look at it and you will know what I mean.

It's like reading a book. A not particularly good book. Probably like a cheap romance novel, only where the protagonist dies many frustrating deaths in pursuit of vague and uninteresting goals, and with less sex.

The ruling royal dynasty of Conussia has been overthrown, and an undead Lich now sits on the throne. As a hired mercenary to the previous regime, you were partly responsible for the coup, and as such, your services have been retained by the Lich as your new employer.

The game is a visual novel styled NSFW game with a morally ambiguous story that lets you have fun times with a few different kinds of ladies. However, the game should be called "The Book of Bondmaid" since there is only one Bondmaid currently available in the base game, and second one added through the DLC. Bondmaids are ethereally beautiful women bound to an ancient, worn book where they can be summoned to do your desires. There is a lot of lore related to the Bondmaids so it's not just "a bordello book" with beautiful women, though, I guess you could just use it as such if you prefer.

It has a very imaginative, well thought out game system, while at the same time being extremely easy to use. Sadly, there is not really any tutorial for how to play the game and what does certain stats mean. I had to search a guide on certain aspects, so I knew how to get the endings I wished. The game is also not all about the sexy times, it's more of a bonus for a interesting story, rather than being the main focal point of the story.

Quality wise, it's alright. The artstyle is great and interesting, though it varies from the main images that are detailed, neat and painterly to "adventuring" backgrounds and art that are sketchy, less detailed and chaotic. There is also a lot of great sound design in this game, but any "voice acting" from some ladies is quite literally bad. It gets worse in the DLC where it sounds like the sexy sounds of some ladies sound like someone were recording them in their bedroom with a crappy mic. It's also not consistent, where some ladies don't have any voice acting and some have just one sound. There was also some grammatical errors in the dialogue, but that was more rare and in general it was well written.

My final verdict on the game is that it's definitely worth it at a sale, the DLC is also worth it if you can get past the weird voice acting, but I don't think the game is worth it at the full price, because there is not more than one Bondmaid and there is some inconsistencies in quality. Still, good and fun game, had me laughing a few times, but also hot ladies.