This game is absolute trash. I've been following its development for several years now as the art and corruption stuff looked great. In practice, it's a total mess, a game that demands discipline from player without showing any discipline in its design. For starters, it's horridly overwritten. Each dialogue exchange takes over a minute, and not a whole lot is said. Characters aren't developed at all. I've read the game is 35 to 50 hours, and most of that will be spent skipping through dialogue. Combat is absurdly unfair. Aura's stats do not seem to increase on their own, and the only way to level up is through completing (usually combat-heavy) quests. When you do engage with enemies, it's basically a coin flip to determine if you have the stats and/or spells to defeat them. Spells are absurdly difficult to obtain, requiring you to travel through the bland and sluggish overworld and mash through endless nonsensical dialogue. The combat is what led me to stop playing, as after w...
Star Knightess Aura
- Release Date:
- Feb 7, 2025
- Developer:
- AuraGamedev
- Publisher:
- AuraGamedev
- Platforms:
- Windows
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About This Game
Summary
Follow Aura's adventure as she is thrust into the fantasy world of Roya. What she initially believed to follow the conventional plotline of a "summoned to another world"-story quickly turns into her worst nightmare. Cursed by the Demon King, Aura must now struggle every night to track down her nemesis and ultimately strike him down.
But her enemies don't just lurk in Roya. Having entered her mind through the Demon King's curse, another enemy attempts to brainwash and corrupt Aura from the inside. Faced with a two-pronged attack against her body and mind, can Aura finish off her worst enemy without losing herself?
Gameplay
Each ingame day is structured into 3 parts.
The player controls Aura and can explore the world of Roya to track down and kill the Demon King. In order to become stronger, acquire funds, and advance her search, she can rely on her own powers or ask people for help. However, not everybody means well with Aura. Performing lewd acts and compromising on Aura's ideals by allowing innocents to suffer causes Aura to gain corruption.
The player controls Alicia, who uses Aura's corruption to change her psyche. This includes changing her interests, increasing her interest in fashion, changing her appearance (including hair style/color changes), changing her values (making Aura more selfish), and ultimately changing her sexual desire and love interests.
The player watches cutscenes displaying Aura's real self changing over time due to mental corruption. The cutscenes are told from varying character perspectives (Aura, her best friend Rose, her boyfriend George, and so on).
Key Features
Strategic Combat with limited resources - All resources, including time, money, and items, must be used with care to get the most out of them in Aura's journey!
Semi-Open World - Explore the vast world of Roya! Hunt for rare materials to infuse into Aura's armor, slay demons, and help our heroine rise from zero in an unfair world!
Challenging and creative boss fights - Battles are set up as puzzles that test your understanding of the combat system. Exploit hidden weaknesses, disable environmental effects, and teach Aura skills that allow her to counter whatever her enemies throw at her. Most encounters may seem impossible at first, but a solution will always reveal itself to those who don't give up thinking!
Balance corruption and progress - Give in to temptation to make your life easier, and it might cause the curse to progress to the point where Aura's personality changes towards evil... However, clinging too firmly to your ideals can slow down your progress, and Aura might become a victim of the curse nonetheless. Balance is key!
Collar Removal - In exchange for damaging her soul and gaining corruption, Aura can forcefully overcome her curse and temporarily regain her powers as a Hero - Smash any encounter and obstacle to pieces! However, using this power accelerates the curse...
5 Difficulty Modes - Don't like the time pressure from the ever-advancing curse? Reducing the difficulty to one of the lower difficulties allows you to take it easy or enjoy the story. Or ramp the difficulty up all the way to Nightmare to get the full masochistic experience of a cursed heroine (Only recommended for veteran gamers).
Stats
Estimated play time - 35-55h
Word Count: 878k
Earth World Scenes: 325
Epilogue Scenes: 30
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User Reviews
A surprisingly tough tactical JRPG. The game is about resource management, beating up bad guys, and managing lewd events with practical game play. it is very well made. So, why is it resource management? Because every time you rest, your character looses a piece of herself. When a new day passes, your character looses relationships, core motivations, her boyfriend, like everything is on the table in this game of strip poker. It is like choosing "Can i loose an arm, or do i need to loose a leg today" Except it's slowly turning her into a bimbo. And there are a lot of good scenes peppered throughout the game. Also, it does not pull punches. The bad guys are actual human traffickers, drug dealers, killers, and horrible people. And giving your hero the will to fight as this curse slowly destroys her is a very rewarding experience. Game balance is rewarding, the fights are well made, and you can choose to loose things in an order that benefits her instead of kills her. (Her boyfriend ...
I'm not a fan of NTR and the moral degeneration plot goes very far into the MC becoming a sociopath, but the game's just so well written that I ended up playing quite a lot. Two main warnings about things that may not be to your personal tastes: The H content is very slow burn compared to most RPG maker eroge and it took me until my second IRL day of playing to get into scenes I consider in depth enough to be "satisfying". Also to really be the target audience for the H content available you have to REALLY like hardcore NTR like, a lot. PROS: well written story with characters that are tragic and interesting, inventive mechanics for the moral degeneration side of things, challenging gameplay loop with score-based bonuses that carry into NG+ CONS: Some dialogue is a bit rough or dated in places and at points the corruption storyline can stall or drag as it waits for time to pass and for you to trigger certain event flags in the right order As is true for most of these, grab th...
This game is great. Even outside of the nsfw stuff, I think its a fun game with a lot of great mechanics, and it's very unique compared to other rpgs. And then there's the nsfw stuff, which is also great (just don't forget to get the patch).
Good
System Requirements
Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (32bit/64bit)
- Processor: Intel N4100 (or similar) or better
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 9/OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Microsoft Windows 10 (32bit/64bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 or better
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL ES 2.0 hardware driver support required for WebGL acceleration
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 2 GB available space
FAQ
How much does Star Knightess Aura cost?
Star Knightess Aura costs $18.99.
What are the system requirements for Star Knightess Aura?
Minimum: Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (32bit/64bit) Processor: Intel N4100 (or similar) or better Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 9/OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 2 GB available space Recommended: Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Microsoft Windows 10 (32bit/64bit) Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 or better Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL ES 2.0 hardware driver support required for WebGL acceleration DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 2 GB available space
What platforms is Star Knightess Aura available on?
Star Knightess Aura is available on Windows PC.
Is Star Knightess Aura worth buying?
Star Knightess Aura has 78% positive reviews from 9 players.
When was Star Knightess Aura released?
Star Knightess Aura was released on Feb 7, 2025.
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