Bound by Love

loved getting to train the girl, lot of routes and possible choice to make, just wish the scene replay included every scene the training scenes are not there and only one of the secret endings can be viewed again in scene replay

Love this game, it's fun mind breaking Hazuki to the point of making her your personal toy, definitely a new experience

I really enjoyed this game so much, making the girl losing her mind and turning her the way you want to.

I'm always happy to see a game to get translated. Thus is one I've wanted to play for a while. It's a but quick but the game's art is next level and some of the endings are pretty well set up but overall it's lacking for the slave girl builder aspect of it.

TLDR: If this game is for you: you will probably like it a lot, but go into it with your eyes open, it is dark, the central premise of the game is about kidnapping a work colleague and torturing her until she becomes your sex slave. There is a happy ending, but it cuts the game off after the first, and probably shortest chapter. If you're into NTR, it isn't really here, the MC is a jealous lover and does not 'share' his 'property' easily. Over all I loved the game, I just wish it was bigger.

The first chapter is a decent little RPG-Maker style detective game, except the victim is still walking around. You have to try and find out as much as you can about her, make her like you, lower her guard, and most importantly, figure out where and how to try and strike. This part of the game is very strong: it has a reasonable time press to make progress, some solid mechanics requiring you to investigate via multiple avenues to find the most information, and the skill-check at it's conclusion makes sense. If I have a complaint of this section it's that it can become monotonous if replayed repeatedly being forced to re-read the tutorial prompts is almost never a desirable feature.

If you're into monster training games, you will probably recognize most of the systems from the third, and longest chapter, but I was disappointed by the lack of variety. There are a handful of different scenes during the training sessions, with variant dialogue depending on Hazuki's state, and slightly different assets depending on pregnancy progression, but very little animation, and no alternate scenes for repeat sessions. If you want to max out her stats, which is one of the only things to do other than just enjoy the scenes, then it's a grind, to try and break it up once you're in the endless mode there is a slave trading and training minigame system, which is fundamentally a simplified version of the core gameplay loop, with some very light auction mechanics thrown in, and minimal CG.

There are also two side characters who you can target to break up the grind, but that's all they are there for, you cannot add them to your harem in a meaningful way. The game may be tagged harem, but I would argue it isn't really, you can have multiple girls at once, but they never interact, and you never have another character under your control like Hazuki is.

There are 15 or so endings, delivered as a still shot or two with some dialogue, most of them feel like bad ends, as you'd expect there is a couple NTR endings, one or two harem endings, the vanila good ending, and lots of ways to die/lose your slave(s).

You may have gotten the impression that I was dissapointed by the game, but that's really not true. There aren't all that many games which scratch the particular itch this game is going after, and almost none of them scratch it this well: but I wish it would give me more. The training system felt like a stripped down version of the usual mechanics, like it was a minigame instead of the maincourse, the side characters felt like padding, instead of meaningful encounters, their endings felt like they were rushed, not like useful arcs, I loved this game, I devoured it, I've played it a lot, and the only complaint I can level at it, is I wish it gave me more...

The process of capturing her was fun making decisions on how to go about it. Once I captured her I found it got abit dull in that each day would just be more the same. Train her, feed her, impregnate if you want.

The NTR comes in as a feature where you can take her around town later on in the game for other npc to take advantage of her. Unfortunately not many npc and really only 2 major ntr moments on the map.

I would say it’s worth picking as long as your not mainly after ntr.

I am a big fan of Kagura games but I think this is the worst one I have played so far. I've run into a bunch of bugs where the game stops doing anything. The scenarios are cliché sexual harassment focused. The concept of lewdness based on how much you sexual harass without any dialog or back story is boring.

Hazuki is hella thick and sexy. The game is not bad, but every choice you make causes a different outcome. Saving is essential. Other than that I recommend buy this game, it's fun and it might unlock a new fetish, who ones....

Great concepts, really good art. Wish it had more content, though. Like the potential here is huge, if they had made more in-depth endgame content and such.

This game was a nice change from the standard, fantasy-like rpg games from Kagura. It's a bit short, but there's different endings to make you play the game some more (or you can choose to unlock everything at end). Going through the planning stages of kidnapping the girl, training her, and making sure she never escapes was a fun experience.

I would like to see another game like this from Retrolab, with maybe more girls to kidnap, and more options of how to go about it.

Good game, looking forward to more Kagura Games