Arenus is an Arena-based dystopian Sci-fi erotic pixel RPG, currently in development by Arvus with a planned release in 2021.
Become the Warden, a trainer of a Gladiator willing to fight in arena battles for fame and glory. Choose your gender, appearance, and the Gladiator who shall train under you, and jump into Arenus’ exciting turn-based Arena battles to become the champion!
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Arenus Gameplay
Story
Step into a dystopian sci-fi city, Vasdonas, a former mining world turned into an industrial paradise and a booming society where humans and aliens live together under the rulership of a queen. At the center of the city stands the magnificent arena where anyone brave and bold enough can compete for the glory of themselves and her majesty.
You play as a Warden, a trainer of a brave Gladiator willing to enter the ring under your guidance. Your journey to greatness begins humbly as you meet your Gladiator for the first time and begin your climb to become the champion of the Arena.
Gladiators
Choose your Gladiator who will accompany you throughout the game from three different options; Geyna, the human warrior, Elona, the sexy blue alien doctor, or Armida, the furry wolf girl street fighter.
Each Gladiator has a completely unique look, personality, and fighting style, including distinctive combat animations. Your story will be impacted by the Gladiator of your choice and thus will give a good reason for multiple playthroughs.
Each day you are given a set amount of action points to spend for your Gladiator to do various activities around the city. You can put your Gladiator to work for credits in order to afford to buy gear and items, or you can put the Gladiator to train so her stats may increase.
After the end of the day, Your Gladiator’s performance in the task you assigned her will be calculated. With each failure and negative effect, your Gladiator’s stress level rises, bringing her closer to burnout. Alleviate the stress with various acts of kindness like taking your Gladiator to a Spa to relax or bringing her a requested item.
Battle System
Arenus offers a typical turn-based battle system with beautifully crafted pixel animations. Based on the Gladiator that you chose, the Gladiator comes with her own set of attack animations and skills. New abilities will be unlocked as you progress through the battles.
Outside of the battles, gather information about your next Arena battle challenger. Each passing day after going to sleep draws you closer to your next battle at the Arena. Prepare well by training your Gladiator and upgrading her gear.
Dialogue choices
Depending on how you choose to treat your Gladiator and other characters around you, your relationship with them may change. Through the right choices, you can build a deeper relationship with your Gladiator and experience lewd scenes with the NPCs you find interest in.
Arenus Adult Content
For the fans of sexy Aliens, Arenus has plenty to offer! From your Gladiator to several NPCs across the city, you have the opportunity to get to know them more personally as the Warden who you play as. Naturally, depending on your choice of gender, some of the adult scenes will change accordingly.
When choosing your Gladiator, this will have a huge impact on the adult scenes that you will get to experience, thus prompting for multiple playthroughs in order to experience them all.
Erotic scenes can be found by talking to NPCs or walking to unexpected events, and also when losing at the Arena, assuming you have enabled the Arena-defeat H-scenes at the beginning of the game when given the option.
Arenus has been in development for multiple years now, with several delays after failed promised release windows dating back to 2017. Now with a new planned release window promised for 2021, we are yet to see whether the developer is able to keep this one…
You can download the Arenus demo from Itch.io or support team Arvus on their Patreon (Kaliyo) in order to gain access to the latest test-build. Do not forget to Wishlist Arenus on Steam if you have not done so already.
For more erotic Sci-fi experiences with hot aliens, check out Alien Quest EVE and Subverse.
2 Responses
Man the game seems solid, the combat is very clutch, I can feel you tried your best during the bossfight, it was a close defeat.
Anyways, overall the game seems to be very enjoyable, but I must say….Im not too fond of this style of erotic content…like yeah, I love a good visual novel story, I can spend hours reading characters talk to each other, but that sex scene was SUPER lame, it was basically reading 8 paragraphs of an erotic novel while seeing 3 almost identical images. I know this style of erotic content is common in visual novels, but come on…I would personally love if they change the sex scenes in one of two ways.
1.- Make more dynamic sex scenes, this is probably the cheaper option, but if you wanna make us read a lot during a sex scene don’t force us rely so heavily on our imagination, make more scenes, change position, change camera angles, at least 3 radically different positions per sex scene to make the fact you are reading the fragment of an erotic novel more engaging.
1.- Make pixel art animations: I would LOVE if they kept the pixel art during the sex scenes and just animate the characters having sex like in the game with the elf boy, Im aware this would be expensive and take a lot of time, but hey…a man can dream.
I definitely found the overwhelming amount of text during the sex scenes to be quite boring to read. The fact that the text was positioned on top of the action did not help either. Other than that, personally, yeah, the game felt pretty enjoyable ^^