The art is gorgeous. I always love your character designs, Impy.

The pixel art is super charming! It's pretty fun to play as well.

Honestly this kind of puzzle/roguelike game is straight up fun and relaxing.  The mechanics took a second to learn, but as soon as I figured it out I started working out strategies for it.  Estimating how much energy I had left to squeeze out of the map, or how much I could do per scouting on a map was nice.
Also, it felt like a great accomplishment to find the door, and use the rest of my resources to stock up on items.

The sound design was great and matched the pixel art style. All in all, it felt very classic and classy.
There's also a lot to it for the amount of time you had to make a game. Which is awesome!

I do like this grindy sort of little game. It's very soothing.

so i have a handful of like, small complaints i want to get out of the way first:

1. after seeing the text "welcome back" i was under the impression that the game was going to save my progress. from what i can tell this is not the case, which is not unexpected for a jam game, but it does mean i lost my progress after quitting after my first play session.

2. i watched the intro cutscene a few times as at first i did not even realize the two names were different because they're both orange and a very similar length. i think you should recolor piper's name as gwynn's name matches her hair color which is what made me think all the cutscene text belonged to her.

3. i personally have a kind of hard time dealing with the amount of progress that you lose when you mess up an expedition. this may be because i simply didn't play long enough to get more comfortable with the mechanics. but, i did find it a tiny bit stressful to play through knowing that if i mess something up i'll have to do it all over again.

but now for what i did like.

i think the core gameplay loop of scouting out different things is fun and has a surprising amount of depth. e.g., scouting plants to make scouting the animals more efficient, or scouting rocks to scout more rocks in the future. these little gameplay patterns were nice and i think there's a lot of room to add many more. (i only got through the first expedition so perhaps there were even more variations in the later ones already).

the general way that exploring dark tiles gives you energy which then must be expended on scouting is a cool way to handle this kind of system. it is the kind of thing that slightly stresses me out, due to the limited number of dark tiles, but i do think it is a very effective way to implement exploration gameplay. there's a lot of fun choices about where to go next, e.g. trying to reveal more tiles around something to use the companion versus just trying to scout something with a high energy cost to earn at least some xp before capping the energy bar.

i really like the fact that making room for your companion makes scouting more effective. it's a very natural way to make the companion an important part of the player's experience. it also makes the scouting feel more strategic, as e.g. when i scouted the familiar i made sure to clear out a nearby rock first so there was more room.

the way that the spell slots each correspond to a specific shape of potion is a fun little mechanic.

if i have time i do think i want to come back and try to do more expeditions. i think it is legitimately quite fun to go through the game, but just difficult to find the time to do it in one sitting.

Oh wow, this game set off my nostalgia sensors something fierce. Getting serious classic DOS CRPG vibes playing this! Lovely pixel art and beautiful use of music. Really loved this and looking forward to seeing more in future updates!

Quite the fund game, Took a little bit to wrap my head around but once I did, it was a lot of fun, planning out my moves and strategizing scouting and movement. The graphics and music were quite nice . I did encounter an unfortunate bug which prevented me to load into new levels, but what I played, I very much enjoyed. Fun mechanic and fun atmosphere, I would be keen to see more. ~

Solid presentation all around, although it took me quite a bit of time to actually get the hang of what was going on and how to play. It felt like exploring encounters were a bit high cost and a little more visual or audio feedback to tell players that their actions were progressing that may help. That said, the premise of the story was funny and the game looks and sounds good.

I got into this game a lot, and enjoyed it the whole time I was playing. It reminded me of a cross between a dungeon crawler and a resource optimization thing, where you have to explore the map and spend your energy optimally in order to progress. In that way, failing a stage didn’t feel frustrating because you can discover more efficient strategies each time, and enjoy the feeling of figuring out how to use the mechanics to your advantage. There’s a sense of purpose to its initial complexity, and I was even disappointed when it ended so soon.

The eroticism of the game didn’t do much for me because the characters and narrative weren’t fleshed out in this demo, and the nudity was more casual than sexual. I will also say the game is a bit buggy and I think I was in a state where I didn’t have all the familiars unlocked in the main menu despite having completed them all, but the bugs only affected that one instance.

I don’t have much more to say. The mechanics are well done and I really liked playing it.

I’ve had the same issue as InvisibleBit, but after completing the 3rd expedition and unlocking the 4th. Still, I managed to get deep enough into the game (after several failed tries in the 1st expedition, trying to get a hang of the mechanics) and it’s quite enjoyable and challenging! Very fun with great visuals and music!

Wonderful new game from you. I found it quite fun to play more and more of it. Managing your energy to research stuff to gain items is an interesting concept. And the map is randomly generated, so each try you get something new to explore and solve. The sound design is stellar as well, fits very well with the game. 

You keep making these characters looks so lively and cute and full of detail. I enjoy the short interactions they make together. Well done indeed.

I think I found a bug that stops you from progressing to the next expedition. In the first expedition, in the level with Boa, I went through the door without fully completing Boa's encounter since I ran out of energy, and after finishing the rest of the level, getting the 1st familiar, and seeing the 2nd expedition unlock, I instead replayed the first expedition wanting to fully scout Boa's encounter and hoping to see a new event. No new event, but then after completing the expedition again, the 3rd expedition unlocked, but at this point, the menu was playing multiple songs, and while I could select any of the three expeditions, I couldn't start any of them. I had to restart the game.

I really like the game though! I ended up spending much longer than I thought figuring out how to manage my energy and what to scout for. I'll definitely be replaying this to get to the expeditions I missed.

Another banger title. I find myself looking forward to  your entries each year, even though NTR isn't my cup of tea, because they always have rock-solid game design. (This one reminds me of Desktop Dungeons a little.) Plus of course the characters are cute. 

In fact, it feels like I've written this exact comment before, because your work is just that consistent. Nice job.

Thanks for including a Linux build, too!

The game mechanics were a bit obtuse for me at first, but once I understood what I was doing they turned out to be interesting and intriguing.

I also like the character design. The girls all look adorable, and the environmental art also does its job.

Okay, so, first, I gave myself 20 minutes to check this out and played for more than an hour, and am only stopping because I have to make dinner. I got two of the familiars and am going to have to come back to it in a bit. I love it! Took me a good while to understand the systems and the way they work together, but once I did it all clicked and I was breezing through areas and having a good time strategizing which things to scout to be more effective at scouting the others. I did struggle a bit at first with remembering to see if I had any items I could use, and I think maybe having a little notification near your cursor when you have something that would be helpful would be a nice addition, at least for me.

Really fun to explore, and even though it was a bit tricky to get the hang of, it was really rewarding once I did. Great work!

Incredible stuff as always. Impy's games are always so innovative that i came for the scenes and stayed for the gameplay.

Interesting concept.  I had trouble learning the how the systems worked, but once I figured them out, it was more fun than I thought it would be, calculating energy and scouting levels and stuff.  Maybe if I had read the hints section earlier I would have saved myself some time :3  Also cute and lively characters.  Can I have a Boa the Hermit to take home?  Thanks

A lovely game! NTR themes always have a special place in my heart... and perhaps my pants! or is it my partner's pants? I don't know, you know what I mean, probably!

It took me a bit to understand how to play, the tips on the game page definitely helped but an in-game tutorial or guide could've been really helpful too. That's really my only comment, the game is fairly challenging but not unfair, and it's fun to try and optimize using my energy and gathering what I think I might need later. The deer with the apron thingy was so cute! All in all it's a fun experience with pretty pixel graphics, lovely characters, fun themes, and interesting gameplay.

I wish I had tried this one earlier to have more time with it, I really enjoyed it ^^ I might keep playing it even after the judging period ends though, I'm hooked on it and I wanna see what happens next! Amazing game, loved it <3