The Witch’s Night of Vengeance — Honest Review

The Witch's Night of Vengeance — Honest Review

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D-lis has built a full soulslike action game around a witch’s revenge, and the porn is wired directly into the part where you lose. If you want a dark-fantasy action title with real combat systems behind it — and you’re comfortable with gore and non-consensual content — this is aimed squarely at you.

What works

The Witch's Night of Vengeance — highlight scene

The most impressive thing here is how much actual game is underneath the H content. You play Aradia, a witch who lost everything when the church launched its crusade against the “forces of darkness,” and who now hunts both the demons plaguing the world and the church that wronged her. That premise is just the frame for a genuinely deep soulslike loop: over 30 weapon types, each with its own animations, hit counts, and special effects; rings that grant skills; spells; and a build system you can experiment with freely. The sanctuary lets you reset your level-up stats and allotted points whenever you want, and you can re-roll weapon effects by spending a currency called Idea. That respec freedom is the kind of quality-of-life touch a lot of action eroge skip, and it means you can actually chase a build that fits your playstyle instead of being punished for early mistakes.

The erotic content is tied into the combat rather than bolted onto a separate menu. Get knocked down by a strong attack and the sex begins on the spot, which makes defeat itself the trigger — a structure that fits the genre’s appeal perfectly. There are 70 in-game H scenes spread across different enemies and traps, with roughly 10–20 animations per enemy, plus scenes you can only reach through side quests and a stack of Game Over animations on top. The gallery then lets you replay everything, with looping and zoom available for most scenes, so you’re not forced to grind a fight again just to revisit a favorite. The tag spread — interspecies, violation, compulsion, dub-con — tells you exactly what flavor this is going for, and the sheer animation count suggests the budget went where it counts.

The Witch's Night of Vengeance — highlight scene

Two design choices stand out as genuinely considerate. First, difficulty is fully adjustable: Easy Mode exists specifically so players who are here for the porn but aren’t great at action games can still see everything, while Hard Mode is there for people who want the soulslike to actually bite. Second, the gore is optional. This is a deliberately blood-soaked world, and the violent finishers are flagged with a “FATALITY” prompt so you get a window to escape before one plays out — and if you’d rather not see any of it, the gore toggle blacks those moments out entirely. For a game this graphic, building in that kind of off-switch shows the team thought about the squeamish end of its audience instead of assuming everyone wants the same intensity.

What doesn’t

The Witch's Night of Vengeance — drawback example scene

The core tension is structural: this is a soulslike where defeat is the reward. On Hard Mode, the better you play, the less porn you see — and the more porn you chase, the more you’re deliberately throwing fights, which saps the combat of the stakes that make a soulslike satisfying in the first place. Easy Mode and the respec system soften this, but the two halves of the design are always pulling in slightly different directions, and how much that bothers you depends entirely on whether you came for the action or the animations.

The other honest caveat is the content itself. The grotesque, gore-heavy presentation and the non-consensual framing — violation, compulsion, dub-con — are central, not incidental. The toggles help with the blood, but they don’t change what the H scenes actually depict, and there’s no softening the dub-con angle if that’s a line for you. This is a game that knows its niche and commits to it hard; just go in clear-eyed about what that niche is.

Who should buy this

The Witch's Night of Vengeance — target audience scene

Buy this if you want a real action game first and an eroge second, and your tastes run dark — dark fantasy, gore, interspecies, and non-con are the whole point. Players who like build-crafting, weapon variety, and a defeat-driven H loop will get the most out of it, and the Easy Mode safety net means even action-game novices can still unlock the full gallery. Anyone who needs consensual content or a low-violence experience should skip it outright; the toggles cover the blood, not the themes.

Verdict

The Witch's Night of Vengeance — final verdict visual

8 / 10 — a surprisingly meaty soulslike with a generous, well-integrated H gallery and thoughtful difficulty and gore options, held back only by the inherent friction between playing well and wanting to lose, and by content that will be a hard filter for many.

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