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HimeYoku: A Sacrifice of Lust and Grace

Adventure

Developer Escu:de

Hell-bent on vengeance, Caldo single-handedly topples the royal throne of Solide, capturing the king and the princess and working their ruin through his dark contracts with demons. A visual novel about hate and revenge... and possibly redemption. From the Steam store page

21 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Aug 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works

Audience score

81
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17 positive · 4 negative
95% range 60–92%

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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
181 of 198 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

What people are saying

Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.

Reactions

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  • Steam user Steam user …4619Steam reviews · Sep 12, 2022 · 12 h played

    Warning : Content NSFW and has ALOT of non-consent Usual content patch available at publishers usual site for free. Game is a dark fantasy and emphasis on the DARK. Stepping away from the non-consent side of issues. There are a lot of scenes with a wide range of girls. Game has a standard training mechanics vs stam for the main part of the game outside of the visual novel. There are several different endings and it is impossible to get on one playthru due to the caps involved. The scenes with…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0868Steam reviews · Sep 23, 2022 · 13 h played

    Finally have the time to write a review for this game after completing it offline. In summary, should you buy this game? HELL YES. The theme of the VN features Corruption + Vanilla. Yes, how often do you see Corruption & Vanilla in one sentence? Go figure Pros - You get 20 - 40 hours of gameplay time (depending on whether you decided to skip read text) with 4 different possible endings (2 Priest endings + 2 Princess endings; each with good & bad ending) - Easier combat mechanics compared to…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0638Steam reviews · Sep 22, 2022 · 25 h played

    Overall, HimeYoku is for fans of the "forced" type of nukige, but don't like a NTR ending or such. Everything are just "brutally wholesome".... which might sound contradictory but is actually pretty satisfying if you are into that kinda doujins.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4910Steam reviews · Sep 9, 2022 · 3 h played

    18+ Dark fantasy VN + quality art/music + cute waifus = A classic story of vengeance containing 20+ hours of entertaining story. Solid voice acting. Ample waifus, and I mean "ample." Go get em' [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35180752-3-point-play/] Follow our curator for similar games

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  • Steam user Steam user …8157Steam reviews · Aug 15, 2026 · 1 h played

    Weak storyline, shallow characters and taking forceful, sexual advantage of innocent women for fun and revenge. The first might be okay to some. The second might be okay to some. The last point however? I feel deeply offended... And if you fail to hook the audience within the first hour? Says a lot about this game. The voices are the only good part about it. I have refunded about two games during my time on Steam. This will be the third!

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  • Steam user Steam user …7349Steam reviews · Apr 10, 2025

    I was hoping for a different direction of "Darker Storyltelling" but all this is, is an empowerment fantasy, that will likely glorify it's fetishism. Its just a power fantasy, the lamest kind of storytelling, especially in Eroges. I was hoping for maybe, I dunno, a more organic feeling story that delves into darker themes, but instead it just drops you into the deep end of the pool, narritively speaking and provides the most tonal whiplash of wholesome begining to orphans being sacrificed…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1236Steam reviews · Aug 22, 2026 · 12 h played

    Love this one, i need more like this

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  • Steam user Steam user …3385Steam reviews · Jun 7, 2025

    A brutal, depressing torture porn where the villian tortures a lot of innocent people to get his apparently "justified" revenge and is in the end completly forgiven instead of executed. Also buggy, i spend 9 hours on this but it doesnt show. (Edit: Now it shows, months later) Not sure if the 18+ patch changes anything, but i would hate the story regardless.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0613Steam reviews · Jan 21, 2024 · 27 h played

    First time reviewing something on this site. So please don't stone me if I violate any unspoken rule. Gameplay: The game mechanics are very interesting and fun in a challenging way. People that like a strategic approach to things and the challenge of combining multiple tools affecting many attributes at once to achieve the best possible pay-off will really enjoy this one. On the other hand, this is definitely not for you if you dislike repetitive gameplay. While more options and tweaks are…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9688Steam reviews · Oct 7, 2023 · 17 h played

    It's better than I expected. Art is very good, story is interesting enough, and the little "gameplay" you get is based around filling gauges and using the right techniques to get the highest number out of them, which is fun if you enjoy watching the numbers go up. Overall, I had a good time with the game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1388Steam reviews · Sep 29, 2023 · 13 h played

    Quite a interesting VN, i'd give this a 9/10

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  • Steam user Steam user …6224Steam reviews · Sep 20, 2023

    Absolute trash. Game as piss for frame-rate out of the gate. Un-patched, patched, doesn't matter. You can watch the title screen bog-down and feels like an eternity for UI respond to mouse clicks. Even in windowed mode it functions like a DOS relic.... and those at least text and simple graphics popped up when it was supposed to... Refund requested just based on performance... or the inability thereof.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1798Steam reviews · Jul 4, 2026 · 10 h played

    HimeYoku: A Sacrifice of Lust and Grace is a dark fantasy visual novel developed by Escu:de and published by Shiravune. Built around themes of revenge, sacrifice, corruption, and redemption, the game presents a mature narrative that goes beyond simple fantasy tropes. The story follows Caldo, a man whose overwhelming hatred drives him to invade the Kingdom of Solide after forming a pact with demonic forces. His campaign results in the kingdom's downfall and the capture of its royal family,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6808Steam reviews · Dec 18, 2025 · 11 h played

    Is good Wish they would release Primaveil Drei lol

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  • Steam user Steam user …7036Steam reviews · Dec 19, 2024 · 34 h played

    Ngl, wasn't expecting the story to be as interesting as it was. Good game overall, with patch. Has 4 endings both have their respective good and bad routes. The CGs are pretty nice, but be warned, there's A LOT of non-consensual stuff happening here.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4784Steam reviews · Nov 26, 2024 · 8 h played

    without the patch ... mid, with patch ... 1000 out of 5

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  • Steam user Steam user …8085Steam reviews · Jul 7, 2023 · 1 h played

    All girls are very hot!

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  • Steam user Steam user …9516Steam reviews · May 9, 2023 · 4 h played

    I'll going to gives props to the VA and the people who casts them, because the Voice performance was really good and on-spot.But the gameplay was very repetitive, and there's like too many endings for a repetitive gameplay like this. If it was a normal VN, I would enjoyed it more, personally.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7632Steam reviews · Nov 15, 2022 · 8 h played

    If you're a degenerate you will like this game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4289Steam reviews · Sep 20, 2022 · 68 h played

    Dark story, solid, emotional, but somehow feels like it's not round. ~ Nice arts, some have weird proportions or not completely line clean-up but overall is well done. + Protagonist's ♥♥♥♥ scale is all over the place, QC and QA needed. -- Game system. + Choices + Guessing, when execute action in discipline scene, game shows information by size of image, but don't tell you how much points will get, or how much stamina will be consumed, etc. Very bothering --

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  • Steam user Steam user …9636Steam reviews · Sep 18, 2022 · 10 h played

    hardcore bdsm stuff, but if ur into it its peak IF U DOWNLOAD THE PATCH. without it game is useless. the patch is free online u gotta search

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