Metis Zone - A Sex Mage World Survival Horror JRPG

Bex and Jo are off to a year at the fabled Metis Academy! Bex’s excitement to learn the full ins and outs of Sex Magic is matched only by Jo’s dread at being used as a Test Boy by all the horny girls! It seems like it’s going to be another kinky fun time in the Sex Mage World…

…until suddenly, it isn’t. Minutes after they arrive, the world goes black, inhuman growls sound out from the darkness, and screams of pain are cut short by the sounds of ripping meat and boiling blood. Metis Academy has been subsumed by a Terror Zone, and Jo and Bex must now make a desperate run for survival.

METIS ZONE is a short JRPG made with RPG Maker MZ. I am providing the Windows version of the game, as well as a video Let’s Play for those who use different systems, or who would rather just read the dialogue. I will warn this is mostly equivalent to an alpha-build of the game concept: it’s perfectly playable, and the story is complete. But as with my previous RPG Maker project, I am using stock assets pre-packed with the Maker program, there is no music, the story is very short and to the point, I ended up not including some features I initially had planned, the battle system is somewhat lopsided, and my use of an enhanced lighting engine is inelegant at best. I hope you will still find it playable and enjoyable nonetheless.

 You can download the game in a .zip file and the video from this Google Drive folder: 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WO5t8RWdvAPeW1-z8AFv696oghb-d6t6?usp=sharing

And if you like it enough to send me a tip, consider purchasing on itch.io: https://salamando.itch.io/metis-zone

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I am aware this is a game no one asked for and no one wanted, and I’m not entirely sure why I felt so compelled to make it. Perhaps because over the years, despite my attempts at clean breaks, I have never quite been able to rid myself of the impulse to combine the Sex Mage World with the superhero and cosmic horror elements that inform the rest of my settings. It’s just in my nature to make grand connections between my worlds via lore, and the Dark God has come to haunt the entirety of my erotic Multiverse as an easy link in the background.

Ultimately, my flip-flopping on these concepts has lead to me never really doing them justice. I'm not sure this game does an adequate job of it either, but it's at least an attempt to finally portray a Terror Zone in an actual story, and not just lore notes or flash fic glimpses.

Don't worry, though. I made the Sex Mage Multiverse for a reason. The Sex Mage World seen in this game is not the one most stories take place in, and I don't plan to let cosmic horrors and crazy cultists infest the regular SMW stories again. This was just something I had to get off my chest, because I never gave the concept it's due when I had the chance before.