Dead End Aegis

Dead End Aegis
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Metacritic
87
Steam
58.5
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$29.99
Release date
14 January 2022
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87 (33 votes)

Extraterrestrial invaders have come to take over Earth, and only an elite force of "magical girls" that have been infused with alien superpowers can stop them.

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Dead End Aegis system requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows 7/8/10
  • Processor: 1.4 GHz or better
  • Graphics: 1280×720, DirectX 9.0c
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

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undeadAlic3
undeadAlic3

The sex scenes are overly gratuitous even though the game clearly wants to use them to further bolster its themes about normalisation of abuse, sacrificing the few for the benefit of the many and how sex can be used to control individuals. It´s disappointing the VN squanders its potential to appeal to its presumably male audience by compromising on its own artistic integrity. The perspective is always placed in a way to present the girls in the most sexually desirable way possible in spite of the horrific acts of sexual abuse, undermining their message.

As a result, the poignancy of the story was lost on me. I would not recommend reading this as it ends up resulting in a tale with fetishistic levels of pornography that does not contribute to the story the VN so clearly wants to tell.

Also thank you to steam for wiping out my full 7 paragraph review when I had to leave for like a few minutes and steam is just like "You won´t be needing that review anymore".

Pro tip: Write your steam reviews on another program or you will lose them XD

PorpleYamz
PorpleYamz

Honestly traumatising, but that's what it's aimed for anyways..............................................................................................Aight plot though. 10/10, if you want trauma! >:)

Die for me
Die for me

So, I finished DEA w\o desire to skip text to sex scenes, because it was actually fine to read from beginning to end. This is a well-written dark mahou shoujo sci-fi horror... porn, yes.

As porn: 10\10. Don't need any patches, game full and uncensored in this steam release. Great voice acting, good scenes. I can describe main genre as "hentai horror". Not a "hentai with horror", but exactly "hentai horror"(If you gonna read this you will probably get what I mean), and this is really unusual expirience which I liked. Also I was affraid that there gonna be a lot of scenes with tentacles, but most of h-scenes fortunately with humans.

As story: 7.5\10(for long route). This is still pretty unique work, with overwhelming depressive atmosphere that well-made and makes you feel really immersive in it, but soon you will have feeling like you are reading some porn version of Kafka. Well, this have to be expected from dark close-to-nukige work about raping magical girls, but I'm personally don't like when plot go like this. Sometimes the plot became very stupid even within the rules of it's own universe, like excuse just to have some more sex scenes, which was the reason why I don't like the short route. Long one feels just more logical and rational for me.

Gore: a very little of it. This is not some maggot baits, so if you are not super-sensitive person I guess you gonna be fine.

Overall score: 8\10

Very sad to see just 19 reviews after 1 year, this work deserves more.

FiresideFox
FiresideFox

It can be hard to read. The game drags you down with the main character, and you just feel emotionally battered. If you're willing to look past that, Dead End Aegis has a really powerful story to tell about humanity and about the goodness of heart that one girl has. I do recommend this title, although I recommend steeling your will as you descend into hell and back.

royalflush
royalflush

Where do I begin?

I’m used to seeing gore, rape, and all kinds of graphic stuff in visual novels, so I really thought I knew what to expect from DEA.…I think I would’ve been able to stomach this a lot better if it were just plain torture porn, and not a horrifying, soul-crushing, psychosexual corruption tale like this one was throughout most of the story; I had to take a few breaks from reading this because it made me feel so, so much.

Still, if you looked this up and still bought it knowing what you might see, no amount of discomfort will get you to stop reading it. It’ll hook you in, beat you down, make you consider dropping it, give you hope, just to beat you down again - rinse and repeat, you get the gist. Some things that happen close to both “main” endings felt off… fortunately, in both instances everything had been concluded very beautifully. Dead End Aegis is a visual novel most people would not be able to start, much less finish. But for most of those who’ve finished it, it’s undoubtedly unforgettable in all the best ways.

YhelloWish
YhelloWish

The Sci-fi Magical Girls
I normally not a fan of magical girls but this visual novel exceed my expectation, it's opened my eyes for Magical genre now I'm going to watch other magical girl anime like Sailor moon, Madoka etc.
Every texts are worth reading including H scene
No need to wait for sale the game is worth more than the current price
You don't need to download 18+ patch just install and good to go
The illustrations are beautiful to look at
The music very good on par with Hiroyuki Sawano Level
The fight scenes are epic intense, satisfying sound effect.

They should make 1 hour prologue movie (Dead End Aegis Gaiden) made by WIT, Bone, Mad House that'd be awesome
I played many visual novels and this is my all time number one favorite visual novel

I can't recommenced this game for everyone it contain lots of mind break scenes and might hurt your mental health.
If you think you have strong mental health then you're good to try.

Now I'm waiting for Dead End Aegis Another Record English translation

Hyperion
Hyperion

This is going to live rent free in my head for months, perhaps years on down the line. The primary emotion I felt during this experience was Anger, followed by Sadness, followed by Disgust. If someone put a gun to my head an asked me to summarize the plot, I could do so by simply saying "and then things got worse". At times, it felt like Dead End Aegis was looking me in the eye and saying "Isn't this what you wanted? This is why you bought the game, right?" As some of the most heinous and gruesome things I've ever seen play out on screen. And make no mistake, this game is a dark, harrowing, soul crushing one that had me hoping against hope that our main girls would make it through the hell they found themselves in with at least *some* shred of dignity, and failing that at least their sanity. I won't spoil anything beyond the obvious fact that this is a game where very, very, VERY awful things happen to people that don't deserve them... and both despite and because of that, I can comfortably say Dead End Aegis is one of my favorite media experiences ever.

I don't know if I should recommend this game, if only because I genuinely don't think it's the kind of game many people could sit through and actually get something out of. But I could. And at the end of the day all I have to go off of is my own experiences. If you are squeamish, react poorly to tragedy, or have a bad history with mental and physical abuse, I can honestly say that it shouldn't be played. But if you think you can handle that, then you should, and witness one of the most bleak, but emotionally compelling stories I have ever seen.

And if you somehow managed to play this game and NOT find yourself feeling empathy for the Main girls, I recommend you seek mental help.

Graciaus
Graciaus

100% took almost 18 hours reading at a fast pace.

Dead End Aegis is what you get when you combine aspects of Muv-Luv and Madoka Magica. Instead of building a rich story and deep lore though it is mainly just torture porn. Expect little else besides hours of sexual harassment, abuse and the humiliation of women. How this game was released on Steam but countless others were rejected is a mystery to me. You'd have to be an absolute degenerate to enjoy this.

4 choices, 2 routes, and 3 endings. You can get a bad ending early and miss the optional route completely depending on your choices. I was at 90% after reading both and using the other choices get me 100%. But the final scene I had to skip until nearly the end.

Voice acting and art are great. Music has some excellent tracks. Story is stupid but makes sense at the end.

Minoriiiii

Mordefire
Mordefire

(18+ UNCENSORED) Eroge
CW: Rape, torture, death, sexism, racism, dehumanization, humilation, ugly bastards, tentacles and more.

It's not a fap material despite the very graphic sexual/nude scenes.
Unless...( ಠ ʖಠ)...

It is intense, if you can't stomach stuff like that then turn around and never look back.

There's no decoy screen to hide what you are playing, so I would reccomend just tapping "arrow up" to display backlog. It will cover the entire screen, and the moans as well as the screams of agony will stop.

It's basically madoka magica for adults. I didn't expect it to be as good as it was.

I will cite someone else since they managed to describe it even better "It's Madoka Magica with aliens, testacle monsters, corrupt civilization and military power which exploited war economics and polítics"

Very well written and engaging dark sci-fi story, that takes place in the year 2108. Mankind comes together under the "United Earth Forces", in order to defeat the aliens. The only ones that stand a chance against the aliens are "magical girls" that have been infused with alien superpowers.

The protagonist of this story was saved by a magical girl, and she decides to become one(Little did she know what would await her...)
Being a "magical girl" is far from awesome. It's a term that's being used in order to lure in young, naive girls, since what they are really signing up doesn't sound as good... Once they are lured in by propaganda, they are sent to space, unable to seek help nor tell the world what's really going on...Being forced to fight for the survival of mankind.

The 18+ scenes are rly well done and feel integral to the story, they rly set the tone and perfectly fit the story.

I didn't expect an eroge to hook me in this much. I can see it becoming one of my favourite stories.
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What I like about is that despite the sci-fi premise it feels real. It would be naive to say that stuff like that never happen(ed) IRL, It's what makes this story hit extra hard.

On a sidenote.

If you are a woman be prepared to feel extra uncomfortable during certain scenes
ಥ_ಥ ...The things they did with the genitals, oof. I had to pause a lot during those scenes seeing a drill like machine going inside, electrocution just to name a few

I nominated it for "OUTSTANDING STORY-RICH GAME AWARD" -2022
It won't win but it had my vote
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I decided to review it fairly early into the story to avoid spoiling it too much, and slightly edited it after playing more.

Hawt n Spiceh meat
Hawt n Spiceh meat

simply ebin.

Family friendly content for all mentlegen of culture from all walks and fetishes of life. You want wholesome you got it, you want the deepest and darkest "culture" right from the devil's butthole, you got it.

A true work of art. I love it.

aliLATER
aliLATER

This game was an emotional roller coaster..if you come for the "plot" oh boy does it get dark and heavy. Their came a point were my heart was full of sadness and i wanted the game to be over but i couldn't give up on the MC or on me. I had to stay mentally strong and as hard as some parts were hard to watch this game was truly a masterpiece. Stunning visuals, amazing music and the voice acting was TOP TIER. I would recommend it but you have to really commit haha good luck to all who play this game :) Also expect to only make like 2 choices the whole game.

cutureii
cutureii

30 dollars for 300 dollars worth of therapy. 10/10 would recommend

xblindladyx
xblindladyx

At this point of writing I have almost 100% the game and I will give a spoiler free review of it.

Imagine you're walking a dog down the street. The dog steps on broken glass, you get stabbed by a homeless man, you're robbed and stripped completely naked. Somebody stabs you with dirty needles giving you every type of hepatitis along with super AIDS. Every step of the way it somehow gets worse. Any glimmer of hope you have is eventually snuffed out and you are left empty and hollow on the sidewalk. That's what the story is like.
The writing is brutally and horrifically amazing. The art is deranged and disgustingly beautiful. You see what the characters see, you feel what the characters feel. I have now been enlightened on the ways to destroy the mind, body and spirit. I didn't know that there would be a piece of work that would make me turn to SONG OF SAYA as a more relaxing, chill and overall less scarring experience.

10/10, Cannot recommend anyone to play this but if you WANT to bear witness to extreme rape, torture, and ethics violations to some cute anime girls then here you go you sick bastards.

AtMostFear
AtMostFear

ABSOLUTE STUNNING! …and one of the harshest/cruellest visual novels I have ever read.

If I am to draw a metaphor. Dead End Aegis is like a dessert made from finest grade of dark chocolate neatly molded into a shape of an utterly gruesome abomination.
So ugly.
So warped.
So bitter.
So delicate.
So delicious.
So high-quality.
This is not some average tasteless torture porn.

The plot / the characters / the art are all masterpieces of work without doubt. They do not hold back to shatter your heart into pieces, though. And you may take the hit harder if 'typical' magical girl is your type.

At some point the story will branch into two main routes, the shorter one and the longer one. Upon completing two branches you will see the story from 'both sides'.
I personally recommend that you go for the shorter one first because of how the story of two routes intertwined. But it is not that serious. In my playthrough I played the longer route first (cuz I chose it blind) and I enjoyed the vn completely fine.

For those who want to know where is the branch of the story
The chapter where the branch located is : “Crossroads”
The choice to shorter route : --“Send Group 14 out of the Cathedral”--
The choice to longer route : ----“Keep Group 14 in the Cathedral"----
If the choices do not appear in this chapter, that means previous choices compel you to go on a certain route.

So? Recommend? Product's quality is not in question here, your heart fortitude is in question instead.

Let me repeat. This is not some average tasteless torture porn. This is a wholesome top-tier masterpiece.