Ren'Py - Daybreak Nightbreak [v9.7] [Mr. Scribbly]

Daybreak Nightbreak is a harem VN pretending at a level of management sim.

I say pretending because outside of the VN aspects chatting up girls, the "management sim" consists of hitting the work button. Working gets you money which lets you buy upgrades to increase the amount of money you get by working in order to unlock more expensive upgrades. That's it. You get a number of oft repeated events while working that increase your money a bit, but as you need to work a hundred times or more in order to advance one of the stories, it's all just an annoying waste of time. It's certainly not an asset to the game.

As to the VN portion, it's fine but pretty thin. The girls are awfully one dimensional, the MC is uninteresting, and for some unexplainable reason the writer feels allergic to actually advancing the story. He hints, he insinuates, and he implies all sorts of things relentlessly but it never seems like we learn anything solid or substantially advance the story. It's frustrating because the game really needs an interesting story as the girls, the gameplay and the horny really can't carry it by itself.

Daybreak Nightbreak might have an interesting fantasy story hidden within it, but after many hours trying to find it I've got nothing. You can only tease about a story for so long before players are going to want some payoff. If the individual girls' storylines were stronger maybe the lack of advancement in the main story would be more forgivable, but instead most of the game feels like filler content.

Very well made, and there's a significantly higher amount of well made scenes, as well as content in general in this game as compared to many other first releases, characters are well written, but I would like to see a higher variety of things we can do with the girls.

This game despite using generic theme pulled me in at first. MC has hidden powers to get in to girls panties was done many times over and over, but for some reason I enjoyed the story to a certain point.

• Sandbox. Love properly made sandbox game. Sandbox in my personal view is where you have a lot of freedom. No grind, no click fest, but you can choose who you chase after first and the story changes depending on which u chose to chase or chose not to and decisions you made. This game failed in this aspect. Sandboxes in this game 90% linear and you have to sleep with all girls whatever you want it or not.
• Store management. Click fest. All you do is spam the same option to make money and then buy properties. So simply put no management. Why even put it in tags?
• Characters. Diverse but some stories ruined it for me since I cannot skip them. For example Tsumi. Fist as a player who plays the game through the eyes of MC I was ripped from the game into reality. MC in the story has 2 entities one that give power to get all girls and another that is the player (you behind the screen). Tsumi communicates with player and kind of falls for you the player not MC. Then she tells you that the only way to please you is to fuck MC lol. Ruined all role-play for me completely and the fact that I can skip her story made it worst. So basically her story is I love you the player, so please watch me fuck MC I hope it pleases you. If I wanted to see a girl being fucked by some dude I would just watch porn rather than playing game or read stories where I can live a life of MC from first person perspective. In this Tsumi’s story u either the cuck (the player behind the screen) or horny asshole (MC) who fuck the girl who like someone else, but she is such a good slut that she will fuck anyone for you to enjoy being the cuck. Another example would be Jodi. She is the WIFE of some wealthy businessmen. Your power corrupts her and you will fuck her. For me cheating is cheating no matter if the girl cheats on you or cheats with you on someone else. Again can’t skip her story. Also during her story you play as one of female characters, not watching her side of the story playing it, remember it’s sandbox. This part where I had to play the game through her angle also was a deal breaker for me since I like to play games through eyes of MC. Another one would be the girl in relationship with another girl that helps you to discover your powers, but she cheats on her loved on with you. Again can’t skip that crap. Why? Well linear sandbox game!!! You have to fuck all or don’t play.
• MC is a nice guy? Always tries to what’s right? At least I got that impression form dialogs, but considering examples I posted above is he really?

Overall this game left bad impression on me despite the fact that I enjoyed first hour of the game. By the way travelling system sucks big one and needs to be redone completely. As a developer you can’t please everyone with your stories, what I didn’t like might be someone else cup of tea. That is why other developers give players choices.

Review for v9.5

It's a harem game with some mystery involved. MC is a decent guy that suddenly got horny powers so he has no choice but to use them for greater good.

Pros:
- Girls with different personalities and skin colors
- Public sex as in sex in front of another girl
- Plenty of animated POV sex scenes
- Active developer that listens to user feedback

Cons:
- UI isn't great