VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - DreamLink [v0.2 Public] [Noctus Games]

5/5 for a starter, too bad we may never see the ending.
Renders are top tier, dialog are intesesting, concept is neat.
Sex scene is really good.
Hope the author can continue soon, no sign from him anywhere.

8.5/10

So Far so Good,

It have nice character designs, quite interesting story in a well paced manner. Kinda reminds me of Eternum in someway.

Hopefully the upcoming updates will turn it up a notch with interesting scenes.

I'm really enjoying DreamLink! The story has me hooked, especially because the characters are so interesting. All the girls are definitely standouts; they are gorgeous.

The visuals are also impressive. The character models are beautiful. The environments are well-designed. The animation is smooth and adds to the overall experience.

Overall, this is a fantastic game! It easily gets 10 out of 10 from me. The characters are engaging, the story is interesting, and the visuals are top-notch. Definitely worth checking out!

In a vacuum this game would be mediocre but acceptable. However lets look into the substance a bit. The MC moves to a new city to attend school. Among the characters the MC knows; cute nerdy gamer childhood best friend, older social media model sister, single lonely milf mother. Then there is a mysterious corporation that unveils a new implant that allows users to interact in a dream world. Sounding familiar yet? Well it not only sounds familiar it looks familiar, down to even the banner art. There is a difference between inspiration and outright plagiarism.

Aside from that scumbagery, the MC is a internal monologuing pervert. He is CONSTANTLY ogling every female character while describing it... It is a VISUAL novel, we can see the characters. Describing it in detail just makes the MC seem creepy. Finally there is a strange juxtaposition between an attempted foreboding narrative and the unbearably cheesy conversations between MC and the girls. I can't see rating this higher than a 2/5 with the overwhelming amount of copying.

Review for v0.2
"Dreamlink" is an underrated gem. The story is shaping up to be quite interesting and unique, with a nice pace in progression. The romances are starting off nicely, though some feel a bit unnatural with how quickly things escalate. However, the dialogue is complex and interesting enough to make up for it.

The graphics in this game are very good. The love interests (LIs) are attractive, and the scenes are animated well. The quality of the visuals really enhances the overall experience.

Overall, "Dreamlink" deserves more recognition. With its engaging story, high-quality visuals, and well-written dialogue, it's definitely worth giving a try. I'd give it a solid five stars.

Removed prior Review due to abandoned status. It's a shame for what it turned out but there's just not enough game in this to justify downloading a 0.2 that might never continue. Steer away and look for something else.

Finally sat down and did my first playthrough on this.

First I want to say that this game is not a clone of that other game. It might be inspired by some elements, here and there, but at no point during my playthrough did I feel like I had been to any of those places before, or seen any of those faces.

Dreamlink has it all. Good dialogues, beautiful characters, a great interface and a super interesting story that reminds me of something (not just Inception, which the game references itself), but I can't put my finger on it. I'm thinking of Dark (the series) and Ripples here but I'm probably off the mark.

I am ESPECIALLY happy that I don't need a walkthrough mod or anything like that. The game tells you when you make the right choice and it also tells you whether you're on the girls' paths or not.

I also like that the story picks up rather quickly.

I can't wait for the characters to link their dreams and see what they come up with, and how that's going to become relevant to the story.

My only concern right now is the same I have for that other game - I hope that most sexual scenes will happen in the real world. But that's a personal thing.

I encourage everybody to give this a try. It's damn worth it.

Game is amazing graphics looks good, lis is not that bad either.
I really like the MC, MC is a total simp, a wimpy-ass MC, he's a weak ass too doesn't have a decent level of strength, when he was working out with not-Dalia, dat scene shows how much of a weak-ass MC is.
Dialogues is so nice, totally immature and dramatic dialogue, some scenes is too cringey like doesn't make sense at all, animation of characters is well done.
Music is good too, art is awesome, dev-kun have alot of potentials I believe he can make an excellent copy, really like the game, Good luck with your journey man!!!

Story 3/5
Story is meh and MC is shit, im getting so tierd of perveted MCs with a mindset of a 12 year old, constantly having to think how good every single girl looks and how great their tits are small or big no matter anything goes for a pervert right...its cringy and annoying and should be left for the players to deside what they think is hot or not.

MC is also a pervert and its out of your controle, your forced to watch the mother play with her self which is proberly the last thing i ever wanted to see personaly since im just not into her or big tits and dont like games the forces fetishes on you like this either.

Game talks about having choices due to the relationship system where you can close down a LIs path, but yet it forces shit on you anyway, no clue why devs think everyone is into every fetish, i find it a bit stupid and it would be so easy just adding a go away button so you dont have to watch stuff you dont want to.

As for main story im not really sure yet its a bit meh and not unique in anyway, you will have seen it all before so it really needs to up its game and start creating a unique and good story.

For content there really isent much to come for yet i would say wait quite a few more updates before playing it.

Girls 3/5
Well i do like HS2 and the girls look ok but the diversity in builds is pretty shitty, main focus is on big tit fetish which i personaly arent into in any way, and even Lucy whos a little smaller then everyone else still feels on the bigger side, so no smols at all.

Animations 3/5
Well its again nothing you havent seen before and its just average.

Music 3/5
Standard background stuff nothing special.

Choices 3/5
Cant say for sure if it works or not, game does claim that you can turn down a LIs path but theres just not enough content yet to test that out.

As it is right now its really just an avaerge game with little content so thats what i will rate it as for now, it can still become better or worse.

4/5 - Never quite does anything especially well.

The overall plot is kinda interesting - there's some weird magitech dream manipulation thing happening, and the MC is stuck in the middle of it.

Unfortunately, the scene-to-scene writing isn't that great. Characters spend a lot of time bringing each other up to speed and doing exposition dumps with minimal personality.

The models are pretty good, but the more you look at them the more you see flaws. The clearest example is how Hailey, the sporty girl, has stick-thin arms.

It also feels like the game is rushing to the sex too quickly in order to give the audience something to be distracted by. At the current rate, I'd expect the MC to be sleeping with the girls after like 5 in-game days. I'm dubious that the pacing will feel appropriate long-term.

Great solid game so far, interesting story potential. Girls are stunning (Abi with glasses )
Grammar isn't a tangled mess translated by Google which is a massive + in my book.
Really excited to see where this goes!

i gotta say, it is simple and intriguing to see a game that is back to the basics, what made these games good in the first place.
it is not focused on the naughty parts, but at the story itself. It revealed just enough to have my interest. I miss games like these and the only two complaints that i have, it is short and the MC doe's not have any negative regards to his relationships. It makes less human, but it is refreshing to have a game that has a positive energy to it. The game is new so i will keep looking forward to the new updates in the future, keep it up

really good, story is interesting and girls are super hot.. That Abi.. Wow. Want to see more of the world and more of the girls. Evertyone likeable so far and interested to see how it goes.
Still early phase so not too many scenes. just a lot of teasing. Hopefully people give this one a chance and fund it!

Writing this as of V0.2

Personally, I think this game is a little over-hated. Does it slightly resemble another title that we all love? Yea... a bit, especially at first. But as it starts to develop I think it'll differentiate more and more. Plus, it's not like this is just beginner shlock that's riding off of the coattails of other popular things. The character designs are pretty good, the renders and animations are solid, and overall it's a pretty well polished VN. I only really write reviews when I think something deserves more love and this is certainly that.

Maybe I'm done, maybe I'm not (stopped at the throne scene/ taking a break). This AVN was amazing. I really like the dream aspect of this game, and all the characters look insanely good.

The main character doesn't look like the standard Steve skin in MC, so that's a big plus.

I am looking forward to new materials, I have a feeling that this AVN will become one of the best IMO. I hope that you will continue this project and others forever (as long as you receive compensation, there are no slaves here).

I also can't believe I saw a meaningless essay about how your AVN might run into problems. Let the creator do his job, dude, this is just the first chapter. Introduction, there's a lot more to come. I'm talking about some bugs/problems here, and that's fine, but the bro just went crazy.

It's a pretty good first episode with a very cute image and great trainers. but it has great potential to be a great game in itself.



I would say that the biggest weakness of this first episode was the obscene scene with the masked girl at the throne, which was very general and harsh and did not have much development, especially if she is going to become one of the main characters in the future. I hope that the scenes with the other girls will be more elaborate, especially the animation, because it has such great renderings from the very beginning.



I also noticed a few typos, but nothing too serious. There's also an episode where the host and Hayley set a date, which doesn't make much sense, where she asks if Sunday is suitable and he confirms and then asks her if Sunday is suitable, so you might want to explore that.

Sci-fi? Check. Harem? Check. Decent variety of characters without too, too many? Check. Maybe I'm just a simple man to please but the story diverged/developed enough that I'm definitely excited for v0.3!

Game is great and the story is developing into something interesting with amazing renders and a step up from the first episode with a lot of stuff with 0.2. Keep it up and this game could be really awesome in the future.

At the end of the day, the biggest cardinal sin of this AVN isn't that it feels like a rip-off of better games that came before it, or that the character designs look same-y and hardly distinct from one another, or that said characters look like mannequins that move but barely had any facial movements or expressions that make them look creepy and unlife-like, or that the soundtrack is so forgettable you barely realize it's there.

No, this AVN's biggest sin is that it's boring. It's mostly setup with hardly any exciting or interesting moment to balance the tedious and bland dialogue and events that feel like uninspired rehashes from other slice-of-life AVNs. You know it's bad when you can basically skip through most of it and when you go back to reading far ahead you feel like you don't have to backtrack because you missed a noteworthy lore drop or character development scene.

Add to this are the lewds, which are just as uninteresting and lack that "tittilating" factor to get one interested in viewing them. I know it's early days, but early chapter lewds should make me anticipate future scenes with the LIs, not leave me bored that I don't see the point to continue.

Overall, it's a lackluster snoozefest with average (albeit competently shot) renders, and with the current version (0.2) it's best to avoid even when you're bored.

Very nice renders and models. The characters all look great. Overall, the presentation is really nice, plus the main plot is interesting so far. Although there are a few caveats...

The choices are not good, honestly. Mostly, they revolve around whether or not you will give a compliment to the girls. I think by far the worst choice you can make is whether or not you accompany Abigail on the campus tour, because if you don't, you lose her path. I just don't understand the purpose of that.

There are a few better ways to handle something like that. The simpler alternative is to not have a choice at all, but an even better one is to be able to reject, unlocking an alternative path without losing Abigail's path.

The same type of choice repeats itself throughout the game. It's actually really easy to lose the girl's paths. Just let us choose in the moment if we want to date the girl or not, no reason to lock players out of content just because they don't want to get involved with an LI.

The MC is not supposed to be a creep, because that's not how the game portrays him, but unfortunately he is. He stares like an idiot at every new girl and he will repeat it with the girls he know if they're wearing anything they haven't worn before. A comment or two is enough, don't go on a rant about how beautiful they are. No one is that much of a simp that they simp on a loop in their own thoughts. Well, I'm sure there are a few exceptions, but who wants to play someone like that, right?

Luckily, this is not unfixable. Chances to regain an LI's path could be given later on, but it remains to be seen if the dev will lock you out of her path forever or not.

Aside from that, pretty decent start. If we get more choices regarding the LIs and the dev gives us more leeway in how the MC acts, the game has the potential to be great.