Unity - Completed - Dusk Pub [v1.1.2 + DLC] [YellowDuckWorks]

this was a pretty good game, not very long, so not much of a grind, about 5hrs for me, became easy once you had virtually infinite money due to opening branches. Girls were pretty generic, but their art was nice.

[8/10] Had a good amount of fun with this one. Art style is nice and managing the pub was okay. A certain mechanic in the game introduced early on allowed me to go through the whole game relying solely on passive income so that did heavily ruin the magic of running the pub but it was still a pleasing game to finish. Scenes were decent too. Some scenes were evidently more detailed for certain girls than others but overall quality was good.

This whole game is Yakuza 0's cabaret mini game. That mini game is really fun and Dusk Pub pretty much copy pastes it. However, it's not as involved as Yakuza 0. There are a total of 9 girls and you can have a max of 8 girls serving your bar at any time. Additionally, there's 5 other mini games to help with resources. Each of the girls has their own mini storyline and two hentai scenes. The hentai scenes are not uniform. There are some scenes that are animated mini games and some that are still pictures with text. The overall story is simple and nothing amazing.

It's basically an R18 version of the Cabaret Club minigame from Yakuza 0, but simplified and with far more distracting animations during the Operating phase. Fills a very very specific niche, but the girls are very nicely designed and decently animated.

Great game, but the mechanics subtract from the eroticism.

Gameplay - 3/5
It's a well constructed hostess club simulator. It feels like extra care has been directed towards coding the game. Early game is slow and kinda boring, and late game is fast paced and fun. However, the gameplay doesn't have anything sexual in it and takes away from the erotic nature of the game.

Eroticism - 2/5
Sexual content is good, an animation and set of AI CG images per girl with some pretty erotic scenes. However, the gameplay is not erotic, and therefore there is no build up of eroticism. Ideally, gameplay should keep you on the edge or build up to the climax.

Graphics - 3/5
The AI CG is well done. I haven't noticed any inconsistencies like I have in other works nor attempts at hiding hands. Nothing's really wowed me and I can see this style getting old with time, but for now it's fair.

Writing - 3/5
A lot of dialogue that didn't catch my attention, neither good nor bad. So skip.

Music - 2/5
I've heard this music many times. It's good enough to set a tone, but it's overuse is beginning to weigh on me.

Very simple management game with a short and sweet story.

A big plus for me is the minimal grind to the game, and entirely avoidable minigames.

The scenes are somewhat generic but they do look pretty nice.

You get story events with all the girls as you level up their affection, some of them are interesting enough to read through, and all of them are short so it's pretty easy to skip through if you just wanna get to the H-scenes.

Translation is good, no bugs, great.

4/5 Nothing that stands out, but no complaints.

Finished the game today. Was pretty average in my opinion. You can dismiss the whole Story (ctrl is your friend) because it's kinda whatever.
The Gameplay is kinda fun but loses it's purpose if you have enough passive income. (you still have to do it for another ressource but you can just sit there for the shift)

The animations are okay, just loops with Live2d.

A last point is the slow transition between scenes. If you want to acoid these start the game with Applocale or change your system to japanese. Then the countdown is also working. (shoutout to the guys who mentioned this in this thread)

just completed this game. and the only crash i got war when challenge Potius. i just restarted the game and then i was able to do the challenges. you are forced to lose to him, it is part of the story. and i dont see they big problem with it.

the story is ok, for a porn game. rather consistent compared to some of the porn games out there.

there is too much game and too little porn in it for my taste. but it's not bad, it's above average.

The gameplay is pretty simple, and quite fun for a bar managing type of game, but... it is VERY buggy.
The transitions are very awkward, the in game clock doesnt work, in the VN portion of the game, when the scene changes, there is a huge delay and feels like the game has crashed or something, but you just need to wait for up to a minute for it to load.
There is also a bug when choosing the maids in your team, one of mine just vanished from the options. Also i got stuck at the "challenge potius" mission for some reason. I beat him, but the game tells me that i lose for some reason. Its frustrating.