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No that makes it a corruption game which trainer games are a sub-genre of. Like I said Trainer games are single perspective titles where you play as "the Trainer" intent on the corruption one or more people around you. By your own description you're effectively playing the role of narrator, a disconnected third person role, making decisions for each character at specific story points which makes it a Choose Your Own Adventure game with a corruption story. Just for further illustration the point if anything it sounds like this is less like the trainers you mentioned, which I have played all of, and more like the typical "coming of age" female protag game where the 18 to 20 something sheltered girl moves to the big city and after being exposed to the big bad lewd world chooses between going full on uber slut, just being kinda slutty so she can make rent every month, or somewhere in-between. Even if complete corruption of Daphne, and presumably Velma eventually, is the only way to finish the game I'd still at best call it a hybrid that's trainer adjacent rather than an actual trainer although it could be made into a true trainer if you changed it so that Red is giving her instructions as to what to do with Fred and Shaggy. It's worth noting this would also clarify the nature of the NTR aspect of the games cause it would be unquestionably netorase.But it is explicitly about training Daphne. You cannot chose to have her not be corrupted. Unless you just play the same loop of "Search for clues" over and over again, but that would be a bit obtuse.
If you want Daphne to blow Fred, first she has to be taught how by Red. Doing so increases a corruption stat. The higher the stat the more you can convince her to do. This is like the definition of a trainer game. See 4 elements trainer, something unlimited, or Witch Trainer.
Just to be clear I'm not trying to bust your balls here. Just trying to point out it's not really a trainer and if you keep calling it one odds are your gonna get a lot more questions and complaints than if you just called it a corruption story or retooled it slightly to actually be a true trainer.