RPGM - Secret Dawn [v0.14] [Haldane]

I love the story line, and although the Male MC looks 5, there's some great art.

With that said, i hate the mini games with a passion. Because of moving tiles i was just constantly shocked at the same level to the point where i had to leave the game.

I'm here to not think, but jerk off, i should not to have a struggle to get to the next scene.

I couldn't make it more than a half hour into this game. The minigames you have to do for the game might be the single most horrendous thing I've ever seen in a porn game. They're unreasonably difficult and supremely glitchy. I got soft-locked twice in the first game because I got the bow, equipped it, and then it just would not come out to let me shoot down the drones. It's a shame cuz what I saw of the animations looked decent but I am not willing to spend 30 minutes bashing my head against a wall just to get one or two scenes.

It's genuinely a terrible game. The positive reviews make 0 sense to me (meaning: I don't trust them.) The gameplay is basically just random minigames, but all of them take way too long and are just straight up busywork. They also tend to softlock the entire game a lot, meaning you might have to start them over and pray you've saved beforehand.

The minigames always have several stages, where you repeat the same basic thing over and over again, for no tangible reward. Sometimes you have to do this several times on a given ingame day. Imagine a random block breaking game with *7 STAGES*.

Other than that, the game has no real instructions on what it wants you to do or how its mechanics work. Things like "I just found a murder victim's shovel, maybe there is a place I can use it" -> meaning you have to find a random digging spot somewhere on the overly large map. Another time, a minigame suddenly requires you to input the heroines last name. I'm, really glad I remembered it, because the the only other option would've been to ALT+F4 the game and reload a previous save. What did this add to the game? Literally nothing. Same applies to all of the minigames: they add nothing, are tedious are not well thought out, lacking information or all of the above.

When the game tells you you can either rest or explore, it means you can randomly walk through the entire map with no indication of whether there is actually something to find, or - if so - where to look.

The dialog is badly written and usually consists mostly of filler, the main character looks like a creepy alien and EVERYTHING.TAKES.FOREVER. The movement speed during some of the minigames and other sequences is glacial, everything has slow transitions, text skipping is not a thing and the game just does everything it can to be as annoying as possible.

The game is basically a linear visual novel with the illusion of choice as far as I can tell. There is always exactly one thing you're supposed to do, but the game has you guess what it is. You can press enter and have the main character give you a description of the objective, but the descriptions are often vague or nonsensical (eg. "Some character is missing, find out where she is" -> meaning: try literally every door on the map until you're lucky.)

The animation usually consists of the camera violently and headache-inducingly zooming in and out for some reason.

I recommend reading a book instead. There, at least, you tend to get decent writing quality. This is like the experience of reading a terrible book, but interspersed by having to play through weird minigames in order to be allowed to read on.

I jst loved this game puzzle :- 8/10 visuals :- 7/10 storyline :- 7/10 sex scenes :- 6/10 (it kept me on suspense every scene, eventually I was more hoping for Eve scene and NTR scenes are well planed bt pitty late) Overall I love this game I wish I could support you In our country payment on patrieon or any other site is much breeze Bt I'm looking forward for end of this game

I value a game for the power it has to involve me into playing it and keep me enternained. Even when it does has bugs, the plot of this story and the hard work the dev put in all makes it almost a masterpiece. I may put this game next to Nebel Geisterjager when it's concluded. I am also making games and can't help but imagine how much work the dev has put into this one.

For me, the game deserves a 4.5, so I'm giving it a 5.

The graphic style is very nice, with high-quality renders.

The overall system is very well designed and original, especially with the challenges. Compared to many RPGM games that just have a level/skill/stuff system, here we get truly original gameplay. Maybe it's just a shame that the difficulty is sometimes a little too high, and there’s also a bit of frustration: when you play as Jon, Eva acts really dumb and rushes into enemies, and when you play as Eva, Jon doesn't provide any useful support.

It's also unfortunate that there are a few bugs during some minigames, like RPGM "file not found" errors.

For now, there are very few H scenes.

I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops in the future.

Secret dawn is definitely the outlier in the ntr genre.
Beautiful FMC. Unique story. Better PoV system (both male and female).
Though this game is not above the usual NTR tropes (tiny dick MC, black bull etc) but what stands out is the treatment with which each character and their story is fleshed out.
Yes, the puzzles r tough but then again it helps in getting yourself engrossed in the gameplay.
For anyone who wants to enjoy a story driven, well drawn characters with NTR should definitely give this game a try.
( also I personally tried Male PoV first and then Female PoV but it’s better if you do otherwise).

Currently still playing through the game, but thoroughly enjoying playing a slow burn NTR game for once. The renders are great though the gameplay can be slightly frustrating with that being said I respect the fact that they are trying out new mechanics I haven't seen before

Probably the most interesting and compelling story i've seen in a game, much less an h game.
You almost can't go wrong with a sexy version of the hunger games... with a gameshow to the death and all the nuances that can surround that.

Selected the FMC pov. Here's what I can say
If you are into BBC corrupting innocent gf then this is a great game for u. Till now the story and gameplay has been amazing. It's a slow corruption story and u have to complete missions (which can be skipped)

Edit - 2 stars to 3 stars (Mtool made the game easy to play)

Slowly & grindy. That's how I would describe this game.

Too slow of animation, auto movement, and character phasing.
Dont bother playing this game if you don't like to grind. I am talking about really hard mini games.

Renders and plot are good. But when you have spend hours and hours for a couple of renders, you loose interest.

This game is a absolute mess. I ran into two game breaking bugs where i was hard locked and had to close the game and reload a save. But that isn't even the worst part.

THE MINI GAMES man where to start, some of them are just too hard(talking about the two ball stepcounter trail). It's seriously pure misery there is no way in hell you make this and think people will enjoy it.
Then there are these rooms where you have to color some balls, oh you don't like doing that? here are five of those rooms back to back to progress one day.
NONE of the mini games are fun and you have to do them EVERY SINGLE DAY.

On top of that it suffers from forced animated transitions(going into the tunnel) once is fine but making me watch it every time is just wasting my time.
Also there is a huge map but very very few events to discover, everything is on rails , just progress days see events etc. etc.

This isn't made to be fun or enjoyable it's made to make you suffer one day at a time. The only reason i'm not giving this a 1 star is because i like the animations in the game. I liked the start of the story and the game show part but the ending of 0.11 is also pretty bad(talking especially about the tower bed part) it would be a better story if that didn't happen.

(just a disclaimer i didn't use mtool or cheats to skip the mini games, but people saying that it's necessary should tell you enough)

I'm invested in the story. I love the look of the blonde female protagonist. The minigames can be a little off-putting for some I'm sure, but I love this game's main characters, their relationship dynamic, and the paced corruption. It's a game I always look forward to seeing updates for, and the updates come regularly.

The graphics and 3D CG are good from Honey selector.
There are lots of great teasing moments.

However, the two protagonists kind of suck a bit. It would be better to focus on just one male MC while still getting glimpses of the NTR on the computer via cameras or a device on the girl.

The mini-games while playing as the male MC are bearable, but the ones with the female MC are insanely boring and full of bugs.

In version 0.10, I'm stuck on the MMC part where you have to clean the area on the screen.

Great start but as soon as you arrive at the "game show" the game starts to get tedious and annoying. And since MCs dick is so small it will end in girl ends up with giant cock guy. Wow so original.
Instead of implementing those boring and annoying games the game could have show some tasks they have to do and stuff. Yes it would be so much more work instead of implementing one game that you can use every single day again but it would make the game 10 times better. Will check it again in 5-6 updates later but I don't really have hope for a positive outcome.

I really like this game; it has so many good things and a very complete gameplay experience. Additionally, the scenes and character designs are quite remarkable, creating an enjoyable experience.

The fact that there are two points of view usually takes away from games, in my opinion, but in this one, it’s done well. I still prefer a constant POV switch to show both perspectives fluidly, but even so, the way it's handled here is acceptable.

My biggest issue is the puzzles—some are way too unfair, and I had to look up cheats to get past them, while others, like the ping pong one, felt not very fun.

That being said, it’s still a standout H-game, and I look forward to seeing more

So first things first - to adress the elephant in the room - the gameplay - especially in the beginning - is very clunky. Get MTool for this, otherwise forget it (use the teleport on click option to get behind the doors and trigger next stages).

Apart from that, I did enjoy the corruption process very much so far. I love parody NTR games (such as Sword Art Online) and The Hunger Games does offer a very nice NTR and corruption set up.

The story and character development is done quite well so far. The build up and relationship between her boyfriend and her is pictured quite nicely. You can also choose one perspective (boyfriend or Eva), which imo is more of a problem, because the routes are quite different so updates only focus on one route mostly. I would prefer playing the male MC while watching all the inbetween scenes with Eva and this way narrowing the amount of content down on the important scenes (similar to Henteria Chronicles 3).

There seems to be a main antagonist while Eva (the female MC) also needs to fulfill certain quests from other people. Which is a good balance between full one on one NTR and total slutification (aka village whore).

The art is really great, though I would appreciate more cgs and animation.

Now as I said earlier the gameplay is partly horrendous. Especially the games you have to play (again use MTool) and also the restrictions of the engine (fast forward and similar QoL-features are completly missing). This does make the game tedious to play.

If you are okay with such gameplay or are ok skipping it with MTool while still beeing stressed out by the bad functionality of the engine, you will actually experience a very good game with a great corruption/NTR arc so far. Surely not everybodys cup of tea, but for me it does it.

I want to love this game. I love the art. I love the setting. I love the story.

Sadly, what the Dev does with it is a bit of a train wreck.

- The mini games are mostly very challenging, mostly very unfun and mostly too long and too frequent. If you love minigames, make your audience love them too. That's not going to happen here.

- The maps are too big and too empty as seems to be a secret law of RPGM games.

- The quest log is vague and makes you walk across empty maps to find shit you maybe are supposed to do, but you can't really be certain because the Dev thinks this is fun.

- BUT BUT the sex! Surely you get a reward for the slog they put you through? Well, no. There's hardly any H scenes. The build up (if you can even call it that) is still at looking at the heroine in a swim suit (Oooooh! Naughty!)

So, that's your pay off. Have fun!

Honestly i'm surprised how good this game actually looks and plays i thought it wold be more like generic rpgm h game where you just go from character to character just to watch h scene. This is honestly one of the most fun i'v had playing an h game. I enjoyed the story, minigame characters and most importantly the quality of animations. I whish you good luck with this project dev as the only downsides this game currently have is bugs and (imo) unavoidable NTR (didn't know it was a thing untile i read the discription of the game). You have talent and it shows

The potential for an amazing experience is evident, but the game falls short with its minigames. Unfortunately, these minigames are incredibly tedious and repetitive, detracting from the overall enjoyment. While the visuals and storyline are compelling, the lackluster gameplay in these segments makes it hard to stay engaged. With some improvements, this game could truly shine.