VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Snow Daze: The Music of Winter [v1.6] [Outbreak Games]

Don't you cuck me from having 4 girls at the same time with such an ending, boy.
For this rudeness, I will return the favour:
I award you with 1 star for the setting & plot + 1 star for the each girl at the end.
2, in summary.

UPD: You got me there. Have your stars.

So, I just tried the game. It was really fun. Each girl has a different personality and a charm to them. Every girl has a type and as you progress throughout the story, you can literally see the changes around the room. You get various different scenes and fetishes altogether. It was certainly a game well done. The extra scenes and audios were just a cherry on top. You could even change their costumes. I could hear the voice actors having fun with the project and enjoying it; thanks to the bloopers.
I would have given it a higher rating if there was something more to do like more choices and more scenes, so I could interact with them at my own pace. I would have loved to see more of the content after the hypnosis phase; I guess the game could have a sequel if devs decided to plan something big
A great game nevertheless.

This game deserves a 10/10 for the hot as fuck voice acting alone, art is very nice 2dcgs for the win, multiple different cgs in one scene, but the sex scenes are sometimes too short, pretty basic mind control plot with kind of consensual hot incest, there is really not much to say it's a short game meant as fap fuel.

TL;DR
Overall a good game, probably B-tier. I did use the hints mod after seeing reviews about the choices. I completed the game in 2.5 hours and got most of the scenes. You must use the walkthrough mod if you play this!

Good
-Very nice voice acting for all the lines and for every single choice
-Art is good
-Really hot outfits and a decent variety
-The hypnosis corruption is pretty well thought out (the MC is not a complete retard like in some other games)

Bad
-Scenes and text are unskippable, just have to spam spacebar
-Scenes (including dialogue) during the harem end is the same as when you do the invidual endings
-Unsure how to unlock some of the gallery scenes

Full review:

The story is simple, the MC wants to corrupt his whole family during a blizzard and has a few days to do it. I think the MC in this game is a lot smarter than other games with a similar premise. One example that comes to mind is Tamas Awakening which is much worse than Snow Daze. The MC in Snow Daze, whilst is still a shit head, is definitely a bit more clever and actually plans out the corruption, for the most part. I do think the hypnosis is somewhat 'realistic' and it does make the story more believable and therefore more engaging to play.

The characters in this game are decent. I did feel that the girls did have their own personality and were somewhat interesting. It did get a bit weird near the end and felt a lot less realistic but whatever. I have to say the MC in this game is definitely a creep and a bit of an incel which isn't the best, but it was tolerable. The girls were also kinda bitchy but sometimes justifiable (after all MC is a creep). It didnt really affect the game much because we are the ones that are corrupting the girls.

The art and scenes in this game are pretty good. The art especially is really nice and high quality. I do wish there were more CGs or scenes, especially in the bonus room there seemed to be a lot of cut scenes (which were voice acted!), it wouldve been nice to see some more CGs for those. Speaking of voice acting, it's probably the highlight of this game and definitely brought this game up from a solid game to a good game. Another thing I really liked was the variety of outfits and how hot and slutty they were. I do wish the girls kept the slutty outfits on during the sex scenes though. I also don't know why the girls reverted back to their normal clothes at the end of the harem ending, surely they'd be wearing the slutty clothes? The scenes are also easy to obtain using the walkthrough mod since the game is linear. I did see a lot of reviews before I played this game complaining how some choices would just immediately lead to a bad end. It's definitely a weird design choice. However, even though I used the walkthrough, there were still some scenes in the gallery which I didnt unlock (the individual endings with the alt clothes, and the ending where Sarah controls everyone) and I have no idea how to get them. Another issue with the scenes is that the scenes during the harem end (after you do all the individual scenes but before everyone becomes a slave) are identical to the individual ending scenes, including the dialogue. This does just feel a bit lazy and it's even more annoying that these repeated scenes are not skippable.

In terms of lewdity, there's a lot incest and hypnosis (as you'd expect), not much else other than this.

Overall, it's a good game with great art and voice acting, but the ending could've been bettter and I wish there were more scenes. I would still recommend this game, but you must use the walkthrough mod, otherwise it probably won't be as enjoyable.

Certified hood classic, of the 'Family Harem' specialized genre.

This game revealed that I have a fetish for hypno, and broke my heart once I realized people with ADHD (like my partner) are next to impossible to hypnotize.

The characters all have personality, though the MC's particular choices with each are poorly explained, which along with an early game over that isn't well telegraphed are the only real faults of the game.

Especially with the remake coming up, this game is worth a read and I recommend it.

The story is very simple and works fine enough but the game has a lot of problems.

The music is very unfitting a lot of times.

The sex scenes are very vanilla and just boring and they are too short and there aren´t even that many to begin with.

The voice acting is something special in english, but they don´t sound all that good especially the mother, she should be muted.

The gameplay is not good getting game overs is too easy.

The art looks good but there aren´t many CGs so it kinda feels unfinished.

If you want a hypno game you can try it, it isn´t really long.

I usually prefer games over visual novels like this, but this one is really good. If you're a fan of hypno content, you'd be missing out if you've never played this. The quality and quantity of the voice acting really makes you feel like you're in the shoes of the hypnotist, and the varying personalities of the girls are all very interesting on their own, and when they're mixed together they keep all the induction scenes feeling fresh, despite their being 10+ of them in total and each having no unique accompanying visuals. Plus, each character has a unique reason for why the character and we as a player want to hypnotize them. The art is very good, and the combination of standing portraits, cut-ins, and variations to larger scenes hits the balance of freshness of visuals and ease of creation right on the head. Plus, the scenes' backgrounds even change as the house becomes more perverted. I mean, what a small detail they didn't need to include, but it makes everything that much better. Outside of the porn aspect, the humor and character interactions are compelling and interesting, and the overarching story outside of the goal of hypnosis is still intriguing despite the premise being a bit cliché.

Mind control is one of my least favorite tags but this one still has lots of interesting elements to it. Partial hypnosis gives you lots of chances to make choices that will affect the progress in ways you might not anticipate. You can't press skip and sleep walk through this one. The choices have to make sense and provide a nice challenge of trying to decode the 4 girls. I liked their design and though basic, they all had nifty differences in their personalities.

The dialogue writing is top notch. For a fantasy setting, it's as realistic as it gets. Some might not like the MC but other than having issues with his aim of subjugation( if that is you, no point in playing the game) and control, he's fine and his personality isn't needlessly cruel or abrasive.

Overall, this one's highly recommended and getting to the true ending without hints was fun.

v1.6
+The art is fantastic.
+The girls are deliciously curvacious
-MC is a shrimp
+The waifus are all fully voiced
-Can't rename the MC.
+No grinding
+Rare fetish combo. Pure harem with breeding and mind control. Nice.
+MC actually earned his harem by inventing his mind control tech himself instead of just being given it.

-Game is mostly on rails and somewhat walkthrough dependent.
Every conversation you get to choose various responses. Which amount to one of those 3:
> correct choice: gain points with girl
> wrong choice: no points gained or even points lost
> trap choice: instant bad end game over

It is not always obvious which choice is what.
4.5/5 rounded up.

Simple storie, really good content, no fuss, this game is the perfect game to play if you want to do nothing and just chilling on a hentai game. Even the multiplending is easy to achieve. It was one of my favorite VN.

one of the best games that i never tired. Bro is THE GAME have evreything that i want in a game, mind control, incest, harem... the history is cool and the art is amazing, MAYBE more animations but the only problem is that my hands start to hurt my xd

Amazing game with top notch voice acting. The quality of the art is superb and I would love nothing more than to play a game like this again and again. I enjoyed every single moment I spent playing this masterpiece of a game.

One of the worst games I've ever played.

First of all, the MC is a complete creep. He seems not to be able to stand to get true affection, he wants to be "in control" and cries all the time around if things aren't happening by his words but by words from others.

The whole premise of the game is, sadly, that you force / hypnotize your family into doing things they don't want to do with you. So now building up of tension, no slow burn, no real affection.

This is a typical game made from the poor perspective that "being in control", "being a man", "take what you deserve" and all of that would be something good or desirable.

The characters and dialogues are quite boring and while the game not even has animations, it doesn't even do simplest things like show us an animation of the sister laying on her bed. Instead the textbox is telling it to us while she stands there.

To make this whole mess of a game the worst it could possibly be, you have a free choice of how to talk to people, but if you pick "wrong" you'll be punished with less progress with a person. Which means you can NOT play it the way you want, which makes the whole dialouge choices obsolete.

After day 3 when I said something wrong, the game suddenly just ended without any notice.

Timewaste, play one of the hundreds of better games out there. Never seen such an overrated game.

Well put together and funny. There is only 1 thing that could have been a little better. That would be the animation. I haven't tried to make a game yet so I can't really say much and everyone has different tastes so this might be just me. But it just looked like 2 pics being switched back and forth. Like I said I haven't tried making a game yet so I don't know the reasoning behind it but all in all it's a great game to play. I highly recommend to give it a try

This one hurts to give a rating, as I really feel the effort put into it is there, but the concept, and overall execution was just not interesting enough.

Audio was very distracting, normally I am a fan of having VA's, but they were so badly executed/exaggerated and overused in this with the terrible dialogue. If they had reduced the amount of voice lines given to each character to only important dialogue, or during key moaning/sex scenes it would have probably been fine, but as is, it just puts you off through the whole experience.

Not enough H-scenes, the ones they did have were extremely vanilla/cookie--cutter, and some of the more risque-ish scenes felt weird from the voices/dialogue. The raw concept was also pretty bland, typical hypnosis plot, but then the jumps between what they would be willing to do after-x amount of hypnosis seemed too uniform and direct for each given person.

I also think a more subtle 1 hypnotized character, then using said character to help hypnotize another approach would have been more believable, instead of all at once. The random change to outfits each day also really threw me off pace and made me feel weird.

Overall worth a playthrough to most people probably, but it just feels weird to me throughout the whole experience.

I played this game a long time ago. Just a decent game, nothing extraordinary beyond the fact of being finished.

+It is very well crafted and has professional voice actors.
+The design section is well polished, varied and pleasing to the eye.
+The characters have personality, although they can like more or less.

-The story is the cliché of a lifetime in these games: Son doing it with everyone in the house, with the twist that here he uses hypnosis and you have to find ways to unlock all the scenes before the end.

-Overall it's a solid game if it weren't for the fact that it's very very VERY boring. There's nothing stunning, everything feels so vanilla despite having some fetishes.

I would give it only 3 stars but seeing how the general quality of these games is, and the fact that this one is actually finished, I feel compelled to give it one more.

Fully voice acted, high quality 2d scenes, likable characters and a fun story.

I wish every eroge was as high quality as this one, its definitely a must play.

I really enjoy how even tho its a mind control game, you never fully feel in control of the girls, making the dialog always feel a bit tense and engaging, as any wrong option could lead to you being expelled from your your own household.

Don't know how to rate this one as I'm very conflicted but I'll try it to keep it short.
The premise is average incest harem but the mind control is pretty verbose which makes the situations feel creepier even tho the game I assume is trying to be meta and the lighthearted tone doesn't manage to diminish it. Thing is I can't tell if this game is trying to parody similar games where the creepy and questionable undertones that games like these usually brush aside with happily ever after endings (i.e. the characters are okay with it) or is once such game itself.

The h content leaves a lot to be desired as there isn't much and what is available is very scarce and vanilla. The production quality is pretty good with fully voiced lines and good art, the VN even has bonus and blooper stuff which is pretty rare for reny ADVNs. But I was not sold on it entirely.
Apart from the good art which made me feel the scarcity and lack of quality of good h scenes very strongly the VA kinda ruined the mood for me personally. I don't have anything against the voice actresses but 3 out of the 4 actresses were annoyingly distracting for different reasons. 2 of em had very fast and monotone delivery as if they were reading from a script while the other one had an overly exaggerated delivary, almost entirely speaking through her nose which was extremely distracting and paired with mostly cringy eyerolling dialogue it took away from the experience greatly I think. Imo just voiced sound effects would've worked much better than full voiced line in this case.
Other negatives would be the choice system which I feel was very arbitrary for a short harem VN. Most of the better h scenes were by the end anyway and they weren't that great to begin with. I wish there were more scenes with the mom for sure.
My takeaway is this could've been much much better but it kinda left me feeling like playing a different and better game of this kind which there are many on this forum fortunately; a truly sad case of wasted potential.

Note: The "Animated" on this thread is a lie.

Snow Daze is a medium-long VN in which you are a typical wimpy kid that is emotionally abused by its family and decides to hypnotize them all to be your playthings. The art is good, much better than the majority of VNs out there for sure. Sadly the scenes are scarce and very vanilla, one after each day if you make the correct choices. And even then, only at the near end do you see action, tame action. One big part about this VN is the choices and the points you get from them. Since protag is forcing his family into submission, the wrong choice can get you a bad end, a game over and forcing you to re-do all over again. And there lies the big problem, because there are so many choices that will lead you to a game over. After two bad ends, and quite a bit of time wasted, I got the walkthrough and realized that many, seemingly not excessive choices, will get you a bad end. So to avoid endless annoyances, because you will not get a good end in your first try, just get the very linear, very specific walkthrough for the correct choices. The story is nothing spectacular, your typical slow corruption using boring hypnotism in a very repetitive manner. Each girl has their own thing and personality, and their writing is fine, even good. Except for the youngest girl. The dog roleplay comes out of nowhere and it is very cringe to develop considering her personality was previously nothing related to that. All the points the game deserves, its from its art, but again, you don’t get to see much. Snow Daze is not a game that I would particularly recommend, but is nothing bad either, just obtuse with the many bad end possibilities. Also, for the true end, apparently you have to complete each girl’s ending first, not a developer decision that I would consider positive.
There is a remake being made (Snow Daze: Redaze) with fantastic art and hopefully better writing without an obscene amount of game over traps.

A quality game that shamelessly embraces the cliche premise.

High level of quality in all aspects. Good art, if you don't mind everyone being quite busty. Good voice acting, the VAs really got into their roles. Great pacing, regularly delivering sexy new content while teasing more. You feel driven to see the next scene, but the journey there is enjoyable and not just tedious filler.

The writing is perhaps the best part. It's a very "dumb" cliche plot, with characters who are largely just vehicles for fetishes, but it's handled knowingly and deliberately. The characters acknowledge the ridiculous, cliche situations they find themselves in, but the story still has fun with it anyway. Characters have just enough personality to feel unique and not completely flat, but you never feel bogged down by character development.

The ending was underwhelming, unfortunately, but the journey there was very enjoyable. Overall, a "dumb, trashy" plot handled competently and playfully.