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

The rating is based on my feelings and enjoyment of the game first and I’ve tried to put it into words as best as I can.

This game has a very good concept, and the mind control is done well, it clearly shows that it's not as easy as just using a spell or slipping a potion, and the MC(and you) have to put some work into it, which I really liked. The mind control requires you to use subliminal messages and just the right words so there are many dead ends and game overs and choices that have negative effects, it could be annoying for some people but I though it fit the narrative, and the game is very short so it's not really an issue.

The fetishes involved are also some of my favorites on paper, mind control, domination, pet play, exhibitionism, polyamory/harem ending, pregnancy, incest with all the family joining in etc.

But in the end it didn't really mean much and I found myself left disappointed. It is just way too short and most of it is just buildup, which as a result fails to deliver on it's promises (at least for me). It's like spending 2 hours in foreplay but the actual sex only lasts 2 minutes. If this was short story I could at least use my imagination, but a visual novel needs to deliver on the visual part for me to get satisfaction.


The game seems like a bullet point version of a much better game, it just gives a taste of different fetishes but doesn’t really deliver on them satisfactorily (for me).

The writing didn’t grab me as much as I wanted it to, by the end I was just skimming through just getting a gist of what was happening. Sometimes writing can make up for lack in the art department, but not here.

There is voice acting in the game. I don’t like voice acting in porn games in general, but I gave it a shot as it looked like they put some effort into it, didn’t really work for me so I turned it off. Not a negative but not a positive either, although it could be for others.

Overall If you go in knowing it’s really short, it’s well made (except for the ending which could have used more work IMO). I want to give it 3 stars just for the production value, it's not a bad game for what it is, but for the blue balls it gave me I can’t bring myself to go over 2. If I didn’t like the tags/fetishes involved so much, maybe I wouldn’t have been so disappointed, but this one really didn’t connect with me.

The game did not follow the path of quantity, but quality. Although the content is quite enough. Ren'py engine, there were no errors, but the extra menu, namely the bonus menu, doesn’t have very responsive controls, if you can choose a bonus story at all. The art style is cool, where the use of solid color in the background is quite well remembered among other games. A lot of sexual preferences and a variety of endings. Therefore, the game deserves such a subjective assessment.

gewd. i liked this game very much, it was well voice acted. could have used more foot stuff and more preg stuff. i cant wait for the sequel, tropical daze. its gunna b gewd. i hope CZ keeps making games like this

This is still my favorite game on here, and the reason I registered. the art, the voice acting, the story, the humor! I'm lovin it and I can't wait for the follow up. Maybe I could play it once more...

This is quite a unique game: voice acting in a VN as well as how it plugs any plot holes a player thinks of along the way in the game.

Props to who I believe is OolayTiger and others for the entertaining listen. I usually click right through the text because I read fast, but the voices slowed me down so I could enjoy the game better.

The art is very nice. Reminds me of Milftoons-8muses style comics. Those too were about a boy getting up to no good with his sisters and mother. The depictions, as well as the previously mentioned voice acting, give a nice combination. It leaves little to the imagination for those who have none. Unfortunately, the lack of animation -especially at the end- was disappointing and made for an anti-climatic resolution...

I liked the realistic factors of this game; it kept the experience from feeling too rediculous or way too real and tedious. Jason was going to get punished for perving, and that didn't escape any of the family's minds for a long time. The brainwashing was like a debate: Jason would attempt a command by way of persuasion, to which one of the girls would counter (revealing an insecurity), and he used that insecurity to drive his message. In the end, each girl still had their doubts, and one of them even discovered their hypnotic states.

The fact that each girl had an unwavering theme was great. Kira was uptight but wanted to unwind and have attention, the method being an exhibitionist role. Sarah wanted to not be lonely and found it by way of being a puppy. Jane felt like she was unfeminine (due to trying to stop Jason the perv), and with the aid of her twin she became more girly. Noelle, a control freak, found pleasure in submission and guilt, and that was unlocked by her son. It was nice to see how the girls interacted with another's theme.

The music is interestingly fitting. I didn't know how "Habenera" from "Carmen" made sense in the game but it did. Jason being a musician and his main plot-moving tool being a music (and hypnotical) device gave a destinct identity to this game.

When I said the plot-hole plugs were appreciated, I meant it. For example, Jason had to upgrade the subliminal device and verbally push the girls to the next level; it wasn't just "play this as is and all will be well." Another, realistically Jason would get tired from working on his subliminal device, resulting in a crash of exhaustion. Being affected by the device as well was a clever thing. Of course Jason would not be miraculously immune. I also liked that Jason was called out for being sexist when trying to place gender dominance over the girls.

It's just the little things that contribute to the quality of the game.

The art is well done and the voice acting was particularly nice. I won't say that the best option of each choice was easy to find, but there are walkthroughs if you have trouble. A nice touch is that while the MC starts out ill-treated by his family, you learn through the story there are reasons for that behavior.

Didn't really enjoy this at all. The art is good but there just isn't much of it. One or two sex stills for each of the four girls, and some teases, and that's pretty much it.. The game is fully voiced in English, the first I've seen to do that, but in the end it's not that impactful for the overall game.

My biggest sticking point is that the story and dialog was completely uninteresting for me. Moreover, the choices made very little sense, forcing the use of a walkthrough in order to make the right choices (or turn on the built-in hint system I guess). I quickly found myself just reading the walkthrough and skipping past everything without reading, and the payoff wasn't worth it in the end.

Nicely Done and I want to see more of this. Jason deserve a harem and He'll get one. This Voice actors are splendid and the animation and design is pretty sweet. I really really hope there would be a part two in the process of this game. There's not that many mind control voice acting harem base games and SnowDaze is just the one to break that mold. I'm Really looking forward to see if this game will have a part two.

Graphically awesome, the voice acting is wonderful and the extras are a great add-on. Corruption and incest mixed into a simple yet great story.
Definitely on my top of best porn games of all times!!!

actually played it all the way through.

considering it has no combat/RPG elements i'd call that a first for me. This game has amazing pic's as far as 2dcg thats not by a big corperation like alicesoft or eshully.

TLDR: 4/5, great game, totally worth it, use a walkthrough to don't waste time

In-depth:

Story:
The story is good. At the very beggining the game really makes you feel like the unwanted son of the family and you start hating the characters by yourself, as the story goes you start developing each character and you start to understand them and at the end of the game they all have a good reason about why they treated you bad before. Maybe the hole hypnosis thing is just to simple but in most hypnosis games the thing isn't really deep, I would like to see something diferent some day but this game happens on 5 days, you can't go from 0 to harem master in 5 days without the cliches or rushing things. One thing it does different is that the hypnosis don't brainwash anybody, it just help to understand have a better understanding of the characters and push her limits further. Story: 4,5/5

Writing:
The writing is VERY GOOD, it will be the thing you will use to get off the most (the game use the words "get off" a lot by the way), the first day you wont really get to much beacuse the thing should escalate smoothly (again, the story is very good) but fron day 2 and 3 it would be glorious, it really turns you on how the characters naturally develop after every hypnosis session and how slutty they trully are (again, it's not about brainwashing). Day 4 and 5 the characters start saying so slutty things as if it was just common sense, and then they just keep saying slutty things but now beggin for it and you can tell how the game is able of writing and developing the story in a good way. Wrinting: 5/5

The game itself:
Now that I've talked about the story and the writing I can talk about the game itself. The game is just about choosing, now money system, you can't go from one place to another, is just choosing. The game is kinda short (I played from the end of day 1 to the end and them replayed it with the walkthrough in less than a day). It has a point system for every option you
chose and the only rewars for that is the amount of text and CGs you get. The game is about incest and it doesn't have patches or anything. I really recomend to use a walktrough in your fisrt time playing beacuse you wont want to replay the game just to see the CGs you miss the first time, wich are totally worth it but there is no need to play it a second time if you can have everthing in you first time.

Voice Acting:
Just having a full voice acting would be a 5/5 for me, I really wasn't expecting this, but this is an in-depth review so I'm gonna talk more about it. I already said how good the writing is and the voice acting is a match for such quality. The VAs really makes you get in the story and you really feel how turned on the characters are. You really will want to heard the dialogue more than once. It is the second best thing in the game. Voice Acting: 4,5/5

Drawings/Art:
I will separte them in 3 parts, Character design, CGs and Sex Scenes and by sex scenes I mean about actual sex, no handjobs, blowjobs, etc, everthing else I gonna call it CGs

Character Design: I really liked it, I can imagine if someone doesn't like it but I really enjoyed, the more slutty they dress the better. They are just the big tits, big but womans, nothing new, but it always work. Character Design: 3,5/5

CGs: The CGs are great, they really are an upgrade from the character desing and it goes perfectly with the writing, you totally want to watch them all, I personally take and screen capture of almost every CG. It is the third best thing this game has. CGs: 4,5/5

Sex Scenes: This is by far the worst thing in the game, you only have sex with each girl once and the quality and "animation" is very poor, like really, is bad in quality and quantity, wich is really bad if we think that this is the main reason why we play this game in the firt place, the CGs really carry all the sexual content. Sex Scenes: 0,5/5

The Endings:
This is weird, the game itself has a system point for each dialogue and each character and it let you know at the end of the day your points with each character, but nothing of that matter to get the endings, to get the true ending you just need to watch the other endings first, it doesn't matter if you have a negative score with every characters, you can see all the endings anyway. I really feel like they rushed the hell out of this game because:
1) They make the whole point system useless, the points let you see more text and CGs so it isn't totally useless but for me the main reason to use a point system is to trigger certain ending.
2) Again, the sex scenes are really bad
The ending in itself are really good, specially the true ending (again, the story and the writing are great), but I really feel like they rushed the end. Endings: 4/5

Codding/Bugs:
I didn't have any bugs, a solid 5/5.

I really liked this game!

The story on this one is pretty cool, pretty straight forward, direct to the point. Albeit corruption is a common theme, this one has it's own particularity and has the gameplay focus directioned to the plot per se and not the corruption mechanics. Also the plot, for me, was really arousing. I guess I've never seen this concept either ("brain wash through sound").

The art has a lot of details and is pretty good in general. A solid 7 or 8 in a 10th scale. It has full voice acting for all the girls, pretty cool! Unfortunately, I experienced some bugs (black screen/out of memory) which happened because of the said voice acting. I guess, but the issue was solved closing and opening the game again.

Overall is a short game, but a very good one.

The art style might not appeal to everyone but it has a high quality for what it is. Fully voiced western game is a rare gem. The voice actors did a good job with natural sounding delivery. Main theme is male dom where you try to turn them into submissive slaves via hypnosis. Overall the game is very very good. The scenes are a bit short (although the build up to the scene is good). Main reason for the missing star is due to the ending being a tad bit underwhelming. The true end was especially so, because the requirement to get it pretty much spoils 70% of it. You need to view the endings for each girl to unlock the true end, but the true end is a collage of the endings used to unlock it. I suggest using someone's 100% save to view the true end instead of trying to unlock it yourself (walkthrough required).

I like that the game was actually finished. The art was OK but not exceptional in my view (probably a matter of taste). Also not a huge fan of the genre of VNs, of which this is an example, where you need to make exactly the right not at all obvious or intuitive choices to get the right ending, so you need lots of save-scumming or repeat plays or a walkthrough to get anywhere.

A great visual novel based on incest and mind control, the drawings are very well done and the dubbing is an added value that make all more exciting. The dialogues are good and the scenes are very intriguing.

This is an exceptional game. The writing was very, very good. It was often quite funny, in particular Cypress Zeta's cameos, oh my! The quality was outstanding.

At first, I wasn't sure if I liked the voice acting, but that did not last long. It was great! It's a shame that it forces a character name on us (and, frankly, I wouldn't mind if we could still pick our names for the text even if the VO says "Jason") but it was worth it. The voice actors did a great job and it complemented the great writing.

While hypnotism isn't a fetish of mine, I have played quite a few games containing it. Not one had anywhere near the sophistication of Snow Daze with regard to the interactions and the results.

The art is generally good. It's very stylized so if the style doesn't appeal to you, then you are not going to like any of it. The portraits were gorgeous but the sex scenes were mixed in quality. The few animations were generally flipping between 2 images, which I find fine but I know others dislike.

There were also many little quality touches that I appreciated. The best being the backgrounds changing slightly over time.

All told, it's one of the best hardcore porn games I've played.

I did play with the mod that tells you the outcomes of your decisions. I don't think I'd have enjoyed the game at all if I hadn't (or significantly less if using a walkthrough due to the hassle), but since the mod made the game as enjoyable as it was for me, I'll rate it based on that experience.

This is one awesome game, I don't know why some of the reviews are negative complaining about the artstyle but I liked it a lot personally.

Really great voice acting performances that most of the games here just don't have.

Speaking of the plot, I found it less intriguing and you have to grind for the whole game just for individual H-scenes with the female NPCs (Always keep a saved game handy or use back key for dialogues to change your choices).

I wanted this game to provide more BDSM choices as there are next to none. We are dealing with mind control and making submissive slaves so at least add some rope-play, gags, humiliation (other than pet-play) etc.

Overall a nice game, thanks cypress!!

A excellent story line, the game-play is pretty straightforward an enjoyable (I hate games that are complex and you're trying to figure out what you have to do next), and the voice acting in this first time I've ever heard it in a game like this and it's amazing.. it makes it so much more enjoyable the biggest problem with this game is it has no scene gallery.

quickly (completed)

story
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simple linear unbelievable story (terrible)

the animation
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no animation

playtime
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about 4-5 hrs

render and graphic
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characters not bad
background terrible (seems like lazy developer)

voices
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the best thing in the game is the voices and the only thing


choices/decisions
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not bad

so should you play it ??
--only if you want to waste your time

why 2 stars ???

- bad and unbelievable story
- terrible backgrounds (not colored)
- NO animations
- bad using of choices system i am forced to do everything