Unity - Sunrise City [v1.1.0] [Sunrise Team]

this would be a good game if it weren't for the plot.
there are interesting things here, but they don't let you enjoy them, you crash into this plot like a fly into a glass and you can't change anything.

This game has an incredible level of detail/polish when compared to most games on this website. It legitimately seems like it was made by a genuine, albeit small game studio. I really enjoy the card/deck combat and actually don't think the challenge level is too high at all for casual players as long as you're willing to retry fights with different builds and strategies. I do wish there were slightly more card options, but I'm sure that will expand as the game progresses. Releases also seem to be fairly regular which is always a plus for people like me that don't like trying out games that aren't released reliably. 5/5

Story is as good as the art, devs have made some QoL improvements since the beginning (restart chapters from a certain point for example), fights are toughs, sometimes unfairs, but feels good to win them.

Can't wait for it to grow further. Even more now that's the story is really starting to kick in. Keep up the good work !

A rare 5/5 from me.

The world created is good, the story so far seems to be pretty decent, girls are hot and there's one for each kind of taste.

There are a lot of minigames, each has it's charm, some are dependant on random.

And fighting with soup was a thing that made me go over the top.
Interesting, polished project with people knowing what they're doing.

REVIEW Sunrise City

STORY: 4/5. It is one of the biggest attractives of the game and they handle it very well, it is interesting, it has subplots and the main one is interesting.
GAMEPLAY: 4/5. Great gameplay, varied mini-games, sub-quests that are discovered as the game progresses, and the combat system is quite well done.
SCENES: 3/5. The scenes are incredible but I give it a low grade due to the small number of scenes there are. They are like 3 or 4 in main and secondary.

CONCLUSION: 4/5. Great game, innovative, good story management, good gameplay management. A very, very accertive game.

The game makes you fail "stories" you did not even knew existed blocking out "stories" which makes you UNABLE to progress other "stories" you managed to find.
"story" tells you to go see Grimm so you do that ... only to get told you have to finish Step 6 of Strong and Soft What is Strong and Soft you ask? I don't know and could not find out despite starting over scouring the game world every chance I got.
What a mess.
The art is the only reason it gets 2 stars.

v0.7.2

Art style is great but the game needs some QoL improvements. A couple I could remember:

• The bedroom and bathroom doors in the main character's apartment appear to be swapped based on the angle of their respective doors.
• The clickable elements do not feel intuitive enough. Holding ctrl to highlight them seems like a band-aid solution.
• It would have been easier to just have a save and load system instead of having to track your way back from a specific spot in the story.
• It's frustrating that you can fail and miss certain side quests and having to reload (see above point) to try again.

EN
This little game clearly joins my top 10 favorite games at today’s time.
- Translation, well, I have nothing to say since the 'studio' is French.
- The story is out of the ordinary, it’s probably already seen but reshaping in their own way and it’s no worse than having yet another game with the same frame. I hope this one won’t be too short, or at least even if the main story ends, still have a development to discover secondary stories with third-party characters.
- The characters are endearing and interesting to discover more or less for some, you should push the thing with certain characters.
- The combat system is nice, but it’s poorly exploited, theoretically there’s a system of elements that makes you hit harder if you hit the right element, but it’s RNG above all and I confess to doing only the big attacks to defeat the enemy, and I have to win.
- The skill tree that allows you to be stronger.
- The interface is nice and easy to handle.
- The visual is really nice, but I really like this style.
- The animation scenes are well done. (The game is more about the story than the scenes, after this is just my personal point of view, but other scenes are welcome).

In any case very eager to see the future, and to be able to help development with this kind of message.
Keep it up, I think a lot of people are behind you to support this project!

Sunrise City [v0.7.2]

FR
Ce petit jeu rejoins clairement mon top 10 des jeux favoris à l'heure d'aujourd'hui.
- La traduction, bon bah j'ai rien à dire vu que le 'studio' est français.
- L'histoire sort de l'ordinaire, c'est dû déjà vue mais remanier à leur manière et ce n'est pas plus mal que d'avoir encore un énième jeu avec la même trame. J'espère que celle ci ne sera pas trop courte, ou du moins même si l'histoire principale se fini, avoir encore un développement pour découvrir des histoires secondaires avec des personnages tiers.
- Les personnages sont attachants et intéressants à découvrir plus ou moins pour certains, il faudrait pousser la chose avec certains personnages.
- Le système de combat est sympa mais il est mal exploité, en théorie il y'a un système d'éléments qui fait en sorte de taper plus fort si tu contres le bon élément, mais c'est de la RNG avant tout et j'avoue ne faire que les grosses attaques pour vaincre l'ennemi, et je gagne forcement du coup.
- L'arbre de compétence qui te permet d'être plus fort.
- L'interface est agréable et facile à prendre en main.
- Le visuel est vraiment sympa, ne tout cas moi j'aime beaucoup ce style.
- Les scènes d'animations sont bien faite. (Le jeu est plus centré sur l'histoire que les scènes, après ce n'est que mon point de vue personnel, mais d'autres scènes sont le bienvenu).

En tout cas très hâte de voir la suite, et de pouvoir aider au développement avec ce genre de message.
Continuez ainsi, je pense que pas mal de gens sont derrière vous pour soutenir ce projet!

Sunrise City [v0.7.2]

One of the best constructed games i've seen in a lot of time. Every part of it truly makes you feel like you're playing a big game insteand of only an erotic one. It's a pleasure that this game is free because that way it can reach many more people who will enjoy it

The story is quite well written (in fact, the french version is really nice) and the plot is originial enough for you to want to read the dialogues.

The combat system is good, simple enough that you can win easily when you have a good understanding of the mechanics, but you still have to pay attention on the opponent's deck.

It's only lacking real animations during the sex scenes.

Very good job

Truly an AMAZING game! I offen say that great games deserve an evaluation, even if simple so that, above all, it brings joy and inspiration to developers to keep doing an excellent job. This game contains multiple aspects that will make anyone excited and eager to keep playing. Congratulations.

I like the art style there very good looks nice, the fighting is easy and interesting will being interesting to more with that and, being able to return and try to find scenes I missed. I cant wait to see more updates.

This one was interesting and frustrating.

The story is interesting, and wastes very little time. The characters have different personalities, and provides some dating material for most people. What was frustrating about the progression though, is that you would so incredibly easily skip something important, and have no idea you did it. The game actively punishes you for just enjoying the story, and interacting with what is presented to you. I nearly clicked on everything i possibly could, and still somehow missed out on several important events.

But fear not, use the replay function! so that i did, and i noticed i missed an event at the very start in the shop. Well i tried over and over to play it in every imaginable different way, and no matter what i did i never got the secret path required for a h-scene.

At the same time the combat is not skip able after you've beat it, which is something that would be so incredibly easy to implement, but none the less, it forces you to do battles over and over again, which added to the already frustrating situation of replaying.

Then i tried to get the VIP nighty grace thing, but apparently i didn't have enough money, so i went back to the start again, and i realize it says i already earned the money, so it is now impossible for me to replay her scenes. So I'm not super impressed by the coding so far.

But to progress the story, you have to expose dangerous secrets to friends and enemies, which seems like an incredibly dumb thing to do, but it's necessary for several h-scenes, pretty much making your decisions pointless as there's constantly only one right answer, and it's rarely the rational one. I'm being followed by an incredibly dangerous organization, not to mention a hacker is listening in on my phone. How could i even feel remotely safe to tell anyone anything that I'm supposed to keep a secret?

Not to mention the incredibly cliche beginning, that i jokingly said would happen, and then it instantly did, making me burst out laughing.

And why are there punching sounds when you cum inside someone?! that was so off putting, i thought the chick beat me up out of nowhere or something.

One thing i will say tho is that i like a lot of the friendly dynamics, particularly with the dog rivalry. I wanted to learn about these characters, and the h-scenes weren't entirely random, which was nice.

The art style is great (though i wish it was animated), and i hope this game ends up with a great story. (And less cum punches) Not to mention story hints, so you know you're about to miss something.

Cute game about a teenager studying to become a detective. It plays like a hidden object clicker game with a few mini games like combat, investigations and timed puzzles.

Pros:
Good story with interesting characters
Good art in non H scenes.
Puzzles are cute and interesting
Soundtrack is nice

Cons:
Little H content
Too many giant balloons
H scenes don't have female sounds
A lot of trial and error to figure out what you have to do

GIANT CON:
Really bad save system, you have a single slot. The game is divided in mini chapters and if you miss anything you have to repeat them. You CANNOT restart you current chapter and if you try to do it it will delete your entire save.

I could easily see myself giving 5 starts to the game, but getting my save deleted while trying to restart the chapter was really low blow. If the devs can get a decent save system with several slots and include a proper option to restart a chapter this can be a great game. They should also include a second layer of protection and warn the player and ask for confirmation about deleting the entire save.

Good Art, Interesting Story, Funny Dialogue.
One of the few games I actually enjoy playing without there being too much (sexual) content.
The fighting game is of course not really innovative, but with the interesting character design and the battle tree everything seems very fresh and fun to play.

Absolutely an enjoyable piece. Even though personally I do not find the art style arousing, I still enjoyed the game very much.

What's outstanding:
- Great storytelling. The story is fluent and absorbing; the writing is of good quality and actually makes me want to read it line by line without skipping. Not many games on this site had such writing quality that impressed me so.
- Good art and sound. Though I said the art style isn't exactly to my erotic taste, if considered as a non-erotic VN, the game provides an awesome visual and audio experience, especially the facial expressions combined with sound effects. Works seamlessly with the story and gameplay.
- Combat system is fun. Although the combat system is still under development, it already shows potential. Each enemy, even the minions, has his/her unique deck. It's not much in the entire deck-building game genre, but it's already very outstanding compared to other erotic games.
- Replay function. Okay, this, is exactly what every game developer should learn from. At the first glance it seems unreasonable to provide only one single save slot, but the replay function solves everything. Basically, after completing a chapter, you can get notified of and given a chance to collect every hidden piece of key information and every optional side story that you could have possibly missed, WITHOUT having to load a super early save file and replay through the entire game. This is a BRILLIANT design. On the replay panel you can see every check point and the side stories/info that matters based on timeline. The ones you missed will be represented as question marks. You can then load a checkpoint right before the question mark and try to find what you didn't notice. After you collected what you need, click SAVE and the missing side story/info will then be directly added to your current latest progress just as if you never missed them on your first playthrough. Every linear game that has both a bunch of hidden collectibles and a single optimal path should absolute learn from this, instead of forcing players to rely on walkthroughs.

As of v0.6a sexual content is quite limited and the ability tree is still being implemented. Looking forward to future version.

This is no porn oh, oh, oh...
But is a funny game.
With some interesting mechanics that promise a lot.
Let's wait to see how it develops in the next editions because we have not passed the prologue yet.
I am looking forward to seeing the next version.

This is a fun game. Art style is unique and cool. Point and click part of the game is very comfortable. Fight system is something new in the genre. Only problem is keyboard commands are not working so I have to click every time and it is very annoying except this everything is very promising for the future.

Based on ver 0.4.0
I liked the art, music, and story so far. Art is distinct and lovely, something between Akbur (like halk of "trainer" games here) and DarkCookie (Summertime Saga). Story pulls you in. It's more of an crime story with (soft) erotic elements thrown in, that porn with srime story in background. Whatever that's a + or - depends on player.

Battle system was... passable as a base. Considering that deck has a lot of 2 energy cost skills, either adding a way to increase En, or manage which skills are in deck would be great. As it is now, many cards like sweep are really bad unless you draw kick at the same time. Considering that sweep is quest reward (sort of), it's really dissapointing. There are some other minor issues as well. It would be nice if player could skip 1st turn to use skill on the 2nd as enemies always use block first, and later on there might be skills scaling of damage recived like that of final boss. I would also welcome option to skip or speed up parts where neither player nor enemy can do anything (double rest and turn end effect dissolving).

I liked the investigation mode, reminded me of Phoenix Wright, or rather Edgeworth spinoffs. I wonder if the star score affects story in the future.

It seems that I unlocked a +1 power with June's 2nd CG, as it's icon is colored in phone menu, but it doesn't seem to increase my stats in any way?

Lack of text speed options, ability to turn off phone or other popups by right click, keyboard support and other quality of life stuff is a big issue, especially with currrent save system.

Quests are OK, but clear distinction between "good" and "bad" choices might be both good and bad depending on a player preferences. Allso, forcing one of said quest choices before player can even save is bad design.

Save system is really bad. While 1 save only system is great for save scumming, SC isn't very scummable anyway. Some players use saves as bookmarks for their fav parts, they wont be happy about it. Having to replay half of prologue to get to interesting part isn't that bad, but later on will be a problem. And what if there is more that one preson playing? Or someone on later update wants to play 2 different branches of story?

Last issue is gallery and completion. As I'm not a patron I can't use replay function so after getting to the end of prologue my only option is to replay whole game and somehow I miss 6% of prologue (part 4) and 3 CG? with Scarlett (might be just a placeholder). Furthermore Scorpia is still a ??? after the end. I could understand lack of punch scene, but at least her 1st apperance should be unlocked.

I have just finished what can be played, the "demo" and I can say that I like it a lot, I see a lot of potential, enter the game because of the lewd things but the story hooked me a lot, of course I want to see more lewd things but everything I like the rest too.
PS: put more things about the girl with glasses, the shy, 20/10