Unity - The Night Driver [v1.4] [BlackToad]

Really want to like this one, the artwork is phenomenal, but its not a good game.

There are too many characters. 3.5 years of development and there is almost no character progression of any characters. Running around grinding is 90%+ of the gameplay. The little dialogue there is, is riddled with spelling mistakes and does not build any background for characters.

There are also some major bugs. For instance if you leave the apartment before dropping off the briefcase, you cannot re-enter. You will need to hope you saved right before or its start over.

Disappointing to see this much potential go untapped. This would have been better served as a visual novel and with more of a focus on writing for the characters, there is potential for a cool plot here, it just never gets fleshed out

I've been meaning to review this game for a while. IMO this is undeniably the most well made and atmospheric h-game I've ever played. It would make a great indie game, adult content notwithstanding. I eagerly await future updates.

Amazing art with a unique style, great story that is moving in interesting directions, no weird horrible shit that is off-putting for people without horrific kinks, and looks great, a true gem of a game in a sea of milking mediocrity

The story is based on constant coming and going. I got so bored while playing. The story is not gripping and interesting. The connection between the characters is not well established. There are breaks in the story. In short, 1 star for me. boring...

UPDATE for Version 1.4 31 March 2025

Giving it an upgade from 4 to 5 stars - this really is my favorite game on the site, everything is so well done and beautifully crafted. Seriously enjoyable and totally love the art.

The focus on the noir look, the dark sleezy aspect is awesome, the LI's being noir fashionable with the attention to classy (slutty) dress is amazing.

Development still seems slow as I skipped a couple of updates and didn't fund very much new content, so I hope that improves.

A wish list for this one would be some sort of deeper connection with some of the LI's - so far you are accumulating Love/Lust/Dom points but not really seeing any deeper emotions with any of the LIs, they all seem to be servicing him to keep him happy - not that they really, really want this, but to - relax him, keep him stress free etc.

One moment of a choice to cum inside was new and that perhaps (maybe) hints at consequences of that - women in this type of world might look at him as a provider and support and create the attachment with impregnation - wish list on that one, especially if he was into it. Hope to see that, no need for pregnant stuff, just a few knocked up creating a greater attachment to the LIs.

Otherwise - excellent, below earlier review still accurate.

Version 1.1 - Noir type crime game. I must say the graphics, visuals and models are amazing. The scenes, background, city is beautifully done.

A young man rising in the crime world, lots of the gritty side of a city, xxx video shops, criminals, prostitutes.

The MC (there is a new bit with a FMC but not much with that so far) is a pretty decent...criminal. Not an ass, and not a wimp, so thats refreshing. Seriously needs some sleep, the dev gave him some weird black bags under his eyes for some reason. Maybe he just needs some vitamins.

Like the roaming limited sandbox, its very nicely done. Minor quests, and doesn't seem to want to send you all over the place to find things to continue the story.

This features many LI's that are MILFy, lots of stockings, heels, love that, but if you don't want to be fucking hookers and such, this isn't the game for you. You are developing love points with some very obvious hookers.

Plot, I like, its gritty and so far makes sense.

This is really, really good. I actually love the entire game, especially the development of non traditional love interests, older, worn out, or criminal types, or even the hookers with a heart of gold.

Only reason for a loss of a star was I haven't looked at this for a long time, (2022 maybe) and I was looking forward to a larger amount of development for that time..nope, it was really underwhelming for the difference in content. Hope the dev continues and perhaps a little more content in a timely fashion.

Story : 9/10
Originality : 9/10
Renders/Art : 6.5/10
Sound : 8.5/10
Playability : 9/10
Performance : 9/10
Bugs : none very good work.
Animations : 9/10
Voice Acting : none
Grammar : nothing to say.
Amount of content : as of 1.0b a minimal amount of content for multiple characters, maybe one or two fap sessions.

I feel like this was meant as an indie project that turned H while in pre dev, the game is very good lots of effort went into it, sadly not as much effort went into the H/adult sections of the game.

The Night Driver is a breath of fresh air. In a world full of low-effort RenPy games where you're forced to play as a sexual predator and every woman alive is inexplicably begging to suck your dick, this game really stands out. The closest thing I can compare the gameplay to is Disco Elysium, if you're familiar.

Even if some of the gameplay sections can have too much walking back and forth, and the talking sections do have noticeable spelling errors, it really doesn't put a dent in the positives of this game. Don't go in expecting Citizen Kane, but the vast majority of characters, even the protagonist, feel like genuinely real people and not just sex bots. The sexual scenes are quite well implemented too, where they aren't hard to find but you do have to actively put effort into finding them.

I do overall prefer Female Protagonist games, and while this does have a "Female Protagonist" tag, 90% of the game so far is a male protag. I don't really mind though, as Nick is quite an interesting character and not just another bland self-insert. I am looking forward to more Raven content, though, and I hope that she gets as much attention as Nick (and gets some male romance options too.)

Side Note: If you happen to like stocking and/or busty milfs, you'll have a good time with this game, because the author definitely does too lol.

This is likely the best game I have played so far on this forum. The visuals are work of art. The animations and gameplays are beautiful. The story is fantastic. Also the character building is amazing. I just can't get enough of it. It is a breath of fresh air among the typical AVNs really.

I have one complaint: During the dialogues avatars of some characters just flashes and disappears within a fraction of seconds. This is likely a bug and I hope this will be fixed in near future.

I have one wish: I wish there is a walk-through mod so that players can easily navigate the branching of the story as they want. Since this is not a RenPy AVN, third party mods are difficult to build I guess. It would be great if dev himself incorporates this optional feature into the game.

Personally can't wait for the next updates.

WAITING TO PLAY AS FEMALE MC

Same goes for the sexual scenes, they seem far and few inbetween, and they are not very unique. Either you Dom, or you Love. Can get boring and makes for boring imagery unless you make an effort to show different angles and interesting perspectives. If a blowjob is just a blowjob, essentially one image scene, with no expanding upon it, then yeah underwhelming.
But if she licks around and plays with it a bit, maybe slapping it on her face, then all of a sudden it's a bit more intriguing and who knows where that can lead to. And it doesn't have to be the MC being in charge, the woman can be the Dom in a sex scene, if the relationship allows for it.

V 1.0b

I base my reviews on 4 things: art, gameplay, story and amount of H content.

Art 9/10.
The art in this game is really good, it gives you that LA noir/mobster feeling (its not black and white).
The girls are sexy and id say realistic.

Gameplay 6/10.
Some puzzles and point and click, nothing to rave about.

Story 7/10.
The story is interesting, cant say much without getting into spoilers.

H content 7/10.
Theres a good amount of animated porn with good quality and decent amount of teasing.

The animated scenes and art quality carry this to a 4.5 but ill give it a 5.

I Really Really wanted to like this game. I've scrolled past it dozens of times and this is my second attempt to play it, the first time I only got past the tutorial bit. At least this time I got most of the way through the content.

The artwork is great. It's original, detailed and the characters are perfectly imperfect, just the way they should be. My main problem, and it's a big problem is that there isn't enough of it.
Now let me just clarify, it's not that the game is just starting out and there isn't enough content yet, it's that any lewd content seems to be limited to simply 1 or 2 images. I've barely got a boner before they finish. Yeah the images are sometimes animated but the animations are fairly basic. Just bouncing tits and thrusting. Sorry Dev, I'm sure it takes a lot of time to create this artwork and you are great at it but if I have to walk through rooms picking up bits of stuff and giving them to people for 10 minutes just to see 1 or 2 images it just frustrates me.

In the end about 75% through the current content I opted to just go to the gallery, unlock it and spend 3 minutes enjoying the artwork.

Don't get me wrong, the game isn't BAD...it just needs more focus on the length of the lewd content to make the payoff for doing the other mindless stuff worthwhile.

A porn game with amazing atmosphere and a music that I didn't want to turn off. Realistic characters and setting. Good UX.
Something extremely unusual in the adult gaming industry. Reminds me of old RPGs of late 90s

Pros:
+ Great and unique drawn art/style/animations
+ Atmosphere is *fantastic*
+ Really good story
+ UI is intuitive and easy to understand
+ Meaningful choices
+ Immersion is very good

Cons:
- Perhaps it would have been nice to have a choice "roll-back" functionality, but I guess that would ruin the idea of having choices with a limited amount of time to answer. Anyways, it's not something I really missed.

All in all easily a 5/5. One the best adult games I've ever played

[v1.0a] I liked so much this game cause of the noir aesthetic of the game and adult approach on the story. I can't rate the game like I usually do because it's lack of so much content atm (you only has sex with 2 of 5 main girls, both of them are whores). But I like some fetishes like a lot of lingerie or clothed sex which are unlikely to see even in a porn game.

As a feedback, I would like something to speed the pace of the character, like a x2 or something. Too, I would like the sex scene to last more, but I understand they maybe would be more costly.

It is definitely a game to watch but at the moment it just feels like it's building story while missing out on substance. The atmosphere is great, the artwork matches but there needs to be more of it.

Very well made and solid game, the art is really good and the story has potential.

However I do think the female characters could be more varied in their looks and behaviors, I would like some more extreme characters in terms of both looks and sexuality.

Same goes for the sexual scenes, they seem far and few inbetween, and they are not very unique. Either you Dom, or you Love. Can get boring and makes for boring imagery unless you make an effort to show different angles and interesting perspectives. If a blowjob is just a blowjob, essentially one image scene, with no expanding upon it, then yeah underwhelming.
But if she licks around and plays with it a bit, maybe slapping it on her face, then all of a sudden it's a bit more intriguing and who knows where that can lead to. And it doesn't have to be the MC being in charge, the woman can be the Dom in a sex scene, if the relationship allows for it.

Having said that, it's clear you are very talented and have put in a lot of effort, I am definitely looking forward to seeing more, hopefully more spicy scenes.

This game has... potential. A lot of potential. At first I was going to give it a 4 near the beginning but as time went on that went down to a high 3 and then a solid 3 stars. It has some good ideas, good foundation but then it has quite a few things holding it back as well.

Firstly the art is interesting. I think it's well done and tasteful so good on that. The story idea is heading in a good way. It's a seedy crime story about someone getting mixed in the life who didn't want to but did it because he had to. Along the way you make choices about certain things giving the player a bit of control about how things play out. There's more than enough sex scenes in here so players looking for that will..sorta get their fill but more on that later.

The characters are pretty well done. There's a good amount here and they're distinct from each other and the balance I guess is pretty good between lewds and story. This is no slow burn game.

Now onto the negatives, first off Unity... Unity games just aren't very good imo as you miss several quality of life features and they're missing here. There's no rollback, and no skipping that I've seen, so replayability is low because you'd have to click through all the dialogue and unskippable animations.

It is advertised as a point and click game, but a LOT of the point and click is just time wasting. Things like walk your character ALL the way back to the entrance, then click on the car, then click on the keys, then click on the map, then click on the door, then click on the next door. See? Like some of that could be chopped down. I know the dev is going for incorporating gameplay but I mean this really begins to drag after awhile and you start to notice.

Game needs an editor or someone needs to do a better job at editing the script. While the english isn't the worst I've seen or nowhere near it being too bad, it is another thing holding it back as the grammar mistakes become noticeable. They're small mistakes but they begin to pile up after awhile and once you're aware you'll begin to notice more and more. There's also the poor woman Mery. They say her name is Mery but sometimes call her Mary, so Idk what her name is really supposed to be.

The sex scenes in here are a mixed bag. Not the animation or art of them, those are solid, though some will not like how short or unvaried they are. Like a position or two and then done. But they kinda come from out of nowhere most the time, or just happen. Then there is a LOT of them happening in dream sequence, which I hate... Think about 3 full out and like 2 or 3 are teased but yeah... The sex it kinda just happens like in bad tv shows when two characters give each other that look before the next scene just shows the two of them going at it.

Then lastly the drop of another protag. I mean it's in the tags but again you make a good amount of progress with one before the game just drops "You're now playing as someone else" I mean she'll relate to the story it seems but again it just kinda came from out of nowhere.

All in all it's an interesting game. I LOVE crime stories so it piqued my interest, it has some good things going as a novel and some okay things going as a game. It's pretty good. It's not God's gift to this site as the other ratings will lead you to believe. It COULD get up there with the top games but it could also go the other way too if somethings don't get ironed out. It's also not really that long either. I'm a slow reader with little free time and I got through it pretty quick. If the tags and the premise or art appeal to you give it a shot but temper your expectations.

Very good art work, graphics are just amazing,story is unique and fascinating . Reminds me on some crime movie from late 90s . Very interesting to play and keeps my attention all the time.Hot girls and every single of them has their own story and character. There is a lot of sequel posibility in future ,a lot of good and spice story to make. Keep doing great job and art work.

Average game that gets very good reviews because of how creative it is. The game itself though does have a lot of average/bad features that aren't discussed enough and take it out of the good-to-great game range for me.

The story is TND's strongest point, really interesting setting, cast of characters and lore (though not very deep yet). That being said most of the missions are just you walking from point A to point B to have a static dialogue scene then you go back to point A and so on and so forth... which is basically achieving the same gameplay as any other VN with more fluff to disguise it.

The game mecanics are clunky (you have to click multiple times on your car/door to open up the pointless menu to then use it) and over the top - is there really a need to open a menu every time I click on a door ? What are my options ? Just open it lol. The game runs poorly on my average PC and the framerate drops to a powerpoint presentation for every driving scene.

The sex scenes are disappointing to say the least, the art is amazing and the characters are really hot but the scenes fail to build any tension / steaminess and are almost always just one action / position repeated until climax which makes them feel empty and brief.

I do think this game has some very strong points (art / story basis) but fails to deliver on the execution which makes it feel kinda flat and frustrating because of how much potential there is. Probably the most overrated game on the site because of it's unique nature, I do think people overlook it's huge weaknesses as a porn game.

One of the best if not the best xxx game right now.
Art is F A N T A S T I C - finally a breath of fresh air from this shitty made DAZ3D renders with innatural breasts, no expressions and completely no erotic vibe.
Very good balance between plot and porn, and well made quests. Sure - sametimes you must walk too much (in a bar for example), but it's definetely not boring.
Fetishes are pushing my buttons right now, and these pantyhose/stocking thing is also fantastic
I feel an inside anger that such gems are practically non funded comparing to these generic 3dcg games, where all the work is made by authors GPU and not his/her brain :C