Divine Dawn

Cryswar

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Divine Dawn
Itch | Patreon | Discord
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PC/Linux / Android / Mac
Overview
Unravel the secrets of a fading world as you investigate four missing goddesses and an impending threat in a fantasy roadtrip. Fight, fuck, and offer extensive therapy to a wide variety of cute girls, both human and monstrous. Level up, customize your character with hundreds of abilities and traits, and decide whether to stay human or corrupt yourself with otherworldly energies for power.

Okay, but what does that actually mean?
Divine Dawn is an adult RPG, something loosely in the vein of Monster Girl Quest or Corruption of Champions. My goal is to balance fleshed-out characters and relationships, in-depth worldbuilding and lore, and RPG mechanics that allow a lot of customization. There are around ~350k words of content (~25-30 hours at average reading speed) in 0.23, and 30-ish lewd scenes.

You can play most of the game for free, but a one-time Itch purchase or becoming a Patron gives access to the latest version. Each update will push the previous update public.

I post daily progress updates on Discord, and weekly summaries on Itch/Patreon/Discord!

  • The pre-temple opening of the game has been completely redone. Pick between bespoke new premade choices or a custom character builder, meet a new character, and meet a more tolerable Sam. Female Sam only; male Sam has been completely removed.
  • The temple has gotten minor updates, making it possible to skip some text, taking out some lower-quality stuff, and adding a bit more.
  • Sarah and Ashley temple scenes now have their own CGs! Minor updates to the scenes as well.
  • The game now has a LOT more backgrounds; temple is unchanged but the forest and home scenes, camp, and Badon now have proper art.
  • Amnelis sprite courtesy of Coubalt. Knight-Commander Selendis art courtesy of jfc!
  • Amnelis theme and Sofra normal/battle themes all by Ubercrow! The temple boss also has a new theme, courtesy of The Mad Duck
  • 4 entirely new weapons - Greataxe, Dual Daggers, Mana Blade, Longbow, each with unique playstyles. Almost every old weapon has been heavily reworked as well! Earth magic got a major revamp too. About 300 new abilities and ~100-150 reworked ones in total.
  • A new set of no-requirement channels, so non-mages have good access to buffs, and new Reaction system which lets you reflexively block, counterattack, or evade attacks for a certain duration or use count.
  • Significant improvements to much of the progress menu UI, showing much more info about abilities
  • Around 15-20 ish traits, some for existing weapons, some for new/magic
  • New Metatron 12-affection scene, covering the aftermath of her first lewd. More to come~
  • A new area, the Deepwood Vale. Plot-heavy, it introduces a variety of new characters, including Rosalyn, an ara ara butterfly girl! Also a talking tree, and an eclectic mix of monsters from Brazilian mythology, angry hobs, and spirit beasts.
  • Maya gets a blowjob and CG, as well as 6/8 trust and 6 affection scenes
  • Ashley gets her first martial arts training, as well as 14 trust and 4 affection scenes
  • Sarah gets 8 trust and 6 affection scenes
  • Sam gets 4/6 trust scenes
  • Celica gets a trust 6 scene
  • New Charisma/Magic hybrid weapon, "Mystic Harp," unlocked via Rosalyn in the Deepwoods Vale. A potent support weapon with free but mutually-exclusive channels!
  • 50-ish new abilities, including a spread of Charisma active abilities to buff your allies and some more dedicated Theromancy spells!
  • 20-odd new traits, spread across existing weapons, the harp, charisma, and magic
  • New, matching sprites for every weapon!
  • Rightclick stat and ability menus upgraded
  • All ability displays now intelligently show channel upkeep, in battle it should even show it with traits considered.
  • Svyatibor and Eldrad both have custom music as well!
  • Waaaay too many bugfixes.
  • New monsters courtesy of aekashics, NPCs mostly from alzaharart, Rosalyn drawn by Coubalty, Maya CG drawn by InCloud, Svyatibor theme by Ubercrow, Eldrad theme by mnervastudios, weapon sprites by TheWiseHedgehog
  • Special thanks to Dunnask for an incredible amount of proofreading and bugfixing across every beta, and a new star Dr.Dapertop for helping out a lot with recent beta reports!
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lisle

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TL;DR I think it's good, with the writing, music, and combat gameplay being the standouts. Not much fetish content beyond barely-monstergirls making the PC come for like an hour straight.

The dialogue/narration is strong if you like lighthearted tongue-in-cheek stuff. Consistent laughs from Ashley. Has some pathos and main character introspection here and there but it's definitely not the dominant tone, at least for the early material I've been through. Does a lot of worldbuilding. Could use an editing pass; there are typos and awkward phrasing occasionally, but overall the prose quality is well above average.

Character building has a wealth of options comparable to a fairly crunchy pnp rpg. Obviously a lot of Divinity OS inspiration at work even though it's not a TRPG battle system. Not super into the 'leave half your stats at 0' style of character building but the system seems fairly well planned-out in terms of supporting different build types. Wish you could see a list of all abilities the way you can traits. And that I knew what abilities you could gain outside leveling through training and such. No wiki?

Smut looks like it's all pretty vanilla M/F stuff? Succubus handholding.gif. I haven't gotten to many scenes but that's the vibe I get.

Character sprites look good; most of the characters have expressive faces and distinct face and body shapes. Sex CGs on the other hand are mostly very amateur and don't add to the scenes. Some of the music is pretty fuckin' baller. The music for Metatron's awakening especially does a huge amount to sell the scene, and thus the whole opening act of the game.

I liked it enough to buy the Itch version.
 
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To&Fro

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It's on STEAM now as well.