When The Night Comes
When The Night Comes is a queer, narrative-driven, supernatural visual novel.
When The Night Comes is a lgbtq+, visual novel and dating sim game
developed and published by Lunaris Games.
Released on August 09th 2021 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 304 reviews of which 286 were positive and 18 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 12.00€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP
- Processor: 1 GHz Intel or AMD Processor
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 100 MB available space
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS X 10.6 or later
- Processor: 1 GhzCore 2 Duo
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
- Storage: 100 MB available space
Linux
- Processor: 1 GHz Intel or AMD Processor
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
- Storage: 100 MB available space
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I can only talk about my experience. You might not feel the same way while playing this game. --- It is a very relaxing and cosy game. I felt loved by almost all the characters. Lunaris is the friendliest town ever. hehehe.... :) If you romance a character, you don't have to "have" sex with them, or kiss them, you can chose the option to simply hug them and that made me happy. --- However, the story was not very captivating or thrilling. I quickly guessed what was going on and so there were no great reveals or twists and turns. I felt a bit bored, but very loved. hihihi...So I still recommend it. If you feel lonely this game will sure remedy that!
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This is one of the best visual novels I have ever played and it's safe to say it has become one of my comfort games. All the romances are delightful and unique and the story itself is compelling and interesting. In terms of game mechanics, I love the fact that you can go back by individual lines in case you accidentally skipped something or to try out a different choice. The cast is diverse, the voice acting is phenomenal and the art is absolutely stunning - what more do you need?
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Went in expecting to romance hot vampire and witch, and ended up deeply in love with August. They have me in a choke-hold and that's where I'm going to stay for the rest of my life. There is a severe lack of poly rep in dating sims and I am so glad they have some options. Very inclusive, makes me feel very seen. Feel good game with good vibes :)
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Got this game to smooch a vampire, ended up falling in love with a witch and the most adorable demon I ever encountered. 10/10 characters What I liked: + The characters! Every one of them has a distinct personality and feels "alive". They have interesting backstories, flaws and depth. They have their own lifes outside of interacting with you and I really enjoyed discovering the relationships they have with each other. I have to admit I didn't like some of them in the beginning, but as I got to know them better and learn about their reasons, they all grew on me. And even my less favourite ones are well written, just not exactly my cup of tea. + The voice acting. I haven't played a lot of visual novels, so I don't know how common voice acting is in those games. But this is the first time I encountered it - and I really liked it. It gave the characters so much more personality and while it isn't 100% voiced, the spoken lines were well placed and really helped me to stay focused and not loose interest or get distracted. + The queer representation. I really adore the inclusion of a non-binary character as well as poly and aro/ace options. Like I said, I'm not experienced in this genre, but it's the first time I came across something like that and I really appreciate it. + The setting. I really like the supernatural world and mystery aspect of the game. + The art. I have some nitpicks with the art, but overall it's very pretty and I was always happy to get a new artwork of a character. There are also some really good looking background arts and I enjoyed the style of magical effects. + The codex. It features general "lexicon-like" entries to explain institutions - but also personal stories told from the point of view of the characters. I absolutely loved those. Finding out how certain characters met or what happened in the past to cause rifts between them was great! What I liked less: - The story is very linear. You will jump from character to character in order to include all of them equally (which doesn't even really work, some of them are clearly more relevant to the main story and get way more screentime than others), which means subsequent playthroughs felt really repetetive. Sure, your romance choices change some things, but generally, you won't discover that many new aspects of the main story by playing through multiple romances. So by the third time I tended to just skip from romance scene to romance scene without going through the whole story again, which makes the romance more rushed than before. This is especially true for the poly options. I had hoped to get some new scenes, but if you already played through their individual romances, the poly arc is just a meshup of what they say to you normally with some additional lines thrown in. I only played one poly route so far, so maybe it's different for the other. But I felt like I could skip 80% of the romance content because I had already seen it. I still enjoyed seeing them be cute together and getting art for them, tho. - The plot twist was a bit obvious. It's not totally on the nose and can still surprise you, but if you ever read stories with a similar setup before, it's not too hard to know the ending before you played through the first half of the story. I would have also liked the mystery to play a bigger role and to spend a little more time on actually investigating and putting clues together. But this is still a dating game and not supposed to be a hardcore detective story, so it's totally understandable and not the main focus. - The main character. Our character is just so meaningless and bland. We are supposed to be this badass monster hunter, but most times I felt like I was just watching other characters do things. None of the romance options can even say why or what they like about us, they just decide to be in love with us halfway through the story. - I wished the romance options were a bit more even. While I like Piper as a character, I think a second female dating option would have been great. Or maybe not making both poly options mlm+you. This isn't a big negative, just a little "what could have been even better". - The artwork is a little inconsistent sometimes. This is more true for some characters than others and the art is still beautiful, but sometimes I was a little thrown off by how different somebody looked in certain pictures. It's still interesting to see them in different styles and this is more nitpicking than anything else. Conclusion: The story isn't perfect, but we are mainly here for the dating aspect and these characters are just so charming and interesting! They certainly carry the game and made me enjoy it. 8/10, would certainly recommend.
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As I always say, there needs to be a MEH option for Steam reviews. This game is great... the first one or two playthroughs around, but it's linear with very minute changes, so you can't get too much replayability out of it. The story is linear and you simply choose to flirt with people (heart options) or not and then you choose a romance route (or not) and then decide on what to do with the enemy and that's about it. Once you've done one romance ( a complete playthrough of the story) you've pretty much seen the majority of the story (minus the little bits and pieces of romances you didn't choose). If you do choose a different path in regards to the enemy, you do get a slightly different ending to the story so it can make a 2nd playthrough a little different. But after that, you have to replay the same thing over and over again. The voice acting is great! The fact I get Fenris from Dragon Age (and he finally tells us he loves us!) as a cute vampire is awesome. All the characters are interesting. Omen is adorable, Alkar is a lovable brat, Ezra is a cinnamon roll, August is just <3, Finn is a loveable flirt, and Piper is quite entertaining. However, you can definitely tell certain characters were loved more than others so some got really bad/abrupt/quick romance scenes or just felt rushed or like they didn't fit in with the story as much. I feel like they centered the story mostly on Finn/August and almost forgot about Omen and Alkar. It's also quite interesting how fast all the love interests fall for the MC especially considering certain characters were clearly either in love with each other or in a relationship so you kinda came into the middle and to me that just felt awkward. It is cool they included a non-binary character, an actual female love interest that isn't just used to make the MC look cool, poly options, and you can be Ace/aromantic and still have a good story. I do have an issue, though, with the poly routes in that it lets you initially flirt with both people but you're essentially forced to romance one person, then partway through, you're sorta just... given an option to randomly decide to be poly with the other person's ex/crush without there feeling like a lot of discussion or anything. While I liked the poly routes, it just felt... incomplete because just grabbing an extra person and just being like "yep, we're poly now" just felt odd... The art style reminds me of Arcana; it's pretty and drew me in. The CGs can be slightly hit or miss but mostly are pretty. The soundtrack adds great atmosphere to the game. There are some decent sound effects, but mostly it feels silent which I was hoping for more of. The action sequence needed a warning for some reason in the middle of the game which felt kind of silly to me; I felt like you kind of understood what you were getting into by playing this game, but that's just me. There wasn't too much action and not a lot of real focus on the mystery; I kind of felt like the romances/relationships were front and center more than the mystery. I liked the idea of putting stuff that happened in the past in the codex, although sometimes I felt like some of the information should have been included in the story instead because some things just felt confusing. The mini-stories were cute and I was glad to have more content with the characters (I didn't buy the extra DLC cause I was not interested in it) but some, once again, felt more rushed or lacking in information than others did. Omen, for instance, supposedly leaves somewhere between the end of the story and the DLC and you're just not given and explanation and several of us have asked for information on this and still haven't gotten any answer, yet. The first mini-story also just abruptly ends and his Til Death (as well as poly) feels threatening and like no one wants the MC to marry/bittersweet/sad but everyone else has happy ends and everyone's support and it's honestly not fair. Omen was one of my top favorites and these mini-stories actually made my feelings for the game lessen because of how... bitter everything felt. Ezra's Til Death one just rushed through things really quickly and it felt like no one really cared for their relationship; he almost felt like he was settling, in a way. In the end, since I really enjoyed my first playthrough with August and loved the characters and voice acting (especially Finn) I would recommend it, ON SALE of course, not full price, for at least one or two playthroughs and the mini-stories. If you're into it for achievement hunting, you do have to buy the extra DLC to fully complete this game (Living Dead Girl). I say play it for August. <3 Finn is pretty great cause vampire and Fenris' voice (Dragon Age)= awesome! Lots of people like Ezra but I preferred Omen over him. Although his poly route with Finn was great!
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Developer
Lunaris Games
Publisher
Lunaris Games
Release
09 Aug 2021
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