VN - Ren'Py - Alien Breeding Program: First Contact [Full Release v1.0] [HappyDaedalus]

This is a strange VN; a rape by proxy romance story that attempts to justify its kink (as if it were necessary) through many tedious scenes of hand wringing and lore dumps. This separates it not just from common nukige but also erotica, as the story feels self-conscious from the very start.

The prologue procrastinates however it can before we reach the first sex scene. The writing itself has a nervous energy to it, percussive and terse, while also superfluous and long winded. I found it so tiring to read, *click, one sentence, click, one sentence*, I loaded the raw script in notepad and read along with the dumped CGs. It's not until well into the story that the writing calms down and becomes comfortable with itself, and thus, enjoyable to read. You can tell when this happens because the typos will increase significantly. You will also realise that someone has tricked you into reading an almost-kinetic novel. There is only one crucial choice in this game and it's whether to cuck yourself. It has little effect on anything, as the ending is the same either way. Again, a strange option in a strange story.

I've not played the developer's other game but I knew full well what this story was going to be before I played it, so there was no disappointment there. I don't believe it could have supported the protagonist engaging her captor(s) like assumed, anyway. Other remarks about the story being depressing or dark, I did not find to be true either. Aside from the larger situation at hand and the "misunderstanding" at the start, the protagonist is not ill treated. She even has, as fumbled and minute as it might be, a positive character arc. I also didn't find the art change midway through to be a minus at all. While unfortunate about the original artist, I hope they're okay, the replacement had their own charm. Rok'Thar actually becomes much cuter and more alien-looking in the second style.
Once the story came into its own, I enjoyed it, but I'm not sure who it's meant for. There is not enough traditional conflict to please a romance reader. All the expected story beats are missing. The only threat to them is at the very end, but they are already immensely congruous, so it's very little to surmount, with no tension at all. I also don't think there's enough depravity to please a typical eroge player. Rape and humiliation cease to exist as quickly as they're introduced. Some might find the overall situation titillating, but as the story solely focuses on Natalie, you never get a good grasp on it and it merely blueballs.

Great game, looking forward to more of the world in the upcoming 2nd (and hopefully 3rd) game of the trilogy.

Story
The premise and world building are the interesting bits of an otherwise straightforward and short visual novel. The characters are respectable for the situation they find themselves in.

Art
The sex scenes are solid and there is a progression from start the finish, but with a more Western take than a stereotypical Japanese story arc. The artist swaps halfway through and I think the new art is actually better, though less stylistic. MC grows at least 3 cup sizes during the art swap so that's always a plus in my book.

Gameplay
There's no gameplay and from my save scumming there seems to be only one impactful decision to make really. That said the game is pretty short, you can just download and experience the story in entirety pretty quickly. There's a couple typos so a 4/5 for a VN for me. But obviously this is not a game with any gameplay, this is entirely in a context of a pure text VN.

Smut
The writer has a different style than most porn writers, with a heavy focus on a realistic perspective of a woman, giving me a sneaking suspicion the writer is also a woman (or at least understands them very well). The size kink is pretty prevalent there too.

Summary
Overall, I hope this game does well as I'm honestly more interested in the pairing of the lanky aliens in the next book and more corruption depravity in that regard. The pairings in this offering are a bit one dimensional do-no-wrong, which is nice, but I wouldn't mind some dark complicated smut too.

The story was a nice change of pace. I would like to see a film adaptation of this, but we all know Hollywood is not ready for this yet.

I found myself heavily invested in Natalie. The artwork was unique. Although it did change halfway thru. This was not a deterrence. If you want a story that is complete and worth reading. I highly recommend this.

Good game. I'm not a big fan of stories where you have no choices, but this game had an interesting story and the first part felt like a horror movie with the alien invasion, the music, and not knowing what was happening. When you find out what's happening the story takes a backseat and becomes a more classic porn game and the ending was a little rushed, but it's still a good game.

It surprise that nobody is talking about how deeo and depressant the story is, Im going to speak with spoilers of all the game at the end of the rating.

Story 5/5: Its horrible... I love it, it really is mind breaking, impactful, scary and shocking, it gave me a little of anxiety on certain point of the story lol, fully recommended.

Art 4/5: Its a shame the change of style, both are beautiful, but I think that the first one really gets and fits the whole apocalyptic setting.

Sex scenes: 4/5: The first one are really well made, its not the raping that I liked but the full view of the creampie, and since the whole game its about literally breeding, I was hoping to see each scene ending with a clear view of the creampie, maybe its a personal taste, but it really shows visually the end of a sex scene in my opinion.

Core gameplay 4/5: its just a relative short visual novel that almost doesnt have choices and gallery, the later can be fixed if you simple save before each scene tho.

The game its totally recommendable, the only problem and mostly from f95 its that it lacks tags, the game needs the proper tags of rape, gore, distopian setting?, etc... but overall I would rate this game 4.4/5 stars

Now to talk with spoilers about the story... It really sucks... but in a good way, we fucking lost dude, the demo of the game I think it didnt show the humanity lossing completly against the aliens, but here now we fucking lost but with a total whooping of our asses, not even that but we too had to give them the fucking 95% of the whole fertile human female population so they can breed them with a race mostly similar with Orcs, that pretty sure means that a lot of human males would die virgin tho, really depressing, but if you have the poor luck of being one of the hundred of males human that the aliens took you only have a 20% of surviving the breed with an female orc, AND 75% OF THAT 20% (or 15% of 100%) YOU WOULD BE PEGGED FOR ALL UR LIFE, it really sucks for humanity one way or another.
What I really would like from this game its a sequel one were we quickly advance in technology thanks to, idk, maybe we manage to shoot down an spacecraft and since the whole humanity had been united we finally could advance to the stars, and the with a new sequel the new protagonist could be humans trying to revenge or even rule the galaxy, something epic from the lost we had, that are my thoughts, I hope to see a sequel of this universe with a bigger game. GG

This is an extremely linear ren'py game that uses the engine well. Could easily be a comic.

Interesting story, caters very well to alien impregnation fetish, and contains slight NTR vibes (if that's your thing).

Art is unique and complete, though a little rough in spots which is ultimately what brings this to a 4/5.

It's really more of a short story, but as such it is lovely.

The writing is great and mindful of the characters. It treats the story delicately and in a smart, mature way. It'll take you an hour or so, but it is way better spent than most of what you find here. I love it.

Wow. It's not perfect, but it hits way more of my strong points than many other games on this site, so I'm rating this five stars until other games can up their, well, game.

I really appreciated the consistent serious tone. There were a few typos and some minor textual script bugs near the end relating to the Kim choice, but I thought the story was very solid.

Combined with the art in the first half, this feels very Arcane, in all the best ways. (I find the complaints about the sharp art style confusing, but to each their own.) The artist swap was unfortunate and jarring at first, but after a few minutes I hardly noticed, so in the end I'm glad they stepped up to get the project across the finish line.

I agree with the feedback about the ingame choices - it felt like there were two essentially meaningless choices and then like a choice or two with significant impact. This isn't necessarily a problem, but players who are expecting the level of choice similar to the dev's previous game will not find it here.

To be clear, it feels bare in some places (see: no gallery, default Ren'Py font, etc) but I found the core elements very compelling.

We start with a muddy low effort watercolor art style that drops in quality steeply beyond the splash page and maybe the first ten frames. The writing is solid in fact I would go so far to say that I would like to see the author try their hand at writing a erotic novel on this idea rather than putting out a low quality looking game.

You get out of the whole game a single choice that changes the outcome of the game which is to suggest sharing your alien mate with your friend from earth. That is it, otherwise every other choice doesn't matter beyond adding flavoring and I say that lightly as its not much flavor either way.

There is a artstyle shift in the latter quarter of the game to a still muddy but more anime style but at best it feels like the art is held back by trying to match the rest of the game.

The game is complete and runs without bugs so it gets a star for that much and the writing isn't bad but this shouldn't be a VN and other devs should look at this artstyle and seriously ask themselves "Can I do better?".

The only game that I have seen pull this style off is 'A Town Uncovered' and that is razor sharp and clear compared to what we see here.

Another thing to bring up is for how short this game is it is absolutely huge at ~1.7 GB on the windows version. Why the bloat?

I found this really well done, considering all the other various VNs out there.

The art style changing partway through wasn't a decision made to purposefully detract from the story/visuals, it came out of necessity so I quickly got over that change.
The title, from what others have said, can give a different idea of what the game is going to be coming in, but I didn't have an issue with it.

Otherwise, I found everything else to be a breathe of fresh air. The sci-fi trope of "first contact" isn't new or exciting generally, but this VN shoots differently in showing a slow pace in turning from non-con to con.

The breeding plot felt natural and the escalation of the protag's circumstances was appropriately paced, in my opinion. The swapping between coombrain to interest in the story was a first for me definitely, with the exception of Pale Carnations and Bad Memories.

Overall I enjoyed the story and would be interested in more from this dev.

A quite mediocre game, or I should say a visual novel with only one single choice.

There is almost nothing interesting about it. The story has a great promise and relatively well written, but lacks any imagination.
The only thing I really loved is the original art. The artist did a great job making something different, unique and at the same time attactive.
Unfortunatly, he seems to get sick during the development and the other guy who finished drawing the rest of the pictures has drawned some cookie-cutter anime-like junk. I wouldn't even have started playing the game if all the pictures in the game had been made by the second guy.

Overall, the game feels like a weird romance novel with aliens for bored housewives.
The concept was great. The demo version was promising. The end result is terrible.
Actually, it still could be a great game if some actual game mechanics were added into in. Like some system of trying different things to improve the breeding rate, breeding with different monsters, and so on. To make an actual game.
Or at least adding some choices that really matter, leading to different outcomes.

So, overall, I think it is a 2-star visual novel. But since the original artist has put some effort to it, I give 3 stars.

Game doesn't match the description.
1. You have no choise. All the game is linear. One difference will be you with Kim in scene or not.
2. That's not "breeding program" - in demo you be in position of program manager - all change - now you have laptop, with boring information.
3. Plot about stockholm syndrome and Deus Ex from metal corroding lilies - borring and useless.
4. The worst part - ok, i understand that main artist is ill. But game still using old and new arts mixed up!

I would argue it's impossible to rate at this point.
ABP attracted me because it has a female protagonist and a unique art style that is not just AI art. And the prologue is interesting story-wise, typical invasion scenario from the perspective of a smalltown folk.

At some point both men and women get abducted and prepared (for the Program I assume?) and when the MC arrives at her destination it's basically the end of the prologue.
There is no lewd content to speak of at this point but some physical violence. I am grateful that the plot was introduced with patience, there was even some early bonding with another woman going on, the art is great in my opinion, the music is basic and there is this huge mystery what this all is about.

I get it. Breeding Program, obviously. But the way the story is being told there is certainly enough room for another layer. Only time will tell. My recommendation would be to wait for one or maybe even two updates before you play this in order to avoid disappointment. (Version: Prologue)

I was immediately attracted to this, alien breeding is hot and the art really looks promising.

Unfortunantely in its current state this is was not for me. It basically is a long non-interactive intro to a game that, as far as i can tell, isn't there yet. Lots of text fed to me a sentence at a time, I end up spamming the space bar, just to move along. I kinda lost interest and started skimming the text. So, I guess the pacing didn't work for me.

Towards the end there were a few choices, but they didn't seem hugely relevant, not that I know, I didn't actually go back to see what different paths might open up.

Sorry dev(s), the graphics looked really promising, the premise sounded pretty sexy, but after actually downloading and trying this out, nothing really raised my interest.

TLDR: 2D, sci-fi, noir VN with girl-next-door MC.

The prologue itself feels like a good choice: it introduces players to the author's storytelling, provides a sufficient amount of suspense and flashes a bit of MC body.

The plot is consistent and kinda realistic (as much as sci-fi and alien invasion could be in general). Being a non-native English speaker I can not judge the writing, but to me it looks fine and solid.
The characters, their actions and thoughts are natural and believable. I particularly liked the dialog between Nathalie and the unnamed female captive - apathetic and indifferent.
Overall, this is one of the (very few) NSFW games where I didn't just click the text through, but rather read every single line.

The unique art style is what making the (solid overall but not outstanding in any way) game truly amazing, however. Being a fan of 2DCG I'm definitely biased, but, good Lord, I just can't stop praising it.
I didn't like TSSR (the other game by HappyDaedalus) for its anime aesthetics and very bland art, but this game is totally different. Those minimalist yet realistic sketches are full of volume and perspective, they look awesome and I'm truly in love with the style.

What I also liked very much about the art, is the natural-looking body (and proportions in particular) of the MC.
The art and the plot both are successful at creating the girl-next-door vibe, which makes it easier for a player to associate themselves with the MC, and also makes the plot more believable.

The prologue is very short so I didn't spot any major issues, may be just these two:

• The virtual absence of choices (there is actually one or two, but they are purely cosmetic and only result in some text alterations). It's definitely fine for a Prologue, but I'm afraid the main game will also be like this (a linear VN is not necessarily bad, but it's just not what I personally expect of a fun-to-play game ).
• The character names are highlighted with the same (blue) color, but this is just a minor QoL issue which I'm pretty sure they will fix at some point.

Overall imo this game has a huge potential. The prologue feels already more competitive and richer than some of the completed games.
Not sure how good the main story will be, but so far it is definitely 5/5.
Pledged on Daedalus'es Patreon page (despite there's no mention of ABP:FC there for some reason) and looking forward for updates.

the game looks good but need some more work in the writing and CG ... I hope this project continue deliver good story it has a original taste in the story and about options I think dont need a complex one

Around 12 thousand words, 3 false choices, 0 actual branches, 0 sex scenes. But the worst offense? It's boring. Also this should not be called a prologue, it's chapter one, a prologue is removed from the main story line.

The story is fundamentally not unique. One day, Sufficiently Advanced Aliens arrive, instantly wipe out all electronics, from there face no resistance, and conquer Earth. Alright, so what's the traditional solution to a bog-standard plot? Like with any disaster movie, focus on a regular Joe or Jane —Natalie in this case— surviving the event to make it interesting. It works. The problem... This particular story fails to do so, and still has to fall back on narrator and timeskips.

So the S.A.A. take over the government in the capital. But Natalie isn't in the capital, she is in some sufficiently backwater town. So Natalie waits a week while the town slowly descends into anarchy (or so we're told, there's no consequences for Natalie, no gangs robbing her, no assaults on her dignity, nothing). Then the army guys arrive, impose martial law. So Natalie waits in her apartment some more. Rations are provided. Then she is abruptly taken into some Earth-based prison. She is processed and waits several days more. And then FINALLY she is taken into a sufficiently advanced alien holding cell. (The story currently ends here.)

Do you see the problem? This story is about waiting. Natalie makes no decisions, and all the three "choices" the game currently offers are deliberately placed at such points where all answers obviously lead to the same outcomes (ex: Ask for extra rations? No: Natalie obviously gets no rations Yes: Extra rations denied! )

This isn't good writing. There is no need for all that time to be wasted. You can throw all these 12 thousand words away, there's not a single drop of tension or conflict there, which is in line with the absolute lack of branching and meaningful choices. Instead, you could start the story with MC waking up in the final cell, and NOTHING of value will be lost.

On a technical level prose is okay, some errors here and there, but passable. Art is fine, but I don't think this stylization is going to be good for actual porn. Could be too "artsy" for that, but we'll see. Also, a personal pet peeve, no dynamic facial expressions during dialogue. With the amount of art this game has, it could easily shift focus from scenery to what's really important. Characters.

Music is a severe tone mismatch.

Overall, meh.