Shattered Dreams: Redemption

Shattered Dreams: Redemption is a story-driven casual game. Just one step away from his dream, MC's basketball dream is shattered by an accidental injury. After three years of despair, with his uncle's help, MC starts a new job and life at an entertainment company. There, he will encounter superstars, girls with diverse personalities, and even various enemies. While exploring the city, players will trigger various story events, making choices that advance the plot and shape relationships. Ultimately, will you have a new life and destiny, or will you succumb to the shadow of failure? It's all up to the player's choices. Of course, as the story progresses, various intimate storylines are also inevitable, allowing you to have in-depth interactions with several beautiful girls and build your harem.

Story:

Once a young basketball prodigy destined for the NBA, your dreams were shattered by an injury.

Three years later, living with your gambling-addict father and bouncing between dead-end jobs is pushing you further into a suffocating situation with no way out in sight.

But your uncle gets you a job at a renowned music entertainment agency, giving you some room to breathe—until a encounter with a pressured superstar threatens to turn your world upside down.

You will be immersed in the city of Brookside, where you will discover the stories and characters that inhabit it—for better or for worse.

Shattered Dreams: Redemption is a visual novel with mature themes, focusing on its story and the various branching paths you can explore.

The further you progress in the story, the more your choices will shape your story, and only you will decide the kind of relationships you'll build with the girls you meet, the enemies you'll confront, and the allies you'll rely on in Shattered Dreams: Redemption.

And these choices will likely become increasingly difficult to make, as they won't only affect you but also those around you. The consequences will always be there, waiting for you.

Changelog:

First of all, I would like to apologize for my silence and for the delay regarding the release of update 0.7.

I want to be completely honest with you: for more than a month and a half, I have made almost no progress on the development of the game. What has prevented me from working is not a lack of time, but simply a complete creative block.

Whenever I try to make progress, whether it is working on the renders or rewriting certain scenes I was not satisfied with, I just cannot do it. My mind goes completely blank. I cannot come up with any good ideas for the writing or the direction of the scenes.

At the moment, seven and a half of the eleven planned scenes have been completed, and I still need to rewrite two scenes.

I will not lie to you: this situation has been affecting me deeply. I am disappointing myself, and I feel like I am greatly disappointing all of you as well.

I do not want to abandon the game. I also do not want to announce the end of development, only to regret that decision a few months later if my motivation returns. I think I simply need to take a break.

I am going to give myself until the end of the year at the latest to make a decision and see whether I am capable of returning to the development of the game and enjoying working on it again in the meantime.

Honestly, I do not know what else to say. I am truly sorry.

Before I go, I would like to ask you one thing: would you like me to release the unfinished version of update 0.7? It would include the seven completed scenes.

Once again, I am sincerely sorry.

Have a good day, everyone, and take care of yourselves.

Player Comments:

ALRIGHT, SO GODDAYUMM, it's a masterpiece, the songs, the renders, character designs, the tensions, the branching, this game has everything it needs to go in the league of games like , summers gone, amnesia, BAD, artemis, leap of faith, etc, you know games which have all the qualities i described that this game has, i hope the dev gets many followers, and patrons because, i don't think this is one of the games any sane person wanna miss out on, so for me i'll say it's one of the best of 2025, can't wait for the story to evolve.

I started off being lukewarm on this one, I am really enjoying Maddison's path however & Lena is fun too. Ella & Jennie are alright as well.I could care less about Mina's path however.Plot is pretty standard OC/Conspiracy plot but the characters are what makes the AVN good as the plot is so-so.LI's are quite attractive even Mina is decent looking, rare for DAZ to render female Asian characters well IMO.Is it my favorite AVN or an all time great? No. Its pretty decent, 3.5 stars would be the correct rating but can't do halves so we're gonna go 4 here today.

Well I can honestly say that I was very pleased with what I just played through. I did not even need to skip my way through the storyline as it was actually interesting enough to keep me focused. That is saying quite a bit. The characters are interesting and even though I felt like they could have stood to have a bit more development and lead in to get to know them better I am not complaining about them. The LI's, and there are apparently a hell of a lot of them, are nice and interesting people in the story. As with the general characters they too could have stood to be more developed and have more of an introduction and lead up. It was nice to see that most were not fuck on the first day LI's though. But still it was way too easy. True one was a crush from high school and one was the easy piece from high school as well. But aside from nitpicking every little detail, it was an enjoyable overall experience. I look forward to seeing how things turn out. I would suggest the Dev do a bit more research on dirty cops and drug activities though. The interactions don't match what has been experienced in real life even closely. But for fiction it is nothing to bad that it is worth complaining about. Looking forward to future updates just to see how things go with the story even though I already have some predictions already in my mind.

Final Verdict:

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