I seriously gave it a lot of thought if I should recommend the game or not as I like games by John Wizard. Unfortunately, I just can't get myself to enjoy this at all. This has nothing to do with the story line but rather the game play and concept of fights. If you like rpg maker games and a challenge, you should pick it up as it's not expensive at all. Now to why I can't enjoy it:

- Monsters get stronger as well whenever you level up or get more party members.
- No healing after level up.
- Hard to outrun enemies which makes it nearly impossible to escape the battles.
- Attack is mainly focused on one character because of the percentage.

Overall, I have to use healing items a lot or I keep dying every second fight. I am a very casual player and want to relax while playing, not getting frustrated. I am not saying that it is a bad game though. It's just not the type of gameplay I enjoy in a rpg maker game. In my opinion it would be better if there was an easy mode that would give the player an edge over the enemies or let you at least heal whenever you level up.

meh

RPG Maker strikes again!

Dawn's Light is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel JRPG ripoffs spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club weeaboo fan fiction. Basically, these guys didn't make a game, they filled out a couple of templates in a construction kit then proudly called themselves "developers".

Also, like all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer.

Dawn's Light is a typical JRPG high school fan fiction using asset flips of the basic RPG tilesets, characters and so on. It's developed by John Wizard, who has achieved peak cringe by writing himself into some of these fan fictions along with his fictional anime waifu. And that's fine if people want to do that in their spare time but it's not so great to pay money and publish that on Steam and dump it into cheap nasty game bundles.

Gamers who want a good retro JRPG experience would be better off playing the originals, like Final Fantasy, Star Ocean or Chrono Trigger. Leave this terrible fan fiction in the shovelware bundles where it belongs.

RPG maker trash

SFX sound settings are broken (volume blasts at 100% even when it's set at 0, writing is full of grammar errors, MC sprite is ugly af. Wouldn't recommend even for free.