discussion VN Ren'Py DAZ New Year's Day(e) [Ch.6 v0.6.1] [Jonesy]

[Jonesy]

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Developer Name

Jonesy

Developer Links

Itch.io - Twitter - Patreon - Discord - Subscribestar

Version

Chapter 6 - 0.6.1

Latest Update

Sep 11, 2026

Release Date

Jan 18, 2025

Language

English

OS

1. Windows
2. Linux
3. MacOS
4. Android

Other Games

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Overview:
New Year's Day(e) is the continuing story of a single father (MC) and his stepdaughters, Evelynne (Eve) and Dayton (Daye) and their friends Becky and Kaylee. This is the sequel to the story "
Christmas Eve
". If you haven't read that, I encourage you to read it first, but it's not absolutely necessary in order to enjoy this story. This is a love story of acceptance, coming of age, and healing as the MC's family and friends continue to come to terms with their developing feelings for each other and their grief felt for the MC's late wife, Heather.
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Spoiler: Genre:

3dcg, animated, groping, group sex, harem, incest, kinetic novel, lesbian, male protagonist, oral sex, rape, sex toys, teasing, vaginal sex, voyeurism

Spoiler: Installation

1. Extract and run.

Spoiler: Change-Log

v0.6.1

• Fixed several blurry/pixelated images
• Fixed minor coding issues with Becky’s room
• Added Gallery
• Corrected various typos

Spoiler

It’s been about a week since I released chapter 6 into the wild, and the response has been…enthusiastic (?) in many ways.

Aside from different opinions, I received a bunch of help pointing out bugs and errors leftover from my own idiocy in combining the game folders from chapters 5 and 6.

I have now fixed those mistakes and blurry images, and I have added a gallery for your viewing pleasure.

I hope you enjoy v0.6.1. If I don’t hear back about a bunch of mistakes on this build, I will bump the rev to v1.0 and call it done.

There *shouldn’t* be any issue with saves breaking, but if there is let me know and I’ll post a new save game. For those of you who are most of the way through the game, once you reach the absolute end (past the credits), all of the images will be unlocked.

TO ALL THE CHELSEA FANS!!! I’m sorry she didn’t get a scene in NYD. I know you’re disappointed. I am too. I started to try to bring her into the fold in chapter 4, but…it just seemed out of character for her to become a fully realized LI at that time. Plus, the story was already weighed down with a lot of plot lines (some of which may have been unnecessarily crazy in retrospect). I didn’t want Chelsea to seem like an afterthought. She’s too sweet for that. She’ll show up in the future. Her arc is in full swing; it just hasn’t crested yet.

One last thing: I have read a lot of comments over the past week, and it seems like some people may be confused by the relationships within the game. I can only deduce that this is because people have been playing with different mods installed. Any mod that alters the relationships will most likely cause confusion towards the end of the story. I strongly encourage you not to use mods in order to experience the story as it was originally intended.

Note: I love modding games and fully support the modding community. I've been modding games myself since the Escape Velocity Nova days (shout-out to my old-school Mac gamers!), and I run Skyrim and Fallout 4 with dozens of mods installed — I'm not a stranger to this, and I love what the modding community does. But sometimes the original experience really is the more balanced, more coherent one. In my opinion, this happens to be one of those cases.

Now. With these bug fixes behind me, I can really start to focus on Charlotte and Bobby. I’ve missed them!

Love y’all.

~ Jonesy



TL;DR Changelog:

• Fixed several blurry/pixelated images
• Fixed minor coding issues with Becky’s room
• Added Gallery
• Corrected various typos

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(Drops you off just before the Heather Dream in Ch. 5)



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[Mr. Tearson]

Having up to 3 types of link hosts to download would be idea. Either way, I'm approving this so good luck with your game.

 

[Jonesy]

Having up to 3 types of link hosts to download would be idea. Either way, I'm approving this so good luck with your game.

No problem. I'll get those set up and taken care of.

 

[JoeTheMc84]

No I.patch for this one yet?

 

[Tiur]

No I.patch for this one yet?

No, but this release doesn't need one yet. Nothing sufficiently specific that would need one has been said, since it plays off the relationships established in Christmas Eve. The relevant girls call the MC 'Daddy' or 'Dad', and he calls them his daughters when it comes up.

 

[JoeTheMc84]

I just started it, and Eve called him stepdad. It was like the second or third line of dialog. I'll wait for a patch, even that was enough to put me off till it's fixed. It would change the whole tone of everything after it for me even if it was the only time without a patch where one of the girls says it.

 

[Tiur]

I just started it, and Eve called him stepdad. It was like the second or third line of dialog. I'll wait for a patch, even that was enough to put me off till it's fixed. It would change the whole tone of everything after it for me even if it was the only time without a patch where one of the girls says it.

Aha, huh, I missed that. That said, it's a simple change. You could even just remove the word "step" in that line in the code yourself as an incest patch, since that's the only place it matters.

That said, I honestly don't know why Jonesy even did it that way. That line is enough for Patreon to have a problem with it if someone reported it, since they don't distinguish between blood, step, or adopted relations.

 

[Tiur]

Aha, huh, I missed that. That said, it's a simple change. You could even just remove the word "step" in that line in the code yourself as an incest patch, since that's the only place it matters.

This is no longer true, by the way. With the end of the Ch2 release, the stepcest is now heavily plot-relevant, so any patch or edit can't save it anymore. It's pure stepcest now, no actual incest anymore other than some girl-girl.

That said, I honestly don't know why Jonesy even did it that way. That line is enough for Patreon to have a problem with it if someone reported it, since they don't distinguish between blood, step, or adopted relations.

And now we know why Jonesy did it that way. (Ch2 spoiler): The girls' bio father existing is a plot point, probably to be used to drive drama.

 

[JoeTheMc84]

This is no longer true, by the way. With the end of the Ch2 release, the stepcest is now heavily plot-relevant, so any patch or edit can't save it anymore. It's pure stepcest now, no actual incest anymore other than some girl-girl.

And now we know why Jonesy did it that way. (Ch2 spoiler): The girls' bio father existing is a plot point, probably to be used to drive drama.

New Years Day(e) has ruined Christmas Eve and the whole story for me. This game was better than the Petal games, which it is heavy influenced by, but now it is so damaged. Daye and the friend going full lesbian out of nowhere and behind the father’s back and more that has happens since the end of Christmas Eve has just ruined it. I wish it had just ended with the morning in the cabin and been left for our imaginations to fill in what happened when they go home… another game ruins itself for no reason…

 

[JoeTheMc84]

The friend and Daye doing that lesbian shit totally undercuts the fact that the friend got upset when she saw Eve and the dad having sex. But I was going to consider sticking it out even though it basically ruined both of them for me in many ways.

But now the dad being their step-dad makes his old wife seem like a slut, and ruins her setting up her daughters to do stuff with the dad. It makes it seem like she was doing it to spite their real dad and not because it would be a beautiful and meaningful thing for her daughters to be there for their dad. Her setting up her daughters to take care of their real dad is somewhat romantic. Her setting up her daughters to take care of some random guy she married after breaking up with their real dad makes her seem like a vindictive groomer who did it to fuck over her ex and abuse his daughters with this other guy…

Edit: and with this 180 out of nowhere bs turn of events I wouldn’t even be surprised if they fuck their real dad, after all, taking care of daddy is what they’ve been trained to do…

Edit 2: I swear the more I’m hearing from a buddy of mine the worse it gets. So the Mc was married and got divorced before hook up with the girls mom… seems like Mia might be his ex and she got knocked up by someone else and had Kay… cause there is some history between them but she can’t be his cause now step-cest is the order of the day and I doubt that incest with Kay is on the menu to replace the removed incest that was there in the first game.

 

[Jonesy]

Thanks Cebs, thanks Jonesy!

Thanks!

 

[Nastastic]

But now the dad being their step-dad makes his old wife seem like a slut, and ruins her setting up her daughters to do stuff with the dad. It makes it seem like she was doing it to spite their real dad and not because it would be a beautiful and meaningful thing for her daughters to be there for their dad. Her setting up her daughters to take care of their real dad is somewhat romantic. Her setting up her daughters to take care of some random guy she married after breaking up with their real dad makes her seem like a vindictive groomer who did it to fuck over her ex and abuse his daughters with this other guy…

Edit: and with this 180 out of nowhere bs turn of events I wouldn’t even be surprised if they fuck their real dad, after all, taking care of daddy is what they’ve been trained to do…

Edit 2: I swear the more I’m hearing from a buddy of mine the worse it gets. So the Mc was married and got divorced before hook up with the girls mom… seems like Mia might be his ex and she got knocked up by someone else and had Kay… cause there is some history between them but she can’t be his cause now step-cest is the order of the day and I doubt that incest with Kay is on the menu to replace the removed incest that was there in the first game.

Haven't played the game yet...but maybe this "real dad" you seem to have such reverence for is a piece of shit who didn't bother raising his kids? And the MC you seem to hold in contempt as an interloper is the guy who stepped up and is for all intents and purposes "the" dad and it would be beautiful and meaningful for the girls to be there for him? There are lots of "dads" in the world who are basically just sperm donors and have little or no presence in their kids' lives. If this is the case here than neither the wife, nor the daughters owe this "real dad" a fucking thing. The "random guy she married" may be the only dad these girls have ever known...and if any dad "deserves" to fuck his daughters, it's the one who sacrificed years of his life to raise them, not the one who cut and ran rather than face his responsibilities.

Hopefully your post was just an expression of annoyance at the game suddenly pulling the "real incest" rug out from under you, rather than you actually viewing stepdads as worthless cucks for "raising another man's offspring".

 

[JoeTheMc84]

Haven't played the game yet...but maybe this "real dad" you seem to have such reverence for is a piece of shit who didn't bother raising his kids? And the MC you seem to hold in contempt as an interloper is the guy who stepped up and is for all intents and purposes "the" dad and it would be beautiful and meaningful for the girls to be there for him? There are lots of "dads" in the world who are basically just sperm donors and have little or no presence in their kids' lives. If this is the case here than neither the wife, nor the daughters owe this "real dad" a fucking thing. The "random guy she married" may be the only dad these girls have ever known...and if any dad "deserves" to fuck his daughters, it's the one who sacrificed years of his life to raise them, not the one who cut and ran rather than face his responsibilities.

Hopefully your post was just an expression of annoyance at the game suddenly pulling the "real incest" rug out from under you, rather than you actually viewing stepdads as worthless cucks for "raising another man's offspring".

Nothing wrong with the MC raising another man’s kids. But the whole 180 screws up the first games set up, and the timeline becomes a mess. And for me there is something wrong with the mother of those kids training them to have sex with another man. Yeah I am also super annoyed at the incest bait and switch, but also, it fundamentally makes the story a totally different one from what was set up in the first game. Adding in some other guy serves zero purpose for the story as it was set up and had been going, it only serves to foil what was established before at best, and set up some kind of bs content later at worst (and with the lesbian betrayal the game already has I have zero faith that there will not be some kind of turn towards more betrayal later). If he will never show up in the game or do things with the girls (or try to do thing) then why even fuck over the whole set up to add him in? And if it was added in the hopes of keeping the game safe from the Patreon police then that is silly because step-cest will get hammered too.

But yeah, I am getting more and more frustrated with AVNs as of late. After getting blindsided multiple times by surprise NTR, several developers down right lying repeatedly, and games after years of development changing corse… I’ve lost nearly all of my patience for these kinds of antics. The basic premise was a simple incest-harem. The first games made it clear what the set up was and the start of the second built on that. Then suddenly the girls have all these bisexual leaning, so much so they betray the MC and do stuff behind his back, and now another guy is randomly added in and retcons the entire set up of the first game.

Finally. I’m not trying to come across as a dick, so I hope it doesn’t. Nothing I said has anything to do with IRL step-dads who are often some of the most selfless people out there.

 

[Vlbc]

Actual incest or stil step-incest?

 

[ThaBoooBThaBoooB's icon]

Actual incest or stil step-incest?

They are not blood related, if that is what you are wondering. But he raised them, they see him as his real father, and he loves them as his real daughters. The girls barely know who their biological father was.
They only call the MC dad or daddy, and he calls them his daughters and takes care of them as a loving father.
The step-dad mentioning was basically a cliffhanger between patches/chapters. And is easily ignored and forgotten if you want to and the blood relation is that important.

The game is great though… It's in my top 3 of incest game. And Jonesy has quickly become one of my favorite creators.
If you are at all in to Lockhart games, you could enjoy this. Since the first game was inspired by A Petal among Thorns. The story is sweet and well written, the models are fantastic. The scenes are real hot, long and well-thought-out. Their some real cinematography thinking going on with those lewd scenes. The last lewd scene of chapter three blew my mind. Was not prepared for it at all (in a good way)
I recommend you start with Christmas Eve if you decide to try it. Since New years Daye starts right where Christmas Eve ends.

Sry for the ramble and the hard sell, I'm a little drunk… Happy New Year! XD

P.S Daye = Best girl

 

[MrKoala]

They are not blood related, if that is what you are wondering. But he raised them, they see him as his real father, and he loves them as his real daughters. The girls barely know who their biological father was.
They only call the MC dad or daddy, and he calls them his daughters and takes care of them as a loving father.
The step-dad mentioning was basically a cliffhanger between patches/chapters. And is easily ignored and forgotten if you want to and the blood relation is that important.

The game is great though… It's in my top 3 of incest game. And Jonesy has quickly become one of my favorite creators.
If you are at all in to Lockhart games, you could enjoy this. Since the first game was inspired by A Petal among Thorns. The story is sweet and well written, the models are fantastic. The scenes are real hot, long and well-thought-out. Their some real cinematography thinking going on with those lewd scenes. The last lewd scene of chapter three blew my mind. Was not prepared for it at all (in a good way)
I recommend you start with Christmas Eve if you decide to try it. Since New years Daye starts right where Christmas Eve ends.

Sry for the ramble and the hard sell, I'm a little drunk… Happy New Year! XD

P.S Daye = Best girl

I always feel like the stepcest route is just an excuse to be able to no call it incest. Personally I don't consider stepcest as incest at all. It doesn't completely ruin the kink for me but it does pull me out of the fantasy. It's not as bad as the landlady/landlord and roommate route but it's close since they have the same purpose.

There are very few visual novels where I feel like the love interests being step family was a necessary or integral part of the story.

 

[WhiteVanDaycare]

I always feel like the stepcest route is just an excuse to be able to no call it incest. Personally I don't consider stepcest as incest at all. It doesn't completely ruin the kink for me but it does pull me out of the fantasy. It's not as bad as the landlady/landlord and roommate route but it's close since they have the same purpose.

There are very few visual novels where I feel like the love interests being step family was a necessary or integral part of the story.

Generally done to comply with puritan support sites like Patre0n.

 

[MrKoala]

Generally done to comply with puritan support sites like Patre0n.

Paytreon bans stepcest just as much as it bans incest. If that's the goal then he should go full cuck and call the girls his tenants.

 

[Tiur]

Generally done to comply with puritan support sites like Patre0n.

Landlady/Landlord/Tenant/Roommate is done to comply with Patreon.

Stepcest is done for (1) local legal reasons; or (2) because the writer/dev are squeamish about blood-related incest of pixels; or (3) because people think (incorrectly) that Patreon doesn't care. (Which is mostly because that's what they see mainstream porn doing, but that's for entirely different marketability reasons.)

In this game's case, so far it's just completely unnecessary other than generating the stupid 0.2 cliffhanger that was instantly resolved in 0.3. (Spoiler: the girls' bio dad is dead and has been for a long time; the package was a bullshit prank by the bully girls)

 

[ThaBoooBThaBoooB's icon]

I always feel like the stepcest route is just an excuse to be able to no call it incest. Personally I don't consider stepcest as incest at all. It doesn't completely ruin the kink for me but it does pull me out of the fantasy. It's not as bad as the landlady/landlord and roommate route but it's close since they have the same purpose.

There are very few visual novels where I feel like the love interests being step family was a necessary or integral part of the story.

For me, the relationship is more important than the blood. If a guy has been there as long as, the girls can remember. The blood does not matter. He is their father. Only DNA would tell you otherwise at that point.
But I do respect strong kinks, I get it. Butt, since the great sea of kinks and fetishes can either be too wide or extremely limited. I decided just to not close my self in and be able to enjoy most games. So whenever I see something I don't like, I click past it and/or pretend it did not happen. If it's possible.
In this case, I would very much argue that it is.
Don't remember if how it's brought up in Christmas Eve, but it's mention in passing and quickly moved on from each time.

As for why or how the step-cest It's unnecessary to speculate. As far as I know, it could be just because he likes the story that way, or it could be a bigger plot reason coming down the line. Either way, it does not matter.
It's Jonesey creation and his creative vision. And that is something I respect wholeheartedly.