Sunrider Academy
Developer Love in Space
You are Kayto Shields, an ordinary man thrown into an extraordinary adventure. Control Kayto's day to day life as well as his responsibilities as club manager in this stat management sim. From the Steam store page
178 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Jul 29, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
135 positive · 43 negative
95% range 69–82%
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60 of 178 · most liked firstIt is an amazing story wrapped inside a horrible grindfest. At first the grind is not so bad - the story unfolds, starts picking up pace, and the club/stats management element fits really nicely into it. But then as you progress the story bits become further and further apart, with more and more stats management in between. But that's still okay, because there are random encounters where you talk to other characters and get to know them better. However, once you bring all their affection…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great story, ruined by so. Much. Pointless. Repetitive. Clicking! If they could remove, or at least GREATLY trim down the repetitive tasks you have to constantly grind through, I would love this game. I only got through one route, sadly, because the though of grinding through it 3 more times was unthinkable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A second game in the “Sunrider” series. It takes place in the alternative universe where you are just a student and not a captain. You can take virginity of 5 different girls (don’t’ forget to install the uncensor patch), the story is very interesting and the H-scenes are very well drawn, so I do recommend this game, even despite the tedious gameplay.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Warning: Domestic abuse, exhibitionism. I somehow got this game in 2016. I don’t know where and I don’t know why. I would like to mention this game has cheats, such as achievement.grant(“X”). If you plan on getting all the achievements, I recommend you use this command to skip one of the routes. (spoilers below.) This game also features an 18+ patch for steam should you choose to do so. I picked my routes based on how much of a first impression I had of the characters; saving the best for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →mindnumbingly dull and repetitive but at least the girls are cute
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Eh. I didn't think the game was bad, but... some of the routes are just not for me and bad enough to not recommend it. I am not into girls who act (and one even LOOKS) like they're 4 years old when it comes down to H-scenes. That isn't cute, that's just creepy as ♥♥♥♥.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →10/10 Great for when you are lonely and have no female companionship.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game gets pretty tedious.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Okay so, we've just gone from space opera insanity with Mask of Arcadius, to a high school dating sim with Sunrider Academy? W-what?! And I just spent forty hours on it, damn! I guess I better review it then, huh? If you're wondering how MoA and Academy are in the same universe...well, they're not. This time around, our protagonist Kayto Shields is the vice president of the student council. Under the command of his childhood friend and superior, Ava Crescentia, he has to fix the three most…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sunrider Academy does a few things right, but too much wrong to really balance it out. For a time management sim, Sunrider has very few options of things you can actually use your time on. The rub comes from the fact that the game is pretty unfair when it comes to penalties to your stats, which means the game artificially makes you do the same couple of tasks over and over again just to catch up with yourself again. Perhaps the worst thing about the game is the fact that the romance flags are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sunrider Academy is a great story of a futuristic place and alot of different option in each routes. 4 girl characters + 1 sister, each of them does give a agreable atmosphere, each have their own storyside and character, which one you like the most is most probably which type of character you enjoy the most. Truth be told in the end you will like every 4 ways and endings, because each of them is fascinating and story rich, have different event pacings and attractivity. The feature i also…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sunrider Academy is a really good game for a lonely weeb like me that gets off on 2D stuff... Positives: Unique(well to me for I have never played another game like it) 4 cutie Waifus and 1 cute little sister interesting plot for the waifus Full nudity (after applying an official patch) :D Negatives Game runs like garbage for a Visual Novel game with lots of clicking Its always at 4 FPS and feels like when you have turned off all animations in windows I have played other games using this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DON'T TAKE IT! if you value your time. (But there's a nice scene)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sola is the best girl
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →haved sex, was epic
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love Sunrider series, but this is not my cup of tea. Boring, very weak game / VN all around, mechanics not explained. Really hate this game... Ikari is not in this game, best girl then is AVA, Hate Chigara... 2/10 Can't wait for Sunrider 4. But this game is really bad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First, I want to clarify that this review may be somewhat biased. This is due to the fact that my wife has had extensive in this game, something I'll get into some more detail of later. First, I would like to say for everyone looking for a quick yes or no as to whether or not I recommend this game that the answer to that question is a resounding yes👍👍👍. This game goes beyond surface level entertainment. It has managed to reach me on a metaphysical level❗️❗️♋️, and motivated me to begin…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The only hentai game in which you buy hentai games to de-stress. The grind is real.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Grinding simulator. Repetitive, boring and wastes your time on pure endless grind. I wouldn't recommend Sunrider Academy even to fans of the genre.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: More scenes with your mecha pilots Cons: Repetative task Girl's random encounters disappear on 10 heart of relations Work not giving stats or relations. You can buy this game on discount if you are invested in series lore
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a grinding nightmare. It takes SO LONG to get to the story parts, and it can be pretty frustrating keeping your stress under control while dealing with everything else. The game operates based on chance, and there are things you can do to raise your chance or avoid being at risk, but a lot of times you'll have to save and load like a madman. It's very un-fun. That being said, the story and romances are fine. Just wish it didn't have so many time-wasters to get there.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decent game if you can deal with the padding, wish they just let us go straight through the routes after beating the game at least.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I Love This Game, Good artwork, i like it. Interesting and fun stories. Great Soundtrack. 10/10 Btw the best arc is the sola arc, the story with the romance really feels
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Despite its somewhat focus later in the game on the eroge part (if you get the uncensor patch that is), and despite this having been one of my entry novels back in 2015, this is a really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good spinoff to the series, that can be played without context about Sunrider as a whole and enjoy. Sola's route having connections with the main game, Ava being the best girl ever, Chigara having her whole, well, *plot* (not to spoil anything), and asaga's dumb ass, all shone brightly to me and got me…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just barely recommend this game, like a 6.5/10 rating. It's not bad, it's not great, right there in the middle. The plot is basic enough and fairly standard for life management VNs like this: you go to school and manage clubs, helping the girls out to increase your affection with them. The girls are each different and interesting, you'll probably find at least one you like. I found the writing to be actually very funny and clever, which was unexpected. There were a fair amount of typos…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice side story for fans of the Sunrider series, however get ready for a whole lot of tedious stat management. After completing a route and spending all that time raising statistics, pay off wasn't that great even with the uncensored patch. I just have no willpower to go through the entire Cera school year to finish another route with the sheer monotony of doing the same thing over and over again. It does get easier as the school year progresses assuming you bought the important stuff…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →THE BEST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED... NO CAP
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i really liked the story and the art this game had to offer but trying to get through all the routes and stuff is extremely tedious. i would say going through one route was all i could really stand but i wanted to see them all and all i did was fall asleep. i see others saying its hard to manage the stats which is true, playing on the hardest difficulty is a nightmare. as much as i like the story and want to give a positive review for it i just cant recommend people to play the game because of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Four hours in and I think I'm ready to kill myself. I made the classic mistake of not setting a timer when playing this game so now I can't refund it anymore. I'll have to play it and see if I can finish it. STORY There is a story, I think, somewhere in-between the sh*tty management game which you can just save-scum and win at. Why would you play this without save-scumming, when the game has a moronic gameplay system where your character loses points JUST FOR SLEEPING. That's right, you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this game uncensored and it was a blast!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What could have been a stellar two or three hour game is straight up ruined by dreadfully stretching it into a twelve plus hours test of patience. The core gameplay is time management, for example, Do I study for a test then go exercise or just hit the arcade and play games. Character attributes/School club scores go up or down based on what you choose to do on a daily basis. There is also a dating sim element where you have an affection meter that you can increase/decrease through gifting…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of the most boring, tedious games I've ever played. It's about half vn and half resource management. The latter half is really dull, and adds nothing to the game. It's basically doing the same routine, over and over and over. The vn part isn't very good either. It's just about a student council vice president trying to improve clubs. The high point is the dating sim part. You can choose four different paths, one for each of the four girls. Unfortunately this also means you have…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not a bad visual novel actually. The backdrops are nice, the characters are attractive, but as in many similar novels, the plot is sometimes silly).
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →30 hours in and already going back for more. My friend Sam told me to play this game. I like it so much I need to tell my friend, Sam, to play. I bet he will like this game.
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are some interesting and unexpected narratives in here... With a dash of "adult material" in the mix. I wasn't too invested in the management elements and did find them to be obtrusive at times so admittedly modified my statistics to move past them. Perhaps due to my changing of stats or perhaps just how the game is, there were occasions where a lot of time passed with unnatural silence from the characters, I endured through those periods however and I credit those interesting narratives…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game... but I recommend you to play just one route as intended :). Play the other 3 with dev console or you're going to suffer :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unless you're willing to pay $10 to see Fontana take his shirt off in front of a crowd of horny teenage girls, I would pass on this game (or at least wait for a huge steam sale discount). I also wouldn't recommend going anywhere NEAR this game unless you've at least played Mask of Arcadius first - like, 90% of the humor and drama in this game is strictly referential to the main series. I'm also genuinely upset that there's no Claude route in this game >:(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It´s actually the hardest game I own.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sunrider Academy is a dating sim, and thus primarily about stat/resource management. There is a bit of story, but unlike the other games in the Sunrider universe, it's not a VN. If you want an in depth story, look elsewhere. If you want a dating sim, I think it does a pretty good job. Most of your time is spent choosing what Kayto spends his time doing. Do you study to get better grades? Do sports to become more athletic? Work part-time for money? Or just relax so you don't get too stressed…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I didn't really enjoy this game. It became more of a chore than anything until I died of stress. I probably wasn't playing the best, but it didn't really pull me in enough to want to play again. I can't recommend because I felt it rather bland. 3/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Took 24 hours to beat all four routes, haven't played the other games. You're gonna wanna duck tape your Ctrl key for this Ren'py. This would be a lot more enjoyable if the entire stats system didn't become pointless or tedious after the first go around. Either the game could have been a whole lot mechanically simpler, players shouldn't have been route locked 2/5ths of the way through the game and instead more like 3/5ths or so, or some random chance-based events could have occurred in each of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not bad, but too much padding
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i almost became a weeb
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has a solid VN but takes time because of the activities which consume much of your time so I suggest play 1 route to get the feel of the game and play the rest on VN mode. How to go VN mode you say? Just enable console command in game Shift + O then follow this person's instructions: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=623875785 Note: Make sure to enable H content via their website too!! So what can I say except your WhaleCum ;)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not Recommended
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →REASON: REMOVAL OF 18+ CONTENT Alright, so if you're like me, you're a degenerate. Glad we got that out of the way. So, the game states a number of things, and it's intended to be an adult game. I've gotten three hours in, which is not enough to beat the game due it's intrinsic design. Making a long story short, it's a stat simulator. That gets thrown around a lot in the negative reviews. Basically you build up and maintain the stats of yourself, and three groups in the game. It's pretty…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sunrider Academy is a visual novel-style game that puts you in the role of a student at an elite space academy. The game features a branching narrative with multiple love interests, as well as gameplay elements such as character customization and strategic battles. One of the standout features of Sunrider Academy is its cast of diverse, well-written characters. Each love interest has their own distinct personality and storylines, and the player's choices throughout the game will shape the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →- Wake Up - Lesson - Eat lunch - Lesson - Flirt - what a busy day time to sleep
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Where is Garfield
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →if you are lonely and in need of some 2D waifus yes this is the game just remember you have a life you have a dream you have destiny to fufill oh WHO THE ♥♥♥♥ AM I kidding you wanna see the 2D girls
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RNG screws you in higher diifficulty lmao If you still like the time-management gameplay and the heroines, I'd say go for it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am going to die alone ;(
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lots of story, not a lot of sex.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Used console to see every pic, absolutely worth it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has insane rubber banding, and it's incredibly frustrating. If you put in the effort to have even a half-decent luck stat, the game will cut it in half in 2 days. The game isn't hard, it just makes management (which is the core game mechanic) annoying to do.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ava Crescentia.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of the best games I've ever played. I enjoyed it SOOO much. I only had complaints about one of the routes but that's only a personal preference, and a lil bit annoyed sometimes with the RNG of some of the stuff at night but overall, I would definitely say it is worth every penny.
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