Supermodel Snapshot is a short adult turn-based strategy card battle by Belle, built in Ren'Py with 3D CG visuals. It presents a single Snapshot match that you can replay using a fixed deck against Vanguard, a character from Supermodel: Defenders of Desire. A brief non-interactive tutorial is included, and each round takes roughly ten minutes.
The current build is v2.1.0, released July 24, 2023, for Windows, Linux, and Mac, in English and uncensored. The latest update introduced Burnout, a new mechanic explained in an added tutorial. It also adjusted Heat costs on some cards, changed attack values for clearer roles, fixed an Encouragement card trigger during the Challenge phase, reduced Warm-Up target Heat to 30, removed hover notification spam, addressed a possible hover exception, and included minor tweaks.
Developer's description
What can you expect from this release? First, there is a brief, non-interactive tutorial I strongly recommend you go through. After that, there is one single match of Snapshot that you can play as often as you like with a premade deck of cards against Vanguard from Supermodel: Defenders of Desire. Each such match should take you about 10 minutes from start to finish.
v2.1.0:
Introduced a new mechanic: Burnout. See the new tutorial added for this mechanic to learn more about it.
Adjusted the Heat cost of a small selection of cards, mainly due to the Burnout mechanic.
Adjustments to some attack values to better differentiate cards and give them more defined use cases.
Fixed a situation in which the Encouragement card would fail to trigger its effect if you attacked and destroyed a Challenge card directly in the Challenge phase.
Removed notification spam when hovering a card with requirements over a Challenge card during the Action phase.
Hopefully fixed an exception that could occur if you hovered a card with a requirement over another card during the action phase.
Reduced the target Heat on the Warm-Up difficulty level to 30.
A few minor tweaks, mainly to the phrasing of specific effects.
Update 2.0.1:
Duplicate cards were not added to your deck upon starting a match, resulting in your deck being far smaller than intended and destroying the game's balance. This is a major issue and the biggest reason why you should update to this version immediately.
The "Everything is a Nail" card was accidentally giving challenge cards vulnerability to all attack types. This has been fixed.
v1.0.0
Initial Release
Known issues:
If you discard a card during the mulligan phase, your first attack against a Challenge card in turn 1 won't be highlighted to show its validity.
This is purely a cosmetic bug and doesn't affect gameplay.
Player reviews
Player rating2.0 / 5 · 3 ratings
Written reviews3 · avg 3.0★
Positive (4–5★)33%
Latest review2024-11-25
What players say
Mixed reviews: one praises the concept, while two criticize the card game.
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Players like
Card system can support visual novel storytelling
Potential to convey moods and emotions
Concept demo shows a workable foundation
Common complaints
Card game fails to meet player expectations
Mechanics feel unbalanced, with early cards deciding outcomes
Visual novel scenes tied to the card game are missing
Best for players who want an early card-based concept demo supporting a visual novel
Summarised from 3 written player reviews.
rb8132024-11-25★★★★★
Maybe I'm being unfair, but I really thought this was gonna be a sexy game that was primarily built around a TCG-style card game which gamified the slow buildup of trust and heat that happens during a photo shoot. Maybe…
rvlfycpydgdcttfren2024-08-29★★★★★
I'm so confused how the dev of one of the best vn's ever decided to make a crappy card game - and it is crappy - the entire game is decided by whether you get a confidence 1 card in…
RockType2024-01-03★★★★★
Since this is a concept-demo, rather than a game, you can ignore the rating. I'm giving feedback on v. 2.1.0. I played a couple of games, and the feeling I got was that the system was perfectly fine for what…