[UPDATE- This game is out-of-date and has been replaced by SUPER GRAPPLE DAY, an improved definitive version of the game. Future updates will all be to that version. For more action, check out Boxing Day: Amateur Knockouts, or check out the Grapple Day sequel/prequel, Kali: The Meanest Girl on Campus]

Welcome… to Grapple Day!

You’ve been keeping a secret from your new girlfriend. Every year, your fraternity hosts a private event that raises tens of thousands of dollars for the homeless: a no-holds-barred submission wrestling tournament featuring some of the hottest girls on campus. When your girlfriend finds out about Grapple Day, she’s offended. . . that you didn’t invite her to join too!


Choices Matter

Grapple Day is a visual novel with full-featured RPG battles. You decide whether your girlfriend fights strategically to dominate her opponents or whether she ends up getting totally humiliated in front of a live audience.


Fighting Dirty

Anything is fair game in these fights. Not just low blows, backbreakers, and gutpunches, but also psychological tricks. Get your opponent vulnerable enough, and you might be able to unleash a Brutality—an inescapable special finishing move.

Can Love Bloom, Even on a Battlefield?

There’s drama outside the ring too. Friendships and rivalries will form. Will your relationship with your girlfriend survive this weird test?


You Can Help!

Sorry, we're broke freelancers with student debt, lol. There will be lots of fun, extra content for patrons (comics, animation, etc.), although for now, the base game is free. Getting a decent subscriber base will help us devote more time to this project and get future episodes completed faster (plus you will be able to play them even earlier at certain tiers).

Content

Contains consensual kink, including vaguely BDSM-tinged catfighting, nudity, and depictions of sex. 

If you want something more realistic, the prequel, Heart Rates, is a more traditional romance/sex simulator game. If you want more like this, we also made SPYPLAY.

Tips for Playing

-[UPDATED] Due to file size limitations, the browser version is no longer up to date. It will remain up, as a demo for the first two episodes, and you should be able to export your saves if you choose to download the game later.

-[UPDATED] If you played episode 1 and get an error loading your old save, just click "Ignore." (We compressed some old audio files that the game flags as missing, but this shouldn't affect anything.)

-Safari isn't supported for the browser version. For best performance, download it directly. [UPDATED - Some versions of Chrome will also give a "Webkit" error. The solution is to either try a different browser or download it directly]

-Press TAB to skip text you've already seen. If you change the settings (by pressing ESC), you can change it to also skip text you haven't seen.

-Losing is OK. The story continues either way, so feel free to experiment.



StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, macOS
Rating
Rated 2.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Authorabsintheandmustard
GenreRole Playing, Fighting, Visual Novel
Made withRen'Py
TagsAdult, bdsm, Erotic, Female Protagonist, Pixel Art, wedgie, wrestling
Average sessionAbout a half-hour

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Grapple Day (All Episodes, Windows/Linux) 177 MB

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yeah this is really cute and i dig it a lot

when i talked to kali after i think match four, i got an error when acknowledging that her and d-man had chemistry and picking the both option, which was bad enough ren'py needed to rollback. if i'd been thinking about it i would've copied the error text for you, but i saved since and it would be a lot to get back to that point i think

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thanks for reporting that! We just patched it to fix that. You didn't miss much: basically, if you pick "Both," she will just keep asking the question until you pick one or the other.

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Pls can you relase this game for android phones please♡

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We want to make it happen! It wouldn't work in its current form, but we're working on a new update and investigating what we'd have to change to make it compatible with Android

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Whew... Finally managed to beat melissa normally... that was a monster of a challenge, but i'm so glad that it's possible

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We made sure the game was playable if you beat it the normal way, but I'm not sure if we actually tested it to see if it was mathematically possible to do that. So congrats for proving it can be done!

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It was hard, but doable... it also required a lot of luck! the key was that she started with just enough lust to do one or two good low blows, then you'd hopefully wittled her hp down enough to start grappling with her. once you beat her then it was fairly elementary, just a combination of taunting her, low blows and grapples.

was actually really fun combat- props to you!

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great game, you should really do more boxing stuff

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Gigantic fenomenal fan of the absintheandmustard games, I'm curious. Will you make more VN/RPG like catfight games like this one?

I really enjoyed it.

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Probably! We've been prototyping some new RPG battle systems, but are still trying to figure out what our next big game will look like. In the meantime, there will be some other short games and updates to the existing ones

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Big fan of the game and I love everything about all the characters. I'm curious if anyone happens to know how to lose on ep 4?   

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glad you enjoyed it! Ep 4 is the only match you can't lose—we wanted to reduce the number of variables for the ending when it calculates how everyone placed in the tournament

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Hey I'm experiencing an error on Day 2 when looking at the picture to try and dig up dirt on Sophie. Attempting to click through the dialogue results in an exception occurring. Any way you can think of to fix this?

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For context, I am using the full download of the game rather than the browser version.

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Thanks for catching this! It was a simple issue, and I just uploaded a new version that should fix it. If you download the latest version, your old saves should transfer over.

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The game is not loaded for me what's wrong with it?

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which version are you using? For web, either try a different browser (Firefox should work, Chrome usually does) or try downloading it. For a download, try downloading a fresh copy 

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Hey, is there any way to beat cherry? the devlog mentioned the crowd, but i didn't get any options to involve them.

still, really loved the game

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As a sidequestion, which battles can you win? i couldn't win in chapter 1,3 and 6, though i'm not 100% sure about 6

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oh hey, I think I might've already answered your question elsewhere, but for anyone else who sees this, it's possible to win every episode except 3

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so good and well made. Would definitely recommend. Won't spoil but LOOOVED the 4th episode fight. Hope to see more like that :)

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Thanks!! Yeah, we're definitely looking into doing something like the 4th episode again, possibly in a future episode or maybe as its own standalone thing.

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Hope to see it soon. Really loved that specific fight and the game in general.

Thank you for your hard work

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I think you'll enjoy something we have planned to release later this year...

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I can not wait! Any specific date for it's release?

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yeah, it's called Boxing Day: Amateur Knockouts and it's currently in Early Access for Patreon supporters. But it will eventually be getting a free release, probably in late October/early November