Unreal Engine - Beasts in the Sun [Ep.1 Supporter v8.1] [Animo Pron]

I dont normally reviews games this early in development (EP.1) but i gotta say i enjoyed this demo, after playing the first one i almost completely lost hope in the project but this one improved. i dont think this game play will ever be "great" but its more engaging then an average visual novel (for the crowd that wants interactive porn). i do with the dev stuck to animations because they would be faster but this is not a bad alternative, only problem is this will take like 10 years to finish.

To be honest:
i was expecting a total train wreck.
a guy/team who was known for his good videos was trying to develop a real game, not very promising.

But the gameplay is surprisingly well made. You have to do some jump and run Assassins Creed style, and solve some puzzles.
Doesnt sound like much, but it is much more then most Unreal Engine games, with much longer development time have.

You can also customize the character, to some extent.

Lots of people whine about the current state of the game.
But for a first release (in UE) it is doing really good, compared to some of the mess I have seen here, over the time.

My main problem with the game is:
1. No saving, like at all, not even your character
2. there is no way to repeat scenes.

These 2 problems create a 3rd problem:
Before each sex scene you can choose 3 different options:
bit since you cant save and there is no way to repeat scenes, you have to play the whole game 3 times to get all the scenes.

If these problems get fixed, the game has great potential.
It might even be better than Wild Life, which I consider to be the best UE game out there.
But untill then, it will only get 4 Stars

The Game overall has the potential to be an amazing game. I will rate the game purely on its potential because the game is new and has been developed by a very small team.

The graphics and overall map of the game are very beautiful. playing on max graphics will truly immerse you into its world. The Puzzles of the game make you think and are quite rewarding when you reach "certain" cutscenes. The ideas the developer and Animo are putting onto this game are HIGHLY ambitious, but now seeing this test build I think it would be an excellent project with GREAT potential to be the best "lewd" game yet.

YES, the game is riddled with BUGS and when you glitch out you MUST RESTART YOUR PROGRESS, which for some is extremely frustrating; however, it is good to know that he has NOT been "completely" scamming his supporters and is trying to make a game. As a developer myself, I am extremely impressed he even managed to make a game like this with the small team he has. This is the first game he has made, so I expected bugs here and there (even if it's everywhere LOL). AGAIN I am purely reviewing the potential of the game so I will not deduct too many points on bugs alone.

Overall, if you are interested try the game out for yourself. I enjoyed playing it very much, even if I had to restart like 69 times.

It was a long wait, but we got a large section by comparison.
I had some bugs but if there will be a save load system it will be much better.
By far I think this is the most dynamic 3d sex game I have tried so far.
Basically I love Tomb Raider games and I found good ideas and realizations here.
I'm hoping that the next minotaur and the next parts don't have to wait 5 years.
Also, they won't continue this development by upgrading to Unreal 5 engine because as with other similar projects, it will unnecessarily delay the development time by years.

The game core is incredible and well done

Pros:
• Character model is gorgeous/hot and her texture are very well done
• Lewd content is enjoyable/on point
• Clothes are nice and I enjoyed the current ones (This includes butt plugs)
• Gameplay/Puzzles is fun
• Collectables (Comics) are a cool/well done
• Graphics are nice
• Animations are well done
• World/Enemies are ok
• There's some easter eggs/hidden content

Cons: (This are based on the Chapter 1 release, this can be different on future updates)
• No save options, you can't save at all (This is the worst)
• Comic Raptor of Ruin not saving
• If you place the Comics puzzle wrong and try to move to outside the puzzle area you can lose the piece and that comics solution is unobtainable
• Game breaking bugs that are just annoying due no save options
• If you have a low system your game can become unplayable due bugs
• You can't equipe butt plugs with some outfits for some reason

If you have a low specs system I don't recommend you play at moment

Beasts in the sun is more of an erotic puzzle game than a porn one and I enjoyed, the currently content (Chapter 1) is nice but would be even better with a save feature (save DLC only $2).

Like the game & concept & the main character so far! Character customization needs some more work. This is the exact game I was looking for built in this engine since I am obsessed with decent animations and 4K res in a sex game. The sex scenes are pretty good, the camera controls could be better. Wish we could replay and try out other options too. I haven't seen the rest of the game but from what I see, but there's something missing in the sex scenes. Dubbing or just scenes in general could be... sexier and filled with more lust maybe? Like a feature of speeding up the sex, or getting dirtier? A save feature implementation is a must since I had to restart my game 6-7 times when I got stuck somewhere for no reason at all.

For everyone playing this game when the thread will be updated:
Short: When the bugs will be fixed,this will be one of the best porngames on this whole forum.BE CAREFUL.Lots of piss content,it can be avoided in most cases,just do not interact with any toilets or urinals on the way if you dont like it.There is a mandatory cutscene where the heroine is peeing but it can be skipped by pressing SPACE
Longer:
So we got in the first release:
Graphics:9/10,amazing,on epic or high looks gorgeous.There are some lighting issues some places but thats not a big deal.What is a big deal is that on medium or low setting the game looks like garbage,but it runs very well on low end pc's. My old Intel 4600 UHD laptop runs this game pretty well with everything disabled,so optimisation = Good
Gameplay:10/10- puzzle solving,lever puzzles,picture puzzles, jumping puzzles,gathering puzzeles(most of them really lewd).Other than puzzles you can fight with the wild life,explore areas and secrets to find outfits and secret zones.Pretty good for a 3d porn game.
Audio:9/10-it has amazing voice acting and it is really vast.Heroine reacts to basically anything that's happening around her,and always has something to say.Nature and ocean sound ok,as well as the beautiful music playing the whole game,with different sountracks depending on location.Why 9/10?Because who the fuck thought that it will be a good idea for sounds and moans in the blowjob scenes to be directly taken from old 2D SuperDeepThroat game.Like Bruh
H-Scenes:Lots.Every corner there is something lewd. Raptors and mummies,each have 3-4 scenes with 2 cumshots each scene.Besides that,there are 2 plot statues with 3 scenes each with different cumshot for each and one secret with 3 different poses as well as 3 different cumshots.Lots of lewd cutscenes,lewd game sequences,massive amount of lewd pictures on the walls that perfectly fit for the genre.A lot of lewd letters and comics all around the map.Very replayable,very horny game
PROBELMS:
As of right now, 31 august 2023, the game is really bugged.First time playing,died 3 times,and everytime need to start from the beggining because there is no save/load for such a huge game.I managed to beat it twice in a row as of now,if you are careful you can avoid it.The chests lockpicking may be really bugged so be careful and dont rush it.Biggest bug happens at the trap room in the tomb,just watch answers on this thread from page 46 to 52 and you will manage it.After the trap room I personally didnt encounter any bugs at all so it should be good from there.

I hope this game gets it's updates and bugfixes because,when finished(knowing Animo,somewhere near 70 years from now)it could be the best 3d porn game on this website

Updated Review, for V1 (Episode 1). [Aug 31/2023] Still 1 star. Reasons:

1. No save/load, and it takes like 30 minutes to get back to the tomb section, where the teaser started off.

2. If you grab the crate, you get stuck in terrain. No unstuck button, so had to quit the game.

3. Only saw 1 scene, the statue. Its.. okay. The camera controls are horrific, the "gameplay" is confusing with no tooltips over what each thing is, and its really, really, really hard to get a good angle without the camera clipping into Tara's body.

4. Lots of environmental clipping where you pass through rocks and other things that look solid while you try to jump onto ledges and some that look like climbable ledges aren't.

5. No health bar, but there is a call of duty-esque flashing screen effect. Not as efficient at expressing near death state like COD or Tomb Raider games does it. Not a fan.

6. Breath meter underwater is tied to this health effect. So if you barely survived to surface, it takes like 15-20 seconds to fully heal, and so you can't dive until then.

7. Underwater swimming is a bit sketchy, as the IK rig gets confused and tries to crawl on the bottom... its hard to explain but it makes swimming problematic.

8. Graphically... its good if on Epic. My machine is older, and not as powerful, so set most things to medium/high, and got massive artifacting, weird black lines, body highlighting issues / glows, and a lot of heating up my aging GPU.

9. No butt physics, okayish boob physics, and much fewer customization options than the teaser. Like we lost over 50% of them. Unless they are tied to rarely found pickups, its much less. Also still doesn't have blonde hair option.

10. It has a lot of Tomb Raider vibes, but you do have weird clipping into ledges and a lot of the QOL animations aren't in yet, like reaching, so that you know that you are about to go in X direction.

11. Couldn't throw the crate I grabbed.

12. Grabbed a torch in a cutscene and it disappeared. Not to inventory or anything.

13. No unstuck button. Didn't the Teaser have one?

14. Lockpick minigame is better than most, but still not a huge fan of it. Its tolerable at least.

15. Interaction animations take way too long. Like the chest that I unlocked, took like 10 seconds to complete.

16. Why can I lockpick a chest, but the door next to it is locked and can't be picked?

17. I'm all for those that want watersports, but why not a masturbation and squirt animation too?

18. Not sure if there are autosaves or checkpoints.

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Now, its not all bad. Things I liked:

-> Hair physics.
-> Pretty decent swim animations on the water surface.
-> Skippable cutscenes.
-> Subtitles.
-> Gaping in sex animation.
-> Decent inventory interface and option menu interactions.
-> Nipple customization.
-> Findable notes that are quite interesting to read.
-> Variety of environments and ambience effects.
-> Reasonably good graphics (when everything was at Epic at least).
-> The water is quite nice, visually and audibly.

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However, until the game gets save/load and/or an unstuck button, its going to stay 1 star. There is just too much potential to get screwed over by one little thing, to kill all progress, like what happened to me, so I won't be playing it in the future until it gets added, because it takes a long time to get to the first sex animation.

If it had these two features, I'd probably rate it a 3 or 3.5

Graphics are good. I like this. Looking forward for a release. I can see that this has a good potential for a great story line. Keep up the good work. But there are several bugs and sometimes the game keeps crashing. But i guess it only a teaser right. Nice work.

Okay, technically so far so good, not counting the bugs that are easy to fix. The walking and crawling animations look realistic and seamless. Also added is a thing badly needed for all hentai games - asshole winking.
In the first teaser we are just given a few rooms to explore and solve some pretty good puzzles, you can also pee in a bowl XD
Very much looking forward to the full release of the project, knowing animopron, the content here will be one of the best in the games

Looking good, love the puzzles and the amount of detail including the micro ones, the ragdoll feature i spent hours just messing with overall an entertaining teaser.
The Crawling feature seems to need a bit of refining if it's to be used on a later Version and the character edit may need a fix on the lighting angle.

For a Teaser this is very well made i gotta say.
There are alot of small details that u dont see in alpha version of games like these.

-The sound design and the overall graphics are better than i thought.

-One of the biggest issue so far id say is the lightning exposure around Laras body, its too much.

-When u open the inventory menu or body menu, her body isnt well lit.

Animopron is one of the best animators/creators today, this teaser (and its only a teaser!!!!) only shows how good this will be. I hope he keeps working on this! surely will be wonderful and outstanding game!! Really love the customization and atmosphere, i cant wait the sexy scenes with the horses and minotaurs!! <3 awesome work

first off all the good:
- the graphics are absolutely stunning, so are the animations
- the voice actor has a beautiful voice and it sounds good
- the game runs smoothly (on my part)

the bad:
the game has some bugs, here is a few i found:
- bringing the starter box through to the new area after finishing the 2 fountain puzzles crashes the game (dont ask why i brought the box all this way lol)
- opening the esc menu after opening ur inventory removes ur cursor, going out and in of the game fixes it.
- the clothing is a bit buggy at times

- no content, except the 2-3 pages of art in the comic book, just a demo though, so it wasn't really expected