This game is a bona fide unpolished gem.
There are many games about a female protagonist escaping from a lab full of horny monsters, and this is one of the best. Even as it is, with its ugly as hell placeholder UI; its sterile, early-3D-games art style; simple animations; clunky controls - it still stands out.
It's tempting to imagine what features could be added to make it more perfect, but play it and take it as-is. It's good.
IT has one gameplay innovation in particular that needs to be adopted by other developers. Games like this have a Struggle mechanic, where the player can do a QTE to break out of an enemy's grasp. In most implementations, it makes for weak gameplay where the player chooses to have a sex scene or not at that moment.
What Breed Lab does is tie the player's capacity to struggle to an expendable, finite resource. You have to scour the lab and explore to find restorative items, and getting caught has real consequences beyond just a game over. It creates a perfect balance where the player is motivated to evade sex scenes, but still gets to experience them as the game traps you, catches you, out-guns you, or puts you into impossible situations which you can nevertheless pull through.
There are many games about a female protagonist escaping from a lab full of horny monsters, and this is one of the best. Even as it is, with its ugly as hell placeholder UI; its sterile, early-3D-games art style; simple animations; clunky controls - it still stands out.
It's tempting to imagine what features could be added to make it more perfect, but play it and take it as-is. It's good.
IT has one gameplay innovation in particular that needs to be adopted by other developers. Games like this have a Struggle mechanic, where the player can do a QTE to break out of an enemy's grasp. In most implementations, it makes for weak gameplay where the player chooses to have a sex scene or not at that moment.
What Breed Lab does is tie the player's capacity to struggle to an expendable, finite resource. You have to scour the lab and explore to find restorative items, and getting caught has real consequences beyond just a game over. It creates a perfect balance where the player is motivated to evade sex scenes, but still gets to experience them as the game traps you, catches you, out-guns you, or puts you into impossible situations which you can nevertheless pull through.