Unreal Engine - Breeders of the Nephelym [v0.762.1 Early] [DerelictHelmsman]

The game is genuinely good and fun, but I'm surprised by how long it's been in production.

It has immersion, good graphics, interesting design, many characters, races, and variations.

So far, I've found the missions fun, the breeding system, although the scenes are somewhat repetitive in terms of content, are varied in form.

The only drawback I have with this one is the time it's been in production; the content is vast, but I don't know if that's the right amount of time.

In any case, I don't want the game to end; if it's good and has content, it can continue ad aeternum.

The game progression and generic animations drag this game down.
A walking sim game without an auto run feature, a portal system which you don't get to until the about all game areas have been discovered and you have absolutely no reason to go there again.

The game can't be reasonably played as a female character as there are just a few male variants of the monsters.
You are not able to skip futa content either as scenes require it to be enabled and you can't breed traits as there are no males available, this is just lazy!

Considering how long this game has been in development it seem the dev didn't have a plan to begin with but instead just made things up as the game got older.

After 3 days wasted on this game I will never try it again.

Great graphics, mechanics and models. Wish it was voice-acted during the text bits, but I know it's not easy (nor cheap) to get voice actors for your game, nevertheless a sexy game... Anyways, will be waiting for more updates!!

A wonderful logic game in a cheerful setting.
Never before has it been so pleasant to solve logic puzzles.
After I had run around the world to my heart's content, completed quests, had fun with girls, I got hooked on crossing different genes.
And you know what? This is much more interesting than anything else.

An interesting observation - nephs differ in behavior, and this behavior does not depend on the displayed genes.

I spent several evenings composing genes, trying to understand which set is responsible for this or that behavior.
In vain. Displayed genes do not affect behavior.
But if you are lucky enough to catch a fan of oral sex in the forest, then her offspring will also inherit this quality.

No other game like it, truly an amazing game. Only thing holding it back is lack of updates but still 5 star due to its uniqueness. Would highly recommend if you have a furry, pregnancy, or harem fetish.

Note: Translated from spanish

I really like the variety of species and the style.

Being able to create your character, and with a really nice HUD upgrade.

I'd like to see physics applied during sex as well, since it's a fixed animation.

I'd like to buy clothes for the male human.

I'd really like the Nephelym to be able to walk around the ranch.

At least one random of each species.

Also, if the Blessed Nephelym had some routine.

I know this can be complicated and add extra processing load to the game, but I wanted to express it.

I'm glad this game is still alive and with so much dedication.

I'm looking forward to the Alraune update

Effectively abandoned by a dev who's making like 10k a month from people who subscribed to his Patreon years ago when he actually did any work and forgot to cancel their subscription. Almost all changes made in the past couple years have also been for the worse.

I didn't expect this from this game. It has a lot of NPCs and very very great sex scenes no bugs the game offers a lot of potential but the game needs some work in the sex scenes maybe add some fitishs and more positions. The game doesn't have a story it has quests and let me tell U they are very good and the game is hard not easy I spent lime 4 days to finish. Big map, a lot of customization, great graphics, game-play is smooth. The game is like 7/10 due to not having varaties of postions and no LGBTQ content enough.

I never expected so much of my life to go by waiting for this game to complete. I'm glad I never spent a dime on it at least. I had followed this game since something like "0.6" which doesn't seem like that long ago but believe me that was all the way in 2017. You had to use collars to capture creatures back then, there was no surprise sex (which this mechanic itself has changed btw, you used to win every time by using an auto-clicker), and fluids were mandatory since the collar by itself wasn't enough. I'm not going to go through the whole history however. Just know that much of the world changed around me this past 8 years, and I changed a bunch this past years (mostly for the better I hope), while this game has done maybe at most 1 or 2 years of changes. This game is just another dream of mine that perhaps it was best it never got completed.

It's still incomplete but at least it isn't such an unoptimized piece of crap. In 2017/2018 a GT 710 and AMD A10-6700 (an awful CPU and GPU combo) was enough to run this game at like 15fps at 720p. Later I got an RX 560 which, with the A10 CPU was enough to run it at like 40fps at 1600x900 or something. I forgot. I've got way better hardware by now and so should most people hopefully, but even if they don't they're able to run this game. So "optimization" wouldn't be what I'd criticize this game for.

I'm just REALLY mad how little has changed over the past 8 years and this guy doesn't even have a funding problem. He was getting $12,000 (USD) a month all the way back when I started checking this game out, and then the raw numbers got hidden (idk if that was Patreon or his own choice) but it showed the member count which is more than 5000 members and so even if everyone was paying the bare minimum $2 a month to get access to builds (which they're not, there's higher paying members for sure considering he has a huge hall of fame list in game), he'd be getting at least $10,000 (USD) a month guaranteed for this past 8 years. This game for example had no sound effects for the first years and when we finally got sound and music it was the most generic stock music to the point even the much less funded Magic Shop 3D 2 (the one where you go in mazes and is coded in UE4 like this game is) shares the same song and that creator doesn't even get $1000 a month and he finished his small game pretty quickly in comparison and has way more scenes. There's a basic jump sound, menu sounds, some mediocre moaning during sex scenes (everyone sounds the same but pitched up or down), a couple of other miscellaneous sounds and that's it. I was more patient with him in the past because he had a couple of excuses that someone could say "well actually you should think of it as 6 years of dev time!" (which is still a lot) because he made an attempt to switch to UE5 which didn't work out and he had some health issues. I can believe and am willing to believe that. But it's 2025 and he's done almost nothing this past 2 years either. When a developer gets older and more experienced, he should be able to work smarter and produce better results.

Alright whatever. I'm done with this game. I'm writing this review and then hitting "Ignore thread". It's time for me to let go. Maybe I'll check once every year.

This game have potential! I enjoyed it so much that I capture 2 females from different race and I also did some hybrid stuff. I hope in the future update there will be new sex position and new race to capture. kudos to the developer!

Pros:
-The models look nice.
-Breeding mechanics are at least somewhat interesting, passing on traits and sizes that a species may not normally have.
-Decent variety of species.

Cons:
-There's no sprint toggle in 2025, so you have to hold down the shift key for hours unless you enjoy wasting your time. This is compounded by a hilariously oversized game map with absolutely nothing in it but empty space and trees. Even with the teleporters you unlock it can still take 5-10 minutes of running to get from the start to the monster girl spawn areas. Then you have to run back to home unless you use the cheat to instantly warp back.

-It's been years but there's still no goals to the game. Currency is worthless once you've built all the 'huts', and most of the monster girl stats are completely meaningless because there's nothing to do with them other than breed.

-The MC never learns new traits, so they're useless to use a breeder.

-Content regression; features that were immediately there before keep getting moved behind grind walls. Meanwhile nothing new content-wise ever gets added. Bonus negative points for the dev insulting you if you use the cheats to skip the pointless bullshit grind.

-Tentacles spawn everywhere until you complete a quest that allows you to turn them off. Of all the features they gated behind grind, why isn't this one an opt-in feature?

-Optimization is not great, and even with a modern gaming PC you can hear your video card running full blast while running this.


Overall, this game has been in development for eons and frankly hasn't improved much over the years. Simple QoL changes and shrinking the map would vastly improve things, but it never changes. Try it if you like, but don't expect more than what you see now.

BOTN is not a bad game but there are a few things that makes it not worth playing and there is at least one thing that makes it a total waste of time. Here is what i liked and disliked.

Liked: Gameplay, Story, Map, characters.
Disliked: Useless MC, Forced Tentacles, Infertile Trait, Incompatible Saves, Animations.

MC's Offspring only get level 1 traits which makes them completely useless as a breeder, i mean being a legendary breeder was the whole point of their existence so there should have been a way for mc to earn and upgrade traits.

Tentacles are forced by story which means they can't be disabled in fetish menu, Surely dev is aware that not everyone like that stuff but i honestly have no idea why that questionable fetish was forced while allowing us to disable other fetishes.

Infertile trait spawn rate is extremely high, 90% to 99% offspring's from incest spawn with infertile trait which feels a bit unfair, i get that its meant to punish/stop incest but i still think a chance around 50% would have been much more fair.

Animations are not that great and there are only a few, so don't expect too much of left hand "magic" in this one, if you are looking for only that or too much of it then i recommend finding another game.

Saves become incompatible on every update which makes playing the game and story a total waste of time because no matter what you do you will have to start fresh on every update.

Final Thoughts: If you value your time and money then i recommend finding another game, yes you get the game for free here but you are paying power/electricity bills for playing it and i don't think there is any need of further explanation on how you would be wasting your time and money on a game that does not allow users to keep their Saves/Progress but feel free to play if you don't care about it.

First of all, I want to say kudos to the developer, DerelictHelmsman is clearly an incredibly talented bloke.

The attention to detail is staggering, the amount of customization you can achieve is nothing short of amazing. The guy clearly saw Breeding Seasons fall and thought "I can do it better", and he did. The graphics are amazing, the physics are good and theres a lot of different species/positions to enjoy. Its very clear the guy has an eye for detail...

Unfortunately, theres where the praise stops. It very much looks like the developer (Like the Some Modeling Agency's developer) got lost in the sauce, constantly improving graphics/physics/customization but completely forgetting about the gameplay. The game has an amazing amount of things to see, but the gameplay itself makes you bored before you even see a 10th of what it has to offer, not to mention the tedium of actually breeding the monsters after you have a certain amount of them.

All in all, the game is great, and it could become incredible if the dev took a step back and started working on more gameplay aspects.

However, I do think the guy deserves a break, hes literally giving the game away for free on Steam, which is amazing when you see how much time he has put into the game. (Yes, I know he has a Patreon, but could you do the same? Can you honestly say you wouldnt put it on Steam and charge just a little rather than make it completely free?)

Ever dream of becoming a furry pimp? Look no further... Anything that can walk, can be bred... except for the first npc. Mate with different races and sell off your offsprings to actually progress in the game.

Game has a lot of potential, but ended up being WAY too much of a grind.

Character customization is so detailed... spent a good chunk of time designing my blue scaled futa human. (Best part of the game) Dropped into a world with no instructions. After an hour of getting ravaged by foxes and wolves, then dying, I finally tamed one. Had to lookup a guide to figure out where to go from there.

Map was way too big, we get an army of furries to breed, but can't use them as mounts?

Probably 10 hours into the game (way much longer without a guide), monster quests had tasks that require specific traits on your sacrificial offsprings. The breeding menu is a pain to go through when pairing up couples to mate. I gave up at this point and I found cheat code commands online. Used it to speed things up.

Cheats used: Always reproduce, add money, infinite lust, and go home (thank god for go home).

At the end of an gruesome 110 hour grind and completing all the monster quests, I get rewarded with... nothing. No endgame cutscene, no closure. Just get out there and keep banging furries. Save yourself!

Remember Breeding Season? Yeah, remember how it turned out? Yeah, buckle up ladies and gents, you shall experience yet again the disappointment which came about when that shit got abandoned, now in glorious 3D graphics!


Experience dead eyed, lifeless sex scenes, with unfinished gameplay mechanics and storyline, now with jiggle physics! Ooooh!

Alright, alright. To be real, this is a poorly maintained and underdeveloped sex simulator where you have to grind literally hundreds of hours in order to get a fursona which you would be willing to have a real sloppy, uninspired, lifeless, unfappable sex with.

If that sounds like your thing, be sure to check this joke of a game out...

An open world without anything in it. A walking simulator without the scenes. The little content in the game which would give it the potential, gets padded further and further with the added grind every 2 years or so just for the illusion of progress for the rabid furries on patreon.

This game does not respect your time.
You will spend more time running from place to place than in any other gameplay loop. All the nice graphics and smooth animations and extensive character customization do not make up for the amount of time you're wasting on nothing.
You know how all of that could've been solved? By either making your movement (something you do for about 83% of the game) fun and fast-paced, or just outright remove walking in favour of clicking a place on a map.
Just look up the animations on some porn site, because it'll save you an hour or twenty.

Excellent game with a lot of future potential, the world could do with some fleshing out, to make it feel less empty in parts, and it can be somewhat grindy and repetitive, but if you enjoy breeding games, and monsters, absolutely give this game a go.

playing for a few hours (0.761.52)

animation and character model are good, nice movement and sex scene.

but the map is overly big but with nothing to do (maybe for now). we need to literally run over here and there but movement is quite slow, and teleportation is locked. there is no direction and map. i mean, i know from the name we need to become breeder, but how? usually, we will get basic need like item and thing for the first time.

I really like the quality of the graphics in this game. The game physics are very good and obviously take a long time to develop. Luckily I have a pretty strong computer to be able to take advantage of the intricate graphics. Gameplay can be a little time consuming running around but improves as you unlock fast travel. Was glad when more sex positions came available and allowed for more size variations. Would like to see more stages of the sex acts but for now it is a fun challenge trying to get the traits to combine so you can breed the Nephelym you are shooting for.

I used to be a huge fan but honestly the dev has really let up since a long time. Gameplay is cold and boring as all hell and development happens excrutiatingly slow. It was a game with a good amount of potential. but its no ones fault but the developer when he decides to hoard all the patreon money and drag this cash cow out instead of hiring assistants.