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

So i had 3 A4 worth of pages written on this game but misclicked outside the submit rating button and now i've lost the entire review. So I'm gonna summarize my thoughts quickly

The game has no respect for player time. Huge empty spaces and distances per location with fast travel not unlocked until way late in the game, a slow movement speed, shops that cant hand any more than a fraction of the output you can reach within 30 mins of playing the game. Subpar animations, no music.

The abandoned original Breeding season was both more finished and more of an actual game than this is. Avoid until maybe 1.2 of completed official release. So check back in 10 years.


Heres some very quick fixes to improve gameplay QoL:
Make sprint speed into default, then double that and use that as new sprint speed.
Have the unit descriptors on the breeding menu turned on by default. Allow players to minimize if they want to (or even better, remember what the last used setting was) but just use "Show traits" as the new default.
Put fast travel earlier in the game.
Double merchant money stock.
Reduce the time surprise sex and blowjobs take. Let players stay in the animation if they want to but You shouldnt need to wait 2 minutes for a blowjob to finish before you can start actally playing the game again.

Edit: I just felt like saying that i really wanted to enjoy this game. I dont think theres a single management game on f95 in this style i haven't tested and this is by far the most drainingly dull one so far. Theres worse ones by gameplay but you can actually play their mechanics uninterupted instead of having to do a 5 minute walk between new interactions.

Breeders of the Nephelym is an enjoyable, interactive openworld 3D game... This is gonna be a long review... Now, where do i start?

Well, first things first, even though furry stuff isn't even close to any of my kinks, no offense to anyone who loves that, I managed to like this and played it through the end and most of the stuff didn't even bothered me. Why i started playing, is the tag of incest, which i love as a pornographic concept. The original state of the game doesn't include incest. Not anymore that is. It used to have that as a mechanic and you didn't have to mod incest in it back in the day, but it changed because of the bullshit decisions of patreon. Thanks to an awesome person called Poplan, who restored incest into game so you can enjoy it to it's full potential. Seriously, world needs more awesome people like Poplan. Good job bud.

Ok, let's continue with gameplay. It's pretty straight forward. Controls are fine and responsive. You can run, sprint and jump. Walk & run animation for male character looks horrible, feels weird and screams at you that it is copied from female character. Kind of a downer but game redeems itself by it's other great animaitons.

You have a lust meter that fills when you rest or interract and satisfy the creatures you find on the map. You have another meter that unlocks after a certain event and it morphs you into a creature you captured or brood, but i have never used it after seeing what it is so i can't tell you more.

There is a mouse-click quicktime event when you are engaging with creatures, if you fail, you'll lose your lust and the chance of capturing the creature. Make sure to find the NPC that builds the correct housing for the creature you want to capture. You can't keep them otherwise. Don't forget that you can be forcefully used by creatures like you do to them. For some positions, you have no control over the outcome. So watch out, no quicktime event for some animations. And if you lack the lust and get attacked, you'll go down under. There aren't any dangers on the map. If you fall to you death or get snoo snoo'ed to death, you are resurrected by a mysterious figure and have to pay a toll. I'll let you figure out what's the toll.

Once you capture a creature, you can keep it or walk away. If you capture it, you can use it in your homebase to create creatures with simliar traits or sell it to a certain NPC to gain some sort of currency. You can use that currency to learn new positions from an NPC but you'll get to that NPC in very late game. This is a poor decision on developer's part and needs to change immediately to prevent burnouts in my opinion. You keep doing the same thing over and over again up until that point of meeting her. There are different size of creatures and not all positions work with all of them. You'd think at least some animations would work based on the size and animations of some other creatures that corresponds to other creatures, but it doesn't. Also, some animations you are using isn't available at your home base but it is while you are capturing the creature, which is a bummer. But developer is working on to add more or make some animations compatible with other creatures.

Game's main currency is very important. There are several ways to earn them like milking your creatures and selling the product to a certain NPCs. Or you can try to breed a certain kind of creatures for some anonymous requests that are sent to you via a quest board. You can use this currency to build houses for different creatures or to increase your stats. In all forms, trade system works great. I don't know what the developer did different but i didn't feel like i was running a chore once, no matter how many times i did the same thing. Normally stuff like this feels tedious, but not in this game. Just awesome.

Your objective is to open up all the gates on the map. You need keystones to open up those gates. To acquire most of them, you have to do favors to several NPC's around the map. But there is a catch. Keystones need precise know how and there are no hints on how to proceed in game. Certain NPC's are at certain places on the map, and they give their keystones for you to open gates in condition of gettin specific creatures with specific traits. And not all creatures are at the same part of the map. You reach to them by opening gates, and there is a high chance you will lock your progress in one wrong move if you open a gate prematurely and waste your keystone. I was extremely lucky to save my progress to a different slot each time. My suggestion is that if you don't wanna use a walkthrough, save your game to a different slot before opening a gate. About the story of the game, having it is a plus in games like these. Although it is extremely ridicilous, isn't even consistent in itself, you have a story. You don't play games like these for the story anyway.

This game made me wanna wish it was longer even though it kept me busy for a couple of days. While i played, I thought it would be good to have some options like fps mode while engaging and to have two protagonist as male and female to try different stuff. Also, would be great to see some other action like combat, with all those creatures going and lumbering around. Like you have to beat the alpha male creature to get your way with the ladies but oh well. It is not necessary i guess. This is a pretty casual game that doesn't wanna test and stress you out. All the things i wrote would need fine tuning the challange and what not. So, i guess it's tough luck.

With all that's said, Breeders of the Nephelym is a unique and fun game to play. Give it a try even if you are not into furries. It is better looking and balanced than most of the 3D games out there. If you do, you'll have options once you start playing depening on your preference. Like it was so nice of the developer to turn off futa for people like me. But the downside is that it's necessary if you want to see every single combination of creatures you can create, because there are no male counterparts for most of the creatures. I only had access to limited number of hybrid creatures but i don't feel like i've missed so much.

And that's it, that's all i can say about this awesome game. It has it's quirks but good parts redeems all the bad ones. My rating is 4/5, I strongly believe that it can be made and engineered to perfection.

It's an ok game, though I praise the graphics mainly. Though, little to no story exists, but the game can be treated as a sandbox/Adventure type game. It's a good game if you have nothing else to do.

idk when they addet the "quests" and the "keys" but these ruined the game for me tbh.

while the current animations are limited and kinda lame (for example cowgirl, yeah it looks like it, its a 2 second loop but thats it. speeding it up doesnt change anything in the way they moan, they all moan the same etc so its kinda boring) i always enjoyed the game for playing with many different races and being able to fuck them.

i loved the "hybrid" race etc.

but the quests and keys really ruined this game for me. i always cheated because the grinding was waaaaaay too much so i cant really judge it but you could just go in, go wheverever and get whatever race you want.

now you have to breed them to finish quests and get keys to unlock new areas. turning this into an even grind heavier game its absolutely terrible. for me this really ruined it.

i hope we get a "free play" mode where we just have access to every race thats all i want.

[Rev @ v 0.751.4 Alpha]

I love this game, but it makes me wanna tear hair out sometimes. Be it mine or the dev's or the community's.

Art's the reason I play it; tits jiggle and the faces aren't TOO potato-y. Fappalicious.

Writing is both as token as it should be in a sandbox breeding game, and simultaneously in the way. More on this later. Voice is as good as one should expect, characters are good enough, blahblahblah get out of my way I'm here for tits.

Porn is fine. Poses and tits are good. Animation's a bit unpolished and the poses aren't terribly fluid but it's all done well enough that somebody unexpectedly walking through your door will make you embarrassed rather than wanting to shout "Hay come over here and catcall this with me." Always a good sign.

Gameplay has its ups and downs. I like breeding games; a lot. The character stats don't seem to affect much beyond completionism and the inheritance of physical features needs worked on a bit. The worst bit for me is the feeling that everytime something is added it's got a 50/50 shot of being annoying rather than cool. I don't need fall damage in a porn game, or long roads with fuckall on them or gated-off sections. Add more species, or quit removing ones I like.

TLDR: I bitch, therefore I care.

I think the the way that devs is changing gameplay isnt gonna make it. It was WAY better when it was easier to get to the "adult" part, because in the latest versions you probably have to use walkthrough to progress.
But the "adult" part is great, could only wish for more variations of poses for "breeding".

If you are into the art .. play this!!! Its grindy and you cant stop ^^. alot of customization and different 'breeds' . have fun guys its excellent. pls continue to develop ! it has so much potential to even be more !!

Ok the start sucks, no tutorial had to play with cheats. But its in alpha. This game though blew what i was expecting standards wise out of the water. Grade A job man, this is so much more than i was expecting. I will definitely stay posted on this and when i can ill donate some cash to this soon to be masterpiece.

I love content with chubby Girls with Big boobies and bouncy ass if you like it too this title is must have for you
Have some bugs but still exelent game best of this tipe for me have next gen graphic and good phisics
I can’t waiting for more!

Seeing some similarities between this game and Wild Life (engine, open world, sex animations and deep character creation) I was expecting a bit much from this one. However, the character models are way too similar and it ends up feeling like it's the same character over and over. Gameplay and story aren't that interesting and this ends up getting boring quite quick.

I'll give it 2 stars because after 3 years of development the game still feels empty and dry content wise, literally the only positive side of this game is the art and graphic, even the sex animations are basic and doesn't feel immersive or communicative and it's pretty much slide it in click on advance cum then leave no emotion or action during the sex course you can't intract or mess around during the sex. progressing in the recent version is a total disaster basically every blessed nephelym with a key stone beside them that you discover in this world wants you to find them normal nephelym with special trait and it's the most frustrating part of the game it's hard to find the desired trait that makes progressing impossible and you do all of that only for a boring animation for a few seconds and the key stone to open one the gate to access certain part of the map only for more grinding to progress , you start the whole game with only one position for breeding and it's doggy. the fullscreen is broken by the way.
yeah after all this time that I was away from the game for about a year and a half I expected better than this and it pretty much let me down...

A visually excellent and beautiful game. Solid sound design and with the more recent updates, a fair sense of progression. Some animations are a little simple or feel a little weightless/not physical, but considering the rest of the game, certainly excusable.

Great game with great potential, Really hope to see this game Improve even more by adding more sound,sex scenes,missions,ares to explore, characters, more character customization and stuff,more races,more variety of breeds,more traits,optimizations.

Unfinished 3d breeding game. It would be 5/5 when character customization finished and more races completed. Some of them, like lamias and centaurs are still unique NPCs.

Gameplay is kind of clone of earlier "Breeding season" game with same pros and cons.

I used to like this game but now playing it again after a few months it has lost most of my interest...

The breeding requests doesn't make sense for example I got several "go get hybrids of kind x lvl 14 and Demons lvl 12 very early in the game. Which that early in the game is impossible because to begin with the area to get the monsters are locked down behind a stone gate. For comparison on level requirements the highest level I managed to get a monster this time using the "infinite lust" cheat was 12 or something and then I let a male Vulwarg make around 40 females pregnant and as impregnation isn't 100% you can get how many times he tried... I had troubles providing the two quest NPCs with their requirements. Even if it was possible to complete these erquests the player has to grind the favours needed to unlock the animations (which only covers a few of the different body sizes. As far as I'm aware the animations and match ups hasn't changed for over a year).
But these favours are gained by trading monsters...

The ability to change to spirit form was a nice feature, but as much with this game it hasn't been implemented fully yet. For example not all hybrids are available for some reason, but it's probably because DerelictHelmsman hasn't thought up on how to solve the flying as this would circumvent his "lock down" of areas with the stones to steer the game in a odd way(see Breeding requests above)

The stats of the monsters doesn't seem to do anything and the basic monsters doesn't gain traits even though I maxed out the trait level on my character. Instead it seems monsters are actually losing traits...
Some other things like loyalty doesn't make much sense either at this point. You can breed above the set 60 monster limit and after a while monsters will escape. But seeing it will take from here to next decade to grind the loyalty to 100% when not using the "infinite lust" cheat I don't know if it will work properly.

There are housing which contains one race which make sense. The sylvanas and hybrids are cramped into one building. For example the Sylvanas would require 240 spots in the house/barn but only have 60...
For the hybrids it would require 960 if the amount would be the same for all races. I don't agree on just grouping them up like this, it's sloppy...

As the monsters lose stats when breeding the best way of collecting new monsters with interesting traits are to grind them in the wilderness, anyone else see a problem here?

The graphics are stunning, but very taxing. The game needs to have an option to tweak the graphics and some more optimization. I have a GTX 1050 and the game grinds to almost a complete stop in Lustwood. The grass, furries and running water is to blame I think.

I have a mixed feeling that we are forced to use the Futas, "no plans" it say on almost all monsters for a male variant. Sure we can breed with other monster which have male variants or play as a male, but then we miss half or more of the traits because the humans doesn't have any.

So basically DerelictHelmsman, make up your mind with this game.
For my part I'll wait now until the complete version is released.
I spent a few days now(not in total) to complete the content in this version, fearing that I have to do everything all over again as saves are incompatible between versions.
When the complete version is done I'll get back and see if the game has changed for the better.

Rated: 3/5
Based on: v0.740

I like everything, but it has very few features and content. As soon as the money is available, I will support the author. More you need to enter the ability to customize the character and diversify the monsters and interaction

I've been following the game for over a year. Derelict created an original lore, added a lot of different things and I loved it. Currently, I can easily say that it is one of the greatest furry porn games that you can find. Easily say that it is the best 3D furry experience you can get. Overall, of course there are some cons but pros basically erase them from your mind. With the current support he is getting right now, you can also realize that he keeps the updates to date, enlarges the gameplay as the supporters and players ideas and gives you a great experience. Even though I wish the old, special animations for each race x race; I also know that it is kind of impossible without a company. It is a must play game if you like furry games with pregnancy, slight management features and a great gameplay.

This game has a GREAT premise and an even greater potential. I've been looking for a perverted farming game and this is the closest I've attained, so I eagerly look forward to it's completion.

There are some things need to be addressed before it's completion, though. The monetary/stats system are currently pointless. This can be rectified by:

Instead of just randomly running up to a breeding ground, there should be a re-skinned version "boss." Nothing complex, but something to unlock the breeding ground; with every subsequent boss requiring a differing "item" or Sex position to "defeat." It would give credence to the stats system.

Defeating said boss should be a sexual act. Making them orgasm, etc. Be perverted. Since these re-skinned bosses are larger you will require certain animals to pleasure her simultaneously. Like foxes sucking the cow's nipples while you pound her pussy.

Orgasming should NOT be achieved through mindlessly clicking. Unlocking other positions should be the key and SWITCHING positions. The orgasm bar will begin to deflate when you're NOT pounding hard enough or the position is not working. A list of positions (unlocked) should be on the side so you can switch quickly. Bringing your tamed monsters to help should make them orgasm quicker.

Being able to "use" your captures in meaningful ways. For one example: Interbreeding species should be used to unlock unattainable areas. Like a giant and a dragon can give you a flying "ride-able" mount.

Toys. Needs sex toys. The kinkier the better. A telescope/binoculars to see "stats/traits" of animals from afar.

Waifus. Needs waifus. That can be helpful around the farm. Polygamy NEEDS to be an option. Being able to decorate your home will justify the monetary system beyond just buying barns. There's currently no "milk all" option and clicking that 60 times gets old QUICK.

The barns need idle animations to indicate which ones have animals. Nothing fancy, but a harpy swinging in her cage. Or a neko lounging on the roof. A giant is masturbating. The more idles, the fuller the barn.

Impact/consequences. There aren't any. When you have sex with the "sentient" beings it does NOT impact the game at all. There are no transitions. You're just having sex and if you're in a breeding zone. There's a good chance other NPCs will block the camera while you're trying to have sex. The water in the Slime Zone is the best example. For this reason there needs to be a "void" zone (or whatever you want to call it) to eliminate distractions.

Make it controller friendly and add interfaces over NPC/objects to indicate which button to push.

Basically combine "Harvest Moon" & "Final Fantasy" and "rule 34" the shit out of it. It would be a 5 star game, easily.

Actually it’s a nice game. I played it for hours to see where its limits were. And I found some, for example, it lacks a little bit of logic. Of course it does, it’s a game. But in the same time, it is a game that tends to make you think the output will be logical, with all the fuss around stats and traits and request for each one, etc. etc. But, it’s definitely not logical.



The breeding system doesn’t make any sense. I explored it for a long time and made many experiments:

There are species that can’t stand incest, even with the trait “20%luck of not being malformed”. For example, demon/demon that goes sterile after the 3rd or 4th generation.

And, on the other hand, other species that don’t seem to be affected: I bred Elves and Lykos with the same father for 13 generations without any problem of sterility.



The other main problem is the stats creation of the offspring. The traits are only added or replaced without any logic: actually if a trait is dominant it should stay, whenever you reproduce it. And it becomes more and more difficult to program a game as it tends to be at least logical.

With my breeding-elves-experiment, I saw that the daughter kept all of her mother’s and father’s traits (as if they were all dominant), but would lose none, even if the father (who was the same at each generation) had far less traits than the mother.

It applies also to her visual aspect: the daughter would not resemble more her father (when she should, because her genome was nearer and nearer to her father’s at each generation).

In the end, and maybe it’s the worst, when you breed Nephelym, their stats will totally be random. As a result, you are forced to level their stats up in the homestead, so you can later on, sell them for a ridiculous price when you have the specific request… By the way, the requests are totally insane, you must give out Nephelym you trained hard (sometimes up to LVL 12, when you find them at LVL 3) or Nehpelym hard to come by, such as hybrids (I noticed that the ratio of hybrids was more like 25% than 40%, as stated in guides). So, it means, breeding is of no use to get Nephelym with better stats for these stats are generated randomly. Marvellous …

So to train them, you must breed them, but when they are pregnant, you cannot train them anymore… So you must train them with a sterile partner, that you must create after 4 generations of incest breeding (it’s 16 in-game days, so a lot). Logical…





Another point that troubles me is that you can’t get NPC’s pregnant. Within the homestead, you can cross whatever Nephelym you want with another one (incest or not) or with the breeder. There is a barn for hybrids, so where the problem? Actually, there is one NPC that gets pregnant: the alraune. And she ends up pregnant with blowjobs… 100 blowjobs… that’s a total waste of in-game energy and time. (Dude, what the hell went through your head that day, to have such an idea…)

Also, maybe a 4-in-game-days pregnancy is a little too fast. You can barely manage your barns without losing time: you must walk in all directions all the time to define if one can stay or must leave.

Portals are a great idea, but they are all misplaced (except maybe the sylvan one). You actually lose a lot of time, because they are never in the centre of activities. You could point out it’s intentional (and it may be so), but then it’s nonsense, the game is already too difficult and you already lose enough time, not to spend more trying to reach the next portal.

At last, I’d say the game is incredibly difficult. All the hard work is rewarded with peanuts (hard requests for barely 1000 Org). And rewards are limited in the in-game time and resources (Camilla and Mae sell for not more than 4000 Org, in the best days). So you can definitely not make a stack of money, even if you work yourself to the bone.

No wonder there is a cheat mod. The challenges are so hard or long to achieve, you may lose patience. Cheat mod is a sign challenges are far too great for players not to be bored within a few hours. Maybe the dev will understand it one day…
And the UI is to be totally reshaped/created.





So it’s a funny game, with incredible visual effects. But the visual aspect is not enough. If you want to make people dream, you must give them what you promised, and if your game tends to seem logical, when it is less than other less funded breeding games, you’ll only satisfy the desires of few.

Actually I like it very much. It is a very good breeding game,but it lacks content and history. As others said, there is only here a beautiful backbone with no meat. It could definitely be better. In the future I hope devs will try to improve its breeding logic and scenario, instead of focusing on the visual aspect.



(Maybe it’s the free version that makes my judgement wrong, but with that version as advertising, I definitely don’t want to buy the game).

Pretty solid game. It keeps you interested with breeding function. Species inherit the behaviours and mixed up appearance of their ancestors. You go out of your ranch to jungle and monsters come to you, you have sex with them and after they cum you catch them, milk them on your ranch of breed them with other species. Females are kinda tricky to catch. Game looks smooth and beautiful(reminds me of Overwatch graphics). It has character creation and bunch of subjects to have sex with. Sex positions don't have too much variety(or I haven't discovered yet) but they're quite hot.

I was about to give 4 but then I remembered how the game hooked me up with it's gameplay, I decided to give 5/5. Even if you don't like furries I'd still say give it a try. I personally am not a huge fan of furries but i don't hate them as well. I got a wide range of variety when it comes to fetishes(except for guro) but I digress.