Unreal Engine - Carnal Instinct [2023-12-20] [Team Carnal Instinct]

[v0.3.42]
One of the few h-games I liked to play without focusing on "h" part.
Played it some time ago, but forgot the name of the game...

-Story, Originality
Van Darkholme: "Friking slaves, get your ass back here! Frik♂you!"
Literary rise from a slave to a chad.

-Renders
Cool 3D models.
My computer didn't blow up.
(But I lowered some of the settings to be safe)

-Sound
No sound.
Can enable sounds on videos if you want.

-Playability
Played through all the content I could.

There is some grind, but there are not so many items. So, you grind until you get the best equipment.

There are ~20-30 quests and most of them interesting.

-Performance
It works.
But if you want top graphics, you have to have top graphics card...

-Bugs
Jumping to some places is very hard.
Enemies don't see you sometimes.
And there were other small bugs I don't remember.

-Animations
Look smoth and nice.

-Voice Acting
As far as I remember, all dialogs have voices, or I heard them in my head(?).

-Grammar
Didn't see any mistakes.

-Amount of content
Played it for ~5-7 hours and liked it a lot.
When you are near to the end of content there are more bugs and game begin to feel empty, but that's understandable.

When you finish all the plot quests and have everything there is nothing else to do...
Even though game looks like sandbox, where you should have fun even after you finish plot quests (maybe I want too much from this h-game).

One of the best games Ive played, from f95. A lot of content, a lot of customization, and actual gameplay content that isn't adult themed. A genuinely good game with plenty of time you can spend either playing for the first time or repeating scenes.
Give. This. A. Try!

Insane game. Amazing graphic, nice fight, interresting quest.

Just one problem, animation cutscene ... Need more possibility, like sex sandbox as wild life with choice of position.

Im not into animal but this game sell it very well. I hope the best for creator

So many updates and still very limited in the aspects of sex, few not very great sex animations, static, bad camera angles and no free cam, facial expressions - do not exist, most NPCs will refuse to take big cock, belly bulging is inconsistent, one scene has internal view and that deserves tag? Please...
The 4.5 stars might have been good if this was first release but the game got several updates since the initial release and still feels like the initial release I played a while ago.
Traveling is slow since sprint is only slightly faster than regular walking animation, map has fast travel but it's still super boring, combat is basic, graphics are ok but the game lags during sex scenes on high end gpu, clearly something is not optimized, I'm guessing it's the depth of field, devs probably left the highest setting at some ridiculous value and it cripples frame rate to single digits (high end PC).
Story - I guess it has one, but not good enough to justify such high rating, even then, this is a sex game and it doesn't deliver in that aspect, EVERY NPC should be fuckable but with such limited, preanimated system there is no chance for this game to ever be something else than just glorified RPG with some sex in it.

lemme wax pretentious for a sec. games with boobs stapled onto them are not as interesting as games with natural boobs.

what the hell do i mean by this? well, in my mind, there are two kinds of h-games:

1. titles that absolutely could be serviceable, enjoyable indie games on their own, which happen to have sexual content of some sort that just floats around the main game.
2. titles that are designed to be about sex, where the sex is in some way woven directly into the gameplay.

granted! i am not trying to imply one is better than the other. i personally happen to prefer the second category, but i've had my share of phenomenal and awful experiences with both.

with that out of the way, carnal instinct is solidly in the first category, and good gravy, is it egregiously so.

carnal instinct is an open-world action RPG. it has dungeon crawling, single-target Souls-style stamina combat, quests, rudimentary base-building, and, of course, a crafting system. it tries and fails to execute most of these elements.

the open world is underpopulated, which could be a good thing, depending on how little combat you want to engage in. exploring is mostly pointless because getting within 50 feet of a lootable object activates the player character's MKULTRA conditioning and puts a little marker on the screen for you to walk at, and these caches are usually placed near other locations of interest, so there's no reason to go off the beaten path unless you have a quest marker off in the distance that your handler put there.

the dungeon crawling is, i think, intentionally gimped, so that you can't see more than 10 feet in any direction, obscuring how extremely linear the dungeons are and forcing you to spend more time in a dark, underground maze trying to figure out where the hell you're going and if you've already been that way once before getting stuck in between two rocks and having to reload a save. they also make you engage in combat.

the combat is not all that bad on it's own. yes, the player character handles like a drunk semi-truck, and the game's status as Perennially Unfinished Unreal Engine Porn Game means that the performance will do you zero favors there, but at least it's better than the dungeons. i just hope you like mashing mouse1 and throwing out the occasional parry like a beer can onto the freeway.

now, notice how in all three of the above elements, you can start to see a gameplay loop emerging. get a quest, go somewhere, kill some guys, maybe get asbestos in your lungs from cave air, turn in quest. sounds pretty reasonable, yeah? it would be, if this were a $5 student project ARPG on steam, but this is a sex game. where's the sex?

i already told you that i prefer games which try to marry gameplay and sexual content. the reason for that is simple: mood. take strip poker, for example. it's tense and more than a little exhibitionist. if you lose a hand of strip poker, you have to bear the embarrassment of getting naked, but being all exposed like that is fun in its own unique way. conversely, if you don't lose, you get to see other people naked. the goal is simple, the mood is established, bam: instant drunken afterparty classic.

carnal instinct's mood is all over the fucking place. everyone is walking around with their pussy out because of religion or something, and the voice acting is like something horrible mimicking a woman to lure you out into the open. the gameplay mostly revolves around the beige combat and walking around the overworld -- the unseasoned pasta of game mechanics -- before slapping you in the face with sex sometimes.

instantly, you go from gameplay that has been clinically proven to put small lab animals to sleep to labor-of-lust animations with care even in the camera movements. you pull down your pants and start crankin' it a little, but it's too late -- after the gameplay, nothing could get you going. the cognitive dissonance is just too much to bear. the worst part is, scene-wise, it's not all that bad! there are shitloads of them and they're professionally animated, even if they never show you the pussy because they haven't figured out how to make collision work properly down there.

i apologize if this review reads like the game killed my dog or whatever, but i'm just completely baffled at how such a high-effort project on the visual side of the things would deliberately design its gameplay to be just as unfun as its SFW counterparts while still being a sex game. something about it just does not compute.

in conclusion: they should put the sex scenes on e621 and bin the rest of the game. Would Not Recommend!

Game is very buggy, animations clip a lot, fighting system is bad, quests are uninspired and uninteresting.
Game sort of fakes a living world but in truth most of the game is quite empty. Most enemies are brainless. A lot of stupid jokes out of nowhere. You have several weapons, which are all lackluster and the fighting animations clip often. Combat can be easily abused and basically turns you into some kind of demigod. The scenes themselves clip a lot and are uneven. Content itself is all over the place, if you search for just regular intercourse you will be disappointed.
Its especially annoying that a lot of it is tied to your gender/form. So you have a lot of scenes either completely unavailable or they don't make sense.
The devs are amateurs and it shows. Overall I don't recommend it.
Overall I can't recommend it.

The lack of male character options is kind of cringe right now, I can only play a FUB in their 40s with a cartoony dick and cartoony dick physics.
I want to bone furry babes and be boned by hot fuzzy men, and look good doing so.
Combat is very mediocre right now. Frustrating bugs like being unable to obtain any new Elixirs of Life are kinda cringe. The amount of walking is kind of cringe.

This is an ACTUAL GAME lol alot of games are basically Novels with a few quests here and there. This is a game with *Ahem*
1. Great graphics
2. A Good story
3. Good Voice Acting
4. A good Combat system that's not too hard but not too easy either
5. For an unreal engine game it's actually well optimized, with great performance. My PC can play it with no problem.
6. Excellent Sex Scenes (Literally what we came lol)

Overall this is a valid game, the devs deserve praise. I'm just so lost how it hasn't gotten the amount of love Wilds has when it's just as good and Optimized WAAAAAAAAAAY better.

First game I've played in awhile that's 3D mainly because most of them are garbage (whether its porn-wise or game-wise) imo. This game? Although some of the sex scenes aren't for me and some of the camera angles dont really work for me, this is a great example of a good 3D porn game. The game looks far better than I expected for a 3GB game, runs with no issues, but most importantly, it has GAME. There's story, combat, armor, weapons, different species that are unlockable through quests, many different NPC's to interact with (whether its for trading, sex, or sidequests), a crafting system, dungeons, and probably more that I haven't discovered yet. This is more than I expected from a pre-alpha game. Cant wait to see more in the future.

It would be even better if the level of combat actions was raised again, and the actions were varied. The current combat experience is very poor, the actions are not smooth, the free perspective is not free enough, and there are too many restrictions!

Excellent game, very engaging.

The gameplay is impressive i didnt find any bugs after hours of play, some of the gameplay was a lil tricky but it all worked. The interactions across the board were pretty spot on, well written and intriguing quests. Its almost a AAA. Old gods, sex and a few hole worlds to explore.

My only real issue is the lack of human npcs, i do appreciate the human characteristics on the beast people but i would love a bit more balance rather than me seemingly being the only human.

Quite enjoyable. Not quite perfect yet (map/quests sometimes require quite a lot of back and forth) but great models, good character customization, the furry aspect isn't all that pronounced, a few interesting setups.

Based on a slightly older version: 2021-10-28, v0.3.14




This game feels lifeless, like you're in a prop world of no substance A lot of empty buildings without NPCs anywhere close and a generally dead city. It plays like a running simulator mostly. Neither the gameplay aspects of it are particularly interesting or fun, the sex scenes are pretty awful and there is no story.

This is a large scope open world 3d game in early development, so this is to be expected, but I can only base my review on what is and isn't in the game and not what is planned or envisioned by the developers (before someone screams at me pointing at the developers roadmap).

• The good
  • Textures. They’re very high quality, even considering that fact that there is no fur to speak of when this is a FURRY game (most likely optimization reasons for this and not something I judge the developers on while the game hasn’t fully released yet)
  • Non-sex animations. Running, walking, idle etc are pretty decent I suppose.
  • Graphical and performance benefits of UE and its repository of tools.
  • Audio
  • The devs are continuously working on the game and seem commited for the years of development this game will require.
• The bad
  • Sex Animations. The animations have this weird tendency of moving the camera far away from the scene making the scene out of focus. Randomly panning the camera in hoover mode like an idle screen. There is very rarely visible penetration during the sex, and when there is its mostly clipping through the models. My favourite example was when I got to watch two characters fucking and the camera was placed behind a fence AND a bush. Like, why? Is this some attempt at creating an immersive “voyueristic” feel or something? Did not achieve that, just let me watch the sex close up thanks, not interested in watching a blurry animation far away. Note that this might not be an issue for someone that can palpate these types of less detailed sex animations though, since they exist in many other 3d games especially from Japan and they still have large player bases. This might also be a positive for people who likes creepshot pov scenes, even though I'm uncertain that was the intended goal of that animation.

• That leads to my next point, no free control of camera during sex scenes.
• The world does not feel like a living world but rather an empty exhibition. NPCs lack idle pathing, idle interactions/voice line loops etc. They simply exist as static mannequins. The devs need to work on making the world feel more alive by adding some hardcoded paths for NPCs to walk on when not interacting with the player, some random interactions between NPCs etc. Anything really to make the world feel more alive and immersive.

• No story, it's just a bunch of fetch and delivery quests currently. The rest of the gameplay can be summarised as “find a piece of costume hiding in a random location”.
• Gameplay consists of a running simulator, and easter egg hunting in a huge city for costume pieces. That's about it. Not very fun unless you like running around and collecting things I suppose.
• Lack of physics in regards to characters' breasts, genitals etc. Lack of soft body animations. The characters remind me of mannequins, the breasts aren’t affected by gravity and look solid, the characters look kinda plasticy. While the textures are good, textures alone can’t really create a good looking model in an interactive 3d game.

• The neutral
  • Being a 3d game, you need a good graphics card or you will be forced to run it on lower settings which will result in the game looking like garbage, but that’s the case for any 3d game so this is something to be expected. I would probably not play this on integrated graphics.

Conclusion. If I could I would give this game a 2.5/5 in its current state. The game seems to suffer from a very large scope and being in early development. Most of the game feels very underdeveloped and shallow currently. It’s still early in development, and this can most certainly be improved upon as more time is spent on developing the different aspects of the game though. But in its current early iteration, the game isn’t very compelling, interesting or fun and I can’t recommend it. I’ll personally try it again once it reaches 1.0 in a few years, and that would be my recommendation for people interested in this game as well. I,e. Wait for further development. I’ll update/rewrite this review once the game is fully released.

i really want to give 4 stars, played 5 hours
graphic and all around are magnificent (some point birds kill your ears^^)
i had really much fun to play this game like a normal rpg, but the short sex scenes........ and then u cannot interact with most of the people......
its early accses i know, but a "real" main quest would be nice ( and intro)
(in a year i look again and update my rating)

Version: v0.3.22

Its so weird to see the unreal engine get so good, so much so that great looking and stable games can be made like this. By far this is one of the more ambitious unreal engine game made on this website.
A free-roam open world with quite a good amount of content as of the pre-alpha phase which i played. Combat is pretty basic but uninspired, which i dont really see much of a problem, this game to me is an open world adventure game with some combat. I can already tell that this game is laying some great groundwork, camp customisation, armour, weapons, and transformation of character are all currently pretty basic, but there is so much potential to be had with due time.
The sex scenes are all mostly furry focused, even though im not really a furry i was able to overlook that fact considering that this game is mostly solf-core furry. I do really like how beautiful the characters are in this game, well defined and smooth textures really make this game punch above its weight in terms of graphics that involve sex and the game overall.
Im looking forward to more content that adds more and more to this game.

Great stuff, keep it up team.

Updated Review for v0.3.42

This game is going to feel more "in development" and like an alpha than most other games on this site. That's because it's an Unreal Engine free roam RPG. Not a steadily progressing visual novel. You're going to run into unfinished content. Things are probably going to be buggy. There's not a whole lot of depth with anything yet. You'll probably play through most of current content in a day or two. But what's there shows a TON of potential and I think this can turn into something really good as far as "porn games" go.

There is pretty good character customization to start out. As you play, you unlock different humanoid forms (feline, dragon, etc) as well as skins for lack of a better word that further modifies those forms. Bare in mind 90% of current sex scenes are tailored more towards female/futa.

Sex scenes are pretty well animated but there is no free cam currently, which I know some people hate. Scenes are basically looping gifs until you progress them to the next angle or climax. Though there's not a ton of scenes yet, they are pretty varied. Have sex with a naga, tentacle slime, centaur, void demon (the list goes on) with some more vanilla stuff mixed in as well. The issue I've found with no free-cam is that scenes can end up being rather underwhelming when no angle actually lets you see the penetration happening.

The dynamic sex scenes ended up being a bit underwhelming as well. Yes the animations are good, but they are just scenes with a larger amount of prebuilt angles with a very limited camera rotation. It didn't solve the problem.

The game part is decent so far imo. You roam around in a pretty good looking Egypt-inspired environment. Combat isn't perfect, but probably the best of any Unreal/Unity porn game I've played. I'll admit most mechanics are a bit barebones right now, but it's the idea of them and future plans that make this game really stand out to me. Things like camp mechanics fit with recruitable NPCs, customization, and prisoners as an example. Just check the roadmap to get a better idea.

This breaks the mold of most games you see on here. It still feels like an alpha however, and it's not something you're going to get super invested in as it currently is. But it's a fun play for a couple hours and shows real potential. Given time and development I think this could feel like a AAA porn game, or at least close to it.

I'd like to give this 5 stars, but there's a few things that's killing it for me in its current state.

The game is heavily sexualized at every end, except that when it comes to the actual sex itself, it's over simplfied and feels static. It's basically just looks like a single thrust motion that's on loop, real simple. When I say "static" I mean the sex doesn't change in any way based on things like stats (of which there are no sex-related stats), orgasm meters, relationship/disposition, or anatomy features. Cum itself is just a baked animation that doesn't reflect any anatomy or stats either, which is odd considering the amount of anatomy changes you can go through.

Otherwise I'd of given it a 5 star rating because it has a lot going for it right now. I love the fantasy races they're including (eg maybe the only rich 3d game with full snake characters?) and the overall sex-casual atmosphere is great.

So, basically 3 stars for the worldbuilding/setting, graphics and presentation, but 2 missing stars for boring sex system and the fact that it could only hold my interest for all of a day in its current state.

Cool concept but the entire game is completely one sided as of now. There is almost no male character creation and basically only 1 interaction with a male NPC availible. Kind of dissapointing considering how much money they pull in

Technically the game seems to be very well made with the UI, 2D/3D assets, effects, music, sounds and animations.

But as others already stated, the game design is still lacking a lot which makes the game boring after the first 15 minutes or so. There is not enough rewarding content for doing quests or exploring the well crafted world. I mean the building blocks for that kind of stuff are already there, some chests can be found by exploring and sometimes some NPC enemies appear, but this is not only rare but also pretty bare bones in the execution. The chests often only contain a single uninteresting item and the fights with enemies all feel kinda like the same. The looting experience isn't really rewarding as of now. I believe with some minor changes here and there the game could be much better in it's early state.

The sex scenes are animated pretty well, but I dislike the current approach of getting most of them by just talking to an NPC who straight up is down to fuck. They could better be used in quests and light story encounters then by going there and starting the animation with a single dialog option. I believe this is something that will be changed anyway since the game still is in a early development phase. As soon as all technical stuff is there and the content adding phase begins, I'd imagine the devs to add more purpose to these things.

The furry aspect of the game doesn't bother me as much as in other games because the bodies still are mostly human and the PC can be human male/female as well.

The character editor doesn't offer much cusomization as of now. It seems like there is no way to adjust the penis size (also why are all penises always erect? ), body height and the face / head of the PC also isn't customizable except from a simple morph between two head models (played human male).

Issues I encountered while playing:

• Its very annoying that the PC often puts away the sword when drawn in situations I as user don't want him to. I can draw the sword, sneak towards enemies and the PC puts the sword away in the worst moment without me triggering it. This is dumb.
• When running and opening the world map to look for navigation points my muscle memory is trained to hold W and shift to keep running after closing the world map again, but it seems like the game discards / blocks the input until I release and press the keys again. This interupts the flow of the gameplay & just feels bad imo.

I also think the game lacks a proper introduction to the game world and a purpose for the PC. I just pop up at the docks, naked, and started doing my usual open world routine.

Overall I'd say the game is good, but not complete enough to be enjoyed just yet. It's a cool tech preview but for it to be truly enjoyable a lot of content still needs to be added.

Massively underrated game, it actually plays like it could be an legit AA title in terms of world, combat , quests, animation (not even sex), etc. I mean it even has proper bossfights,....Don't be scared away if you're not into furries (I hate it), you can play as a human and while you will encounter a lot of beastily features, the quality of the game more than makes up for it.