I have a vastly inferior PC and it still performed okay (on ultra settings, obviously lowering those made it even better), so yeah, this game isn't unreasonable. The only parts that felt off where the camera movements and the fighting controls.
If you don't feel like facing the challenge just use Cheat Engine, it's super easy to gain unlimited attribute points, turning every fight into a joke, no matter what.
That's well above what you would actually need to play this game's current version. Even the cheapest build in the list I linked would be able to play Carnal Instinct on lower settings.
Pretty much exactly this. Carnal Instinct is better optimized than many UE5 games, so for it to be unplayable on a computer means you either refuse to lower settings or have something that is just outright incapable of supporting many newer games. That's why I recommended people who can't play CI look into Unity games. Unity is tuned to a lower minimum, and is also part of the official development pipeline for Switch games. An engine tuned well enough to run on a glorified tablet (and much as I love the Switch, it is basically a very high end tablet) will run much better on older computers than a game engine tuned to run on the latest projects by Sony and Microsoft.
I mean in the end it's even playable on ultra settings on my PC (which is 3 years old and wasn't even top of the line back then, just a really solid, decent gaming PC with reliable hardware) but it doesn't come with great FPS on those settings, though I will say I'm not sure how much of that might have been motion blur as well, which to me never helps with making a game feel very fluid.
What I see is a game made on a platforn that rewards the creators the longer it takes to make a game, with a scope too big for it to be reasonable,scope that just increased after this ue5 upgrade.
It's extremely short and there are barely any sex scenes.
If you mean for cheating I suggest using Cheat Engine to give yourself unlimited attribute points, if you increase the attributes high enough the combat becomes a literal joke & the high stamina makes it easy to get around quickly.
