Unreal Engine - Carnal Instinct [2024-06-01] [Team Carnal Instinct]

I might give this another try later when and if its bug free, dident enjoy playing for an hour then opened chest which was a stash i guess not that it should matter but it said click esc to close but that only opens up menu and i couldent do anything since game was frozen so i had to alt+f4 and to my supprise when i got back into the game theres no auto save so i would have to play from the very start yet again where i said fuck that shit, if it can happen once it can happen again and i just dont enjoy wasting my time like that.

Graphics are very nice even though when its dark in game the lighting is shit so you cant see much which is a bit annoying, theres also some weird graffic issues on NPCs that are walking around, not often but it happens.

Dident see many sex scenes but for what i saw the MCs dick just looks weird like its not really part of hes body, worng color and to thick and weird and thats for a normal human, same when talking to futa characters dicks just looks weird and dosent feel like they really fit the rest of the body.

The animations are stupid since you just dont see anything, close up of an ass but cant see the dick or a pussy which makes you wonder if they are fucking or not, feels more like a sensored softcore porn then anything else, kinda to bad since characters look damn nice but apprently they dont know how to make H-scenes which makes it fail as an adult/porn game.

Music is pretty decent and suits the game, but the voices are just to low compared to everything else, like music and effects.

Giving it 2 stars feels worng since it does look great and has big potential but since i cant really give an in-debt review when its not working due to bugs.

I did find out it has auto-save but for some idiotic reasons its turned off as standard? why the fuck would it be off?

The interface is missing some options like making text bigger, its just to small for my taste.

Game mechanics like quests needs improvement, you can only track a single quest at a time which is idiotic and only adds to you wasting a ton of time just walking/running around the map which is bad enough as it is since quests are always a long walk away from any fast travel spot, not that it matters since even after visiting a fast travel spot it might not even work, to me i had been to a few then a little later it just showed as not visted? so another bug.

Dev needs to learn people dont enjoy using hours running around to fetch something or kill something, it really needs to be faster so you can enjoy more story and quest dialogs instend of looking at your character run.

Would love to try this one again at some point once its bug free.

Also not sure about how much content there is, right from the starting area there are plenty of quests that you cant do since its in progress and considering game is 4 years old that feels a bit weird.

UE4 version was a great start but really lacked polish: some parts of UI are inconsistent, some finnicky gameplay mechanics, clipping in some sex animations, and annoying map traversal. However, it had a lot of details and customization available (even though unlocking them is a chore as you need to explore and complete quests for that).

UE5 version (at time of review, on version 0.5.150 2024-06-02) is branded as pre-alpha and very work in progress, however already feels like a much more polished game than UE4 version. Mechanics for morphs make more sense (go to an altar instead of swapping in inventory, which however can become tedious), gameplay feels more complete and UI is top notch (in game UI, meanwhile the main menu and pause screen use the same template design as Home Together game, probably placeholder). Map traversal improved with mounts, there are unlockable PvE skills/abilities, new morphs unlocked by essence (earned by killing all enemies) and you choose what to unlock each time. Sex animations are also a lot more polished and have more attention to detail.

As of writing this review, the main problem I see is low amount of sex scenes, which is understandable in UE5 as it is still in very early phases, but even UE4 did not have an abundance of them although more frequent than UE5. UE5 lacks many customization options, but judjing from the placeholder interface and changelogs, these will be ported over from older version in the next updates. The animation viewer in UE5 is miles better but still does not allow for free panning of camera, only some premade tracks that you can move the camera along.

TLDR:
- GREAT games, quality matched by very few other games
- nice gameplay, UE5 more enjoyable/polished
- sex scenes could be more frequent
- UE5 lacks some custmization from UE4
- sex scenes lack free camera panning

I love the version on UE 4 it is great and fun. I hate that they have pretty much stopped developing it and left it Dev hell while focussing on the UE5 version which I am calling Carnal Instinct 2 in my head since there are a LOT of differences between the two. The map is different, the start is pretty good in CI1 but is dog water is CI2 also for some weird reason this is yet another porn that has decided it needs a platforming section to further the story.
Whether one handed or not there are people like me that dispise platforming because we suck at it.

So TLDR: UE4 version is awesome (CI1) UE5 version is needs ALOT of work

The game was good already but after UE5 update it shows great promise. The scene viewer especially is much better and allows more dynamic experience. The gameplay has improved a lot and while it is still rough, it will easily get to industry standards. Currently it already has mounts, fun quests and characters, merchants and quite few opportunities to fuck. In my books it is already better than what Ubisoft publishes. Here hoping that the development will be successful and the game will be expanded a lot.

i purchased and downloaded this game from steam and it was an amazing game. waiting for more updates currently, and it could use more equipment and dungeons, but still a outstanding game. id recommend it to anyone who likes this particular genre.

3 stars as an indie rpg- primarily (if not borderline exclusively) for the models, graphics, and performance- but 2 stars as a porn game. The models are, for the most part, absolutely outstanding. Sadly, this only makes it worse when you basically never get any porn with them. It seems like the more seemingly well put-together an H-game is, and I do mean a playable game, not just an RPGM copy-paste title, the less actual porn you get.

The combat is stiff, the looting is dreadful, and traversal is just a slog. I've now played the UE4 and UE5 versions, and I'm still constantly left wondering...why? Why are people paying for this? If it were just a cutscene viewer, I'd understand it more, because the models really are nice...but it's not. It's a walking simulator with janky, horrendously boring combat that makes unmodded Skyrim more palatable.

This is really just not worth playing for porn. From what I saw of the story, though, it's at least trying. The voice acting is far and away better than most English porn VA that I come across, and most of what I saw was actually narrated. That's a level of quality you don't often see. Emotional delivery was always rather weak, but overall, it didn't detract from the experience. As for the story itself, my favorite part was actually the random NPCs you came across that met unfortunate fates. It's a nice detail that's great for immersing into the story.

But this is a porn game. I'm not here for the story. I'm fine with a good story included, but I'm here for the porn. I could get better story, VA, and gameplay from...basically anything else. The focus should be the porn, but with this game, it never has been. It's perfectly mediocre as a game, but downright terrible as a porn game. For the time you'll have to invest, there simply are no returns. That can be applied to this as a game, really, but clearly SOME people like the..."gameplay" enough to keep going back.

But I sure as fuck don't recommend wasting your time on it. A real shame. There are some damn nice asses in this.

Don't really get why this is so highly rated. The original UE4 version was not so good and the UE5 version is in many parts just straight up worse. In both you have to do a lot of walking, boats are not really useful as much as a necessity if you want to quickly cross to another island. The Animations are not really that good either. I don't see any graphical improvements if I'm honest, Animation is in many parts worse, fighting system has been dumbed down to be much more simple.
Tons and tons of quests that could be part of any other RPG out there. Like you won't even have any H-scene with any of the quests.
The H-scenes that are there are fairly low quality. At least in the UE4 version of the game they had like cutscene like scenes, those were much higher quality than the ones you have in the UE5 version.
Fights used to be much more fluent I feel, now they're kind of stuff and rigid.
But overall its like some Unity project with a lot of make-up on. Like sure the characters themselves look good. But that's really it.
Game gives me the vibes that the devs don't really want to make a H-game, they want to make a regular game, set in a mythological Egyptian world. Well then makes me wonder why they don't just do that.

Definitely has potential to becum a really cool Game, but the Males moaning with female voices when getting fucked by the Centaur stallion is a big turn-off for me and also the potential for cum-inflation for Bottom-Males when bred by bigger Species is missing, despite that being a huge potential thing (even with physics and all - could include plug to keep the seed inside after having been bred and even have slushing sound with the inflated belly, that enables healing from the nutrients of the Semen, that's been injected etc.).

Well, if the devs are so limited to heteronormative "Kinks" only, I don't really like it...these "anal potentials" are also applicable for females and Futas, btw., even though the pregnancy part might need to expel the semen "unused" after fertilization then...which could be mitigated by inventive magical aspects or items even since this is obviously part of this Fantasy-Realm, too.

So, there's loads of unused potential, but I see why the female Protagonists (including Futa-content) is probably making up the larger "audience" and therefore preferred (again)...

It's still got a long way to proper inclusion of all potential sexual "configurations", it seems to me and until that's achieved, it's not my cup of tea really.

Also: please change those creepy slit-eyes for (human) Males...when you finally include them in your portfolio with all the Love they deserve as protagonists...

Exceptionally developed and very entertaining with all its features compared to all other games in the genre out there. Especially for an alpha (pre-alpha) version.
I wish there's an update on this game soon.

This game has a lot going for it as far as conceptual design and overall current gameplay.

It doesn't lean too far into being a fapbox and is leaning heavily into being a full-fledged ERPG.

I am very excited to see this game reach its goal and am ready to support it. I am always saddened when I see games with great conceptual designs get abandoned before they can be completed.

I really hope the aforementioned does not come to pass for Carnal Instinct.

The devs shoud lean into creating a PORN game and not a below-average run of the mill RPG.

Instead of making a bland open world with eye-candy graphics, they should put those resources into actually improving the fidelity of the sex interactions. The sex animations refrain from showing the action up-close due to the fact that there is no real penetration happening.

How about adding penetration physics, sweat/tears, more poses, body collisions? That's what is missing in this game.

Really glad to see a high-quality game that (mostly) just contains furry/scalie characters (It'd be infinitely better if it also contained avian characters, feral characters, and no human characters).

The game is in pre-alpha still at the time of writing this, so I can't complain too much about any lack of features, although I do want to say that I hope a lot more gets added to the character customization before the game is finished and/or abandoned. I also hope they don't focus too heavily on traditional gameplay, because with the UE5 version that seems to be the way they are going, it seems to have significantly drifted away from sexual things, aside from semi-revealingly dressed NPCs for the most part. The UE4 version had a lot more sexual options and opportunities, which was great. But anyways, like I said, hope the focus gets shifted more back towards sex and such, plus I hope there ends up being minimal focus on humans.

It's clearly a solid game, with a good gamedesign and a great production value.
But the game is very hard, I dislike spending time and effort to beat enemies in repetitive combats, I like interactive stories, exploration, adventure and sex, and the game do offer a story mode. Perfect for me, I alway choose this when it's available. But even like this I couldn't reach the character creation. It's not hard as impossible, it's hard as you have to spend lot of time at being careful and repetitively beat the boss until you can destroy the corpse mountain demigod thing. That's precisely what I don't like : spending time and effort to beat enemies in repetitive combats.
Too bad, the production value is so good that I was interested even with all the furries.

Not sure I should even really throw my two cents in here as I am sure I lack the eloquence of some of the reviewers but here we go.

I have played both versions of this game, that being U5 and U4, I feel like in the long run the switch to U5 will have been the right move but otherwise I feel like it has set back development unnecessarily far; which is fine, I hope that this developer can prove themselves to be able to complete this game even after the remaking of it; part of me hopes that they will complete both but that just feels like wishful thinking.

This game feels like it quite possibly has more potential than even some of my favorite games on this site, as it stands I wouldn't count it as one of them but holy hell; I could see this being one of the most mechanically sound H-games of all time, I hope they can refine it to the point where combat could rival even many non-H-games.


My only complaint is that as far as I can tell, in both versions; pregnancy is only implied and not implemented. This complaint may very well not age well, perhaps as of the writing of this it is actully not applicable, in which case; my bad.

That is all.

6.5/5

Played U4 version and U5.

U4: Enjoyable, really nice. Graphics are good. You can get lost on some of the early quests but the guide takes care of that. Sex scenes are nice -- the orgasm-o-meter is something i dont see much of [or when i do, it gains at a steady rate no matter pose/speed]. Unlocking the skins takes a good eye.

U5: Not worth downloading currently. 1st boss is hard. Almost no loot. Graphics are still good, you can't climb up things yet. Replace the U4 fast travel points for boring campfires.

Not clickbait. Super Fucking Good.

(based on the discontinued UE4-version)

Someone built their own little version of Ass-Creed/Skyrim, but with even more furries somehow.

It's an immersive-sim with great models, good animation-work and competent game-design. It's got combat, and beautiful environments, and even stuff to do in those environments. There's even voice-acting to go with the good models, imagine that.

The core of it is not that complex, and isn't actually too different from most other simple sandbox-games, but the restraint, poise and skill involved still make this a very refreshing implementation of all these styles. There are actual professional games that have done this concept worse.

Fucking Furries, man... They get stuff done.

Review of the version on the Unreal engine 5

This is an erotic game about an alternative ancient Egypt with magic and various supernatural creatures.

Gameplay:

• Exploring the world around you, fighting enemies, completing quests and romantic events with other characters.

• In the game, quests are divided into categories of Main, secondary and small events. This can be a mission to clear an area, talk to characters, or search for items. Since the action takes place in Ancient Egypt, of course there are mazes and puzzles.


Positive aspects:

• A good plot full of secrets.

• Beautiful graphics and a large open world.
After switching to Unreal Engine 5 looks like candy.

• Good optimization.

• A simple and intuitive combat system.

• Good character development. Some of the dialogues have already been voiced by the actors.

• The player in the game is given a choice of which character to be. It can be a human male/female or different types of furries, also male/female. According to the new system, this happens for magic points that can be spent at a special obelisk (in the UE4 version, it was just through the game menu).

• Well-made sex animations.

Negative aspects:

• There are bugs with animations and quest triggers.

• Not everyone can like so many furry characters.

In advance, I'm really torn about this game. On one hand, it's extremely high quality, on other hand, I deeply hate some of the developer chocies here.

Let's start with the bad: the transition to UE5 is probably the most useless, timewasting thing the devs could possibly do. The game already looked great on UE4, it ran well, worked mostly bugfree, there's nothing meaningful the transition to the UE5 could provide to the players, but in exchange, it put the story development on hold for who knows how long.
On the top of it, the UE5 version is bad. Like real bad. For the literal first half hour of gametime it has zero interaction with any alive characters. It feels extremely empty, and it's empty by design. Devs said they wanted to give the game a proper intro, but in reality, a putting a Skyrim-like scene at the beginning would've given the game enough intro. The introductionary part of the UE5 version is terrible, and would absolutely stop me from playing any further.

Now, onto the UE4 version. I can honestly say I've never played such a complex, and well-made porn game as this. It's genuinely an RPG game that revolves around sex. The sex part is naturally integrated as a central part of the plot instead of making unlifelike saint-to-whore kind of story that we've all seen too much.
The game has several quests with varying quality. Some of them are genuinely so great that blow AAA games out of the water (the investigation quest for example) others are just basic fetch kind of ones. Or somewhere in the middle. A non-fetch quest, that wasn't thought out much. But even the fact that a porn game has genuine meaningful quests, and dungeons is a refreshing addition.
The game has a basic combat system too. Not too complicated, and honestly, it strarts out hard at first, but with very little progress it becomes too easy. I've seen worse in non-porn AAA games.
The most of the dialogues are pretty well written for their purpose too. Of course there are the random encounters that are repetitive, but in general, there's no room for complaint there.
My only real problem with the UE4 version is the sex part. The game has several sex scenes, but those scenes don't give the player much freedom. plus most of the time the fixed camera positions during the scenes are positioned behind some object, so the already bad camera angles are made even worse. By the lack of freedom in scenes I meant the game decides which scene it would play for which random encounter, and doesn't allow any change in that. And all of those scenes are basic penetration ones. They are animated well, but become repetitive after 6-8 random encounter.

All in all, great game, but I'm really afraid when it will get an actually meaningful update next.

The UE5 release looks like an actual game with proper plot and mechanics, has great graphics with good optimization and is a solid foundation for the future updates.
Voice acting is a nice touch, though not every dialogue is voiced and that feels quite off.
Map is very big and introducing easily accessible mount is a good decision, but there seems to be only one boat in the world and you either have to remember where you left it (there is no marker on your map) or swim to new places on your own.
World is still empty and is primarily filled with easy-but-annoying enemies.
For now, loot is in abundance and there is only a single trader, who can't buy stuff from you if their inventory is full (it is, cause they fill it up with random things). Completing quests doesn't give you any rewards, at all.
A new "customization" feature has been implemented, which lets you buy new morphs for a currency that can be found at some sort of obelisks around the world. Different morphs give you perks, e.g. Crocodilian can swim faster. In UE4 version some morphs were important to complete quests, and I wonder if in UE5 they are going to be just for show and perks.
Overall, UE5 version is a good and promising basis, but still missing some crucial features that, hopefully, will be implemented later.

Intresting game.So much potential to be exploit and I hope the devs won't give up on this . The game offers you quite medium size map and be glad it's only medium because you travel on foot with posiblility of fast travel on certain locations.