Unreal Engine - Carnal Instinct [v0.7.2] [Team Carnal Instinct]

Excellent game, I'm pleasantly surprised by this gem. Exploration is enjoyable, as is the loot system. The weapons are varied, although armor that offers real protection is currently too rare. The music is good and the voice acting is perfect. I think the combat system could be improved to be less rigid. It feels like Assassin's Creed, the way our character climbs walls and buildings; it surprised me. The quests are varied; frankly, I didn't expect to be so engrossed in this game. Definitely one to watch.

I bought Carnal Instinct on Steam over a year ago and, damn, what a game. I genuinely love both available versions: the UE4 build already delivers a solid amount of quality content with well-implemented mechanics, while the UE5 version (available through the Steam beta branch) takes things to a whole new visual level thanks to Lumen and Nanite — insane lighting and detail.

I do miss a more dynamic camera during sex scenes — something like a full 360° free cam to enjoy every angle — but even so, it doesn’t take long for players to buy into the experience and dive headfirst into the content. A huge part of that comes from the characters: top-tier models for both sexes, with an insane variety of races (humans, felines, reptiles, drakes, centaurs, anubites, and more).

Pros:

The quests feature well-written, engaging dialogue packed with lore from the world of Sabu — an epic desert setting filled with ancient ruins and exotic creatures. Combat is simple but works really well: fluid animations, responsive controls, and no annoying game-breaking bugs. You unlock a mount very early on (thank you, devs), which helps a lot with traversal, and the bonfires acting as fast-travel points are a blessing for exploration — Souls-like, but without the extra suffering.

Character models and body customization are absolutely insane. In UE5, the quality is stunning, with textures that honestly feel AAA-level — skin, fur, scales, everything looks polished. Tons of unlockable races and faces, and there are no “meh” or visually broken characters, especially on the female side. It’s genuinely fun (and very tempting) to test every single one.


The environments deserve special praise. Visually, this is easily the game’s biggest strength. Tal-Senet and Mehden Island impress with their scale, ancient architecture, and UE5’s incredible lighting. Water reflections look gorgeous, vegetation feels thoughtfully placed, and the ruins are packed with detail. At first glance, the world looks alive, with dungeons, enemies, and points of interest spread across the map.

Cons:

Early quests still require a lot of long treks across the map until you unlock all bonfires and fully benefit from the mount — and even though you get it early, it doesn’t completely solve the issue of excessive distances in the early game.

Sex animations are split between two systems: the older DSS1 (fixed, very limited scenes) and the newer DSS2 (more dynamic, better interactions, and partial free cam in some scenes). This mix fragments the experience and makes things feel inconsistent between UE4 and UE5. DSS2 clearly has more potential, but it still lacks full camera freedom and deeper interaction overall.

Some animation bugs still pop up, such as strange body deformations — especially noticeable in cowgirl positions with certain NPCs or exotic races.

And here’s the biggest issue: while the world looks alive visually, it often falls flat in actual gameplay. You’ll encounter crocodiles, drakes, and other creatures, but there are long stretches of walking with nothing happening — no events, no encounters, no surprises. “It’s a desert,” some might say. Sure, but that doesn’t excuse the lack of patrols, repeatable mini-events, hunts, or dynamic encounters to keep exploration engaging.

If I remember anything else, I’ll edit this later…

Conclusion:

Without a doubt, Carnal Instinct has the best visuals ever seen in an adult RPG with an adventure focus. Solid combat, gorgeous environments, and a world that makes you want to explore — it’s easy to sink hours just roaming around and testing content. The early access is very active, with frequent updates on Patreon and Steam (like the recent v0.7, which added new quests and cosmetics).


That said, with models this good and all the hype around DSS2, the scenes still don’t fully deliver. What’s missing is polish: full free cam, bug fixes, and less rigid systems — sometimes they improve one area and break another. The potential is massive, leaving you with that strong “I want more” feeling. For now, my take is simple: it’s absolutely worth the money for fans of erotic fantasy, as long as you’re willing to wait for future polish.

ok i unofficially name this game carnal bugs coz no matter how many days months or years pass it is full of garbage the base is good but the progression and development is trash dont tell me it uses this engine or that engine there wouldnt be any other possible way to ruin such a good game with good mechanics with this kind of sloppy job like who the hell even pay for this dont they have common sense on something completely broken and full of annoyance it is just not fair u put a lot of effort in playing a game and find multiple unmovable obstacles that can ruin your experience and ruin your progress i aint trying it again or hope for a better outcome

This game has come a long way, even switching engines from UE4 to UE5. It is still in development by a small dedicated team. I own this game on Steam and I would definitely recommend it. If you like it, consider supporting its development.

It is amazing as a game! Very well done, the game part is by far better than Wild Life, even the concept is great for a normal game

Yet H scenes are hard to acquire and I found myself playing for the sake of exploration and gameplay. Got tricked Another issue for me is that the only way to get H scenes with human female is to play as one, which it turn means that there is even less H content left fo me.

It's a shame. Gameplay is great at this point and Egyptian theme allows for crazy volume of H content like orgies, rituals, supernatural and all sorts of fetishes.

Adding some good 20 long, hardcore and thematic scenes would make this game complete.

I must admit, I will personally never understand adult games that lean THIS far into the "game" side of things. If I wanted to play a "GAME" game, I would play something, you know, normal - something I can talk to my friends about, maybe even play with them. Don't take this to mean I don't want any gameplay - quite the contrary, some of my favorite adult titles have very complicated mechanics. It's just that, the "adult" side of things should always be the primary focus - as of v0.6.9, that is not the case for Carnal Instinct. Worse, it seems to be a minor point.

Let's break down where gameplay is focused. Firstly, this is kind of an open world RPG with combat, somewhat akin to Skyrim. There is a fairly broad open world, a relatively pretty one at that, populated somewhat scarcely with relatively pretty NPC's. 60% of your time in the game is spent traveling from one location to the next, 20% of your time is spent in click-spam combat (translation: no technique required, just click spam) with basically mummies, 11% of your time is spent listening to dialog or other narrative/story pieces, 8% of your time is spent in various menus like inventory or maps, and 1% of your time is spent on sexual things. Really, this is abysmal in an adult game, in my opinion.

It's a shame because it's very obvious that a ton of work has gone into this, but amount of work and technological achievements are not significant factors in weighting how good an adult game is (to me, at least). I wish dev the best, but I've learned how to snuff out a bad adult game. There are so many bad adult games out there and they can waste so much of your time if you let them. After trying it for a few hours, this game is giving off all the signs of a bad adult game, cheif of which is a failure to prioritize the reason we're all here: the adult stuff.

There are some bugs annd the optimization is not quiet the best, but overall the game is a solid 4/5 at least for me, lots of fun if you dont want to inmediately start jerking off when you start to play and instead explore the island and start doing the quests

I wanted to like this as it sounded promising and looked to deliver based on the screenshots. However, the open world is rather dull with little-to-no reason to go outside of POIs or encounter icons.

The sex is.. okay, I guess. Everyone looks very sexy, but the thrill sort of ends there. Sex scenes seem to be secondary to the main game. Which would be fine if the ones we did get weren't a single up and down loop until the meter fills up and you cum (unseen)

I applaud the character customization once you get far enough-- it's far more than I would have ever anticipated.

One of the bigger issues is that going anywhere is a fucking slog. Yes, I had Aadi and even then it just felt like a terrible experience. The boat is MISERABLE despite being only somewhat necessary.

I know it's trying to be Assassin's Creed in a way, but ultimately this ends up feeling like any Ubislop open world game. Just some boring fetch quests or LMB mashing fighting the same couple enemies. There's nothing 'new' to offer here.

also, I ran into one bug which forced me to reload a save. the torch would not unequip and even destroying the item did not work.

I think this game is great; it has a very large map with lots of random interaction with characters. (i randomly convinced a guy to jump off a cliff with fake wings)

The game looks amazing; it has an interesting environment and sexy characters.

I feel like the combat is pretty fun and interactive.

the voice acting is awesome, it gives a lot of life to the character


cons

The scene controls are weird. You can move around with your mouse sometimes, but you are stuck with, like, three specific poses and you can't move much most of the time.



Leveling up is a pain past about level 5.


The tutorial/start of the game is really long and doesn't allow intimate scenes.

Incredibly ambitious and while it has room to grow what exists now is better than any 3d adult game out there. They've done a great job implimenting QOL changes and other things such as character customization that you usually only see in higher end games.

Damn the bugs I kept encountering just flat out annoyed the gell out of me. Trying to travel using the boats was a rollof the dice as to whether it actually worked properly or not. Sometimes you are on top of the boat driving it and can change directions and go where you want. OR you end up underneath the water will no directional control and the person moves along automatically in one direction with no controls. You can look up and see the boat moving above you.

Sex. I am hope at some point you get to have sex with the female characters you meet. I meet them, sex is offered, my character responds only with maybe another time. Now if the female also has a dick then my charater does not hesitate to decide to have sex. Sex controls suck balls by the way. Could not do shit until I actually unlocked a dick by the way.

If you die. The quest you were working on just flat out disappears.

UHHHH! Aside from these faults it probably is not a bad game. But I stayed pissed off more than excited to play it.

Hope this improves. Would like to give it another try.

The game is beautiful and actually fun to play, and i might come off as rash which is not my goal but, the game is litteraly unplayable.. I was softlocked thrice in the game, and one of them was a softlock that just kept happening and wouldn't go away.. The game has potential for sure so i'll come back later and surely give it a positive review

Waste of time. This makeshift tech demo bearly runs has no content and honestly i warn you if you dowload this 6 gigs you will play for like 20 min as a mumy fighting braindead npc mobs and that is it so don t wast your time and play something else.

This game is a letdown. A critical bug with the first boss makes the mission inaccessible after your first death, completely halting progress. It's impossible to see any further content, rendering the game essentially unplayable. Urgent fixes are needed!

Very nice graphics, atmosphere and character models, but the adult-content could be improved. There interactive predefined sex scenes, but not even a free cam or meaningful interactions.
The Intro is quite long though and it takes quite a while to get to the "interesting" stuff.

The beginning of the game, right up until you can choose a character, is really fun and feels like a decent AA game. After that, it becomes boring very quickly: there’s no point in exploring, and there’s just nothing to do in general. The funniest thing is that the sexual aspect itself seems like the last thing the devs care about. Playable characters and NPCs look undeniably sexy, but that’s all there is - the actual sex scenes are lackluster and uninteresting

The game on UE5 is weak, idk about UE4 version which was before. It can be good game if it was not aRPG with ambition of really massive game, but survival\social sirvival. But it's arpg with massive and empty world, with quests where 90% of just don't do visible impact on gameplay, some is totally useless. I catch several times idea in my head "why this quest even exist in game?". With 0 replayability in core mechanics. Models not ugly but mediocre at best. Corn scene is meh. Like in half scenes camera position bad, and u can't fix this, like really bad coz u see everything include random stones nearby but not the main things. Bad genitals physics on top. Game try in facial animation in cutscenes, but do this bad. Just why? Focus on corn scenes and totally skip in cutscenes, there is no difference and u'r free the resourses. Game also have dungeon inside, some okeish, but some is really bad lvl design with a lot of backtracking without clue what to do next.
Game need a lot of work and a lot of reworking in core mechanics.

UE 5 Version
This game has a lot work needed so I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. The scenes aren't worth the slog to get there, the quests are unfinished and prone to sequence breaks such as first quest if you push the crates by the door before hitting the previous objective spot by hopping over the wall, the quest is bricked.

Maybe in a few years this game will be in a good state but until then, good luck.

One of my all time fav 3d games and the only game where i payed the patreon for some time. Had to pause that for a while for personal reasons.
But i have to say, the Unreal engine 4 version felt a bit better in terms of customization. I just hope they include everything from it to the new version soon.
Sadly you cant change much on the character but thats most likely for the animations to work properly.

Its on my list of best Futa games and im excited for every update!!

-horse dicks
-open world 3d
-some customization options
-voice acting!!
-animated sex scenes with sliders to change positions and speed
-fighting with different weapons
-very nice graphics
-even climbing is a thing you can do