Unreal Engine - Carnal Instinct [2024-12-22] [Team Carnal Instinct]

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.

As of v0.3.14, the game is looking amazing. It's very obvious a lot of time and effort went into the creation of this game. And even better, it's being actively worked on. But that's not even the best part. The best part is the game is being created by professional artists, programmers, and the like, all of which have worked in triple-A studios in the past. All of this put together, and you get a game like this, which even though it has a few bugs and unusual bits, I'm willing to overlook that due to the quality of the game.

10/10, would recommend.

Great game, really surprised by the quality of the animation and choice of 'toys'. Right up my alley. We need more quality games such as these, I look forward to the other updates. You won't regret trying it and playing it.

I'd like to give it more stars, but honestly, I got bored to death.
My personal experience with this game was bad, aside of several other issues.

I saw the pics and said "holy crap!" and rushed to download. Looked around a bit before playing... and was a bit underwhelmed by the lack of scenes.

-Started to play, and after jumping some boxes literally at the beginning, my character got stuck. Close, start again, because of course, I didn't saved.
-Spent nearly an hour trying to reach a point in the map that suppossedly had some good item. The map wasn't accurate to my real position.
-Spent another hour going in and out of every single house, trying to find something, ti'll I remembered that is in development so there's literally nothing.
-Then started a quest. Typical "go to X and say him this or that". Spent another half hour going back and forth without a single interesting line of dialog or event.
-I got stuck behind a door.
-Trying to reach the only sex scene I found interesting, I got stuck on water. Twice.
-When I finally, after nearly 3 hours of pointless, empty runs around, finally reached the sex scene... only for the game to glitch and halt mid-dialog.
-Wheeeen fiiiinaaallyyy did the scene... it was limited. Just a couple points of view, of a decent, but bland animation. And apparently the scene is half finished too.
Have in mind: every stuck, glitch or halt means closing, restarting the game.

Also... yes, the bizarre mask/skins system.
There's no explanation, just "go and find a penis, the're usually lying around. And don't forget to buy a skin at a merchant". What?
(not to mention the juggling trying to match a face, with a skin with a clothes set or an item)

-The map is great for a MMORPG. It would be hot to find a couple players-npcs funcking inside a shack. As is, it's absolutely pointless.
-Dialogs could use more personality. Everyone talks with his character sheet personality: "What do you want? I'm the bad grumpy guard", "hello cutie, I'm the sexy slut" or "oooh, shiny, I'm the cute bimbo".
-Sex outside scenes, for Bastet sake. A dozen scenes just ensures than 2/3rds of players won't enjoy 2/3rds of the scenes., making the game -coupled with the above mentioned- absolutely boring after the few minutes of graphical awe.

To resume:

Pros: graphics.
Unfinished neutrality: everything else
Cons: getting stuck, lack of sex.

As of v0.2.8,

The animations are amazing. The setup is interesting. The game has a few bugs but is stable.

However, it's insanely boring.
You meet NPC. NPC gives you a quest : Go to point A.
When you get to point A after 5 minutes of pressing your W key : Go to point B. 5 minutes later : Here is your reward : 3s H-animation!

Now you have to get a new quest, and it's the same all over again. And the story does not make up for its flaws. Also, characters feel lifeless, like true NPCs. I guess that was the purpose? But I really dislike that

This game have great potential, for now is just a pre-alpha (if i'm not mistaken) so it's still rough around the edges, but, it got a decent amount of content.

A medium/big map to explore, some quests, basic combat, plenty of items (for customization) and a decent amount of sex scenes.
Sex scenes are well made, really smooth, my only complaint about them is that sometime the camera angle is not really the best sometimes, but this is just nitpicking. Combat is serviceable, not great, not terrible.

So in the end, if we take in account that this game is only in pre-alpha (again, if i'm not mistaken) i can only say that it's excellent.

i really hope this game don't get abandoned for whatever reason (the updates are frequent so i don't think it will, but you never know) I'm really curious about the features they will add in the future and really suggest you to checkout their patreon.