Unity - Haunting Havens [v0.2.14] [Ayup Games]

A ton of potential.

We need higher quality 3D games like these. Personally I am not a fan of horror/scary experiences which this game thankfully isnt (no cheap jump scares or unsettling things), which means it kept me just on my edge to keep it very fun.

The great:
- Atmosphere. The strongest point of the game is the amazing atmosphere, it took me back to a similar feeling I had when playing Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines back in 2005.
- The characters: I really liked all characters. Their design is quite nice, usually I am put off by most female designs in H games but I really like the ones here. I like the differences in their personality/ character and behaviour of the succubus and how seraphine, in true succubus fashion, doesn't even run after you but just tries to lure you to her by being/acting and looking sexy as fuck.
The way she appears at the window behind you breathing from being horny is simple but probably one of the sexiest things I have seen in 3d games.
- The pink succubus has amazing hips and an ass out of this world.

The cons of the game atm are:
- Not many sex positions
- An easier/more simple scene/character switcher which should unlock after you unlock scenes/positions, as the arcade is fun but you are always limited to experiencing the 1 pose you select.
- Not a lot of gameplay overall. The awesome atmosphere leaves you wanting to experience more of this world, go on more hunts, have more experiences in it with the same charactes, meet more characters.
- The gameplay loop in the house becomes familiar/repetitive too quickly, there should be some more variety.

Well, this is actually a "game", but it's definitely not worth it. Gameplay is lame and amateur, and H scenes are very few and short, which is critical. Also there is a log of bugs, weird texture unintentional horror-moments like when you press CTRL or after donating awful looking sperm to the shop lady.

So, full transparency here, I have not yet bought the game on Steam. When I get around to doing that, I'll make my own review for it there. My review here only extends to the arcade mode of the game; there's not enough of the story mode to be reviewed, and I'd rather play the story mode once I've bought it.

Good things:
1. The succubus's themselves are sexy as all hell (pun intended). If you're a fan intentionally losing a game for want of getting your soul sucked out of you by a lust demon, this is the game for you.
2. The environment is fairly creepy. A bit cliche, but then again, this genre of game is itself cliche, and there's nothing wrong with that. It knows what it is and its not pretending to be anything else. The upstairs area is particularly creepy.
3. The mechanics of the game are a bit vague, but simple once you've figured them out. I'm aware that the vagueness of the mechanics is something of a sore point for some of the people who have played it, but I personally like it. I like a game that doesn't spoon-feed you or hold your hand; this is a Learn-by-Losing kind of game. Once I learned how to do things, it got easier while simultaneously getting even more fun. I kept getting got because of the book in the room upstairs because I afraid to go up there, and once I figured out that the house, I was finally able to deal with the book.
4. The animations are truly fantastic. As a somewhat decent sex animator myself, I can respect when someone is on a higher level than me entirely. The music that plays when you lose to one of them only adds to the quality of the scene.
5. I like the customization options. I don't really use them, but I've tinkered with them a bit, so I appreciate that they were included. You can, for example, make Seraphina an entirely different skin color.
Bugs/Issues
1. After "paying your dues" to the succubus in the item shop, there's a weird graphical glitch in which the player model is frozen and phantomed on the screen (and funnily enough, in sex-face ) like the POV mode got superimposed on the real-time 1st person mode. It goes away after a moment or two, so it's a kind of self correcting bug, but is a bit distracting at first. Also, because the guy is stuck in sex-face when this bug occurs, I would personally keep it in the game because its funny. (and this is, so far, literally the only issue I've ever had with the game, so props to the devs for being on top of things)
Suggestions:
1. Probably the most common one, but here it is: more sex anims for all situations, especially when they get you. For instance, I would make penetration anims for all five of the primary positions and randomize which one would play when subduing them. Also, considering that the word is "subdue", I would make the player assume the the male dominant position in positions like face-down-ass-up doggy or piledriver. The oral stuff is fine, but considering that these ladies are literally lust demons, maybe they'd want to get off too. I'd add more femdom-oriented oral and penetration anims for when the player is getting got, and attach a fixed percentage to them; for instance, 80% its going to be an oral anim, 20% a penetration anim. This would keep the arcade mode interesting; a guy might think "well, Seraphina only sucked me off to death the last time she caught me, maybe this time she'll amazon me to death." I'll even offer to help with the making of the anims, depending on what software you're using to make them.
2. Adding more sanity checks. From what I've seen, there's only four: The tub, the (godforsaken) book, the clock, and the fireplace. There's plenty os stuff in the downstairs are of the house that would be giving me a serious case of the hardcore creeps; to say nothing of the upstairs area. It was also a bit too easy for me to skip the book sanity check when I first started; because I knew that it was my proverbial achilles heel, I would just quit-out/reload until I got three sanity checks with no book.
Questions:
1. Is the inaccessible door on the downstairs level of the house reserved for a future update?
2. Does the clock (timer) keep ticking down during a sex scene?
3. Can you actually kill the succubus's with the axe that you can buy from the shop?
Summary:
Best succubus game I've played so far. Keeps the genre pretty well, and virtually everything about them game so far is absolutely top-tier. Definitely will be buying on Steam when I find the time.

As of 0.2.1, this is a pretty solid demo / proof of concept. There are various aspects that are in need of some serious work:

Gameplay. Although I don’t think that the core of the game is bad, the way gameplay is presented as of now is.
You start off in the haunted house and have to look after certain places / objects to prevent them from driving you mad. You have a TV that you use to restrain certain ghosts from going mad and trying to catch you. The problem is that are these are the only things you can do in the house, besides some mini-tasks, that are done for money and very little of your time. Once these are done, you are forced to wait for like 5 or so minutes till you win, while doing all the watching and running around the house. For the first you play it is alright and it keeps you engaged but then as you try to earn more money / look for new scenes it gets extremely repetitive and boring, to the point where you have to do something in the background as to not die from endless waiting.
Progression. The problem right now is that there is almost no progression, aside from you buying things in the in game shop. As far as I remember all the customisation is unlocked from the git go and you cannot buy nothing new. The things you buy in the shop are almost useless aside from the two collars that enable you to unlock new scenes and insta win you games. There is no gallery, so if you want to rewatch a certain scene, you will have to play through that slog again and again, which brings us to the gameplay problem I mentioned earlier.

These are the main issues with the game from my point of view. I will still give this one a 4 because it has a huge potential and really good visuals. And it is one of the not so many 3D games of this format that I enjoyed experiencing.

Really enjoyed that, right up my alley. I look forward to seeing the progress with development.

You can see the inspiration with the gameplay and with a nice twist with the behaviour of some characters albeit two only seem to roam upstairs if left to their own devices.

It's not bad at all, customisation is a nice touch and the voices play along nicely although maybe during the scenes a few lines couldn't go amiss.

I look forward to more.

The game is interesting but development is quite slow and very few.
Too few elements in the game and too few scenes, story too short, in my opinion it would take some work to make the game as complex as possible, The story and initiative is interesting, but it takes a lot of work.

I don't see any potential in this game. Even if its completed, i guess it will remain as 1 star for me.

1. such simple gameplay and yet the developer cannot even do well in making each character have their own unique h-scene. This is only with 3 characters, plus 1 extra (shopkeeper) and yet animations are "reused" aka same scene with different models. I can see it will continue to be like this in future updates. So why not just get Illusion's PlayHome which has much better character optimization?
2. a game that makes me wonder what i am doing. totally no action done by player. the hand seems to be just and object that is hidden. when you hold something and take an action, it isn't animated. i mean that is just plain laziness.
3. no objective, no guide, no tutorial. they just place you in game and you are on your own trying to figure out what to do.

what i can see is that this developer is just trying to earn a quick money. 0 effort from the developers so i won't expect it to be any better than 1 star in the like forever.

Pretty solid scenes and solid gameplay. Definitely had to look through this forum to find out how gameplay mechanics worked, which sucks, Dev needs to integrate maybe a small tutorial into the game itself, but still a solid game with more to look forward to

Fun little game with some mid tier sex anims. Short enough to warrant a playthrough. No real story to speak of at the moment, so won't be rating that.

Gameplay - 4/5
Very simple loop so far, but fun 3d walking sim. Survive until 4 am, while maintaining a sanity meter. Bonus activities such as cleaning up messes also reward more money. In the meanwhile, you have to monitor the 3 succubi with the TV to not get caught by them. After getting enough money from a couple of runs, you buy the collars to catch 2 of the 3 succubi (so far). If you get caught, you go into a ton of debt, but those come with their own animations as well as an animation to "pay off" the debt to the shopkeeper. You can just start a new savefile to forego the debt. The one criticism is that lit nothing is explained, and you have to find out all the keybinds yourself. E is the interaction button for doors and shit, which it never tells you.

Fappability - 3/5
Animations are passable. All 3 girls have dom animations, and the 2 catchable ones have sub animations. The girls can be somewhat customized (clothes, hair color, eye color). Everything is voiced, and you have both POV and free cams.

Def looking forward to future updates with this. Also to note, the game is unplayable on ultra graphics settings, so just set it to high and you should be fine.

Why 1 star?

1) Game offers you customization of each hottie. Isn't actually applied when you enter the game itself.

2) Very unclear objectives or how to find the SOM items. I hear a book flapping, no idea where it is.

3) Told to clean up the place. Need tools that I lack, and can't find them anywhere.

4) Get snagged by a succubus, choose a sex scene, and then I get a black screen. Timer in top is ticking, so the game isn't frozen. But it refuses to play any sex scene. And you are stuck like this, so you have to restart the game completely.

5) I explored the entire house. Despite seeing the succubi around, I have no idea what to do. No tutorial, no help menu, no objectives.

I might try it again later, but for now, hard pass.

Let's start with optimalization which is hated in other reviews. I know that's not fixing the problem, but on MY config it works good.

It is generally very interesting idea for a game. Im curious how it will grow.
Characters looks cool. Big advantage is added voice acting.
There not so much unity games that allows you to immerse the game- even if for now it is rather short game .
Adding gallery would be great idea.

One of the most unoptimized games I have ever played on this platform.

I have a $4,000+ monster PC: 4090, 7950X3D, 64GB DDR5 CL30 6000 Ram, 7+ GB/s NVMEs
Way above 17k Passmark (99% percentile), Top 1% 3DMark performance, etc.

Getting atrocious peformance, 1% lows 3FPS, regular dips to 25FPSish, just walking in tiny environment sub 50fps, and so on. Stuttery animations, etc..

All other games run perfect with everything maxed out, 4k, raytracing, and all bells and whistles, buttery smooth - as expected on my RIG that outclasses 99% of others.

The visual fidelity is not even worth it, as the GFX are mediocre even at that atrocious performance, I can literally count the lines of the hexagones boobs for example.

Gameplay is early alpha, just a small house with some grassy plot. You can walk around and clean it up a bit or interact with certain spooky objects. There are a few succubi that hunt you, and a shop with some gameplay items.

Overall, 2 stars is the absolute max I could give for being this unoptimized.

Solid Game overall, especially loved the character models, this game has great potential. A few tidbits here and there:

--> Scenes: There are currently 7 scenes in the game if I'm not wrong - 3 Game Over scenes, 3 Subdued Ghost scenes, and 1 extra scene. As I said, the character models are HOTTT, but the scenes could be more polished. The free cam sometimes has a bad angle, and the Threesome Subdued Ghost scene has a terrible POV cam. Another thing is the cum is just pixels. The animation could be more fluid. Voice acting would be a perfect cherry on the top for the scenes.

--> Gameplay: The lack of a tutorial is an annoyance at the start but you can get adjusted to the gameplay loop pretty quick. (Pretty sure they'll add a tutorial in the future) The gameplay is nothing too phenomenal but gets the job done. It could use more spice rather than just be a boring house flipper x FNAF crossover.

--> Graphics: This game's graphics are really good, but the in-game settings could more accessible.

-->Accessibility: The settings are not that great, they could add settings for each separate thingamajig, like Brightness and Anti-Aliasing customisation for graphics, mouse sensitivity, audio controls. Also, the settings menu could do with proper grammar to look clean, and the UI could be designed smoother.

-->Optimisation: Really bad optimisation, runs at a constant 30 FPS on High and 60 FPS on Low on my upper-mid range PC, and the FPS drops are crazzyyy.

-->Other: Expanding on the gameplay stuff, they could go more towards Phasmophobia gameplay by adding ghost evidences. Once you've completed all the cleaning stuff, there's really nothing to do as you sit idle in front of the monitor watching the ghosts. Also, more multiple girl and other fetish scenes would be neat (femdom OwO). The initial voice call was a really cool way to welcome the player, hope to see more creative stuff like that in the future updates. Also, more girls with 2 scenes each would be much better than more scenes for the existing girls. They could add an inventory menu to rearrange your tools order so that you don't have to press 7 to access the broom TvT. Lastly, they could work on making the gameplay loop much less confusing, such as by adding an objectives system and hints throughout the map.

In conclusion, this game is really good. ik i pointed out only the flaws, but I mean it when I say this game is good. I hope y'all work on the flaws and add cool new content, who wouldn't like that? peace

Love it, really do. This is maybe the best "getting chased" game on here. Only thing I have to say is it would be nice to have sliders/selectable options for the graphic settings. Like Bloom , AA Filtering, etc.
And maybe more customization features.

Can't wait for the next update!

Overall I am really excited about this project game looks very promising and will be for sure on my follow list for the next couple of updates.

- for now (v0.1.4) the content is pretty limited to 3 subdue scenes, 3 capture scenes and 1 for resetting your debt to zero if you are in the negative. BUT zero bugs as far as I encountered them on my play-trough. There is just a feeling of general satisfaction you get when everything feels perfectly smooth.

Just a little tip maybe for the developer, it would be nice to have a little tutorial or overviews on all the possible keys you can press that is a bit more elaborate than the one you gave in the beginning of this thread.

In the beginning for example I found the house almost too dark to see anything until i discovered after a bunch of runs that you can press F to turn on a flashlight so you can actually see what you are doing lol.

Once you get the gameplay to earn money, that can take 1~3 runs, you basically have infinite money and can farm for scenes.
The game is still in early development but shows great promise.
Models are good with a little voicing that's always a plus.
Only a few scenes for now (6 AFAIK)

The main issue is going into the game the first runs have a steep learning curve because you don't see much so it can be hard to find the broom and the sponge (it's written in the dev notes that's how I found them) but also find the sanity events however the map is still small so you get to know it fast.

All in all it's a great start hope it'll be developing that way.

[v0.1.4 P1]
Fnaf, but...
What do I do?
Why is it so dark?
Why does my PC turns to red, then white and burns my leg on Medium graphics?

-Story, Originality
You are cleaner/guard, but there are succubuses coming.

-Renders
Okay 3D models.

-Sound
Some sounds and h-sounds.

-Playability
A very dark rooms with glowing props, but you need equipment to deal with them.
But equipment doesn't glow and there is no instructions.
Still doesn't know where you have to put the book (and broom with sponge are in the bathroom).

-Performance
I have i7 and RTX 3070, but...
On medium CPU is ~80%, GPU is ~80%
On low CPU is ~60%, GPU is ~60%

-Bugs
Not sure if there are bugs, but there are a lot of clunky gameplay.

-Animations
Okay h-animations.

-Voice Acting
Didn't hear any.

-Grammar
Didn't see any mistakes.

-Amount of content
Well.

After passing pitch black intro location I got to the house
Saw it being FNAF-like
Tried to understand what to do for ~5 minutes
Got spooked by a pink succubus running
Hid
Tried to do something for another 3 minutes
Died
...

Hmm.
Kinda boring...
And junky.

Rating 0.1.2x version.

Positive
Great visuals.
Okay sounds.
Very good animantions.

Negatives
Melting GPU
Poorly optimized
3.5 animations
2+gb for single house and few animations

Game itself? Very simple mechanics clearly placeholder for something bigger.
Looking for furuture updates! But for now it is just nice but bad optmized demo.

My god, it's rare that I see a game of such beautiful quality, polish and potential. Extremely well done @Ayup Games !

The girls are stunning (especially Seraphine ) and I really hope we see more animations for each of the existing girls, various submissive and dominant poses depending on the gameplay situation, and choices of where to cum, etc.

The quality/polish, from the gorgeous animations to how smoothly the game runs, really deserve credit.

I ADORE the game's balance between horror and lighthearted humour, how the girls are both evil and playful. The hilariously over-the-top neon signage for the shop had me chuckling when I first started, honestly I thought it was going to be a trap at first! And with how much the shopkeeper likes to 'forgive' our debts, perhaps she's just building her strength for something like that indeed...

Couple of pointers that could be improved, first one is probably obvious:

1. Cum animation automatically ends the scene without an option to stay 'idling'. Typically it's best to give the player some agency here, have the animation play out and then enter an 'end loop' where they have the option to click End Scene once they're finished with their, um, research (and maintain the option to go back and forth to previous animations, just like in the non-cum anims)

2. Cum itself, currently it seems very placeholder (Seraphine handjob blur) or is even missing entirely (Judi thighjob) - but it's great in the Morgana facefuck where she opens her mouth afterwards, very hot. The animations are already absolutely insane quality - it'd be great to see at least a decent level of quality on the cum to match it. Even if it's just a slightly higher-res sprite shooting into the air, and then spawning in a cum model on the girl's skin or guy's chest etc. - just having something that feels more 'real'.

3 - I think the shopkeeper seems to be missing the Freecam option in the current release that the other scenes have.

Interesting premise, cute and hot models, sadly not many animations, buggy, unfinished, but no doubt worth the few minutes to check it out, currently you can experience 3 failure scenes where you approach a succubus or let them catch you (one doesn't move around, passive, one moves around on both floors and is quite fast, the other moves around only on the upper floor, also fast) and 2 success scenes (red and black, green one is buggy).

Hopefully the mansion will be expanded to include more succubuses and also more different animations for all of them with better control of the scene (speed, where you cum, maybe slight bulges, all the good stuff).