VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Instinct Unleashed [Final] [Kind Nightmares]

I went into the game for the premise which sounded good.

From the story point of view, the game kind of delivers. I found the main arc interesting, that is finding out about the MC father and what going on when it all unveils, but the pacing is pretty stretched I would say. The game has many long sections where there is no actual progress regarding the story, and its just follow the MC going to do something here and there... some of the scenes has build up for later, but some of them feels pretty random.

The writing is decent and the characters are interesting. Each has its own quirks, and they all deliver something to the story in one way or another and most of them have some character progression.

On the visual front, the game is lacking in today's standards IMO. The models, scenes, animations are very lacking, specifically at the first 8 chapters or so, and especially the animations which are like 2 key frame animations. This was really disappointing - but this changes eventually, so if animations are important to you, you will need to hold on there for something like 7-8 hours of reading. After the animations overhauled, they are much better than what was before, but the scenes themselves are still feel plain and majorly vanilla.
At the first dozen of hours, the H-scenes in the game are pretty far apart... something like half an hour. So its a slow burner which is getting hotter and hotter as the game progresses.

During the game you have choices to opt in or opt out from most character's relationship route which is good especially when you are not into some fetish, like futa on male.

The MC is kind of cold and never expresses her feelings or so, it has a reason narrative-wise, but it is explained way far into the game, towards the end - but anyhow, it makes the MC kind of boring and predictable in every encounter, you almost never learn anything new of the MC and you could say that she never changes throughout the game.

Overall, the game is worth playing if the premise sounds good to you and if you able to suffer through dozen of hours without decent animations.

An excellent futa game, with an absolutely stand out MC, both in her gorgeous appearance (every render of her abs coated in sweat makes me a worse person in the best way possible), but also her refreshingly dominant, antihero personality.

Some of the visuals aren't the strongest at the start of the game, but you can see the developer's skill with their tools improving as the game progresses, which is always something I find very charming in these indie VNs, especially from a first-time dev.

There's a nice variety in the LIs and your dynamic with them (and eventually the dynamics they might have with one another), and some legitimately touching story beats when the game begins closing in on the finish line.

nice game with a lot of niche fetishes but its kinda ruined in the end, in all chapters everybody worships you but even in the best ending more than half of the girls leave you

with a better ending would be 5 stars

This is not a review of the full game, I played the first 5 chapters, and all I experienced so far was a lot of bark, but not nearly as much of a bite. First 2 chapters promised a lot of interesting things, but it delivered only the most boring vanilla stuff in the next 3 chapters so far. The only exception is that the MC is a futa and that seems to be enough for people to overrate it. The plot is interesting at least I'll give them that. 3/5 for the story only.

This game is very similar to "The Writer's Visit" from VNAdults.
Similar MC (dommy futa), similar tags, even the visual style is exactly the same.
But this game has a lot of drama and a cheap, predictable plot. I would trade all these attempts at drama for more scenes and more content within each scene.
If you like the boring stories about the investigation of a parent's murder, when the police deliberately close the case - then this game's plot will suit you.
I'd be more into just more meaningless porn where the dominant futa comes home and fucks her family and everyone else around.
But in this game, where the dominant futa was intended, she ends up treating everyone with love and respect, asking for permission from everyone, and not dominating anyone in general.
But I still give this game a 5 out of 5 because the genre is rare and I want to see more stories like this.

Review for the Final Version.

I'll keep it relatively short;

i think this game is one of the very few that possess an MC that is actually good and interesting. I found Jade (the default MC name) to be a massive breath of fresh air compared to the typical, dipshit/dumb/immature trope you usually see. That and most of the characters are genuinely interesting and well-made, so this is by far the strongest point of the game from a narrative perspective. The futa aspect of the MC is also interesting, although in my case, i'm personally indifferent to them; I don't mind at all playing one, but i'm not actively seeking games with those.

The early parts of the game do a good job at setting up the world, tone, and character dynamics, which gives the impression that it’s building toward something deeper. Unfortunately, once you reach the middle section, the story loses steam and feels stagnant, since a lot of the mystery elements of the plot aren't progressed until at the end, where everything unravels pretty quickly.

The endings are the worst part of the narrative events. Achieving a “good” ending requires an almost perfect sequence of decisions, many of which are locked in early on. This design choice makes most playthroughs feel doomed from the start if you don’t already know the exact path or if you haven't made the exact specific choices.

To make matters worse, the so-called “good” ending doesn’t feel consistent with the story’s logic or moral framework. It demands a combination of violence and morally questionable choices, reinforcing the in-game trope that futanaris are inherently violent, dominant and "animal-like". Which feels conflicting to me and doesn't make much sense.

The visuals are quite rough and dated at the beginning, but gradually become better and more detailed. The sexual animations are decent overall (clearly Virt-a-mate type animations tho and are overall mostly at the middle and late game), but it's clear to me that the dev doesn't have experience with posing the characters; they feel stiff when any kind of motion or movement is involved, especially when punches and such are involved, a problem made worse by the implication of how powerful futa's are supposed to be. Right now, a fist is gently kissing the face and boom, the guy is out.

Despite all of these flaws, i'm still giving it a 4 out of 5, mostly because it's actually a fucking completed game for once that hasn't stretched out into 6 years of Patreon milking like you usually see, combined with a interesting MC and character set, decent amount of sex scenes and "good enough" story.

I love how games eases me into different genres. I never a fan of femdom content until I played "Confined with Goddesses". Similarly I play games with futanari content. But this one does right with me. Loved the story, loved the endings and especially Geralt's "Hrmm"(poor guy). Good job and hope to see more great content like this.

Jade is one of my absolute favorite protagonists in any AVN! The darkness, the quiet confidence, the gentle protective moments, the way she dominates and intoxicates the other characters, all of that would feel tired and hack if she were a man but with a woman/futa it works so perfectly. I've never been a fan of the impossibly-huge-magical-cock trope but I can overlook it here because she is otherwise perfect.

I love the variety of love interests and kinks explored (all avoidable) and as the quality of the graphics improved over the course of the development I was really very impressed with how beautiful some of the models were, particularly Viv, Ashley and Stella.

I know the visual quality was a perceived weakness of the project, particularly early on, but I think the fact that it doesn't look like every other cookie-cutter Daz or Honey Select game becomes an advantage and a helpful point of difference.

Very excited to see what Kind Nightmares does next

You know, I'm not going to be lazy and leave a review. This is an example of good, painstaking, and importantly, completed work. Now 70% of games do not reach release, and such nuggets are rarely found among AI slag. Great job, Kind Nightmares.

I can only add that there are not many really important choices, but the story itself is quite complete and self-sufficient.

An excellent vn, The story was really interesting, hooked me from the start, all the characters including Jade (especially Jade) were pretty amazing. The dev has been pretty clear about what the game is and what the game isn't and I think they absolutely delivered.
All the girls were gorgeous (man, even the expressions were really well done).
Cons? I think I might be the only person to ever say this , the story was so good that I kinda wished that there were less sex scenes (yeah,yeah I know ,porn game and all). I loved the true end, I like how everything wasn't all sunshine and strawberry icecreams.
To conclude - a great story definitely worth your time, well if you aren't here for the story - the women are super gorgeous (all of them , including the ones who didn't have a vagina).

Perfection in VN form, it's sad that it's come to an end... but I hope the creator brings us more wonderful works like this. This VN made me anxious for many days for the release of its chapters, and even though it didn't give anything to the game at first, it surprised me a lot in a short time, with its characters being extremely charismatic.

I am not content with the current ending (even the best past is imo missing a big big happy ending with one big scene) but I am rating it as high as 5 stars to off-balance some negative reviews which I think go overboard.

Everywhere else the game is really really well made, well written. Renders could be better, and the quality was even a bit off-putting to me at first, but once you get past that and get used to it, the smut itself is really good.

I can only suggest the dev that he could push another update if they so wish, and if it makes sense for the story of a smut game (which, I think it does) to end with a love+sex scene or near one. Or a series of epilogues containing smut. At the end of the day, it is really just up to the dev and where they want this project to end.

I can tell from personal experience that this has taken a lot, a lot, a lot of work and time, even if it may not look like it to some, and can't bring myself to rate any lower, considering that.

Other than missing 1 or more final scenes, I feel the endings to be rushed as well, with lots of pivoting in how characters feel towards each other, and some of these changes happening very, very fast (even if under extreme circumstances)

To people commenting there isn't male MC, or sub path, or "bla bla"... what the fuck, dudes? At least play the game or consider what it is about before yapping.

We always tend to give more importance to negative opinions about things.

But I have to say that Instinct Unleashed is a great game in every way.
We can avoid content we don't want to see, and it also has a great story.
It's true that the models sometimes aren't as high-quality as they should be, limited by the graphics engine, but the content is high-quality, and that's important.
That's why I give this game the highest rating.
This visual novel is worth playing.

The focus here is Futa-on-Female. If that is appealing, then just play this.

The worst part of this is that you gotta mash clicking for animations to play. Not the animated movie animations of the "fun times." I mean minor things, like a character moving her head to look in another direction. The attention to detail is nice for all of... one chapter, maybe two. Beyond that, I started skipping ahead and scrolling back to skip all of this.

Overall, a great futa game. I got some issues with it, but highly recommended for people who like the genre.

Positives: Fun characters and sex scenes. Kinky storylines with some fucked up family dynamics

Negatives: The renders/graphics are not the best, the models looks fine for most of the part, but it seems like it's made on an old engine or something. Other than that, most of my complaints are subjective and kinda spoilery:

The game is really nice for people that like futanari in general, or those that can overlook the penis of the protagonist being the size of an arm. There is a huge amount of optional content and the narrative is engaging (if a bit silly at times).

Most of the issues come from the end of the game: I feel like the situation with the mother (especially) was strange. The narrative gives you plenty of reasons to hate her, and yet you either choose to have sex with her despite decades of abuse and ruining your life, or you're doomed to a bad ending (for some reason that is never explained?).

The major issue comes from the final chapter. If you are a manga reader, then you've most likely encountered the situation where the final arc of a story becomes rushed, or even the last chapter, having to tie-in everything in a sub-optimal way because the story was cancelled (axed).

This is what the last chapter feels like. It leaves a ton of loose ends, the major conflicts are resolved in the fastest way possible because the dev demands it to be so, and most of the endings (including the "best" one imo) are underwhelming at best.

Now, obviously this is a free game, and there is a ton of nice content in it - this is why I can't very well rate it too low. But it must be said that it was a rather bizarre choice from the dev to rush everything in the last chapter to the extent of not even including a single sex scene in it (when every other update has them) - just another evidence of how rushed it was.

Should you play it? Yes. But do keep in mind that the ending will be something dragging the story down, rather than making it a memorable gem. Maybe the dev got tired of the story and wanted it over, I honestly can't tell. A shame regardless.

The game is absolutely excellent. I highly recommend this to people. Jade is, in my opinion, a great character for a somewhat more realistic story than you might see in other futa protag harem games. I'm looking forward to Kind Nightmares' next offering.

This is just awful. It's the first game I can remember where you have to be a total jerk to get a good ending. And honestly, what they call a “good ending” isn't really that great. Can I have a really good ending where the main character doesn't abandon her girls? The current endings cause nothing but huge disappointment!

The game is good. A nice story with diverse characters.

The ending is a bit rushed, but it's still decent, and you can easily guess the missing piece.

It's nice to see a harem game end with a "realistic" storyline and not just a big orgy and without everyone leaving forever.
Even pregnancies are "realistically" accounted for in this ending. Really nice work.

The game was great until the end. Those endings just godawful. Why so many devs rushing their games I will never understand. Some may argue that ending is the most important part of the story because that what we remember the most. So many great characters and just couple of sentences about what happened to them after. And zero sex scenes in final update.........are you fucking kidding me? Its porn game, PORN game and you give 0 porn in FINAL update. I dont care if dev will release another final update with sex scenes, they should have done it in this one.
So in short - another nice game was ruined by rushing dev because..........reasons?