Unreal Engine - Completed - Last Hope [v1.0174] [Poolside Games]

Until now, the best game in its genre. Ofc it could have more polish here and there, but the story is very good, the mechanics are well thought, and it provides a good play experience. Looking forward for future updates, the Steam release, and further work by the author.

The most functional actually complete UE game on this site which is not just a scene viewer sandbox, honestly just for that fact alone this is a 5, the scenes are great, there are some minor clipping issues sometimes but it's not a big deal, more scenes and events in epilogue would be great otherwise basically perfect.

Great game, I love the graphics, the plot, models, but mostly the freedom to move around and interact with the characters.
It runs smoothly on my PC with great framerates.
The only thing I would like to improve is the brightness, it's a bit too dark for me.

Amazing game. Works nicely, characters feel realistic, story is standard but done well, not a slog to play through, minigames are actually mini and not annoying, pregnancies, runs well...
This is probably one of the best games on this site, and made me pay the creator on patreon instantly.
It could be improved (from an already very high level)

-More interaction during sex scenes. There is some but more could always improve it.

-Pregnancy Storyline could conclude before the epilogue so there's more to it.


But like I said, these would be an improvement from an already high level. If you play just a single game from this site, play this one.

my first review ever, the only game i want to comment so far

it's a compilation of everything i like in the adult games:
-sandbox (not ctrl fap) - check
-great models and animations - check
-map and schedule - check
-time skip - check
-sex attitude progression - check
-wardrobe - check

one thing could make it the best game ever for me - more poses during one sex event

[v20.6]
Cool combination of visual novel and first-person game.

But I hate the grind...

-Story, Originality
You are a guy-pilot-son-graduate and you become a part of a colonisation ship's crew.
But you are a single man on board and we know what will happen...

-Renders
Cool 3D models and okay animations.

-Sound
Good sounds and music.

-Playability
You will grind for a long time to see every h-scene...
Probably have to play for 3-5 hours to get everything.

-Performance
Runs okay.

-Bugs
Didn't see any.

-Animations
Okay animations, but you have to repeat them a lot, for progress.
Due to that you can become tired of these animations.

-Voice Acting
No voices (Or there are? Don't remember hearing any).

-Grammar
Didn't see any mistakes.

-Amount of content
Very good ammount of content, but there is a lot of grind.
I don't like to grind a lot.

And I don't think it is wise to include h-scenes into the grind, because that way those h-scenes won't exite you after several times.

So.
Good game, but has some stuff I don't like.

Great game, enjoyed it very much. it would be cool if there was more alien shenanigans or options that would manipulate the characters . like the gas that made them dumb it would be cool if it was optional to keep it on and have some dumb, and naïve girl play.

cant wait to redownload after some more updates or when poolside comes out with new game.

In my opinion this is the best adult game i've played so far. The story is not the game's strength but the 3d gameplay is pretty good.
I personally love the big titted girls but would prefer if it was a bit harder to achieve different scenes with them.

The best game for combining graphics and plot! Respect and respect to the developer as the project is being improved and refined. I give him a well-deserved 5, and I expect similar projects from him in the future, with a similar plot.

easily one of the best Unreal Engine games out there. It's enjoyable to play, the girls are hot, the scenes are hot and the patch makes it even better.

only reason its not 5 stars is bc you can easily mess the pacing up. it seemed like a normal corruption type of game with great pacing and then out of nowhere im in the swimming pool piping the mom out. really ruined a lot of the build up for me unfortunately.

and when something like this happens- the dialogue doesnt end up reflecting what happened. you could be full blown having sex with a character and then discover another scene where that character gives you a handjob. during the handjob scene they'll act like its so wrong to be doing this like you werent just blowing her back out 5 mins before.

would have been really nice if there was some way to streamline the progression of lewd acts

Best game. Following thigs can add more fun in game.
1. Character customization
2. Different space jobs
3. More locations. e.g. earth, neighboring planet.
4. More character details and Natural movement

This review is for v20.1

Holy crap, my dick hurts.
I wasn't expecting much going into this since 3D adult games tend to be very underwhelming, but god damn this one really delivers.
It has a nice pace to the gameplay in that you can take your time because there is no severe urgency in the plot pushing you forward (at least as far as your character knows).

The models are fantastic, even if there is quite a bit of clipping during sex scenes, but that's more a problem with the camera physics than the model physics.

The only problems I have had with it so far is:

1. repetition:
   To unlock all scenes or even progress in old ones, you have to figure out how to tell what the color scheme in character highlights and schedule colors mean (green seems to mean that there are unviewed scenes, Yellow means there are prerequisites blocking your way forward, and black/red means you have seen all currently available content) which wouldn't be much of a problem if it weren't for the fact that you have no idea what the triggers are or what you need to do beforehand to move forward, some scenes only unlocking if you progress the story, but you'll only find that out through repetition.
   
   
2. underwhelming sex scenes:
   While the content is all good, it falls short in giving the player control over what happens in each scene, some scenes requiring you to choose very specific actions to move forward at different times. Then, once you have finally initiated any sort of sexual encounter, it ends all too quickly, with typically the only next option being to cum right after you just started fucking. One character repeatedly calls this out, saying she wishes that the player would last longer, although that goes away the further you progress with her since she becomes pretty satisfied with the very short sex. Even just adding some minor controls to give more control to the player would be a massive improvement (ie: sex speed, sabotaged condoms, dominant/submissive roles, etc.).
   
   
3. Grind:
   This aligns with #1 in that it lengthens the gameplay unnecessarily by making you grind out events to either get material, love, or "Gaia fuel". The grind for love and fuel is easy so not really worth bringing up except to highlight the areas in which grinding is required.
   Grinding for material though, that is the annoying one because at best you can get around 2k per day, which is enough to buy maybe one item a day, and then you have to wait a whole day before you can get more since the only "defense" ship available has a battery life shorter than an Iphone's, which also basically means that it would be completely useless in any kind of fight since it gets maybe 2 minutes tops of power before it needs 24 hours to recharge.
   
   4. Event items:
   So this only really applies to two items that I know of at the moment.
   Birth control pills, and Wine.
   The Birth Control pills are tied to story progression and you need them before you can even begin to knock up you partners, which doesn't make any sense at all because the excuse is that you can then convince them to have unprotected sex with you while you swap out the pills with placebos. The only problem with this is that there are multiple scenes you can access where you have unprotected sex with them BEFORE you get the pills and they never bring it up (on a related note, only very specific sex scenes actually count as sex scenes for giving partners the BC pills since you can have sex with Nat but you can't give her the pills until you trigger a specific sex scene).
   The wine is more of an annoying one to figure out at first since Nat says she will hide it in the Flight Deck, but the first bottle you need to get from her is left literally on her bedroom counter, then the rest start popping up in the flight deck/med bay.
   
   
4. Inconsistent Scene Progression:
   As mentioned above, you can trigger some scenes before others even though others make more sense to trigger first. In my case, I had sex with some of the characters and then they would act like it was not the first time during those scenes, meaning I needed to trigger a different scene first for it to make any sense. A very minor problem, but still a bit of a negative.

All-in-all, it is a very good game with just a few little hang-ups that could be adjusted to make things flow better and I definitely recommend playing it (just don't play too much in one day, or you might hurt yourself).

The best part about Last Hope is that it actually has game elements, and isn't just a glorified scene viewer.
It easily could've been a visual novel and I'm very glad it isn't - the free roaming nature of it simply makes it more immersive.
Animations, models and textures are pleasing to look at.
Only two downsides I can think of is that progression can get a bit grindy and the breasts are comically large.

Wish there were more games like this, 5/5.

This was my first ever adult 3D game. Loved the characters and scenes. A great game overall, very enjoyable.
EDIT: 24/11/2023 - it's now in its finished state, much polished and a lot of improvement. Great work, dev!

Pretty fun game imo, the animations are some of the best I've seen, would had loved some longer sexscenes trough
The materials, can be a bit grindy, flying around in a small spacecraft, to shoot astroids and collect materials, get's kind of boring in the long run, there is upgrades, but could have used a better upgrade for the collector imo
lot's of good stuff in this one

Amazing game. Animations are smooth, models are nicely detailed and all jiggly without being too much.

The freedom this game offers is quite nice and progression in game, be it through story or through sex-animations are on point. Never too long, never too short.

Also what impressed me that while "free cam" is just 3rd person view with fixed central point and not true free cam, in all scenes it allowed for all the viewing angles I could have hoped for.

And fact that pregnancy is modeled in game and when you reach epilogue you can interact with pregnant models is just nice cherry on top.

Based on the (as yet) unfinished v20.1

My usual disclaimers when writing reviews on here are that A. I am here for the "plot" not the plot and B. I am very picky with visual novels and think broadly they can be very subpar. So, take both of those into consideration for my review when thinking about this game.

Pros

• Fully animated first-person 3D porn – Let’s just get the biggest pro out of the way right up front. Last Hope is an honest to goodness first-person video game with you actually controlling the protagonist and walking around interacting with the girls. I’m going to absolutely rave about this in the review body below, but for now let’s just say: this is fucking amazing.
• So… Fucking… Hot… – Godamn the porn in this is fucking great. Many, many different sex scenes, three scorchingly hot women (assuming you enjoy the big-boobed bimbo variety) and then throughout the game it feels like you are constantly unlocking and expanding the repertoire of hot stuff you can do.
• Caters to a decent amount of kinks – Along with there being good variety to the sex scenes, they also eventually cater to a lot of my favourite kinks: risky sex, impregnation, roughness, domination. I could always do with a bit more options here, but what’s there is great. Plus, it’s one of those games where the sex feels “intense” and “sexy” and not just two people smushed together because the plot demanded a sex scene now.
• Fully porn logic but is very aware of that – The premise of the game is that your spaceship is disabled and stranded and in order to fix it you, as the only male on board the ship, have to fill up the magic fuel tank with buckets of your cum… I feel it goes without saying how ridiculous this is. However, because it leans into that, it makes the whole thing just kinda fun and sexy. It’s obviously a dumb sexual fantasy, but YOU KNOW WHAT? Turns out that might be 90% of what I want from an erotic game? WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED?

Mehs

• Animations and graphics – There was a very big overhaul of the looks and graphics of the game an update or-so ago, but I still maintain that it’s not exactly the prettiest of games. If you take a still frame from the game and compare it with RenPy renders, it absolutely does not stack up and looks much more plastic and fake. The animations also feel significantly more stilted and display a lot more clipping and the like than other big games. However, you have to remember that this is also a completely fully animated game, so obviously it’s never going to look quite as pretty as something which relies on just still images.
• A bit dark – I think this was part of the recent graphical overhaul I mentioned, but the game’s environments recently just look the tiniest bit too dark now. Just EVER so slightly.
• Spaceship min-game – The spaceship shooter mini-game is actually surprisingly intuitive and works remarkably well. However it isn’t super clear why you need upgrades for it and how the timer of the ship works. It’s also almost entirely a complete side-show to everything else and doesn’t really feel like an integral part of the experience.
• Computational power – I had to install this on my gaming rig and let me tell you, that bad boy is a beast. It handled Last Hope ez pz without break a sweat. However, for people who generally don’t need much computational power for the standard F95 RenPy fare, I get the impression it does not run as well on some machines.
• Characters and writing – Let’s be reasonable. The game is porn with the most absolute bare-bones of a plot. The characters are pretty one-dimensional and the plot is nearly non-existent. BUT that’s not what ANY of us are here for…

Cons

• Maybe slightly too few characters – I feel like this game had the potential to be a complete first-person harem sim in space and as such it in fact does not feel ambitious enough. Maybe of course the dev is wanting to move on to different projects but I really do sort of wish there was more options. Towards the latter half of the game you do get introduced to a couple of alien babes, but I actually have to admit I was less of a fan of those than I was the main girls.
• The ending is terrible (currently) – Apologies, parts of this may require spoilers. At the time of writing this, Last Hope has just released its final chapters and epilogue. Broadly speaking this rounds out the “story” of the game moderately well and wraps up everything that had been going on. However, there are a few aspects of this which are extremely anti-climatic and I’ll go into more depth below. What I will say though is that it is possible this may be fixed through addition of more fixes/content down the line to expand the ending. We have to wait and see, but at present this is potentially genuinely the worst aspect of the game.

So, let’s start with some specifics about my issues with the end of Last Hope. I feel like currently this actually might be one of the most disappointing parts of the whole game so it bears expanding on which I dislike what is currently there:

1. The actual ending feels extremely rushed, after 19 versions of build-up it feels a bit like the dev now suddenly just wants it to be over and so the final chapter is done in about 5 minutes. There’s a kidnap, a quick firefight and then the good-guys win! Hooray! Maybe it’s silly to expect more from a ridiculous porn-first game, but it does just seem like there could be more to this, like the dev could have taken more time over it and lingered in it a bit longer.

2. On the other side of things, as it’s a porn-first game, it ALSO feels like the porn ending of the game was ALSO disappointing. In particular there has been 19 versions of building up to the fact that you can sneakily and secretly get all three of the girls pregnant. This ought to have been a massive reveal. Maybe one-by-one they discover you tricked them, or maybe even they actually decide they want you to deliberately get them pregnant. Some kind of massive 4-way impregnation-marathon. Stuff like that. There’s none of that. Instead what you get is a group talk of “oh we’re all pregnant now, that’s funny” and then in the epilogue the actual pregnancy baby-bump that is added to all of them is just really, really ugly (because it looks nothing like a baby bump). I could handle the plot end being a bit disappointing but the fact that the PORN end is so flat was a really disappointment.

Like I say above, there seems like a decent chance this will be expanded and improved on in future updates. The game’s development isn’t quite finished yet (as I understand) so my hope is that the dev wanted to just put the framework for the end of the chapters in place and will now go back and expand some of the optional side content. Fingers crossed!

I feel like beyond my frustrations with the ending, my review of Last Hope is going to centre around a couple of main points. First of all, allow me to reiterate: if you insist on great story and writing in your erotic games, this will not scratch that itch. It is dumb, it is silly, and it has absolutely no reservations about that.

As it is though, I honestly think Last Hope might be one of the most fap-worthy games on the site. The porn here is just absolutely stupidly hot for a few very good reasons. Like I say, the fact that it caters to a lot of kinks and allows you to have intense fuck-fests with three bimbos at your discretion is just amazing. The camera is a tiny bit janky, but you can literally move it around yourself, so that makes up for it.

More importantly though is the whole first-person perspective thing. I do not think I can stress enough how much this adds to the immersion of the game. I feel like the best games on F95 know that what we really want is something where we take the role of a character and self-insert a bit. They write sexual fantasy so that the readers can live out their crazy harem fantasies through a visual novel format.

Now add in the fact that you can move around as well as the usual discussion-tree format and it just adds that tiny extra step of immersion, that tiny extra step of allowing you to self-insert and imagine yourself going around fucking these girls on your spaceship. I’m not kidding when I say that this alone may seem so basic and simple but it really does add so much to making the porn just more immersive and that makes it just more STEAMY.

I think the biggest take-away here for me is that if Last Hope had been a RenPy visual novel I think it would barely have justified a 3/5. Everything else it does it just pretty average and not super exciting, but you add in the fact that it’s an actual "game" and frankly it’s novel, exciting and potentially one of the games most worth playing on F95.

It’s early days of course, but I genuinely hope we see more games like this which just lean into the full erotic experience but in a fully-realised first-person video game fashion.

I am a bit divided with this game. The premise seems interesting the execution, story wise, is also interesting but something is lacking that easily makes the game from fun to tedious in certain parts of it.
I replayed the game, as I had already played part of it a while a go. So to experience all and the new stuff I restarted

The models are nice but the bodies seem too similar, at first it scratches the itch but after a while there is not much making any of the female characters stand out in H scenes.
Even those sex scenes only a few present some variation more than mainly click in top left to advance the scenes. The others end up similar to other visual novels where you don't have much control in the scenes.

The game distracts for a bit, is not one of those games that you have to do illogical things to unlock scenes and so on. So without giving it to you, it gives what is necessary for you to figure out what to do next.

Up until now, most of the downsides were personal taste and as the game kept me going, I would have given it a 4 stars as average. But something throws me off even more, the lack of a skip button. I understand that the first time you see a scene or interaction that you may want to experience it. But this game promotes repetition to unlock all or to have what you need to unlock next phase(i am trying to avoid major spoilers) and after a while ou see yourself repeating a scene several times and have to through all of the text lines again and animations, once and again. There should be a way to skip already seen scenes stopping when a new one appears. The last part of my gameplay became tedious repeating scenes to check the new stuff and button mash to advance the lines of text I had already seen.
The skip button would smooth the game even more in the late stages, and maybe I would have gone to a 4 rating instead of 3 stars.

Well executed with great scenes, fun and ridiculous premise. It is only fully aware of what it is - a lewd game - so there's a little grinding to get everyone excited for the lewds and limited tedious mini-games. Great work.

Finally, it's not a Ren'Py Visual Novel - it's a fully realized thing on its own. You move around in first person, which is novel.

Honestly, I wish there were a 3rd person view, but given the work and care that's gone into this game, it's hard for me not to rate this game very highly.

The plot is uncomplicated and simple, but this does not make the game worse. First of all, this is a game about sex and seduction of girls. Animation and graphics are just as nice, breasts and butts are soft and compressible.

It is also worth noting how the developer uses the first and third person view to show the scenes. You can rotate the camera however you want.

Some scenes are too dark. Like the hot tub scene.
Mediocre photo quality.