Unreal Engine - Completed - Last Hope [v1.0196] [Poolside Games]

v1.0196

I was very interested to give this game a playthough considering how everyone was glazing this fucking thing in the ratings. Yet this is fucking mid, through and through. I will give compliments to the chef who cooked up the renders, models and animation, it's an absolute gourmet table. Yet the story falls behind in quality. The interactions are brief and without real substance, romance and sex feel like they don't have much of an emotional impact. And the entire gameplay consists of, effective gallery collection; any game that resorts to that type of “gameplay” commits a cardinal sin, don't know which one though.

The ending also feels lukewarm as well. Which i guess is better than a shit ending or no ending. Put simply this to me is the broader video game equivalent of FIFA or COD, a “normie” game for normies (no offence, maybe). If you don't mind a vanilla experience with a vanilla story attached to great visuals. Then by all means give this game a shot. But personally it wasn't for me.

An erotic adventure through space with three very busty women as you try to save the day while enjoying the many pleasures of their company.
You are the newest crew member aboard the Star Pursuit on its mission to find and terraform planets suitable for life. To your surprise you are the only male on the ship with the other crew members being three beautiful women with very large breasts. Things don't quite go to plan as the G.A.I.A malfunctions and leaves you all stranded out in the abyss of space. Luckily for you there is a way to repair the ship that only you are uniquely equipped to deal with. Will you take on this task alone or will you build up your relationships with the girls around you enough to help you reach your goal together, it's up to you.

“I rarely play Unreal Engine games because, based on my own experience, most Unreal Engine titles are programmed quite poorly. But this game is actually decent — it doesn’t have nearly as many bugs as the ones I’ve played before.
The story is average, but the gameplay is the real highlight. Each character has their own route, making it easy for players to progress and develop the story.
If the developer can release a similar game in the future with improved graphics and better writing, that would be amazing.”

The story here is kind of ridiculous, as you find out in the very first couple scenes, but if you're willing to overlook that there's a very fun game waiting to be explored. The game does a good job balancing progression and always giving the player enough to do to move the game forward, I think there was only one point where I had a tough time figuring out how to progress. Also avoids the cardinal sin of many other open world games by providing easily accessible and detailed schedules and event progression through the in-game menu.

The characters are all distinct enough and have different rates and types of progression, the events and content are varied, and the renders are solidly done. As a bonus, there's a ton of good sleep sex content here, that only doesn't let you go all the way with one of the characters. The first person view and exploration is also very well done, and the engine does a great job here as far as providing an environment to explore.

Overall very fun game, only held back by bad writing and a crazy plot, and maybe the weird proportions of the models.

One of the best games that is not an AVN, more games like this please.

The story is fine, the animations are amazing, the gameplay is incredible!

I remember the first time I saw this game on Steam I didn't like it but then I tried it on here and it was the biggest surprise that I ever had on an Adult game, still haven't found a game like this even I have asked, but any has achieved what this one had in my opinion.

i love this game. i have played this game since the first release, There is nothing quiet like this. Hope the developer continue the new games with the smae gameplay loop but with much more interactability (controling the speed or able to interact more with the character more while in a scene)

The gameplay is very good, the controls are smooth and an amazing game BUT!!!! The Dev decided to slap on these ridiculous, pillow-looking boobs that look completely out of place. They aren’t just unrealistic they’re so exaggerated and awkward that they feel like a bad parody. Every cutscene or encounter featuring them was a total immersion killer.

Gameplay & Structure
For an actual game, not just a Visual Novel, this one falls a bit short in terms of giving us real gameplay. In general, there’s only one mini-game you can play — the rest is all the expected mechanics of a sandbox game. And speaking of sandbox, I’m usually not a fan of these types of games, but if they’re interesting and not too grindy, I can enjoy them. At first, this one seemed to fit that balance. You check each girl’s schedule, interact with them to progress their storylines (and the main story), and earn love points. So far, so good.


As I kept playing, though, the grind started to show. It’s not terrible, but it does get repetitive. Because it’s sandbox-based, you’re constantly searching for the right day and time to trigger specific events, which means you often end up repeating the same activities. By the third or fourth chapter, I had already maxed out all the girls’ love points and nearly cleared out the shop — way too soon. After that, I was mostly just skipping days to unlock the scenes I hadn’t seen yet.


Visuals
Being made in Unreal Engine 4, I wasn’t expecting high-end graphics or super clean renders — and that’s exactly what you get. The characters aren’t the most attractive, and there are visual flaws like clipping with clothes or hair. I’m not the biggest fan of this visual style, but I was hoping it might grow on me with more gameplay. Surprisingly, it did: after a while, I found myself paying less attention to the flaws and just going with it.


The environments, scenarios, and animations — both in normal scenes and sex scenes — are solid and show off the engine’s strengths. They balance out the weaker character models. Also, if you really like boobs, this game will make you very happy. But I feel like there’s a limit: once they start looking like balloons, it’s too much.


Story & Characters
I’ve got to give credit to adult game plots: they’re often hilarious, and this one definitely falls into that category. The premise is wild — the only male on the ship provides his semen as fuel for the mission. Ridiculous? Yes. Entertaining? Also yes.


That being said, the story itself is mediocre at best and not very engaging. You don’t really get invested in the plot or the characters. There’s very little depth, and their personalities don’t evolve much. Most of the content is just character storylines that move forward through relationship progressions and sex scenes. Maybe one character has a minor conflict and some growth, but it’s minimal. The main story only advances when you reach a new chapter, giving you small pieces of new information once you cross that threshold. By the final moments, things get a little more interesting, but not enough to salvage the overall product.


Final Thoughts
At the start of the game, my expectations were low, but the more I played, the more I enjoyed myself. It gets grindy, the story isn’t anything special, the characters are shallow, and the visuals have issues — but despite all that, I didn’t want to stop, and I had fun with it.


If you looked at this game purely as a product — its technical aspects, story, or character writing — it wouldn’t score very high. But as an actual experience, it ended up being surprisingly entertaining. Not a great game, but a fun one to play through.


Based on everything:

• Gameplay & Structure → Functional but repetitive, not much variety. Feels like a 6/10.
• Visuals → Flawed but serviceable, with some strengths in environments/animations. Around 6/10.
• Story & Characters → Weak, shallow, minimal payoff even at the end. Probably 4–5/10.
• Enjoyment / Fun Factor → Despite the flaws, I did enjoyed myself and kept playing. That boosts it to around a 7/10 in terms of pure fun.

Taking all that into account, the review leans toward a 6/10 overall, which would translate to about 3 out of 5 stars, but my final thoughts really emphasize that while the game isn’t technically good, it was entertaining. So, with a little bit of generosity, this one deserves 4 stars.

One of the best 3d games out there. The graphics and playstyle is uniqe and great. Sex scenes are amacing and beeing able to switch from pov to 3rd person is great. Can't wait to see what thecreator makes next. Only problem that Ifaced was the metior game was a bit teedious. Will also say that the missing scenes that yoiu had to find were often a bit hard to figure out. Will say that I did get every scene in the game in the end.

SO GOOD. It took me upgrading my computer to really enjoy it, as a low end pc will have it lagging at times pretty intensively. Once I upgraded though, this has been such a treat. The story is funny, the characters are hot, and the scenes are actually really really good. I find myself coming back to this one many many times.

One of the best sandbox games every.
In addition the extra patches give some replay value <3
A kind of gallery mode would have been nice at the end, since there are many scene at the beginning, which are not reachable anymore at the end. But hey its a great game anyways. The high density of sex scenes is amazing and one of the biggest reason for liking thisgame.

I surprisingly really like this game ! So it doesn't have maybe a very compelling story nor incredible funny moments, but "it just works".
I like the art style, progressing isn't a chore and the intimate scenes are varied and can be seen in free mode (hovering 3rd person) or pov
Honestly quite a cool game

Amazing game with very immerse POV sex scenes. All 3 main girls are hot. Sex to game ratio is about 80/20. Very easy to progress story and unlocks. Once you get past the early game you get non stop action. I wish there are more outfits for the girls.

This one was just a big clumsy disappointment, sure the models are great and its kinda fun to corrupt the girls but the story here is basically nonexistent, its easy to sequence break stuff and the game just *feels* off, like sound missing in certain areas, the whole ship feeling weird to traverse, idk its just odd. Biggest problem for me is the grind, having to work at the girls everyday doing the same shit just to get to the next scene is terribly boring and the worst use of my time.

Easily one of the best games on this site!

Pros:

• Excellent graphical fidelity
• Game world is small enough that running through it from place to place isn't annoying
  • Yet it's also detailed enough that you can appreciate the details
  • Gameplay/World opens up as you progress
• Interesting setting
• Characters look good
• Story is competent
  • Interesting but doesn't overstay its welcome

Cons:

• Dream sequences are kinda odd (but totally skippable)
• The gameplay can be a tad repetitive and progression is still a bit odd at times
  • You can quickly skip from nude selfies every other day to full on butt chugging with almost nothing in between if the relationship values don't add up

Interesting, unique game.

Gameplay 6/10

A lot of walking around following a schedule. A massive issue for me and something that made the entire game less pleasant was the transitions between maps. For some reason it gave me a little motion sickness as it's sudden with no transition screen or even a fade out.

Art/Renders 7/10

Not great, but decent. Animations are good. Pregnancy looks weird.

Story 7/10

Aliens ruins you ship that is fueled by sperm and now you gotta fuck your way out of this situation. Wasn't interesting. Relationships on the other hand were better.

Amount of content 6/10

The content is plenty, the issue is how it's spread out. When you start, you have to grind a bit to get anywhere, or at least I did.


It gets extra credit for being unique and original.

One of the few 3D games with actually good models, animations and progression. There was little to no grind and the game just keep delivering. It's a shame there were no more clothing options, no expansion of the "dumbing gas" motive and more anal scenes, but as such this is an excellent game. I'd recommend it for everyone.

This game is really good for fapping. the models are good and the animations are masterpieces. The lewd scenes are really hot that wants you the fap immediately. No grind at all. The story is simple and average, but it gets the job done.

This game is marked as complete, but it shouldn't be. This is a rough draft of a finished product. It has everything it needs to be a complete game, but it requires some refinement to become something actually enjoyable.

It's incredibly easy to sequence break, and characters referencing events that haven't happened yet is not conducive to an immersive experience. That is my biggest complaint, because some parts of the story just do not make any sense whatsoever without the context I can only assume was provided in a scene I missed.

Dialogue needs some proofreading, there are a lot of lines that are attributed to the wrong characters, and the models clip fairly often. None of those are a cardinal sin that I can't overlook, but it just doesn't feel like a complete game.

[ Review for version – v1.0174 ]

TL;DR: Last Hope is great! It does show some age of being an early indie Unreal Engine porn game, but it feels great to play, has great animations and a simple enough plot to sticks to the sexy developments. Well worth playing and supporting. Hope to see more games like this from this dev and others.

The Good: The game is one of the few full 3D games that isn't a visual novel! Free movement in a small hub where everything runs on a timer. You quickly unlock plenty of sexy content and there are plenty of nice things to unlock if you can find them. Many scenes are repeatable because you unlock more content in the same scenes are you progress the game too. If you like pregnancy the epilogue is also very nice!

The Average: Because the game run on a weekly schedule you will at some points run into having to wait a long time (which you do in your bedroom) for new things to unlock. Most things are locked behind main story progression, and nothing can technically be missed, but the game doesn't communicate that very well. I would have save a lot of time if I knew I could just speedrun to the end and then unlock scenes.

The Bad: The game doesn't offer many hints as to what you need to do to unlock certain scenes, you just know that there is something there to do because the schedule say so. Sometimes the issue isn't that you didn't select the right option, but because a repeatable scene takes place on many different time slots and you were just there for the wrong one. It would be useful if this was communicated better.

Wishlist:
The game is already complete, so there isn't likely to be any updates, but:
> Better signalling what you need to do to unlock missing scenes, preferably during the scenes themselves.
> Some grammatical and spelling corrections. There a a few places where it stands out.
> Remove the AI art from the main menu. I have no idea why it was put there when the models can sell themselves as they are. It kind of just give the impression that the game is AI slop.