Unreal Engine - PASEC [v2.03] [Star vs Fallout]

here my review of this game.

you'll be spending more time fighting the bugs in the code than the one in the game.

-survivors getting stuck after rescue
-survivor following youwhen you ask them to stay in a safehouse
-the only indication you get is a tiny blip on a map on which you can zoom
as to how you are supposed to navigate that map, good luck figuring that shit out. enjoy finding locked elevators and fucking shipment container in the middle of corridors.
"you can unlock skill to open some doors", yeah, once you're past lvl 3 you'll need to terminator the fucking station 3 time over to get a level up to unlock these skills.

weapons are bugged if you upgrade them to max, but don't worry they function perfectly if you don't upgrade them, however, hit detection doesn't work always, enjoy emptying mags into ennemies that do not take damages.

you need food, for what reason? don't know, don't care.
you need sleep, for what reason? so that a bug can slip in your bed and preggo you without a chance to resist.
"you can sleep in a safehouse, that also remove the death mark to avoid game overs". there's 3 safe houses, 2 you cant access because locked doors, and the one you can access is on the most remote part of the map, which one is it? figure that shit out boy, hope you enjoy getting lost buddy.

the interface, enable mouse control for the interface already.

im salty because it looks good but it is a waste of time.
the level design Sucks,
the combat sucks,as soon as something graze you, you fall over and fingerbang your keyboard to avoid loosing, over and over because there's no grace period after escaping.
the direction and objective sucks, you'll be spending you time looking for a way to get where you need to look for something without any idea as to what it is you're looking for.

honestly, the game have potential, here's tip, stop jerking off by making porn animations for a while, and fix everything that doesn't work, once your gameplay loop is working properly, add porn. there's no point having porn if you can't enjoy it because the rest of the game is completely broken.

Unfortunately this game is a janky, barely functioning, buggy mess.

You cannot progress 5 minutes through it without encountering a bug and I do not mean the things that attack you.

It's been in development for quite a while now, but I fail to see any progression in ironing out any of the existing bugs, more the opposite.
More bugs are being added.

Please steer clear. It's not worth your time.

the game is practically unplayable. there is no actual guideline what buttons to press for any sort of actions , no info how to play and no proper control settings. how are you supposed to play it without any guide ?

This review is created as for v.1.81
TLDR:
At current state of game, the Developer KNOW how to create an "interesting" game, but cannot develop the code well.
If you just looking for the pixel sex, i guess visiting their pixiv just faster.
If you want to play just because gameplay, just wait until developer untangle their mess, stuffs still breaking. But i wont stop you if you really want, tho; It just more frustrating right now.

For developer: With this mess on the code, I'm pretty surprised this is called 1.81 rather than 0.81, but keep it up, developer. There is potent, just need a DAMN lot of code cleaning.

[Graphic Aspect]
- Pixel, very tricky to work around, very amazing if executed well.
- Environment graphic is pretty good, some interactable stuff having weird heavily blurry stuff. Some part is absolutely too dark.
- Character (the sprite) is good, but there is a lot room of improvement
Acceptable, but have a lot of room to improve

[Gameplay Aspect]
- Gameplay, by design, isnt too hard, the only thing make this game hard is the wacky combat.
- Control movement is acceptable, although you can do some fun stuff with jump and colliding with the alien on right timing.
- Hoping for god mode on option? there is, but, too bad. I meant, there is a kind guy sharing a cheat table for this game.
- Option button on mid-play? the only option there is "Nuke the game"
- Melee is beyond-the-line definition of shit, inconsistent cooldown, you cannot repeat melee until the animation entirely done and... some more cooldown, for some reason the range is extremely short but if you get too close to enemy, you will facing the other way and gets fucked up.
- Gun is for big guy, dont waste it on larvae (most likely you will miss)
- Yes, there are save point, where? the standing telephone. How to find that? Good luck.

[Porn Aspect]
- !!UNCLEAR INSTRUCTION!! on how to unlock the scene. "See more than once" WHAT?? Sex/Struggle? Game Over Screen? See that guy die? Literally see that guy? For some reason i get Roach scene and not Tentacle guy despite being repeating getting on Sex Struggle and Game Over Screen
- Animation is kinda slow, but its alright, there is no way to skip if on defeat sex (not gameover screen).

Incredible, beautiful pixel art. Animated too.
Also has actual game mechanics, not just of the H variant, but it's also a legitimate survival horror. The space station gets gradually more corrupted as the days go by, with new enemies spawning. The enemies are tough and horny, and the game even comes with a pretty detailed pregnancy system, including birth.
It's a little rough around the edges, but it's also still in development. So it gets 5 stars for ambition and that gorgeous art.

Tldr: Good art, terrible design, buggier than bethesda, gamebreaking bugs the norm.

It's the type of game that would be wonderful if only it actually just worked. The general consensus is that using the in built cheats should just be the default for every playthrough due to the sheer frustration of the gameplay loop.

Great game Concept. Thats it. That's all. A Concept. This game needs SERIOUS overhaul. Enemies are so strong, so numerous, so fast in their attacks that you can play on Invincible Mode with Infinite Ammo on Easy Difficulty and still get beaten, stuck in an endless knockdown animation loop.
Like its not even funny how absolutely horrid the game play is, which is an extreme shame as I said, the concept is amazing. But executed just wrong.

If you believe in redemption and change, save this game as it could potentially be an incredible thing, maybe even a masterpiece. If not, don't even bother downloading. Unless you want to see which breaks first; your low end PC or your sanity.

I have very mixed feelings on this project.

On the one hand, this fits the survival horror/space sci-fi horror monster battlefuck niche of games i enjoy. The scenario, animations, art design and even soundtrack are pretty neat.
(Comparison: Breed Laboratory, Bioasshard, Project:Elimination/Rogue Protocol, Infection Lab)
I *really* dig what the dev is putting down and I can see this going the way of Breed Laboratory where for all its rough edges, it pulls off something unique to itself in terms of lewd-factor, horror, and scenario.

On the other, much more important, hand:
This game is buggy as fuck.
Like, intolerably so.

I think the creator has potential and even their recent posts teasing a cute portrait system would be awesome.

HOWEVER, I think their priority, first and foremost, is to clean their spaghetti code and build a log of all the bugs that can happen. Q/A stuff, because for all the changes and additions I do like
(see: more battle-fuck animations instead of pure game-over animations, focus on survival elements and environmental corruption system, the possibility of cute portrait version of protag in-game)
there's a new tangle of things I don't
(see: constant softlocks, UX bugs in the main menu, getting stuck in the gallery selection menu, softlocked on "continue" option as no hud appears, elevators lagging out my fairly high-end laptop, just to name a few bugs)

I hope the developer finds a way to polish the technical side of their game because this may be a genuine survival-horror battle-fuck hentai-game gem, buried under all the glitches and soft-locks.

This game has a lot of promise and is slowly building out to be great. Very good animations, good variety, and just a hot scenario alltogether. When this game is finished, It'll probably be one of my top porn games. It's already something I keep going back to, even before it's done.

This game clearly deserves a much higher rating than it currently has (2.5). I really like the game conceptually, the game is visually pleasing, the animations are good, the animation duration is not boring, but it could be higher. The variety of opponents and locations with some abnormal situations and enemies is what I would like from the game in greater quantity.
The controls could be more convenient, but, overall, it will do. The game works questionably alongside third-party games or applications. Conventionally speaking, a couple of games running in the background freeze and have 0 fps when this game is launched simultaneously with them.

Can be a pretty fun game, but the latest update seems to have borked the visuals (1.7) and the controls can be really annoying when they just refuse to cooperate, you'll be holding the "aim" button then press "fire" only to watch the character swing their weapon like a baboon at the enemy you wanted to shoot, turning into a stunlock at the most annoying time possible.
Can also be a bit buggy, visuals will break from time to time and animation state can get stuck, leaving you unable to aim, though it's gotten better than the earlier releases of the game.
One other issue is the spawn rate, enemies seem to pop up mere seconds after their spawn point is off screen, it would probably be a lot better having a much longer timer with fewer resources in game to balance it.

Review as of v1.7;

It is a bit of a pet peeve of mine when people review what clearly are very early builds of a game. It is better to put development feedback in the thread rather than just jump to review such an early unfinished build of a game

Anyway my review here is simply to provide an alternative perspective to the other reviews here. I normally don't review early development builds for the reasons mentioned above but in this case I felt I had no choice due to the high quantity of other reviews here of this unfinished game

In its current state I would highly recommend the game especially for those who love pixel animated female protagonist sidescroller h-games. This happens to be one of my favourite genres

Now the game is very clearly still early on in development there are only a few enemy types in the game so far and most of the levels feel quite empty as a result as one would expect when the game is still so unfinished and early in development

But you can clearly see the groundwork is there for future content and each update is gradually filling the level with content

In terms of the content that is there it is very high quality. The h-animations are top quality when it comes to pixel art. The sex animations are fully animated and have multiple stages to them and better yet you even have x-ray view of your character status to look inside her womb to see the impregnation/egg laying etc growing as well as the cum filling her up. This is a neat touch

Most sidescrollers treat the sex as kind of an extra component of the game rather than having it have any actual consequences. The best female protagonist sidescrollers make the h-combat a core part of the game and PASEC is no exception to this. Some enemies have game overs if they successfully grapple you and you don't break away on time. While others impregnate you or lay eggs etc. The latest update even has added a kidnap mechanic to some of the enemies

This is the kind of stuff I love to see in my sidescrollers. The h-scenes are not treated as just an added bonus but as a core part of the game design and everything else revolves around this

H-content aside. The combat is smooth and you do have a chance to break from from enemy grapples rather than just instantly being grabbed. There are multiple weapons to find and unlock. Some are treated as hidden items that require you to properly explore the maps

The maps have event triggers as well so going specific places or doing specific stuff unlocks specific combat events and there seems to be the foundation as well for story events too down the line

I would normally say this game has a lot of potential but honestly in terms of the core design and gameplay it is all there already so the potential is already achieved all we are waiting for now is just the content to be developed but feature wise we can already see there is a great h-game here already with solid combat, good level design (pending more content to fill it up with) and great h-animations and h-combat

I look forward to seeing what kind of content continues to be added to this game and I hope many of the people who were so eager to put a negative review on such an unfinished early development build will be equally eager to come back and change their reviews once they see how this game continues to be developed and how it is once it has more content in the game

Now if you read this and have played the game and think to yourself "Oh I don't get why Chloe loved the game so much" then my only question to you would be; "Have you ever played any other female protagonist pixel sidescrollers?" For me it is right up there along with Outcast Tribe, Gamer Struggles, CrescentSoul, Mystic Knight Maya, Happy Heart Panic, Syahatas Bad Day, and Lab 1 & 2

And with all the examples mentioned above it is worth noting they are all at different stages of development from also being in early development to being fully completed games. None of them including Lab 1 & 2 were any different from PASEC when they too were in early development. The first build of Lab had one level and 2 enemies and you can see how far those games have come by the time they released

So if this dev sticks with it and people give this game a chance to actually be developed it can turn into something equally great as the examples I mentioned above. It already has features that even the completed examples I mentioned don't have such as the x-ray womb vision and impregnation mechanic. Syahata is the only other one with the x-ray womb but not to the same quality as what PASEC has. With Syahata it was simply based on total times the character had sex whereas with PASEC it is directly linked to the h-animations and enemies you actually had and your pregnancy status

So even compared to the completed games above PASEC already has some great innovation in the genre

Edit for Clarity;
Review of 1.6, there was a patch a few hours after my review and I haven't gotten around to trying it

What porn I could find in the half hour of attempts was passable but the game's buggy as hell and controls in game seem to be mentioned on a whim at seemingly random aside from the basics at the start. This honestly didn't need to be on unreal engine and plays more like a proof of concept than an actual game.

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Saw the bad reviews, wanted to give this a chance. Game started over heating my gpu and lagging within two minutes of gameplay. My hardware is pretty old, but if I can run Monster Hunter World on my rig; a simple pixel art game should be nothing.

I like the pixel style of the game. there are only a few bugs I noticed such as some enemies becoming invisible and it crashing when you try loading a save after dying, but if you exit the game then load the save it works.

Lots of good ideas, but really really not worth playing at this point. Very few enemies, enemy catching you is instant game over (have to start over if you want to watch H-scenes), and very little idea what you are doing in the game.
Theres a God mode, but you can't see the H-scenes if its enabled and there are still several ways to die even with it on. Glitchy as well. Really wanted to like it, but I'm done after 15 minutes.

Interesting at first but its very tame and not that much fun in the long run.
The game has only a few enemies you encounter, and they all have a gameover scene.
But the most disappointing thing in the game is their breeding/pregnancy mechanic, because there is only one enemy that can make the player pregnant and thats not much tbh.

Saving is buggy but works in some cases (Sleep at the bed, then when you press continue at the main menu it loads there) because of how the game loads up everything at once, even the things you already have completed.

I would give it more stars, but since its already getting an ending and only has a few enemies in it, its not really that great of a game for now.

I look at this game and see the very nice pixel art.
I then play it for a sec, i notice that the game runs a little bad,

"that's okay" I said,

I then played for a bit. then I got an SMG and then i got downed by a bug and the game crashed.

"maybe that's a one time bug?" and it kind of was.

fast foreword to that boss battle and, it just constantly crashes after the game over scene, it crashes when I load the game up after exiting to title to skip the scene.

now that's the notable game play issue that I could bear to play


other smaller issues is that the environment is pretty dark, the material counter up top can pop off the side of the screen.

This review was written as of version 1.51

Calling this version "1.51" is deceitful and misleading. This game has the content you would expect from a demo, but with all the bugs you would expect in an alpha.

It feels as though I see genuine passion behind this game, so I feel bad bashing on it this hard. If the bad bugs get fixed and more content gets added, then this game could reach a 3 or 4 star rating, but right now I cannot recommend the game to anyone in good faith.

This game wants to do so many things and fails at all of them.

• It wants to be a horror 2d exploration game with an eerie background music, but it fails so spectacularly at all the design choices that adds the horror elements to other 2d horror games.
  
  You can only save your progress by sleeping at the bed checkpoints, but instead of carefully and deliberately placing the checkpoints throughout the map like good survival horror games, it spams them all over the place so there might as well have been a menu button to save instead.
  
  Once combat starts, the eerie background music gets replaced by upbeat fast paced electro music as if I'm Doomguy who just found a Mario's Invincibility Star, completely ruining the horror mood.
  
  When you reload, your movement speed is barely slowed down at all, completely ruining those tense moments from other 2D horror games where you need to reload while a monster is in your face.
  
  In many other horror games, reloading will discard your current mag. This means if you have not used all the bullets and you reload, you lose out on precious ammunition. This creates a strategic decision of whether to reload between fights so you will face your next monster with a full mag but waste ammo, or to go into the next fight with the off chance of having to reload in the midst of battle. But this game completely foregoes this concept as well by just adding the bullets from your ammunition to fill up your current mag, so you never have to worry.
  
  And then to top it all off, the game throws tons of resources at you. You never have to worry about ammunition or anything else as long as you just do the tiniest bit of exploration
  
  
• It wants to have puzzle platformer elements, but all of it amounts to go to place A to flip lever, which opens place B where you can go to flick lever which opens place C.
  
  
• It wants to have survival aspects, such as hunger, but since the game throws so many resources at you and there are so many places to make food, it is just a mild nuisance.
  
  
• It wants to be like a metroidvania with a big interconnected map, but almost all of it are just copy pasted rooms and hallways that make you get lost due to the game either not telling you where you need to go or the game softlocking, making you think you just need to explore and find something but nope you just infinitely stuck till you restart the game. The game would be better if 30-40% of the current map was just not there.
  

And then there are the bugs. There are so many bugs. Sprites clipping through other sprites. Collision boxes mising from walls, making you go through them and fall to your death if you thought you found a secret and tried to go through them. Elevators not working, forcing you to die or close and open the game to progress. The game crashing when you respawn. The game randomly making your character go back to sleep again after you got ouf of bed, making you watch the 10 second long animation again and then place you back at the bed.

And then worst of all, this game has softlocks that you seemingly cannot get through unless you enable cheats and teleport through the map. But due to the game not really telling you what to do, you can wander around aimlessly within the copy pasted hallways and rooms between realizing that no, the reason the elevator doesn't work isn't because you just need to explore to find an access card or lever or something. The reason the elevator doesn't work is because the game softlocked, and the only way to progress is to start an entirely new playthrough or just enable cheats. Yes I am still mad about this.

1.3 review
Poor menu design (option button not selectable.) and...
No indication of key binds. Select everything until you figure out what each button does.

Crouching and aiming breaks the character 1.3
Could be a good game, but ends too quickly when you get hit and die.
The game shouldn't end when you die, but you teleport to a secret egg area