Based on 0.7.4.0. By a long stride, the best thing going for PoP is its artist, who is also its creator and programmer I understand. If you like women with penises--and even if you don't--the hybrid characters are creative and well-designed. There are a lot of tits and dongs flying around--including during the hex-tile combat mode, but very, very little actual sexual interaction at present. Sex scenes are mostly limited to sequences of drawings during a small number of events and a text-based freeform sex training mode. Beyond that, the other game systems are all almost too detailed. The genetics system, for instance, is critical for breeding, which is itself important for getting the type of characters you want and also for some types of quests. But the actual system is confusing and not well explained, with the actual breeding windows a confusing wall: traits you can emphasize (or not), items and types of interactions you can select, and genetics numbers that are totally divorced from a character's actual numbers (a high MP character might have a trashy MP genetics score, for instance). The combat is turn-based tactical on a hex grid and is not balanced to be forgiving. The UI is cumbersome overall. For instance, almost all feedback the game gives you comes in the form of a little chat window. But the window is in different places in each major mode (combat, exploration, management). There are many mechanics that you don't run into often, and many are not obvious and not well explained. This includes some that are very consequential. For instance, you can trade away or "submit to the Library" a unique character, who is then gone for good--and in the library's case it's not even obvious that you are actually giving away a character. This is a game that (in its present form) will let you screw yourself over. But trying to breed or buy or capture all the species hybrids--there are seven species and each hybridizes with each of the other seven--is a fun little side-game in itself. If you are patient, willing to read the documentation (and experiment to figure out what it doesn't explain), don't mind managing lots of numbers and gotchas, and aren't adverse to sometimes-frustrating challenges (or outright cheating, which is not difficult in this game), the game is in fairly playable form.
