Unreal Engine - Project Werewulf [Demo - Build 14 Halloween] [FTR Game Studio]

looking forward to see how this evolves, good animations good models, MC's controls are pretty fluid, shows promise! The sound is pretty lackluster though, but that's just nitpicking. the 10 GB demo is also a bit of a wtf moment there.

The good:
The jump scares when you get attacked.

Hot main character with outfits.

Defeat sex is good with decent variations and you can rotate the camera around the sex scene.

The werewolf gangbang scene in the prison/den is great.

The physics for shooting enemies is fun with good blood and hit effects.

The bad:

No sense of direction- frequently lost and don't know where to go or what to do. There are hints but a map or indicators would be much better instead of running around aimlessly. We're not playing this game as an open world adventure game. We want to have some fun and watch sex scenes not spend hours wandering.

Main character mods limited- can't modify butt at all. Some character shapes would be helpful like voluptuous, skinny, muscular and we'll just pick. The hair coloring is limited and not all colors and styles work. Clothing damage without blood/skin damage would be preferred. Cum effects would be good.

Defeat sex lighting is too dark and no light controls available. Just cam rotation isn't good enough - it's better with being able to move the camera around and control the sex sequence instead of just one long unskippable scene. Also, it is only triggered when you are knocked out so you have to force enemies to engage in melee. Almost all of them have guns and will just shoot you. Sex positions are limited and not enough group sex. Sometimes the non-sex enemies are just walking around during the scene. Varied speed/ thrust/ enemy body types etc would be better.

Enemies have good guns and i'm stuck with a pistol and limited ammo during most of the main game. lame. Let me pick my difficulty or gun settings.


The ugly:
Werewolf heads are ugly. Not really werewolf looking.

Like everyone else has said: the water level is unbearably bad. You're just drowning and being attacked by werewolves while aimlessly trying to figure out where to go. The combat underwater is impossible. There is no point to the water level and there is nothing enjoyable at all in the water level. It's enough to click uninstall.

Overall this is a great use of the unreal engine but definitely not using it to its full potential. I would gladly wander around for a few more hours trying to figure this game out.

I'll start this review by reminding one fact : FTR Game Studio already has another project still being worked on currently, titled Brothel of Darkness so when a developer starts creating yet another project while the previous remains unfinished, that doesn't bode well in my book.

Project Werewulf could have been one of these "Hidden Gem with Potential" video-games. Sadly it's crippled with numerous issues that I'll list as factually as possible.

1) The controls are stiff, feel unresponsive and the female protagonist has an awful lot of inertia whenever she turns or accelerates. I also noticed that her walking animation is the slowest, since she goes slightly faster while crouching and sneaking.

2) The graphics are serviceable without anything extra to them. From my point of view, it looks as if this video-game has been created with Unreal Engine 4 but it turns out to be the fifth version actually. That goes to tell you how mediocre the visuals are.

3) The character customisation is the absolute bare minimum. You can only change the hair (more than a dozen), the pubic hair (four variants), a few piercings , a tattoo (three variants), the eyeliner (four variants), the lipstick (two variants) and the breasts' size (four variants). I've tried to change the hair colour but regardless of which haircut I picked, it wouldn't let me.

4) You can neither move the camera nor zoom in during the character customisation, which is pretty telling much about the amateurism and incompetence of FTR Game Studio in that regard considering there are hundreds of tutorials available online to include this much needed feature into their video-game.

4) You'll quickly notice the female protagonist's eyes have a weird shine to them whenever she looks to the side while facing the camera. That will change their iris' colour to a pristine, almost glowing white.

5) You can gather clothes and store them for later usage. But the video-game doesn't tell you where to find the collectibles that you've already obtained. And as far as I'm concerned, there is no option to remove the clothes after putting them on so if you appreciate nudity you better not collect anything.

6) Speaking of collecting things, the on-screen prompt for contextual interactions only shows up if you're rubbing the female protagonist against the item she's supposed to interact with. I've found a few doors tricky to open because the aforementioned prompt didn't show up near the terminal, but either in the middle or on the opposite side of the door.

7) While we're on the topic of doors, once you get into the area that looks like the Living Quarters, you'll come across numerous automated doors which only work properly if you quite literally shove the female protagonist into them because their detection range doesn't work properly.

8) At some point you'll acquire a firearm which seems to shoot Tazer-like darts at the enemies. It completely trivializes and ruins the "survival horror" aspect of the video-game because you can take down any threat from miles away with three shots. Considering how many munitions you can gather in the Living Quarters and as long as you don't waste any on the Half-Lycan who turns out to be immortal, you can easily brute-force your way through any challenge.

9) Speaking about shooting, you'll find that gameplay mechanic infuriating extremely quick. You have a small green laser dot to indicate where the female protagonist aims at. Sadly for most people, the mouse sensitivity is so off the charts that you'll often find yourself aiming slightly too far off target. And even when you think you are on target, you might not be because the green laser dot will regularly phase through the enemy because of some hitbox issue. So if you don't see any green laser dot on your target, don't shoot otherwise you'll waste ammunitions into the wall behind them.

10) Once the enemies are within melee range, don't bother shooting them either because the shots will also phase through regardless of the green laser dot's presence. You'll find it much more efficient to spam the Kick with your F key which... turns out to be a one-hit thing, when you keep the firearm equipped? I absolutely don't know why, but as long as the female protagonist merely holds the firearm in her right hand and performs a Kick, she automatically follows through with some one-shot takedown.

11) The Half-Lycan is a horrible enemy, both in design and gameplay wise. He doesn't even look half-decent, obviously being stuck in some hybrid form with his weird paw-looking feet and the patches of hair haphazardly growing on his body. No matter how many times you kick or shoot him, he'll only go down for three to five seconds, stand up and immediately chase after the female protagonist like a heat-seeking missile.

12) Speaking of enemies and gameplay, the sneaking mechanic does nothing. Regardless of how much noise you do, the enemies never seem to react. However they must have a 270 degrees cone of vision because even sneaking in the far left/right corner of their back will trigger them. Even worse, the Half-Lycan doesn't seem to care about how you sneak, even if you hide one level above or below his position, behind a wall or inside a room, as soon as he's triggered he'll relentlessly come your way. And that happens even after beating him down numerous times and running away from him to the other side of the Living Quarters!

13) Performance issues are numerous. Especially within the Living Quarters area, my overclocked i9-9900K and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti struggled to maintain a stable framerate despite me capping them at 60 FPS for the sake of testing. The video-game literally turned into a Powerpoint presentation for several seconds, time during which one of the scientists saw the female protagonist from miles away, ran up to her and almost beat her to death.

14) Another issue are the game-breaking glitches, such as the showers locking the female protagonist inside or phasing her through the ground into the void. Another annoying glitch can happen while opening the crates containing new clothes, the female protagonist can end up stuck in front of them because of her hitbox somehow merging with the crate.

TL;DR : An absolute piece of hot garbage, an utter disappointment. Technically outdated and unstable, requiring a lot of polish along with quality of life improvements. Go play something else, such as MATEYDEV products which are more enjoyable, even the unfinished and abandonned ones.

This is currently one of the most promising games in f95zone. Very strong graphics, superb design and a lot of content for a demo. It is much better than 95% of the 3D games here, and it is just a DEMO! Amazing job. The atmosphere is another strenght of the game. Maybe it needs some polishing with the shooting, but is just a minor issue that can be easily solved

4 stars cuz its a demo, you know how demos are usually.
I belive if it was full finished game, it could be 5 stars.

Game is not heavy on GPU and CPU if you use max settings 60 fps cap.

Character customization is decent but it could use even more details and hair color is bugged or bad.

Controls are surprisingly good and fun but overall gameplay could use work since its a demo and might be a bit buggy at times.

It has voice acting which is kinda mid for me, imo.

Game can be scary, it scared me 2 times.

Weapons are fun enough to use, i like it.

Game is making it easy for you on what to do, press Q and you see all, it even shows cutscene where to go.

Plenty of hot outfits to find and wear, you can shower and customize character mid gameplay if you find mirror.

For a 3D horror shooter game, this has to be one of the best, what can you even compare this game to in this field? Cant think of any.


Its a linear game but its fun enough i like it.

Bland and boring slop that seems intentionally designed to ensure you waste enough time in it that you cant refund it on Steam.

Pros:
-Assuming you manage to wrestle the obnoxious aiming system, most enemies die in one shot to the head and three shots to the body. Rifle shoots in three round bursts, so most of the time you only need to point and click.

-As obnoxious as actually using it feels, the locomotion is well animated.

-It is voice acted.

Cons:
-Voice acting isn't good. It isn't truly atrocious, or I wouldn't even mention it as a pro, but it is as bland and boring as everything else. If you don't care about voice acting quality, its there. If you do care, unfortunately, its still there.

-And its still there because there is only one audio option in the settings, and that is master volume. Thats right, no sound, voice, music separate. You WILL listen to all of it, or you will listen to NONE of it.

-The locomotion is the only well animated thing in the game. Every actual sex animation is a single motion loop with black screen fadeouts instead of transitions. There is no orgasm, cumming or any other finishing animation. The hairy man (I refuse to call this a werewolf) simply humps for awhile and then it fades to black. You get a tiny cum decal on the players model. The end.

-In my honest opinion, any developer putting an unskippable cutscene into their game deserves to have their teeth kicked in. Nearly every cutscene in the game except, like, 3 is unskippable. There is a lot of them and most do not present any useful info.

-On that note, no sex animation is skippable. Got got? Already seen hairy man do a basic animation loop for 5 minutes in this specific pose? Well, too bad, watch it again.

-Facial animations have "Western dev was here" written all over them. Whatever facial animations are present contain no soul and barely display any emotion.

-Doors opening. So many doors. So many opening. So many doors. So many opening...

-One level has explosive barrels in it. Your only clue that the barrels are explosive is that they explode if you get close. This immediately kills you and sends you back to the last checkpoint.

-Underwater level must have been designed with the express intention to torture developer's friends. You move obnoxiously slow, trying to look left or right while moving slows you even further, and however few pockets of air there must be on the level are impossible to find due to how dark, repetitive and thus tedious to navigate the level is.
If you drown while there are hairy men on the level (why are hairy men perfectly capable of SLEEPING underwater? Weren't they supposed to be werewolves?), you will be sent to the boring sex animation room which has scuba diving outfit. This solves the issue of needing air, but does not solve the issue of obnoxiously slow movement.
You do not want to accidentally press 'O' and remove the scuba diving outfit, as you cannot put back on whatever you took off.

-Game is dark. The second biggest obstacle to progressing through the game after all the unskippable cutscenes and opening doors is that you cannot fucking see the things you need to see. Headlamp and flashlight on your gun only barely help.

-The horror is not there. At its best, the combination of the wooden facial animations, bland voice acting and barebones general animations makes you feel like you're watching a B movie. This could have been a pro, had this not been a porn game at the end of the day.

-The biggest con of all, all of the above makes the game not just boring, but also utterly unarousing. You could boot the game up with the most raging boner of your life and go flaccid in 5 minutes flat, and not because you got spent.

Whatever "potential" this game has is not worth the time you would spend downloading it, much less playing. Most important, it doesn't matter — you are not gonna be playing what this game could be. You will be playing what this game is right now. And right now its bland and boring.

Verdict: skip this one.

Great Demo. The protagonist is well designed, and I love fit gals. The gameplay is ok, and sometimes the game is a bit too dark (I spent way too much time on a puzzle just cuz I couldnt see a thing). The scenes are good, but I don't really like how the game is heading to a dominant protagonist.