Unity - Starbreed [v0.10.1] [Regulus]

Honeslty one of the best projects i've seen lately, I really hope this goes somewhere and adds more, the gameplay is good, progression is nice and atleast so far in the demo it hasn't gotten boring. I'd defenitely recommend it to the people who like actual gameplay in their adult games.

I have been giving the game a pass so far, seeing that it was still fairly early in development. Now that there have been 10 major updates I can confidently say: wow this game is (unexpectedly) crap!

• It controls surprisingly well but that doesn't really amount to much when the perspective is all fucked, making it difficult to tell when the ship is about about to collide with an object. Or maybe it's the hitboxes;
• The stages are either way too easy or bullshit (looking at you Molbon2, and probably other second stages I won't bother playing) exacerbated by the aforementioned perspective/hitbox ires, there is no sense of balance or progression;
• Perhaps worst of all, the music is utterly forgettable. What happened to the bangers from SpunkStock?!

I say all this as a fan of SpunkStock, this game is a massive disappointment.

Review for v0.10.1

Honestly the game is just fun for what it is. Also pretty neat too as I think this is the first lewd "rail shooter" I've played.

Arcade-y is a good way to describe the feel of this. Your ship acts like a hub. There's a shop that you can buy upgrades, pinups, and apparel from, a gallery room, and a mission select screen with different planets that each have their own levels to play. Each planet also features its own crew member that joins you after completing the associated level, which has them show up in your hub/ship that you can interact with for conversations (and sex of course).

The gameplay is engaging enough. I wouldn't call it difficult, but if you're trying to get the gold medals you have to put a little effort in. The low poly aesthetic is nice and I like having a couple different options for a loadout. You can also bring along crew members for different passives and active abilities to mix it up a bit as well. The different planets are varied enough to keep it feeling fresh as well. Fun what's been done with them honestly.

The game features an affection system which is maybe what I'm most mixed on. You gain affection primarily by bringing girls on missions. Most conversations and sex scenes are gated behind that stat. I didn't really bother "grinding" all the girls out so I can't confidently say how tedious it would be, but I personally don't like the idea of replaying missions just to unlock the next scene for a girl. Tying it behind personal missions for them would be better imo. Similarly, there's a brothel you can optionally work for to grind out extra money that has a rep system tied to it, but I found it kind of dull (and the sex scenes with them were mid compared to the rest of the game).

Besides that though I don't really have anything truly negative to say. I like the art, the character designs are fun, the sex scene animations are nice, and there's a lot of little details that really add onto the experience. Surprisingly like the voice acting too, which is usually not great in lewd games from my experience. This probably isn't something you'll get super engaged in like a good AVN, but it's fun to pick up and play for a night when you want something different.

Fun parody with a variety of characters and customization options. Voice acting for the characters that have them has been great. Very strong game feel and fun ideas that utilize mechanics well, especially the pink wire one. I played 0.9.1 but compared to other games in development this one feels very whole already. Bravo to the devs for this and Spunkstock

Version: 0.8.2

Every time Regulus releases a game, I get pulled in and play through it in one sitting. Good stuff here. We all know what game this one is parodying, so it's fun; it just needs some bugs ironed out.

The Cool Stuff

-The character design is great, with each one having a unique personality and goals instead of just being glorified space hookers. There's also a large variety of kinks on display here too. You get to bang a cyborg, a cat girl, a transmartian, and a zora all in the same game, and why not?



-Art and animations are pretty good too. The game uses a blend of 3D and drawn 2D art, yet they're meshed together pretty well to the point that it's not super noticeable.

-It's not a complete rip-off of furry star pilots either. You can purchase upgrades for your ship and choose your party members who have different abilities to aid you in your mission.

Some Ideas & What I'd Like To See In The Future

-Some more characters. If you don't count the AI girl Pom and Nova from the intro, there are only 6 characters/crew members so far. 12–15 would be a more reasonable number to shoot for since I managed to beat and gold medal the current build in a little over an hour (not all the characters have to be based around levels either). Reg, if you're reading this you better be planning to put an oddly colored, big-titted fox girl in this game. You have no excuse not to and the porn gods demand it.

-Way more costumes. The only incentive to gold medal levels is to unlock different styles and costumes for each character. Pix also cosplaying as Android 18 in her date night Hscene is something I need more of in my life. Please offer tons of costumes and cosplay outfits in future updates. Maybe just make a bunch of custom items you have to purchase in the store in addition to the medal requirements.

-More focus on the dating aspect and maybe having alternate paths. I know a lot of people are going to compare this game to his previous game, Spunkstock, but they are completely different. In Spunkstock, the porn was part of the gameplay, yet this game being a shooter means the porn feels secondary.

I would like to see more of a focus on dating and seducing the girls with more conversations and backstory. Maybe add mini games or side missions specific to that girl's planet to earn her affinity, such as going through the same level and collecting x number of things, beating the mission without picking up health, shooting all the wires except for the pink ones for Nika, ect. Have special events where two girls planets are being attacked, and you must choose which one you're going to save. Having each character earn so much affinity for just passively sitting in my party just feels cheap, and the hscenes feel unearned. It'd be way better, imo, if you had to spend time actually seducing one of the girls you like by taking the right speech paths based on her personality or doing extra work to get there.

Lastly, it could be cool to have branching paths instead of being able to freely pick which planet you want to visit in any order. When a player is choosing between two planets, they could be shown a pre-recorded distress signal of the character they are helping, along with a brief bio and what their party abilities are. That way, the player is choosing who they want on their crew, making each character and crew feel more special to them and offering replay value with lots of different crew combinations. Obviously players should be able to revisit planets they've already done but give them them a choice as to which character they want to save as they move further along. Just have a new game+ so players can go through and 100% all the planets and crew members they didn't get on their first go.

Those are the things that come to mind so far. I would say it'd be nice if there were more variety in vehicles or customizing how your ship looks but I'm not playing this for the shooting. I'd be okay with a mediocre space shooter if some of the features I mentioned above are implemented and the hscenes are still good. Either way I look forward to seeing where this goes Spunkstock was worth buying and I enjoy Regulus's work so I'll be keeping a close eye on this one.

v0.8.2

To be honest, it feels medicore. I mean, if I had to compare this with the dev's other game, SpunkStock, I would choose SpunkStock over this.

Does this make this a bad game?

Depends.

If you enjoy Scrolling Shooters, you will probably like this more. I personally don't have anything against that genre, but I feel it wasn't properly executed or delivered.

Let me emphasis. The porn and scenes within the prior dev's game SpunkStock felt more engaging. I mean, yea that game was a rythm one and it might be comparing apples to oranges here. But what I am trying to boil it down to are the core mechanics or rewards to the player.

Sure, Star Breed has more scenes, but they just feel hollow and lackluster. Go on missions. Take girl with you to farm relation. Get scenes. Repeat. That is it. It feels like a chore of unneccessary grind pushed onto the player to complete and yea while most current girls have 25 affectiion and you can probably get it in a couple of runs, the more what if it is increased down the line?

I am not sure how to really define it other than the sex scenes really don't feel actually earned in any way. It feels like them cheap gacha porn games you can find on mobile where you farm affection. Sure the scenes are nice and diverse but again if I had to choose between this and the creator's other game. Once more I will always choose SpunkStock.

Doesn't make it a bad game, but it does make it a bit soulless to me.

V0.8.2

Take Star Fox and turn it into a porn game, and you get this. A rather short but fun On-Rails shooter with decent gameplay and great H-scenes. Most levels have their own themes and enemies and you also get banter between your allies and enemies. Though some of the enemies feel way too tanky for what little weapon variety you can choose from. This isn't a problem in most levels, but trying to unlock the gold medals with this problem becomes rather frustrating.

Art and animation are extremely well done. with most characters having 2 scenes. Starbreed does have a romance mechanic that requires you to raise their affinity unlock more scenes by either talking to them or bringing them alongside missions. Personally, I think this system gets repetitive way too quickly, but currently you don't have to grind for scenes as you can easily unlock them in 1 or 2 missions, thus not making this a complete chore (yet).

Another issue I currently have is the story. Understandably its still in development and they're obviously focused more on creating more characters and H-scenes than the current plot, I'm just hoping they have something planned because the whole premise seems disjointed. There's enough that you can get the basic premise: A group called Nova is wrecking havoc and you must stop them. But who are we and why are these characters coming alongside us besides saving/helping them? I know know asking for plot in a porn game seems redundant, but some context would be preferred.

Overall, if you wanted to play Star Fox with some porn on the side, then give this game a go.

I have to say that playing the cyberpunk "Neos" level in Starbreed was genuinely the most fun I've ever had playing an adult game...like ever. And that's really saying something considering how many would-be "greatest hentai game of all times" attempts we've seen in the past years.

Starbreed has actual gameplay that's actually fun to play and some of the hentai is actually properly integrated into the levels, not just statically hidden behind a "paywall" of in-game points or a game-over screen like almost every other such game. For example, towards the middle of every level you'll get to see the character you recruit get tentacled for a bit, and there's also a detailed juicy cutscene at the end of the first level.

This is it folks, this is what hentai games should be like.

Has a few slight hiccups due to the early nature of the release, but very solid concept and execution.

Not all the voice acting is complete, but the dialogue is there in place, even for scenarios where you bring in party members to earlier missions. It's a very neat touch and shows where the creative efforts of the devs really paid off.

okay guys lets make porn games actual enjoyable fun games with gameplay and shit. Its star fox with a bit of fucking on the side want more customizing when I goes for loadouts for missions but this is a actual game that isn't just a slide show of sex its fun to play.

Wow, I have to say this game really impressed me.

First what impressed me was the combat. The missions you go on do not feel tacked on or poorly implemented. You actually feel like a pilot going to exotic planets and helping them. The vehicles, ships, and boss fights are all great. If you are a fan of Star Fox, you will love this game purely for the combat.

Now, on to the sexy ladies. Just love how in the combat sections, whenever an enemy ship latches itself ontu an ally, you actually see tentacles appear on their character sprite. What a great little feature to really make the world feel sexy where ships start tentacle fucking the pilot.

The dialogue with all the characters is also good. Remember on the desert planet, if you take the character from the water world with you as your wingman, she makes a comment on how nothing can grow here. That was a great little detail. Also great to have them explain a bit of their backstory when you recruit them onto your spaceship.

The sex scenes were all great. Though I think my favorite one is the first onw with the purple alien. Now, vore is not for everyone. This is a porn game, not a vore one. Still, loved the part she opened up her tail and half swallowed the main character. Just found that so sexy. Am really hoping we see more of her. For example, would love to have a scene of her eating one of the characters crew and you have to rescue her.

Great potential. I haven't played this kind of 3D rail star fighting in a long time and it's coupled with an interesting premise and plenty of modern enhancements. The lack of voice acting for the later characters is a letdown but can be fixed later. If going for Starfox scaling, there are another 6 systems and 6 more accompanying wingmen to go until it's the same size.

Wish you the best of luck and clear skies.

it's exactly what you want from a porn game. Ok now I need to hit the review character requirement which is pretty stupid. But the game play isn't mind numbingly boring and the puppeted sex scenes may be off putting to some, I do think they executed it in a way that isn't god awful. Regulus exemplifies this principle even more in their early rhythm game, "SpunkStock Festival," which I would also recommend highly.

I must admit that the graphics scared me at the beginning, but after downloading and playing the game, it turned out to be a nice experience. Although the game is in early access, I'm very curious about its development progress.

The Gameplay reminds me Air Rivals/Ace Online game i played somewhere in early 2000's

The animations are better than on screens

Give this a try if you're even remotely interested

Rating v0.4.3
This is basically Starfox64/Lylatwars with some porn.
The game is still a bit rough but anyone playing this can see that there is some absolutely solid base gameplay going on here that makes this worth trying alone, albeit it's not much content and it's still showing its unrefined edges like crude 3d models in the gameplay bit and generally is visually a bit unfocused.
The little art that is there is rather stylised and "furry" content in the spirit of starfox universe. what little is there is decently done but needs another pass for quality, however it's also not detracting from enjoying this WIP/demo. It's probably a love-it-or-hate-it affair in that regard.

On another note the game has good english voice acting that is done with good but amateur equipment and actors (some overacting and some lines come out a bit too dull, especially from aether).

If I'd rate this game in a finite state as it is right now it would be 3-4 stars but I'm sure anyone giving it a try can see the potential and appreciate the foundation the devs have made so I'm giving it a 5 star as in "give this a try if you're even remotely interested".