Unreal Engine - Subverse [v0.9] [Studio Fow]

Wish I could give this a higher score, but FOW have really missed the mark in their transition from animators to game devs.

As always, the model quality and animation smoothness is there. I'd expect nothing less from FOW. That got them a second star from me.

Unfortunately, that's where the quality ends. All scenes are just 1-3 second porn loops with a speed slider. That's the kind of interactivity I'd expect from a 2011 Zone flash game, not a 2021 FOW production.

And don't even get me started on the strategy-game-layer. Nothing kills my horniness like having to master a turn-based, grid-based strategy game between every (1-3 second) porn loop.

Maybe if they go back to the drawing board and really rework some of what's here, it can be great. Unfortunately, I can't see them dropping the strategy layer, so I'll probably have to pass on this long term.

It is a really good game. The gameplay is fun and the H is solid. It reminds me of Sid Meier's Pirates except with porn instead of dancing. As of 0.3 there is a solid 5 hours of gameplay with some really great cutscenes. If you like ecchi humor than you will enjoy the game even more.

Really like the direction of the new update (0.3.0). Animations and Voice acting are top notch. I like the ground combat (it's a very simplified XCOM, which I'm sure will get more features over time) and the space battle - even though some of them could be a bit shorter, feels like there's always one wave more than needed. Pretty good filler content between the nasty stuff for a game of this kind.

Good game.

Game is better then most hentai games. It has an actual world/world building even if it is goofy, it has gameplay that is decently fun: both turn based tactical combat and space SHMUP if you are into those things. (But they are entirely skippable.) Fully voiced with characters that have more personality then a generic hentai girls plus a system for custom creating your own hentai scenes with more unlocks each patch (I think they are at like 40 clips you can mix and match with each girl so far with more to come)

Some People complaining about getting NTRd by mindless alien drones both seem to not have seen any prior Studio FOW/work and thus didnt know what they were getting into somehow or get caught up in the waifu collecting enough to care anyways. All the "NTR" scenes are in the optional hentai scene maker, you have to unlock them intentionally and use them to even see them and the "aliens" are mindcontrolled drones in the setting of the game, that being said having the girl have sex with something other then the MC can upset some people. Also to throw this in here the MC skin colour is customizable if that is your thing. (Game also has unlockable stapon/futa Girl x Girl scenes if that is something that annoys you)

Overall massively better then almost all hentai games I've played in terms of quality, content and actual gameplay, only thing it lacks is scripted story scenes which they have said they are adding with 1 existing in current update. Certain gameplay mechanics may not be your schtick and certain scenes may not be to your taste but both are entirely skippable. People complaining about "too much talking" or "too much gameplay" are either talking about their taste in game-porn ratio or just so down bad they have to use porn games instead of just flat out pornography.

Given I think it is better then 99% of porn games I've played (and ngl I've been kinda addicted to porn games for the past 5 years) gotta give it 5/5.

Played through and finished the main story for this game and it is really, really disappointing. FOW makes really good animations but everything else about this game kind of sucks. The grid combat get tiresome, the space combat is more entertaining but feels disconnected from the rest of the game. The characters are alright but the H-content feels so shallow and empty. The overall story isn't that great either and the dialog can get very tedious. Overall it is kind of crazy that this is the best they could do after having so much money and time pumped into this thing.

It's just very boring and repetitive for a whole lotta NTR and Monster loops. I had hoped it would be a lot more fleshed out but it just feels very meh, and yes I know the game is in Early Access but I don't think the core game play will change ever, I found myself very bored of the game and just wanting to fuck the girls instead of doing the combat, both versions and there are less scenes of your character fucking the girls than anything else so I don't really see myself going to play future updates (v.0.4.0 and so on) of this game.

while the pron Element is not as developed as many people would like the thing is, this is a game with Erotic content in it, but I full fap fest like many other games on here. it has fun gameplay and a compelling story plus intresting characters.

i'm surprised that most of the critics are so harsh.
It's not a great game ok (but it's only v0.1.3 !)... it's not only a sex game ok, so people with no patience who just want to see fast sex scenes will be disappointed.
In my opinion, trying to mix a sex game with "normal" game features always been something hard to do and hard to balance, but i think it's always nice to try.... as 100% sex based games are often boring (you at least have to get a good scenery).
Subverse alternate between space classic shooter and ground turn-based fight. As you can easily imagine, in both parts it's far from been as good as what you got with "classics" games... but iit wasn't bad neither to my opinion.
After that you got sex scenes that are nicely animated and voiced. Not enough interaction with the user for sure... but... it's not bad neither.
Actually (at 0.1.3) it's for me an "average" game... and i'll wait to see what it become in the future to make a more definitive opinion about it.

Very disapointing, it's not a sex game for me, it's a game (not very good) with sex animation. No sex gameplay. When I see the budget of this game and the development time, I was expecting a lot lot better.
create good animation is not enough to make a good game.
When I see creativity and attempts to innovate of small developers without money, I'm angry against Fow

There isn't enough content, there are a lot of issues with the forced alien dick content for folks who don't want it as the player gets to hear about it during dialogue in the game. The Pandora system is awful with incredibly short GIF movies that are literally under 10 seconds long and the story is completely disconnected from the intimacy disconnecting any romance from the narrative.

Hopefully the game will get a lot better, but currently it is not worth buying for any amount of money. The positive is the voice acting quality is done very well and the space missions are fun. Everything else is pretty lousy. 2/5

I am a huge fan and longtime supporter of Studio FOW, and I think many of their movie releases, despite now being older, still set the standard for adult 3D animations. Unfortunately, while their game has moments of brilliance, the adult content is nowhere near their usual standard, and feels shoe-horned into the game.

It is my sincere hope that having taken this big swing, and hopefully learning a lot from it, they return to doing what they do better than anybody else...and soon.

I cannot recommend this game, but I still feel Studio FOW are worth supporting.

This game is basically 2 unrelated non-porn games, a tile turn based combat game, and a space shooter game, which have been combined with random porn scenes.

Here is how you can play this game without actually playing this game
1] Open up Mahjong, play some Mahjong
2] Open up elite dangerous. Play some elite dangerous
3] Open up Google chrome. Go to a rule 34 site and search "3d anim with sound"
4] Watch some random 3D porn.

Congrats, you've played this game without buying it.

Stats:
Visuals: Better than James Cameron
Story: Written by a 12 year old Jake Paul fan
Gameplay: Designed by the same guy who invented the iron maiden in the 1600's

Quite good IMO. Can't wait to see the full release. It was hyped up to be like the next coming of Christ or some shit, and it's clearly not that. The xcom gameplay is fun, but the ship gameplay is pretty boring and the missions feels like they take way too long. The sex is also weirdly implemented. You don't get sex scenes from the story, you buy them after using that character in combat.
This game has the quality of, I hate to say it, but a "real" game. We put up with a lot of jank here, but this game really has none of that. If the girls or the way the sex is implemented is a dealbreaker for you, than just ignore it I guess.

To say this game was disappointing would be a vast understatement. Studio FOW are pretty legendary in the adult CG short film world and have incredible amounts of experience creating and editing high quality erotic CG video. Somehow though that translated terribly into making a game. This was the very first and only game I personally ever requested a refund for on Steam.
The main problem is that the erotic scenes have nothing at all to do with the plot of the game or dialogue with the characters. Instead they are added in like an arcade game gallery of unlockable extras. There is no narrative to your sexual exploits with the characters you meet. Instead you simply pay a certain amount of points and watch a quick animation in a gallery of some action. This isn't to say these animations are not of the highest quality, which they are, only making this mistake that much more dissatisfying.
The term "make it make sense" comes to mind. Why are you suddenly watching a clip of a crewmate getting "attacked" by a tentacle monster? Why are you watching a clip of the ship's robot getting plowed by an alien? There is no reason or story to it to give any meaning.
Meanwhile the graphics are beautiful, the voice acting well done and the base game itself ambitiously put together. It means nothing though if the creators miss the point. We don't want a video game with a random adult gallery tacked on. We want a narrative and story with characters in adult scenes that have purpose in the plot, otherwise you're better off watching random clips on any adult megasite. This game totally missed the mark.

Subverse is a twin-stick bullethell/ grid based XCOM clone/ H-game developed by Studio FOW who have made such illustrious titles as "Bioshag: Trinity" and "2B: Final ASSembly" and you kids know the rule : "If it has 2B in it, its erotica." and Studio FOW does not disappoint. The main gameplay loop of Subversively distracted us from the fact that FOW have not made another movie for so long is that you complete missions and explore new places to unlock new Waifus and PP (Yes that is the game's official ingame currency). While Doom Eternal is a pie eating contest where the reward is more pie, Subverse is a bland sandwich eating contest where the reward is the most exorbitant and delicious cake you can think of. Or atleast that was the intention. As of writing this ( Where Subverse is still technically in early access) the loop feels more like a bland sandwich eating contest where the reward are small, yummy pastries that that have practically no connection to each other and seem to have been selected at random. So, yes, P.A.N.D.O.R.A is a good idea in concept but the execution has been done terribly. I understand the reason why there is a cost to starting H-scenes, its to motivate the player to actually play the game and explore new areas instead of just doing the h-scenes. However I think that finding and recruiting new waifus should be the driving force to the players actions instead of grinding levels for PP and then doing an H-scene instead of actually progressing the story. There should be a PP system, no doubt about that, but the player should be given way more PP and just give the player a cheat code you have to enter or a button you can press for infinite PP so that those who really are content with the starting Waifus can just have that instead of forcing the player to eat bland sandwiches in order to get the the good pastries. Additionally I am somewhat concerned with the quality of P.A.N.D.O.R.A. As it is, it feels more like a few good looped gifs rather than a single, cohesieve experience.
Sure the speed slider is good but I know Studiofow can do better. Like way better. And I know im not the only one who thinks this way. The current system feels disjointed and incomplete as compared to the rest of the game which has had a stunning amount of care and love put into it. (Glad to see those 1.6 mil kickstarter dollarydoos aren't being put to waste but we would have preferred that that money be put towards P.A.N.D.O.R.A and the animations) Ok, onto the animations themselves. They are all spectacularly animated and look (and feel) great. However I feel like what we were expecting a half-length FOW movie with every P.A.N.D.O.R.A session rather than the collection of jumbled gifs it is right now. FOW said that they wanted to make a "game" and we respect that however amidst all the excellent writing, good combat and excellent talking animations, I feel like the core of the game was lost or not worked on enough. Moving on the other elements of the game,
The space/SHMUP sections are well designed but require both a mouse and KB which is bad for obvious reasons however the grid combat sections do not require a keyboard. They are fun to play and serve well as the main gameplay of the game. They are both surprisingly well polished since in most H-games, there is only "gameplay" and "story" and its refreshing to see something like this.I only have one complaint about it that combat should not be the main focus of a game like this (IK its FOW's game and they can do whatever they want with it but I, and most people were really expecting P.A.N.D.O.R.A if it was good and some fun gameplay and story to go along however it seems like that ratio has been completely switched. In conclusion, Subverse is a good game that is held back by P.A.N.D.O.R.A and a huge dissonance between what Studio FOW wants, what we (fans) want and what the actual game currently is. A complete rework of P.A.N.D.O.R.A and the ratio of gameplay vs "gameplay" is required however it can be fixed due to the game's "Early Access" status.
6.5/10
-BossPhase

So many renderings of characters and their cinematics are more than beautiful, it is a diamond in the rough I have bought it on steam and I do not regret it, its minigames are entertaining and you can unlock erotic parts

The only good thing about this game are the voice actors, however the lines themselves are kind of cringe, it tries to be some sort of Deadpool 4th wall breaker which can be a hit or miss for some.
Story isn't very good to be honest, the player doesn't make a single choice so it feels like a side project visual novel. About the waifus, they aren't really waifus, you don't develop any relationship with them, not much more to say about this...
The gameplay is pretty mediocre at best, both the grid combat and the shooter arcade game become boring after a few hours.
What about the porn? Well, you would expect to be good right? Too bad, cause it's actually the worst part of the game, it has absolutely no connection to the story, and even worse, it's just a 5 sec loop that you can't interact with, there is also no camera positioning and not a single fucking line of dialogue.

va - 5/5
story - 0/5
gameplay - 1/5
porn - fucking negative / 5

First thing i wanna say considering it's FOW Studio's game it is suprisingly tame. Imagine my suprise when science lady came aboard protagonist's ship with her "pets" and those lacked proper anatomy during scene. To the point: Absulutelly no sexual content in plot animated scenes (even droid have blue nipple covers ffs) makes this game not very appealing/fappable. It's like 9,5% of story cutscenes (done decent if that wasn't porn game, lips movement could be a thing thou), 45% space fighting game (not my thing but i assume there's plenty better games of this genre), 45% ground combat (X-Com did this 1000% better in like 1996, there is even porn game of that genre - PoP that does that tons better. Aaaand 0.5% of actual porn which is absolutelly amazingly animated but short and without any interactivity (camera rotation would be nice). I dig characters design and story is not that bad but like i said it's tame.

The story is "great" as in it is in line with what you should expect from this game: turns you on even though you're not doing it on the ship. The voice acting helps a LOT along with the dialogue animations.

Even the gameplay is cool, I enjoyed it, but the game is overall reaaaaally short and it's mostly dialogue. Not that the dialogue isn't fun, it really is.

The lewdness is one of the best as well. The game has mostly crap scenes in my opinion, but it's worth playing for the 5-6 scenes that are actually amazing.

got it on steam as soon as it came out i knew it wasnt going to be a "complete game" they said it the 29.99 is going to the next chapters released, as far as quality goes 5 story 5 acting 5 MC 3 i find him annoying and they have the physics like you would not believe, so is it worth 29.99 at EA probably since once its completed it'll be re-released at 60 then we can have the conversation if its worth that much