Unreal Engine - Completed - Subverse [v1.0] [Studio Fow]

Funniest thing is that I remember playing/watching/interacting with FOW's Ahri Huntress of Soul first. Taron resembles very much her, besides the furry paws and other stuff. After some time (back in march of2019) I found out about Subverse through wallpaper engine... That's right ehh... Then I waited for early access to come to the Steam so I could finally play it (yup I bought it). The fuck scenes are OK, not the best in the industry and not the worst, but what disappointed me was gameplay overall. Guys at FOW said that they're gonna remake it a bit when 1.0 releases, but for me it felt the same when I bought it through early access and played it. Some parts of the story were funny, some were sad, some were shitty (few of side-quest characters stories were good). I expected more from guys that had biggest financial support from kickstarter campaign *sigh*.

Nice mix of mini games with pretty good gameplay, story is funny and very good animations, lacking in some customizations but there are enough.
Music during gameplay is also pretty good.
Can be a bit repetetive afther some time but not too much.

I played this game a year and a half ago in about version 0.8.

Now version 1.0 is out, do you think anything has changed? Almost nothing.

They added an ending to the story, but it was as sudden as if they ran out of budget. They added pretty lame customisation and personally in my opinion none of the costumes are hotter than the vanilla ones, the credit for vanilla outfits goes to the outsourcers.

Also added devotion quests, some person in the reviews below wrote that for the sake of them worth enduring the whole game, I believed and thought they added the same interactive animations for all the characters that we were shown with taron on the ship when you flew out of the fortress in version 0.8. And it would have been a great opportunity to add these interactive scenes and fit them into the game but they fucked even that up. Not only that but they cut out single interactive animation. Devotion quests in terms of content is only a pre-rendered cut-scene with pretty bad angles which i dont find hot.


Let's talk about pros and cons:
Pros:


+++ Great memorable character design, professionally made by some Indonesian or korean outsourcers(probably) according to the credits

+++ Kinda professional voice acting


Cons:


--- Repetitive gameplay and missions. Although the game design is neat and i like it, it lacks variety and is not intended for game this long

--- If there was an award for the cringiest humour in games, this game would win it.

--- A lot of grind for devotion quests and customisation.

--- If im not mistaken, in version 0.8 there was a button to quickly skip enemy moves in turn-based mode, I don't understand why they cut it out.

--- They advertise this game as having 239 scenes. 90% of those scenes are purely animation loops, I don't see what the point of those animations having no ending. So if you only consider animations with orgasm progression, there are like 20 of them which is quite low.

--- Scenes are stuffed into a pandora system where you have to pick 5 pieces of animations and run them, I don't understand this either, why not let us run any animation without this pandora system which does nothing but make us press more buttons??

--- Also all these scenes have a fixed camera angle probably because of the rather flat animation style as animators do not animate those body parts that are not visible in the frame, so even if you install the plugin on a free camera, any other angle than the set one will look bad. Which in my opinion is also quite a strange decision, you make a 3d game why not animate in all angles? With the same success they could have stupidly done it with pre-rendered cutscenes

--- They foreshadowed intercourse with celestina the whole game, but they never added scenes with her. It's very rude to add sexy characters and never do scenes with them. And it looks like they do not plan to, although there is one empty slot for the character left, but it looks like it is for some fow-chan

--- I saw they promised in steam devlogs to add scenes for Taron and bring her scene count up to the level of the rest of the characters. 2 fucking scenes with progression... As I mentioned earlier they also cut out her interactive scene. Whereas for Sova they made highest number of scenes with progression, but I don't believe most people like shortstack women more. The author probably just does scenes with what he likes best and doesn't listen what community wants. They had to set a standard for the number of scenes and stick to it evenly for each character.



I don't recommend wasting your time on this game because it's a disappointment no matter from which way you look at it. If you're interested in H content, to be honest, you don't even need to download it. Just watch all the scenes in the form of video somewhere on the Internet, these scenes have fixed camera angle anyway.

All that money just for the sex scenes to be from pandora. how fucking lazy is that. Seems like they wanted to be deadpool 2.0 but realized that they have to make a porn game in the middle of development and just slapped pandora in. Hopefully they go back to making animations since this is not it.

Solid game. Fun, good dialog, good acting, great scenes. The gameplay does get rather repetitive, but overall it's excellent.

Doesn't push any bounds graphically during actual gameplay, and there's very little if any interactivity during scenes, but it's very well done.

After downloading the full save (I had done enough grinding during pre-release) I am pretty disappointed that the additional "outfits" and "hair" are trash. They're basically just one skin tight jumpsuit, which is stupid, and different (worse) colors for hair. Considered knocking off a star, but it's still a really good game. I maintain hope that hair and outfits may become more than a gimmick.

Here is my review for the game.

No spoilers here; you can read safely.

TL;DR

• Would I recommend this game if you speak fluent English? Yes, I would. Despite its shortcomings, it is still a high-budget game with relatively good lore, even though the storytelling can be somewhat naive. The vocabulary used is quite sophisticated, and the voice acting is excellent.
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• Would I recommend this game if you struggle with English? No, I would not. It would be similar to playing The Witcher 3 in English; a vocabulary that is highly sought after can also be very obscure for non-English speakers.
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• Is this game good? I'll give it 5/5 as a hentai game on this one, even though it may not necessarily be good fapping material, as I don't even feel horny 99% of the time playing this game even during H scenes. The main reason for 5/5 is not because it is amazing but because there isn't any comp (comparable game) out there. This is "one of a kind".

The Positives:

1. The devotion scene after completing the devotion quest (for each character) is extremely good (No kidding, extremely good, but you would not be able to unlock the devotion quest until ACT 5, so no matter how much you dislike the plot between ACT 1 to 4, please just believe me, the devotion quest at Act 5 is all worth it.)【I have a save file called "perfect End of Act 4 save for 1.0", where you could start from ACT 5 and experience the devotion quest yourself without sitting through the boring Act 1 to 4, you can find it here https://f95zone.to/goto/post?id=15474661
2. There are an abundance of scenes (seriously, a lot!)
3. The Art and the 3d model are really good for this woke day and age, it is a porn game after all
4. The game is fully voiced, and the voice acting is exceptional, maybe better than 90% of the typical anime dubs.
5. The animations are really good (high budget) for the genre.

The Bad:

1. As many have pointed out, this game feels "like a river wide, but only an inch deep." While it features an expansive lore, everything just feels too shallow. You can easily sense that each act was written at a different time (the game was in EA for many years), resulting in a lack of coherence between Acts and occasional contradictions with the in-game codex. Additionally, all the side quests are just sarcasm/complaints of the real-life from the dev team, completely disconnected from the main story, most of the side quests do not stay true to the game’s lore.
2. The combat is highly repetitive (especially the space fights) and it involves a considerable amount of grinding (a lot of grinding!). This issue is exacerbated by the fact that none of the previous saves from the Early Access version are compatible with the 1.0 release, forcing players to start over and endure the grinding all over again.【Hence I made a save file that has all side quests and space battles completed and ready for you to start ACT 5 with no worries, you can find it here https://f95zone.to/goto/post?id=15474661
3. Contains A LOT of sex scenes, but the camera angle is fixed. Even though the 3d animation is rendered on the go on your PC, as you should be able to switch angles, but you CAN'T for fk sake.
4. (There's supposed to be a free camera mod on Steam where you can unlock the camera angle but I am not sure if it still works on the 1.0 build)
5. sex scenes are detached from the storyline and feel meaningless.
6. Except for the devotion quest, which is still detached from the storyline, but at least the movie itself is extremely good.

Conclusion

• You can sense that this game aspires to be like Mass Effect with sex. It starts off very strong, but then everything falls apart as the developers realize their ambitions are too high and scale back dramatically. As a result, the storyline becomes extremely shallow, particularly toward the end.
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• Nevertheless, it still stands out as "one of a kind" and has a somewhat Venusblood-esque quality in certain aspects. So, it is worth playing as a Hentai game. But disregard the exclusivity, think of it as a Visual novel, it is only a 2/5 at best. 2/5 for combat mechanic. But putting all together, there is just not a comp so I give it 5/5.
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• As for "Is this game worth the money I paid for?" I think it is worth $29 (the price before the 1.0 release, as they jack up the price to 39 on the 1.0 release.) "Is this game worth the budget they have?" That has to be a hard NO, but you are here to download an illegal copy of it, so the PRICE does not matter. I, as a person who bought it on EA, am only happy because it at least got finished.

Great game.

Both flight and ground combats are fun and well designed and sufficiently challenging.
The story and characters were pretty good and engaging. Personally liked the quirky dialogues and comedy.
The scenes were really sexy especially devotion quest scenes and glad that there were plenty for each character.
Both the CGI and voice acting were also really good.


Now, not to sound like another pathetic little loser whining about a game for which I didn't pay a dime but small nitpicks(/or suggestions):
-The rewards for devotion feels a little lacking (compared to how much grindy it can get). Maybe add(/move) a few pandora scenes as reward.
-Could do with few more outfits. Also wish the undressed outfit could be wore all the time and not just in pandora.
-Would be pretty nice if there was also sex and not just poses in gallery.
-It would be cool if girls interacted with the mantics in background.
-Need Dallick and Celes scenes.

Anyway looking forward to what StudioFOW does next, whether future patches or a new game (a fantasy setting maybe).

Not so much sex scenes, Pandora sucks, grindfest gets really boring, and I didin't like the humor of the game. The gameplay gets stale very soon.
Nice animations, nice graphics, but nothing else.
I can't fap to this game. Too much grinding for a few sex scenes.

I love the devotion quests and outfits. Plus the girls are awesome, they're well written and incredibly voice acted. This isn't a very objective review but rather a subjective review based on my personal enjoyment.

3+ rating overall
I do recommend the game but be aware of what it is.

All the criticisms are warranted
but i think the voice acting, animations and cutscene are to high quality to be associated with the average 1-2 star rating.

The gameplay is serviceable as well but its to simple for how long the game is. This is best played in sessions.

At its core the vision is just to compromised. This was marketed as a good product for vanilla guys like me with terms like "waifu", the Mass Effect association and the meme writing. (its not)
If you are not into "bestiality" this is quite lackluster.

When it comes to the girls themselves...
They are varied thats for sure.
Demi and Fortune are the best ones imo. Voice acting and design.
The others are a mix of grading accents like good ol br`tish, vocal fry or high pitch loli and Ok designs.
Not a huge fan but some of them have a good scene or two.

I still recommend it bcs there are some quality animation. Especially the faces have good detail and expression range.
The writing is on the "reddit" side of things but there were a few funny situation. "You have my sword, and my hammer and my bow, ...and my bong"

The devs definitely have the tools to make a great adult game but they have to mix them better and sharpen their focus.

Review as of 1.0

Great game, I would say it's one of the best indie game out there, the gameplay (I really enjoy grid turn base combat), the story, the characters etc. And with the adult elements, it could be one of the perfect big adult game out there.

But it just unfortunately (sadly and miserably) fails to be a good "adult" game... because most of the sex scenes were most behind some GIFs-playing thing called PANDORA (which offers a little interactions, dialogues or even dirty talks from the girls)???

Though of course there are some scenes part of the main story (devotion quests, Ela's first cutscene) but it's just not enough compared to effort Dev given to those PANDORA stuff (I mean some scenes were hot but it's not that different from scrolling through rule34, Pornhub or other porn websites rather than playing a "ADULT GAME")

I wish more scenes were part of the actual gameplay instead (like devotion quests for each girls, that's how the adult scenes should be integrated in the game) (or better Ela's cutscene where she shoots a scene with Captain for example) (or even in an easier way, making some lead-in dialogues and lead it to existing PANDORA scene, that'd be a bit more acceptable)

Great game but the potential of being the perfect adult game is wasted

V.1.0
Pros:

• Good character designs
• Great voice acting.

Cons:

• Grind is still a nightmare, simplistic gameplay should not overstay its welcome by being mandatory to perform 30+ hours into the game for 3 minutes of content.
• Questionable gameplay design, bullets that move slower than your ships, instead of being a shmup where you gun down enemies on a fast moving ship there is a lot of waiting for your bullets to reach the enemies to damage them.
• Even decade old fire emblem knew speeding up repetitive animations and wave reinforcement was necessary in the isometric battler, but not here, you will slog through the grind with unskippable slow animations.
• Barely any character development, despite setting up introductions and plotlines, the only relevant content you get with them is... more grinding. Not exploration of their personality or sexuality, just more copy pasted battles.
• Animations are very sparse and lackluster compared to the dev's old production, in terms of both quality and quantity, made worse by the plot segregation from the scenes/loops itself.
• Of all the things to cut corners on a 20+ hour long game, I think the character plotline conclusions being a powerpoint slideshow is a mistake, its bad enough that they weren't developed, if even the grand payoff and conclusion isn't being taken seriously by the developers, how are the players suppose to feel attached or care?
• Yet another moved goalpost, game has finally left early access after years of development but promised content has been announced to come in dlcs instead of the finished game.
• H animations being locked away in Pandora, a restrictive scene viewer that doesn't let you cycle through whichever animations you want, instead of selecting whatever you want to enjoy at the moment, you have to preselect and lock in 1-5 specific animations you want to view and have to exit out every time you want to change content, which get very tedious as the majority of content in the game aren't long animations, but repetitive seconds long short loops.
• Who was the intended audience of this product? Were their backers and buyers celebrating that there are SFW restricted characters and censored-only content in the game?

1.0 Review

Got this on Steam years ago when it first came out, but what a disappointment it turned out to be.

Excellent production quality for a porn game but that's it. Subverse is unfortunately hampered by bad writing and an awful gameplay loop. Ultimately the porn scenes are locked behind an animation viewer with 0 actual interaction besides a very restrictive camera pan and zoom. Very few scenes even have a climax, just a single animation loop. You unlock scenes by leveling up your characters which forces you to play through either a space shooter and turn based grid battles, and both are tedious AF. Each girl also has a devotion quest and some alternative costumes, but they're locked behind leveling up so you're again forced to go through some very tedious gameplay.

You'll get a better story, gameplay and fap in games with a fraction of the budget of this game.

Painfully average sex game. There are much better visual novels out there. And this one fails to deliever on basically every aspect of it. Along with ludcriously frustrating and boring gameplay.

Uninteresting combat mechanics. A pisspoor story. And a setting written by what 15 year olds would consider edgy, funny, and meaningful.

If anything this is the least interesting game I've played, I've even bought the game back when it showed promise, unforunately that promise fizzled up when the combat mechanics came out. Turning away from an actual meaningful story or characters to sex jokes and poorly written characters. The entire reason people would play this is because of the characters, and they are laughably poorly written.

I am a fan of their animations but htey should've stuck to animations or gotten a game studio to make this game instead of in-house. Its very apparent this is their first game, and it shows how little understanding they have of what people want from a game.

If I am somehow more invested into a puzzle game like Huniepop and not this, it tells me the game-loop in this is poorly concieved. People do not want to work for every single scene with a character. Either decrease the amount of encounters and reduce the grind, or stick to one type of game.

There are already better games of this caliber that are hentai games that exist that do it better. This is also the problem with how poorly optimized the game is, and how lifeless the sex scenes are. What could've been a meaningful, fun time, is reduced to poorly built out, sex scenes that have nothing in them of interest.

This is probably the harshest review I've ever given to a game, but other than making a whole new game, this is a travesty of just a bad game. Don't waste your money, don't waste your time, find the videos online and avoid this game. Cause thats the same experience as it is in game.

Review for v1.0

Subverse is a game I've kept track of for a long time. With the literal millions going into the budget and a team of talent putting it together, this felt like it could be the first real BIG lewd game title. Now in a sense that's true, because it's no real question that this could be considered "AAA" in the world of lewd games. Unfortunately that title, perhaps unsurprising to many these days, isn't exactly an indication of something being good.

I've been a long time advocate of writing being perhaps the most important element of a good adult game, since that's typically what grips me into wanting to actually play them in the first place. I planned on sinking many hours going through this and giving it a real in-depth review, expecting it to keep me hooked enough to do so. That plan has since fallen apart, as after experiencing the writing in this game, I asked myself why waste any more time on this and downloaded a full save for the gallery. With that being said, here's where I will put the fair disclaimer that I did NOT play though all of this, and thus haven't seen a large majority of the content. I specifically played up until the missions where you recruit the elf pornstar girl before I just couldn't do it anymore.

I've seen the comparison made a few times and I think it's apt: this is like Borderlands writing smashed together with a Mass Effect inspired space opera of sorts. This game REALLY wants you to know it's a porn game. The script is filled with never ending cheesy lines, fourth wall breaking jokes, and just an overall juvenile level of humor that's baked into almost every facet of this game. For me, that makes it incredibly hard to actually care about anything going on let alone take it serious. You could argue I'm a fool for trying to do so in the first place, but the game is half story-related cutscenes that I have to sit there and watch (or skip) to progress.

It's not as if I necessarily hate the characters, as they feel endearing enough when they aren't plagued by the umpteenth corny porn joke, but another aspect that made it hard to enjoy this was the MC. The game offers no choice, nor is the MC any form of self insert. He's a smuggler with an Australian accent that wears panties on his head. Much like everyone else, it feels like half his dialogue is porn jokes. I just feel nothing towards his character and there isn't anything changing that in what I played.

As for the actual gameplay part of the game, there's only two parts where you're actually doing something outside of clicking into different rooms on the ship. The SHMUP ship combat and the tactical unit-based grid combat. Both suffer from the same issues: being repetitive and lacking depth. To unlock most things in this game, including a large majority of the sex scenes, you have to grind XP for the girls to level them up. You get XP primarily from these combat encounters, which means you'll be doing a lot of them. It almost feels like because they decided to have these two styles of combat systems, neither of them got enough focus to make them truly engaging beyond the first few battles you do. They almost overstay their welcome more than anything.

Now obvious praise where it's due: indicative of the huge budget, the production value of this is insane for a lewd game. Fully voice-acted (and done well too), many fully animated cutscenes, lots of work put into the UI, music, sound effects, etc. etc. etc. Too many details to name, but suffice to say this does feel like a game with a ton of work going into it. Which is good, because it is. It's by no means average.

The last part of this is the sex. Again given the super high production value and the teams previous works, the scenes LOOK great and are animated very well. But the thing is, what is really separating this from being a gallery viewer you have to grind to unlock scenes for? Honestly, very little. This is because like 90% of scenes aren't actually built into the story but instead just exist to be viewed solely in the gallery. It's another thing that makes it hard to really connect with characters, but considering the games writing maybe it's a good thing the scenes don't have any dialogue either. So maybe they lack on certain qualities, but are they still satisfying to view so to speak? Yes and no. There exists what are essentially premium scenes that have a speed slider and a cum button, but those make up only like ten percent of the total scenes available. The rest exist as short loops without those things. Not to mention the extremely limited camera control, where penetration is often hidden. Edit: I took a look at some of the devotion scenes, and again while high quality, they suffer from similar issues. It's just a longer cinematic you have no control over with characters I don't really care about.

I feel like I've ranted about this more than put together a coherent review really detailing why I don't like this, but the TLDR is that while yes this is obviously not your typical porn game given the money and development that went into it, it ultimately fell short for me as a game that just couldn't keep me engaged into any of it. If there's anything I could have personally changed about the game, it would have been to take itself more seriously and ironically engrain the actual sex scenes into the story. The trend of me being let down by games I've waited a long time for unfortunately continues.

First of all I need to say that the worst part of the game is the dialog and it made me cringe more times than I can count. It makes fucking Borderlands of all things look like a masterpiece by Nietzsche in comparison.
Just because it's an adult game doesn't mean you NEED to say an obscene word every sentence, worst of all spoken by Australians with a thick accent. UGH that should be considered a war crime.
Also, if you break the 4th wall too many times, the whole roof will fall on you and you won't have a story left because you don't care enough about it. Which in turn makes us not take it seriously either and skip through the dialog.

Gameplay consists of rounds of bullet hell and turn based combat ala heroes 4 scattered on planets you need to discover just like in mass effect.
Sex scenes are unlocked by leveling the girls and they aren't part of the story except the first ones. Which is the other massive stain on this game. How can you sit in development for years and not think that maybe you should integrate the sex in the story or gameplay, and not just leave it like random r34 to be viewed on the side?

This ain't the one, chief. The score is not compared to other games, I'm scoring this game as per the expectations they've raised for soooo long.

Gameplay: Fun but gets stale/repetitive.

Lewd content: Lotta scenes, only 15-20% of them with option for climax and speed/variety slider. The latest added scenes in Pandora are often not lip-synced properly or with visual glitching. Seems the team was in a rush to release the product.

Humor/Script/Story: abysmal, juvenile. Ha-ha, dick ships, flat sex puns 95% of the script, but game still trying to convince you this is a high-stakes mission you're on. You don't play that game for the story AND the lewd, only for the lewd (and it seems that was the goal of the studio).

Notes: Last version I played of this game before its release was 0.8. I feel like almost nothing changed, aside from adding devotion cinematics, re-ordering menu contents and cutting the huge game size. In fact, in 0.8 there was a pretty cool experimental interactive Taron scene from Act 2 that was cut (remade into a static Pandora scene). So in some sense 0.8 seems superior to me, as it attempted to achieve something that's actually better than a ton of RenPy games - interactivity (yea, imagine actually utilizing Unreal Engine).

This game deserves way more respect and praise both for what it is and what it represents as the "1st AAA" game of this genre.

-INTRO-

Subverse is not perfect. I would go as far as to say it isn't even what I wanted it to be. That said, I think it blows 99.99% of it's competition out of the stratosphere. For that reason alone it gets a 5 star rating from me. At it's core, this game is a high production value VN with turn-based strategy and shoot-em-up segments to break up the HEAVY dialogue. I find myself fast forwarding through the exposition a few hours in, and while the story isn't anything revolutionary and the jokes don't all land, a certain self aware tongue-in-cheek charm permeates the entire atmosphere. Demi's naivete and matter-of-fact sexual directness, Dallick's stoner, street rat persona, The Captain's lecherous aussie swagger... Studio Fow clearly put forth great effort to bring these characters to life and I appreciate the art direction, character and sound designs and self deprecating humor.... however, it's obvious that this is a product of a film studio and not a game developer. While none of the gameplay is particularly bad, it's not terrific either. I'm having fun playing it, but the porn, the sole reason this game exists in the first place, is tucked away into an animation viewer in a menu. I would much prefer being able to initiate a scene by speaking with a waifu and either prompting her myself or being propositioned. It feels disconnected from the rest of the experience.

-IT'S JUST A SCENE VEIWER?!-

While the copious amount of sex the crew allegedly have with each other is heavily referenced in dialogue amongst themselves and with the people the crew encounter, it's not accessed naturally enough for me to believe it's actually happening outside of Pandora, the scene viewer, or the occasional pre-rendered cutscene. Grinding missions to level the waifus in order to buy sexy loops is one of the least engaging ways to integrate sex into a video game I have ever encountered. Brothels and strip clubs in video games have been around for a long time and in the one's that I've played, they are just... there. They exist within the greater world and I have the choice to navigate to and utilize them or not. Go in, spend the money you earned from questing or selling loot and reap the reward. Simple and clean. Most importantly, believable. I had a choice to go on the quest. I had a choice to spend that money. I had a choice to get to that small section of the game in the first place and because of that, the sex feels natural. Here, it feels like I'm grinding the actual GAME sections solely for resources just to then open a menu and watch a gif. That wouldn't be much of an issue normally. However, this is a porn GAME. THE porn game. Making the sex neither interactive nor meaningfully customizable is a true shame, especially considering the size and scope of what was planned.

-LET 'EM COOK-

Studio Fow was leagues ahead of their contemporaries in terms of animation, direction, depravity, and presentation at the time of this game's announcement... some odd years ago. Multiple Blender artists have since eclipsed that level of fidelity and I'm not as impressed or shocked by what they've brought to the table during this game's... controversial development period. That isn't to say the sex in Subverse is bad or boring. In fact, some of the scenes that have leaked over the years are still some of my favorites of the 3D/Animated/Rule34 category. It feels dated-on-arrival, unfortunately, and that definitely hurts the experience. That said, the smut still does it's job well. I be goonin.

-SO WHAT NOW?-

Subverse is a success;
A success in game development, making it's way through early-access hell
A success in proving that there is a real, viable market for NSFW video games
A success in being of high enough quality for people to see it's creation through, both financially and in terms of hype and community

But now what? Does Studio Fow support the game for years with bug fixes and DLC? Do they go back to making movies? Is another game planned? Was this entire thing a fluke?

I'm glad to see 1.0 sitting beside the title and I plan on finishing this game. Though... when I finish playing and see how much time I've spent during the session... I can't help but feel like this is all pointless. Subverse and all other games on this site exist to satisfy that longing for something missing. This game in particular is the best example of that sentiment. 4 years have gone by and it seems as though nothing has changed. A lil more polish... a bit more self awareness... another goal reached... and yet... more of the exact same thing we've come to expect over the course of this journey.

-TLDR-

A fun, yet paradoxically hollow experience that deserves to be recognized as the miracle that it is. If this isn't the future of adult gaming, I like to think it could be the spark that ignites a renaissance; Subverse may walk so that something greater can run. Time will tell.

Loving the update guy's, been so waiting for this.
Been following you and playing this for years now on Steam.

It's ad that my old saves don't work, but I can see how much your changed the game, and it's running much smoother.

Wish there was a hardness level box, I would set the game harder, but still loving it.

I am hoping that I can change the outfits on the girls soon, I don't know if this is a future update, or, that I just need to get my girls devotion level higher..

I am also pleased to say that I am no longer having problems with solar systems being cleared but saying there not all cleared.

Anyway, i'm going back to having a Mary time on the Mary Celeste

Version: 1.0
FOREWORD: I didn't get pass the tutorial. Quickest game I've ever dropped on F95.

[Story]- The voice acting is of quality, but feels weird. A little like Mass Effect 1 where there's a disconnect between lines. There are dialogue controls, but it defaults to autoplay. I didn't get to mess with this, but the autoplay flow was pretty good. The animation was terrible. It didn't really match the voices. Despite there only being one language(English), they didn't bother to lip sync and it looks stupid.

[Gameplay]- Controller control scheme is complete $%^&. Unconfigurable, and secondary fire is on the left instead of LB, while dodge was put on the RB for unfantomable reasons. You also dodge in the direction you're aiming... NO Controller icons or instructions. They do things in every mode, but you're left to figure it out. Mouse and keyboard configurable for every mode, but you can ONLY configure either a mouse button or keyboard key, not both.

[Scenes]- The scene control system(Pandora) is complete %^&*. Unexplained controls, and hard to figure out even with configuration and experimentation. Controller is even worse. You can "somehow" get to the camera menu and use d-pad to "navigate" it, but good luck with that. Some ability to hide the slider and no ability to bring it back. I liked how realistic Demi's mouth looked during the scene, and that's as far as I got, because I can't play a game where I can't even work the controls. Again, mouse and keyboard "works", but it's not Keyboard only or mouse only. You can't control the camera with the keyboard Or the controller(you can if you can manage to activate the camera menu "somehow").