Unreal Engine - Completed - Subverse [v1.1.0] [Studio Fow]

This game is a mishmash of multiple different genres. You've got turn based combat, and then a space bullet hell shooter. Neither of which are very in depth in terms of mechanics and gameplay, both are really surface level. The sex scenes are good, but the grind to get them is super tedious and time-consuming . My main gripe with this game is the fact that the porn content and the gameplay are completely mutually exclusive, there's no porn content within the actual gameplay, you exchange sex scenes using currency you earn via gameplay, it's essentially just a porn viewer with boring tedious gameplay attached to it.

I finally completed it 100% - which absolutely wasn’t worth it, by the way -but I’m psycho and couldn’t stop. Let’s get to the worst part of this game: the writing style. I can’t begin to describe how much this overly sexual tone ruined the experience for me. I understand they’re trying to keep things from feeling too serious, but there should still be some balance. When the whole thing plays out like a giant circus, you lose all interest in the story and characters. Any hint of immersion vanishes, making the entire experience much, much worse.
Story - I’ll be crystal clear: I skipped huge chunks of the narrative because I genuinely couldn’t stomach the writing style, so I won’t judge the plot too harshly. From what I did see, it was passable. The ending felt rushed and messy, but overall it wasn’t terrible. I’m still baffled by how they completely dropped certain characters - like - into the void and never mentioned them again. I guess they just didn’t know what to do with her, so they swept her under the rug?
Gameplay - Now this is where I can really chime in. There are about 500 planets, and over half of them have combat missions. There are two combat modes: Space and Ground.
Space combat is a top‑down arena shooter where you pilot your spacecraft against waves of enemies. The arenas are virtually identical throughout the game, aside from about 9-10 story missions that add objectives like “defend this base” or “activate these beacons.” Outside those, you clear planets in the same arena over 3–6 waves of enemies from 3–4 factions that hardly differ. Your ship’s basic attack is a machine gun; your special attack depends on which crewmate you bring along - some are useful, some aren’t really viable. By halfway through the game, this all feels like a tedious, boring chore.
Ground combat is turn‑based and XCOM‑style. You have a grid and four units (your hero plus three mutants), and you basically replay the same setups every fight, because there's no real reason to change it. It’s marginally more interesting than space battles, but still repetitive and boring long before you finish.
Waifus can gain experience by either completing missions with them or giving them gifts that you get for those missions. With over 500 planets (the majority of them are combat) to clear, imagine how much you’ll grind - and for what? I maxed out my party levels long before I ran out of planets (like ~350/500), and the extra XP does nothing. And that, WITHOUT the gifts. Clearing the final 150~ planets was pure torture. I would’ve preferred half as many planets with more varied, deeper encounters. Both space and ground combat lack sufficient depth and grow monotonous fast.
Lore - There are intriguing ideas sprinkled throughout, but they’re never properly developed. The dialogue’s tone undermines immersion with cheap one‑liners and distracts from any world‑building they attempt.
Characters - Introducing new crew members right at the very end is weird af. You should have your full roster by the second act, save maybe FOW‑chan. Getting a new waifu in the last main missions feels completely out of place.
As for the main cast: some character designs (like Demi are pretty cool, but most are generic and forgettable. Each waifu effectively has two outfits - the base look and the one unlocked after her devotion quest. When it comes to their personalities, the situation is grim because they barely have any. Perhaps the writing tone is to blame again, as the characters' personalities blend together with only slight variations. Taron and Ela, for instance, might as well be the same character.
NSFW Content - Most of the erotic scenes live in “Pandora,” which is essentially just a glorified gallery where you unlock new scenes for waifu levels. Basically a porn slideshows with no dialogue or story context. The animation quality is solid, but that's all there is to it. The main story includes one scene per character unlocked at recruitment, plus a second scene unlocked after completing their Devotion quest. These devotion quests are hands‑down the best content in the game, gameplay and scene-wise. I also add that the first recruitment scenes that you get in the game were clearly made without the game context, because they don't make much sense in the context. Taron’s first scene, for example, makes little sense in context: the events leading up to it have nothing to do with what actually happens in the scene.
2,5/5

Well i actualy realy liked it.
GAMEPLAY:
It has a gameplay loop with basicly 2 types of missions space shooter, and turn based ground fights, there are a ton of these that are just filler missions for the player to unlock all the scenes. But for progression non of them is needed. during the main plot they have a lot of variations of the core modes like a space shooter mission that let you sneak into a base while avoiding security drones. Should a mission frustrate you after 3 loses ever mission can be skipped.
STORY:
It is packed with sequences and with story bits and often realy high quality cutscence it felt like game and story is about 50/50 of the play time, the humor might not be for everybody a lot of third wall breaking and you the captain wears a panty of the equivalent of a jpop idol on his face/mask. the goal to liberaty the galaxy again from the religious leadership so everyone can get high and fuck around again is as noble as the loyality quests ( one wants ot become the sluttiest pornstart in the universe ^^.
ANIMATION
all the cutscenes are very well made high quality fluid and noteably with much effort put into them still they are not realy interactive a slider to progress through the scene an large portion of the qute big size of the game are the 4k story scenes (as mentioned there are many of them)
overall
i had fun

This is one of the better porn games I've had the pleasure of playing - I know obviously this is a reflection of the amount of resources and money the dev has behind this game, compared to a lot of other games on this site, but it is still very good.

PROS
1. Excellent 3D animations with amazing and sexy models (well this really depends on what kind of girls you want but think there will definitely be something for you)
2. Fully voiced game - all dialogues are voiced and gives so much realism to the game (very rare in this day and age)
3. Well written story - a well-balanced storyline combining an actual fully immersive world like a movie, gameplay - some cons there though (see below), and sex content
4. Open world gameplay - once again a rarity in porn games sometimes. You have the ability to navigate to any parts of the game (if unlocked) and choose which mission you want to do next. Of course the main storyline restricts you to the next main mission, but loads of side missions for you to enjoy)
5. Highly professional game design, with ways to replay scenes and do actualy fapping stuff to the game - a big plus from me!

CONS
1. Extremely long gameplay - not sure if this is an actual con, but for me being a guy who just wanted to fap to a good game, this took me on-and off around 5 full weekends.
2. Very repetitive gameplay - despite a good variety of battle gamplay (space combat, land turn-by-turn battle and tactical selection gameplay - yea I might have made it sound better than it is), it becomes repetitive very quickly considering there are around 450 planets to go to and do these gameplay on. The only difference is where your enemies are a bit different so you need to adapt your strategy a little bit, but even there it becomes the same very quickly. Can't fault it though - but perhaps a little less planets might help.

FINAL WORD
A very good action/adventure game with excellent sexual content embedded throughout. Anyone who wants to play this should adjust their expectations that this is not your normal porn game/visual novel that you can finish within a day or two - you should consider this more like a full-length RPG game with porn elements.

4 year project, a bit too long for my taste. Here we are playing a real action video game mixed with sandbox and visual novel mechanics. The overall effort is very high. The final result is good but not excellent.

Excellent stuff, truly enjoyable. Just wish they keep on adding more scenes in the pandora, it has a lot of potential. FOW-chan is a really nice addition to the game as well. Truly fapping worthy game.

A porn game where the h-scenes are not connected to the gameplay is not a good porn game.
In this game, h-scenes are quite quality but the lack of camera movement which makes it boring even though there are a lot of them. The gameplay is too slow and there is nothing special to make me feel interested.
Personal review: The anus is not clearly shown so you almost never see it even though there are a lot of anal scenes, it is a pity for the quality models, this is annoying to me and is a big minus in the overall review

amazing game love it , great voices great animations , great controls , the music , everything is on the point in this game , i wish all games made like this , hope you continue making other great games i will be waiting for your other great projects

FOW Studio is a big name in the animated adult scene I follow, so I was curious to give Subverse a try. Here's my honest take.

From the very beginning, the game makes it clear that it's not meant to be taken seriously - at all. One look at the main character, the Captain, was enough to disconnect me from the story and cast. The humor and tone felt too over-the-top to build any real connection with the characters or narrative.

Gameplay-wise, it's okay - not terrible, but definitely not engaging. I found the mix of gameplay types a bit confusing, and the adult content even more surprising, but not in a good way. There are some story-integrated sex scenes, but they felt flat due to a complete lack of buildup. Most of the adult content is tucked away in what’s called Pandora - which is essentially just a glorified Gallery Mode.

Pretty quickly, I realized this Gallery Mode was the core pillar of the entire experience. It’s the main reward for slogging through the rest of the game. If it had delivered, maybe the grind would’ve felt worth it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t.

While the animation quality is top-notch - as expected from FOW - the actual scenes lack any real context, progression, or interactivity. They’re very short, and you can’t even view them in 3D or engage with them beyond basic playback. That lack of depth kills the payoff entirely.

It’s a real shame, because the game had the budget and technical polish to be something more. But in the end, Subverse feels like a collection of disconnected ideas, loosely held together by a mediocre Gallery Mode that doesn't live up to expectations.

im trying real hard to play thru this for the first time and its kinda crazy

90% slapdash worldbuilding with pretty good voice acting and really boring characters with cartoonish idle animations moving their mouths

8% cute vanilla mini games including lite bullet hell and tabletop minifig combat

2% nice prerendered porn

so i care about 2% of this game but that 2% is pretty good

One of the most disappointing games I've born witness to. No promises were met, no expectations met, it was a floundering mess that didn't succeed at anything it set out to do, and in the end, didn't really succeed at anything either.

Subverse is a bold, unique experiment that blends genres in a way few games have attempted. Its strong visuals, humor, and engaging—if somewhat shallow—combat make it worth checking out for those who enjoy adult-themed sci-fi adventures. However, its slow updates and repetitive mechanics may limit its long-term appeal.


⭐ Final Score: 7/10 – Great potential, but needs more polish and content.

The characters and setting sell this game. Best VA work in any lewd titles, sexy fun characters and writing. Each fufills a different niche and fantasy. A variety of lewd content and I feel the new outfit system gives pandora a LOT more replayability, same as gallery. I also feel the pinups and audio tapes are underrated. I've lost my computer recently but damn I miss this game.

This game is a true masterpiece, combining stunning graphics, immersive gameplay and a captivating narrative. Every detail is carefully thought out, providing a unique and immersive experience that keeps us hooked from the very first moment. Simply amazing!

From time to time it might get tiresome and repetitive if you try to level up and unlock as many of those planets as possible but the story and the rewards are really nice/worth it. If you got the time and love a good story teeling with fun, also sometimes cringy dialogues, give this game a try!

The first thing i have to mention is that the voice acting in this game dwarfs even AAA games nowadays. Really kudos to the VAs.
The animations are also top notch. One of the best scene animations I've seen in this site.
That being said, there is a very big issue with the game. It has two versions in how the characters act. It seems to me that the devs didn't want to bother with developing the characters and just had them act in whatever way the story needed.

Girls.
The models are great. All of them are beautiful and have diverse personalities. Some are cute and lovable, others killing machines and psychopaths.
But there are two versions of the girls on how they act. In one version the girls act like complete sluts and will fuck anyone and anything. And the
other version has them talk with the MC about their feelings and how much they love and care for him.

MC.
Honestly, the MC was the worst part of the game for me.
Again the game wants to tell two different versions of the MC that are complete opposite of each other.
One, he is a complete loser with destructive tendencies. He doesn't care about anything else other than getting high/drunk and fucking. Most of the time he has to be told what to do and is saved by the girls or hiding behind them.
Although the above is in 90% of the game, there are times when the game presents the MC as a heroic man who will rush into battle and
will do anything to win.
Now i wish this was a character development for the MC, but the game inserts the heroic man version whenever it is needed. Once that scene ends the MC returns to being a loser once again.

The other thing that has two versions is the relationship the MC has with the girls.
There are times when he calls them his "waifus" and others that he calls them his "fuckbuddies".
Most of the game the MC is a cuck who doesn't care or even enjoys it when others are fucking the girls. In the ship, aside from the MC and the girls, there are also the alien monsters who fuck the girls all the time. The MC has
no issue with that and sometimes he watches them on the cameras while he masturbates. There is even a mission in the game where you have to protect people that you know that they are going to fuck one of the girls.

Then there are times when the MC acts like he is in love with the girls. There is also one scene when he learns that one girl fucked someone in her past and gets angry. Then he gets sad and calls himself a cuck. This scene was very confusing.

In the end, the MC is a sad and pathetic character that anyone with even a little bit of self respect will have a difficult time playing him.

The story is one of the things i enjoyed in the game. The plot twists (if you want to call them that) are obvious to anyone with half a working brain shell, but it was enjoyable nevertheless. The world building was great as well. The tone of the game, as others has said, is hypersexualised with "comic" elements. Although there are times when the tone gets a 180' and becomes serious.
There are only two things i didn't like in the story:

There are not many sex scenes in the story of the game. 2 with each girl. One when you recruit them and one at the end of the game on their personal
quest. But all of them are well animated.
But, there is a mode in the game called "pandora" where it has many short sex scenes there.

Now i know that that the game has an NTR tag and even in the description it says that it has "monster gangrapes". Although i am not an enjoyer of such things, i will not complain about them. I would not walk into a vegan restaurant and complain that they didn't have stake. That being said, the fucking alien monsters have more scenes than the MC. It is such a shame really.

Subverse definetely has a high production value, it looks great, it's fully voice acted and it's got a large map filled with content, but it's ultimately a boring game.

Most of the gameplay is space or ground combat missions which gets very boring fast because there is no variety, it's the same type of missions over and over. You have a lot of variety in units, abilities and enemy types, but the ground battles are over too quickly and the space combat always feels the same.

The world of subverse is fleshed out and interesting, but a big problem is the tone of the game which is hypersexual and vulgar in a humorous way, which some players might enjoy, but I don't like a game that doesn't take itself seriously.

The game doesn't have classic sex scenes, where short scenes are part of the plot, instead you have 1 long high quality animation with each waifu that you can only get at the end of the game, and very short animations you can unlock throughout the game. The long animations are great, but it's disappointing the game doesn't have classic sex scenes.

Overall it's a 4/10 game, it looks great but it's very boring

Shallow gameplay and even shallower porn, would be tolerable if the GRIND didn't meant you were forced to play the same boring minigame for hours just to get seconds worth of porn. I got so bored I eventually just looked up the events, only to learn that some major characters have zero porn events.... in a porn game. Did I miss the sign that says this game is catered solely towards grind fetishist?

I seen and played when first come out yes if that build still exist and they done same thin i think indeed this game worth like 2.5 star thats not a lie but right now ? thats insult this game have less budget than many top games here and yes i am not jokin even this game got million like 2 mil or less they cant use everything on game as kickstarter thing like you need to give back what you promised to fans.

So with less budget than Scam games on this site let me say this no not bad game sure its boring in some way some reason why they even tried to do this ? no idea even as just visual novel i think this game can be %1000 better yet they choose extra things ruined gameplay here yes this is big no no for many and for me.

Sex scenes amazing they improved even added sex cutscenes really highquality with DLC you can watch 4k plus many gifs like movies in PANDORA and yes yes yes i know its sucks right ? to not fuck girls any way you want or do things here especially with STUDİO FOW quality ? i dont have single idea why we dont have free sex scenes where we choose to what we want thats a BİG SHAME thats one minus here especially big minus.

Really graphics amazing girls amazing sex scenes amazing after seeing this completed i played again damn man why ? why they didnt made game with less game play and more visual novel style ? with free roam sex scenes ? shame really shame but even with all completed game deserves 4 STAR they done good work its not trash many people putting bad reivews for some reason but no other than grind its solid good game.

I really enjoyed the game, the story is quite entretaining and most of the grinding is semi optional. the main story if you dont skip it is quite long so your will be in for 30h+ of game 40+ if you do close to all of the star sistems