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

Absolutely AMAZING, game. Still has some rough edges.

Played for about 2 hours and I'm not sure if you can replay levels. Although there is a "completed" section of the quests that
leads me to believe you will be able to.

Sex is more like a video and less inter-actable than some of the VNs people may be used to. Static camera angles. Single takes, etc. You can mix-match the different positions, but I feel they're a little on the tame side. Just a single, short loop of the same expression.

I'm hoping there's some RPG elements for your Mantics and self/avatar, but that may be unlocked later.

This is a REAL game, so don't expect PURE smut. Gameplay is fun and and easy to pick up, but not so easy you become bored.

I'm hoping there's more MFF, MFFFF, etc, and Group "activities" than just the basic positions. You should be able to pick any Position and apply to any girl. Camera should be FREE floating for those scenes.

Can't wait for the full release.

I wrote a whole motherfucking review but misclicked and now it's GONE.

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Let's be real, interactive flash level sex scenes are fucking boring and lame as fuck plus we know the Ren'py/RPGM games of F95 are better than this game despite the arseload of funds it has. I would much rather play the popular college experience games on this site than play something overproduced and largely uninteresting.

I came in wanting to drain my nuts, but whether you came for harem or NTR, you are shit out of luck. FOW might be talented, but I know half a dozen 3D smut peddlers off the top of my head that make better porn. Now imagine these reprobates trying to make a game. Prepare to be fucking bored.

There's no build up and no tension, "yeah" I hear you say, "this is a 0.1". It's clear from character dialogue and current sex scenes that this is not set to change. Good luck with 0.2.

Some of the jokes are funny but don't be fooled, they don't make the game worthwhile and are overused. The most egregious reference to be is the Shit (anagram for you amateur cryptologists) Code from Sci Fi Franchise No.3. This game plays like a prepubescent fever dream, not a barrel of laughs for the lads.

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I saved up three days of cummies for this and now I want to go to bed. Thanks FOW, you chinless, berry-picking, window-licking gimps.

Pros:
- Gameplay is simple, straight to the point. Its a porn game after all, I personally just want to get to the hot stuff.
- Its gorgeous, everything is animated beautifully, very cinematic too if you care about that at all.
- there are not too many but not too little waifus either, there are 10 in total planned to be in so far. I personally hate when games add 50 female characters but 40 of them have less than 5 scenes, id rather a game have 5 characters with 50 scenes each than have 50 characters with 5 scenes for most of them and a shit ton for a select few.
- There are 10 chapters in total but so far we have 6 which is pretty good for a first release.

Cons:
- Not enough main character on female scenes, unfortunately its studio FOW, and if you're familiar with their work they really like interspecies/beastiality in their films/games which is personally a HUGE turn off, and I know it is for a majority of people since it is a niche fetish and all. So here's hoping they add WAY more human scenes in the future.

so far this is all I have since I havent played everything up until the end, but ill probably come back and update the review once im finished.

Pros:
-Story, it's simple, funny when it needs to be, and not over the top
-Combat, straight to the point, not overly complicated
-The characters, diverse and plenty
-Voice acting, rivals that of some AAA games, enough said. Great choices.
-Sex scenes. Everything for everyone with the quality expected of Studio Fow, be it if you're into bestiality, or tentacles, or just vanilla, it's all there and the system they added is pretty intuitive

Cons
-The PP system, or how you unlock new scenes is a bit limiting. I can kind of understand what they were trying to do, but you got some playing to do to unlock them
-I noticed a few old sex scenes that don't quite fit in with the other much higher quality ones, not the end of days, but they do stand out
-No dedicated Save System, it's all based on autosaves.
-Can't hide the chat panel

All in all though, this is pretty much what I expected and here's hoping that this title will pave the way for other bigger developers to maybe make their own high quality porn games, not likely to happen anytime soon, but one can hope.
There's still a lot that can be done, but for an Alpha it more than delivers imo.

The gameplay is pretty good and responsive albeit a bit simplistic, the animation quality is probably their best yet, their implementation is the absolute worst they could have went with...

It's basically those flash games where you just influence the speed of the animation and when to cum, but in 3D, with no other interaction and single camera angle, in some scenes where the MC doesn't participate you can't even influence animation speed/when to cum. Really fuckin disappointed in that.

After many years of waiting, it's finally here! And somehow it is worse in v1.0 than it was in Early Access. At least in EA, you have hopium that it will get better. But the content given here is lacklustre at best.

Overall Score: 4/10

Pros:
+ Fully Voiced which is great! The dialogue is a little on the corny side, but it's a porn game so who cares.
+ Music is pretty nice. Nothing memorable, but not terrible. Sounds spacey.
+ The characters and their designs are *click tongue* nice~
+ The graphics and art style are incredible, definitely almost AAA quality compare to most other porn games around the western market.

Cons:
- The amount of loading screens kind of annoying. Whether this game started development 5 years ago or released today. The constant loading screen after every bit of scene, end of dialogue, and cutscenes is very exhausting. Like bloody hell, 1/4 of the gameplay is loading screens.
- The dialogue is incredibly cheesy, hard to immerse yourself in this world when the fourth wall is broken in almost every conversation. The dick jokes after awhile gets very very stale. The Fuccbots were pretty hilarious as well as Killi.
- Ground combat is in need of more refinement, feels very boring compare to other turn-based combats in other games. Space Combat is fine for the most part, but nothing that spectacular. Very repetitive.
- Sex scenes are quite hot for the most part. The Pandora system is a little weird. I was a bit disappointed in using a currency called PP to unlock them instead through story progression.

It's like the developers were trying to make something amazing like a AAA or AA porn game, but failed at game direction 100%. This is trying to be a Visual Novel and at the same time a video game yet fails at both. The best way I can describe this game is "wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle." This game felt like it was made from 2000s with some of the worst writing. It's pretending to be something that it is not. It is a glorified VN with sub-par game direction.