Others - Vesper - Lust & Hunger [v0.2.18.0] [Starhound Studios]

Vesper - Lust & Hunger is one of the most compelling games in development right now. The artwork is stunning, with every scene and character, especially Vesper, beautifully rendered. The writing is strong, with an engaging story, rich detail, and a protagonist whose depth and growth are a pleasure to uncover.

Daily activities offer great variety, encouraging experimentation and long-term planning, and the adult content is handled with care and purpose. The menu is intuitive, and shopping for outfits adds fun variety. Overall, the game strikes an impressive balance between style, substance, and player choice.

For improvements, animation would take the visuals to the next level, though it is understandably a big task. The gallery could be condensed, and the 90-day timer, while narratively fitting, can feel rushed, perhaps allowing players to end the game manually after Day 90 would help. Skill progression is slow, requiring trial and error across playthroughs, which could use some fine-tuning.

Huge thanks to Starhound Studios for creating such an enjoyable and rich experience. I am excited to see what comes next.

The stat system is soo shit, you must do 3 activities a day by day two you would have maxed your hunger and gain insanity when that fills you instantly lose.

Does the game explain how to lose insanity nope got to figure that shit out yourself. You can only hunt once a day for an RNG chance of reducing your hunger and sanity less than what you would make in a days activity. You can steal blood once for free, or save money to buy blood bags from the the odd shop.

Now you want to play this game cheat, even if it's just money to but stack of blood bagsso you can play the game.

It's really good.
One of the faults I have with this game is that its grind isn't very pleasant. It is a young game though, the grind might change, the grind might be more responsive or rewarding or reaches a point of things helping you along to grind faster or more efficiently.
All of the art IS REALLY GOOD. Like yowza. It has a few of classic and good fetishes; like tentacle fucking and anal. It has a corruption mechanic, it is kind of good with telling a story. Like, it is telling a story more than a LOT of other games I've played.
Mostly because... I DO NOT WANT TO READ A LIGHT NOVEL. I don't need that many words. I just skip over through to play the gameplay on a lot of porn games. This game gets around that by a lot of 'show and response'. It shows you, physically, what's going on in the story. And it is responsive to your actions.

It's well made.
It has good art
It is a bit of a grind, but does have a walkthrough, so navigating is a lot easier. The game is a little hard, but without requiring some skill level or some set of equipment or - you get the point.
Where the story is there, it's quite good
Good kink layout

Kinda hard to judge.
A lot of stuff is not finished yet and plenty of options say "not implemented".

I know, it's all still in development, I guess.

But the overall amount of content we actually have already... Is not satisfying enough.

Overall a four-star-rating...

IF NOT FOR THIS TRICKERY!
This gif in the description made me believe, I'd experience a game with animated scenes!

Sadly, it's not the case.
All I got was static images in some "slideshow" (one after the other)
I was not even able to get to see the scene from the gif, iirc

[v0.2.14] Considering it's still pretty early days for this project, I think it has the potential to be a legendary game.

It does have some flaws, most of which surround progression feeling slow, and this version being capped to 100 days, it limits your ability to explore some paths. Some paths will take an entire playthrough, while other paths have next to no content and lock progression from other paths.

It feels like progressing paths, simply involves picking the same 3 "plan" events every day, and then drinking blood when your on the verge of going insane.

Issues aside, the art work is amazing, the fem protag is sexy, and the text about her descent into depravity is well written, and the event stages are sufficiently kinky. I'm excited to follow this one.

excellent setting - maybe be the F POV of this give unique vibe compared to other vampire genre games.
Game is not endless point and click spam, progress i well rewarded.
animations are good
performance could use some work, but i think it is better compared to previous version.
extra points for story for not dragging the progress or advancing .

This could be a very good game someday. For now it's just a scarcely organized, underdeveloped, easy to game over grind game with very little to do. I really hope i get to see a mature or even completed version of the game to give a stellar review rather then to see it abandoned in one or two years.

It's not great at all, there are many issues in this game.

Route lock - the game locks you into one of multiple routes early on, so you have to replay the entire thing from the beginning if you want to see more than 15% of game content. Moreover, some of the routes are incomplete and very short, with little content to show, you can go through 90 days seeing 2-3 scenes or less.

Clumsy stat system - 400 stat limit makes little sense, stat grind is annoying and choresome. And with how the game works you can only max out or use few stats. The stat implementation is not great. Much of the stats have no practical use in the game.

Time limit / deaths - there is no particular reason for timelimit to exist other than to hide lack of content and force players to replay the game with another route. Sudden death due to missing "insanity" stat going to 100% and lack of autosave makes it all worse.

Some scenes are triggered automatically after X days. You cannot really trigger them on your own. Some scenes are repeatable with a ton of text that you have already read, and need to skip over and over again.

Gallery is CG's only, no scenes replay.

I kinda liked the story, but the constant game-over choices and being forced to start over from start is just to idiotic and having no auto save or hell even manuel saves is even worse.

Also one of the game-overs where you choose to run away is the most stupid thing in the story, i mean you can be almost sure you got some old vampire coming for you wanting to kill you for getting hes girl killed and yet staying behind and wait for him is the right choice? running to away to start over somewhere else is game-over???? instend MC wants to get ready and get stronger? lets be real she wouldent lave a day before the vamp would find her....its stupid.

And thats just the freaking prologue as well? why the fuck have game-over choices in a prologue?

Then story goes even more stupid, MC steals blood and starts thinking that it might be better to become a prostitute instend of a thief??? what kind of idiotic writting is this? how would being a prostitute ever help her get blood? i mean seriously lol what the fuck.....
Next she gets cought stealing blood and this brainless MC gives the idiot guard her real name? and if you do nothing MC cant get away, i mean its not like she a vampire or anything right, she cant just knock hes ass out or kill him no no she can bribe or be a whore? and thats the one thing MC would want to avoid since she knows how that ended up with the one who turned her into a vamp......

This game has nothing to do with vampire or being the strong MC, its all about becoming a whore, not even corrupted but stright up just a whore training game, you can be prostitute or become someones pet and so on, its proberly the worst and most idiotic story for a vampire background.

Add to that all the grinds you need to do, it becomes a really boring sandbox with an awefull story that just dosent make sense, the real problem is when a game turns into a grinding game instend of story based and thats what this does, you grind and grind away to gain start points, blood, money and so on just to unlock next option for some porn to happen, it feels like work and thats just not my idea of fun.

As for the art its great but art alone cant carry a game in any way, there has to be a worth while story or its just not playable, the only reason i give this 2 stars instend of 1 is due to the art but thats about all that is good in this one.

Rare 5/5 for a game still in progress!

This game has sooo much potential so I'm excited to see what comes next. Do note H-gamers: As of now do NOT worry about stats beside lust, exhibition, and drunkiness. These are the only stats as of now that impact gameplay (Speed does as well when it comes to hunting, but you can get blood other more...interesting ways).

Vesper - Lust & Hunger [v0.2.7.0]
I grabbed the Guide, which was confusing to start because some of the first scenes for the Old Shop you cannot even unlock till later. It is best to look through the entire guide (if you're okay with spoilers) so you can focus on whatever path (thief, prostitute, or stripper) and how to trigger the scenes.

+ I love the art. It's beautiful, evocative, sexy, and the female MC is hot.

+ Nice writing. Even some of the scenes give enough dialogue and/or description that it feels like a mini, sexy short story (though really not that long).

> Even though there is a lot not working yet, I do appreciate the 'placeholder' pieces letting us know what is coming.

-- My only negative is there is no cross-over between paths. Once you're on a path, you're locked in and limited to those scenes. Which makes little sense that the MC is not allowed to be a stripper and prostitute at the same time...but maybe that will come in the future once all paths are flushed out and then crossover added later.

OVERALL:
I found the Mandatory Start in the discussion threads and that helped not waste time (no need to get Speed via Running higher than 51, no need to waste time on skills that don't help a chosen path, etc.)
I'm looking forward to future releases.

As others have said, the art is heavily carrying this game which is very disappointing given it has a good premise and early on it seems it'll have an actual story. As of v0.2.5.1 it's honestly a waste of time, the grind takes forever for barely any content, if it was more straightforward you could be done with everything in under 30m. Sure, it's an early version, but the game has been out for 8 months at this point, there's other games out there which won't disrespect your time like this.
Extremely repetitive, very few scenes, meaningless stats (like charisma)... If the save file format was different I'd just edit some variables and skip to the end instead of doing the same meaningless tasks everyday.

Vesper - Lust & Hunger
Rated version: [v0.2.5.1]

There's a lot of good about this game. Standout and beautiful art, intriguing setting and premise with a variety of different activities. The potential of this game is really great with future updates.

However currently it is brought down by some annoyances and repetitive content. I don't personally mind branching locked paths & limited amount of days if it serves a purpose, but a lot of your time is spent grinding same events for money or blood and some paths lock each other out for no real good reason.

I would rate this 3-stars in its current state with a potential of 4-stars with further content and some re-working of existing content & mechanics.

Absolute standout game. There are some minor flaws - it's a little grindy and skipping through dialogue you've seen before needs to be instant not just shorter, also the game is not fully fleshed out yet and some story paths are pretty barebones compared to others.

The prostitute path clearly has the most content but is not obvious to access as you can't start it until you have enough lust and might end up locking yourself out with one of the other job paths in the meantime!

Everything else is fantastic. The art is gorgeous, the writing is great, there are a variety of kinky things on offer and clearly more to come based on the stubs of some areas currently in the game.

Good game, will follow future Progress.
I like the Art and the kinda grindy feeling is also nice.
I dont like the 30 day limitation and i would love something like a cheat client so you dont have to start anew everytime.

What a fantastic game!

The graphics are amazing, in my opinion, they deserve a 10/10.

The gameplay is also excellent, 10/10, and I would be very happy to see more updates and content in the future. There are many options and paths to explore, but I would love it if there was a way to skip the intro.

I don't have many tips on how to improve, as I like to let myself be surprised by the game. I just hope the development continues, because the potential is huge!

Not sure how this is highly rated. It starts off as a vn with a couple choices you can make (that doesn't matter anyways)

Then you're thrown into a life sim, but with limited abilities. You can't be a stripper and a prostitute, you have to choose one.

The scenes are well drawn, but there was only one sex scene. The rest are pretty much oral/footjob/etc.

The story also becomes non existent. You get random events with pretty nice dialogue, but the rest is just grinding for stats so you can see new porn.

I give it a two stars simply for the mc. Zamn she saxy

Very good scenes, good story, and the MC has no right to be this hot.

Needs a gallery mode for sure, especially since you're locked into one out of a few paths early on (e.g. thief, dancer, worker) and can't access scenes from the other path. Also a bit grindy (to be expected from games like this). Looking forward to updates.

This game actually has the potential to be incredible. The story itself is actually really intriguing and it hooked me so A+ for the writing. With good writing comes good scenes and the artwork is some of the best I've seen in a while..

Quite literally have 0 complaints with this game except I wish it was already finished.

So much potential and I can't wait to see where it leads!

Looks pretty good, this is a visual novel with sandbox gameplay where you farm resources and pay the "rent" so to speak, Far too many things are filled with "not implemented" currently but this is just 0.1.49.0

What makes it different from a generic visual novel? The intro and the writing of the character dialogue. When you start saving and exploring different paths you will see what I mean.

Keep this one on your radar people.