Unreal Engine - Wild Life [2024.12.13 Full Build 1] [Adeptus Steve]

Over-hyped and underdeveloped. For the size of the team they have working on this, you would expect something more than touch-and-go updates and maps that are 95% empty space. Animations are cool but my dude, focus your direction; The game has been 'in development' for 5 years.

TLDR: Wankmeter would be 6.5/10. Good sex animation looper with some customizations and hot characters and good graphics

pros:
-great graphics
-great animations
-beautiful map
-hot looking characters

cons:
-not enough controls over sex scenes despite the game being a sandbox game
-sex sound effects could be better
-the quality of the voice acting for sex scens are nice but it's quite simple and should have more complexity or more dirty talk since they are just looped
-devs are constantly adding new animations but that's it. It's a sex animation loop simulator, you can't set the animation in a certain order or intervals and despite having dozens animations they just seem like a mess, from going to blowjob to missionary to cowgirl, etc, there's no flow them at all, it's just one animation to the other

Final thoughts:
On the surface the game is okay for what it is, the animations are better than most if not one of the best, the grahics and optimizations are top notch in terms of adult games, but we are all here to wank aren't we? I'd say the wankmeter for this title is 6.5/10. If I'm very horny I could just get in the game and select a character I like and go straight through the animations and have a good ol' wank, but in depth? no I don't think this game will succeed as an RPG/Open World game, I've played the demo where the plane crashes and you fight your way through the forest. And yes it was shit. Simply put, of course the concept is amazing but seeing the progress done so far in the past4 years is just not eye catching, in fact GTA 6 and Elder Scrolls 6 will release before this game is done half way through IF the community is patient enough and to fund the team. I think focusing on the sandbox aspect of the game first, and polish them and to move on to the next goal would be a better idea, after all there's nothing to do in the game than to open up the sex scene and have some fun right? so why not focus on that?

I'll give it a 5*

"Why? There is no gameplay whatsoever, it's like a scene selector!!!"

Firstly, I set the bar very low for adult games.

But, this game has great stuff:
- It has amazing animations and a good amount of them
- Great looking characters, and good character customization
- Tools to allow user creations

Even if the devs decided to stop developing right now. I would still keep this rating. So I'm not evaluating the potential of the game, just how I feel about it right now.

Still, I think it's a waste to neglect the gameplay aspect. This disparity between sexual and non sexual content really annoys me. Yes... I know there is something in the works, but it's a major risk to fully develop a system for more than a year that people may not like. They should have tried to implement it in small steps a long time ago.

Anyways. For now it's just a 'scene selector'. It's not even a demo, because the vertical slice isn't complete since it's lacking the core aspects of a game.

I've been playing this game for a while now, and I think it deserves a proper review. A lot of people are calling this out as a "tech demo" or as a "mere animation viewer," and while it is in some respect, I think it's easily the best game in f95zone. It's not even close; other games are steaming crap compared to this, and I haven't even given a single cent to the devs.

PROS:
+ updates are relatively constant (every 2-3 months; every 4 months at most); constant updates and news about how the game is going

+ although updates are mainly new anims, the dev team always lets us know how the long-term development is going (story-wise, gameplay-wise, et cetera).

+ although a lot of reviewers call it out as an anim viewer, they don't seem to realize that there's already combat in place. There are basic, fundamental gameplay aspects in place that many other shitty patreon games don't have (e.g., actual crisp and smooth combat mechanics where you can block, counter and dish out attacks, inventory system).

+fuck ton of sex and porn. Variety of fetishes. Furry, normal, thin chicks, abbed tomboy chicks, gay porn, etc., EVERYTHING IS HERE. Other reviewers shit on it 'cause you can supposedly find the goods here from other 3d porn, but what they don't realize is that there's way more control here. CUSTOM cam presets, custom character customization, custom sex playlist, custom climax options, custom literally EVERYTHING

+massive potential with its sandbox. In the coming updates, you can most likely create your own scenarios and your scenes, and i think that's MASSIVE in the porn game scene. Remember, it's PORN FIRST before it is a game. There's a reason why it's a PORN GAME after all.

Cons:

- relatively slow development, but good things take TIME.

Conclusion:
If you can run it, play it. You will NOT regret it.

An excellent sex simulator. A terrible game. This is a huge issue imo after 5+ years of dev. Idk how people enjoy 100s of poses when they aren't actually incorporated into the game/gameplay. No sure why they tried to make this open world. They should admit it's just a sex sim and take out the open world component since there is barely anything there.

If someone would ever ask me what a cash grab is, i would point this way.

Sure, the graphics and animations look really good.
But according to their patreon this is supposed to be an open-world RPG.

So how much open-world RPG is there?
Well you can run around a poorly optimized tutorial area, shoot at things with barely functioning weapons and do a couple of fetch quests.
Overall an 30 minutes experience, maybe one hour.

The first post on patreon is from 2016, so for 6 years development time this is pretty embarrassing.

Currently this is just a sex simulator, there is nothing that you can't find on rule34 or any booru.

I've been on this game since its earliest builds and besides the regular updates, it has ton of content and scenes, but it lacks the gameplay and story it should be having alongside it's ton of H content.

The game is a triple A 3d hentai game that has pretty smooth and solid sex scenes. It has ton of different characters, fully voiced and is almost regularly updated.

It's one of the best 3d H games out there, try it if you haven't

The best game in its segment, my praise to the developers! Keep making this product, don't give up! The project is great!
Thank you.
I recommend adding holiday events, costumes. Create a theme and style.

Impressive Demo! (Review) [Build 04.03.2022 Patreon]
Total playtime: 45 mins
Number of faps: 0
Finished the game?: Yes

Game-play (4/5)

This is an open-world third-person RPG which heavily revolves around sex. You do the quests NPCs give you and then fuck them. The game looks absolutely stunning. It's very polished for a demo. Everything is responsive. It feels like an AAA game in production. However, currently, all aspects of the game is bare bones (combat, questing, etc.). There is a demo level you can play and finish under 30 mins, and a sand-box mode where you just roam around do simple stuff.

Sex(4/5)

The game has absolutely stunning models and well-made animations. Sex scenes and other dialogue are well-voice-acted. You can customize the clothing and appearance of the characters. The scripted H-events with NPCs are both sexy and feel real. Unfortunately, there is only a limited number of them, and they are very short. There is a sand-box mode where you can view all the H-scenes but it's super clunky to use. The game doesn't offer enough material to fap at the moment.

Verdict (4/5)
This is a great demo. Even if you are not into furry, beastial, and futa sex (like me), the game still has an equal amount of, if not more, human-on-human sex in it. Both the gameplay and the H-parts look promising. However, the game is bare bones at the moment. There is really not much to do. You can experience all of the game under 30 mins. This isn't enough for an enjoyable gaming or fapping session. Wait for a full release.

One thing to note is that all parts of the game, regardless of how bare-bones it is, is well-produced. Models, animations, game-play, etc. all feel like they've been developed by a triple A studio. I can see where the Patreon money is going.

Why only 2 categories (game-play and sex) for the review?
I only care about how good and entertaining the game-play (mechanics, replay-ability, enjoyment, etc.) and whether I can fap to the h-scenes. The rest doesn't matter to me.

Been loving this game for quite a while.
Can't wait until I upgrade my computer so I don't have to deal with crashing though. Smart 2017 me decided graphics cards were going to be easy to get in the next few years.

probably my favorite xxx game in the world. it had practically endless content since it is a sandbox. there is not much story yet but it is being developed. it would be better if it had some kind of character creation. animations are the best, graphcics are the best. just wow!

UPDATE 2023

The game lacks basic features and still has many problems.

1. The character system needs to be streamlined. What does that mean? There's three character types: Add Pose, Add Character, and the Character type spawned in a sex scene object. All these character types need to be merged into one character type.

2. ICCH_HOW is stupidly building an event system and LUA scripting system on top of an unstreamlined character system. You're supposed to streamline the character system first, THEN you add lua scripting & event system.
In other words, you guys are going to have to program twice as much to make up for his stupid mistake.

3. The Add Pose character can't even fucking move. The most basic feature in gaming history.

4. The Add Pose character has LookAt functionality, but the other character types in the sex scene object and Add Character do not. What a terrible fucking design.

5. The furniture is still being baked into the sex animation in 2023, this is unacceptable. You're supposed to allow us to make a party, then we press E on the couch, then the paired animations kick in while showing a universal pose menu. This is basic shit, but ICCH_HOW doesn't know it, because he doesn't study porn games with similar functionality.

6. I can't even make Maya sit in a fucking chair.

7. The Add Pose button is confusing. The word POSE means abehavior or gesture. The button implies you're going to make a new pose in the pose editor, when in fact it adds a character of which you have to set a pose, this makes no sense. We already start with Maya in a new sandbox, so why the fuck do we have to add her again via Add Pose? DUMB.

8..... DUDE. there is so many problems with the game still. I can keep listing problems, but it would take a life time.

______ old review ______
The new sandbox improvements and features have completely changed this game into something somewhat playable for me. I've been waiting for this since 2016-2017. We can now setup giant sex orgies in sandbox and customize and make our own scenes.

Pros:
- Excellent porn sex animations, best I've seen for 3d game. Instead of wasting time with Skyrim mods, everyone should be making mods for this game, hopefully that can come to fruition one day.
- You can create your own sexual scenarios based on fetishes you're into, there is a lot of different kinds of sex animations.
- The story has potential to be great. IMO it should cater to a persons sexuality and whether they are dominant or submissive; but if the story only ends up focusing on being a dominant male seeking a Harem, that's fine, you can't have everything; it would be fun to play a submissive male being femdommed by Shey while she's the hero.

Cons:
- It would be great if we could control who or what characters look at, even during sex animations. Let us make a character look at another characters eyes for example, aka head tracking, or have them look at another character's hip, as if watching the fucking or them getting fucked. Basically we need head tracking for characters, so they constantly look at character faces, character bones. This will make scenes feel even more alive. I'm sure a simple solution ca be found here, either look at and head track another characters face hip or feet? We can already make a character look at the camera, so having them look at other objects world XYZ position shouldn't be too hard to add. Or let us make a character look at props, then we can move that prop and easily control what a character looks at, instead of using the current direction method.
- Let us create our own facial expressions and save them, then use during sex scenes. This means a sex animation can have it's own facial expression baked in, but that can be overridden with your own facial expression. Then let us choose what the character looks at during sex.
- The sandbox needs a bed prop. There's a cot in the fisherman's village that would work, please add that cot.
- Let us change the color of the cum in the new cum prop in sandbox, it can easily be turned into a pissing object, all with a simple color change, then let us make it more transparent, as if it was just liquid water.
- Add a basic rock primitive that morphs in various ways, so we can create a beach like ground; that's not just a completely flat surface, basically it would let us create an uneven ground surface.
- Camera speed in sandbox mode, after pressing TAB, is just way too fast. It makes it very hard to find the proper camera angle. Even if you press K to slow the game down, the camera still moves too fast. It would be nice if you could hold shift direction to slow the camera down when in sandbox mode; after hitting the Tab Key. Edit: Restarting the game can fix this.

Outfits
- Make a basic top for all the women with sleeves cut around the top arm, then the top can be raised above the breasts like this: https://i.ibb.co/BCMKr82/Tes.webp
- Allow tribal outfits of various kinds to be worn by all the women, not just some.

None of these cons were used to give the game a lower score. It deserves 5 stars. This game is finally playable for me after nearly six years of waiting!

Version: Build 25.02.2022

This game can be describe as just a demo, a showcase of what it could be in the future, because of that there really isnt much to say in terms of story and progression, because there is no such thing.

First thing first, the graphics. man i dont know if my pc is just a boomer or this game is poorly optimised. I could not reach above 35 FPS the entire game, even when i lowered the settings to medium. That much was not really a problem for me, considering i dont really play games on this website for their performance and or graphics, im here for a "good time".
Although despite the fact that this game is a basic demo, i think it has some real potential to have a good story and some real gameplay, considering this game already demonstrated some basic, but good gameplay.

The scenes are pretty good, cinematic or manual camera, outfit choices, good 3D rendering and models. Just overall a real solid experience

Keep up the good works devs, looking forward to the actual game, not only the demo. xoxoxo

Wild Life is the greatest example of what a passionate dev team /w a decent backing should look like. Clear communication and a phenomenal game that has grown so much in the past few years. 100/10, Steve.

Quality of animations and physics is TOP of the line, it really gives a feeling where many other games fail. Not only that, but the amazing number of avaliable poses and characters is stunning, just like it's visuals.

I would just ask to have some more customization, but thats just personal taste.

In any case, this game is a must, the best of the best!

Great potential, great game and great time.

Best Sandbox out there.

2021-12-22 version

The 3D models are very detailed and with great texturing (I play in 4K), and the animations are really really nicely made. Some if not all are motion captured.

For now we only have a demo and a trailer for the story but it hints nice writing.

I am having a lot of fun and pleasure playing this game.

Although, the game need more graphic optimization. I have a 3090 with a I9 11900k and the framerate is not good enough. (Of course I play the game with max graphic options.)

Can't wait to see what's next !

Update: It is now 2.5 years since I first played the game. It's now July 23, 2024. I can't believe how terrible the game is now. The first time I played, it was outstanding and exciting. Now, I started up story mode and it's just an ugly, boring, cheap looking, plain looking sandbox where you run a bunch of miles between each NPC for them to give you a tiny bit of boring dialogue. There isn't even any music or voice acting. How did such a great game become utter trash? And it's been making $200,000 a month for the last 7-8 years. Ridiculous. Normally I would be envious and happy that someone succeeded in making that much money, but when I look at this garbage and how they become so filthy rich making complete crap I can't help but feel resentment instead of jealousy. They need to be robbed of all the money they ever made and never be allowed to make games ever again.

Update: It's been a year since I made this review, and there is still no progress on the actual game. Just the sandbox. This game has been around for like seven years and they had made millions and millions of dollars, but no work to the actual game (only the sandbox) has been done. Because of this, I'm going to drop my rating from a four to a one.

Wild Life 22.12.2021 Patreon

If the first official release of this game was one or two months ago, back in December 2021, then this very short demo is off to a great start and deserves 5 stars.

However, if it is true that Adeptus Steve and his team made their first release in 2017 and have been making a lot of releases for the last five years and have made around $4 million dollars so far, then it is completely inexcusable to have this short of a demo with hardly any content.

This game is a very short demo. You walk from a plane crash to a tiny village. The walk doesn't take long. You encounter some monsters along the way. Okay. Five years of game development to kill a few monsters? Come on.

Oh, but there is more. When you arrive at the village, you get your one and only mission before it is game over. Sleep with five ladies. That doesn't take long. One female just wants you to have your pants off. The other females aren't that hard to sleep with either. You sleep with all five and then the game is over. Nothing else to do. Five years of hard game development work for that? Seriously?

This game is one that you download and play the one mission "Side Bet" and then delete and never play this game again for another 3-4 years, because there is no content and game development is way too slow. But I do suggest playing the game the one time to see how it is because it is amazing. Just uninstall it afterwards and don't touch it again until 2025.

And here is some feedback.

Feedback - Volumetrics made the game look like crap. I spent 30-60 minutes lowering and increasing each of the graphic settings before I finally figured out that all I needed to do was just disable Volumetrics. That should be disabled by default, not enabled by default. Right now on my GTX 1650 laptop, I have everything on Epic except for Effects which I put on High because Epic Effects tends to make the game drop 10 or more FPS around the plane area.

Feedback - There should be an in-game explanation of what Volumetrics and SSGI is. Not everyone knows. There are already popup windows that describe what other things do, so I know you can add them for Volumetrics and SSGI.

Feedback - The game never remembers my resolution setting. If I select 1600x900 and apply it and go back to the game, or even restart it, it will stay 1600x900. But if I go into Video Settings again, it will be blank. Nothing selected. And if I make any changes and click Apply it will go to some tiny unknown resolution, which I am guessing is 1024x768. No idea, because it is blank. After I select 1600x900, I do use a window resizer to adjust the window size some. But that is still no excuse to make the game stop remembering that I want 1600x900 the next time that I open up the Video Settings window.

Feedback - On most games, I can get by with having Low or Medium Shadow Setting and Medium Distance. But in this game, you definitely need Epic Distance and Epic Shadows. Why? If you have anything lower than Epic on Distance, a tree 20 feet away might disappear after a few more steps. If you have anything lower for Shadows, only 20% of the shadow shows up and it looks weird and incomplete. That's fine. Just unexpected is all that anything less than Epic is unsatisfactory since I usually use Low to Medium on those settings in other games.

Feedback - The Tab to cycle weapons needs to be a customizable hotkey in Settings. I used Tab for Inventory, and I couldn't figure out how to cycle through weapons. Turns out Tab is reserved for weapon switching, and I didn't know that. It caused me a lot of frustration until I finally figured it out that it was a hidden hotkey.

Feedback - I'm not sure what the point of collecting saplings, seeds, and berries are in the game because at no point in the game could I use them or craft with them. It's also disappointing that I don't get anything for killing the feral monsters. A skin, some fangs, something would have been nice. Even a trophy so I can show off to the other humans and creatures on how many I've killed.

Feedback - The default MiddleMouse button to inspect characters should be set to something else. When I tried it, it glitched out really bad. I couldn't exit the inspect mode. After 5-10 minutes, I finally was kinda able to do it by double clicking the MiddleMouse button a few times until it finally worked. I later found this inspect characters hotkey in Settings and changed it to Alt. When I did, it worked perfectly. Everyone's MiddleMouse button is different, and no one wants to take time making adjustments in Windows Settings until it works in your game. Plus I just don't like using the MiddleMouse button period in any game. You should just assign a regular keyboard key to it by default and if someone wants MiddleMouse for it later, they can change it themselves.

Feedback - I seriously wish that there weren't so many camera views. In every sex scene you have to toggle between Cinematic, Orbital, and Free Camera. And once again, it is set to the MiddleMouse button which I don't like using. The Cinematic view looks nice, but I don't like Orbital. Can't you just assign a different default hotkey like F and have pressing F switch to Free Camera view? Also use an icon of a Free Camera instead of a MiddleMouse button icon. It will be way less confusing to automatically be in Cinematic and see a Free Camera icon that says press F to switch to Free Camera, than to have three different camera views and some weird icon of the MiddleMouse button. It's not that hard to do orbital view while in Free Camera. It's redundant to have both.

Feedback - During the sex scene, the game has Auto Advance Pose toggled on by default. That's stupid. It should be off by default. It's too easy to miss part of the scene or actions that you can take in a scene like Grind because the Auto Advance Pose is already on. And it's really hard to tell if it is on and off in the first place just by looking at the text. I think that the Hold Pose/Auto Advance Pose should just be removed completely from the game because it is way too confusing. Just have us use the R key or whatever key to advance to the next scene ourselves. You should also change Advance to better wording like Advance Scene.

Feedback - There should be three or more save slots (preferably a lot) instead of just a load last checkpoint. I never had three strikes with any of the females, and I want to see Jayden's reaction if I get three strikes with her. But since I already slept with her and completed the spacedeer quest, I'd have to start the game over from the very beginning and play everything all over again. And I don't feel like doing that.

Feedback - The huge feral beast at the end of the hunting grounds always interferes with the spacedeer hunt. It's stupid. It should attack the player if the player approaches it, but not when the player is just shooting the spacedeer hundreds of feet away.

Feedback - The player should know if it is okay to kill the huge feral beast at any time, or if this is part of a quest and should be left alone until the quest is received.

Feedback - The spacedeer quest was way too hard to finish. Most of the time, my arrow only did 5-25% damage (very rarely the 25%, usually around 10%). Sometimes, the head wasn't even moving and I did an accurate shot to the head and it counted as a miss and a strike. Out of the 30-50 times I repeated the quest, I only was able to do a 50% damage hit to the head four times. The last two of those four times resulted in the kill. But yeah, if you made this easier then the game would only take five minutes to play and beat. So maybe this was your way of making the game seem longer than it really is.

Feedback - I actually had one opportunity in those 50 times I did the spacedeer quest to stealth kill the spacedeer with my blade. Please tell me what would have happened if I had tried.

Feedback - I wish that the spacedeer was actually called space deer with a space in between, but that's trivial. I guess it's okay. Kinda like butterfly instead of butter fly. Or reindeer. I just had a hard time getting used to spacedeer and kept typing space deer to my friend in Discord.

Feedback - I am kinda disappointed that I won the Side Bet quest with four white ribbons when I still had two black ribbons left.

Feedback - You should have let the player know how many statues there are and spent the 30 minutes to make an actual Statue Quest in the game instead of ending the Demo with a "You have found this many Statues" stats screen. Same for killing the Ferals. I fail to see why you couldn't do a Statue and Ferals Quest in five years of game development seeing how you already have the assets in place inside the game.

I am giving it an average.
The graphics are impressive, and there is a short story which feels like a tutorial. That is it.

And what is most impressive is that people still support this on Patreon! The development is so incredibly slow, considering that the game has been in development for about 40 months and making about $100K just on Patreon + another 100 K on Kickstarter. That is almost 4 million dollars.

For those 4 million dollars, patreons and pledgers get a 20 minute preview with a sandbox and a poser.

I started following this game 3 years ago and if I had backed it from then I would be fucking furious.

Maybe there is a lot of planning in a game like this, but at this point, I have a more fleshed out game idea without even having writtten a single line of code.
Your priorities are wrong, Team.

very , very nice graphics and animation, gameplay of shooting is good, it's a real pleasure to fly.
hopefully the game will continue to move towards more interactions during sex animations, and maybe a pleasure gauge ?
more than a great story is missing and it will be an amazing sex game

To be absolutely honest, I did have fun with the game. Once.

You can run around and admire the INCREDIBLE graphics, true.
Models are really good, true.
Sex scenes are ok, it is more fun to use the "gallery" and watch, or run around in sandbox and try combinations with this or that character.

Aside of that, there's nothing else.
A hint of story (average), an intro/pseudo tutorial which I couldn't finish (I found shooting anything impossible*) which last 5 minutes, and a couple "take this and that" quests.

I understand that is in development... but enough is enough.
There's dozens of character models, but all humans share the same anims, so after the 3rd character, you just go find some monsters. And there's way less models of them (around 10?).
So basically, you can have fun for a run, trying stuff. And then, it's over. The only new stuff is "new" sex animations, not interesting enough to keep people... well, interested.

I don't understand the point of adding more kamasutra poses and models, when there's a massive lack of interest to PLAY the actual game.

As it is, it's a gorgeous sex posing game. Gorgeous, but not worth the gigas and time required.
It is impossible to rate more than 3 stars for something that is not really a game yet.

*note: there's a shooting range, and sort of battle arena, but never managed to figure how to actually use weapons. I've pretty much tried every key, and nothing.
But doesn't matters really, since there's no "combat sex", which would be a good adittion, so at least sandbox is a bit more interesting, while the game keeps building.