Carnal Instinct

I've been a member of the Patreon for this one and then bought the Steam version and cancelled the Patreon subscription. I never played the UE4 version, but from what I have read, it was far more content rich than the UE5 version. The game looks good, but you'd expect that with UE5. My gripes? Well, for starters why are they still charging a subscription fee to get advanced updates? And then why does it take so long to update the game I have paid for on here? I'll tell you why - £36,700/$40,000+ a month in subscriber fees at the time of writing this, and that's at the lowest tier of subscription. They are pushing nearly $1/2M a year for an unfinished game - just think about that. As other reviews have mentioned, the quests break on occasion - I can complete a quest, reload a save and the quest is back again, but marked as complete in the quest log. In the latest Steam update, the side quests don't even appear in the log and randomly decide to appear on the map or not. Pressing 'i' for inventory sometimes works. Killed enemies respawn immediately if you leave the area and come back. Combat is just about ok and whilst the character models aren't bad, they are still not great. I have seen several updates now, and each time the focus is on the adult content, in particular increasing the range of male appendages that you can choose from, or new tattoos or hair styles. Well that is fascinating. I want more locations, more quests, and more NPCs that I can interact with. Get that right first, then improve on the "other" stuff. This game has been in development for over 5 years, and we're still at this point? I want this game to succeed - it has potential to be really good. Build the world, expand on the story and the lore, add the quests, give me more NPCs to interact with, more stuff to explore and loot, and slow the heck down with the stuff that isn't really making the game better. Other devs have done this, either funding development out of their own pockets, or stopped charging a subscription when they release their game on Steam, so it can be done. Maybe if those on Patreon bought the Steam version and cancelled their subscriptions, they would a) save themselves a lot of money (a year's subscription would have got you three copies on Steam), and b) just maybe force the devs to deal with the Steam version only and stop what feels like a scam. 1/2M reasons for them not to I guess.

The game feels empty, I spend 4 hours and I just have one scene and it was not worth it the price. I read the guide and I found some more scenes, the controls of the camera are not the best and sometimes the angle is blocked by walls. It have lots of bugs: I have a couple of times that I have to restart the quest because the character got stuck and can't open the menu or something to get out, sometimes when you start riding the horse it goes swimming, the Sword of Leona disappears and can't complete a quest, etc. The combat is not the best, I hope arrows dropped by enemies or something.

A hot and fun game with amazing intimate animations! There are plenty of different races to have fun with, and many scenes to find! The gameplay/combat is a bit rough in some areas but still getting ironed out. The game still receives constant updates to this day, and with each update, the game just gets better! So it is worth the full price! 9.5/10

I started looking at this game over 5 years ago. When it was first released the UE4 content was lacking, but the dev was actively creating content so it looked visually stunning and had great potential. 5 years + later it still has great potential if the dev would create and distribute the content. The UE4 version was a version that was graphically inferior to the UE5 version, however the content felt like it was fuller and more polished than the content that is being distributed now. Sure, the graphics, textures, and scenes are of a higher quality, but the RPG features of the game have drastically be lost over the switchover. Not to mention the new UE5 version is lacking in visual object quantity, content, and depth. The UE4 version at least to me had a lot more depth of content and the questlines were more polished. Given all this, I still feel the game and developer have a lot of potential, but the scope creep of this project has gotten WAY out of hand in that the project is destined to fail due to the developers not being able to maintain a steady and true timetable of the content distribution. At this point it is more likely that the developer is dragging the project out due to monetary reasons rather than development shortcomings. Even this being the case, I still hold out hope that this game can succeed and be finished to the degree that was originally promised 5 years ago. I too used to be a patreon sub to this developer and the content that was promised on the patreon channel was well beyond anything that we have seen to this pont. The game in it's current state on the UE5 platform is playable and for the most point enjoyable, but due to the scope creep of this project and the broken promises by the developer I can not in good conscience recommend this game. NOTE: That does not mean that this game is bad, far from it! It means that this game is destined to fail due to the developer not meeting it's goals and deadlines. This in turn is going to force people to look elseware for games such as this.

To many overpowered enemies. Game quests that don't 'complete' when you finish them, preventing story progression. Game is supposed to be fun to play, not a chore and not infinitely frustrating. World design is amazing, seems like good story, but cannot progress in the game. Fought every enemy, defeated every foe, more than double the recommended level for quest completion - still can't do it. Unable to use armor, can't find ranged weapons. Overall, very poor gameplay. Uninstalled and requested refund.

This game used to be better.You used to be able to jump right into creating your character, exploring the world and even doing some H-scenes if you wanted to. Now. Even if you skip the prologue. You have to finish a long string of quests before you can create your character. You start off as some kind of mummy (the dead guy kind), instead. You can't do any adult content until you have gotten to the point you can customise your character. So replayability is extremely low. I used to dabble a bit on one character. Then make a new character with a different body type or race. Dabble a bit there. Then maybe choose another different race. But now, you have to do ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of tutorial before you can even make a character to do that. EVEN WHEN YOU SKIP THE FCKING TUTORIAL!! Just let me create a character and jump into the game. ffs. I don't want all this extra ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

There isn't much in this game. It's like the developers went on holiday. Beautiful maps, but not much action and many quests don't highlight when you click on them so you have no idea where to go. Also, I had to look up on the internet just how to get started in the game. With more work, it could be a good game, but as it, it is too empty.

There're the bones of a great game here. The world is pretty to look at, it has cool lore and lots of interesting characters. The interactions with some NPCs are actually pretty funny and sexy. There are already plenty of hot sex scenes. That said, it seems that progress is pretty slow, despite a large contributor base. Cocktail napkin math (# of subscribers x min. tier subscription on Patreon) shows they're raking in some decent cash, and for that, you as a player can barely progress in the main quest. The sex scenes are hot, and sex/lust is a foundational part of the story which is actually very entertaining, but it'd be nice to see more progress on quests, filling in the world a bit, more and better NPC interactions, faction mechanics etc. Re: the sex: I like that you have to complete quests/do certain things to unlock erotic encounters, the story is more exciting that way than other gooner games where you just walk up to any NPC and go at it. That said, in this game you're limited to ONE sexual position with an NPC at a time. Maybe this is part of making each interaction realistic w/o the risk of things not lining up like in SexLab mods etc, but it does feel limiting. I found the game really engaging, and I hope that the dev team can get a full version out. That said, it's been in the works for five years, and main quest storyline is about 3 hours of gameplay. On balance, I can't say that I recommend it.

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so far alot of bugs and gameplay issues unable to complete some quests due to bugs. not enough early quests to level really.