Subverse

I've been reading some of the reviews on this game, and it seems many of them come from people who were supporting this game while in development and are very frustrated with some of the changes made over the course of development. Is it possible there used to be extra layers of gameplay that made the non-adult content more appealing? Entirely possible, but this is a review from someone who's played a lot of adult games and just bought this game at random. THE PROS: 1: Pretty cool setting. Subverse takes you to another dimension, well into the future. You're the captain of a ship, and the goal is to free the world from the grip of a puritan, authoritarian and corrupt empire secretly led by a powerful alien race. The game's lore is surprinsingly rich, with different alien races, lots of background events, and several layers of political intrigues. The game also wears all of its inspirations on its sleeves. The humans for instance, called Solars, arrived in the galaxy from prison ships that got sucked into a blackhole, which is very reminiscent of the Terrans in Starcraft. The overall tone ranging from satire and 4th wall breaking is reminiscent of Borderlands and such. And you'll find tons of pop culture references. 2: Compelling characters and story. The waifus feel fairly authentic in terms of character motivations and how they interact with each other. The cast is surprisingly large, but generally memorable. The voice acting is pretty good too. The story follows well, is decently paced, and overall pretty funny and entertaining. 3: Lots of gameplay elements. to progress with the rebellion, most of the game is spent going from one system to the next to recruit warriors and other specialists, all of which are depraved waifus. There is also a lot of side content, with the game having you explore multiple Nebulas, all of which with dozens galaxies featuring planets, space stations and other anomalies to explore. Your ship also gets multiple upgrades as you progress in the game. There's lots of collectibles, and lots of leveling for your waifus, which in of itself unlocks more stuff. 4: The adult scenes. They're overall very realistic, and there is a lot a variety within the Pandora feature, which is like a collection of scenes that you unlock using "Pandora Points" from exploring the galaxy. And there's about as much variety as you can hope to get; waifus can have fun with you, or by themselves, or with other crew members (even turning into Futanari at will), and for the depraved, with the "Mantics", which are the mutants created by the ship's scientist as foot soldiers for combat missions. So in this category you'll get everything to do with tentacles, goblins and giant monsters and stuff. Between that and the diversity of the waifus ranging from humans to elves to demon and cat girls, the scenes basically offer everything. THE CONS 1: Very grindy side missions. I did mention that the game offers a lot of variety, but this variety is also often poorly fleshed out. Outside of the main story, all side missions are done via exploration, and even then, there are only really 4 types of missions: Ground combat, space combat, Waifu missions (forgot the actual name), and side quests. Ground combat is your average turn-based combat, with rounds, reinforcements, and moving your units around the tiles. With each mission, you pick a waifu, all of which have their own distinct strategies and weapons, along with 3 mantics, all of which offer the same. There's the bones of a good turn-based game here, but it often lacks any serious depth. For one, there's no real progression tree; enemies are just as challenging (they aren't) from the beginning to the end of the game, with the difficulty curve matching your own level. Mantics and waifus aren't inherently stronger as you unlock them, they just offer different tactics, but as enemies rarely last more than 2 hits, these cool new moves rarely get to be used at all. Space combat is when you take your figher, the "F3NIX", and go out into space to fight other ships. It very much feels like your average space invader game, which isn't a bad thing. The gameplay feels very smooth, the music is awesome, and I love the effects of ships blowing up and flying out of orbit. The main change from ground combat is which Waifu you take as a co-pilot, as they all have a unique special attack. Again, none are stronger, it just comes down to preferences in playing style. Not as grindy as ground combat, Waifu quests are like encounters where you can send a Waifu to investigate a situation, the latter requiring different personality traits to succeed. This is by far the best mission because it's the quickest; it can be resolvedi in just a few seconds. Side quests are litterally just ground or space combat, but you get to watch a cut scene first of someone explaining to you what they need, and they occasionnaly have a few more rewards. At best they are funny, at worst you can litterally just skip the cutscene to get the mission done, and that's that. Now the real problem, apart from the gameplay not being that great, is that there are A LOT of planets, litteral hundreds. And you can't really tell which is going to give you critical upgrades as rewards, and doing all of them can take several hours. It's just not that entertaining, you're only really doing it for the completionist aspect, to unlock all of the scenes. On that the game falls noticeably short, even if the underlying approach is a solid one. 2: Poor balance between adult content and everything else. By its design, the game really struggles to implement both elements into the experience. Outside of the Pandora feature which allows you to explore scenes and customize them, there are hardly any scenes anywhere at all. The game mostly works as follows; you play the story, which means going to the planets that specifically advance the story to begin what the game calls "long ass chain quests". Each of these take 1-2 hours to complete and mostly comprise of dialogue cutscenes, and occasional ground and space combat, although these are usually better fleshed out as they put you in carefully crafted situations. At the end of the quest chain, you get a new recruit, and it finishes with you playing one of their scenes, which unlocks the new waifu inside Pandora. Then you can either go back to exploring for 1 to 2 hours to get Pandora points to unlock more scenes, or get on with the next quest chain to unlock the next waifu, which will take another 1-2 hours with only 1 scene at the end, and so on. So either you focus on making game progress, or you enjoy the scenes. The scenes are great but the content is wildly disproportionate, easily 20 minutes spent on regular game for every minute in Pandora. Don't get me wrong, I love working to earn the scenes, and the scenes themselves are great, but there are limits. I found myself playing several sessions without ever getting to Pandora, merely thinking I'll progress the story and exploration, and then later go for Pandora when I can unlock lots of stuff. That's just poor balance for an adult game. CONCLUSION Very solid game overall, certainly by adult game standards. I enjoyed the story, the characters and the scenes. The side content is a bit rough around the edges and grindy, but it still made for a good experience. Game on sale is totally worth it. Just one serious complaint (SPOILERS) As others have pointed out, Celestina not being the last Waifu is a joke. We get to see her grow and change throughout the story, it would've been the perfect cucking of Erark, and instead it was a last minute addon of a succubus that had nothing to do with the main story? Seriously? And then they released a DLC to get Celestina, meaning having to pay extra to get her. Utterly ridiculous. This is the one really bad thing the game did that actually got me frustrated.

[h1]Hot Take: Subverse is Shakespeare. No Really.[/h1] Spoken as a man who majored in English in college: Subverse is unironically and holistically Shakespearean in quality, content, and context. Put the gun down and hear me out. William Shakespeare was a low-brow mass entertainer in London’s South Bank district whose plays were enjoyed mainly by blue-collar groundlings. Next door to the Globe and just around the corner were brothels, cheap taverns, and bear-bating pits. He wrote far more ♥♥♥♥ and fart jokes than falconry references or tennis puns. He was extraordinarily meta and his fourth wall was rarely respected for long. Gender, sex, drugs, and more were baked into his canon. Arguably the only reasons we still know him today were (A) he wrote in English - the language of Empire and (B) Queen Elizabeth: Original Flavor was an unlikely fan. Subverse, the game, takes the fact that it’s a pornographic story to get away with lurid and fantastical storytelling and shock the player with stunning profundity, deeply emotional character moments, and some of the most lush worldbuilding this side of JRR Tolkein or Frank Herbert. And it does this with such enviable regularity and frequency that I genuinely forgot time and again that this was supposedly made for more ‘base’ gratification. Shakespeare and Subverse share the context of supposedly low-brow entertainment riddled with sexual humor so liberally mixed with pathos that one can barely tell the first from the second. Both are so meta with the medium that they blow past ridiculousness to reach genuine sincerity from the other side. Both are so infuriatingly quotable in so many contexts that I’m actually angry in my jealousy as a creative writer. Both face fundamental questions of identity, intersectionality, ethics and morals, politics, history, and more with equal parts irreverence and solemnity, often paradoxically at once. These are both deeply empathetic commentaries on life as it is lived at its messiest, for good and ill. I’m dead serious. This is not a bit. Of all the role-playing, story-rich games I’ve ever played (and I’ve played dozens over decades) this is the closest to Shakespeare I have ever, genuinely, encountered. Spoken as one who has studied both genres in more depth than I care to admit to myself. Standing ovation, Studio FOW. Now chill. You didn’t need to go this hard, but damn I’m glad you did.

抛开马头社不谈，这个游戏在黄油里质量还是可以的，但是战棋部分能加入爆衣系统就更好了。 中文的话官方既然不作为那粉丝就用爱发电了，中文补丁B站有，UP：tt_君，目前中文补丁支持1.2.0，如果没有求到就私吧。最后还是希望官方能把官中赶快给端上来。

连机翻都不愿意做，一点诚意没有

У игры куча проблем. Местами прям очень затянута, сюжет и диалоги на любителя, большая часть сцен выглядит хуже, чем их видосики до игры (полигонов ваджайнам и прочему сильно не хватает). Но при этом, я сильно уважаю разработчиков за то, что они настояли на своём и сделали игру, которую коммьюнити не особо хотело, расставили приоритеты так, как комьюнити вообще не хотело и в результате релиз был прям слабым по циферкам, но свою линию они догнули не смотря на все протесты. Получилась самая дорогая порно игра в которой бюджеты вообще не туда ушли и она понравится только очень специфичным людям. Всё ещё гораздо лучше, чем Mass Effect 3.

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Покупайте по скидке, за фулл прайс для этой игры дороговато. Хорошая игра с содержанием nsfw контента, в наличии: 1) постановочные сцены (18+) 2) отдельный фоторежим 3) Все женские персонажи антропоморфы, по сути самая главная разница между ними это голова, в наличии: кошкодевочка, человек, суккуб, андроид (робот), эльф, гном и осьминог (голова). Особой жести в сценах нет, поэтому для всех любителей ванилы подойдет. Геймплей представляет из себя аркаду, без серьезных багов и вас ожидает два вида геймлея: -Корабельные сражения по типу Galaxian, где управляете кораблем стреляете и по целям которые открывают по вам огонь. -Наземные бои по типу пошаговых стратегий (например, Герои меча и магии) однако тут все намного примитивнее. Игра довольно казуальная, только некоторые корабельные сражения могут задержать вас и займут несколько траев. Из плюсов игры: 1)Постановка сцен, если совмещать гринд с основным сюжетом то игра вполне на час или два пойдет, дольше играть не советую ибо только гринд вас ожидает. 2)Приятная картинка игра не ощущается дешевым, арт дизайн с упором на космические вайбы присутствуют. 3)Аркадный геймплей, пункт спорный но для тех кому хочется просто играть и смотреть сцены добро пожаловать. Из минусов 1) Примитивный сюжет, это конечно не звездные войны, однако, на один раз пойдет 2)Очень много матов и шуток ниже пояса, они тут на протяжении всей игры поэтому, смотреть на это под конец уже надоедает

исправлю отзыв когда добавите русский язык (pls add localization)

诈骗众筹时期购买，目前在用玩家自制汉化。Purchased during the scam crowdfunding period; currently using a player-made Chinese patch. 众筹时画大饼，把中国玩家捧上天

Probably one of the worst, boring, uninspired, and disappointing games I've played in my life. I kept playing because I spent so much on it, but I just gave up in the end. It isn't remotely fun or interesting. The gameplay feels like the intro to Unity project from 5 years ago. The writing is not good nor funny. The story is not engaging at all. Honestly, none of the dialogue is worth listening to. The animations are all short loops, with no camera angles or anything. Go watch their videos on the web, this isn't worth investing into at all. Steam deck performance isn't good, and videos don't play without messing with Proton versions, I had to play on PC. INSANE that they are charging more for DLC. Quite literally every eastern game of this genre is better priced, with better characters, animations, gameplay, and story.