KickStarter Studio FOW's Subverse - Explore a wacky galaxy full of hot alien babes!

[Fedora Master]

Hey, remember this game? Another Codex Darling that turned out to be a scam.

e: Also not an RPG but that's par for the course of course

 

[Fargus]

Bunch of smut animators with 0 understanding of game design bit more than they could chew and the game turned out to be a salad of bad ideas with cringy reddit jokes. Then it stuck in eternal early access. They fooled some dimwits with their "finally a porn game that is an actual quality game" bs.

 

[Fargus]

I guess you could say...

this game subverted expectations

 

[Vulpes]

Hey, remember this game? Another Codex Darling that turned out to be a scam.

e: Also not an RPG but that's par for the course of course

What exactly happened? It's good to know that you're very carefully following this porn game that doesn't interest you one bit. You're doing the Codex a solid by keeping us updated

Anyways, mark my words, I bet Michael Hoge's furry porn game will meet the same fate. He deserves it for how unfinished Gothic 3 was.

 

[Fedora Master]

Hey, remember this game? Another Codex Darling that turned out to be a scam.

e: Also not an RPG but that's par for the course of course

What exactly happened? It's good to know that you're very carefully following this porn game that doesn't interest you one bit. You're doing the Codex a solid by keeping us updated

Anyways, mark my words, I bet Michael Hoge's furry porn game will meet the same fate. He deserves it for how unfinished Gothic 3 was.

I was just idly thinking about all the games Codex fawned over and how they all turned out shit and this came to mind.

 

[Modron]

The codex fawned over this?

 

[Caim]

What exactly happened? It's good to know that you're very carefully following this porn game that doesn't interest you one bit. You're doing the Codex a solid by keeping us updated

A cursory glance at Steam tells me that the last update was in late March, and since then it's just monthly updates of BROS THIS GAME IS GONNA BE SO AWESOME TRUST ME without any actual, you know, updates. People are getting annoyed by this. The game should be approaching a proper 1.0 version, but there's no date yet.

 

[Tyranicon]

Are the sex scenes still mostly of disgusting aliens fucking space waifus?

I found that a weird angle for what was the most famous porn game at the time. If it wasn't for that, I probably would've bought the game for uh, its educational value.

 

[Melcar]

Disgusting aliens fucking anime waifus is rather normal for this kind of porn.

 

[Tyrr]

The game offered me a lot of entertainment without ever playing it.
First the game journos got so mad that a game they hated broke all records on Kickstarter.
And then Tim Pool got mad because he already planed to start a website with the same name, and now everyone searching it was directed to a porn game. I think he even sued them and lost.

 

[Tyranicon]

Disgusting aliens fucking anime waifus is rather normal for this kind of porn.

The problem is that the Kickstarter and subsequent marketing drew in a more mainstream audience. So there was a large segment of people buttmad about it when a good chunk of the scenes involved the player getting cucked by gross aliens.

Are one of these aliens literally a dog? I'm not looking that shit up.

And when players complain, threads get locked:

 

[Habichtswalder]

Disgusting aliens fucking anime waifus is rather normal for this kind of porn.

The problem is that the Kickstarter and subsequent marketing drew in a more mainstream audience. So there was a large segment of people buttmad about it when a good chunk of the scenes involved the player getting cucked by gross aliens.

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Are one of these aliens literally a dog? I'm not looking that shit up.

And when players complain, threads get locked:

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Disgusting. Zoophilia is not a kink, it is a crime and degenerated stuff. I'm glad the mainstream hype of this game was short-lived.

 

[Tweed]

Wasn't quite normie shit, but I stilled called it. It was shit.

Coomers and their mooney.

 

[Average Manatee]

Disgusting. Zoophilia is not a kink, it is a crime and degenerated stuff. I'm glad the mainstream hype of this game was short-lived.

And yet, BG3 exists.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I don't think those are dogs (i have never seen dog irl look like that). And porn games cross every boundary. They be pixels for the perverted and hopefully those people don't act out those fantasies on animals and shit.


Anyway, I don't even know if you can upgrade your ship, weapons, skills, or anything tbh. I saw shooter, crummy tactical combat, dating sim, sex unlockables, game NOT FINISHED!

And it never goes on sale on GOG.

 

[Caim]

I don't think those are dogs (i have never seen dog irl look like that). And porn games cross every boundary. They be pixels for the perverted and hopefully those people don't act out those fantasies on animals and shit.


Anyway, I don't even know if you can upgrade your ship, weapons, skills, or anything tbh. I saw shooter, crummy tactical combat, dating sim, sex unlockables, game NOT FINISHED!

And it never goes on sale on GOG.

Subverse is a mix of twin stick shooter, turn based strategy and dating sim. Except it's not a good twin stick shooter, it's not a turn based strategy game and it's not a good dating sim.

The best parts of the game can be found on video websites, except it's one of the few times watching the videos there is an actually better experience.

 

[orcinator]

I guess you could say...

this game subverted expectations

Actually, for a porn game that raised a lot of money through crowdfunding, never being released is the most expected outcome. See Cloud Meadow and the predecessor, whatever it was called.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Fucky farm? No Breeding Season. Drama in that. Furries were furrious.

 

[Fargus]

I guess you could say...

this game subverted expectations

Actually, for a porn game that raised a lot of money through crowdfunding, never being released is the most expected outcome. See Cloud Meadow and the predecessor, whatever it was called.

Those are patreon cash cows. Devs don't finish them because they can comfortably leech money from their patrons for years if the game is popular. That's how they roll.

16k usa sheks a month. Must be great getting monthly what some rpg kickstarter devs here consider a successful funding of their entire campaign. For literally doing fuck all.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

The codex fawned over this?

I don't think anyone at the Codex thought the game would be good. If I remember right, Codexers elevated the game on this site for the lulz of it.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

Are the sex scenes still mostly of disgusting aliens fucking space waifus?

I found that a weird angle for what was the most famous porn game at the time. If it wasn't for that, I probably would've bought the game for uh, its educational value.

By far the worst decision they've made is to completely separate the story content from the porn. The porn is basically a gallery mechanic. I heard that they've slowly started to reverse this decision after user backlash, but it's too late. A lesson for you here, Tyranicon :D

 

[Caim]

Are the sex scenes still mostly of disgusting aliens fucking space waifus?

I found that a weird angle for what was the most famous porn game at the time. If it wasn't for that, I probably would've bought the game for uh, its educational value.

By far the worst decision they've made is to completely separate the story content from the porn. The porn is basically a gallery mechanic. I heard that they've slowly started to reverse this decision after user backlash, but it's too late. A lesson for you here, Tyranicon :D

Yeah, don't create a harem of waifus only for them to get fucked by alien animals, cucking the players.

Sure, there's a bit of money to be made off of cucks, but you'll A: alienate normal people and B: it damages your soul even more.

 

[Gyor]

The game offered me a lot of entertainment without ever playing it.
First the game journos got so mad that a game they hated broke all records on Kickstarter.
And then Tim Pool got mad because he already planed to start a website with the same name, and now everyone searching it was directed to a porn game. I think he even sued them and lost.

Tim Pool has much bigger problems then Subverse mocking him in their game, he'll be lucky if YouTube doesn't pull his channel down.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1034140/view/4461472134359679190

Subverse 1.0 Launching November 15th, 2024
Friendly reminder - we are coming out of Early Access on Friday, November 15th!
Check out this new Lily featurette in the meantime.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

I really wanted to like this. I was one of the original backers so I've been waiting for this game for a very long time and I remember being excited about how much money it earned because I thought there'd finally be a high quality porn game but this is barely a porn game.

First let me say that the gameplay is actually pretty good. I've never played a shmup before and I rarely play turned based fighting games but I really enjoyed both of them. I enjoyed them so much that I flew to every single galaxy and played every available side mission thing. As of now I have nothing left to do in the game except jerk off.

However, the reason I (along with thousands of other people) backed this on kickstarter was because it was a porn game and it's just not a very good one. While I was waiting for this game to release, I started playing a bunch of adult virtual novels (some of which are on Steam) and this would fall into the bottom quarter of the ones I've played. This game got over two million dollars and all the sex scenes are just 3 second looping animations with a fixed camera angle and all the "special" scenes are the exact same except they have a slider to set the speed. I can think of dozens of VN's made with a lot less money that have more engaging sex scenes than the ones in this.

On top of that, apart from the recruitment missions the sex isn't integrated into the story at all. You'd think that a porn game would have the porn be apart of the story but nope. They just make a bunch of references to sex and when you want to see any of the scenes you have to go to the captains room and view them there. It feels like they had put off the porn until the last minute and just decided to put everything into a corner instead of trying to integrate it into the game.

Maybe things will improve as more updates come out and if they do then I'll change my rating but as of now this game is not worth the money. You'd be better off playing one of the many other VN's on this platform for a third of the price.

Some random ass steam review I found.