[brap]

When will game devs learn that booba sells? Just look at everybody talking about big booba witch from the new Resident Evil game.

After raking in $2.3 million in Kickstarter funding in 2019, adult game Subverse released in Early Access last Friday at the top of Steam's bestseller list—at least for those whose Steam preferences allow "Adult Only" games to appear in the store. It briefly made Steam's Top 100 concurrents list, where I saw it hit 25,318 simultaneous players at one point, putting it right next to The Witcher 3. Many of those players were surely Kickstarter backers, but I think it's still fair to call this the biggest adult game launch on Steam since Valve opened the platform to animated sex a few years ago.

It isn't hard to understand why. The audience for Subverse—hentai enthusiasts who like animated women with exaggerated proportions—is hardly underserved, but many adult games are simplistic, templated, or crudely-animated, especially 3D ones. Other than VR, mainstream adult games haven't changed a whole lot in the last decade, at least to an outside observer. Subverse drew so much interest and funding because it appeared to offer high-quality 3D animation in a proper sci-fi RPG, something that looked like a Mass Effect porn parody.

I've now played a bit of Subverse, and I can confirm that there is an actual game to it, as promised, with numerous pre-rendered (non-sex) cutscenes and visual novel-style dialogue segments, decent twin-stick-style space shooting, and turn-based ground combat missions. This unfinished Early Access release includes a six chapter opening act, and most of it isn't sex.

Don't get the impression that Subverse is a sweeping, BioWare-style RPG that happens to have explicit sex scenes, though. You won't find coy relationship-building or foreplay between Subverse's cast of women and its protagonist, the Captain, whose smarmy voice and masked face are reminiscent of Deadpool (except Australian and the mask is a pair of panties). During the combat tutorial at the start of the game, robot companion Demi sets the tone when she reassures the Captain (but really the player) that there will be "something to jerk off to" as soon as the mission ends. Subverse is porn, or as developer Studio FOW recently put it, a "monumental fuck project."

Sex scenes with each character are unlocked by—and I'm not joking about the name here—earning Pooter Points by completing missions. Once unlocked, scenes can be arranged in a playlist and then viewed in sequence or skipping around. Individually, the scenes are looping 3D animations of one sex act or another. Some can be modified by moving a slider toward climax, but otherwise they repeat mechanically from a fixed camera angle. It seems more like the Captain is watching himself have sex, or imagining it, than actually hooking up. And the Captain isn't always involved in the scenes. The first crew member to join his ship, Lily, is a scientist who's more into having sex with the alien creatures she genetically engineers.

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Sci-fi porn game Subverse is among Steam's bestsellers, here's what it's like

The adult game that raised $2.3M in Kickstarter funding released in Steam Early Access last week.

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[Stilton Disco]

Proud to say I backed this work of art on kickstarter.

It caters to a good few kinks I'm not into, and God knows I'm unlikely to ever actually wank to it full stop, but I admired the concept and it's likely to be a damned sight better than the crap Bioware puts out now.

 

[Arc]

Maybe we ought to work Pooter Points into D-Pad

 

[Mista]

Steam is full of garbage games. They recently removed ONE game out of the hundreds

Never understood the interest in such rubbish games

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Maybe we ought to work Pooter Points into D-Pad

Woah, what an idea.
I am all for Pooter Points here.