Unreal Engine - Breeders of the Nephelym [v0.761.59A] [DerelictHelmsman]

I want to like this game but after giving it a good amount of time I don't think it's for me.
My main issue with the game is the world, it seems well made and is very pleasant, however it feels very empty. Additionally when you're walking the same route day after day before unlocking the pussy portal gets old fast. That brings me to my second point, I don't believe that games should hold the player's hand and tell them exactly what to do and when to do it. However, some degree of pointing you in the right direction would be helpful.
Secondarily, it's a bit unfortunate that the dev said that they'll never do male on male or futa on male content. I understand not everyone is into that type of content, though that is why other games let you toggle stuff like that in options. Additionally, it seems as though the dev caters to their fetishes first and foremost, and while I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with that as it is their project to decide what to do with it may be a bit of a turn off for those that aren't into it. In this case for me I'm not into large breasts or chubby women, and I'm unsure if it was just rng however those traits seemed to show up more than any trait other than huge. Along with this point the jiggle physics seem a little extreme and I wish there was a slider for how "jiggly" you wanted them.
Finally this game could use a little more optimization, I'm running a 3080ti and a 5800x and still run into fps drops and stutters every once in a while. Further it seems as if the game is capped at 70fps and it would be nice if that could be upped.
In the end, I may just not be in the target audience of this game. However that doesn't necessarily mean it's bad, in fact some may find that this is exactly the game they want, it's just not for me.

This game is just gorgous. I really like the WOW style and all the possibilities and features the Dev has introduced in this game so far.
Its like a fantasy fairytale porn .
Wish more devs would have such a serious approach in developing games
with unreal engine. Of course there are Wild Life or Carnal Instinct also which have more realistic and polished graphics but there are really times i prefer this style like in Breeders of the nephilim. Its just beautyful made and with a lot of nice features and activities.
To experience the full potential u will need a stronger machine of course but its worth it.
Wish the Dev all the best and good luck with further updates.

one of the best x game i have played .
a big open world with a lot of potential. I will closely follow the future updates
I hope for new additions in the future in terms of possibility and functionality. I wish a good continuation to the author of this game (I'm bad at English so google trad sorry)

Really good game and Graphics. Possibly the best f95 game ever.

Pros;
Lots of very rich characters and environment, Love the artwork.
Cons;
Many of the Tasks are either tedious or very grindy to get to the next stage .

Version: v0.755.3A

This game is a very well developed and refined 3D open world sandbox with impressive randomly generated monster girls. By far one of the prettiest looking 3D games on this website, combined with the near endless variety this game becomes a joy to play.

Amazing game, try it out.

Best 3d game on f95zone, a fantastic job to say the least,fun guaranteed with customization, incredible graphics, templates and exceptional animations
I recommend it to anyone who wants to have fun for some time and if you don't know how to progress in the areas consult the wiki which is really well done

It ecomes a shore after a while.is too unoptimized, really needs the incest patch but th creator abandoned it for patreaon money,traits are basically useless most of the times. Useless visulas, bad graphic selections and the more monster you discover the less differences between them. removesand adds content randomly

Great Game.

Pros:
Lots of Map and details.

Story is even though there is not much what there is is pretty well thought through.

Highly customizable character.

Cons:

Movement on the map is very slow.(There are Portals though so in the late game it gets better)

Breeding is very time consuming and the UI is not perfect for quick clicks and I think the breeding menu would need a mass breed button for random assignment until the lust level of every nephelym is 0.

Also sorting / filtering for Level/traits is missing.

It get's kinda repetitive after a few hours because you won't unlock the other sex scenes until much later and even then you probably won't watch the breeding process.

A good game, it's one of the few with good potential and at a good stage of development.

Graphics: OOOOo
Gameplay: OOOOo
Horny-Score: OOOOO
Variety of Gameplay: OOOoo
Optimization: OOOoo

Overall: OOOOO
5 stars for the good work, it's not perfect but it is something worthto encurage.

v0.754.3

An adventure game where you breed with monsters. I love the concept and it looks good, but the game gives you absolutely nothing to go on. It doesn't tell you how to play or what the goals are, you just wander around and figure it out through trial and error. I'm hoping later version give you more of a tutorial or an onramp because I think the game is really promising, but so far it's kind of a confusing mess.

This game brought me enough nostalgia. I remembered how in my childhood I played games about farms where you had to crossbreed animals to create unique specimens. I spent enough time on this game, and I want to say that this game is worth playing for the first time without guides. The only thing that disappointed me was the character editor. He's kind of inferior.

I might have given this 5/5 for the potential alone, but it's not complete and has problems, some subjective, some pretty serious.

To get the subjective problems I have with it out of the way:

There's not enough dudes.

And I say that as a straight male. What I mean is, there's way too much furry and futanari. All males in the game (except the player, if you so choose) are furry, and all non-furry races have futanari instead of males, except for the alien-themed monsters. That includes elves, goblins and orcs, the races that you'd think would be the most human-like and for whom normal males would be easiest for the developer to implement.

I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I'm here for the fantasy world and breeding fetish, NOT for aliens, furries and futas - and before the furries et al get on my ass about this, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with these fetishes, I just find them inherently disgusting, like "watersports". I don't like looking at dudes in porn, but I don't mind it if he's not given too much attention; whereas furry and futanari are a strong turn-off for me.

It's a good thing you can disable "exotic" females and futanari spawning and scenes, otherwise I might not be able to stand playing this game. But when you do that, no males at all will spawn for certain races, meaning that in order to breed that race, you have to 1) be a male breeder and seed them yourself which takes forever and severely limits your options for passing on traits; 2) get a furry or temporarily enable futanari to fuck them, so you have to put up with this content anyway.

Also, even if you disable futanari monsters and scenes, you still, canonically, have to have your character fuck two or three futa NPCs (and don't forget the one requisite centaur fuck, which I find worse than standard furry stuff) to progress through the game, which brings me to the big problem here:

The Portal and Keystone progression SUCKS.

Your ability to explore the world is limited by a bunch of Cockblock Gates (that's actually what they're called, to give you a feel for this game's sense of humor) which you need Keystones to open. You get Keystones by doing quests for NPCs, usually by fucking them and then acquiring a specific monster. And any Keystone can be used on any gate - that sounds convenient, right? WRONG. It's entirely possible to soft-lock yourself out of being able to reach the rest of the game world, because you unlocked one of the areas that doesn't give you a keystone back, or has a keystone quest that requires a monster from an area you can't reach. Maybe you'll get lucky and somehow happen to do everything in just the right order on the first try, even though the game heavily steers you in the wrong direction once or twice, but for the rest of us, there's the wiki.

And even if you're doing the Keystones in a valid order to reach all areas, there's still a lot of running back and forth to talk to NPCs, go catch the wild monsters you need, realize you don't have a pen for them, go back to town to buy the pen, run back to that area for wild monsters, exit and reenter upwards of a dozen times because none of the ones who spawned in have the trait you need, go to catch one, realize you can't because you don't have the milk he wants, run back to town to buy some, run back to the wild to figure out which milk works, catch him finally, run back to the ranch, and then you can start breeding them and grinding levels... BUT, then you realize that in order to get the trait you need, you have to raise that race's "World Level" which is like the collective health of that ecosystem or something, so you start mass-breeding not to get the trait you need but to release them into the wild because that's how to raise the WL, then you can get rid of all the ones you don't want, go back to the wild to catch a mon with the trait you need, breed it to increase its level, only then do you have the option to run over to the request board to complete the quest... and then run back to the NPC one more time to get the keystone, and then, finally, you can explore the next area. Be sure to drop a save on a new slot before you use the keystone, and check the walkthrough to make sure you're going to the right place, and make sure the walkthrough you're using is valid for your version of the game. Ugh.

Some of that headache can be alleviated by using the various Pussy Portals that you can unlock, so it doesn't take as long to travel between areas... BUT, you need to acquire the ability to traverse portals from a specific NPC, who originally was found in the town next to your ranch that serves as the main hub, but now is found in the Desert, one of the last few places you will unlock, AND, that's just to gain the ability to unlock portals - you still need to run back to every portal you've reached to activate it. This is terrible. It would have been tolerable back when that NPC was in town, so you can get to unlocking portals from the beginning, but now you have to almost clear the whole goddamn map to even start to get fast travel.

WHY?!

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So, that's a pretty long and thorough list of complaints for a game I'm giving a "good" rating to. Well, that's because once you get through all the nonsense, there's a pretty good game underneath. Even if this game never gets out of alpha, it's still the most complete game of this type, that I'm aware of - I think there's some text based game that has more versatility, but come on, it's text based. If you have a breeding fetish and want to see a whole bunch of weird interspecies fantasy creatures getting it on, I don't know of any other game that can so fully satisfy that admittedly very particular kink.

Could it be better? Yeah, definitely. We can always hope it gets out of Alpha, even though it's been there for five years, and I wouldn't have normally even bothered with an incomplete game, but this gets a solid recommendation from me, warts and all.

Sorry i had to break the 69 reviews lol. Interesting game tbh. I've seen worst, i've seen better but I see a lot of potential in it. The reason why i gave 3 stars is because of one major flaw: The sex scene ambiance sounds. They put female moans but what about sucking sounds ? What about cuming sounds (i'm not talking about males for my hetero folks). And what about pounding sounds? Those are very important for me to get in a porn game and i know i'm not the only one. I don't care about the story (it is only a plus for me). I know the creator is currently suffering from life issues and i hope he recovers soon. He has a gold gem on his hand with his game. He only needs to tweet it more and this will be a guaranteed masterpiece. If the game could have the same depth as ai-shoujo (sex scene wise), OOF!

My review of Breeders of the Nephelym [v0.754.3]

A good game to fap once or twice or more often than that, but that's about it.

You just run around collecting monster girls you like and breed them with each other (or yourself) to produce offspring that usually looks like a mixture between the two.
Unfortunately all monster girls have the same fixed body types, so offspring usually looks identical, apart from slight variations in color.
Then once you found a monster girl that looks hot enough you either fap to a poorly animated short breeding animation or a better animated milking animation with her.

In terms of gameplay the game technically has breeding requests you can do, but there isn't really any meaningful reward, let alone a story or end goal.
The only thing that was added to the game over the years was cockblock gates and mindless fetch quests to unlock them.
Cockblock gates block access to areas where different types of monster girls run around - I recommend opening them all via cheats after doing the quests once.
Oh, and another thing that was added was the option to not get randomly raped by furries you aren't interested in and watch a 20 second animation every time you get caught.

Overall the game has not really evolved in years, and has only seen minor tweaks that could be done for free by a modder, so I doubt it will ever be good.
Even as as pregnancy "fetishist" I can only give this 3 stars.
It's a shame because the monster girls look really nice.

** Based on Version 0.754.2a
- Based on a new player’s experience

This has to be the worst game that I’ve ever wanted to like. I have never felt so compelled to question the design choices of a game than I do right now. It has a great a concept but the execution is baffling to me. It feels like I’m playing some sort of FTP MMO game meant to give you a rough time until you throw some cash into it.

Here are my issues that I have with this game. Two versions to choose from: Long as heck for people that want a detailed break-down and a TL;DR version for my lazy-sack fam out there wondering if this is good material to stimulate your jimmies.

Long as heck Ver.
Grab a Fanta, pop an Ex-Lax, and do the Aztec two-step because we have A LOT of shit to cover.
TL;DR Ver.

It's a good game that you can lose lots of hours in. The issue being there are definitely hours lost in there that are lost due to things being tedious like making you run around to the spawn locations of different breeds, running up to the hub area to buy upgrades, running around and doing quests to unlock other areas that need more running around to. Portals are present but are unlocked late in the game when you've already spent so much time running around and not fulfilling the point of the game. I recall they had portals before that were unlocked from the get-go, you just had to interact with them, so why remove that functionality?

Aside from the annoying gripe over quality of life stuff, the basis of the game is entertaining. Breeding to get better stats and better traits, having different species breed in the hopes of making a hybrid species. Doing trial and error to try and get the best breeds possible can be rather entertaining. The breeds all look good and come with different shapes and sizes with different colour combinations that can all change depending on the characteristics of the other species they were bred with. It's a fun game, but for the love of god don't put everything so far away and make your character run at the same speed everywhere because contemplating whether you want to actually go out and acquire more of a certain species can be a real struggle.

It was good when it was online accessible but restricting to only laptop users is ridiculous?
I played and only issue I had with game on steam was exiting and sometimes it would have issue like spin unless you didn't load with controller you are doom to spin spin until you slowly exited.
Now if I tried get it again prior before uninstall means, its 4GB that going to take 2 days. idk for people on steam will avoid this product, only those who have faster internet will not.

Game play had breeding pen where that only place you bred and had new generations, anything outside wasn't really interesting?
there no taming monsters with new traits or how detect if one had special traits.
You have feed in order to tame them? Feed them something similar to what tastes good for species. You couldn't collect sperm or juices in wild?
You can collect juices from your tamed monsters. My question in newest versions did they allow you enter barn and have fun with your monsters?
To me Protagonist could had group collection made go quicker.
If they still have harpies they could have egg hatchery where you were surprised what came out.

But from what I know last played not of this occurred.
Human was only character you could play I kind wonder if there was furry creature you could play instead human?

Basically just a high system requirement, 3d, more complete version of Breeding Season...that's about it.

There's not much to it beyond that basic breeding mechanic.
Yeah you have to go catch them yourself and there's a whole world to explore, but aside from a few nifty aspects to the game, it's just Breeding Season 2.0 only without as many kinks.

And when I say high system requirements, I really mean it, because I have a beast of a PC and running this game makes it growl and run hot even with the graphics settings turned down to the minimum.

Still definitely worth playing, but just don't expect much more than your average ranch simulator at the cost of a high end PC.

Review as of 0.754

Breeders of the Nephelym is definitively a game with potential. However, it feels unpolished.

*The biggest issue is with the lack of quality of life features.
The world is big and you waste way too much time moving around. Portals shortcuts are unlocked very late in-game, way too late. Buildings housing the different races are far from each other and working with them is a pain. Shops are way too far away from home and have obscure limitations (shop sometimes unavailable, stock limits, etc.). Yes, it can be improved later but the fact that nothing was done about it already is very worrisome.

*It feels like there is a lack of thoughts that went into the added features.
This feeling starts at the very beginning of the game where you don't know where to start. You will go to the first NPC to understand what this is all about. Obviously, you will ask how to breed/house your monsters, right? It is in the dialogue options so obviously, that is what you should do. But instead of telling you how to get started the NPC goes full nerd on you and pukes lore at you, leaving you with no usable information whatsoever.
That is when you start having the feeling that not enough thoughts went into the game and it will never really leave. Each new element that you will come across will always appear flawed/useless/incomplete.

*The character presets that you encounter in-game can be really uncanny.
Big butts, big boobs, exaggerated hourglass figure. This is a big letdown. Some are definitively better than others. The editor, which you cannot access without a code, is really powerful. This is definitively the biggest strength of the game. A shame the devs hid it. SERIOUSLY, why would they do that??? This is the core of their game. New presets can be added, devs could encourage preset sharing. That would be an obvious solution. But at this point, I fear that it may never happen because of the lack of common sense with this game.

A lot of work went into Breeders of the Nephelym, definitively more work than the majority of porn games. The game is also ambitious but does the mistake of building on top of weak foundations. Weak features can definitely be fixed later but those do add up. It eventually becomes hard to forgive the game for being bad just because the game is not finished.

i've been following this game since i had my potato pc and wanted to play it, now that i can play every game with my transformer computer i decided to try this game like three times and can't like it, the concept is great, the art is awesome, graphics like WoW are comforting , the way you get your cattle can't convince me at all, animations are fine but too slow, let's wait until its finished to make a better review of this game, i've got faith, but not enough to spend hours on it.