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Another, “Mila Red Riding Hood,” features various sex acts between Dead or Alive’s Mila and a monstrous, animal-like wolf. One clip, “Lara’s Nightmare,” depicts Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft having sex with a dog. Granted, its absence implies Subverse is primarily designed for straight men.įOW Interactive’s parent company, StudioFOW, is also known for its incredibly controversial Source Filmmaker porn parodies. When asked, DC told that a female character 'was never on the table to begin with' given that 'it would create a massive logistical headache' for the game during its early production stage. The game's Captain is 'canonically male” and “there is 0 percent chance” the team will implement a female character, the Kickstarter’s FAQ states. Of course, Subverse isn’t without its controversies. It's our very first video game so we are trying to keep everything as simple as possible.” “As a result, we have a nice little safety net to help us out if any production issues arise (and they will). It's very tempting to just keep adding goals as you see the numbers rise, but we actually stopped adding goals altogether, and yet people still pledged even more,” DC told. “We've been very conservative with our stretch goals and controlling feature creep during the campaign. In an interview with, StudioFOW’s founder and Subverse's creative director DC said the team has a plan in place to prevent the crowdfund’s success from derailing its launch.

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Thanks to the campaign’s success, Subverse will include full voice acting, additional animations, an adult manga adaptation with real doujin artists (or Japanese adult comic creators), and additional polish to assure the game launches at 'the highest possible quality.' “You typically see visual novels, management sims, or puzzle games with a lewd hook: a fully 3D action and turned-based strategy game is altogether unusual, and it has an impressive amount of visual polish (compared to the competition anyway).”Īfter initially asking for £150,000 (approximately $195,000 USD) to build Subverse's full 10 chapters, the Kickstarter surpassed its final £1 million stretch goal by earning £1,668,626 (or approximately $2.1 million USD). “Compared to most adult games available on Steam and elsewhere, this feels ambitious in terms of both presentation and gameplay,” Jennifer Unkle, a critic who specializes in this segment of the industry, told. While sexually explicit titles are immensely popular in the gaming industry, Subverse is one of the most sophisticated 18+ video games proposed to date. The game also features a Mass Effect-esque open-world galaxy map, sidequests, shoot-’em-up space combat segments, and incredibly detailed animated sexual content. They also star in the game’s top-down tactical strategy combat segments with their own special abilities. Subverse is a 'kinky new sci-fi RPG mashup” that lets players captain a spaceship 'crewed by the sexiest and deadliest waifus you can recruit.” Players can have sexual relationships with these “waifu” characters, which each have their own personalities and backstories. FOW Interactive’s Subverse closed its crowdfunding venture with nearly 60,000 backers pledging over $2 million worth in funding. While the game's success opens the door to more sophisticated adult content within the games industry, it may prove an outlier.Īn upcoming adult indie game is turning heads for its enormously successful Kickstarter campaign. StudioFOW's genre-blending adult video game Subverse asked for approximately $190,000 for its April Kickstarter.