If this sounds ridiculous and a tad immature, the kicker is that, as of this writing, Subverse has raised $1,787,407 on Kickstarter - well past its goal of $129,409. To wit, Subverse features a character called William Dildofingers, who apparently has inflatable phalluses attached to his robot hands. The aim was to create a lighthearted game with “memorable perverts and deviant villains.”
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“We tried a number of rewrites then eventually went full on comedy and it IMMEDIATELY clicked, like overnight,” he said. StudioFOWĪs DC tells it, early scripts for the game were darker, but these iterations didn’t work out the way the studio hoped. Kickstarter, meanwhile, doesn’t allow fundraising for “offensive material” or “pornographic material.” It’s possible that Subverse couldn’t exist and be sold on these platforms if it included the type of sex that the studio is known for. While Steam does sell games where people get it on, the distribution platform recently pulled a title called Rape Day because it posed “unknown costs and risks,” according to Valve. Given that Subverse aims to release on Steam, StudioFOW’s options for portraying things like rape is limited. “ Subverse will feature fully consensual sex,” DC said. While StudioFOW heavily emphasizes the action, DC, the creative director, told Polygon that unlike their previous work, Subverse will not feature rape. Given the developer’s pedigree, you might expect that Subverse’s debauchery is as brutal as the wider StudioFOW oeuvre, but surprisingly, that’s not the case here. “Each waifu will have unlockable, fully animated, StudioFOW quality hentai scenes which you can view whenever you wish from the comfort of your own Captain’s Quarters.”
“The better you perform in combat, the more you explore, and the more you talk to your waifus – the better your rewards get!” the Kickstarter reads. StudioFOW promises that your crew is perpetually turned on, and seemingly there to please the player, cleavage physics and all. While there is a story, watching people bang each other at the player’s preferred speed and pose seems to be the primary motivating factor behind Subverse’s gameplay. But where BioWare games have shied away from focusing too heavily on the romance elements, Subverse leans fully into the relationships between characters. The sexbot character, for example, is very reminiscent of Mass Effect’ s EDI.
At one point, the Kickstarter pitch jokes that the game’s navigation mechanics are “stolen from well-known sci-fi games,” but the similarities go beyond that. If this kinda sounds like Mass Effect, that seems intentional - Subverse wears its influences on its sleeve. But also, you can sleep with all of the women you recruit. You have a ship that you can upgrade, and a crew that you can get to know through backstories and loyalty missions.
You can explore a galaxy full of planets hiding secrets. Subverse is a hybrid video game that combines tactical RPG gameplay (think XCOM), shmups, and cinematic visual novel elements. Today, StudioFOW is still around - but now it’s making a video game that is exploding on Kickstarter. In these movies, characters would routinely get raped and abused until reaching a mental breakdown, all for the viewing pleasure of millions of hungry fans. Four years ago, StudioFOW was known as a collective that created brutal porn films featuring the heroines of popular video games.
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