Full Video review: https://youtu.be/EoF89E4WpAU
My video review is probably going to get demonetized, but what better way to start off Spooktober than to play a super questionable horror game
Graphics and ...content:
Succubus starts out strong. I was thrown into this hellish setting with demons everywhere, people being tortured all around me, and a whole lotta pixels censoring the more inappropriate stuff. Don’t worry though – the censorship is optional, I just had to do so to get footage for YouTube. I also tested the uncensored mode and yeah... it’s pretty much the same thing, but with no pixels.
I will definitely give the studio credit for going all out on the production values. There’s a ton of detail to the game world, tons of options to customize your character, and really, the visuals are surprisingly good – better than I was expecting.
Performance:
I ran the game at 1440p on a mix of high and some medium settings – hovering anywhere between 70 and 120 or so. It fluctuates a bit, but with some tinkering – I did manage to get it to a point where it did not drop below 60. Once I did that – it was smooth sailing outside of the occasional hitch when loading new areas. The game looks good and runs better than I was expecting on my aging 1070 Ti.
Combat:
The combat is a mix of some good ideas, but not so great execution. The different weapon types, attacks, and special abilities are cool, but the core combat is just boring and repetitive. Hits don’t have any weight behind them, enemies are not varied enough, and the hitboxes can be a bit wonky too. The movement is at least responsive, but the rest unfortunately does not compare.
Crashing & Save Corrupting:
Now, I would normally comment on the story by this point – but unfortunately, I was unable to finish the game. Not because I didn’t want to, but because the game would not let me. Hours into my first playthrough, it crashed on me during a loading screen and would not boot back up again without crashing.
I tried: restarting my computer, verifying integrity of the game files, running the game as an administrator, completely reinstalling the thing (60GB mind you), and even analyzing my own crash dump file. What ultimately fixed it though was a complete wipe of my save file and settings.
I figured – okay, that’s pretty bad, but I still want to give a complete review for the game – so I started up another playthrough and began speedrunning to get back to where I left off. Unfortunately, the game had other plans and shut down that playthrough too – giving me another crash in a completely different area and preventing itself from opening again. Once again, I solved the problem by wiping my save, but at that point – I had given up on finishing the game. My save got corrupted not just once, but twice and my interest in playing it completely vanished with that second save.
Overall:
Putting aside the whole save corrupting issue – it’s still just a mediocre experience at best, with clunky combat and all. I’ll give the studio some credit for going all out on the setting and really selling the game’s demonic theme, but that is unfortunately not enough to save the experience. Of course, the save corrupting and crashing issue makes it an automatic no to begin with (although that is something that will probably be patched).
My video review is probably going to get demonetized, but what better way to start off Spooktober than to play a super questionable horror game
Graphics and ...content:
Succubus starts out strong. I was thrown into this hellish setting with demons everywhere, people being tortured all around me, and a whole lotta pixels censoring the more inappropriate stuff. Don’t worry though – the censorship is optional, I just had to do so to get footage for YouTube. I also tested the uncensored mode and yeah... it’s pretty much the same thing, but with no pixels.
I will definitely give the studio credit for going all out on the production values. There’s a ton of detail to the game world, tons of options to customize your character, and really, the visuals are surprisingly good – better than I was expecting.
Performance:
I ran the game at 1440p on a mix of high and some medium settings – hovering anywhere between 70 and 120 or so. It fluctuates a bit, but with some tinkering – I did manage to get it to a point where it did not drop below 60. Once I did that – it was smooth sailing outside of the occasional hitch when loading new areas. The game looks good and runs better than I was expecting on my aging 1070 Ti.
Combat:
The combat is a mix of some good ideas, but not so great execution. The different weapon types, attacks, and special abilities are cool, but the core combat is just boring and repetitive. Hits don’t have any weight behind them, enemies are not varied enough, and the hitboxes can be a bit wonky too. The movement is at least responsive, but the rest unfortunately does not compare.
Crashing & Save Corrupting:
Now, I would normally comment on the story by this point – but unfortunately, I was unable to finish the game. Not because I didn’t want to, but because the game would not let me. Hours into my first playthrough, it crashed on me during a loading screen and would not boot back up again without crashing.
I tried: restarting my computer, verifying integrity of the game files, running the game as an administrator, completely reinstalling the thing (60GB mind you), and even analyzing my own crash dump file. What ultimately fixed it though was a complete wipe of my save file and settings.
I figured – okay, that’s pretty bad, but I still want to give a complete review for the game – so I started up another playthrough and began speedrunning to get back to where I left off. Unfortunately, the game had other plans and shut down that playthrough too – giving me another crash in a completely different area and preventing itself from opening again. Once again, I solved the problem by wiping my save, but at that point – I had given up on finishing the game. My save got corrupted not just once, but twice and my interest in playing it completely vanished with that second save.
Overall:
Putting aside the whole save corrupting issue – it’s still just a mediocre experience at best, with clunky combat and all. I’ll give the studio some credit for going all out on the setting and really selling the game’s demonic theme, but that is unfortunately not enough to save the experience. Of course, the save corrupting and crashing issue makes it an automatic no to begin with (although that is something that will probably be patched).