Version 0.8.10
This game is... difficult to rate. It's clear the devs are putting a ton of work and effort into making a decent product. The graphics are quite beautiful and, despite the reuse of a lot of assets, the atmosphere is really nice. The voice acting is decent and they get kudos for adding it at all. The cut scenes were also a nice touch. So far the story is pretty good as well, not giving the player everything all at once but telling the story as one proceeds through the game. Sadly, these are the best things going for it right now.
Bugs, bugs everywhere! They start with the character customization. I found that any color change, and I mean any, takes away Kalyskah's red eyes. Strangely enough, with all the eye color options you can choose through the palettes, there's none for red. That being the case I didn't bother changing any colors. Red eyes, pale, black hair... sure, that's vampirey. Good enough. I gave her some pubes and made her tits bigger and was off to the races. Breast sliders are always fun to play with. She's a good looking creature even without changing her skin, hair, blush, eye colors.
After starting the game and ooh, aahing over the pretty graphics, I moved around. The camera controls are... adequate and that's the best I'll give them. Targeting and picking things up is OK. As a veteran of Skyrim I'm used to the over-the-shoulder, press E for every interaction bit, so it wasn't an issue. Having interactive things glow and show the name when you get in range is a good feature. As I said, adequate.
Now... combat. Yeeeeeeeeah. First and foremost, the Tutorial contains wrong information. Fortunately for myself, I checked the player controls on the startup menu ahead of time, which are correct, so I knew what to press. Combat in this game sucks and makes for a really frustrating experience. The controls are sloppy, slow, and glitchy and the camera makes it even more annoying, especially when fighting multiple enemies, which happens frequently. Having to press Q to start fighting correctly was a pain considering the poor camera controls and the speed of the enemies. They were frequently around corners where I couldn't see them and would stab me two or three times before I could properly target them. I appreciated what the devs wanted to do with the surrender options of trying to turn tables, enchant them with sorcery, or surrendering to try to screw them into letting you go but the RNG chance of success made it annoying as hell. If I saw Kalyskah get stabbed in the gut one more time I probably would have punched my monitor. I started getting the hang of it and finding better weapons and armor helped but it still sucked enough to make me want to stop playing.
I can't say much about the sex playstyle because, honestly, I only saw one scene. Except for possibly fooling around with the succubus, which I didn't try since I was annoyed by the time I met her, most of the sex seems to be when you surrender to enemies and that's a little on the creepy side for me. One shouldn't be rooting for the bad guy to beat your character up just to see the naughty bits. The controls were kind of odd, mostly changing camera angles and movement and a choice of what the positions are. Unfortunately, the enemy that I'd seduced with sorcery ran out of Stamina and the scene ended in a very short time. After that combat began again quickly since I was fighting two enemies at the same time (naturally) and the one that hadn't gotten the killing blow on me just stood there waiting while her buddy got his jollies. It was kind of awkward and I spent most of my time trying to get the very quick camera to give me a good angle of the sex. Controls are rough and the action stops too quickly.
The final bug that killed my play time was when I finally met the succubus. Unfortunately, I'd already been up in the guard quarters and retrieved the key to her cell BEFORE I met her. This apparently screwed the quest over because, even though I released her, my quest log was stuck on "Find a way to release her." By that time I was so annoyed with the combat system and having no map that I just gave up.
All in all I gave this game three stars, mostly for good intentions and a HELL of a lot of effort. It's easy to tell that the devs are working their asses off to make a really fun, good game with an intriguing story, a sexy main character, and interesting options. Unfortunately, at this point, it's just not there yet. I hope they work it out and find a way to make the combat less of a chore because they have something special here that could be professional level. I won't understate just how much effort must have gone into making this because it's got to be tremendous. I feel badly I can't rate it higher because I could tell it's a labor of love. The devs have all my admiration and I hope they keep going with it and put out a really quality game by the time it's finished.