Instinct

Bland, but not bad. Could hold people's attention for a few hours. Neutral option, if it was possible.

Honestly i have no idea how i came to own this game but it was not very good, Every route was super dark and all the women talk like they were written by men, The art work was good though.

WASTED TIME

Dirt cheap, easy to get all achievements, and has yuri path. I could not find more positives about Instinct. It's simply not a good Visual Novel.

Story-wise it's nothing special. Typical romance with mystery elements. Boring and predictable. Main character and her romance options are no better. We barely know anything about oursleves, our world or people around. You simply can't tell a good romance story if your characters are flat as a board... It's literally few walking cliches talking about random stuff. Go from one ecchi scene to another.

Visually - the game is solid for it's price. CGs are a little bit wonky sometimes (weird body proportions), but it's not super noticeble. There's adult patch that you can download, but it won't make the game better, even if you're looking for something cheap to unwind :)

Overall, I can't recommend Instinct. It's simply not a good game.



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Catgirl lives with her rescuer. New guy suddenly moves in. Troubles ensue. And if you make the right choices, love might blossom. Decent.

Way WAY steamier than I anticipated, NSFW so watch out lol, that aside, I didn't like either of the love interests, for different reasons, and yet I fell in love with Ginger's love for them, her feelings read very sincerely and that made it a good game.
Aside from that I feel like the fanservice for ladies vs men was unequal, the girls were crazy busty and portrayed like porn stars, which because I didn't realise it was nsfw at first was uncomfortable lol, but the male love interest not so much? Even in a scene where we see him almost sanz shirt he's pretty much just there to hold ginger down so she can take poses where she's being 'dominated' ginger shines in his scenes not him.

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[18+ VN] As a nekomimi(cat-eared) girl, intimate with a male or a female. Cute but a bit rough characters, short story. External 18+ patch. Grab it on sale.
[18+ ADV] 猫耳ちゃんとなって男性か女性との物語を進めよう。セールの時なら。

I wasn't really sure how to even rate this game... On one hand, it's not the best... But on the other hand, it's not beyond hope. Can we settle for a neutral review instead?

Reasons to read this one: Nice artwork/Fun music... You like girls and big chests? You will SEE A LOT OF THEM. At least I got one picture with a guy's body... Which wasn't even uncovered... And by then I felt too bad for him to actually appreciate it... So if you are into guys: You get one picture. There. OH! If you like maid uniforms and girls in revealing outfits... Then you can look at the art too! Also, know this: it is censored in the spots "that matters". XD

The story... The characters... You wont get attached to any of them. You don't even get to learn much about them. At first you might start to hate the guy, only to realize that Evelyn is the worst one of them all. Consider her the "crybaby" of the story. That's all she does. For those who read: Yes, she had been through a traumatic experience... But she needs to talk it out with someone! She keeps it hidden inside! She says she loves her animal, right? Then proceeds to not tell her anything. No trust. At all.

If you play Evelyn's route... It's mainly to look at large chests. That's it. You are going to have to ignore a lot of things... Not ask any questions at all...

If you play the guy's route: You still wont find out much about anyone. In fact, you wont learn about the MC's (Main Characters) past. BUT in his defense, I get why he is so secretive. Also, I thought he was homeless? He is really bad at taking care of himself.

Oh, there is another guy: THE BAD GUY. You can't date him. He is beyond evil. We only find out about him at the end and through his actions. MMKAY... I don't like him and he is nuts... So maybe that's the only character they went all out for and developed somewhat... You WILL hate him... Unless you are into that kinda stuff... I don't care. I don't know you.

Right, the story is short, but it has lots of images of women to look at. By that I meant: too many for me. I lived though. There are four endings and a gallery... Options aren't really confusing... You can figure them out by yourselves...

Backgrounds! That's what I tried to remember, those are adorable. I have a question about the lone kitty silhouette in the cages though... Is that a toy? Did all the other cats get bought out and this one is the only one left? Can I adopt it? Seriously, please tell me that's a toy for a placeholder! I can't stop thinking about it!

How you will feel reading this game: No idea. How I felt: Cringey at some moments and having blast at the others. Except the dark scenes. If you literally... Stop thinking and just read? This story has some really interesting and unpredictable ways of showing things to you. Things come out of nowhere... Stupidity... No, I wont go into details... I turned off my thoughts, remember?

You know how there is a movie that tries to be serious, but is actually pretty hilarious? This is something along those lines. There is potential, but it has to be done in a different manner. I also want to know wth the MC wasn't allowed to go help Christian?! I wanted to see an epic battle! Well okay, at least I got a somewhat of a lewd scene at the end between the two characters.................

That's it: It's a good laugh, but only if you don't take it seriously. Also, if you like pretty pictures. Those are nice too.

P.S. Still think this is neutral......................... I love that MEOW in the beginning!

P.P.S. That cat silhouette was a toy, right?

My first and favourite novel I've ever read, this novel have opened me world of novels and now, i like it. Thanks you !

unexplained, you are a cat person. I dont know if you used to be a literal cat that transformed or if cat people exist. But there are two LIs, Mistress Evelyn (the woman who houses you) and your coworker/supervisor at the pet store you work at, Christian.

Outside of being a little confused about who this was written for (multiple semi-nude/panty shots of the female protaganist- I thought I was suppose to relate to being her, not sexually ogle "myself"?) there is also another major issue. I value consensual sexual activities quite a lot. Cat person decides to trade sexual favors for information about someone she cares about? Okay, she can do that. Make a fool of herself, show some cleavage. Whatevs. But Christian has the audacity to grope her at long length, even tweak her nips, only to call her a fool and advise her to never trade sexual favors for such little things. What am I supposed to think? what a nice guy for taking advantage of her only that much? Hard Pass. And I'm not into women. So no, don't recommend.

I bought Instinct as part of a bundle deal so I didn't really know anything about it as it was the other games I was mainly interested in. I saw you could play as a cute cat girl and the brief description mentioned how "everyone has a secret", so I thought "okay, let's go find out what those secrets are". Expecting some sort of fun mystery, I loaded the game and found out how utterly wrong I was.

Let's start with Ginger, the protagonist... The majority of the plot revolves around her acting like a spoilt child that's not getting her own way and starts to question the trust of her loved ones. This occurs all because her mistress doesn't want to tell her something - not really the end of the world but to Ginger, it seems to be. She is so utterly desperate to find out what is going on that she resorts to offering herself up in exchange for information. This just leads to her getting groped and forced to make out with some guy but receiving no answers. Because she's still clueless (in more than one way) she ends up in a pretty stupid situation where she is almost sexually assaulted - there is also no trigger warning for this anywhere.

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I mean sure, games are there for entertainment and fantasy but this really isn't my kind of thing and it would have been nice to know there was that kind of content beforehand as it's fairly detailed. Either way, that is literally the entire plot of the game until the last 5 minutes. That's where some real story is implemented as if they are setting the grounds for a sequel but having slugged my way through the rest of this visual novel, it just seemed pointless for them to start trying at that point. Sure, there is plenty of sexual tension, stupid jokes and fan service but not much in the form of a solid plot at all.

The options are also severely lacking. It takes a whole of one answer to determine the romance outcome from what I could see - the rest is just filler I imagine. The whole thing could do with another proof-read. I don't know about you, but I certainly don't randomly say I sigh instead of actually just sighing instead - that's just weird!

Giving credit where it's due, the art is pretty decent; it mainly consists of pantie and boob shots but hey, I've learned that that is the main point of this... Gotta love how mistress has to cross her arms under her chest so often just to hold those things up...

Sex sells, yarda yarda. That's great and all but for the love of the maker, if you are going to have a plot, at least put some effort into it!

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Overall it was pretty decent, if short, and basically exactly as expected. There were a few areas where it was phrased poorly, overly explained or repeated the same lines, and it had a few typos. Even taking those into account it was overall easy to understand. I loved the part where when you click on an option there's a "mew". I found it pretty awesome that the developers put in that bit of cute detail. The artwork is pretty great, nothing groundbreaking, but one of the best I've seen in a game like this. The music was pleasant. I had a laugh at the part where the mc was a readhead named Ginger. I sometimes find stereotypes funny. I like that you can go for the girl or the guy. I also think it would be a cool idea to ad an option to play as a male mc. I mean, I personally would love a game with both a yuri and a bl option.

This is a pretty good vn! Not very long, but I wasn't expecting much for the money. The characters and the art are cute, and there are a good amount of CG's for how short it is. I also love when games offer a yuri route, like this one. Evelyn was definitely the better choice, her ending was more romantic and very sweet; I didn't really like Christian that much as he is the perpetrator of a lot of sexual harassment, but that's more of just a personal distaste. There is also a lot of ecchi, so if you like that then this is your game. The story isn't too complex, but it draws you in enough that it's easy to finish in one sitting. There are 4 endings and a few achievements you can get as well, so that's always a bonus.

All in all, I think Instinct deserves a positive review. I hope to play the sequel whenever it comes out, as well. (:

I've kind of been bouncing back and forth on whether or not to recommend this game. The arts nice, and the plot is a bit interesting but that's about it. Most of the game involves the Protagonist snooping around to find out what her master and coworker are hiding. And while there is some potential with the beasts and sickness mentioned, in the end it winds up feeling like it missed the mark, or that it's setting up for the next game. Now I know there will be a second game, but as is the game currently feels a bit bland. The plot as it is currently isn't all that interesting. It has potential, but not in it's current state. I'd say to wait on this game or get it for sale if you feel interested in it.

The protagonist is cute and funny, I liked her a lot. The other characters... meh. They're bland, from their personalities to their appearance. I think more consideration went into the villain than the two love interests.

The setup and world is interesting, although there isn't much explanation, probably because the game is quite short. The ecchi scenes are okay, except the last ones look kind of awkward. The game does contain implied abuse and sexual assault and the villain is creepy.

I wouldn't recommend it, as there are many better ecchi and romance games out there. I got it on sale for like $2 so in that respect I got my money's worth.

I wasn't very attentive when reading the game description and did not realise that it would be "that kind" of game... I thought it would be more innocent than it turned out. That being said, I didn't really have a problem with that.

It starts out like what I expected, with our irreverent cat girl protagonist living her day to day life in the pet store she works at with her owner/guardian, Evelyn. She has a rivalry with her co-worker, Christian, and of course, silly antics ensue. This game definitely has a great sense of humour which made me laugh out loud a few times!

What I did not expect was the latter half of the story. The story can get dark at times, with both general and sexual assault being plot points of differing degrees in certain endings. The tonal shift is pretty steep to get adjusted too, but I think that it serves the story well in its main dramatic purpose.

I enjoyed the art as it's very polished and pretty. The music was nice to listen to as well. All in all, it was a fun visual novel to read.

Pros

• Yuri (there's a male romance option too... I didn't bother with it, he's pretty creepy)
  
• Catgirl!
  
• Cute animations
  
• Little cute "meows" when you choose options :D Kawaii!
  
• Multiple endings - one yuri, one het, one single, one bad (really BAD!)
  
• Cheap
  

Cons
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Surprising dark and contains themes of sexual assault / both the male love interest and male antagonist assault the player character, which may make some players uncomfortable. If the male love interest catches the player character accessing his laptop, he pins her against the wall and forces her to kiss him as payment, he's interrupted by the female love interest before it goes further 2) Its revealed the antagonist has been stalking / beating the female love interest for about 2 years, and attempts to r*pe the player character near the end. In the bad ending the he kidnaps the catgirl to be his s*x slave.

[*]Most of the human characters act very strangely, albiet the story is from a catgirl's point of view. Mistress keeps Ginger in the dark about who's beating her and gets upset when Ginger naturally assumes its the male lover interest instead of just telling her the truth. The male love interest (I forget his name) bullies Ginger, and molests her if he catches her with his laptop, despite it being revealed near the end he's supposed to protect her.

The game ends with a announcement of Instinct 2 - if its got yuri in it I'll pick it up.

So, coming from very story rich and exciting visual novels to this one, might not be the best idea. -Unless of course you really want to unwind with a slightly trivial softcore VN that's pushing yuri and straight in equal measure. Instinct is not a bad little visual novel by any means, and if you install the 18+ patch, certainly not, but don’t expect Hamlet or The Odyssey to jump out from the pages. The art is very polished and clean, as if a spec of dust would ruin the whole world, and the music is better left off, unless you of course like the same thing over and over for however long you need to get though the story. I give this a recommendation, mostly for the yuri part of the story, because personally I found the straight route to be flat and unremarkable. -And I suppose there's nothing wrong with a little ‘unwinding’ to a couple of beautiful gals here and there :)

I love this game more than I do with some other things but the thing is, how do I even achieve the 3rd ending? If someone could point out how to do so without actually spoiling the result that would be wonderful. I just need to know if I need to combine both Christian and Evalyn dialogue choices to get it.

The only thing I can say about this game is its lack of choice options and the weak plot that is supposed to be enjoyble in this game. There are only really 3 or 4 choices you get to make and this game is literally played in two hours. Towards the end there is so much more that is added to the plot that can definitely be brought in earlier and expand the game. This game starts out too carefree with a sudden aggressive and "somber" ending. In any case it's better to receive this product for free rather than spend $5 dollars on a two hours game.
PS the only real "sensual" in this game is a rape scene that in no way should be the most detailed of all the scenes. Consent should always be a factor in these cases, we don't want young boys to get "busy" with rape scenes and make them think it's okay for them to do it too.

English might not be the developer's 1st language, but cute game if you like cat girls. i have the 1st 25 min gameplay on my channel if you are interested in seeing before you buy ;D https://youtu.be/sfDl2MPYQEs