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What is Carnal Souls?
Carnal Souls will be a text-based, open-world, adult-rated RPG, created by Benji. Despite being text-based, the team behind it have a lot planned visually, such as a bestiary for all the flora and fauna of the world, and a journal to help you keep track of the NPC's, as well as a slick GUI.

To begin with only the Backers and above from the Indiegogo campaign will have access to the explicit artwork, but they plan to extend this to Patreon backers later down the line as well. All other artwork, backgrounds, items and non-explicit character art will be accessible to everyone, however.





What are the planned features?

  • RPG essentials: Experience and leveling, skills, perks, generated loot, spells, quests, and exploration.
  • An open world containing large cities, small settlements, ruins, caves, and dangerous dungeons.
  • Turn-based combat with a wide range of unique enemies, tactics, and bosses. Fight your foes toe-to-toe, blast them with spells, or seduce them.
  • A powerful character-morphing system that allows you to change every feature of your body, in small or massive ways.
  • An awesome Parser/Director system that allows us to make dynamic content and scenes, not only changing words to suit your description, but changing how entire scenes play out.
  • Unlockable, high-quality adult artworks that get added to your collection as you progress, as well as background location artwork.
  • Tons of races and peoples, any of which you can either play as or become - fully or partially. These include humans, demons, elves, orcs, satyrs/fauns, and lots of furry races as well. We'll be adding more and more as development continues.
  • Pregnancy and inflation, as well as possibly hundreds of status effects - some good, some not so good.
  • Highly interactive sex scenes that offer you choices before and during the act, so you can bang how you want to.
  • Origin stories - begin as a mage, thief, merchant - the choice is yours, and your choice will affect your starting gear, perks, and stats, as well as how the game begins for you.
  • Titles and nicknames that you can earn as you play by completing quests, uncovering secrets, or completing achievements. NPC's will call you by the title of your choice, where they can.
  • Alignments of Gender and Stature. Gender will be governed by how you look, how you dress, and any perks or status affects that'll make you more/less feminine/masculine. Stature will work the same way, but will be on a scale of vulnerable to intimidating, meaning massive armoured warriors won't get mugged by petty bandits, and delicate beauties may find NPC's to be much more generous.
  • Fluid gender identification means NPC's will address you as they see you. They may mistake your gender if it's difficult to tell, and alternatively a fixed pronoun preference can be set in the options as well.





They also plan to have support for mobile and touch devices later down the line, as well as numerous integrations between the game and their site.
More about their planned features can be found on their website:


If you find it interesting it would help the creators if you backed the game on patreon.
The game itself is gonna be free of charge when it gets out, but they really need all the help they can get for this to happen.
Also, after the initial release they might give out backer exclusive rewards and privileges.


This game seems like it´s gonna be a lot like Trials in Tainted Space and Corruption of Champions. Which are great text based adult games.
If you haven´t tried those I would recommend that you do.
But be warned, there´s a lot of different fetishes in those games.
They can be found and played at this website btw:


Feel free to discuss Carnal Souls in this thread :)

Update:
They've now brought back the character creator.

Have fun ;)

06/08/2016

Updated alpha build with early battle system + enemy spawns.

21/09/2016
Benji has written part of the Carnal Souls Codex, giving a bit of an outline of the world and some of the races you can find within it.
 
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Very interesting, I may keep and eye for this.
 

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ok, i tried the demo, is it just a map? cant click anything, thought there was a character creation template, but seems like only a clickable map or am i missing something?
 
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ok, i tried the demo, is it just a map? cant click anything, thought there was a character creation template, but seems like only a clickable map or am i missing something?
Just a map at the moment. They're currently hard at work trying to make a playable build.
I'll post an update here when it's gotten out.

Btw. Before the map got out the demo used to be the character builder. I'm kinda curious as to what happened to that, so I'll ask about it on the carnal souls forum.
 

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Awesome, another text based rpg. My only hope is for more balanced content. Fenoxo and his team made amazing games, but the content was pretty much just one thing. That woman over there? she has a dick. that guy you crushing on? can turn into a woman with a dick. That woman that doesn't have a dick? you can throw a dick on that bitch and call it good. There was essentially 1 NPC you could have a relationship with who liked guy chars and couldn't turn into a woman. Fall of Eden I'm much more hyped for because the content is much more balanced.


Please be like Fall of Eden
 

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I agree with Ecroose, I like a good text based game but they all seem to go strong into the stranger fetishes, and lose me in the process. I can deal with furry characters, but please give us the ability to keep the futa, gender swapping, transformation, vore, and shitting-dick-nipples to the sidelines.

You'll have my gratitude!
 

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Honestly I could do with a slightly tamer narrative, CoC started out with the idea that you're 'supposed' to be fighting corruption and much of the early encounters were a sex-on-loss or sex-when-highly-corrupted/lustful kind of deal. Since then it devolved into 'oh hey nice to meet you lets rub our genitals together' with just about every encounter ever.

Fall of Eden also disappointed in that regard with there being very little context or cause for random bouts of rutting, just about everything you meet is all to eager to jump your genitals with absolutely no reason or justification and that gets kind of dull. Every encounter becomes this extremely predictable affair of 'oh I wonder how quickly this is going to turn into sex'

In more practical terms, it can be hard to 'get into the mood' when the characters are these always horny and ready-to-fuck sex dolls more than people.
 
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Character creator is back.
Updated the front page, sharing the link.
 

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wow, that was very impressive, and it was just character creation. a question though, is the class you pick the class you have to stay with? or will there be a class change system?
 

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Honestly I could do with a slightly tamer narrative, CoC started out with the idea that you're 'supposed' to be fighting corruption and much of the early encounters were a sex-on-loss or sex-when-highly-corrupted/lustful kind of deal. Since then it devolved into 'oh hey nice to meet you lets rub our genitals together' with just about every encounter ever.

Fall of Eden also disappointed in that regard with there being very little context or cause for random bouts of rutting, just about everything you meet is all to eager to jump your genitals with absolutely no reason or justification and that gets kind of dull. Every encounter becomes this extremely predictable affair of 'oh I wonder how quickly this is going to turn into sex'

In more practical terms, it can be hard to 'get into the mood' when the characters are these always horny and ready-to-fuck sex dolls more than people.
Yeah I agree comepletely, those games started great and just devolved so much over time it's just sad. And about this game, with the amount of planned feature's I don't see this getting finished in the next ten years, you will either have amazing customisation or great scenes/story, unless they somehow get big enough team I just don't see this getting finished in a reasonable time, which brings another problem - patreon and this taking years to finish with no incentive to do it faster, honestly don't like that system at all, seems like it's the new fad to make a patreon porn game lately to make some easy cash then drag it on as long as possible, beacuse why not. How many of those games actually got finished, and by finished I mean completed not just "we are done with this project because reasons"?
 

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Honestly I could do with a slightly tamer narrative, CoC started out with the idea that you're 'supposed' to be fighting corruption and much of the early encounters were a sex-on-loss or sex-when-highly-corrupted/lustful kind of deal. Since then it devolved into 'oh hey nice to meet you lets rub our genitals together' with just about every encounter ever.

Fall of Eden also disappointed in that regard with there being very little context or cause for random bouts of rutting, just about everything you meet is all to eager to jump your genitals with absolutely no reason or justification and that gets kind of dull. Every encounter becomes this extremely predictable affair of 'oh I wonder how quickly this is going to turn into sex'

In more practical terms, it can be hard to 'get into the mood' when the characters are these always horny and ready-to-fuck sex dolls more than people.
i agree with this but i personally had another slightly more specific gripe with the game. While i did enjoy it, it seems that in these games' (COC and T.i.T.S) universes, it is impossible to not enjoy sex, even if it is unwanted. For example, you lose a fight to a minotaur and it fancies your whatever, and decides to make use of you. Well the scenes always say that yeah at first it aint nice but then at the end its a riggin hoot, its euphoria, best thing since toilet paper! Hell even a FORCED BLOWJOB seems to make the player character, whatever the level of horniness (or lack thereof) and whatever character traits, cream themselves and attain sexual nirvana!

I mean, im not asking them to make it so its darker with more sadness and terrible acts... But the character's reaction to stuff is often, well, inconsistent with any living being ever? Seems like ANYTHING that ends with one set or more of genitals elicit insane pleasure in EVERY participant, makes no sense. Also one other thing... Why do almost every character/monster/critter seem to have super intense sex pheromones?

Bah, that was my ranting, sorry for derailing things. Though i REALLY hope that this here game (Carnal souls) doesnt have these little issues, im quite looking forward to it.
 

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i agree with this but i personally had another slightly more specific gripe with the game. While i did enjoy it, it seems that in these games' (COC and T.i.T.S) universes, it is impossible to not enjoy sex, even if it is unwanted. For example, you lose a fight to a minotaur and it fancies your whatever, and decides to make use of you. Well the scenes always say that yeah at first it aint nice but then at the end its a riggin hoot, its euphoria, best thing since toilet paper! Hell even a FORCED BLOWJOB seems to make the player character, whatever the level of horniness (or lack thereof) and whatever character traits, cream themselves and attain sexual nirvana!

I mean, im not asking them to make it so its darker with more sadness and terrible acts... But the character's reaction to stuff is often, well, inconsistent with any living being ever? Seems like ANYTHING that ends with one set or more of genitals elicit insane pleasure in EVERY participant, makes no sense. Also one other thing... Why do almost every character/monster/critter seem to have super intense sex pheromones?

Bah, that was my ranting, sorry for derailing things. Though i REALLY hope that this here game (Carnal souls) doesnt have these little issues, im quite looking forward to it.
well uh...you DO remember that minotaur cum has addictive and drug-like qualities right? there were like three badends associated with it
 

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Some alternative perspective here although I'm more of a lurker in this site, CoC/TiTs aren't even that depraved of games. In terms of extreme content has instead just fallen flat, even to the scenes that pander towards extremes like vore, it always seemed to lack the substance of it. None of them were actually writing 'vore' though. Even a rare petrification bad end wasn't even expected to be erotic by it's author.

TiTs actually has a lot more variety and he's managed to get less squickish when it comes to questionable content, but he has still never quite reached the actual peaks of depravity for much more than casual fucking with some enslavement/entrapment bad ends. Rarely does any game give me a taste of mental angusih that I can use. FCdev is the hero we deserve. Though he's lacking niche fetish content due to realism.
I can't say there is exactly much merit in pandering to types like me that simply cannot get off on mere sex (least not as often or easily) and need non-standard means of eroticism, but there are at least alternatives for those particular itches. Except traps among other niche fetishes. No not Trapquest, a game about crossdressing and seducing people as a trap, not a bimbo.
You should provably just stick to vanilla until there's at least an intense demand for more. On Furries/gender nonsense I've noted through the years, 'appeal to everyone' will at least gather you fuck-ton of dosh even if it pisses off vanilla-fans. Though I have a hatred of furry porn myself. /d/ would hate the shit out of this game, but /d/ hates everything.
 
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wow, that was very impressive, and it was just character creation. a question though, is the class you pick the class you have to stay with? or will there be a class change system?
Think of it like dark souls. You can choose what you start with, but you can change style at any time.
The combat seems to be heavily influenced on your weapons and armour of choice.


Bah, that was my ranting, sorry for derailing things. Though i REALLY hope that this here game (Carnal souls) doesnt have these little issues, im quite looking forward to it.
The creator of this game Benji, has always had a problem with you being able to fuck something after seriously injuring it. He also thought about the differences between having consensual and non consensual sex with your opponent.
That´s why he created the resolve system.

 

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Think of it like dark souls. You can choose what you start with, but you can change style at any time.
The combat seems to be heavily influenced on your weapons and armour of choice.



The creator of this game Benji, has always had a problem with you being able to fuck something after seriously injuring it. He also thought about the differences between having consensual and non consensual sex with your opponent.
That´s why he created the resolve system.

Hype intensifies.
It is over 9000
 

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btw is it possible to make something like a loli granny?
 
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btw is it possible to make something like a loli granny?
Good question.
I´m not really sure myself.
But I´m assuming that you could start out as an elderly woman, and then later on use something to look younger. Changing your appearance to suit your wants and needs are something games like this are very good at.
 

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There's been an update to the game! Recently added was a small battle system that shows how exploring and encounters are going to be handled. It's by no means finalized, but it's something to show off at least.
 
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Updated the front page with a link to the carnal souls forum, where you can get a full changelog for the new alpha build.
 
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