Breeders of the Nephelym is an immersive, beautifully erotic 3D adventure game centered around catching and breeding the Nephelym, an enigmatic race of monster-human hybrids.
Installation:
1- Extract and run.
Developer: DerelictHelmsman
Censored: No
Version: v0.766.1 Test
Language: English
Genre:
v0.766.1 Test
Spoiler
Event-Driven Asynchronous Asset Loading
Rather than have every block of data as its own asset (with an unnecessary inheritance hierarchy), everything was merged into data tables. What was once almost 1000 bloated asset files is now reduced to 10. This also allowed me to remove my own registry implementation, and all of the excess looping attached to it.
While that drastically improved game data, the real work was dealing with the hard asset references such as meshes, textures, and animations. Every one was converted to a soft asset reference, and is now loaded on the fly asynchronously. More importantly, the assets are unloaded when no longer needed.
These aspects corrected massive flaws that have crept into the game over the last 10 years. The result is a far shorter game boot time, roughly a 75% reduction in RAM usage, and lower VRAM usage.
If you ever struggled to even launch the game, try it now.
Rewritten Blessed Ones
The code for blessed ones became a mess, consisting of an ugly blend of C++ and blueprint (the engine’s slow nasty scripting language). Additionally, they were placed in the map itself which caused issues and forced all of them to be loaded when the map loaded.
Now all blessed ones are purely written in C++ and spawned dynamically. They teleport around using a new node system based on game state.
Blessed ones are now asynchronously loaded/unloaded as needed, which opens the door for having potentially thousands of them scattered across the world.
Comprehensive Codebase Cleanup
10 years of cruft has been sorted. I removed header files from other header files where possible, reworked redundant logic, removed ugly or dead code. Additionally, I now use Rider for debugging/code browsing rather than the M$BS bloatware Visual Studio. The MSVC compiler is still used behind the scenes.
Also the game and engine are now grouped together in a monorepo setup.
Systems are No Longer Actors
Previously I had every game system, such as the character and breeding systems, as actors that were spawned in the world and then maintained with loops. This was terribly inefficient, as actors contain so much code that was not being used. It turns out the engine supplies USubsystem classes designed for exactly this purpose.
Every system was converted to a USubsystem, and delegates now replace my own event loops. The result is less random hitching, RAM usage, and faster code performance.
Save File Overhaul and the .sexy File Format
This one will certainly be a welcomed change. Since the beginning, save wipes have been necessary because I did not control the data. Well now I do.
Rather than blindly relying on the engine’s save system, I now define and serialize every bit of data myself. Not only does this reduce the save file size drastically, it means save wipes are going to be very rare going forward.
This also means a new custom file format for everything the game can output. Saves, character presets, and Lovense toy presets are all now saved in highly efficient .sexy files.
Saves are no longer limited to slots, the entire concept of slots is removed in favor of as many .sexy save files as you want. You can now delete saves in the game itself.
The game will automatically convert old character presets from .sav to the new .sexy format, but eventually I will remove this legacy code, so make sure they get converted.
Game Logic Node Redesign and Doubling Down on Pure C++
The game has many nodes around the map to control where characters appear, where sex scenes happen, etc. A good portion of those nodes had messy logic defined in blueprint, but not anymore.
Every node was moved to pure C++, and the logic was cleaned up. Many redundant nodes were removed in favor of the new unified character teleport system mentioned above.
Even though the vast majority of game has always been written in C++, I let some sloppy blueprint stay around far longer than I should have. Well that will not be happening anymore. The only blueprint left to remove is the animation blueprints, but that will take some intense study to get right for a future build.
Additionally, the game and engine are now compiled with C++17, and the latest version of MSVC that the engine supports (14.29).
Dialogue Now Powered by Ink
My clunky dialogue system served the game well for years, but it was completely removed in favor of a system based on Ink (https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/).
Ink is a full scripting language for dialogue that allows supreme narrative control that my old system could never achieve.
I wrote an efficient system around the inkcpp library that focuses on high performance. Porting the old dialogue over to Ink took a long time, but I did make some improvements to dialogue while I was at it.
Optimized Unified Water System
In build 0.761 I added a dynamic water system, but it was only used for lakes and rivers. Additionally, it was very slow and resource intensive. Hopefully now that is no longer the case.
The number of render targets used by the water was reduced, and how they get rendered to was overhauled to be much faster. Vertex displacement was removed in favor of a normal driven effect, which enabled me to remove the ultra high triangle meshes required for water with only a minimal visual difference.
The old water system was completely removed, and the dynamic system now powers the ocean and lava.
Data Optimization
I removed as much UPROPERTY macro bloat from the data as possible, and optimized the data itself. Groups of bools were converted to flags, and any unused bloat was removed. This is an ongoing process that will continue.
Modifying the Engine
Since I will never “upgrade” to UE5, I have taken full control of the engine itself. It is based on the final version of UE4, and over time I will be customizing and improving it as needed.
End of OBF
The game exe and local data folders are BOTN once again, perhaps one day I will tell you what OBF was.
- Support Developer of this game:
- Patreon
- discord
- Subscribestar
Download for Windows
- swipe down to hide the ui
- swipe left to roll back
- swipe right to start skipping of text
- swipe 2x left&right to open the game menu
- swipe up&down to toggle a small window with memory usage information
- longpress the save file thumbnail in the save/load screen to delete this slot
View Hybrid Guide + Working Codes
Hybrid Guide
| HYBRID | PARENT 1 | PARENT 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kusarikku | Ayrshire | Demon |
| Akabeko | “ | Foxen |
Lamassu | “ | Seraphim |
| Jabberwock | Demon | Dragon |
| Kumiho | “ | Foxen |
| Bakeneko | “ | Neko |
| Daeva | “ | Seraphim |
| Oni | “ | Titan |
| Hellhound | “ | Vulwarg |
| Amaru | Dragon | Foxen |
| Basilisk | “ | Kestrel |
| Surabhi | “ | Minotaur |
| Ryu | “ | Titan |
| Kludde | “ | Vulwarg |
| Unicorn | Elf | Mare |
| Catsune | Foxen | Neko |
| Tenko | “ | Seraphim |
| Griffin | Kestrel | Neko |
| Kujata | Minotaur | Titan |
Full List of working codes as of v0.762.1
As of 0.762.1: Click the “?” next to the text box to show a list of All Cheats. Click any to enable.
add money – Add 1,000,000 Orgasium
add favor – Add 1,000 Favor
enable spirit form – Enables spirit form
all barns – Unlock all habitats on your farm
infinite lust – Infinite lust for everyone (activate when at full lust)
infinite spirit – Infinite spirit for spirit form
win wild sex – Always win wild sex
reset wild sex – restores wild sex chances to default
all sex positions – Unlock all sex positions
imma lazy sack – Unlock all cockblock gates and locations
remove cheats – deactivates certain cheats
always reproduce – Breeding sessions always yield an offspring
reset reproduce – Set offspring chances back to default
go home – teleports back to the homestead
set world level # – Sets all world levels to specified level (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 in place of #; may or may not work)
5vg6dbEwqEk9 – Creator Code (only works on Main Menu, not while in-game) May be obsolete as of 0.762.1.
Milk/Semen Wild Capture Guide
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All known recipes and locations to this thread:
• Aebleskiver – Influencial
• Blueberry Lemon Scone – Efficient
• Bosom Cherry – Busty
• Butterine – Buxom
• Candied Fruit – Hyper
• Cinnamon Pastry – Potent
• Decadent Butter Pancakes – Hedonist
• Dense Protein Bar – Meaty
• Fresh Salad – Slender
• Fried Mushroom Skewer – Juicy
• Fried Squash With Saffron – Hornball
• Green Tea – Stoic
• Lingonberry Jam Tart – Nurturing
• Lucious Cream Cake – Chubby
• Potato Leek Quiche – Hypersexual
• Rhubarb Almond Cake – Charmer
• Riskrem – Productive
• Shio Ramen – Swift
• Spice Cake – Melding
• Sugar Cookie – Kindhearted
• Tainted Grog – Debauched
• Thick Onion Stew – Fertile
Download Incest Patch
Breeders of the Nephelym (BOTN) Incest Patcher
THE PATCHER IS NOT NEEDED ANYMORE
You can easily enable incest in the game as shown below:
imma.degenerate needs to be in the same folder as OBF.exe.- It does not need to contain anything.
- It must be the same folder as
OBF.exe. - The filename is
immaand the extension isdegenerate.
OBF.exe is located, create a file called imma.degenerate (be sure to enable show file extensions if you’re using Windows explorer). The file does not need to contain anything.In the folder where
OBF.exe is located, type echo. > imma.degenerate and you’ll be all set.OBF.exe is located, type New-Item -Path . -Name "imma.degenerate" -ItemType "file" and you’ll be all set.- Open a “Command Prompt” or “Command Prompt (Powershell)”, you’ll need to run either as Administrator. (NOTE: Windows Terminal generally won’t let you start an Administrator session).
- Depending on your settings, you’ll may get a elevation prompt. Accept it to continue.
- The following step assumes the default location for the game folder. If your Steam library is installed somewhere else you’ll need to use the correct path:
pushd "%SystemDrive%\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Breeders of the Nephelym Alpha"(Powershell:cd "$Env:SystemDrive\Program Files (x86))\Steam\steamapps\common\Breeders of the Nephelym Alpha") - Now you just need to create the file:
echo. > imma.degenerate(Powershell:New-Item -Path . -Name "imma.degenerate" -ItemType "file") - Close the command window/powershell:
exit
- There’s no telling how long this will work and we may be back to patching soon.
- If people use a patcher for something so simple it may help hide this from Patreon from that much longer.
- Some users may just find it it easier. Obviously if it’s using the file method, it will not actually be doing any patching at all. Just creating (or removing) a file as directed.
- The patcher is, unfortunately, not my highest priority at the moment.
Anonymous
Hilariously wrong.
Anonymous
YOU ARE INSANE
NTRPD
huh, for once I agree with the troglodytes crying faggot, yeah, gay sex doesn’t make babies, then again maybe it does, maybe this is what happens to a person born from a dude’s ass, makes them go to porn sites and type the most retarded shit out there. Anyways, game good, not ntr, top breeder game, not that that says a lot, there’s like 3 good breeder game out there (this, Kobold Kare and Cloud Meadow), 9/10 incest patch makes this so much easier.
Truth
The point isn’t that same-gendered couples can’t breed with each other. They obviously can’t. It’s that homosexuals can’t breed. This is, as I said above, hilariously wrong. Assuming no other medical procedure and we’re going with stock-model humans, gay men still produce sperm, gay women still produce eggs. Both are 100% still capable of having or giving progeny.
Breeding:
1. One’s line of descent; ancestry.
2. Upbringing or education, especially in proper social behavior.
3. The production of offspring or young.
It is absolute gaslighting for anyone to demand that any three of those are not possible for someone who prefers sexual intercourse with someone of the same gender.
The second point was to trigger the crybaby incel, which I did successfully. I triggered some crybaby, if not the pedo incel, and that’s good enough for me.
I might do similar triggering of you in the future, NTRPD. I don’t want to, and so far your reaction to NTR has been “bletch gross icky” and not hilariously wrong logic or outright lying like “NTR fans are faggots”. I personally severely dislike NTR but as it is, at its core, entirely harmless then I mainly just avoid it. If it’s not avoidable in a game, I close the game and delete it from my hard drive.
I’m also not much of a monster-fucker, but it’s good to know that this game is not a time-waster. Thanks for the review.
Unknown Bob
Spoken like a groomer..
Anonymous
Who are you talking to?
Anonymous
I Have Come to Indoctrinate Your Children Into My LGBTQ Agenda (And I’m Not a Bit Sorry)
I am here to tell you: All that time I said I wasn’t indoctrinating anyone with my beliefs about gay and lesbian and bi and trans and queer people? That was a lie. All 25 years of my career as an LGBTQ activist, since the very first time as a 16-year-old I went and stood shaking and breathless in front of eleven people to talk about My Story, I have been on a consistent campaign of trying to change people’s minds about us. I want to make them like us. That is absolutely my goal. I want to make your children like people like me and my family, even if that goes against the way you have interpreted the teachings of your religion. I want to be present in their emotional landscapes as a perfectly nice dad and writer who is married to another guy. Who used to be a girl (kind of). Who is friendly and cheerful and not scary at all, no matter what anyone says.
Truth
Cherrypicking Incel is Cherrypicking. From the rest of the article:
>> That’s what I want kids to know about lesbian, gay, bi, queer, and trans people — that we exist, that we’re perfectly fine and often really excellent, and that even if you don’t know any now you will before too long. I want them to know that we’re absolutely as worthwhile and worthy of love and respect as anyone, and that if you’re kind to us and behave yourself well there’s a better than even chance you can get an invitation to brunch. I want kids to know this even if their parents’ or community’s interpretation of their religious tenets is that we’re awful. I would be happy — delighted, overjoyed I tell you — to cause those children to disagree with their families on the subject of LGBTQ people.
>> If that makes me an indoctrinator, I accept it. Let me be honest — I am not even a little bit sorry.
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Only a homophobic incel pedophile with brain damage would think this isn’t being a little tongue-in-cheek and what is really being said which is not “I am trying to make them gay” and instead “I am trying to make them accept gays”. There is a huge difference.
I’m starting to believe that Nohomo is autistic, the way he cannot grasp even the slightest bit of nuance.
The TRUTH faggots deny
Gays are evil manipulators who love to target the young. FACT! Why are fags always around them? Demanding they be able to indoctrinate your kids. Normal people don’t want to be around other peoples annoying brats. fags have no brats art all so there is no logical reason for them to be there. Unless they are there to target them.
Truth
That’s what you’re passing off as facts now?
I can’t imagine how stupid you’d have to be to believe what you said, but you’re giving us the perfect example: Yourself.
Anonymous
It’s been a few years since I played this. Does it still force gay content or did they change it?
I dropped it because even with futa turned off the story required fucking a tranny to progress. There was a cheat code to complete all missions but that completed ALL the missions. Everything was unlocked and there was no more story stuff to do.
I’m not here to hate on your preferences but the developer said you’d be able to fully disable that stuff so I’m hoping he actually did it and wasn’t just baiting people trying to groom them.
Anonymous
groomers
THE HOMOSEXUAL MANIFESTO
Any man contaminated with heterosexual lust will be automatically barred from a position of influence. All males who insist on remaining stupidly heterosexual will be tried in homosexual courts of justice and will become invisible men. “We shall rewrite history, history filled and debased with your heterosexual lies and distortions.
Anonymous
Homophobic propaganda spam, satire passed off as “real” from a someone who has to be told what “real” is.
Anonymous
Study: Watching Porn Boosts Support for Homosexual Marriage
The study, conducted by co-authors Paul Wright of Indiana University and Ashley Randall of the University of Arizona, proposes that exposure to pornography helps open the minds of straight males — particularly less-educated straight males — making them more likely to accept the idea of “non-traditional sexual situations,” the Washington Examiner reports.