To start with good things,

You buy this adult game because the studio making it have a good reputation as a 3D hentai producer/creator. So you will definitely get what you are paying for. You will get your high quality animations.
You will get a story, the story isn't crazy stuff but it's good, really it's one of the main things really really nice, you have very good voice acting, some characters with personality and a good story, the mix of theses things make the "story gameplay" really good, you will enjoy playing the story of the game and it's so good that it compensate totally the garbage gameplay.
There are some voice acting stuff, little bit of customization which is really nice and appreciable, little bonus things about characters that makes something.

The bad things :

Don't expect too much of the gameplay, it's barely okay, the game mechanics are ok but there is something really horrible is that the game design is forcing you to play alot to unlock some content and it's forcing you to do plenty of very repetitive and boring tasks.
Some things are bit non sense and bad thought, you unlock customizations at the end of the game so you can't "appreciate" them, making them a bit useless.
Farming, boss fights are totally unnecessary, for real if you just delete the "gaming" part the game would be perfect for me lol.
No, in reality the mantic research is good, the fact that you have your characters and you can find mantics which has different gameplay is a nice idea but there is far too much farming making it a horrible experience.
Maybe you are expecting some kind of customization, you won't get it. The customization will be limited.

In conclusion :

Even if I am really tought with my critics, the game for me is 100% worth the price, the story, jokes, voice acting, videos, the universe, lore, are so good and enjoyable, the h scenes are so high quality it's totally worth it !

This is a very conditional recommend.

Subverse is exactly the game that you get when dudes who used to make animated snuff porn decide to make a video game.

It's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mess held together by duct tape. They bit off way more than they could chew with this one, but hey, when it's actually not taking itself seriously it almost works.

If you're a fan of 2016 humour, 2016 era graphics, endless pop culture mentions, and the one body type that all the women you get to bang in this game have, then you do you mate.

The gameplay is mediocre, only brand new game devs thinking that making a game is easier than it is, could've thought "let's do 2 completely different unrelated core gameplay loops in one game for our first game ever!"

If you're here for the porn, it's fairly basic. The animations are good, but not very interactive, and the graphics have long moved on for animated porn beyond Subverse.

The story is a cluster♥♥♥♥, and it works occasionally. Mostly it's kinda there to just make you go from place to place. It works best when the game leans into being a silly porn game and is the worst when it's taking itself seriously like it expects the player to be really caring about any of these characters, which unfortunately happens more later in the game.

Still, there's a lot of passion in this game, and I can respect that. But it's also a fantastic example as to why you must keep things simple the first time around when tackling anything new. You don't start learning DIY by building a skyscraper, you start by building picture frames. Subverse is unfortunately not that.

Came for robot tits, stayed for the story.
I didn't actually like any of the waifus from the preview on their website, but ended up liking all of them while playing.

Would it better if the educational content was integrated into the story and not just animations in the gallery? Sure, but it would likely take them another 5 years to implement.
Also, would be better if they had just silently added the costumes instead of kind of making a big deal out of them. In the end, only 2 costumes for each girl (with one being their space suit that could be seen in the F3Nix cutscenes), and I only ended up liking the devotion costumes for 3 of the girls and the rest were unimpressive.

I've known StudioFow for a while and was fully expecting good smut, but what I didn't expect was getting invested in the story, cinematic cutscenes, full (and good) voice acting, some nice humor (even if they overdid a little on trying to turn nearly every line of dialogue into a joke) and some actual, if repetitive, gameplay. The space combat could use more variety, and the ground combat could use more difficulty.

Usually with cultural games, we get no voice acting, static scenes, hit-or-miss dialogue writing, not much (if any) of a main story, and no cutscenes to speak of, with maybe some basic ass ren'py turn-based combat, if that. And don't get me started on RPGmaker.

Overall, as far as this type of game goes, I'd put Subverse with one of the greats.