The only reason anybody would do that is because it’s a true labor of love: They love video games and they love porno - and very often, they love anime, too.ĭo these games actually make money, though?Ĭelen: The bigger ones are free-to-play and make money off of their gacha systems. The vast majority of them are created by fans of the genre - on their own time and their own dime - and are released with little fanfare on some of the bigger porn game libraries on the web. But we couldn’t find the games we wanted to play, so we created them.Ĭelen: Most people have no idea just how many porn games are out there: Hundreds, maybe even thousands, are released every year. We’re all manga fans, and we all love playing games. The reason we decided to create adult games is very prosaic: We wanted to play something fun and sexy. Magrat: Eroticism and nudity have always had a place in video games - not to help the gameplay, but to make it more arousing and visually pleasing. While traditional porn fans don’t often talk about their preferences, gamers have lively discussions about their favorite explicit games on forums and chat rooms across the internet. There’s a lot of overlap between fans of sex-themed video games and fans of hentai, both of which have active and vocal communities. One of the things I’ve noticed, though, is that fans of porn games tend to be very enthusiastic.
If you want to be cynical about it, you could say a lot of these games were created as a way to cash in on smut aimed directly at the gamer demographic. Sex sells, and it sells in any format you can roll it into. What’s the thought process behind making an adult video game like this?Ĭelen: The obvious answer, like many things in the world of pornography, is money. To find out, I spoke with Magrat of Kinkoid, the studio behind Hentai Click er, Gay Harem and numero us other adult games and Geoffrey Celen, creator of ThePornDude, a website dedicated to cataloging and reviewing erotic games and other pornographic content. This is the kind of experience you encounter when you click on the adult video game advertisements strewn across your favorite porn website - you know, the ones that claim you will CUM IN SECONDS IF YOU CLICK!!!!!!! But since the average fapper, surely, is unlikely to interrupt their personal time to engage in such adventures, just how successful are these games? And who are they for?