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Hey errybody! I had a few questions for whoever about what they are looking for in a hentai game.

First off, what's everyone's favorite hentai games and what do you like about them. Is it a balance between gameplay and sexy material? Is it the way the player is rewarded for winning/losing? Are there any clever mechanics that enhance the experience? Does it have great animation/style? Or is it just a different way to look at anime boobs?

I feel like an adventure style game fits what I'm looking for rather than platformers and the like, since I basically want access to the hentai rather than gameplay, so the challenge of something more skill based is often a little distracting for me. Some of the best have even been text-based, since they are basically just reading erotic fiction.

Anyway if it's not obvious, I've been playing with the idea of making a game and I'm looking for some ideas. Let me know any thoughts you have!
 

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Re: Favorite H-game?

I'll have to say Despair Labyrinth. I found it way back when I was first starting out learning RPG Maker, and that game inspired me to pursue game development up until today.

What I loved about the game is that it's simple and offers a variety of choices; something I really love my games to have. Plus the adult content is well developed. The problem with the game, however, is that is has long been discontinued.
 

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I don't remember the name of some cool games I played in the past, but for now I liked some succubus games (like Castle of Succubus).
 

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A lot of the ones I fondly remember were shorter, flash based games.

One I loved was called "Queen Hunt", and I'm not sure what it parodied, but it had just a crazy amount of fun options you could customize and do with each girl warrior.
 

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A lot of the ones I fondly remember were shorter, flash based games.
I can relate to this. It's part of the reason why I still work with flash. In fact, my current favorite nsfw game is probably Poke Con - a flash game.



To answer OP, there's kind of two approaches to H-Games. Either you unlock the Hentai (or nsfw content in general) by beating some kind of game mechanic, or the nsfw content is built into the game itself. So in the first case, you might have to win a game of poker and then a girl undresses, while in the second case you might seduce and fuck the dealer at a card table so that she'll rig the deck for you, and then you win the game of poker for some other reason.

From a game dev standpoint, you've got to balance your incentives around your approach. If you go for a 'unlock content' approach, then your content is the incentive for victory, and the actual game can be virtually anything. A lot of devs using this kind of approach throw up all kinds of grinding so that the player has to earn the porn. The gameplay doesn't have to be fun, because the incentive is the nsfw content. There are some boring as sin games out there that are popular because the stuff at the end is just that good. If you go for nsfw content being part of the mechanics, then it's a lot harder to balance incentives. Some games have sex be a punishment if you get hit by the enemies. This is fun, and some of those games are great, but you're incentivizing your players to deliberately lose each time they encounter a new enemy, or maybe even just repeatedly at the first level.

Personally, I like the idea of nsfw games as a legitimate industry, which means that we should be taking notes from classic games. My totally unimportant opinion is that everybody has a game they have replayed several times over, because sometimes the stuff at the beginning is just as fun as the stuff at the end. I'd like it if more nsfw games were fun all the way throughout as well, but most of the time all the best stuff is at the end.

So I guess if you're looking for pointers on H-game design, a good place to start is tutorials on general game design and then applying that knowledge to H-games. Extra Credits on youtube have some great videos on game design for example. There's also discord groups for lewd gaming communities, some of which have a few devs on too, which are great for prototyping and getting feedback.

Sorry for writing an essay, hopefully some of this helps. :D
 
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Man, didn't realize it was so long since I made this post!

I checked out some of the games mentioned and I thought it was interesting how vastly different their gameplay and approaches to the hentai subject matter were. They were all pretty good, but in completely different ways lol.

A lot of the ones I fondly remember were shorter, flash based games.
I also remember finding a ton of flash based games. One of the first ones I ever played may or may not have been on Newgrounds and may have been made by LineMarvel hahaha

I've noticed the same trend with grinding towards the actual content of the game. I hate being incentivized to lose and I hate being made to grind through boring gameplay for what often should really just be a library of pictures.
The gameplay doesn't have to be fun, because the incentive is the nsfw content. There are some boring as sin games out there that are popular because the stuff at the end is just that good.
This idea in particular is something I'm very against in a medium where the goal should be to be FUN and entertaining.

I actually have checked out a few of those Extra Credits videos, they have a lot of good tips. Sounds like I'll have to check around for discords too.

Thanks for the input everyone!
 

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This idea in particular is something I'm very against in a medium where the goal should be to be FUN and entertaining.
Oh I 100% agree, and it's a shame that so few H-games are fun to play as well as sexy. A lot of devs tackle this problem by making characters very memorable and, for lack of a better word, crazy. Not all devs do this successfully, but vibrant characters can make a somewhat boring game much more engaging. Besides that there's not much more that nsfw devs can do unless they have a large team. Often the really fun games have teams of 4+ people behind them, which if you're just starting out can be hard to gather.

If you want I can PM you a discord invite for /r/LewdGames and the dev group that HWriter runs? They've both been super useful to me.
 

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Re: Favorite H-game?

My favorite H-Game is the one I (for a time) helped translate: The Moral Sword of Asagi.

It's the first time I've seen the idea of rushing out to rescue your party members once they've been captured (reduced to 0). Losing a party member that way makes the fights much more challenging.

Also was the fact that he added in so many kinks that I enjoy seeing in other games. The story wasn't too bad either, which is why I wanted to translate it (using Google-fu, of course).
 

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Re: Favorite H-game?

My favorites are the ones that mix management with rpg elements and have a variable roster of girls.
 

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I experienced that pixel games are the most fun for me. I love Trigger Happy, Anthophobia, Barrage, Breeding Season, Eroico, Kurovadis, Parasite in city (goddamn this one needs a sequel! Currently the developer is gone missing), Tobihime and definitely more.
But I don't want to over-do this list^^
 

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i really enjoyed kamikaze kommittee ouka and the latest oneone1' game, and to add my opinion on h-games, I hate game over scenes, really on rails games where you cannot lose any fight because it would be game over
 

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I like almost all full flap games, libra heart games, oneone1's rpg games, umemaro's, double soft cream's, kuriru's and waffle's kyonyuu series
 

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Hey errybody! I had a few questions for whoever about what they are looking for in a hentai game.

First off, what's everyone's favorite hentai games and what do you like about them. Is it a balance between gameplay and sexy material? Is it the way the player is rewarded for winning/losing? Are there any clever mechanics that enhance the experience? Does it have great animation/style? Or is it just a different way to look at anime boobs?

I feel like an adventure style game fits what I'm looking for rather than platformers and the like, since I basically want access to the hentai rather than gameplay, so the challenge of something more skill based is often a little distracting for me. Some of the best have even been text-based, since they are basically just reading erotic fiction.

Anyway if it's not obvious, I've been playing with the idea of making a game and I'm looking for some ideas. Let me know any thoughts you have!
the boobs are the best part but it needs a storyline and everyone loves demons
 
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