Anyone else notice that the quailty of games decreasing?

[HerbertIronsides]

I have noticed that with each passing month more and more low quality and/or 0.1s get uploaded. The Latest update page is flooded daily with 0.1s and really low quality and buggy games. Maybe I have rose tented glasses on but when I first joined this site years ago I feel like the overall quality was much higher.

 

[redknight00]

There's more games so naturally more crap, but even that crap is usually better than the potato render Russian games people made back in 2017.

 

[Sapha]

There aren't fewer good games. There's just more people willing to try and make their first games.

 

[m00nsh1ne]

I agree that the genre/medium of adult video games has gotten way more popular over the last 2 years so naturally there will be more games and more games do equal more crap games. It's also the start of a new year and that probably gave a lot of people the motivation to give this whole "game development" a try. We'll see how many make it beyond a third release. If they do make it that far I'm sure the quality of those titles will go up as they gain experience and resources.

If you are purely talking about games with high resolution renders and animations then you also have to consider that to create those requires a lot of time, hardware, and resources. There is a reason more games aren't up to the level of a Being a Dik or City of Broken Dreamers. The devs for those games recieve a lot of funding and they constanly have multiple computers with really good hardware constantly running renders and animations (in case you don't know redndering a single HQ 3D scene can take hours). These things just are not available to most people just getting into the scene.

 

[Adabelitoo]

I joined here in 2018. The v0.0001 with less than 5 minutes of content now are better than the v0.0001 with less than 5 minutes of content from 2018. The good games from now are better than the good games from 2018. There are a lot more v0.0001 than before, hard to argue with that, but no one is forcing nobody else to play those v0.0001.

There are a lot of people saying that "the old days were better". Sure dude, whatever.

 

[Lerd0]

The good games from now are better than the good games from 2018.

Considering the games from 2018 are still being developed and are never going to finish aren't they also the games from now?
Also the Best Vn's by rating tend to be a bit old, just go see on VNDB or erogamescape, also Teaching Feeling is still one of the best seller and highest rated on games on dlsite.

 

[Asia Argento]

Just gotta keep an open mind and try new things... Dont crap on RPGM or any specific game and keep an open mind when looking for something fresh...

 

[Adabelitoo]

Considering the games from 2018 are still being developed and are never going to finish aren't they also the games from now?
Also the Best Vn's by rating tend to be a bit old, just go see on VNDB or erogamescape, also Teaching Feeling is still one of the best seller and highest rated on games on dlsite.

I'm talking about new games that are good in 2018 and in 2021, not games from 2018 that are still good now.

 

[DingoDeer]

well if 3d games we talking about here, agreed...
but 2d? not so much... I mean we have time wizard studio games and what a legend... those game are legendary...
and also, I think it's not do them justice if we judge the quality of the game in 0.1...
the market is growing, that's all

 

[lawfullame]

There are more decent games than I have time to play. I guess low quality can often be associated especially with games with the most popular fetishes because a lot of developers are trying to go for easy money grab. In fact, it's not that easy, because the offer of games with the most popular fetishes is oversaturated at the moment, so the developer has to come up with some good idea to get a decent number of supporters.
But there will still be many developers who come up with the story: "My father died and I'm moving in with my landlady and two roommates."

 

[Roe1961]

The big question is not: "were games back then better?" but as time progresses everything gets mostly better, so the question should be: "Are the advances as good as they could be?"

In my opinion mostly graphics and technology-based stuff improved, but that was expectable. Computers would'nt get worse in the next years.

Did we actually get better games?
I think games today are ok, but many seem to copy each other, not only in the fetishes and kinks provided, but also in their game structure. Many seem to be little more than kinetic novels or walking simulators with very little real gameplay. I, personally, am not intressted in that kind of "game", i could just watch porn or read hentai, if i wanted that.

What i am missing though is the better (than in the past) gameplay. I like managment games. There are more mangament games out there than a few years ago and some of them are pretty good, but I can't say that they are really that much better, than their predecessors and that is quite disappointing.
(Also many of the newer better ones, like brothel city or station master, are officially completed but still lack a lot of content.)

 

[rk-47]

Adult game developers are no different than normal game developers, some will pump and dump as many new titles for money and the bigger devs will stay with their amazing renders and storytelling, and some... will go cold

 

[Deleted member 14950]

There's more games so naturally more crap, but even that crap is usually better than the potato render Russian games people made back in 2017.

You mean Princess Trainer by Akabur? Yeah, right.

 

[Cryswar]

There are a LOT more games now, that's for sure. There's more trash, but frankly, a lot more good games too. Replaying some of the stuff I used to be hype for, I've been like 'wow this is ancient garbage'.

With the proliferation of useful engines/game development tools, it's become a lot easier to start making a game when you don't have to build the entire engine by yourself, but it also means an improvement in UI, being able to reuse ideas from past games, so on and so forth. Even stuff like proper galleries are a lot more common nowadays. Seriously, go back to some of the older early-mid 2000s games and replay them, many are hilariously clunky, have minimal/no save functionality, have no gallery and none planned... and that's not even touching on how many of them made it 0-1 updates after launch and got forgotten, same as today. If anything, I'd say that today a much higher proportion of games actually get regular updates.

So yes, I would absolutely agree there are more shitty games now than there used to be. Maybe even a higher proportion of shit, idk. I would disagree that is inherently a bad thing, it's just a natural side effect of lowering the barrier to entry.

Personally, I tend to loathe 3d renders and avoid most games with them unless they really look nice (House in the Rift for example), so that cuts me out of about 90% of what shows up on this site. But that doesn't mean 3d renders are bad, or that it' bad so many people use them. This is an almost unprecedented era of options, not all of them good, but at least there are options.

 

[redknight00]

You mean Princess Trainer by Akabur? Yeah, right.

I was talking about 3DCG games since they are the bulk of the v0.1s, but even Princess Trainer ended with like 20 CGs, even by 2D standards that's not a lot.

But yeah, CG has come a long way and people don't always default to making their games a bloody grind to pad the play time, so it's a big leap forward IMO.

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[HandofVecna]

I think the quantity has certainly gone up. The average game is probably of a higher quality than a few years ago. That said fewer games are stand outs. The number of bad games seem to crowd out some of the high caliber ones as well. Few games have an original story. How many DIK rip offs are there now, three maybe four? Big Bother rip offs?

I think if you are new to the site it's is probably a golden age but if you've been here a while you've kind of seen it all at this point. So another dead father, a shitty older sister, a naïve younger sister, and a MILF who just needs to see your magic dick YET AGIAN is just not f'n doing it anymore lol.

Last few months I've considered posting the same thought the OP did. So no it isn't just you.

 

[Guntag]

I think the quantity has certainly gone up. The average game is probably of a higher quality than a few years ago. That said fewer games are stand outs. The number of bad games seem to crowd out some of the high caliber ones as well. Few games have an original story. How many DIK rip offs are there now, three maybe four? Big Bother rip offs?

I think if you are new to the site it's is probably a golden age but if you've been here a while you've kind of seen it all at this point. So another dead father, a shitty older sister, a naïve younger sister, and a MILF who just needs to see your magic dick YET AGIAN is just not f'n doing it anymore lol.

Last few months I've considered posting the same thought the OP did. So no it isn't just you.

I wouldn't mind a new DIK, Timestamps or College Daze rip off every month if they were of the same quality : )

 

[Roe1961]

If I remember correctly, games would update more often a few years ago.
That meant that you would play your favorites every few weeks, not every few months. So you could play a favorite of yours every week and this would certainly feel like there is more and maybe better stuff.

 

[LaymanBot]

What seems to me is that there are more games being made, much more, so it is only normal, as in any other topic, that the amount of low and medium quality products increases. The number of high-quality products increases too, but just a little, especially in this case, since most developers doing lewd games, do it for fun and are amateurs.

The problem is that, with so many options out there, it’s harder to find that ones you like the most, for sure, for a lot of us, the best lewd game of our lives, could never be played, because we will never find it.

 

[HandofVecna]

What seems to me is that there are more games being made, much more, so it is only normal, as in any other topic, that the amount of low and medium quality products increases. The number of high-quality products increases too, but just a little, especially in this case, since most developers doing lewd games, do it for fun and are amateurs.

The problem is that, with so many options out there, it’s harder to find that ones you like the most, for sure, for a lot of us, the best lewd game of our lives, could never be played, because we will never find it.

I agree that a lot of good games are getting drowned out by the deluge of new games.