Best type of adult game?

[Allard]

I would tend to agree with this. I believe the other points do happen, but the lack of incentive is probably the biggest thing, yeah. The audience within this sphere isn't necessarily demanding, and all adult games being lumped together doesn't help with that. You can see it in reviews on this site where people give mediocre stories with little/no gameplay innovation (or just no gameplay at all) 4 or 5 stars with just a "well the girls are hot and it hits my fetishes", because to some degree that's all they really wanted out of it. The scale they're evaluating the porn game on doesn't match with the scale they would use for an actual video game experience.

As someone who is secretly (not so secretly) working on a more complex game that doesn't necessarily fit into any of the categories in the poll, I had a proof of concept demo put out to a small group of people. One of those people who tested it mentioned that "horny people playing horny games may not pay 100% attention and when i got into [mechanic] I was just lost and ended up spamming [command] and watching [things happen] for me." Even though she still enjoyed the game and saw the potential in what I was making, there was a need for me to pause and consider how to manage the complexity of bringing out something new. It's difficult just because adult game/porn material consumption is by nature a very passive sort of activity.

And I mean, I get it. I've been in the same boat plenty of times. Sometimes you just want something quick and dirty to get your rocks off and don't have the patience to sit through anything complex. Sure I could argue that many of my better experiences have been due to forcing myself to take time to sit through build-up, and really understand what I was doing and how to drag as much enjoyment as possible out of the story and context, but people don't always have that kind of time.

So in general a part of me hopes that as things go on people will become more interested in more complicated adult game experiences, both for the growth of the market and the success of my own (eventually public) project, but I guess we'll have to see.

For me it's the opposite.
I don't want over the edge gameplay or mechanics in a porngame. I could just play one of the AAA-Games for that.

I'm playing porngames because they provide me with something real porn can't do. Be it settings (fantasy), scenes (public scenes you would definitely be arrested for in real life) or build up (this is nearly unbearable in real porn). I like having a dull MC who gets all the woman because of luck/magic/because he has a wonder dick. That's the right amount of pulp/trash I'm looking for in these kind of video games.
Having realistic battles, puzzles or even minigames is too much of a distraction for me. Because they are 90% of the time not well done (which is totally fine, because most of the games are done by one person with little to no background in game design).

So yeah. I would prefer a VN or a VN with free roaming over most of the rpgs and sandbox games.