Now I don't necessarily agree that things got worse with Chapter 4 (the camping chapter). Chapter 5's subplot with Monika was good imo and there was development around a few other things.
That's why I said it's a downhill for me in the context of the erotic scenes, not of a game as a whole. I did like the Monika subplot, even if the whole mystery was paper thin and we immediately knew who's the culprit.
NiF and KG have been top performers for the Femdom GOTY awards both years, and were held in high regard before. This might be the first year they drop out of top 3. Still time this year but I think for me, I'll have a new top 3, maybe even top 5, I don't know yet obviously.
I was never a big fan of KG, but when I finally started to like it, the game became a disjointed series of erotic scenes with almost no build up and with so many random characters that I just can't muster any emotional connection to that. If I'm going to watch random folks having femdom fun I'll rather download a vid from Femdom Empire and at least I'll look at real folks in action, not a rendered images.
I honestly don't think I have a top 3 games anymore. Idk if it's me getting bored by the games or the games getting worse and lacking new ideas, probably a little of both.
This year so far I do feel good about a few titles, like Renaissance, Gynocracy, and I'll also have an eye on Dominant Witches 2, No Man's Land. A couple of titles that may have something but I doubt will surpass NiF or KG for me are Boring Days, Vacation Comes with a Cost (if it gets released), Alterlife (same).
I haven't even noticed
Vacation Comes..., I just looked game's thread and it does indeed seem abandonded, but I'll still try it. I don't play
Renaissance, and I stopped playing
Gynochracy some time ago (might return to that one tho), but I'm curious about
Boring Days (I skipped few updates to have more content for later; always when I look at changelogs there's so little in them I feel like I don't need to bother). I also play
Healslut, but this one I also stopped due to the dev focusing on other things than a dom Lel route, so I'm waiting for that.
Shame I currently live in a smaller city and there's no BDSM scene here. I did buy a live session back in March when I travelled for a concert, but I still have a small voice in my head telling me that buying these sessions is basically domming myself with a pro domme as my proxy
It was fun tho, definitely didn't have such thoughts (or many thought in general) during the session.
Also I have to mention, I don't know if it counts since it's a professional release, MGQ Paradox should probably easily run away with any award, and Lewd Hero Quest probably should have had a strong showing too. These just have much better art, music, VA, story etc. than an indie game can have, so I always just thought they didn't count. Venus Blood or whatever it's called is another professional game that I've seen tagged with femdom, although I didn't try it. Assuming these are not qualified for the contest, I'll just mention them so others can check them out if they're looking for some full games, or mostly full in the MGQP paradigm. It's a 3 part game that has had 2 parts translated but when I say part they're full games on their own, far more material than any other full game you find on here in each part.
I'm not against adding these games to the list. I guess they're not being mentioned very often cause it seems to me most folks here aren't big on Japanese games and/or monster girls, but I may be wrong. I know I skip Japanese games myself as I really dislike the manga-like visual style they have (not that I dislike manga btw,
Lone Wolf and a Cub, mangas by Suehiro Maruo or Junji Ito,
MPD Psycho or
Shigurui are good reads, my avatar is from a manga too) and the insistence on MC cumming all the time among other things.
