My personal favorite game on this site. It's very very "complete" - like there's no aspect in which it's weak.
I think to be a great porn game you've gotta at bare minimum have the following:
Hot sex scenes - check
Great story - check
Interesting, varied characters and body types - check
The best games on this site - Pale Carnations, DIK, Broken Dreamers, Acting Lessons, they all have these qualities.
What are some of the things that set this game apart? One, the writing. Thoughtful, funny, poignant at times. It's not well-written "for a porn game", it's one of the few that is well-written period. The characters are believable - they sometimes hew to (in broad strokes) certain cliches or archetypes, and other times subvert them - but overall they have complex and realistic backstories that shape them into the character they are today. You get the sense that they could be "real" people. Some stories/games go way too hard into character stereotypes, others make the opposite mistake of being obsessed with subverting them such that they become predictable and caricatures all the same. This one gets that balance right. The MC is also neither a god (well he's great in bed but hey it's a fantasy sex game you gotta have that at least) nor a wimp, he's a dynamic character with strengths and flaws, who takes initiative in the world around him. Super cool.
And then sometimes games that are well-written don't actually have great visuals. Thankfully, no disappointment there either. The characters are hot, in different ways, and there's a good mix of both kinky and more vanilla sex options.
The morality "system" is interesting too. In general you have three options - help the character / be nice / have sweet, consentual sex, hurt the character / be mean / commit violence, or neutral kinda dismiss the character. But being one way to one character doesn't lock you into also being that way to other characters - you have agency. And then your actions feel like they have weighty consequences. Not to spoil things but basically, yeah, choices you make in this world matter, characters if you're mean to them reveal how you hurt them and make you feel bad for it, etc.
And then the overall power fantasy is pure fun. Think of all the pussy you could be getting if you struck it uber rich hodling some shitcoin. Think of all the fun and exciting ways you could get it - by either helping damsels in distress and getting them to fuck you in exchange, or by hurting damsels in distress and using your money to get away with it. This game lets you live out those power fantasies without judgement but with realism. It's great.
I think to be a great porn game you've gotta at bare minimum have the following:
Hot sex scenes - check
Great story - check
Interesting, varied characters and body types - check
The best games on this site - Pale Carnations, DIK, Broken Dreamers, Acting Lessons, they all have these qualities.
What are some of the things that set this game apart? One, the writing. Thoughtful, funny, poignant at times. It's not well-written "for a porn game", it's one of the few that is well-written period. The characters are believable - they sometimes hew to (in broad strokes) certain cliches or archetypes, and other times subvert them - but overall they have complex and realistic backstories that shape them into the character they are today. You get the sense that they could be "real" people. Some stories/games go way too hard into character stereotypes, others make the opposite mistake of being obsessed with subverting them such that they become predictable and caricatures all the same. This one gets that balance right. The MC is also neither a god (well he's great in bed but hey it's a fantasy sex game you gotta have that at least) nor a wimp, he's a dynamic character with strengths and flaws, who takes initiative in the world around him. Super cool.
And then sometimes games that are well-written don't actually have great visuals. Thankfully, no disappointment there either. The characters are hot, in different ways, and there's a good mix of both kinky and more vanilla sex options.
The morality "system" is interesting too. In general you have three options - help the character / be nice / have sweet, consentual sex, hurt the character / be mean / commit violence, or neutral kinda dismiss the character. But being one way to one character doesn't lock you into also being that way to other characters - you have agency. And then your actions feel like they have weighty consequences. Not to spoil things but basically, yeah, choices you make in this world matter, characters if you're mean to them reveal how you hurt them and make you feel bad for it, etc.
And then the overall power fantasy is pure fun. Think of all the pussy you could be getting if you struck it uber rich hodling some shitcoin. Think of all the fun and exciting ways you could get it - by either helping damsels in distress and getting them to fuck you in exchange, or by hurting damsels in distress and using your money to get away with it. This game lets you live out those power fantasies without judgement but with realism. It's great.