You have definitely put a lot of thought into this! I would suggest to make another recommending list highlighting games with your defined categories. I am sure over time the community will help .I am curious to know what would be your examples with pivotal incest.There's a need for an incest rating system helping to distinguish between:
- Hollow incest
- Largely already covered by the current definition of `MOD`.
- Games have "hollow incest" when they have some premises for incest baked in by their OG dev (e.g. MC lives in a home with a woman that looks like his mother and teens that look like his siblings but he's not related to any of them and the OG dialogues and choices perfectly reflect the lack of family relations) and a 3rd party (or even the OG dev himself) adds a mod that practically retcons incest by just changing the appellatives characters use for each other and not much else. The result is a game where incest is catastrophically bad, akin to altering subtitles on a foreign language porn movie to make the characters call each other daddy/mommy/etc. There are no specific visuals/choices supporting incest, no dialogues leaning on the taboo, it's just a terrible result and F95 unfortunately approves the incest tag for any game-thread where such a mod pops-up because... reasons..., lowering the quality of results when you search by the incest tag.
- OG devs often add terrible mods as described above, in a pathetic attempt to broaden the appeal of their game by suggesting it has incest and that it'll will be expanded on "later", without running the risk of being struck down by Patreon in the meantime. Without exception the result is garbage.
- Stale incest
- Games have "stale incest" if the OG dev first released the game with incest at or near its core (i.e. like Side/Pivotal incest games below) but at some point he made a 180 and hacked incest out in later releases or simply stopped adding any content specifically for this fetish leading to it becoming stale over time.
- In practice, "stale incest" particularly fits on famous incest games that rose to prominence before 2018, when Patreon banned incest. After that moment their devs either butchered out incest or at the very least stopped adding any content to support the fetish. Years later, after many releases of said game, the fetish is very stale as it practically stopped being catered to around 2018.
- Negligible incest
- Games have "negligible incest" if the fetish is just barely there so that technically it can't be said it's absent, however what is there is very marginal and unlikely to be found satisfying by most people looking for an incest game.
- There are games with "negligible incest" that are very well rated/appreciated but incest plays only a very marginal part (or even no part) in the reasons why they are so well rated and if you're looking for an incest game first and everything else second such a game is not for you despite its ratings and having the incest tag on its F95 thread.
- Side incest
- Games have "side incest" when they happen to have some incest that is a minor and relatively isolated part of the game and yet it's so well done that for a fan of this fetish it's likely worth playing the whole game just to experience the incest part. Notice the fetish must be isolated and relatively minor, like a side-quest in a normal game, to qualify for "side incest". If the fetish is central to the main story and weaved into the game across most of the action then it's not "side incest" regardless of how many images/dialogues are involved as a % of the total images/dialogues found in the game.
- Pivotal incest
- Games have "pivotal incest" when this kink is weaved across most of its main stories, with visuals, choices and dialogues specifically supporting the fetish and leaning against the taboo. This is surely what you're looking for if you're looking for an incest game.
What say you?
P.S: The category names are tentative but I did put some thought into them.