I notice an increase a female protaganist and gay games.
I think it is just a case of developers looking for a new market that doesnt have a billion competation yet.
I think the next wave will be vannila romance harem.
My reasoning: Pervertion will have become so normal that having a relationship will be the new taboo.
As in the idea of having a person you love and care for will be consider wierd in a world where friends with benifits and easy woman are the norm.
But being perverts we wont settle for just one woman.
So we will see an increase of stories around seducing multiple woman and making there lives better in our harem.
No incest, No mind break, No corruption, etc.
Just pure undulerated love.
Now excuees me while i puke.
I can probably see that, but at the same time I believe vanilla romance wont be the next wave. You estated yourself and I'll paraphrase "we are to perverted that normal aren't worth getting off" and normal vanilla won't be seen as taboo but rather boring on the long run. If anyhting, I think people are just going to find new fetishes and probably give it a weird name lol
Ntr or vanilla? On my opinion some on the games I mentioned when I created this post might be worth checking out.
I'm still waiting for big brother 2077 to come out where v is mc mom and johnny is the next erik
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You realise that, except your second point for fetishes that don't have a hatedom and your third point for fetishes that aren't big in Japan, this could also apply for a lot of stuff that's kinkier than "horny MC wants to have vanilla sex with a lot of people"? Even then...
... a lot of fans of those games do think just that.
I expected a lot of ntr enjoyers saying "dah, is that even a question?" or try to make fun of me, so I appreciate the link and your opinion
Let's look at the stats:
There's about 13k games archived here (30 per page * 447 pages)
325 pages if you remove abandonned/onhold (ongoing+ completed)
Netorare tag = 979 (33 pages)
747 if you count ongoing+ completed only
This is less than 10% of the full archive
If you factor only the last 6 months 11/25 pages of Netorare tagged ongoing/completed have been updated since then.
On general archive 101 pages out of 325 have been updated since the last 6 months.
So overall I would agree with you roughly 42% of all NTR games on this site have been active for the last 6 months while overall games ratio is around 30%.
So while NTR itself may not gain a lot of ground compared to the overall medium, it is more active in the grand scheme of things.
This might be just my opinion, but some of the ongoing games haven't been updated for months if not years, so I wouldn't hold the 747 pages of ongoing (exculding complete) games(was looking for examples, but couldn't find any that was popular enough to be mention) as a fact. Same thing applies as onhold games since there are some devs that say they'll update if anything happen once they hold their patreon, but just vanish or start working on a different game (ex. My virgin wife, milf pursuit, school, love, and friends, and season of loss). Also, some of the games might be completed, but because the dev ask or did something, those games have yet to be updated.
I have also seen an increase in female protagonist. In a way it could be viewed as a way to bypass the NTR tag. Female protagonist VN and Games tend to forego the idea that of Netorare as you control the woman who make the decision instead of MC whose action my divert the woman toward toward another man.
Virtually all Female protagonist game have clear cheating toward FeMC's initial love interest (she is almost always either married or fianced or in long term relationship at the start) But for some reason because the VN start with YOU ARE THE WOMAN the Anti-NTR crew don't seem to care she's getting dicked by everyone. This makes me think those people either don't play FeMC VN or it's really all about perception.
I myself do not project myself into the MC of Any VN so I don't feel the jealousy NTR seem to build in their mind. I just think having a story about a character able to fuck up and either win or lose based on player action is more fun and interesting than the one cock to rule them all Harem style that has absolutely no challenge and the only choice is creampie or facial.
It surprise me that people prefer to play as the female, rather than both or the male pov. It feels as if they are in denial and don't want to see the guy (cuck) being ntr or they like to have a direct control of the "choices" they get as the female... hard to say on my opinion, but I think the term is netorase? or netorare... can't remember/
From latest updates.
female protagonist: 4256
female protagonist, cheating: 289
female protagonist, excluding male protagonist: 3425
female protagonist, cheating, excluding male protagonist: 191
Didn't even need to check to know you were wildly wrong. Looks like this is really all about your perception.
But yes, most people who dislike NTR don't play any games with a female protagonist.
Some of the games are mislabeled, I know some games have the label of ntr, doesn't involved a person of interest, or is just a one night stand situation; rather than, I'm fallen for x person/dick and I can't stop thinking about it
If only... but It won't be me who complains if that's true
Not going to lie, part of me (not gay lol) wants an interesting gay game where your relationship matters and if you are "enemies" you can have hate sex or force him to have sex with you. if you are in friendly or romantic terms you can explore fetishes or be fuck buddies (I know there is a game being developed like that, but is too early to judge it). Oh yea, and corrupting a guy to become a trap, but that wish will never happened