Is it just me, or do most NSFW management games feel half-baked?

[KaizerStar]

I’ve been trying a bunch of NSFW management/sim games lately, and I’m starting to feel like most of them are almost good… but stop halfway.

Every time I try a new one, the same issues pop up: heavy grind, clunky UI, long gaps between scenes/events, or everything turning repetitive after the first in-game day.
Some of these games have great concepts, but the actual mechanics feel super barebones, like they exist only to justify the CGs instead of being fun on their own.
And on the flip side, Is there any NSFW management/sim game you think is actually well-executed?
At this point I’m honestly wondering if I’m just picking the wrong games, or if the bar for this genre is really that low.
What’s the moment where the game loses you completely?

 

[olaf_yaddax]

What’s the moment where the game loses you completely?

If I'm playing a game for its story and encounter a major logical flaw, I'll stop playing that game.

If I'm only playing the game for masturbation and the game doesn't feel sexy enough, I'll stop playing it.

 

[nixtornadopvbgemini]

Honestly, I bounce off these games pretty quick.
A lot of them start super ambitious, like they want to do ten different systems at once… but none of them end up feeling polished. Everything’s half-there.
I haven’t found a great one yet, honestly. A few came close, but most feel like prototypes that never got finished.

 

[morphnet]

I’ve been trying a bunch of NSFW management/sim games lately, and I’m starting to feel like most of them are almost good… but stop halfway.

Every time I try a new one, the same issues pop up: heavy grind, clunky UI, long gaps between scenes/events, or everything turning repetitive after the first in-game day.

Like most genres there are games that take the quick and easy approach to games that take the long and hard approach (no pun intended ), if you find a game you think you might like, read the thread and / or ask in the thread. You can also search recommendations and identification section for game lists to give you a better idea of what you might be looking for.

Also it might not be the genre/s for you, one of the basic mechanics of management/sim games is repetitiveness. i.e. Buys things - sell things - see woman naked - rinse and repeat with option to upgrade over time thrown in. You might want more sim and less management.

As for any good games, you should make a request in recommendations and identification as that is where you are most likely to get help / answers.

hope this helps

 

[Catalyzard]

I absolutely hate without exception, games where you have a roommate (sister, cousin, friend, girlfriend or whatever) and she does nothing but lay down all day and you have to waste hours of doing the same routine everyday for weeks such as studying, cleaning the house, going to work, getting money to buy her gifts and books to teach her and open her up to sex etc.

Even worse if the game has a deadline and it's game over. Sometimes you unlock only like 1 or 2 scenes per playthrough.

The only game that I have fully finished that had that type of gameplay was Herbal Healing, but the grind is completely different and there's a lot of scenes in it. You have to collect leaves, no game over. And honestly, if it wasn't for the thigh and butt smothering stuff I wouldn't have played it either.

 

[Pretentious Goblin]

"Management" is actually a pretty broad genre. You could try this but I bet a lot of those are highly rated for other stuff than the gameplay. From the first couple pages for quality gameplay, I direct you to iNSight, Imperial Gatekeeper and maybe Going Deeper.

 

[Hagatagar]

Every time I try a new one, the same issues pop up: heavy grind, clunky UI, long gaps between scenes/events, or everything turning repetitive after the first in-game day.

That's because those game are made by amateurs and beginners with no prior knowledge or internal feedback in the creation of the game, because they work alone with their ideas.
Those games are bad in what they are supposed to be pretty much by design.
You need a team of people to make a good game of this kind, as everybody will bring their ideas and will find flaws in the ideas of the others. As well as any for of quality or QoL controll, which is missing in the typical solo-dev game.
And no player feedback is not the same, as they rearly cause major flaws in the core design to be fixed.

Look at all the good managment porn games, they all have been made by a team.

Some of these games have great concepts, but the actual mechanics feel super barebones, like they exist only to justify the CGs instead of being fun on their own.

That's pretty much what that is. Stretching run-/playtime is nothing new and one of the core elements of porn "games".

 

[Goeffel]

from my impression most games tagged as such are brothel- or slave- management based on "mind-break", and I am just not interested.

Others either very shallow in management - last tried pawn shop, extremely simple and casual. May be good mobile game when you want to fill 10-15 minutes somewhere out there, no paying real attention - well, once there is more content, that is.

Or it becomes a micro-management mania, where sooner or later I lose interest. (Renryuu dingens)

And/or turns out the management is actually not needed - comparable to a combat game with intricate skillworks and elements and whatnot systems, yet normal-attack is more than enough for everything.
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Some good games with management element:
The Last Sovereign - has some mangement, next to story, characters, combat, other choices.
Imo. best played without guide/walkthrough, a less than perfect run is actually somewhat more interesting and leaves room for a replay.
BUT the early-game Stineford brothel situation - that is not merely cryptic, that is pure shite. There I recommend to read online about best way to handle it.

Daibanchou - not tagged as management, but you need to manage population loyalty, troops wellbeing and loyalty, battle capacity, finances, and maybe then some not present on my mind right now.
overall very difficult and grindy. Would not try to go for 100%.

I wonder if it should have management tag ...