Brainrotted takes. If you want a quick fap, then why are you booting up a game? Saying that there's no point in gameplay is like saying there's no point in comics or hentai with story.
Nah, for me, if I want a quick fap I'll open Character AI. Lewd games are mostly just there to "rev up my engines" a bit, nothing more.
Besides, in hentai, the story
should at least be "lewd-adjacent" or a vehicle for which lewd content can spring from.
Don't have a chapter be about the heroine getting a nasty medical bill that threatens to leave her homeless while she struggles to fight back suicidal thoughts and her parents disown her for dishonoring the family while she's chugging whiskey and lashing out at her friends, burning bridges as she spirals into despair; have her get desperate and go questing in a higher level dungeon she can't handle (oops tentacles), or have her hit up an old boyfriend to trade money for sex or something. Show her in the alley with her clothes ripped
just enough to reveal her areolas a bit, or show her in some naughty barmaid outfit and getting flirty for extra tips. Same plot, different "flavor."
Hentai that goes an entire chapter without at least making the reader flustered and blushy is objectively bad hentai. Might be a good story, maybe, but still bad hentai.
(Man, it's hard to type while eating yakamein, heh. I should've eaten before opening F95.)
(Good stuff though. Sucks it's such a regional food from thousands of miles away, I'd love to have it made by someone who knows how to make it right, I'm just winging it.)
Anyway, there's nothing really wrong with lewd games that are JUST the lewd bits, so long as the porn is good enough to carry it solo like that and there's enough there to justify the download. Bonus points if there's juuuuuust enough gameplay there to tie everything together. The whole thing could end up becoming a better presentation than just a literal gallery depending on how everything's implemented.
Really though, spinning back to the whole "ME WANT PORN NOW" brainrot thing, you have to understand that when someone wants to play a lewd/porn game, they're committing to it, they set aside everything else, go somewhere private, close the curtains, lock the door, maybe drop their pants, maybe get out their toys or lotion or tissues or whatever; and their goal for this session is to climax at least once, or get horny so then they can cum to something at the end.
If they weren't wanting to at least get aroused, they wouldn't be playing a porn game.
Whether they have 5 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour, their end goal is to get horny and to cum, that's just the nature of the whole porn game genre
Doesn't mean the game has to be ALL PORN ALL THE TIME and have every NPC with giant tits that slowly expand while all the men cum all over all the tits and every cloud in the sky looks like giant futa women, but it should still work under the assumption that at any point the player wants, they can access something lewd, whether that be grabbing the nearest NPC and fucking them, or opening a gallery to watch their favorite scene to cum to.
As for the gameplay, devs should work under the assumption that the bloodflow to the player's brain isn't at 100%, and that they're simply not going to care about super-complex gameplay mechanics; this is why most porn games with combat tends to lean more on the "attack, special, block, crouch attack, and jump attack" combat system rather than animation-cancels and intricate combo mechanics. Not only are the players not focusing 100% on the gameplay, but it's less likely that the player will care as much about reading tutorials, too.
(Aaand I'm rambling. Ate too much, might drop from a food coma, heh.)
