Why is BB so popular though? Don't understand what made it different from all the other incest games. Was it a case of it being one of the first major incest releases?
it's not the first at anything contrary to what you often see people claim, there were literally thousands of games over decades with the same tropes before. what it did better than any other game in the genre was teasing and keeping up the tension. you'll have to work for everything, nothing drops easy. and it's grindy, yeah, and there's a couple of points where clearly the dev didn't comprehend how long it could take to trigger what's making you stuck, but in the end it also adds to the teasing and makes the reward that much more impactful. the characters have decent personalities and they keep well within the bounds of their roles, especially the mom.
what it does badly, in addition to excess grinding, is that the dev clearly doesn't understand emotional affection at all. I don't think any of the characters touch each other even once with anything but MC's dick. so much potential to make things hotter wasted. the sex scenes are very bare bones, short and straightforward, almost like they were made by a gay guy who has no interest in straight sex but makes it anyway. but there is a lot of them, and they do work. in the same way short descriptions of sex work better in writing than drawn out.
the mom is still easily the best stern mom milf in the genre, it'll take you ages to break her. but eventually you get her, which was the retirement gift in the last update before the dev quit the game.
(on quitting, someone before gave wrong info. what happened was he first started with 'glamour' and quit it. then made big brother and quit. then rebooted glamour, and I'm sure will quit again. whether you love BB or not, he's still a serial quitter who as I remember milked 50k a month forever without delivering, and didn't have the decency of finishing the job he had been paid closer to a million to do. it's a miracle people still give him tons of money, but it's not like this is the first time that happened.)
all in all, BB is still with all its faults pretty much the best the genre offers. contrary to forums there's almost no competition. people keep rebooting it because they love the characters. two years after its death the fan art and discussion threads still hang at the top of daily rankings. I doubt anyone has made any significant money with the reboots and spinoffs, largely because none of them does well the things BB did well. but you shouldn't see them as failures, but as fan tributes. fan fiction, a labour of love.
if you love corrupting stern emotionally distant moms, BB is still the best the genre offers. the tragedy is it had so much more to give when the serial quitter dev dropped it.