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fitgirlbestgirl

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I can understand why the choice is there, however. It was uncomfortable at first to date a trap (the 69 was pretty hot though.) Credit to STS for including that route, at least.
No, they don't get any credit. If you want to put a trans character in your game but you're too scared to piss off people who aren't into that, just give players the option not to pursue that character through organic choices the MC gets to make. Don't slap a fucking settings menu in my face in the middle of a scene to ask me if I'm okay with trans stuff. It's just shit game design and shit writing, all because they wanted to have their "Surprise, I have a dick!" scene and then have it make absolutely no sense if you don't pick the trans option. Not to mention the fact that the game also forces you to endorse the view that you must be bisexual if you're okay with fucking a trans girl. No matter where you fall on the spectrum on that discussion, it's just unnecessary weirdness that's going to piss off a good portion of your playerbase.

Haven't played Summertime Saga, but it's interesting how it sounds like it goes in a viable direction with mutilation but then chickens out and fails to convince. Nobody cares about a small scar, but genital mutilation or a slave brand on the groin (placed by a gang or something) could work as an actual motivation why someone would be ashamed of getting naked in front of someone.
Summertime Saga is so fucking vanilla that the inclusion of a trans character in itself caused a major shitstorm. They would never have the balls to include anything close to what you suggest. Which is why I think they should have just stuck to their "babby's first incest sandbox" formula and stayed away from the subject entirely, because they clearly can't handle it.
 

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Bikini Wax:

Every character in the game, from your little virgin sister to your mom who hasn't had sex since pa vanished to the hobo girl down the street. They're all perfectly smooth. Nobody has public hair of any kind, regardless of whether or not it'd make sense for them to. If they do by chance have some, it's a simple landing strip or something similar. No bushes allowed!
Honestly? I'll never understand that one. I fully understand that body hair is a matter of preference for most people, but since when did it become a rule that the default is everyone is Barbie Doll smooth, and any kind of body hair, has to be denoted as a "specialty fetish content". Like, seriously, I've played my fair share of adult games, and finding characters with natural body hair? It's like finding a unicorn.

Plus-Sized:

There are no plus-sized woman in any game. Unless it's about plus-sized women specifically. Can't have a normal chubby girl hanging among the bikini models. Nope, can't do it. She might eat them or something I guess or the bikini models are gonna bully her.
In similar fashion to the previous point, yes, in an adult game, body type is very much a personal preference, but how did it ever become the default that "average" or even every so slightly "chubby" body types are treated as such rare fetishes in the sphere of adult games? I feel like a lot of these standards aren't accurately based on supply and demand, so much as they are built on the underlying community not being fully developed, probably due to how taboo adult games are in modern society.
Instant Cum:

Yeah, it may make you feel better about yourself IRL. But nobody should cum within 5 seconds of penetration. So many sex scenes are the lowest effort you can have. 1 render of dirty talk, 2 renders of penetration and then MC and the LI cum like volcanos. Also, there is never any post-sex intimacy. No cuddles. No teasing. Nothing. They don't even clean the gallon of cum leaking out of the girl or take a shower. The cum crust is probably thicker than the mantle of the earth.
I always thought that was just peak lazy game design. Obviously adult games as a sub genre of videogames haven't seen a ton of innovation in recent years due to a myriad of factors, but one of the worst responses to that are devs that can't commit to creating more meaningful/entertaining sex scenes past the point of copying the already horrible template that you described above.

Also, the lack of post-sex intimacy, or for that matter, foreplay? Extremely lazy and disappointing. If you choose to develop an adult game, and sex is a primary component in it, perhaps don't make it the least enjoyable mechanic of the entire thing. I mean, I get it, it's not easy to innovate there when the space is full of bad examples, but in most cases what I see suggests to me that the dev wasn't trying to make anything meaningful in the first place. Effort tends to show, even when you miss the mark.

Interesting points you brought up.
 

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All Trans People Are Trans Women and All Trans Women Are Dickgirls
If a game has a trans character, the odds are that this is probably a trans woman with a penis. Trans men, trans women who've had bottom surgery and enbies don't exist in most of them, not even as background characters.
Oh boy. I'm going to include a trans men LI on my game in a future update. I can see tons of people dissappointed for the [vaginal sex] tag on a gay game, and worse yet... the [futa/trans] tag with no actual trans women or futas...just because I dared to include a trans men on the game.

It will be a shitstorm. That's for sure.
 

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Also, the lack of post-sex intimacy, or for that matter, foreplay? Extremely lazy and disappointing. If you choose to develop an adult game, and sex is a primary component in it, perhaps don't make it the least enjoyable mechanic of the entire thing.
I think this is because adult games do copy what porn does. In porn you rarely see what happen after. the guy cums. Same with sex positions and the obsession with horse dicks (even women's body proportions that you wrote in your message).
 

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I think this is because adult games do copy what porn does. In porn you rarely see what happen after. the guy cums. Same with sex positions and the obsession with horse dicks (even women's body proportions that you wrote in your message).
I think that is a big part of it, yes. Porn is a very poor representation for the medium it's built on, but somehow it's been going strong with little change for a very long time. I think perhaps adult games took too much inspiration from the porn industry.

Which does the "game" portion of adult games rather a disservice, because regular porn never had to worry about any interactivity, but it is a central focus for video games. Even more curious is the fact that while porn is extremely mainstream at this stage, adult games remain quite niche to the world's population at large. And this creates an ample opportunity for creators to target smaller communities with more highly customized content that is fit for purpose, as opposed to mainstream content meant for hundreds of thousands. And this is wasted far too often.
 

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I think that is a big part of it, yes. Porn is a very poor representation for the medium it's built on, but somehow it's been going strong with little change for a very long time. I think perhaps adult games took too much inspiration from the porn industry.
Now OnlyF is putting in trouble mainstream's porn industry and the "quality" is going downhill, but I can see what you are saying, and is true. They had to introduce some female perspective, some gender diversity, but globally it's the same standard.

And this creates an ample opportunity for creators to target smaller communities with more highly customized content that is fit for purpose, as opposed to mainstream content meant for hundreds of thousands. And this is wasted far too often.
I couldn't agree more. Apparently the only model that allow creators to earn a decent amount it's your (stereo)typical incest story with 3 females and father's figure dead. It's what you see over and over again, without anything original or different. And don't you dare to introduce some other possible male able to fuck the women around you, otherwise you will burn in hell.
 
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Now OnlyF is putting in trouble mainstream's porn industry...

...And don't you dare to introduce some other possible male able to fuck the women around you, otherwise you will burn in hell.
1) OF is a plague, as the entire platform works with Attention. Doesn't matter how much you tip a message. If a creator ignores it or blocks you from feed, no content can be acquired since the creator doesn't pay the customer attention. And since OF treats everyone the same, your customers are drowned in Attention from all your competitors to overlook your stuff.
Bad system for commerce. Amazon sells you shit no matter how much attention you pay to it. One click, done.

2) You miss the point. Wish fulfilment fantasies work in two ways: You are either Dominant or Submissive. Sharing always decreases dominance over an object (the NPC), that is the Avatar of your Wish. If you desire such loss of dominance your wish is to become more submissive. People are rarely both in equal measure, so making clear which team you are supposed to play for, is vital.

It is rather difficult to have a male MC buddy-sharing fantasy, as this would require you to write a friendly, likeable and loyal male character with a female counterpart you cannot develop romantic feelings for (so you do not want her to join our harem), while at the same time write MC's female counterpart in a way that makes her loyal to death, without turning her into a numb-skull slave.
So bestie's lover is a Bitch of no value and MC love interest is a subservient, loyal lover, while MC and his Best-black-buddy are cool guys. No Lancelot-Guenievere bullshit. No Morgause-Arthur power play. No Mordread revenge NTR plot. No viking home wreckers. No shapeshifting trolls. No Fay-magic bargain.

Option A) Just two pets and their owners with clearly defined rules on who is who and No Straying from that path ever. Cookie points if you manage to make both pets and owners of opposing gender without ruining the dynamic.
Option B) Displeased customers.
Option C) Bi-curious female MC in a reversed harem fantasy. Not going to sell to your male player base, who are +50% of your customers.
 

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All Trans People Are Trans Women and All Trans Women Are Dickgirls
If a game has a trans character, the odds are that this is probably a trans woman with a penis. Trans men, trans women who've had bottom surgery and enbies don't exist in most of them, not even as background characters.
In games it's one thing, the real shitshow here is on the meta level with content descriptions and tags. As good as it is otherwise e-hentai is godawful by forcing binary male/female namespaces for all the sex tags, and then stuff like "gender bender" ruins even the pure binary distinction. Non-binary people simply don't exist at all even if the work is showing a canon-accurate representation of Slaanesh.

Honestly? I'll never understand that one. I fully understand that body hair is a matter of preference for most people, but since when did it become a rule that the default is everyone is Barbie Doll smooth, and any kind of body hair, has to be denoted as a "specialty fetish content". Like, seriously, I've played my fair share of adult games, and finding characters with natural body hair? It's like finding a unicorn.
Sadly there's a simple explanation even disregarding aesthetic sensibilities: drawing body hair, or any other details, takes more time and effort. Scene continuity for dirt, wounds, fluids etc. is atrocious for the same reason I guess, starting from the early Flash games where you splat your cum on their nose and suddenly a mess overlay appears in their hair (if at all).

2) You miss the point. Wish fulfilment fantasies work in two ways: You are either Dominant or Submissive. Sharing always decreases dominance over an object (the NPC), that is the Avatar of your Wish. If you desire such loss of dominance your wish is to become more submissive. People are rarely both in equal measure, so making clear which team you are supposed to play for, is vital.
This seems far too simplistic to me. Plenty of games have very stereotypically dominant "alpha male" characters who "share" a submissive woman precisely as a show of dominance. Only those tend to be more "whoring out", "corruption" or just outright slavery. And true submissiveness doesn't really work with the medium of games, because fundamentally they always require the player to take initiative and act in a way which they themselves ultimately control.
 

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Easy No Prep Anal

In real life if you have actually had anal sex you will know that... You are going to want to her to poop before hand, and to get all cleaned up with an enema, and get lube and maybe us a plug.

In adult games you don't gotta spit on that asshole! Just line it up and ease it in! Good to go!
 

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I couldn't agree more. Apparently the only model that allow creators to earn a decent amount it's your (stereo)typical incest story with 3 females and father's figure dead. It's what you see over and over again, without anything original or different. And don't you dare to introduce some other possible male able to fuck the women around you, otherwise you will burn in hell.
The ironic thing is, a lot of subcommunities in the adult game scene have been so thoroughly ignored, that I argue they've become something of an untapped goldmine, provided that a competent dev can supply a decently made game that fills the gap. Yeah, obviously if you curtail your content to the most common denominator for mass appeal, you'll have an easier time of producing average content and still appealing to enough average players to get a decent return. It's like selling bread, you don't need to do anything special or find a special market to empty your trays. But then, the more "niche content" still has a sizeable crowd that feels their preferences are very much being overlooked, and a lot of them are happy to financially support a quality game from a good dev.

I am not even saying that "mainstream" content is awful by default, because if you only ever focused on the less mainstream content long enough.. well, that becomes mainstream lol. My point is only that there is a LOT of wasted potential in the way a lot of adult games are catering their content presently, and it isn't even exclusively the only way to be financially profitable.

Of course, I get why it is that way. The adult game industry as it were, is still in its infancy, despite growing a lot over the past 5 or so years. Very little money is being put into it, and there is a lot of stagnation in its progress. It's not like your average Joe dev is going out and doing actual market research to study the market they're going to target with their game before they develop it. It's a lot more.. rudimentary.

Sadly there's a simple explanation even disregarding aesthetic sensibilities: drawing body hair, or any other details, takes more time and effort. Scene continuity for dirt, wounds, fluids etc. is atrocious for the same reason I guess, starting from the early Flash games where you splat your cum on their nose and suddenly a mess overlay appears in their hair (if at all).
I can empathize with that side of it, up to a point. Yeah, given how little to non-existent adult game budgets can be coming from indie devs, they tend to cut a lot of corners, all the corners, really. And Hair isn't one of the easiest things to add or render, depending on the art style/platform you're using to produce it with. In essence, I can forgive this in a lot of 3D games that come out, because I know for a fact that can be especially hard to add, edit or render for a lot of devs. But when it comes to 2D art, I am a little less forgiving on that point. I've done quite a bit of research and trial and error for a 2D game I am working on recently, and adding body hair, while yes, it's always going to be extra effort, it's one of the easier components to add in 2D. Especially because it's generally acceptable for body hair to be drawn flat even on full shaded 2D characters, in the fashion of anime/manga art styles and many others. So really, it's not THAT difficult in 2D. At least, not these days. The days of Flash games were very different and faced different challenges, so I can't really fault them for any of that.

As to fluids? Fluids are the bane of existence of games/CGI/2D art, everything really. Even multi million A movies coming out of Hollywood truly struggle to handle any realistic fluid CGI in their productions, let alone super small indie devs on a small budget game. I've always been disappointed in how much the tech lags on fluid simulation, but that's not really any dev's fault.

Easy No Prep Anal

In real life if you have actually had anal sex you will know that... You are going to want to her to poop before hand, and to get all cleaned up with an enema, and get lube and maybe us a plug.

In adult games you don't gotta spit on that asshole! Just line it up and ease it in! Good to go!
Honestly, that's a very good reminder. I still consider that to be a part of "foreplay", but this is just more reason why foreplay and aftercare deserve a place in adult games.
 
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This seems far too simplistic to me. Plenty of games have very stereotypically dominant "alpha male" characters who "share" a submissive woman precisely as a show of dominance. Only those tend to be more "whoring out", "corruption" or just outright slavery.
Porn and sex fantasies are simple as fuck. The games you describe fall and often break on this divide as well:
A) The Male MC is unable to achieve the goal of corruption on their own and requires an Outsider (lacks dominance and power). This is when most of your fans cry NTR.
B) All females in the game are pets/toys and no affection is given to them and attachment to them doesn't exist. (dominance over them is absolute and guilt free). NTR is impossible to evoke. Player doesn't care.

The latter are not the majority of games out there and the former fail because they do not establish either of these constraints early in the game: A) Lack of power over NPC; B) Lack of Affection towards NPC. So neither is the Alpha Dad nor Brother without a Cause. Just plain old Cock vs. Cuck.

And true submissiveness doesn't really work with the medium of games, because fundamentally they always require the player to take initiative and act in a way which they themselves ultimately control.
Admitting defeat is a conscious act of submission. You cannot submit against your will, only be temporarily restricted.

Most games collapse because the MC is suddenly forced into submission, without the players endorsement. Developers do this a lot. Something happens and the player has not even the option of 'Run! Hide! Fight!' but only watch and endure without choice and thus without control.
A-okay if I want to play a doormat, not okay in my Prince Puckler daughter harem fantasy with the Depraved Housewife DLC coming up.

The ironic thing is, a lot of subcommunities in the adult game scene have been so thoroughly ignored, that I argue they've become something of an untapped goldmine, provided that a competent dev can supply a decently made game that fills the gap. Yeah, obviously if you curtail your content to the most common denominator for mass appeal, you'll have an easier time of producing average content and still appealing to enough average players to get a decent return. It's like selling bread, you don't need to do anything special or find a special market to empty your trays. But then, the more "niche content" still has a sizeable crowd that feels their preferences are very much being overlooked, and a lot of them are happy to financially support a quality game from a good dev.

I am not even saying that "mainstream" content is awful by default, because if you only ever focused on the less mainstream content long enough.. well, that becomes mainstream lol. My point is only that there is a LOT of wasted potential in the way a lot of adult games are catering their content presently, and it isn't even exclusively the only way to be financially profitable.

Of course, I get why it is that way. The adult game industry as it were, is still in its infancy, despite growing a lot over the past 5 or so years. Very little money is being put into it, and there is a lot of stagnation in its progress. It's not like your average Joe dev is going out and doing actual market research to study the market they're going to target with their game before they develop it. It's a lot more.. rudimentary.
If you can identify those markets and motivate them to pay up, then yes. Sadly, as I learned by marketing research for books and toys. Women do not want to be targeted for erotica despite enjoying them. Thus, making games for them is a high risk as many of them will not buy such a blatantly honest product. For all the other communities its simple. Pay more, get more.
As for incest: Your Incest fetish only has two states: A) I am doing it right now stop bothering me! B) I would really like to do it right now, give me a surrogate!
Group B) is by multitudes larger than group A); That's why this community will always pay.
 
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A new Anime Parody is coming to town!

Anime Parody... Which anime of the many anime will be chosen this time? Smart money says it is going to be 1 anime.. You know what anime is getting the game parody... You fucking know don't tell me you don't know... You know! You don't even have to look at the spoiler. You already know there are dozens of games out for this.

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This one anime has more parodies than all other anime have parody combined.
 
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1) OF is a plague, as the entire platform works with Attention. Doesn't matter how much you tip a message. If a creator ignores it or blocks you from feed, no content can be acquired since the creator doesn't pay the customer attention. And since OF treats everyone the same, your customers are drowned in Attention from all your competitors to overlook your stuff.
Interesting info. Didn't knew it worked that way. It's really aimed for brown-noser people.

As for 2), you went way further that what I wanted to say. I just wanted to point out the drama that emerge every time a male character has a slightly approach with NPC females. Dev must burn in hell because he didn't inform about this. I wasn't thinking in the variety of ways that two people can share his sex life with others.
 

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Demonic Names 101:

Almost all Demon girls, whether they're succubus girls, or demonic girls who want you to corrupt your family and friends. They're usually named Lilith. Also, if you have a vampire girl. Odds are, her name is Lilith too. Why can they not have other names? Nobody knows, but if you ever did name them differently, you'd probably go to Hell.
 

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Raking in a Harem
The MC is a spirited chap, rude of health and red of blood, and feeling just a little horny, so what is there for him to do but to start relationships with multiple women? Maybe he cheats on a current partner, maybe he cleverly avoids committing to any partner. Maybe he sticks to two women or maybe he rakes in dozens of them. But eventually the curtain falls, the ladies find out he's involved with others behind their backs. So how do they respond to this reveal? Naturally, they nod their heads and go "yeah, seems cool, I can finger to this" and join his harem without any protest.
I'm going counter to this in my contemporary game by setting it within a polyamorous network. Unless it is intended to cause problems, any LIs will already be active or interested in polyamory.
All By the Bi
The MC has laboured hard and mightily to collect a bevy of pretty women around him. But oh no, he finds out he has bitten off more than he can chew. How can he ever keep all of his dear love interests satisfied? Fear not! The ladies can just keep each other busy when the MC is occupied. They find out that they just happen to be as content with pussy as they are with dick, or at least the ladies are satisfied enough until he can make time for each. No one opts out from the pussy regime, no one has to slowly learn to like, all are fully converted to bi just so there's no jealousy. NTR averted!
Ah, yes, but many of the NTR-phobic are triggered if two LIs have an intimate relationship that doesn't always involve the MC.

As far as my contemporary game, my own experience has been that most women I've known in the community are bisexual, but not all. I will have some women who are primarily/exclusively straight or gay. I know I will not be popular with the NTR-phobic or the Incest Brigade.
All Trans People Are Trans Women and All Trans Women Are Dickgirls
If a game has a trans character, the odds are that this is probably a trans woman with a penis. Trans men, trans women who've had bottom surgery and enbies don't exist in most of them, not even as background characters.
Based upon my own experiences, I will be including all of those variations.
 

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The Helpful Perv:

Has your hot mom...eerrrr landlady ever had to get something off a high shelf? Did you volunteer to get it for her? Of course not. Instead, you graciously offered to hold her ass as she attempts to get the item herself. Make sure you get a good booty squeeze, but not too hard or else she'll notice and fall on you. Firmly planting her ass into your face, yet nobody gets hurt. That's what high quality butt implants can do for you. Shock and impact resistance guaranteed. They're also probably why she didn't notice you groping her until you squeezed too hard. Nerve damage from the leaking silicone.
 

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I worked on a game with that before... It is one of the worst pains in the ass as a developer I have ever dealt with. Because you need to change so many little lines of dialogue with a variable, and need to have two sets of renders for anything sexual. Sex animations... Need 2 for each 1. Almost twice the amount of work goes into a single character. Would advise against making a game with that option. If it's one of the MAIN characters it's even worse... Big head ache trying to make everyone happy... Better to just make them one or the other, and making them avoidable is way easier to avoid folks who don't want trans. Which come to think of it brings up another trope...
Thank you for the reminder. I've been holding onto the dream of having multiple variations for MC or select LIs. Based upon what you've said, I may reconsider.

Avoidable Trans Girl

Got a t-girl in your game? Make her avoidable. Unless its all t-girls.
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The Yoga trope should be called Sextivities because it's usually a bunch of different things:

Yoga (get those accidental feels)
Clothes shopping (Peek? Y/N)
Helping mom around the house (reduce anger/earn money/mom gets horny because her boy does chores ZOMG)
Going out for drinks (bonus chance of lewds)
Library (boost INT, meet shy/weird girl, advance plot)
Hit the pool (sunbathing, it puts the lotion on its skin, normal team watersports, wardrobe malfunction)
Gentleman's Club (your sister *will* work there at some point, pole dancers [you may be related], hookers [likewise-probably your aunt])
Party games (Never have I ever, spin the bottle, truth or dare)
Very good view of all of them--manufactured situations to move the lewdness along without having to actually do the actual work of creating a more natural progression.
Summertime Saga has to be the worst offender in this category. You have to make the MC admit to possibly being bisexual (???) for the trans character option to be available and even then, when she shows up later you still get another "DO YOU WANT HER TO HAVE A DICK?" option. And if you don't make her trans her entire backstory and character makes no sense anymore. She's afraid to get naked in front of you because of being trans, if she isn't trans she has a small scar on her belly she's ashamed of... right. Either put a trans character in your game or don't. This was so fucking retarded.
The difference between the two is even worse than that. Both versions of Eve states that one source of her trauma is that her parents died in an accident while arguing about a choice she made. The implication is that they were probably arguing about her coming out to them and that distraction led to the accident. Yeah, the argument happened in either case, but her parents dying being associated with her being trans is pretty heavy. For cis Eve, all we have is that scar.
Something like a brain injury that led to a personality change or learning disability would have made a lot more sense with Eve in STS. The scar was pretty lazy. I can understand why the choice is there, however. It was uncomfortable at first to date a trap (the 69 was pretty hot though.) Credit to STS for including that route, at least.
Yes, that was pretty surprising, even if he hid the actual mouth to penis contact.
 
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Genre Revolution Resurrection: Revelations
A when titling a game, make sure to pick the most generic and overused word to communicate the game’s genre. Why expect people to waste precious seconds reading genre tags or descriptions when selecting a visual novel? By using these magic words in your title, thousands of players will flock to your game and then complain that it’s not exactly like other, more popular games that share its magic word. Examples of magic words:
Harem
Breeding
Family (or any other familial relationship like “Daughter”)
Corruption
Dungeon
Monster Girl
Trainer
Brothel
Honestly, I feel like that's one of the more forgivable tropes out there, as it largely happens to be an unfortunate marketing reality. A lot of the time people can be very dismissive of gamest that don't grab their attention from moment 1, and may indeed dismiss your game if the title alone didn't suggest to them that they may be interested in the associated theme. This is especially true of adult games, because unlike your average mainstream AAA/AA game, you don't have a marketing budget, you most likely won't have video trailers for your game, and outside of very specific forums and online circles, your game may get little to no exposure. And that in turn incentivizes the dev to take every possible advantage in promoting the themes of their game early on, for which the title is a big part of it.

Even so, I am not a big fan of the outcome, creatively speaking. As adult game names are very samey atm, but I fully understand why. My preference? Do a mix of creative and generic for the name, to both reflect the game's character as well as suggest the expectation. That's what ":" was made for.
 

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Femboy-world vs Bearland
Every gay game connoisseur learns the truth sooner or later: a universe can only hold two body types at the same time without imploding.
Whenever you press the tag, you can opt to travel through the proverbial hole to a reality populated by college-aged gym bros and barely-legal girly boys with flowy and colorful hair or to one containing hyper-muscled, middle-aged bodybuilders and horny big-bellied, often bald Santa Claus look-alikes. In other words: you are given the very Freudian choice between doing someone who resembles your dad or your younger sibling.
Some of you would say it's because the yaoi(homosexual stories for women)-bara (homosexual stories for men) dichotomy has permeated through the Western world, but even the creators of both genres don't apply that policy so radically.

Fleabag: A decently-drawn, Western game is going to be furry 99% of the time.
If you were not aroused by the prospective of mounting daddy or little Jeremy, now you can also fuck the family dog. In HD.
Beware of beautiful BGs: for some reason ($) some of the best artists available cater to that public, and there is a chance some gorgeous art will lure you to the bipedal lion's den.
The previous topic still applies, though. While mammals, reptiles, predators, and prey mix and mingle, finding a variety of body types is still very rare.
 
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