Seeking Suggestions for starting into hgames

[Lewdio]

Hey guys, I have this friend who I want to introduce to hgames. I'm looking for some suggestions for a renpy game to start her on to give her an impression of the basic concept.

I'm looking for something simple so she doesn't have to rack her brain on her first go around. Some sort of linear choice based VN like Katie's Corruption seems ideal, except it's rendered using 3delight, and I really want to showcase the use of iray photoreal.

 

[I'm Not Thea Lundgren!]

Try Triangle; it's a pretty vanilla type of game and very well written.
Then Where The Heart Is, then Heavy Five, then Tales from the Unending Void, then City of Broken Dreamers, then WVM.

That should you give you a pretty wide range of styles and stories.

 

[woody554]

is the 'friend' your mom, and you're trying to convince her that sex with her son is totally commonplace? I think I've seen this movie before...

 

[Lewdio]

is the 'friend' your mom, and you're trying to convince her that sex with her son is totally commonplace? I think I've seen this movie before...

No, but I like your thinking.

 

[desmosome]

Is she a deviant or a normie?

 

[Lewdio]

Is she a deviant or a normie?

Deviant. She's heavy on BDSM, slavery and nonconsent, can tolerate incest as a subtheme I guess to get through other content, but has some principled hangups with it. Same with lesbian themes. I think she'd most relate to something with a submissive female protagonist. I would say ideally with either long character development that involves corruption, or just short, one-off rape content.

 

[desmosome]

well there is a bunch of those! Just search for female protagonist + corruption.

 

[215303j]

You can also suggest Good Girl Gone Bad. Female protagonist maybe easier to identify with, and the player can fully choose which paths to pursue or not, depending on the players fetishes / interests.

Another tip: Fetish Locator, as it is also a game where you have an influence which fetishes to pursue or not, although it maybe a bit hardcore for a first game.

As for the brain racking, I don't know your friend but personally I'd be more worried about suggesting games with "weird" fetishes (incest, NTR, watersports etc.) rather than suggesting something "mentally challenging".

 

[Lewdio]

You can also suggest Good Girl Gone Bad. Female protagonist maybe easier to identify with, and the player can fully choose which paths to pursue or not, depending on the players fetishes / interests.

Another tip: Fetish Locator, as it is also a game where you have an influence which fetishes to pursue or not, although it maybe a bit hardcore for a first game.

As for the brain racking, I don't know your friend but personally I'd be more worried about suggesting games with "weird" fetishes (incest, NTR, watersports etc.) rather than suggesting something "mentally challenging".

She's cool with all of that. We go back a ways and I'm now trying to get her to try this cause I want to pick her mind about something I'm working on. But since she's not a gamer at all, I mean some of these games feel like the control board for a nuclear submarine or something, you know what I mean.

 

[215303j]

Most adult games are not heavy on the game play and I never found one that I found challenging, except maybe when trying to get a certain path or outcome.

What is a bit challenging if a game presents you with different paths and you need to choose even though you want them all. Also not knowing what's in the future of course...

 

[chainedpanda]

My first Hgame was Free Cities, If she is cool with a text-based management game, why not go for it? It could help ease her into the more degenerate side of hgames by letting her experience them at her own pace.

 

[anne O'nymous]

Deviant. She's heavy on BDSM, slavery and nonconsent, can tolerate incest as a subtheme I guess to get through other content, but has some principled hangups with it. Same with lesbian themes. I think she'd most relate to something with a submissive female protagonist. I would say ideally with either long character development that involves corruption, or just short, one-off rape content.

Not really heavy but BDSM, and definitively not character development, but Bondage Island can be a good entry point (use my mod with it to prevent a breaking bug). It's minimalist, but already a good overview of what can be adult games, and it's not too long to play.
I have nothing against the games suggested by the others, but they tend to be top games. Because of this, they are a little more complex ; when a child start to read, you to give it some Hemingway books for this, you stay on the basic silly little stories. They also are strongly story driven, so can be disliked because it's not the kind of story your friend like ; and the said friend can think that all adult games are like that and don't want to try another one.

 

[UserX]

She's cool with all of that. We go back a ways and I'm now trying to get her to try this cause I want to pick her mind about something I'm working on. But since she's not a gamer at all, I mean some of these games feel like the control board for a nuclear submarine or something, you know what I mean.

If I understood correctly, you want her to become "interested" about some BDSM idea, then why don't you use the world's most powerful graphic chip, imagination ((C) Sheldon Cooper), and link her some stories? There are some for each taste on the dear old BDSMLibrary, and a lot of them have a female protagonist who ends up on the sub side.

Close second on the "most powerful graphic chip" effects: real porn.

Third one: comics and drawings.

I mean, if she is not a gamer and you want only to titillate her, why doubling your work titillating her AND making her a gamer in the meantime?

 

[Lewdio]

If I understood correctly, you want her to become "interested" about some BDSM idea, then why don't you use the world's most powerful graphic chip, imagination ((C) Sheldon Cooper), and link her some stories? There are some for each taste on the dear old BDSMLibrary, and a lot of them have a female protagonist who ends up on the sub side.

Close second on the "most powerful graphic chip" effects: real porn.

Third one: comics and drawings.

I mean, if she is not a gamer and you want only to titillate her, why doubling your work titillating her AND making her a gamer in the meantime?

She's well into BDSM. I was saying it was a theme she'd take interest in, because she has an interest in it. I'm not looking for games to spur sexual interests, I'm looking for games that align with her sexual interests to spur her interest in games.

 

[Lewdio]

My first Hgame was Free Cities, If she is cool with a text-based management game, why not go for it? It could help ease her into the more degenerate side of hgames by letting her experience them at her own pace.

Honestly I was skipping past it cause specifically I've been looking to use her as a sounding board for ren'py content, however given how accessible and free range FC is that sounds like a good idea.

 

[Lewdio]

Not really heavy but BDSM, and definitively not character development, but Bondage Island can be a good entry point (use my mod with it to prevent a breaking bug). It's minimalist, but already a good overview of what can be adult games, and it's not too long to play.
I have nothing against the games suggested by the others, but they tend to be top games. Because of this, they are a little more complex ; when a child start to read, you to give it some Hemingway books for this, you stay on the basic silly little stories. They also are strongly story driven, so can be disliked because it's not the kind of story your friend like ; and the said friend can think that all adult games are like that and don't want to try another one.

Thanks! From the description and imagery it seems like something really up her alley, we'll check it out later tonight. And yeah, since she's not used to anything like tracking stats, or navigating a map.. I mean sure it's not rocket science, but the chore of getting into the groove of game mechanics can be challenging, especially when it's normally not on your radar at all. A little railroading would be helpful.

 

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[Agent HK47]

Acting lessons. Good story, strong characters and pretty vanilla themes

 

[Fliptoynk]

just a heads up

If ever your friend's project get launched, I hope it'll make a good impression and give you 4-stars or even 5. that means, you don't give us blue balls!!! (now, I don't mean to let the protagonist have a fuck fest with the main course early in-game, but at least, give us 2 side dishes) or expect most of us to wait for 6+ updates before we start downloading your gig, and maybe, subscribe to you after that.

 

[Lewdio]

just a heads up

If ever your friend's project get launched, I hope it'll make a good impression and give you 4-stars or even 5. that means, you don't give us blue balls!!! (now, I don't mean to let the protagonist have a fuck fest with the main course early in-game, but at least, give us 2 side dishes) or expect most of us to wait for 6+ updates before we start downloading your gig, and maybe, subscribe to you after that.

To be honest I'm kind of a perfectionist and I've been sinking a lot of time into practicing and hashing out concepts, but here's a render I just made as a sample.