Adult is not a synonym to porn it is rather an umbrella term of porn. As such an adult game can have porn in it, but don't must have porn in it to be classified as an adult game.
Adult, when used with other words like "game" and "film" is absolutely a synonym for pornography. In fact, if you google "Adult Film", the word "Pornographic" appears right on the side and 99% of the search results on the first page are porn related.
This is obviously not to say that this is its only meaning, but it is a bit disingenuous to act as though it is equally as likely to have this label for extreme violence as it is for pornographic content.
Is it wrong for a game to not focus on sex while calling itself an adult game? Absolutely not, however, we shouldn't act mystified and or make it seem like people that feel mislead are completely unjustified in that emotion; they aren't.
If on this site most adult games are also porn games then it is so, but that don't mean that it can't have adult games with none or only few porn content in here.
I'm pretty sure that, when people actually think about it
(meaning after they get past their initial frustrations), no one is saying that a game CAN'T be here with little or no pornographic content. I'm pretty sure they're just explaining why they were frustrated / confused by the lack of it here. Take your phone analogy. It would be more like walking into a place labeled "Phone Store and Apple Phone Service Center" to discover they don't actually sell Apple Phones. It's like, technically they didn't say they sold Apple phones but it would be understandable why people might think they did.
For what all what's it worth this game is proper labeled and in the first post it is also decleared what this game is...
So to be blunt, if you don't like this game because it has no porn in it and are not happy with it, then you have only yourself to blame for.
No. Just no.
People do not only have themselves to blame if they misunderstood what this game was. I'm
not saying it's Hopes' fault either, but it damn sure isn't their fault either. We are on a site, primarily populated by pornographic games, the tags include pornographic labels, "adult" is a synonym for "porn" especially when paired with other words, and no, the first post doesn't declare "This is not a pornographic game."
Again, Hopes has done nothing wrong... but neither has the person that thought there would be more sexual content in this game. The only thing I will say, though I'm not sure as to how much it would help, but maybe it could be put on the first post
(and maybe in red) that this isn't a porn game. I mean,
as much as it keeps getting said, I have to wonder why it isn't there already.
I get it, many of us like this game. There's a lot to like. Many people are all about the nuance and dark themes, but let's not let our fandom cause us to be overly defensive to where we keep treating it like it's insane to associate "adult" with "porn" and that people keep doing it for "reasons" that are beyond us, lol.