Thought on Nutaku

chainedpanda

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Asmongold (streamer/youtuber) has just recently released a reaction video of a documentary about Nutaku. Back when I received ads, they were plastered everywhere, so it was basically impossible not to be aware of them to some degree. However, the documentary has me thinking about Nutaku, our communities and how we're all loosely connected to them. Despite this, have have virtually no memory of any discussions related to Nutaku aside from a vague mention. Even searching, I found 50 pages of general search from random threads, but only 3 from threats with Nutaku in the title.

The documentary suggests that Nutaku is far larger than I realistically thought possible. Although I'm skeptical about the scope mentioned in the doc, but a degree it makes logical sense. Despite that, it's kind of shocking how our community still views "porn games" as a niche that hasn't been incorporated in the west, but Nutaku potentially proves that isn't the case. If this is true, than the lack of discussions about it even more surprising. Does F95 have a rule against discussing other sites so mentions of it are getting deleted? If so, not exactly thrilled about that.

But, my fundamental curiosity is about how our community actually feels about Nutaku? Have you ever played a game published or created by this company before? How was it? What about the lurking devs? Have you taken a look at Nutaku in the past and has it impacted your thought process in anyway?

For me, I've never played a game from them before. I originally thought it was a scam, but after realizing it wasn't, I've avoided it due to privacy concerns (something this doc justifies).
 

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Porn games are a niche in so far as that society does not want to recognise they are just as if not more mainstream than mainstream games.
 

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I tried some of the games and man are they heavily tailored to whales. The gameplay on them aren't better than SFW gacha games and the porn is worse than the stuff you can get here. Not only that, most of the porn is locked behind a gacha system so you can't even go after the big tittied milf you want to go after by spending money. I'd rather spend $100+ on the highest Patreon tier of a free game than roll through loli after loli trying to chase the big tittied milf (not saying I'd do either of them) content.
 

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most of the games there i liked.....died super fast.....and went bye bye....
....haven't been there in a while....
...also the docu.....interpreted some of the data kinda sussy.......
Does F95 have a rule against discussing other sites so mentions of it are getting deleted? If so, not exactly thrilled about that.
...only one site has that rule where it gets auto censored if u mention it....
...nutaku does not.......back in the early days we even had crackin threads of some of the games....
https://f95zone.to/threads/nutaku-merge-nymph-cracking-hashes.49138/
..and some cg rips of them....
https://f95zone.to/threads/kingdoms-of-lust-cg-rip-nutaku.20023/
https://f95zone.to/threads/kamihime-project-r-nutaku-2020-04-22-dmm-games.50667/
 

chainedpanda

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most of the games there i liked.....died super fast.....and went bye bye....
....haven't been there in a while....
...also the docu.....interpreted some of the data kinda sussy.......

...only one site has that rule where it gets auto censored if u mention it....
...nutaku does not.......back in the early days we even had crackin threads of some of the games....
https://f95zone.to/threads/nutaku-merge-nymph-cracking-hashes.49138/
..and some cg rips of them....
https://f95zone.to/threads/kingdoms-of-lust-cg-rip-nutaku.20023/
https://f95zone.to/threads/kamihime-project-r-nutaku-2020-04-22-dmm-games.50667/
I actually agree on the data being off. Under no circumstances would I ever believe it was "larger than Steam". However, the documentary was just enough to make me actually think about the site.
 
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BeelzeRog

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It had some decent journalism, but I couldn't get past the reporter's JUDGEMENT. I mean she winced at every little thing, her attempts at sex jokes had the air of "I'm making this joke to point out how stupid and juvenile this all is". And she pretty much showed everything in as bad of light as she could get away with. The sex negativity just oozed from the video.
 

chainedpanda

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It had some decent journalism, but I couldn't get past the reporter's JUDGEMENT. I mean she winced at every little thing, her attempts at sex jokes had the air of "I'm making this joke to point out how stupid and juvenile this all is". And she pretty much showed everything in as bad of light as she could get away with. The sex negativity just oozed from the video.
Oh absolutely. I had a very similar thought while watching it. Asmongold also suggested something similar to this as well. I think she did try to root out some of her biases though. There were times that it felt as if she wanted to start calling people neck-beards or incels, but did take time to point out the female user base multiple times.

This is likely one of the key reasons why I walked away thinking about the company and not focused on the woman nor the video itself.
 

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Nutaku is a game portal, like Kongregate for adult games. Not sure if that is classiffied as a publisher.

Anyways, it's following the same model as other SFW game portals. Gacha game design mostly. I played Taimanin Battle Arena for a while, which was the only real fappable hentai game on there. All others is mostly fan service, nudity cards, or short vanilla pictures with minimal dialogues and set up. Taimanin had real scenes like in their VNs. There is a huge dump of that game's scenes in 4ch somewhere.

I played another game called Chick Wars, but that was only for gameplay. It was really fun and fairly f2p friendly and no one gave a crap about the adult part of the game. The guild war content was the fun and strategic part.
 
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I actually agree on the data being off. Under no circumstances would I ever believe it was "larger than Steam". However, the documentary was just enough to make me actually think about the site.
Nutaku makes an unbelievable amount of money and it isn't a secret. I met someone who used to work for them and if you are an adult game dev looking for funding the more traditional way they are it. Ive only heard about it second hand but the general consensus is avoid publishers. If you arent necescarily attached to the end result and just want to make a game it might be for you, but a lot of people have been burned by them