What features do you think are a "must have" in a porn game?

[Psan2022]

Regardless of genre and tags. What are your "must have" features you look out for in a porn game? Or what features/mechanics do you dislike the most?

Here is my treasure box of must have features/ mechanics:
+ Playable with one hand
+ Replay / Gallery function
+ annimated
+ Leveling up

Call me a shitter and immature but I do not find story in a porn game that important. I know I cant speak for everybody but...just between us...from heart to heart...dont we play porn games just for the faps? Its like a porn movie/video, we all just skip the story for the "action" part. I am totaly aware that I may be missing out on great story telling. But when nut clarity hits...we all see things differently.

What features I hate the most or annoy me:
- Grind
- Endless dialogues
- not skippable dialogues
- False choices (choices that dont mean anything)
- Appearing Buttons just for the sake of it and without any meaning. (Like when only one button appears on screen just so that you have player interaction...)

Ah shit... writing all of that just made me realize how ignorant i truly am...
Anyway so tell me what features/ mechanics you like or dislike.

 

[Pretentious Goblin]

• Some kind of corruption of a female character
• Gameplay that isn't horrible. It can be mediocre, I don't have high expectations of these games.
• Writing that seems like it was written by an adult that's fluent in English and has put in some effort.

 

[Xaoyu]

dont we play porn games just for the faps?

No that's the point of porn movies 'cause they are not interactive.

 

[lazymunchlax]

Call me a shitter and immature but I do not find story in a porn game that important. I know I cant speak for everybody but...just between us...from heart to heart...dont we play porn games just for the faps? Its like a porn movie/video, we all just skip the story for the "action" part.

What features I hate the most or annoy me:
- Grind
- Endless dialogues
- not skippable dialogues
- False choices (choices that dont mean anything)
- Appearing Buttons just for the sake of it and without any meaning. (Like when only one button appears on screen just so that you have player interaction...)

Ah shit... writing all of that just made me realize how ignorant i truly am...
Anyway so tell me what features/ mechanics you like or dislike.

If I wanted story free erotica, I'd watch porn.
Story is too important for me, the erotic stuff is a bonus.

Honestly though, I'd prefer if ALL choices were straight up removed unless they meet one of the following criteria:

1. Divergent Story path
2. Choosing to opt in/out of a character / fetish.

If the option doesn't have any real impact, I'd like it gone.
Then the other thing I despise is having to click on things.

I remember this one game about this rich bitch falling from grace and becomming a maid.
I clearly remember that each day followed this routine, at least initially:

1. Look in mirror
2. Exit room
3. Enter bathroom
4. Take bath
5. Put on towel
6. Exit room
7. Enter bedroom
8. Go to Dresser (You dont get to choose her outfit)
9. Exit room
10. Go to stairs
11. Go to kitchen
12. Speak to maid

And then I recall having to go back upstairs.
You had to do this, EVERY Morning.

It was infuriating.

I remember this one game that gave you the fun mechanic of "Find laptop" and I searched through EVERY damn room in that house before I eventually came to realise that one room had the tiniest glimmer of a third drawer on the right edge of the screen and you had to go into that, find a key, then go to a different drawer.

Seriously, I don't need this level of interaction.

 

[redknight00]

Sex.

 

[F4C430]

Sex.

Nah i do enjoy some of the games tagged "no sexual content." It just needs to be erotic/arousing. Sex is not required for me to enjoy it.

 

[Cwovictor]

This is gonna sound weird, but artistry. I want to feel something when playing a game. Something more than just horniness; I can achieve that with any porn repository out there. I want to feel like the creator went balls-to-wall making something that they enjoy, that they found hot. I'm an empathetic sort, I get off on getting other people off. If I can feel the passion and lust radiating off something, that makes me happy. I think that's more important than any one feature or fetish.

(That said, please make games about my niche, obscure fetishes that won't get you any money on Patreon, I'm starving)

 

[Living In A Lewd World]

Regardless of genre and tags. What are your "must have" features you look out for in a porn game? Or what features/mechanics do you dislike the most?

Here is my treasure box of must have features/ mechanics:
+ Playable with one hand
+ Replay / Gallery function
+ annimated
+ Leveling up

Call me a shitter and immature but I do not find story in a porn game that important. I know I cant speak for everybody but...just between us...from heart to heart...dont we play porn games just for the faps? Its like a porn movie/video, we all just skip the story for the "action" part. I am totaly aware that I may be missing out on great story telling. But when nut clarity hits...we all see things differently.

What features I hate the most or annoy me:
- Grind
- Endless dialogues
- not skippable dialogues
- False choices (choices that dont mean anything)
- Appearing Buttons just for the sake of it and without any meaning. (Like when only one button appears on screen just so that you have player interaction...)

Ah shit... writing all of that just made me realize how ignorant i truly am...
Anyway so tell me what features/ mechanics you like or dislike.

While I do it general mostly for the faps, I don‘t like only to fap to copulating bodys. I need a personality behind the flesh and this is mostly determined through the ways the characters have gone, their story. I confess, that I don't need dialogue in this regard that much, as dialogue != story. I even skip through this initially. Only if the visual story-telling, the mimics, gestics and postures and their shift through the story (and also the shifts of clothing ) catches my eyes, I actually start to read. And if it is good, what I read, this is a big surplus for me personal, as it puts an additional layer of joy. I need the actual "porn", but this can than only be the a comparatively short scene for climax and should be well done regarding image and scene composition. Different from porn movies, which tend currently to be sometimes max. 1-2 minutes of a glimpse of a story and 30 minutes of copulating bodies, I personally would more enjoy 20 min. of a catching story that leads to the porn and 10 min. of porn actually happening. This is what brought me actually from porn to porn gaming, as most porn scenes only bore me.

 

[Izakiya]

1. A good story - I don't see the point in playing a visual novel or game with a bad story. If I just wanted to fap, there's a lot of porn and hentai out there.

2. An easy mode or skip combat option for the rpgm games. - Unless you're building one hell of a combat system like The Last Sovereign, I'm not interested. Let me skip it and see the scenes you spent all this time creating.

3. A way to skip grinding. - No fucking way am I wasting my time on a porn game that has grinding. A sandbox is already bad enough most of the time.

 

[puss2puss]

Customization..without a doubt!

 

[Alicja Erberg]

Regardless of genre and tags. What are your "must have" features you look out for in a porn game? Or what features/mechanics do you dislike the most?

+female protagonist - since in porn games it is a female that receives the dicking and I don't play male bi/gay content games at all
+sense of progression - e.g. I could allow for a game to be grindy somehow but only if after investing my time and effort in it I can see some progress is being made, e.g. work as a waitress and after a few shifts you start getting the hang of it which could lead to your bolder behaviour with the patrons
+no fake choices (choices could be of course minimal, e.g. choosing a different option wouldn't change the narrative but stats of the MC)
+no unskippable text, no ways of speeding uninteresting things up
+playable with one hand
+corruption, blackmail, moral degeneration, mind control, non-consent, made to choose the lesser evil, obfuscating the bad choice with promises made to be a good choice by NPCs etc.
+pure or somehow pure run possible but kind of hard / obscured
+no sluts start, need to build up with the (bad) experience to do lewder and lewder things, virgin preferred so that her experiences are fresh (unless e.g. raped / coerced into sex at a young age by a step-father and as a result left her family and try to make it in the big world)
+clear motivation for doing porn things, e.g. blackmail, threaten to expose, keeping promises, making ends meet, getting favors etc. No fucking for the sake of fucking. Conflict of some sort needs to be present so no agreeing because "sex is fun" - e.g. working as an undercover police office to bring a prostitution ring down and being forced to prostitute herself in order to not having her cover blown etc.
+sex shouldn't be fun for the MC, rather unpleasant, something to grind through, conflicting (e.g. bringing pleasure in the end but accompanied by pain, humilation, losing integrity etc.)
+sandbox or story driven but not kinetic novels unless the story really pushes my buttons
+insight into MC's thoughts / feelings about the current or upcoming ordeal (e.g. how she feels being groped while waitressing and being afraid of making a scene or shooting a porn scene and already did anal in the past and really afraid of that huge pornstar dick going to town on her ass etc.)
+corruption/progress needs to be gradual, no sucking dick today and becoming a town bicycle tomorrow (stat or condition driven)
+realistic consequnces (within a porn game logic) - no tipping over and landing with her pussy on a dildo and losing her virginity as a result ;-)
+different outfits a plus but only if they reflect gradual changes in MC's behavior, e.g. getting more bold / sexually experienced allows for wearing more daring outfits. Moreover, the world around should reflect to that - if she wears a microskirt with a thong, should be asked by NPCs if she does escorting
+changes of physical attributes that reflect MC's mental changes and motivation, e.g. getting bigger boobs in order to get more tips while waitressing or a slutty tattoo to attract more johns while escorting etc.

 

[Skalli]

+ Interactions need to matter - I agree with the point that grinding can be infuriating, a bit grinding to leveling up is fine, but if the gameplay consists of repeating the same 5 actions over and over again without meaning it is frustrating and annoying. So when having the character perform an action it should have an effect. Raise skills, stats or character love points that have an effect, not do this action 50 times to get a new scene.
- useless interactions - Sort of the opposite of the previous point, but not fully. One game had the character go through the house, there was a map, but no interaction with it there, so to get to a room one had to go out of the room, into the hallway, down the stairs, next room, next room, sometimes next room again. Each transition had an animation that was a few seconds long to show the journey. Extremely boring and a waste of time in a game with potential.
+ small/regular boobs - I don't like the giant tiddies and asses, I prefer a realistic body style. I don't mind big boobs in general, but if a game has only big boobied women it's annoying. I want smaller sizes too, A(A)-C please. Also not nice if younger characters are small, but all older women are giant sized. I just want regular petite/slim characters.
+ character development - I want to see progress with the characters I'm interacting with, ideally with stats to see progress and regular changes to the interaction based on the progress. Let it become more intimate over time, can go faster with some characters and slower with others, that's fine.
- same action, same outcome - When talking to a character about a topic that was talked about before but they repeat the same line over and over again. "This is the first time I'm doing this...", what? We did that 50x before! Often happens in grind heavy games. Make the first time a new thing is happening a different dialog than the repeated action and it's fine.

Mixed feelings about locking into branches based on unclear actions. E.g a choice gives you certain points for something but it locks you out of paths without the player realizing it. It's fine when I can guess what I'm getting into in a choice and have other surprises, I'm talking about "You go to the party instead of playing games at home - welp, that closes of the path with the best friend!". Good Girl Gone Bad was a lovely game, but it did that a lot...

 

[Victorin]

A porn game should let the player choose wich sex act he want to do in each sex scene.
It's an interactive medium, it's not a movie or a comic. In an interactive porn medium, the player should choose exactly what he wants to do with the sex partner onscreen. It's not to the dev to make the decision for the player.
If, in a sex scene, the player prefers to begin with an oral or an anal act instead of a vaginal act, the game has to let him do what he prefers.
Each sex scene in a porn game should propose to the player wich act he want to do (anal, oral, vaginal). The dev has to imagine a way in his screenplay to make theses acts possible even if the story doesn't makes that so easy.
That should be the base in an interactive medium like porngames.

 

[Agul]

Call me a shitter and immature but I do not find story in a porn game that important. I know I cant speak for everybody but...just between us...from heart to heart...dont we play porn games just for the faps? Its like a porn movie/video, we all just skip the story for the "action" part. I am totaly aware that I may be missing out on great story telling. But when nut clarity hits...we all see things differently.

I'm the opposite, the plot or background/implications for the scene are really important. I can forgive art that is unconventional or imperfect if the context for what is happening makes it hot. Not to be too graphic but there's a significant difference between a nut from something that is just visually sexy to a nut from something that really gets me going.

To answer your original question somewhat: I wouldn't call it "must have" but I think a lot of devs overlook adding sound to sex scenes. A lot of the things you mentioned in your original post are good ideas. I think it just helps to add options to streamline repetitive actions as the game develops, saves people time. Whether people like just the action or the plot, there's no reason to be as verbose as many devs are. Best to keep it concise and effective.

 

[rk-47]

id agree but with levelling up it renders VNs useless. I personally now avoid VNs because there is no RPG aspect to it and just becomes a click through 3dcg viewer
rpg elements and sandbox are my go-to now, and if the grind isnt too bad i will enjoy it til the end (or version 0.00053)

 

[Bobo137]

Fapability.
Plausible female reactions/behavior.

 

[aka_annika_bell]

Some personality and anticipation. I played an AVN recently which was fine except for it threw a sex scene in really early without any preamble -- MC has known the character for two minutes and she's like "let's fuck!" I like a little more build-up than that. I know not everyone enjoys slow burn in games but I really do.

 

[orellion]

A porn game should let the player choose wich sex act he want to do in each sex scene.
It's an interactive medium, it's not a movie or a comic. In an interactive porn medium, the player should choose exactly what he wants to do with the sex partner onscreen. It's not to the dev to make the decision for the player.
If, in a sex scene, the player prefers to begin with an oral or an anal act instead of a vaginal act, the game has to let him do what he prefers.
Each sex scene in a porn game should propose to the player wich act he want to do (anal, oral, vaginal). The dev has to imagine a way in his screenplay to make theses acts possible even if the story doesn't makes that so easy.
That should be the base in an interactive medium like porngames.

Agreed there needs to be more of this as a gameplay element. Not beer pong as your gameplay element.

 

[secrecy145]

+ Playable with one hand

Absolutely this. Very frustrating when the sex shows up and I have to keep both hands on the keyboard

 

[Twoop]

So some general things:

• Hot scenes: Kinks, creativity or render quality.
• Decent story: Be interesting enough.
• Decent gameplay: No gameplay is still better than bad gameplay.
• Freshness: Something new about the game that makes it exciting.

Some more personal:

• MC ain't dumb and inexperienced at start, unless dev can really pull it off
• MC doesn't get everything easily
• One of those first 4 mentioned has to be amazing, otherwise it's just a decent game and I'll move on