Wondering why so many "Female Protagonist" games are being made

[Orc Wizard]

I was curious, after looking trough all the completed games on the forum i realize that around 70%-90% of the hentai games (mostly RPGMaker on this case) are centered around a girl you control and make her become a sex addict or something like that

What happenned to the good ol' "guy fucks entire world/town/village/family" kind of game? :/

I understand that making female protagonist its easier, because you dont need to design a whole lot of girls, but its getting boring, so many games with the same gameplay and just the scenes that change
(im not considering the VN's because those are just reading and no gameplay at all)

 

[Chel]

There are still plenty male protagonist games being made, you just need to look in the right places. As someone who exclusively looks for female protagonist games, id say that its entirely otherwise. There are a crap ton of male protagonist games, and most of them are the "guy fucks the entire (insert thing here)" type.

 

[baneini]

Gameplay goals. Play the game to corrupt someone incrementally and female mc suits that well.

 

[RoyalRust]

Yeah, I get that sense that smut rpgs are kinda oversaturated with the female protagonist genre. -_- To each his own, but as someone who enjoys the rpg nature or exploration and story-telling, I also wish there were more male-protagonist games in that line being made. I mean, there are plenty that aren't rpgs but the whole visual novel/slice of life type thing gets old after a while. Throw in some monster slaying in there and upgrading of gear between all the other stuff. That'd be nice.

 

[redknight00]

That's the wrong way to look at it, those games are mostly low quality japanese RpgMaker games, they are easy to make if one already has assets and engine to recycle.

In western game I'd say that by far the most frequent kind of protagonist is the Male-fucks-entire-town.

 

[DarthSeduction]

I was curious, after looking trough all the completed games on the forum i realize that around 70%-90% of the hentai games (mostly RPGMaker on this case) are centered around a girl you control and make her become a sex addict or something like that

What happenned to the good ol' "guy fucks entire world/town/village/family" kind of game? :/

I understand that making female protagonist its easier, because you dont need to design a whole lot of girls, but its getting boring, so many games with the same gameplay and just the scenes that change
(im not considering the VN's because those are just reading and no gameplay at all)

Ok... so are you talking about Hentai specifically or just adult games? Because if it's the latter you're sorely mistaken. I will say that most female protagonist games at the moment are RPGm, but that's more about how RPGm serves the Domination by rape and blackmail genre than anything about female antagonists being popular. I actually like female protagonist games, as much if not more than male protags. So I can say for sure, there are far less female protags in my library than male protags, and that's not by design, it's by the sheer number of male protags greatly outweighing the female.

Also, I want to say clearly, it's not any easier to design male characters for a female protagonist to fuck than it is to create female characters for a male protagonist to fuck. If anything the problem here isn't the market having too many of one game or another, its you thinking that the market should cater all its content to your sensibilities.

 

[OhWee]

Yeah, what games are you playing? What Genre are you focusing on?

I can name quite a few male protagonist games (that have threads on this forum) but that'd be a pretty extensive list. Pretty much every game in the popular games section has a male MC protagonist, with maybe one or two exceptions.

As for female protagonist games that I've played, only a small handful pop to mind immdediately (and one is abandoned)

- Chloe 18 (you play Chloe)
- The Princess of Zunuria (abandoned)
- Katie's Corruption
- I love Daddy (although the POV on this one jumps around a bit)
- That one RPGM game where you play the wife who fucks the homeless guy in the park 'cuz he's blackmailing you, plus the geriatric neighbor, the guy in the photo studio, your nephew in the tub, and a bunch of other guys that blackmail you into sex... sorry name is eluding me now. There was a separate comic where she catches her nephew/son/something watching her in the shower, and he ends up cumming on her 'cuz she's so hot....

There were a also couple of female centric RPGM maker games that I played, but one or both were abandoned.

There are a few games where the POV character is male, but essentially follows one particular female character around (Camera Business: The Story of DiDi comes to mind), but yeah...

 

[Orc Wizard]

Ok... so are you talking about Hentai specifically or just adult games? Because if it's the latter you're sorely mistaken. I will say that most female protagonist games at the moment are RPGm, but that's more about how RPGm serves the Domination by rape and blackmail genre than anything about female antagonists being popular. I actually like female protagonist games, as much if not more than male protags. So I can say for sure, there are far less female protags in my library than male protags, and that's not by design, it's by the sheer number of male protags greatly outweighing the female.

Also, I want to say clearly, it's not any easier to design male characters for a female protagonist to fuck than it is to create female characters for a male protagonist to fuck. If anything the problem here isn't the market having too many of one game or another, its you thinking that the market should cater all its content to your sensibilities.

Ok i shouldn't be answering that because you were clearly bothered by a normal question and went to attack me personally instead of answering in a civilized manner.
But i think i'm dumb and i will take the bait, so....
Well, let's go by the hentai line, because i dont play the regular porn games, have you checked out the completed games on this forum?
You will clearly see a lack of Male protags, and as i said, forget about VN's, 90% of those are just picture books with no gameplay at all

"I will say that most female protagonist games at the moment are RPGm, but that's more about how RPGm serves the Domination by rape and blackmail genre than anything about female antagonists being popular."
You do have a good point in there

"it's not any easier to design male characters for a female protagonist to fuck than it is to create female characters for a male protagonist to fuck."
Uhh... yeah, have you seen the scenes of those games? if they at least bother to show the man's face it will have no personality at all

"If anything the problem here isn't the market having too many of one game or another, its you thinking that the market should cater all its content to your sensibilities."
Uhmm yeah, who would like to play porn games when you cant find what you are looking for, right? But thats not the point, devs should do whatever they please as long as they dont go full EA or Ubisoft...
But the point is, why all of them just keep making the same thing? Look for Rune's Pharmacy, Melty's Quest, Succubus Rem, NTR Imouto(or something like that, dont clearly rememner the name of this one) and etc... they are literally the same game but with different protagonists, with one or two different mechanics, but these are high quality ones, if you look for the cheaper ones you will notice all the patterns, no need to be a genius...

 

[Moisturehead]

I don't think that there are more games with female protagonists than male protagonists currently. However, I feel that there are more of them than before.

I think it is partially due to the fact that most games with male protagonists tend to be very similar. In the majority of games with male protagonists, the goal is to basically have sex with everyone and build some sort of harem. The moment there is any sort of risk to the player's ability to do that, players start complaining about NTR or the game being grindy.

With female protagonists, I feel that the developers have a bit more freedom as the games become more oriented around role-play, rather than a objective.

 

[Feyrs]

Hmm my 2 cents to the topic of female mc's.

In lewd games I do favour a male mc, really disliking female mc's there. Its just a thing. I guess I wanna do the lewding, not being lewded in a game

As for normal games and books and movies. In those things I am completely fine with female mc's. Heck my books have female mc's too and I could not imagine writing male mc's at all

 

[Orc Wizard]

Yeah, what games are you playing? What Genre are you focusing on?

I can name quite a few male protagonist games (that have threads on this forum) but that'd be a pretty extensive list. Pretty much every game in the popular games section has a male MC protagonist, with maybe one or two exceptions.

As for female protagonist games that I've played, only a small handful pop to mind immdediately (and one is abandoned)

- Chloe 18 (you play Chloe)
- The Princess of Zunuria (abandoned)
- Katie's Corruption
- I love Daddy (although the POV on this one jumps around a bit)
- That one RPGM game where you play the wife who fucks the homeless guy in the park 'cuz he's blackmailing you, plus the geriatric neighbor, the guy in the photo studio, your nephew in the tub, and a bunch of other guys that blackmail you into sex... sorry name is eluding me now. There was a separate comic where she catches her nephew/son/something watching her in the shower, and he ends up cumming on her 'cuz she's so hot....

There were a also couple of female centric RPGM maker games that I played, but one or both were abandoned.

There are a few games where the POV character is male, but essentially follows one particular female character around (Camera Business: The Story of DiDi comes to mind), but yeah...

Well, the latest Female Protag games that i completed was Melty's Quest, but what i was looking for was something like The Sleeping Beauty, but with a better quality
I guess games similar to ROBF are what im looking for
I will check out those games that you recommended, thx!

 

[DarthSeduction]

Ok i shouldn't be answering that because you were clearly bothered by a normal question and went to attack me personally instead of answering in a civilized manner.

No, you had an agenda, as can be clearly seen by these two lines:

What happenned to the good ol' "guy fucks entire world/town/village/family" kind of game? :/

I understand that making female protagonist its easier, because you dont need to design a whole lot of girls, but its getting boring, so many games with the same gameplay and just the scenes that change

Which clearly justifies my statement here:

If anything the problem here isn't the market having too many of one game or another, its you thinking that the market should cater all its content to your sensibilities.

You see, you didn't ask a simple question, you created an entire thread to complain that games that didn't suit your particular desire are being made, in spite of the fact that it's your desires that are narrow, and not the games being made. I'm glad to read that you do play the female protagonist games, that's more than I can say for some other's who have made the same thread to complain about this, but you have got to see that the problem isn't that the industry doesn't have enough Male Protagonist games, its that you limit yourself to a specific type of game that is best suited either to actual RPGs or, in a sex game, to a scnenario where a world map to move around on is necessary.

Rare is the RPGm that couldn't be told on Ren'Py, even my favorite, Coceter Chronicles, could be told in Ren'Py. There's really nothing special about RPGm except for it's RPG mechanics, which can be recreated in any engine you want. You're the one limiting yourself, not creators, not consumers, just you. So, while you came here seeking to complain that the RPGm hentai market is too full of female protagonists, the thing that you needed to learn from this is that it's your pickiness that is limiting your access to male protagonists, not a lack of developer vision.

 

[Orc Wizard]

No, you had an agenda, as can be clearly seen by these two lines:





Which clearly justifies my statement here:



You see, you didn't ask a simple question, you created an entire thread to complain that games that didn't suit your particular desire are being made, in spite of the fact that it's your desires that are narrow, and not the games being made. I'm glad to read that you do play the female protagonist games, that's more than I can say for some other's who have made the same thread to complain about this, but you have got to see that the problem isn't that the industry doesn't have enough Male Protagonist games, its that you limit yourself to a specific type of game that is best suited either to actual RPGs or, in a sex game, to a scnenario where a world map to move around on is necessary.

Rare is the RPGm that couldn't be told on Ren'Py, even my favorite, Coceter Chronicles, could be told in Ren'Py. There's really nothing special about RPGm except for it's RPG mechanics, which can be recreated in any engine you want. You're the one limiting yourself, not creators, not consumers, just you. So, while you came here seeking to complain that the RPGm hentai market is too full of female protagonists, the thing that you needed to learn from this is that it's your pickiness that is limiting your access to male protagonists, not a lack of developer vision.

Whatever man, i already made my statement before, i wont take this discussion any further otherwise we will all get stressed out here.

 

[Waaifu]

Most of the translated games on here are with a female protagonist because the translators prefer those. There are harem-like games on DLsite, but they don't sell as well as ones with females do and many of them are in japanese.

 

[Orc Wizard]

Most of the translated games on here are with a female protagonist because the translators prefer those. There are harem-like games on DLsite, but they don't sell as well as ones with females do and many of them are in japanese.

Oooh i haven't considered that

 

[OhWee]

There's always....

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That's a very dark game though, but if you feel the need to subjugate the bitches and make them submissive sex toys to add to your harem...

 

[Firebless]

I only play female protagonist games and i often get frustrated that most releases on the latest updates page in this site are mostly male protagonist. However, theres a good amount of female MC to keep me busy. If i can guess at a reason why so many female centric games exist im blaming Lara Croft.

 

[Vezzeli]

I just wondering why so many guys whining and crying female protagonist games? Are you hating women so much? What is wrong with you guys? I even read somewhere that some guys can't play Horizon Zero Dawn or Tomb Raider just because Female character. That just so sad.

 

[Ataios]

I just had to other impression: A lot of male protagonist games and rather few female ones.

People just tend to think there is too little of the stuff they want and more than enough of the stuff they don't want. When it comes to designing games I think none is inherently easier or more difficult. A game with character customisation where you can choose the protagonist's gender would be more difficult. Otherwise, I think it makes little difference in the degree of difficulty for the developer, wether a guy fucks many girls like the Alenz1 wants, or a girl fucks other girls with no male interference at all which I prefer, or anything in between.

Granted, when using 2D artwork, male characters are generally easier to draw than female ones, but on the other hand, a male MC will appear in more scenes than the female NPCs, so that kind of makes up for it.

 

[HiEv]

I was curious, after looking trough all the completed games on the forum i realize that around 70%-90% of the hentai games (mostly RPGMaker on this case) are centered around a girl you control and make her become a sex addict or something like that

Out of curiosity, I looked at

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, and at the time I looked there were 11 games with a male protagonist, and 9 games with a female protagonist. So 45% with female protagonists, and 55% with male protagonists. If you limit that to games with anime-style art and/or are from the Asian market (I assume that's what you mean by "hentai games"), that eliminated two male protagonist games for not being "hentai", meaning the numbers are 9 for each. So, 50%, not 70%-90% like you claimed.

I'm sorry, but when I look at the data objectively, I'm not seeing this bias that you claim is there.

Perhaps the problem isn't one with the market, but in your own personal

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?

I recommend trying this experiment for yourself. First, even before you pull up the list, pick a specific number of entries that you think will be enough. Then, do not change that number, otherwise you'll bias the results. Then tell us what you find.

If the results don't match your beliefs, then perhaps you're only remembering the entries that support your beliefs, and forgetting all of the other ones that contradict it. Don't worry, this is something all humans do, but being aware of it and looking for unbiased data helps make us a bit better at avoiding that mistake.

What happenned to the good ol' "guy fucks entire world/town/village/family" kind of game? :/

Nothing, there were a couple of them there. They merely don't dominate the market like they used to.

*: I picked 20 because that's how many games appear on a single page for me. Data below.

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