Mindblast posted:

Looking forward yo trying Othercide tonight. Anyone here already give it a go?

A Sometimes Food posted:

So it looks like they released an actual alpha in EA, which like, kudos for accuracy but oof is it not leaving a good first impression. I'm keeping it wishlisted but gonna forget about it for another year or two. poo poo is roughhhhhh.

Galaga Galaxian posted:

I’m pretty sure there are a bunch of those on steam already.

Mindblast posted:

Looking forward yo trying Othercide tonight. Anyone here already give it a go?

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Hey,
it looks like we’re well on our way towards Noita 1.0! Before we get there though, there’s one step in our roadmap that we want to get out of the way:

The game has grown and gotten quite a bit of polish since its early access launch, and our plan was to increase the price accordingly. This will happen during the summer, but meanwhile there's still time to get Noita at 25% off.

No Wave posted:

I think the genre peaked in terms of popularity with SimGirls on Newgrounds in 1999.

Otherwise it's just all the hentai games that show up on Steam.

Phlegmish posted:

Why can't they make a normal sex game with normal people having sex with each other

Kanfy posted:

one of the top 10 highest-earning Patreon projects is I assume a text/light gameplay one with an incest theme

Kanfy posted:

There's a pretty huge amount of western porn games being made on an amateur level now, one of the top 10 highest-earning Patreon projects is I assume a text/light gameplay one with an incest theme making over 67,000 dollars a month.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Only tangentially related, but where's the best place to ask about getting some half decent modest PC speakers? I should probably stop buying Logitech since I can't seem to get any without some loose wiring issue of some kind, my old ones suited me fine for years til the balance started screwing up, then the last two I bought both had a low key buzzing issue that nothing could do anything about.

ultrafilter posted:

This is a large part of the reason why vanilla porn video games aren't taking off.

Orv posted:

I have to imagine spending three years working on a porn video game in a AAA setting is a modernized Dante style circle of hell.

Hwurmp posted:

ultrafilter posted:

You know what's cooler than incest porn? Reclaiming industrial wastelands with plants.

https://twitter.com/noio_games/status/1288084165284499456

From reading the Early Access text, this looks like less of a pure sandbox than Townscaper but still very sandboxy.

Ciaphas posted:

humanity as a whole is Far Too Horny

ultrafilter posted:

This is a large part of the reason why vanilla porn video games aren't taking off.

Gay Rat Wedding posted:

who among us does not routinely check pornhub statistics

Shrecknet posted:

No joke pornhub.com/insights is completely sfw and one of the most intersting sites you can bookmark

ultrafilter posted:

I've heard that the main reason why there's so much incest porn out there is that the head of one of the big niche studios is really into it and is producing the stuff that he wants, but I'm not going to verify that because I can't think of a search term whose results I want in Google's profile of me.

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"Incest porn is not about incest, it is about close platonic long term bonds. It is essentially "platonic best friends all of a sudden becoming sexual" porn with a clickbait title.

The incest dynamic is really effective because it is one of the few plot hooks which can overcome porn logic. In most any porn you see, if there is a guy and a girl in the same room, they are going to have sex. There is never a situation where they aren't going to have sex. Furthermore, there is never a situation in a porn where two individuals are not going to want to have sex with each other....

Except what if that other person in the room was your sister?

For whatever reason, that is an exception to porn logic. It creates a situation in which there can be two individuals in a room who don't exactly want to have sex with each other which is believable. If it is a brother/sister sort of thing and the sister is trying to seduce the brother, it is believable that the brother might try resisting the sister. It can create a lot of sexual tension because there is a believe resistance. If the sister accidentally walks in on her brother and sees him in the shower, and she doesn't quite look but then can't help but taking some peeks, well that is believable because the taboo aspect of it makes sense. In almost any other non-incest porno the only possible way to handle that would be the girl seeing the guy and then walking in and giving him a blowjob.

What is interesting about this is that there is almost never a blood line, it is always step-sister, and that is because being actually related isn't what is important to this. It isn't about that person being a biological sister, but more about them being "like" a sister.

Why is that effective? Well, it opens up the avenue for people to project their own real life situations onto the porn. In everyday life, especially men, have friends who we are attracted to and want to have sex with, but the relationship is really only platonic. I've had attractive female friends who I have been very close with, so much so that they were "like" my sister. The way incest porn plays out, it is very similar to how the sex would play out if one of my attractive female friends who was like my sister started to come on to me.

There are many different avenues that these porns can go and they kind of borrow from different relationship dynamics. Father daughter can be for girls who want to be with an older man, maybe there is an older man they want to experience but feel like it would be too wrong because they are "like" a father to them, but it can also be effective for older men who know young attractive women who they are "like" a father to. You can go into all the different dynamics.

When you really start to see it from this perspective, it is put in a similar category to where two female best friends end up having sex. It is believable in porn logic for there to be two girls in a room and for one of them to not exactly want to have sex with another girl and to show some resistance, or for both of them to show some resistance and for them to just fall into having sex. This can work for a lot of girls viewers because they may have sexual feelings towards some of their female friends, and recreates some of the dynamics. It can work for male viewers because they can imagine that dynamic being at play with some of the people in their life.

There are other porn categories which play off this as well, like teacher/student porn. It creates some sort of strong enough reason as to why a man would resist sex, but also for anyone to resist sex. It plays on certain real life roles and boundaries which people find relate-able.

There is so much more to this answer and avenues I could go down, but that is the rough idea of it."

Kanfy posted:

I guess Studio FOW's Subverse (obviously ) is the closest I can think of what I assume would be a somewhat big-budget porn Actual Game from the west. Can't say I've followed it much but it feels like I first heard about it years ago now, and they seem to still be working on it.

Ambaire posted:

fake edit: Why the gently caress did I post this?

Ambaire posted:

I was feeling curious (and also don't give a poo poo what Google thinks about me) so I googled "why is incest porn such a big fetish" and got this spiel from a reddit bestof post which actually seems to make a surprising amount of sense.

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fake edit: Why the gently caress did I post this?

Phlegmish posted:

You know, that actually makes sense. By far most people are probably not actually into incest, but it pushes certain psychological buttons.

Only issue I have is, if it's supposed to be stand-in for people you have a platonic relationship with but are still attracted to, why not just use that scenario as a set-up instead of it having to be your goddamn relative. I know that's the most obviously platonic relationship possible, but it's just lazy

ultrafilter posted:

You know what's cooler than incest porn? Reclaiming industrial wastelands with plants.

anilEhilated posted:

Guaranteed to have that boomerang guy from Shovel Knight and Valdis Story... Did he get into any other games since then?