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Get 14 romantic visual novels while supporting Black trans folksJul 13, 2020 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunIf you missed the giant Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality on Itch last month, you’ve got yet another shot at good games for a good cause. The Visual Novel Romance Collection for Black Trans Lives is precisely what it says on the tin: fourteen romantic games (several of which the RPS crew have quite liked) in support of The Okra Project. (more…) A Panel Shaped Screen: porn with plot in comics and gamesApr 11, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun A Panel Shaped Screen is a monthly column where Giada Zavarise explores how comics and video games inspire each other. And this time we’re going adult rated. WARNING: basically every single link in this article is NSFW. Duh. Remember being fifteen and desperately looking for porn on the internet? Perhaps you googled basic terms like boobs , like the protagonist of You Must Be 18 Or Older To Enter. Or perhaps you held on to familiar characters, and searched for Naruto hentai on Newgrounds to play wonky flash games. (more…) The Humble Hot Date Bundle is packed with dating sims and 'suggestive party games'Mar 26, 2019 - PC GamerLooking for something to do tonight? How about a hot date? Or how about a Hot Date Bundle, the latest collection of "visual novels, dating sims, and suggestive party games" from the bundlers over at Humble? For $1, you can have Creature Romances: Kokonoe Kokoro, Highway Blossoms, and Just Deserts—and no, that's not a typo, it's a "sci-fi action dating sim" about an alien invasion and the women of your dreams that takes place in a desert. But that's a pretty cheap date. Bump it up to beat-the-average and you'll also take home the sex game stalwart Ladykiller in a Bind, the feline seduction sim Purrfect Date, and Genital Jousting, the popular party game about dicks. For a tenner, you'll get into the deeper exotica of G-senjou no Maou—The Devil on G-String Voiced Edition and Sunrider Collection, both of which are partially voiced in Japanese, and for $15 you'll top it all off with Clannad, a tale of life, friendship, and the struggle to find meaning in life through the high school drama club. The $10 tier will also score you coupons for 20 percent off National Park Girls and Heart of the Woods on Steam, and funds raised will go to support the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, although you can opt to aim your dollars elsewhere if you prefer—I generally go with Doctors Without Borders. The Humble Hot Date Bundle is available until April 9. Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one of our links. Read our affiliate policy for more info. Priceless Play 23 FebruaryFeb 23, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun**This week’s Priceless Play is NSFW!!!** Sex in games is certainly nothing new. There are, of course, the various moral panics — GTA’s famed “hot coffee,” for instance — to countless articles about the sex lives in SecondLife. Our Very Own Kieron Gillen wrote a primer on Sporn (that’s “Spore porn,” for the uninitiated) eleven years ago. Cara Ellison had a column, called S.EXE, here at RPS from 2014-2015. And now, for a brief second, this piece will be the very latest in adding to the conversation on sex in games. It certainly won’t be the last. Look. Sex is complicated. For those who have it, it’s a melange of vulnerability and tenderness and pleasure — or perhaps sex has become rote muscle memory. Maybe it is, instead, consensually brutal. Sometimes there are genitals involved in sex. Sometimes there are facsimile genitals. Maybe there’s an orgasm, or two, or four, or five, or zero. Two people, four people, more people, one people. Sex is a wildly complicated interconnected series of questions, conversations, yesses, maybes, nos, agreements, disagreements, and (crucially) respect. Or consensual disrespect. Ultimately, one hopes, despite all of this, sex is as easy as breathing. Here are some games which consider sex from all sorts of angles. (more…) The best sex games that aren't garbageOct 5, 2018 - PC GamerWhen I was a kid my neighbour had Sex Games on his Commodore 64, by which I mean a game that was literally called Sex Games. Published by Landisoft in 1985, it was all about waggling a joystick back and forth while two bright pink cartoon people went at it like joyless jackhammers. It was a terrible sex sim and a terrible introduction to the idea that sex was a worthwhile subject for videogames. We've come a long way since then—quiet, you—but there are still plenty of games about sex that are just as bad in their way. The ones that aren't deserve to be celebrated. Sex can be playful and funny and exciting and those are all things videogames are also good at being. Especially these videogames. (These are all "sex games" rather than "games that happen to have sex in them", if that distinction makes sense. The Witcher 3 is an RPG dozens of hours long that has some sex scenes in it, but it's not a sex game if you catch my drift.) Coming Out on Top Coming Out on Top takes subplots the gay sidekick gets in a sitcom, then expands them into their own A-plots. That guy at the bar last night seemed so nice, then you go to college the next morning and your new lecturer is that same guy: DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING. It's full of twists but it's very wholesome. There's no problem that can't be solved by three roommates talking about it while throwing around one-liners. I went on a date with a pop star who wanted to stay incognito because his fans didn't know he was gay, so we went to a country & western bar then did karaoke. It was one of the most romantic things I've seen in any dating sim, and then afterwards we went back to his hotel room and it got very explicit. I called Coming Out on Top "wholesome" but it does feature actual raunch, which will be pixelated if you play the censored version from Steam. It also gets dark and weird sometimes. I don't want to spoil it for you, but the stuff with the goldfish really goes some places. If you like this you might also like: Tusks, a dating sim about gay orcs. If you played Shadow of Mordor and wanted to get even closer to the hunky green dudes, well, here's your chance. Hardcoded It's a cyberpunk dystopia and you're a semi-organic robot on the run. You fall in with a friendly group who are investigating a mystery that might be the fault of an evil corporation's experiments, because this is cyberpunk after all. Where does the sex come in? Well, that mystery being investigated is that everyone in the city has become inexplicably horny. Each day you choose whether to pursue the main plot or one of your new friends, several of whom are romanceable. (The rest are being added in patches thanks to Patreon backers, who get the latest build.) You can also just wander around the city, busting up surveillance droids for valuable scrap, talking to people, and, yeah, having quite a lot of sex. H...Negligee: Love Stories will be one of the first fully explicit Adult Only games on SteamSep 11, 2018 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThis feels like a milestone – a sexy milestone. When Valve said that under their new content warning system, there’d be fewer restrictions on what could be sold on Steam, I was sceptical. Now it seems they were true to their word. If nothing goes wrong between now and its launch this Friday, saucy visual novel Negligee: Love Stories will be Steam’s first uncut sexually explicit game. Accompanying this, Steam now has an Adult Only section which is filtered from store searches by default. If you don’t want to see games with naughty bits, you won’t – not unless you ask nicely. (more…) The best visual novels on PCDec 27, 2017 - PC GamerClichés dominate visual novels, but there’s so much more to this genre than just steamy romance or mundane slices of Japanese students’ lives. Over the past few years, more and more talented developers are creating experimental games, shorter novella-like experiences, and clever subversions of the anime tropes that started it all. Visual novels are finally cool. Choosing where to start can be intimidating, however. If you’ve missed the boat up until this point and want to catch up, we’ve put together a list of the best visual novels on PC, from the traditional Japanese games that kickstarted the genre to the more ambitious and unique takes on the format. It’s by no means a comprehensive list of every visual novel you should play, and we heartily recommend you scour through itch.io for its hidden indie gems under the visual novel tag. But if you’re looking to get started, these are the best visual novels on PC. Clannad Developer: Key Release date: November 23, 2015 Link: Steam page Only released on PC in the West just a couple of years ago, Clannad is one of the most popular visual novels ever—spawning an anime, a film, manga, and even an audio drama. It tells the story of Tomoya Okazaki, a “delinquent” (Clannad’s words, not mine) struggling with an existential crisis. He meets Nagisa Furukawa, another “delinquent” who he resonates with, and they begin working together to restart the school drama club, enlisting other students along the way. Clannad is the place to go if you like the stereotypes of visual novels. It was originally released in 2004, and perfectly shows the merits of the genre even if it feels like familiar territory at this point. Where visual novels shine is in strong writing, interesting characters, and a perspective that can draw you in. Even without the bells and whistles of modern visual novels, Clannad does exactly that. It’s a story about a young man learning how making his own happiness. Tomoya’s story can be seen as analogous to depression, and yet it doesn’t quite fall into the trap of manic pixie dream girls, but of finding something in a life marked by tragedy. It may seem cliché, but that’s not because it’s unoriginal: it’s because people have been copying Clannad for over a decade. The Nonary Games/Zero Time Dilemma (the Zero Escape series) Developer: Spike Chunsoft Release date: March 24, 2017 Link: Steam page If you enjoy getting your hands dirty with puzzles, the Zero Escape series is perhaps your best bet. There are three games in this series: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors; Virtue’s Last Reward; and Zero Time Dilemma. The first two were only ported to PC in 2017 (with remastered visuals and new voice acting), as a pack called The Nonary Games, while Zero Time Dilemma stands on its own. In each game, nine people are locked in a place ...Ladykiller in a Bind v1.1.4Jun 26, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsFixed a bug where an image in the credits would show explicit titty even when set to "safe for work" mode. With apologies to the Twitch streamer who discovered this. Fixed a bug where certain save files could crash the game. Put in a fix for an error in the fourth Beauty scene where the game would hang on a missing choice. Removed redundant auto-updater from the Steam version. Various typos and other small fixes. Ladykiller in a Bind v1.1.4Jun 26, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsFixed a bug where an image in the credits would show explicit titty even when set to "safe for work" mode. With apologies to the Twitch streamer who discovered this. Fixed a bug where certain save files could crash the game. Put in a fix for an error in the fourth Beauty scene where the game would hang on a missing choice. Removed redundant auto-updater from the Steam version. Various typos and other small fixes. The Electronic Wireless Show IGF Special #3: SexMar 10, 2017 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunStop sniggering at the back. The RPS podcast of yore has returned, as you might have noticed, in which we are chatting to all sorts of interesting people from the makers of 90s cyberpunk thriller Quadrilateral Cowboy to the creators of political elbow-nudging Orwell, and so many more. In the third episode of this special #content we are talking to the visual novelists behind erotic adventure Ladykiller in a Bind and awkwardness sim One Night Stand. Yes, we’re talking to them about sex. … Quadrilateral Cowboy scoops IGF Grand PrizeMar 2, 2017 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunHacking heist ’em up Quadrilateral Cowboy has won the Grand Prize at the 2017 Independent Games Festival awards, taking home $30,000 (and another $3,000 for winning the Excellence in Design award). The ceremony went down last at the Game Developers Conference, with other winners including Ladykiller in a Bind and Hyper Light Drifter. The IGFs may no longer turn up many huge surprises but they are a handy pointer for some good games you might have missed. As luck would have it, Brendan’s first IGF episode of the RPS Electronic Wireless Show went up only last night, chatting with Quadlatcowbo creator Brendon Chung. The Game Developers Choice Awards were also last night, right after the IGFs, but tch! you don’t need them to tell you about the existence of games like Overwatch, Firewatch, and presumably other things suffixed ‘watch’. Pok watch Go etc. … Ladykiller In A Bind dev reworks controversial sceneJan 26, 2017 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunLadykiller in a Bind is an erotic visual novel in which you’re trying to win votes from former classmates on a transatlantic cruise while impersonating your twin brother. There’s a fair amount of sex and the tale doesn’t shy away from exploring elements of queerness, roleplaying and various kinks as well as having sections of dialogue which explicitly demonstrate people asking for and receiving consent. But one scene in particular seemed an uncomfortable fit for the game and provoked strong enough reactions from players that, as per developer, Christine Love, “The bulk of the scene has been completely rewritten and now has a different tone.” … Ladykiller in a Bind v1.1.3Jan 23, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsDue to strong player feedback, removed all sex from President's route. The bulk of the scene has been completely rewritten and now has a different tone. The original goal of the scene was to demonstrate a darker—certainly not safe IRL—fantasy to contrast with the safety of the Beauty's arc. But even after multiple revisions, clearly a lot of players were extremely uncomfortable with its presence, and still ended up being blindsided—I think I failed to account for the player's context, and I'd rather the scene be gone than make anyone else uncomfortable. My apologies to anyone who was upset by it. (In the interest of full disclosure, I've uploaded the full script of the now-deleted scene, so you can see what was removed.) Changed requirements for Please Destroy My Pussy requirement to compensate, and removed presidentday6 stat, as well as reset stats on day6 due to the major change. Fixed a bug where certain error messages would crash the stats screen. There is a known bug where achievements acquired by players before the Steam release don't trigger on Steam. I'm still looking into this. Ladykiller in a Bind v1.1.3Jan 23, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsDue to strong player feedback, removed all sex from President's route. The bulk of the scene has been completely rewritten and now has a different tone. The original goal of the scene was to demonstrate a darker—certainly not safe IRL—fantasy to contrast with the safety of the Beauty's arc. But even after multiple revisions, clearly a lot of players were extremely uncomfortable with its presence, and still ended up being blindsided—I think I failed to account for the player's context, and I'd rather the scene be gone than make anyone else uncomfortable. My apologies to anyone who was upset by it. (In the interest of full disclosure, I've uploaded the full script of the now-deleted scene, so you can see what was removed.) Changed requirements for Please Destroy My Pussy requirement to compensate, and removed presidentday6 stat, as well as reset stats on day6 due to the major change. Fixed a bug where certain error messages would crash the stats screen. There is a known bug where achievements acquired by players before the Steam release don't trigger on Steam. I'm still looking into this. Wot I Think: Ladykiller In A BindJan 17, 2017 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunContent warning: this review discusses a rape scene. Sex in games is a (t)horny issue. Games are predominantly made for and marketed at men, and thus most games that attempt to cause a panic in your battlestations are normally pointing their hormone missiles at your throbbing periscope and not the, uh, hang on, there aren t any vagina analogues in this terrible, tortured metaphor. Look, Ladykiller in a Bind is set on a boat. A cruise, in fact – from Halifax, Canada to Southampton, England. For some reason, a bunch of incredibly wealthy, privileged teens are on this cruise. To Southampton. Obviously, the thought of going shopping in Southampton s glittering WestQuay mall (there s a Swarovski!) is enough to get these teens all riled up in their unwhisperables, and that s where you come in: a handsome, charming, absolute bastard of a boy ready and willing to do whatever it takes (sex) to get what you want (more sex). … Explicit visual novel Ladykiller in a Bind is coming to Steam, "uncensored and unedited"Jan 4, 2017 - PC GamerLadykiller in a Bind, "an erotic romantic comedy about social manipulation, crossdressing, and girls tying up other girls," promises "choice-driven mechanics, and lots of sex." Generally speaking, that's the sort of thing you tend not to see on Steam. But designer Chrstine Love has revealed on Twitter that it will in fact be released on Steam, early next week, with all its naughty bits intact. That's significant, because the description on Steam makes it clear that there's a lot more going on than just an occasional flash of skin. "Six nights worth of explicit, consensual, kinky lesbian sex... or live dangerously with four extra sex scenes with your brother's classmates who just want to fuck you up," it says. But even though sex is the obvious hook, Ladykiller's real strength lies in something deeper: As Kill Screen said in its review, "The game oozes a magnetic confidence, from its sound design to its narrative tone—which is at once playful and intelligent ... Sex isn’t so much what makes the protagonist sexy, but rather what’s most terrifying and beastly about her—and also so very human." Interestingly, the idea that the game might need to be censored never came up—and apparently Steam doesn't actually have an official policy against sexually explicit games in the first place. "As far as I'm aware, nothing actually changed," Love told Polygon. "There was never an outright refusal from them originally, just some uncertainty about whether or not it would be okay. (Since there's no real explicit policy about this sort of thing.) Once I actually got through and was able to discuss it with Valve, they were extremely supportive and immediately understanding—they agreed that it wouldn't be appropriate to censor the sexual content of the game, and never even asked me to." There is an option for players who'd prefer a somewhat less in-your-face experience, however: A November update added a "safe for work" option that covers up the nudity with Christmas sweaters. Gamers who already own Ladykiller in a Bind—it was originally released on the Humble Store last year—will be given Steam keys automatically when they become available.
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