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Article that went up in response to Valve releasing the top earners of July.

A few snippets:

It's no great secret that Steam is overflowing with anime games intended to titillate portions of its vast user base. But how many people pay attention to these seemingly niche games, really? Turns out, enough people do that two of these games ended up on Valve's latest monthly list of top games.

[...]Also, there are two sexual games in the mix, both of which have phenomenal names: LOVE³ -Love Cube- and CUSTOM ORDER MAID 3D2 It's a Night Magic. The number is up from June, which had one sex game—Koikatsu Party—among Steam's top games.

[...]Still, sex games—especially anime-themed ones—are clearly doing big numbers on Steam now that Valve has opened the floodgates ever so slightly. It's no huge shock. These games cater primarily to straight men's sexual fantasies, and Steam is a platform dominated by men. I've yet to see a game that more specifically caters to the sexual desires of, say, straight women or LGBTQ folks achieving a similar level of success, but for reasons ranging from audience hostility to Steam's rules up until recently, there also just aren't many games like that on the platform.


More at the article

Draw me like one of your hentai girls if old.
 

GhostTrick

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Weird conclusion to make when Coming on Top or Dream Daddy were more popular games than the two listed.
In fact, Dream Daddy had a concurrent user count 50 times higher than those two games.
 

eonden

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That last paragraph is bad, but not surprising taking Grayson known hate for Valve and Steam.

Edit: Also dissapointing that the journalist decides to gloss over the other nice indie games that were on the list (only really mentioning 2 in 1 sentence), just focusing the only article of the top sellers on those 2 R18 games.
 

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I mean it's pretty much expected a lot of these companies had users outside of steam so coming to steam would have had them all buy the games. I would also point that these games are used less for the sex stuff in them as a lot of it is censored through steam, and more for the character creators in them as people rip models use them elsewhere. Which when I saw them on the top sellers found out that the companies were having a lot of trouble stopping people from doing that.
 

AHA-Lambda

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Is this supposed to cement the"steam is flooded with garbage" narrative?

Well if they're selling then there's merit in it.
Otherwise I'm not quite sure where he's going with this.
 

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I've yet to see a game that more specifically caters to the sexual desires of, say, straight women or LGBTQ folks achieving a similar level of success, but for reasons ranging from audience hostility to Steam's rules up until recently, there also just aren't many games like that on the platform.
Well Steam suggests games based on the games you or your friends play, so no wonder he doesn't see any of the LGBTQ games 🤣
 

bricewgilbert

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Surprised that the largest selling sex games on the world's biggest digital games service are targeted at straight men? Come on now of course they are. Valve's previous bullshit in regards to LGBTQ+ content was terrible, but there is nothing stopping Steam from supporting what previously only ich.io had been allowing now. In the end I think that was the right choice. I don't blame creators who say fuck Steam after that whole ordeal, but the Kotaku article is a strange way to frame it.
 
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Well all those hentai game devs sure seem to have realized how much bank they can make by localizing their games huh.
 

Imperfected

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"Opened the floodgates ever so slightly" is one of the dumbest phrases I've ever heard, and honestly should be grounds for removing anyone from a position for which they applied on the basis of having an English-focused college degree.
 

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I mean its not like AAA games are hitting Steam left right and center lol. EGS took care of that.
 

GhostTrick

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Surprised that the largest selling sex games on the world's biggest digital games service are targeted at straight men? Come on now of course they are. Valve's previous bullshit in regards to LGBTQ+ content was terrible, but there is nothing stopping Steam from supporting what previously only ich.io had been allowing now. In the end I think that was the right choice. I don't blame creators who say fuck Steam after that whole ordeal, but the Kotaku article is a strange way to frame it.


What previous bullshit ?
 

Cooking

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I don't even get why this is newsworthy unless Nathan thinks sex games are inherently controversial? It's not my thing but who cares what other adults are playing

Lol at that last paragraph. What did steam do to Nathan? Dude covers steam for Kotaku but his articles are garbage and he seemingly barely researched this one. Embarrassing
 

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"Anime Sex games"

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The best part is that Kindergarten 2 is on the list, a violent game featuring small children.

But he ignored it.
 

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At this point, I don't want this weird porno client installed on my computer anymore, just doesn't feel right.
 

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What previous bullshit ?

Rules regarding acceptable releases for games with sexual content that tended to hit stuff that was LGBTQ-friendly harder.


Is Dream Daddy a porn game? My understanding is that it was a visual novel with romantic elements but without sex. So I don't know why it's being brought up here.
 

Phamit

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So many words and yet I'm not sure what the writer wants to tell me with this article.
 

convo

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Tried to guess which one without looking and they aren't the straight to sex for your consideration games i thought of. I'd say there are more explicit stuff on there but the layer of gameplay these games provide seem to work out fine i guess.
 

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It's an open platform and consumers will drive what sells.

These games are not my cup of tea but there is obviously a market for these games. I have never seen these types of games recommended to me on Steam so its seems the personal curation is working well.
 

GhostTrick

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Rules regarding acceptable releases for games with sexual content that tended to hit stuff that was LGBTQ-friendly harder.


Is Dream Daddy a porn game? My understanding is that it was a visual novel with romantic elements but without sex. So I don't know why it's being brought up here.


As I said, it also was hitting games with what was deemed to be underage characters.

Also you're right, no sex in Dream Daddy. It's still a game cathering to a different audience, and a game about romance (gay romance specifically) being 50 times more popular. Coming out on top is a sex game though iirc. And it also had a higher concurrent user number than those two games.
 

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Is this supposed to cement the"steam is flooded with garbage" narrative?

Is it? Steam's had really inconsistent policies regarding the permissivity of adult content on the storefront. Certainly seems that from a purely financial side of things it's in their interest to let as much of this on the storefront as possible.

That said I doubt that a game with a title like "CUSTOM ORDER MAID 3D2" is particularly compelling from a narrative or interactivity standpoint
 

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This is where I recommend Ladykiller in a Bind to everyone. Great game. If I recall right it was one of the first games to really start pushing the boundaries of explicit sexual content on Steam.