Little Green Hill might be a good choice. Maybe Found in Translation too, dude's so loaded he just casually bought a mansion to accommodate his new... circumstances.
I do sometimes enjoy these games but I never understood the transparent blue protagonist thing. If seeing a random dude who doesn't look like you is enough to ruin your self-insert then surely a giant ghostly smurf would have the same effect.
I think the reason it's enticing for a dev to attempt making sandbox games is because when they actually work they work so well. Summertime Saga, Harem Hotel, Being a DIK, Desert Stalker, A House in the Rift, MIST etc. are all some of the most successful porn games ever. They probably fail so...
Second The Guardian. It's a shame that it's such a popular tag but in a lot of games it never amounts to much more than groping an ass at night one time. I'd also recommend Attack on Survey Corps but the latest version had the sleep scenes removed because Patreon is retarded. There's a fix...
Depends how much work the creator is willing to put in and how good of a writer they are. I used to think anything more than five or six was too many to have all their paths be meaningful, but - and I'm going to sound like a broken record here - Lessons in Love has made me a believer in the...
It's a pretty tough choice so I'll narrow it down to the first two that popped into my head: Such a Sharp Pain and Lessons in Love. SaSP wins in the porn department and LiL wins for everything else.
I'm a fan of them when they function smoothly and aren't impossibly difficult. It always strikes me as weird just how many people hate when their porn game has any actual game in it. Like, they'll complain about a visual novel not having enough choices but when they're presented with a simple...
Dark Souls 1 takes the win for its map alone. No other game in the genre matched it in that one category. Elden Ring was excellent in general too and I'd probably give my third choice to Sekiro because it just played so damn tight.
Honorable mentions to The Surge because I feel it was a bit...
It's almost criminal how relatively little the creator is making on these games. Architect has such a great record of consistent updates, quality content and actually finished games. Maybe that's it though? Maybe it's because they're actually games and not just glorified porn galleries or VNs.