Newgrounds. Played "Sim Dating" and similar games.
First game I downloaded was probably "Corruption Of Champions" - text-based but damn some scenes were great.
And then came the VNs.
Definitely gameplay first.
I don't like kinetic novels as all you do is read without any agency.
Give me a game with stats... i'm a number cruncher, love it in any game.
I'll spend hours on a porn game with a good gameplay, leaving my left hand on the keyboard instead of down my pants.
Absolutely. Although it's almost always epilogue-ish stuff and way too many games are abandoned before then 🙄
I played this game a long time ago and that's exactly why I loved it. You had the choice, even in who you pursued. Don't want the full harem, you can (or you did in my memory of it). I...
Overall I agree. Some tend to go in all directions and often present way too many characters to get interested in any. It may just be the theme/topic in this particular case that I didn't connect with.
That said, short is often better as others have said as well. At least the story here had a...
I found this game somewhere else and they mentioned this site so I had to interrupt my.... gaming session... to check it out.
The game is quite intense - not that much story and the story is really more of an excuse for the h-scenes. Worth a look.