discussion Does it feel like there aren't very many "new" games that are good?

[Jakeswind]

I agree about many new games not being good anymore.

 

[zark]

Might be just that I'm getting old or something but it seems like a few years ago, you'd check the various sites and almost every week there'd be a new game or an update to a game that was incredible. Like 2-3 games a week being updated that were just really good, really decent stories that had good renders and animations, tolerable writing, etc.

And some of those games are still out there and still being worked on, with updates periodically.
But for the last few months it feels like there's so many games that are following the fetishes/trends that I'm not really into, or that just don't spend any real time on animations/renders, or that just follow the same templates as all the other popular games.
I mean, I like Harem games for example but it seems like almost every Harem game is copying the most popular few harem games and I can't even tell you how many "Dad that's fucking his daughters, wife, sister, nieces, their friends, etc" games that follow almost exactly the same plot.

1. Get seduced by daughter #1.
2. Hide it from wife.
3. Sister comes back into life due to a divorce from her husband.
4. Fuck sister like you always used to.
5. Find out sister's daughter(s) are your kids, fuck them with sister's help.
6. Sister helps you fuck your daughter #2.
7. Wife finds out you're fucking niece, gets mad.
8. Easily talk wife out of her anger with the power of dick.
9. Fuck wife, daughters, sister, nieces, some of their friends.
10. Daughters ask you to impregnate them constantly.
11. Sister talks you into impregnating her daughters.
12. You're a very wealthy businessman who also fucks his assistant.

It's like...this could describe half a dozen games I like. But why?

It's like that "you're a college graduate and your dad just died so you moved home but now you have to fuck your mom and sister, or they lose the house to gangsters!" type of plot.

Why isn't anybody coming up with unique stories anymore? Why are all the games feeling the same?

Is it just me?

So your saying we need to start with a twin sisters?

 

[danzerino]

A lack of funding for dev's that have a great imagination definitely plays a part in why we don't see regular updates but more importantly, new really good games where new developers learn from what's currently doing well in whatever genre. I too would love to follow more games that have regular updates but keep you guessing.

 

[PirateSnow]

I'm sure writing, animating, and programming these things takes a lot of work. I'd bet many of the authors also do it part time on the sly from coworkers, family, friends... so it's like a part-time hobby at best, aside from maybe the top echelon of SubStar or something like that.

The more disappointing thing to me is that there are so many games which got off to a GREAT start but were abandoned, likely due to complications with the above.

 

[dk84]

MMMm. I dont know if the problem is the lack of new games or people are tired and prefer to wait to have more chapters in a game before trying it.
In my case, y rather prefer to wait to have more content.

 

[69Questions]

As the sayings go, there are only seven different stories in the world, and all art is derivative.

 

[TheVampirate]

Yeah most new games have very little effort put into it because the creators use AI images or they're put very little effort.

I think AI is actually helping people make better games since there are people who are good/decent at writing and cant code or draw for shit and AI can do at least one of the two. finding a triple threat of those 3 qualities usually means 1 overworked person or at least 2 in a team and that often falls apart due to one person falling behind or other things like that.

Back to the original topic. I find that there aren't any games post-pandemic that have really wowed me. Sure there are some good games from 2018-2020 still kicking around but I cant think of any really good games I like in the past 3 years that hasn't been canceled or essentially slowed down to the point of abandonment or the quality dropped and I've abandoned them. Some of the artists/games I've liked haven't been as good, Existcoming's latest work is his first non parody work and its by far his weakest. There's summertime saga and urban demons which have come back from the dead with less content and questionable quality. Amnity park has gone from almost done to restarting with new art (that i think is AI). Akabur hasn't released anything in forever. Proud father went the way of the dodo we don't need to say more, The guardian had a questionable ending and the immediate sequel has quite questionable quality. I found Family faring recently through the remake and was really disappointed with everything about that. The original isn't bad (I found it after the remake) but I don't like my little girl getting NTRd at least they warn you well ahead of time).

I dont want to get political at all but the war going on in eastern Europe had a devastating impact on a ton of artists and programmers in that area and the surrounding countries to say the least.

 

[Davidtoxy]

Might be just that I'm getting old or something but it seems like a few years ago, you'd check the various sites and almost every week there'd be a new game or an update to a game that was incredible. Like 2-3 games a week being updated that were just really good, really decent stories that had good renders and animations, tolerable writing, etc.

And some of those games are still out there and still being worked on, with updates periodically.
But for the last few months it feels like there's so many games that are following the fetishes/trends that I'm not really into, or that just don't spend any real time on animations/renders, or that just follow the same templates as all the other popular games.
I mean, I like Harem games for example but it seems like almost every Harem game is copying the most popular few harem games and I can't even tell you how many "Dad that's fucking his daughters, wife, sister, nieces, their friends, etc" games that follow almost exactly the same plot.

1. Get seduced by daughter #1.
2. Hide it from wife.
3. Sister comes back into life due to a divorce from her husband.
4. Fuck sister like you always used to.
5. Find out sister's daughter(s) are your kids, fuck them with sister's help.
6. Sister helps you fuck your daughter #2.
7. Wife finds out you're fucking niece, gets mad.
8. Easily talk wife out of her anger with the power of dick.
9. Fuck wife, daughters, sister, nieces, some of their friends.
10. Daughters ask you to impregnate them constantly.
11. Sister talks you into impregnating her daughters.
12. You're a very wealthy businessman who also fucks his assistant.

It's like...this could describe half a dozen games I like. But why?

It's like that "you're a college graduate and your dad just died so you moved home but now you have to fuck your mom and sister, or they lose the house to gangsters!" type of plot.

Why isn't anybody coming up with unique stories anymore? Why are all the games feeling the same?

Is it just me?

Any game u would recomend of number 5 pls?

 

[TheVampirate]

I found Fuck95 few years back and I have to say there is improvement in quality since then. Now most games have animations, background music and other sound effects. Also a lot more renders, so you don't need to watch same pic during long monologue or something.

But yes, it does feel like there is less updates or new games. Of course for me I've played many games already, so there less new and exiting in general. At first any scrappy game was "good", because I didn't know better.

During covid there was period of time with more frequent updates. I guess devs had some extra time then.

They still are using the same 20 royalty free songs from 8 years ago in all their games and the animations are often pretty janky loops but I agree with the fact that they have improved from pre pandemic era games but honestly I think overall quality has dropped and the amount of quantity has not made up for it.

 

[herot32]

Any game u would recomend of number 5 pls?

Such a Sharp Pain

 

[ice08999]

Some new games have good animation and models, but the story is so bad.

 

[Cloppy]

It's not just the writing but games in general. I'm not a fan of the DAZ stuff. I don't like how the visuals look and overall I think they look like carbon copies of each other.

You know that bit in cartoons where it's like "ok everyone, act natural!" And then everyone's just kind of all posed around in different spots in a comically unnatural way? That's what every DAZ VN screenshot I see looks like to me. Everyone's just sort of placed around in fucking Jojo poses.

 

[AntAras11]

Might be just that I'm getting old or something but it seems like a few years ago, you'd check the various sites and almost every week there'd be a new game or an update to a game that was incredible. Like 2-3 games a week being updated that were just really good, really decent stories that had good renders and animations, tolerable writing, etc.

And some of those games are still out there and still being worked on, with updates periodically.
But for the last few months it feels like there's so many games that are following the fetishes/trends that I'm not really into, or that just don't spend any real time on animations/renders, or that just follow the same templates as all the other popular games.
I mean, I like Harem games for example but it seems like almost every Harem game is copying the most popular few harem games and I can't even tell you how many "Dad that's fucking his daughters, wife, sister, nieces, their friends, etc" games that follow almost exactly the same plot.

1. Get seduced by daughter #1.
2. Hide it from wife.
3. Sister comes back into life due to a divorce from her husband.
4. Fuck sister like you always used to.
5. Find out sister's daughter(s) are your kids, fuck them with sister's help.
6. Sister helps you fuck your daughter #2.
7. Wife finds out you're fucking niece, gets mad.
8. Easily talk wife out of her anger with the power of dick.
9. Fuck wife, daughters, sister, nieces, some of their friends.
10. Daughters ask you to impregnate them constantly.
11. Sister talks you into impregnating her daughters.
12. You're a very wealthy businessman who also fucks his assistant.

It's like...this could describe half a dozen games I like. But why?

It's like that "you're a college graduate and your dad just died so you moved home but now you have to fuck your mom and sister, or they lose the house to gangsters!" type of plot.

Why isn't anybody coming up with unique stories anymore? Why are all the games feeling the same?

Is it just me?

Spot on man.

You forgot a step:

13. Multiple sex scenes with 1 LI. 0-2 sex scenes with every other LI. After you fuck the last girl for the 1st time, plot dries up and the game gets abandoned.

 

[Lavenga]

I think we have some good creators. Not just this time but all the time. We have good abandoned projects and bad completed games. I tried to imagine how it will be if i had a good idea, maybe some DAZ skills, but at the same time full time job, family,kids etc. First release or episode i could create for fun, but after that people start donating, they expect result for their spent money. And now I have some obligations, much more stress about it and so on.

So much factors should combine to create really good product. But I still happy for those who keep trying

 

[HandholdDegen]

I think there is a mix of factors that lead to the 'decrease in quality'.
1) More people can make games more easily than ever before. Monkeys and typewriters, you know?
2) You've already seen this before, so the novelty of the porn element no longer masks the quality of the rest of the game. You probably wouldn't like the earlier games as much if you played them for the first time today.
3) You get jaded trying new things over time. Eventually you stop enjoying new games simply because they are new and your brain would rather get the 'fix' it got from the old stuff you know and love.

 

[plainjane]

It's the same over and over but people keep playing them so why change?

 

[Yummyjuice22]

Idk why but in 2024 their are still new devs who use the same default generic animations that come with the engines they use for their characters. Like I understand that they are new devs and that they might not have the time to make them, but jeez making your own custom animations really goes a long way!

 

[HandholdDegen]

Idk why but in 2024 their are still new devs who use the same default generic animations that come with the engines they use for their characters. Like I understand that they are new devs and that they might not have the time to make them, but jeez making your own custom animations really goes a long way!

But that takes wooooork. C'mon, man! It is already so much work to tweak pre-built assets and placing them in pre-fab rooms of ready-made houses and making them look at each other.

 

[robspankacct]

Not so much in the genres I like, it seems like it's mostly updates of existing games.

 

[BeanieBaby]

Haven't downloaded anything from this site in at least a week...seems like ever since that dev Westy was arrested, great stories/games have gotten a bit less available. There still are some great games out there to be sure, but not like it usually was.