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

[CharlieV]

I think there's a catch-22 going on - Devs (often with a very good start to games) are struggling to get financial backing from supporters, but potential supporters (us) are fed up of committing to games for them to get abandoned more often than not and so want to see proper progress/commitment from a Dev before backing.

It results in so many new good games barely getting off the ground

 

[nobodyv31]

You are right, but I think it is very difficult to write a story that goes beyond the topics you mentioned.

 

[upbutte]

I feel like there are a good amount of good new games, but you know only a 1/16 will actually be finished. I have stopped playing new games b/c of this.

 

[Ant28jsp]

Perhaps by dint of having explored a lot of forbidden or non-taboo or non-taboo universes there is no longer any new subject to exploit

 

[Vidilo]

Well, this feeling is a constant in all times. And it is true all the time. With games and everything else. The majority of all games, novels, etc. is average. Lots are below average. Some are good. But only very few are exceptional. Which is, why they are called exceptional. It is much easier to release a quick and dirty game that isn't very good than to write something exceptional that sticks to the memory.

And that's the point in the view that 'it used to be better'. The exceptional titles stick to the memory. The hundreds of mediocre titles that one played are quickly forgotten. And then there are thousands of insignificant bad titles that one never heard of. So, if you now follow many releases it's no wonder that only very few of them are exceptionally good. But in a few years, those are the ones you will remember and you will still be able to say: "Ahh, in 2024 there were still good games released. Why is it that so few games are good now in 20XX?"

 

[Parental]

Some of my favorite games are uncompleted (pending they keep their quality of course). There are also so many unpolished (abandoned) diamonds in the rough. The community also keeps on growing, so I think this is just your nostalgia talking.

 

[Antoni103]

Many prefer to go for what is easier, after all it is very likely that they will end up abandoning the project.

 

[Antoni103]

there are new good games, but most of them get abandoned before finished, for some reason.

That's a problem because people are going to be less likely to support a developer when there's a high chance that the game will be abandoned.

 

[VirginLesbians18+]

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?

A lot of the time I'll skip over large amounts of script just to reach interesting decisions and sex. Mother Sister Daughter is fun so I don't mind if they're well drawn and not pierced and don't have gigantic fucking tits that are atrocious.

 

[Gravespawn]

A lot of the time I'll skip over large amounts of script just to reach interesting decisions and sex. Mother Sister Daughter is fun so I don't mind if they're well drawn and not pierced and don't have gigantic fucking tits that are atrocious.

I used to read over everything but certain game I don't care about the story at all so I just skip everything. Only a few games I still remember the story after playing it and I don't mean the general idea but alot of elements to the story.

 

[VirginLesbians18+]

I used to read over everything but certain game I don't care about the story at all so I just skip everything. Only a few games I still remember the story after playing it and I don't mean the general idea but alot of elements to the story.

That's true. Mostly the story is "I don't give a F" just the girls, breasts sizes and relationships/related. A lot of games (a few 100) I remember the plot to. But newer games I barely bother to read anymore unless bored.

 

[sandroares05]

in fact, besides very similar characters (presets). But I understand the difficulty of developing a more complex game.

 

[Thorhardt]

In my opinion, porn games have started to increase in popularity and this popularity leads to many copy-cats. You can see this in any industry. Hell, the same thing happened with AI. Every company has an AI nowadays or look at all the sites that offer AI image generation. Out of this popularity increase many people see it as an easy cash grab with the new installment of "fuck your mother #300012348".

 

[badplottwist]

My anecdotal evidence says that what you're experiencing is the case all the time. You have your basic bins where the vast majority of games are going to be hot garbage, then some are going to be OK, then less are going to be great, then a few are going to be really good, then BAM! You get Strangers on Paper and Race of Life, and that's it for the year for new stuff that blows your socks off. Most of the VNs will follow the same basic formula, and only a few rare ones will truly break the mold. Also, there is a limited number of assets, scenes, and characters. I've had many stories that all happen in the same mansion, eaten the same steak, had sex with a bunch of LI's that all mysteriously look like Jill from Being a DIK, and wound up countless times in the same department store change room creeping on girls.

 

[Gravespawn]

I feel like one problem is assets, time, and lack of experience is why lots of games story sort of blend together and are very similar. Like If you give all these Adult Game Developer a magic wand to make a game that they want then it would be vastly different from the game they actually made. Like if I could make my own sex game it would not be a guy staying home all day fucking his family, but if I had to do so it probably would be that sense it would be the easiest one to make and write for. I think alot of Dev after they get the hang of the basic need to explore other game genre and themes so the western adult vistal game market doesn't get stale, as well as to branch out to more different thing so they can distinguish themselves from everything else but doing so will come with their own risk.

 

[user2386]

as with any genre there are easy tropes that are going to dominate - its like that for just about every type of content, and they're not necessarily bad - as others have said its the same reason you see a lot of cookie-cutter backgrounds and extra models and such - those can satisfy just like any other mindless movie or show and be entertaining enough - but as always its the few that transcend that that really stick with you

 

[creepypantsman]

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?

It's probably saturation; at a point you've seen most of the things people are out here doing, there's not a lot new under the sun anymore.

 

[HarryMason]

I don't mind newer games as long as the keep good and consisting update.

What I really hate though are games good or bad that have seemingly drooped from the face of the earth or get the abandoned tag its especially annoying when the game isn't labelled as being abandoned but hasn't had an update in a very long time.

 

[User_9860]

i mostly keep going back to the old favs since it doesn't seem to be many new games that are that great

 

[dueduehead2020]

I feel that most of the good games that are worth playing are falling under the games plus. Seems that have more regular updates than the other games