Kara no Shoujo (translated as The Shell) is a detective/mystery series of three very adult visual novels that have a reputation for being of immeasurably high quality. The first was originally released in English by MangaGamer back in 2011, and since then it and its sequel has quietly bubbled along…
Read MoreThe things that the old computer saw… It’s easy to assume that lewd games are a relatively recent addition to the gaming landscape. A lot of people attribute the rise in their popularity to Japan’s adoption of fanservice-heavy anime-style games in the PlayStation 3 and subsequent Vita eras — but…
Read MoreHistory lesson time! There’s actually a really good reason that Crawlco Block Knockers, a pervy puzzle game with plenty of nudity in it, is quite the appropriate Nintendo console release (I have no idea how eastasiasoft gets away with this, given the previously-released Waifu Uncovered pushes real boundaries on what…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Aokana – Four Rhythms Across the Blue makes its way to Nintendo Switch this week, and it’s an excellent port of an excellent VN. One thing that is notable about the game’s console port is that it has lost the adult scenes that were a big…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Seed of the Dead was previously called “Rape of the Dead”. That should tell you all you need to know about the class of this game. Or, more specifically, its complete lack of class. It’s a game about a zombie plague and you, a dude, running…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. Note: None of the below is any more NSFW that what you’ll usually see on DDNet, and please read through it all, because I’m not actually going to spend long talking about the “adult” side of the game. Just in case you skim through the first…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. This week something quite special happened on Steam. Christine Love’s sexually explicit Ladykiller in a Bind was allowed onto Valve’s platform without requiring edits. In other words, on a platform that had previously denied erotic games, an erotic game was finally available to players. Ladykiller in…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. While Steam and the major consoles don’t allow for the sale of adults-only games (in terms of sexual content – AO games for their violence are wholesome entertainment), in recent years we’ve seen an emerging trend among localisers and publishers looking to bring adult games from…
Read MoreHere’s the thing; in theory a game about building a business in the adult entertainment industry could be absolutely fascinating. In theory. Once you move past the… rather obvious bits of the industry, how these businesses actually work, as businesses, is barely understood, and almost assuredly completely unique in the…
Read MoreThe Fruit of Grisaia is an extraordinary work of art. There really is no other way to describe it; to refer to it as a “game” in the traditional sense seems somewhat disingenuous, as even by visual novel standards there’s not a whole lot of player agency here. And yet…
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