Why you can't escape all of those sexy games

Plus: An interview with a successful lewd game maker!

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This week on Post Games, “Why you can’t escape porn, sex, and lewd games.”

• Act 1: How NSFW games went from the backrooms to the front page

• Act 2: An interview with Hot Pink, a successful lewd game developer

• Act 3: The news of the week, including the definitive answer to the most important question in America in this troubling moment: Is parrying in games good or bad?

• Plus: For Patreon subscribers, the long, successful history of sex games in Japan. Want to know how the Western market went from decades of porn game prohibition to the modern lewd game free-for-all? The answer can be found in the decades of Japanese “eroge.” Plus, a reading from The Joy of Cybersex.

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Image: Kaiju Princess 2 (PantyParrot/Mango Party)

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Reference materials:

Act 1: The history of porn junk and lewd gems

• "What does it actually mean for a video game to be horny" (AV Club)

• Adult Analysis Anthology is a great critical series on lewd games

• Decoder Ring on Custer’s Revenge

• The Wiki for Beat Em and Eat Em

• A great GameStop video on The History of S*x in Gaming

• The Atlantic on the world’s first (and sexy) computer art

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Act 2: An interview with Hot Pink

• Hot Pink’s Itch.io page

• Tentacle Locker 2

• FlipWitch: Forbidden Sex Hex

• Games recommended by Hot Pink

  • Orc Massage

  • Aurelia

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Act 3: News of the Week

• Parrying is the worst thing in video games (Aftermath.site)

• Parrying is the best thing in video games (Aftermath.site)

• Connor Makar’s review of Elden Ring Nightreign (VG24/7)

• Every GameInformer magazine is now available for free – if you create an account (PCGamer)

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Over at the Patreon… How eroge became an art form

• Bonus Act: The history of Japanese sex games, a.k.a. “eroge”

• The free game of the week

• The week in video game links

• What else I’m playing, watching, and reading

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