> Why do so many people want NSFW games?
You've skipped biology classes, did you?
Living entities (Homo Sapiens Sapiens included, unfortunately) have to procreate somehow. They'll accumulate stress otherwise. Once enough stress would gonna accumulate this way, sais sapient sapienses might start having weird sprees of inappropriate behavior. Simply because procreation is in our nature - and our instincts don't give a rat's ass about circumstances being highly incompatible with raising able and happy children (in this specific statement I mostly refer to my country - however, many people worldwide might relate to this for similar reasons). And sometimes our instincts are way stronger than our reason AND local laws combined.
If biology is not an authority - have a looksie at real-world communities which, for whatever global enough and strong enoughreason, have banned everything except sex with purpose of conceiving a child. Then think again. I had an intent to refer to a specific (quite huge) community - however, I already got permabanned with a reason "[OMITTED]phobia" for doing so in one (thanks goodness it's not itch.io) and I'm not quite eager to tempt fate again... yet. We're all adult people here (if you're still a little angel, leave the room. We'll be glad to see you again once you're an adult) and we all probably understant which group I'm referring to anyway.
NSFW art (games included) is a nice way to fend off some stress built up by said biological urges and bodily demands. With or without having specific interactions with one's body. Sometimes even sheer visual appreciation of tasteful enough beauty does wonders.
Like, I in sound mind understand that sometimes even best of us have animalistic urges of inappropriate.
I work with people. I'm working with people for 18 (eighteen) years.
And I never did ANYTINHG incriminating to any of my colleagues and clients - thanks to timely and carefully measured usage of porn. Despite being surrounded by beautiful ladies much more often than I can afford urge-wise.
> Are pornographic games really that appealing?
Most are not. Quite the opposite usually. Too many fetishes, too many developers trying to appease everyone at once (and failing horribly)... too few developers actually respecting consumer's right to skip things said consumer does not like...
All in all, porn games niche is in indefinite crisis since... for how long? Probably since Leisure Suit Larry 7 release. I don't remember any games of similar quality being released afterwards.
HOWEVER
Unfortunately, we live in times when arrogant youngsters (and leftovers of various abhorrent subcultures of internets of the past) live with "the worse - the better" motto.
Which, as a side effect, causes already-downwards-pointing spiral of porn games quality spin downwards faster, way faster...
Today's situation is a culmination of that.
Common folk couldn't get rid of content they don't want to see because this shit is leaking everywhere. And modern-day popular business models, on the contrary, encourage game developers to smear their shit all over the face of any player they might reach. Without informing them what they're about to do beforehead.
So grey suits took matters into their own hands. Surprisingly. For once, their interests coincided with interests of vanilla people.
So... d'oh...
I'm mildly confused that, instead of returning "ART" and "COMMON SENSE" into porn games, people do shittalking.