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A Sexy Cyberpunk Dating Sim About (And By) Trans Folk
I have played too many games that treat trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming characters as sexual objects. These games portray the lives and identities of marginalized, real-world people as little more than titillation for the (assumed cisgender) player. Hardcoded is not that game. It is a story about dating trans people, written by trans people.…
By Kate Gray Published November 19, 2018 -
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Pretzel After Dark Is A Sexy Take On Twister
There’s something very saucy about playing sexy board games. It feels like redefining innocent childhood memories, like reading Harry Potter slash fiction where Ron and Malfoy get busy on the roof of the Hogwarts Express, or finding out that The Hunchback of Notre Dame was about Frollo having a raging anger-boner for Esmeralda. NSFW Warning:…
By Kate Gray Published November 9, 2018 -
Have Sex With King Arthur And Sir Lancelot In This Text Adventure
Sometimes, I wish I could spend just a little time in the historical days of England. I’m not a huge fan of plagues, bread shortages, and the feudal system, but I do like courtly love—the chivalrous, disciplined romantic overtures that drove noble women wild with passion, lust, and the mystery of what came after all…
By Kate Gray Published October 18, 2018 -
Strange Flesh Is Like Streets Of Rage With Much More Sex
Joe is an office drone. Joe is miserable. Joe is unhappy. Joe is repressed. Joe is horny. NSFW Warning: This post contains NSFW imagery! Luckily for Joe, Strange Flesh is all about breaking free from all that—not through therapy or medication, but through the magic of getting beaten up and seduced by a big beefy…
By Kate Gray Published October 12, 2018 -
This Life Sim Fascinated (And Terrified) Me When I Was 13
I was probably about 7 when I first realized there was some weird, fleshy mystery going on between my legs. At that age, you’re discovering a lot about yourself: how far you can run, how many Spice Girls lyrics you can learn in one evening, whether or not you can fit an entire roll of…
By Kate Gray Published October 1, 2018 -
Big Bang Empire Somehow Makes Porn Unsexy
Today, I am playing Big Bang Empire. It’s a sort-of tycoon game on Nutaku, where you design a porn star and send them off into the world to make it big. You’d think it would be a lot sexier than it actually ends up. NSFW Warning: This post contains NSFW cartoon imagery! Most tycoon games,…
By Kate Gray Published September 13, 2018 -
Quidget The Wonderwiener Is About Boning In The Name Of Science
Generally, when writing about or researching sex in games, I try to be as sex-positive as possible. That said, talking about sex should be like how we talk about using the bathroom: it’s totally normal to ask your housemate for more toilet paper, or to talk to your doctor about blood in your pee; but…
By Kate Gray Published August 31, 2018 -
Sex-Soaked Ace Attorney Fan Game Gives A Whole New Meaning To ‘Penal Law’
I’ve never written smutty fan fiction, but you can bet your butt that if I did, it would be about Phoenix Wright. But I wouldn’t write this hypothetical fanfic about the recognizable, spiky-haired, boyishly handsome version of Wright who appears in most of the games in the series. Oh no. My choice would be, specifically,…
By Kate Gray Published August 22, 2018 -
It’s Not Easy To Write About Funny (But Creepy) Sex Games
There are two main ways to talk about games: seriously, and light-heartedly. I like to write about things light-heartedly for a few main reasons: One, I like to make people laugh. Two, I’ve generally found that light-hearted writing makes people attack me less. Three, it’s much more fun to write humor. But writing about things…
By Kate Gray Published August 8, 2018 -
Love Island Game Is All About Six-Packs, Banter, And Random Hookups
Love Island is a British reality TV show in which several glistening, muscular men with sleeve tattoos and unaddressed anger issues are sent to a sunny island villa along with several glossy-haired, incredibly basic women who I’m pretty sure have their perma-bikinis sewn onto their skin, and are then expected to “couple up” in order…
By Kate Gray Published July 30, 2018 -
I Dated A Senior Citizen In Pub Encounter And He Licked My Leg
From the second I laid my eyes on Pub Encounter in the Nintendo Switch eShop, I knew we were destined for each other. “It’s a romance game where you can fall in love with one of several middle-aged men,” reads the description. “They may not be young, but they can love as deeply and passionately…
By Kate Gray Published July 26, 2018 -
Monster Hunter But You Smooch The Dragons
Why Is This Dragon So Fucking Cute?? isn’t as graphic or particularly sexual as its title might imply, but it is very sweet. A while back, I reviewed Angels With Scaly Wings, a dragon dating simulator that didn’t have nearly enough actual dating for my taste—although, as it turned out, maybe this is a recurring…
By Kate Gray Published July 12, 2018 -
Pocket Waifu Is Tamagotchi, Only With Women
You know what really turns me on? Microtransactions I know I’m not alone. There must be dozens out there for whom the mere thought of blowing $9 on a virtual hat gets us dripping below the waist. Oh yeah, we say. Charge it right to my card, you saucy minx. Give me those abstracted gem-based…
By Kate Gray Published July 2, 2018 -
You Can’t Build The Perfect Boyfriend, But Dr. Frank Tries Anyway
If I had a time machine, it would not be a tool for bettering the world. It would be a way for me to see how people from the past might react to modern-day weirdness. I would go back to show Alexander Graham Bell that his invention of the telephone somehow morphed into nudes on…
By Kate Gray Published June 25, 2018 -
Why Won’t These Hot Demons Seduce Me Already?!
Sometimes I wonder if writing about sex games has ruined me. It’s certainly ruined my experience of Steam, given that my home page recommendations are now made up of roughly 50 percent visual novels that are really just two-hour-long excuses to look at anime boobs. Nevertheless, I was optimistic about the romantic visual novel Seduce…
By Kate Gray Published June 19, 2018 -
A Screaming Eye-Cube Helped Me Learn About Gender
Genderwrecked, a 2017 visual novel about trying to find the meaning of gender— which the game styles as GENDER, like a hellish scream-question—promises the following on its itch.io page: Make out with the sun Be mean to a tree Become parent to ONE HUNDRED FIFTY NINE MEATY BOYS Seduce a robot dad Gay worms Secret…
By Kate Gray Published June 6, 2018 -
A Look Back At Dante’s Inferno‘s Over-The-Top Sex Level
Whenever someone starts talking about their guilty-favorite games on Twitter, they’re usually thinking of something tame, like one of the weirder Metal Gears or that one Metroid that everyone thinks is bad. But mine comes with a lot more guilt than most—an appropriately Catholic amount of guilt, in fact, because my guilty favorite is Dante’s…
By Kate Gray Published May 28, 2018 -
Angels With Scaly Wings Is More Murder And Less Dragon Sex Than I Expected
What I was expecting from Angels With Scaly Wings was something like Persona 4, but with fewer confusing dungeon crawls and a lot more dragons making out. What I got was Phoenix Wright, but with even less sexual tension. Angels With Scaly Wings, a game by Radical Phi that is currently out on Steam, bills…
By Kate Gray Published May 14, 2018 -
Draw Your Own Date In Doodle Date, Then Regret Not Having Art Skills
Doodle Date, a game that has been out on Steam for a week, and can be bought for the low, low price of two dollars, is not at all what I expected. I expected a dating sim with more player input than usual. What I got was a surreal journey of attempted murder, identity crisis,…
By Kate Gray Published April 30, 2018 -
Playing The NPC In Someone Else’s Dating Sim
Kindness Coins is a dating sim, released on itch.io in 2013, that asks the question: What is it like to be on the receiving end of the protagonist’s flirting in a dating game? On the surface, it would seem like dating sims are not like other video games. In a sea of experiences that prioritize…
By Kate Gray Published April 17, 2018
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