I am no stranger to the intricacies of video game porn. I see it all the time when I’m running gaming searches on social media. Yet Pornhub’s Year In Review list revealing the most searched games on the platform in 2022 has got me reconsidering everything that I know about gaming porn. Overwatch, I expect and understand. But Minecraft? Who’s trying to get off to Among Us? Cuphead? Apparently, the answer is: A lot of you.
Here are the entries in order:
Fortnite
Overwatch
Genshin Impact
Minecraft
Pokémon
Cyberpunk
Summertime Saga
League of Legends
Valorant
Resident Evil
Apex Legends
Grand Theft Auto 5
Roblox
Mortal Kombat
Skyrim
Among Us
Splatoon
Final Fantasy
Call of Duty
Cuphead
Street Fighter
Mass Effect
First off, I think it’s very funny that this list of top gaming porn searches only include one actual adult game, Summertime Saga. The rest of the rankings give me pause. I am choosing to believe in human decency and assume that Pokémon fans are trying to get off to gym leaders and the Elite Four rather than Gardevoir and Lucario. It’s much harder for me to rationalize Splatoon searches. But then I remember that incident in which a few streamers were banned for streaming porn over a Splatoon 3 match. So maybe the Splatoon porn doesn’t have to involve the actual characters? Just let me pretend that’s the case.
In addition to the above list of games, Pornhub also shared a list of the most searched game characters on its platform. We’ve previously reported about D.Va rising to the top of porn searches upon Overwatch 2’s release. The second most popular character search is Jenny Mod—a Minecraft mod that allows players to have an in-game “girlfriend” who will have sex with their character. Widowmaker comes in third, then Resident Evil’s Lady Dimitrescu.
But of course, there’s a vast difference between what users will search on a porn site versus what people might be willing to make, especially when animating sex scenes presumably take a lot more time than shooting one with real actors. Cuphead only has one page of porn results, while Mass Effect has 17 pages despite its lower ranking. There’s a real underserved market for Cuphead porn, and I hope that NSFW artists rise to the challenge.
Pornhub’s year-end list is enlightening. I thought that more story-heavy games would dominate the list. But no, it seems some gamers will seek porn for almost everything and anything. Even if the characters are liable to land them in jail.
