Month: July 2026

This is eleventh of fifteen essays contained within the fourth issue of the Adult Analysis Anthology, a collection of longform writing that seeks to expand the breadth of critical discourse around adult games and adult game culture. If you’d like to support the creation of more high-quality writing about adult games the full anthology is available for purchase on Itch! Anthology logo by Pillow!

Written By: Talon T

I picked up my first otome game at Cybird’s booth at Anime Expo 2015. Before this, I was already into anime and its horny fandoms, so I was excited for this opportunity to gameify my thirst for 2D characters. I would have been perfectly content with indulgent trashy tropes – little did I know, Ikemen Sengoku would immediately set a high standard for me for otome. Unbelievably, it reconnected me with my sexual and romantic needs, leading me to finally leave my dirtbag ex. It would reconnect me with tumblr communities, where we continued to be able to explore responsive desire and erotica in written form, even long after tumblr’s nsfw ban.

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This is tenth of fifteen essays contained within the fourth issue of the Adult Analysis Anthology, a collection of longform writing that seeks to expand the breadth of critical discourse around adult games and adult game culture. If you’d like to support the creation of more high-quality writing about adult games the full anthology is available for purchase on Itch! Anthology logo by Pillow!

Written By: A. J. Malachite

In July 2025, itch.io mass delisted hundreds of adult games and other erotic media with no warning due to pressure from payment processor Stripe. There has been widespread outrage and concern over this censorship, with many organizing community action and support for the creators affected. Most of the anti-censorship backlash has focused, deservedly so, on how proponents of censorship define queer content as inherently pornographic – making a ban on “adult content” the first stop on a slippery slope to banning visible queer existence in media. A closer look at the policies of platforms like itch.io and Patreon reveals one of the key mechanisms in the slippery slope designed to harm and isolate queer people: vagueness that allows for open interpretation.

The itch.io content crackdown was just another action in a long line of governments, corporations, and platforms enforcing increasingly severe sexual repression. Only a few weeks prior, Steam had implemented their own crackdown, also in response to pressure from payment processors. In January 2022, the platform Game Jolt banned porn games in preparation for the launch of its mobile app. And in the past few years, over a third of U.S. states have introduced privacy-violating ID verification laws and other restrictions for online adult content, resulting in sites like PornHub blocking access to users in those states and a surge in the popularity of VPNs.

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Prim the dryad awaits Sasha’s ministrations. Art by Pacha!

Happy July all! Last month I mentioned that it was starting to get really hot here in Vancouver, but in truth the summer’s been shockingly reasonable so far. We’ve spent most of the past month with temperatures in the mid-20s, a far cry from the low-to-mid 30s I was worried about (and that are being exceeded further east). I’d be more stoked about this if I hadn’t tweaked my back getting my air conditioner installed. Ah well. Let’s get into the update!

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This is ninth of fifteen essays contained within the fourth issue of the Adult Analysis Anthology, a collection of longform writing that seeks to expand the breadth of critical discourse around adult games and adult game culture. If you’d like to support the creation of more high-quality writing about adult games the full anthology is available for purchase on Itch! Anthology logo by Pillow!

Written By: Eternal_Savvy

I’ve had a high libido for as long as I’ve been interested in sex, and it’s been a rough journey. Sex isn’t something people discuss in polite company, and as a teenager I often felt completely crazy because every time that I thought I had found someone who I could talk to about sex, I was met with a rejection, and always “that look.” A look that immediately made me feel a little more alone. I only ended up finding success in expressing my interests when I started to play the role of the sex-obsessed macho-man—a persona that was a poor fit for me and thankfully soon discarded. I didn’t want to just march around bragging about sexual exploits and measuring dicks. Talking about sex always somehow became a competition; proving how “manly” and “macho” you were with how many women you’d had sex with, and talking about who you had set your sights on to conquer. I never felt satisfied with the way that people expected me to treat sex because I wanted to talk more deeply about how it affected me. In the absence of conversation, I instead found that satisfaction in playing porn games. Eventually I came to realise they were capable of something that no other medium is: the ability to let us explore the deepest parts of ourselves safely, without the risk of harming others. Porn and sex have since become a passion within me that now affects almost every part of my life. I’m an artist, and a streamer, and I draw porn, and I talk pretty openly about sex and kinks on my streams. I do this because I know what it’s like to feel alone, and I want to be that voice I was so desperately looking for when I was younger. But I never really overcame that shame about my interest in porn and sex until recently.

I make a point of browsing what new adult games are available on Itch.io and Steam. I do this to find the porn with a little extra something: the sparks of conversations about game quality, potential, storytelling, or even just informed directions about what’s out there. The porn game scene is not exactly the most inspiring sight to behold at the moment. Many people don’t respect porn, and some developers will make glorified galleries locked behind shitty puzzles just to get your money. Now I’m not going to sit here and say that I don’t like capital “P” Porn, even as a means to an end I enjoy some good filthy fucking without much reason behind it. But the reason I do this is because I am looking for those people that see what I see in porn games; a medium that explores a part of being human that is not seen anywhere else, doing so by placing you in simulated situations where you can ask questions about yourself. I found that in a game I discovered in early 2025 called “Hazelnut Latte“.

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This is eighth of fifteen essays contained within the fourth issue of the Adult Analysis Anthology, a collection of longform writing that seeks to expand the breadth of critical discourse around adult games and adult game culture. If you’d like to support the creation of more high-quality writing about adult games the full anthology is available for purchase on Itch! Anthology logo by Pillow!

Written By: Bigg

WARNING: This review contains discussions of eroticized sexual violence, bestiality, and sexualized characters with childlike appearances. Please read at your own discretion.

What if there was an all-babes Suikoden where everyone kept falling ass-over-teakettle into extremely sexual tentacles? The answer to this question is provided by Tsukinomizu Project in the form of their 2023 RPG, Eclipse Knight Saga ~Captive Princess Knight Mary~. This reveals to us the dangers of asking hypothetical questions willy-nilly. In all honesty, Eclipse Knight Saga is not, for the most part, a bad game. In the roughly 20 hours I played, which I’m told only brings me about a third of the way through this game’s total average playtime, I encountered some things I was modestly impressed by and more than a few things I disliked, but most of the time what I encountered was slumped-over, jaw-resting-against-my-fist, capital-B Boredom.

Everything about Eclipse Knight Saga is perfectly competent and serviceable. Its combat functions, and even possesses an identifiable difficulty curve that does demands a certain level of attention and mastery (though only up to a point – more on this later). There exists a mostly-cogent narrative (I say “mostly” because the English translation often leaves something to be desired) and the cast does include a very large number of characters (this is frequently not as much of an asset as the game seems to think it is – more on this later). If you’re in the market for a certain strain of tentacle porn, this game does contain a generous helping thereof. On the other hand, if you find tentacle porn crass and weightless as I do, that huge helping quickly starts to look less like a treat and more like a chore. Yes, you guessed it: more on this later.

All the pieces are there, everything works, and even I’m not so curmudgeonly as to deny the game its flowers for the little flourishes it adds, such as its charming combat sprites and upgradeable home base. By the standards of pornographic video games, this places it in rarefied company. And yet, as you might have gleaned from my many caveats, I would struggle to recommend it to any save a very specific few.

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