Steam News · Jul 13, 2020
If you missed the giant Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality on Itch last month, you’ve got yet another shot at good games for a good cause. The Visual Novel Romance Collection for Black Trans Lives is precisely what it says on the tin: fourteen romantic games (several of which the RPS crew have quite liked) in support of The Okra Project. (more…)
Steam News · Apr 11, 2019
A Panel Shaped Screen is a monthly column where Giada Zavarise explores how comics and video games inspire each other. And this time we re going adult rated. WARNING: basically every single link in this article is NSFW. Duh. Remember being fifteen and desperately looking for porn on the internet? Perhaps you googled basic terms like boobs , like the protagonist of You Must Be 18 Or Older T...
Steam News · Mar 26, 2019
Looking for something to do tonight? How about a hot date? Or how about a Hot Date Bundle, the latest collection of visual novels, dating sims, and suggestive party games from the bundlers over at Humble? For $1, you can have Creature Romances: Kokonoe Kokoro, Highway Blossoms, and Just Deserts—and no, that's not a typo, it's a sci-fi action dating sim abou...
Steam News · Feb 23, 2019
**This week s Priceless Play is NSFW!!!** Sex in games is certainly nothing new. There are, of course, the various moral panics GTA s famed hot coffee, for instance to countless articles about the sex lives in SecondLife. Our Very Own Kieron Gillen wrote a primer on Sporn (that s Spore porn, for the uninitiated) eleven years ago. Cara E...
Steam News · Oct 5, 2018
When I was a kid my neighbour had Sex Games on his Commodore 64, by which I mean a game that was literally called Sex Games. Published by Landisoft in 1985, it was all about waggling a joystick back and forth while two bright pink cartoon people went at it like joyless jackhammers. It was a terrible sex sim and a terrible introduction to the idea that sex was a worthwhile subject for videogames.&#...
Steam News · Sep 11, 2018
This feels like a milestone a sexy milestone. When Valve said that under their new content warning system, there d be fewer restrictions on what could be sold on Steam, I was sceptical. Now it seems they were true to their word. If nothing goes wrong between now and its launch this Friday, saucy visual novel Negligee: Love Stories will be Steam s first uncut sexually explicit g...
Steam News · Dec 27, 2017
Clichés dominate visual novels, but there’s so much more to this genre than just steamy romance or mundane slices of Japanese students’ lives. Over the past few years, more and more talented developers are creating experimental games, shorter novella-like experiences, and clever subversions of the anime tropes that started it all. Visual novels are finally cool. Choosing where t...
Steam News · Jun 27, 2017
Fixed a bug where an image in the credits would show explicit titty even when set to "safe for work" mode. With apologies to the Twitch streamer who discovered this. Fixed a bug where certain save files could crash the game. Put in a fix for an error in the fourth Beauty scene where the game would hang on a missing choice. Removed redundant auto-updater from the Steam version. Various typos and ot...
Steam News · Mar 10, 2017
Stop sniggering at the back. The RPS podcast of yore has returned, as you might have noticed, in which we are chatting to all sorts of interesting people from the makers of 90s cyberpunk thriller Quadrilateral Cowboy to the creators of political elbow-nudging Orwell, and so many more. In the third episode of this special #content we are talking to the visual novelists behind erotic adventure Ladyk...
