How Browser Games Shaped The Early Days Of NSFW Fandoms – The Key Factions Of Porn Games And Their Forming

Today, the internet has started to consolidate its attractions on a few key sites. Blogs and fan sites are in sharp decline as other media platforms and apps rise to take their places as mainstream and convenient formats. Why build a whole blog page out of nothing when you can simply create a Discord server that already has regulated terms and pre-established tools? While the dominance of a few key platforms has been the main striker, we can’t ignore the effects of abandoned software that has been left behind. Most recently, the end of Flash support and depreciation has decimated our favorite gaming sites. Now, the focus has shifted to teams and studios, while the base quality and quantity of games have risen on major platforms.

But, as always, smut prevails! The history of adult media has shown that any viable platform will eventually be used for porn one way or another. Nothing can come between human desire and its target. While most of the indie gaming spaces have moved away from browser formats and switched to platforms like GOG and Steam, the smut masters still persist as browser games or congregate on dedicated sites for indie smut gaming. The colorful history of the niche is splattered all over the internet, and it can be easy to forget just how far we have come from the early days. Most importantly, the inception of smut games has been a key part of fandoms that had members who always wanted more. We owe these souls endless nights of incognito searches, so let’s talk about these NSFW games!

For most browser games and simulators, the main goal has always been one thing only. And that is to show off favorite characters from various pieces of media getting down dirty. Each fandom had several pairings or “ships” that were debated over and over again, and browser games became a way to see them in reality. Smut fanart, fanfics, and smut fan games. The unholy trinity of NSFW fandom sides.

In Anime Spaces: Anime has ascended from its underground status into mainstream, but it used to be that there were only a handful of anime you should watch to be fully in the know. From these few big names arose countless fans who kept spurring the discussion on and on. Most famously, Naruto had a famous canon ship that kept the fanbase on the edge of their seats. But even without it, you could find porn browser games that featured other well-endowed characters from the series, clearly showing how attractive the fandom found them. These games would later become our favorite hentai games!

In The Comic Book Spaces: While the Western comic spaces were no strangers to odd fetishes and sex fantasies in the canon material itself, the subtle desire to see it in action finally had an outlet with browser games. Instead of seeing ships, these games were more focused on letting you, the player, be the one in charge and taming the beauties like Catwoman. Eventually, this foundation would transform into the porn parody games we know of today. These parodies even extend beyond comics and now feature other popular games like Baldur’s Gate 3 and the Resident Evil series.

In Porn Spaces: Even the NSFW industry was no exception to fans making games in their image. Sometimes, eager fans would make browser games that featured image cut-outs of their favorite stars undressing while you catch falling beer bottles. In other cases, they would try to 3D-render a realistic body, which was always hit-or-miss. It was, in a way, a precursor to VR media. While straight content was prevalent, the gay community also had its fill with gay porn games. Some sites even made full 3D models to pose and take digital stills of, or put into action. Today, these types of games are rare, but the 3D realism has persisted.

While the general ways to encounter games persist in the three categories, the way these games can be experienced could vary in hundreds of ways. Here is where we can see the start of genres of porn games, and we will mention a few of note.

– Visual Novel: Visual novels are the most common type of porn game even today. The ability to delve into a fan fiction and play the game has appealed to countless fans. Dating gorgeous girls and making them happy was always a highlight, but the other end of the spectrum also rose to take its place. The fans of gay love took advantage of this niche to write and code their dreams into reality.

– Sex Simulator: Any game that has some way of simulating sex in some way, be it tracking your mouse or responding to your inputs, can be counted as a sex sim in some capacity. These sims rule the smut spaces and can go as far as to simulate a whole world for you to enjoy. The best games also feature quests and some type of story. Gay sims are gaining great recognition here, and sites like Mygaysites.com list the best sites.

– Lewd Games: Not every smut game needs to be explicitly sexual. Lewd games either feature nudity, implications of sex, or some other type of NSFW content. These games are often fully committed to being games and add smut content later as a nice filler and fan appeal.

We can still see the same driving force behind every smut game even today. The idea has always been to realize a sexual fantasy in some ways. When writing and drawing didn’t quite add up or satisfy, we could search up games with our favorite characters and always find some legend’s work waiting for us. Unfortunately, porn games didn’t get much attention while the Flash rescue operations were happening. Now they might live on in our dreams, but new ones keep rising and taking their place. So enjoy the smut games while you still have them and say thank you to the devs!