Why are there STILL no decent VR adult games?

[timstertimster]

I'm astounded, looking at Steam games for adult VR. The options are genuinely pathetic, like the only people developing such projects are horny amateurs practicing what they learned last week on a youtube tutorial about Unreal Engine. Example: I tried SinVR and the experience is equivalent to what I'm getting from modding Skyrim VR on my own. That's 10 year old technology and I am a complete amateur. Fun side fact: the saloon environment in the demo is actually swiped straight off RDR 1. I doubt R* will bother suing them, considering the weird publicity, and the fact that this pathetic game probably earns <$1,500 a month. Not that I know or anything, I'm just popping off.

 

But in all seriousness. It baffles me. Pornhub is one of the largest sites on the internet period, and obviously Steam has no issues publishing porn games. A decent project would make a ton of money. What's the holdup?

 

If anyone feels that I've missed a decent quality VR adult game, oh please do tell.

[Dusk_]

 

27 minutes ago, timstertimster said:

A decent project would make a ton of money.

 

If you start with a bad premise, you will end up with a bad conclusion.

 

Case in point, your "$1500 a month" game has an average of 5 players a month.

[DORODERE]

If you're looking for a "game" then yeah..there honestly isn't much out there. Nothing worthwhile at least.

 

My eye is currently on Operation Lovecraft, but that only has VR in the gallery mode. No campaign or gameplay support there. Really quality VR experience though if your PC can handle it. Their prequel beta game, Fallen Doll, also has full VR support and is a bit more interactive past just watching scenes.

 

Wild Life has VR support, but its actually been broken the past few versions..so you'd have to use an older version to try it out. That's another game that is basically a scene viewer currently. It has a few open maps and some basic gameplay stuff but 99% of the focus has just been on the sex. While not a bad thing, its not really a "game" yet.

 

You also have the Illusion games. Pretty sure every one of them supports VR at this point or at least the newer ones. I haven't actually played any of those kind of games in a long while, so I don't know if VR is supported during gameplay or just during the H scenes. Custom Maid 3D2 is also in the same vein as those. Full VR support for the entire game too.

 

Virt-A-Mate is the final one I can think of. Probably the best quality models and animation out of anything you can find currently..but that depends on finding and downloading them because the game is almost entirely user created content. It can range from model viewer, to scene viewer to interactive sex and even posessing the models for POV and hand control. It requires a monster PC to run any intense scenes decently and most of the good stuff is paywalled (unless you know where to look =P).

 

Unfortunately..none of these games are amazing. They're all leagues better than half the trash you find on Steam right now (imo) but still nothing game changing for VR. Virt-A-Mate has crazy potential but still has a long way to go.

[timstertimster]

18 hours ago, Dusk_ said:

 

 

If you start with a bad premise, you will end up with a bad conclusion.

 

Case in point, your "$1500 a month" game has an average of 5 players a month.

 

LMAO, that is fascinating, I didn't even look at those stats, is that really true? I was trying to be generous. I'd argue the reason why it is so low is proving my point: who wants to play a shit gamme thats also totally overpriced? Its bad business altogether. Would you buy a bicycle with flat tires for $1,000? No, but you would buy a working bike for $50.

 

 

[Hyazu]

As far as I'm aware of, Steam isn't exactly the best place to look for adult-oriented games. Most promising projects are on Patreon but I haven't really looked too much at them since most of them (not to say all) are in beta only for patreons.

 

If I wanted to experience a VR adult oriented experience in a videogame then I'd probably go for C(O)M3D2, Koikatsu! Party or Honey Select if the last two are not really your thing. If you are more into western games then there isn't really much to look for.

[Cululu]

5 hours ago, timstertimster said:

 

LMAO, that is fascinating, I didn't even look at those stats, is that really true? I was trying to be generous. I'd argue the reason why it is so low is proving my point: who wants to play a shit gamme thats also totally overpriced? Its bad business altogether. Would you buy a bicycle with flat tires for $1,000? No, but you would buy a working bike for $50.

 

 

The real problem is that VR market is too small. The entire steam population is 125 million, and VR owner is about 2.4 million,  VR development is a risk at the moment. 
It's a chicken and egg problem.

[Rewrisk]

On 7/2/2021 at 11:43 AM, Cululu said:

The real problem is that VR market is too small. The entire steam population is 125 million, and VR owner is about 2.4 million,  VR development is a risk at the moment. 
It's a chicken and egg problem.

 

While I agree with the sentiment your numbers are way off.

We are rapidly closing in on at least 10 million headsets.

While not giving actual numbers Boz has made statements to the effect that we will reach 10 million this year.

Not certain whether that is all VR headsets or just Oculus headsets either?

Was reported that Facebook had beaten Sony six months after the Quest 2 was released.

Sony had sold over 4 million PS VR headsets  a year ago and then there are all the other headset's so?

[Rewrisk]

As Cululu said the market is too small to support much.

But you can bet that the powers in Hollywood will be watching this space closely.

 

Personally I really enjoyed Focus on You.

Nothing "adult" about it, just a mature if naively themed story experience.

But it is really lovely and reminds me of a holiday romance I experienced when I was younger.

But how you find it might depend on how jaded you are?

VR Kanojo is very popular, I enjoy it periodically, there are a few titles on itch.io and dev's working on stuff at Patreon.

Personally I find in VR that the romantic side of the equation is just so much more important than in flat screen.

At first I was looking for pornographic type material but over time I found myself spending a lot more time in emotionally stimulating virtual realities.

If you could combine something like Focus on You with VR kanojo it would be amazing but that is unlikely to happen untill/if VR goes mainstream?

 

Been into VR for a couple of years now and I understand the frustration.

It's so incredible that it just makes no sense that the whole world has not embraced it?

I think that might be a big part of the problem?

Seems likely that people can not even imagine what is already possible?

Totally blew my mind.

I still love it, but that first six months was like a dream.

I practically lived in VR.

[AmyTheSwann]

Not much money to be made from developing on something less than 2% of steams userbase own.
Having a VR headset is less common than macOS users.
There's only 900 games on steam that support macOS and almost all of those are ports from Windows.
You can't do the same with VR, it's not just a quick port and job's done.

It is extremely high risk, with a very low reward so it doesn't make any sense for a developer to move hard on VR if they wanna stay afloat financially.

I can't think of a single 100hr+ VR title, let alone 50+.
That makes it a really hard sell when you could get a top of the line GPU or console for approximately the same amount of money.

[Demised]

Problem with h games is the creators do not intend on selling a lot of the product, so short cuts are made. Then you have to try and balance the h with the gameplay, and typically one or the other suffers, which is why a lot are just h with no game play. It will be a niche product at the end of the night regardless, I think Seed of the Dead's new release in steam is the first h game I've seen with over a thousand people playing it by steamdb reports daily.

 

Currently, my perfect VR H game would literally be something based off Project Viva. The AI in that is pretty believable, and I think that is the main area VR H games fail, if we wanted to watch porn we'd watch porn, you're making a game, give us something to interact with in a meaningful way.

 

I'm just ranting though.