Sexy video games have been round for as lengthy I can bear in mind: I performed Strip Poker on my Apple IIe approach again within the ’80s. But Steam’s hands-off curation coverage, the arrival of indie-friendly marketplaces like Itch.io, and the rise of monetization platforms like Patreon have led to a proliferation of grownup video games meaning it is common to see them sitting subsequent to big-budget mainstream video games on digital cabinets lately.
And like their contemporaries making non-adult video games, the builders behind this burgeoning class are asking for suggestions and enter from the group to seek out out what gamers wish to see of their video games—their questions are just a bit totally different.
HotPink is a sport developer who makes “cute lewd video games” on Patreon and Itch like The Endless Stream, a twin-stick shooter the place your reward for surviving hordes of zombies is intercourse with the sport’s solid of heroes, and River City Girls parody Lewd City Girls, a side-scrolling pixel beat ’em up the place it’s also possible to, because the dev places it, “beat ’em off.”
Since 2020, HotPink has been polling gamers and followers about their kinks and preferences to assist them resolve what kinds of intercourse acts to place of their video games. The polls current a randomly sorted checklist of kinks—bathe intercourse, BDSM, femdom, cosplay, meals play, physique swap, simply to call just a few of the over 100 kinks listed within the survey—giving customers an opportunity to rank every from 1 to five, with 1 being “I do not wish to see this in a sport” and 5 being “please embody this in a sport.”
The outcomes from the 2025 kink survey are in, they usually’re fairly attention-grabbing: players are apparently actually, actually into “Monster Girls.”
Yes, Monster Girls has turn into the primary gamer kink amongst HotPink’s gamers, followers, and followers, with a tiny however vital +1 bump over final yr. I’m going to chorus from mentioning a lot of the different kinks by identify, however Tights/Leggings positioned third, Goths are up two factors over final yr, whereas Tomboys has slid just a few spots in comparison with 2024.
NSFW warning—there aren’t graphic photographs of any of the kinks within the following hyperlink, although HotPink’s emblem is a butt in pink panties. You can see the total survey outcomes on Bluesky right here. HotPink ran via the numbers to investigate the rise and fall of varied kinks and speculate on the explanations for his or her adjustments within the standings.
“Glasses and Cosplay huge jumps into the highest 10!” HotPink reported on Bluesky. “Swimsuits additionally a giant leap not too far behind. Clothed Sex and Uniforms additionally received huge boosts this yr. Y’all like your vogue and apparel. Roommates additionally went down. Maybe y’all getting out of the home extra?”
The actual shocker: “Tentacles dropped out of the highest 25 for the primary time. Times are a changin.”
Poll takers have been additionally given an opportunity to incorporate “write-ins” on the poll, which incorporates fetishes like “Stealth/hidden intercourse,” “Brat-taming,” “Scissoring, woo!” and “a moth lady,” which I’m guessing is a really particular sub-genre of Monster Girls. Some urged kinks are fairly good, like “healthful kisses after intercourse,” although HotPink gently objected to 1 explicit write-in: “‘married intercourse’- yeah sounds nice 😜” they stated.
I would not thoughts seeing these sorts of ultra-specific choice surveys by devs of non-lewd video games, too, by the way in which. I can simply envision ballot outcomes like “escort missions are nonetheless in final place with zero factors,” “Ctrl is and at all times ought to be the default key for crouching” and “in 2025, completely nobody has a kink for ready for shaders to compile.”
You can take a look at HotPink’s video games on itch.io and go to their Patreon.
