I mean like Playboy for the articles with good articles, or a well seasoned Lemmy feed. Beyond softcore is fine if not preferred.
I’ve played a few Renpy graphic novels, but all are flat mostly lifeless grinders. Probably everything I have ever played is on par with the crap I talked about with school friends in 3rd to 5th grade school boy lunch cringe talk. I like novel complexity. I do not find conservative convention or stereotypes amusing, and despise typical Western misogynistic roles and expectations. Cis het by pref, but will roll with anything if the writing is great. Most Free and Open Source Software repos seem to shy away from anything adult or mature in orientation. I found some stuff on twitch.io. What other options do you like or recommend?
It appears that the reason this kind of content is not on repos like GitHub because it violates their usage terms, apparently.
It seems that making anything like this is deemed distribution of pornographic material which automatically attracts the ambulance chasers.
It’s as if we’re living on a timeline where it’s okay to kill each other with guns, but not okay to see naked humans engaging in adult activities.
Yeah, like Oh no! doG hates your fundamental human needs as scientifically defined. You’re supposed to bottle and depress yourself on par with the most sadistic misers in the group!
You can sell more guns to repressed people.
I would argue that real FLOSS games don’t use GitHub for hosting since it’s Microsoft-owned.
As I said, “like GitHub”.
The same types of restrictions no doubt exist on other shared repository platforms.
I’ve not seen anyone attempting to use a platform already dedicated to adult content as a place for a repository, but that seems like an idea worth pursuing.
It’s corporate interests that generate lists of things that shareholders don’t want on a platform. There are several shared repos that aren’t for profit, some with a policy of only allowing open source software. You wouldn’t put all the art assets on there as the servers have limited capacity, but in principle “adult content” isn’t universally prohibited in places where it isn’t the primary focus.
You may find something at GitGud, it’s a GitLab with some NSFW projects https://gitgud.io/explore
Interesting browse but jeez, lots of boring text driven stuff and even more boring click-to-make-anime-girl-naked stuff. Where is the maturity with sexuality in gaming?
I don’t know if any of the ones I would recommend are open source. I don’t think they are, though they are made with RenPy. They’re also very gay. But then, some of them, while advertised as porn, have zero sex scenes.
Yeah, I agree that open source is a sticking point.
In terms of source availability,
unrpaandunrpycwill let one access source for RenPy games.
For Twine games,tweegocan decompile them. But that doesn’t make them open-source.I’ve got a longer comment above speculating on some of the factors as to why this isn’t very common.
F95zone.to has a wide variety of games available.
i don’t know if it’s open software but Degrees of Lewdity is certainly free and has a lot of writing in it. A warning though - with this recommendation i’m taking your “beyond softcore” line on a bit of a journey. You can judge if it’s your thing or not at the point of setting it up - so don’t skip that step
It’s FOSS and a pornographic game, but I don’t think that it really fits OP’s criteria:
I’ve played a few Renpy graphic novels, but all are flat mostly lifeless grinders. Probably everything I have ever played is on par with the crap I talked about with school friends in 3rd to 5th grade school boy lunch cringe talk. I like novel complexity. I do not find conservative convention or stereotypes amusing, and despise typical Western misogynistic roles and expectations.
Degrees of Lewdity has the player playing a kid being sexually-abused, and has one interacting with other kids who are sexually-abused. The game permits changing genders of characters, so I guess technically one could have male characters instead of female characters in that role, but I think that it’d fail the misogyny criteria. Humiliation and degradation are kind of major elements of the game.
Free Cities is another successful erotic FOSS game with a fair bit of writing, albeit not really primarily plot-oriented, but again, really falls over on the misogyny criteria; the game is about sexual enslavement in a dystopia.
Honestly, I’d have a hard time thinking of much non-FOSS material, much less FOSS, that qualifies.
For any material, FOSS or no, a lot of pornographic content is what I’d call not all that sophisticated. Someone’s aroused, they aren’t necessarily going for a lot of complexity. So a lot of erotic video games aren’t going to have terribly sophisticated plots to begin with.
For FOSS in particular, I think that there are very few plot-oriented games, adult or no. The problem is that most FOSS developers want to be able to enjoy the games they write themselves, and…it’s hard to do that with plot. FOSS does well with things like roguelikes, where there’s a procedurally-generated aspect to the game, rather than plot-oriented stuff.
And on top of that, I can think of very few games that have “novel complexity”. Video games in general don’t really have “noveI complexity”. I guess text-heavy stuff like visual novels or interactive fiction come the closest.
The only explicitly-FOSS adult visual novel that I can think of off the top of my head is Katawa Shoujo, and I don’t know if it’d meet the author’s criteria. That’s not to say that there aren’t other adult VNs out there under open-source licenses, but I think that most are simply released freely; I don’t see much discussion of license, for whatever reason, in the VN world.
Kinda similar for interactive fiction. There’s plenty of freely-available interactive fiction out there, including some with erotic content. But most of it isn’t open-source.
SugarCube — a popular language for authoring Twine games — can be decompiled with tweego, so one can generally access source code, but that’s not the same thing as being FOSS. I haven’t seen much by way of explicitly-FOSS Twine games (Degrees of Lewdity and Free Cities being exceptions, erotic Twine FOSS games).
I think that maybe with heavily plot-based stuff, developers don’t feel the point of collaboration, which is kind of a major reason for making something FOSS. Most novels aren’t written by a team.
If OP’s willing to simply permit for non-open-source, freely-available content, that would help free things up considerably.
EDIT: Oh, Fort of Chains, intended to be — I’m not sure it succeeds — an open-source take on No Haven. That’s Twine, and open-source. I don’t think that it’d meet a “novel length complexity” constraint either.
At some point Corruption of Champions was open-sourced, though IIRC that’s authored in some old version of Actionscript, and I don’t know how easy building and running it in 2025 is going to be, and while that’s got writing, I think that “novel complexity” is also going to be out of reach there.
i know the game is weird but saying “kid” makes it sound like it’s actually about crimes, the protagonist is of age
I mean, I’m pretty sure that there’s a pro forma disclaimer, but the setting’s pretty incompatible with that.
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All characters depicted are at least 18 years of age. Everything is consensual role play, and any animals are actually people in costumes.
Yeah. The disclaimer is tongue-in-cheek. I mean, the game’s got bestiality, tentacle rape, forced drugging, schoolchildren being many of the characters, an abusive orphanage, rape, sexual parasites, etc. A substantial portion of the game mechanics center around the increasing vulnerability of the main character, who lives at the orphanage, to casual rape by people, animals, and suchlike around the town. The main character can be forcibly-tattooed by the school bully or by other rapists with things like (goes to do a
git grep) “rapetoy”, “abuse me”, “dumb bitch”, and suchlike.I’m no prude, have got no issue with the content being in the game. I’m sure that there are a lot of people who are into role-playing a submissive character who will enjoy it. But I’m just saying that OP is asking for something that avoids misogyny and is thinking about possibly that something more-hardcore would be preferable to something softcore. Seems fair to give them a heads-up that Degrees of Lewdity deals with a lot of kink material that may be outside what they’re looking for.
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yeah i know 😭 hence why i advised them to pay attention during the set up of the game. even the toggles there are good warning of what kind of game it is
