Third year in a row, let’s goooooooooo.
As usual, this is less of a list that excludes everything but the best of the best and more of a spotlight of things I played I feel are worth mentioning.
While there’s no specific order these are added into, it’s still by what comes to mind which means the ones at the top are the first ones that came to mind before I had to dig through my purchases list.
And as usual the title of each links to their page (I don’t have affiliate links, don’t worry).
夏のサカり
One of my most anticipated releases and still one of this year’s highlights even as I write this 12 months later.
It’s the latest release from the same people that made Insult Order and to give you an idea of how good this one is, I revisit the story still, which is wild especially when a game has free mode. But this one understands that plot in porn is acutally important and strikes a great balance in that front.
It’s not a deep emotional story mind you, but it makes me act up still. If a girl has a pantyhose the “half-off” configuration is said pantyhose stretched between legs instead of just hanging on one leg or being torn. That’s the sort of shit that opens people’s third eye.
アイコミ
Illgames continues to NOT defeat the Not-Illusion allegations as they released the equivalent to Koikatsu… and I’m gonna be honest, I prefer this one leagues above Koikatsu or Koikatsu Sunshine. Mind you, I don’t really care about modding, I engage with the game as-is.
On the Illgames front it’s honestly their best one so far, especially because I still don’t know how to feel about Samabake Scramble, it kinda felt like step back from Honeycome even if the idea of having a modern take on Artificial Academy was neat.
Gotta wonder what their next step will be. Logic dictates it’ll be a take on AI Shoujo, maybe it won’t be… though if it is that only makes me more curious on what they’ll do after they reach that part of the cycle. Will they try Room Girl? Will they do something else? I doubt they’ll go back to the Rapelay/Play Home format of a story plus free mode… though given how well it worked for Miconisomi I’d lie if I said I wasn’t interested.
Until then, Aicomi is one I actually revisit constantly, which was not something I did as much for the other two.
巨乳スレイヤー
The GOAT BlackMetalU-1 coming in with a first person dungeon crawler.
The thing you gotta understand about that circle is that there’s always a shocking amount of game design going into their stuff. In this case there’s a whole mechanic where being able to defeat a girl with enough resources left isn’t just to see more animation but get more bonuses. You’re also capped at how much you can grind on each floor because if you get to a specific level a Succubus comes in and drains your levels but you still get points you can assign to start stronger.
And that’s not even counting how big the game is compared to their other offerings, even the delisted ones.
巨乳の女の子たちにひたすら種付けするだけのゲーム
AND THEY RELEASED ANOTHER ONE RIGHT BEFORE THE YEAR ENDED.
This one has less gameplay than their usual affair but it’s still great. Basically you’re an Incubus fucking your way around town. It’s good because it’s basically like the usual NPC Fucking game but with the player’s presence acknowledged more fully. It’s the sort of game where an extra step here and there to spice the process up would’ve been great but not like its absence detracts from what’s already there.
鏡の淫魔と悪魔のタネ
This one released literally after I wrote my last GOTY list and that made me upset.
Muni Kobou is another one of those very consistent game circles where you look forward to all their recurrent characters, and this one was a treat as usual. It was the more involved kind with NPC recruiting and such rather than their more experimental shorter affair.
Dreamin’ Wisteria ～ヤンデレ淫魔のおっぱい搾精7日間～
This one is Muni Kobou’s entry for this year, and an example of what I mean by “shorter” or “experimental”. It’s a shorter exploration game instead of a big and sprawling RPG with a shitton of characters.
I should add also, that I’m not one to like femdom games as much from preference as from how tedious they tend to be gameplay-wise, and yet Muni Kobou is the one circle I’ll always make an exception for in that front.
ドロケイ
I can’t believe I didn’t speak about one of my 2023 favorites Keidoro on my first GOTY list. Keidoro was an erotic combat RPG where you’re part of a squad of cops solving a mystery. Dorokei meanwhile is about an underground squad of phantom thieves.
It was such a fun surprise, not just because I loved the first one, but because it came kinda out of nowhere.
淫らで邪悪な魔女の森
Another out-of-nowhere return. Fullflap of Demon’s Sperm and ShinSeiDen fame returned out of nowhere with a 2D platformer with 3D graphics… well, I say out of nowhere, but they’ve remained active with monthly updates.
What’s impressive about this one (and all their games) is that they don’t use engines like Unity or Unreal, they do things with frameworks and libraries the older way.
フォレスティア～ちいさな町の牧場ライフ～
Inazuma Soft’s long-awaited farming sim. I’m gonna be honest, this was so good that I’m slightly annoyed it was made in RPG Maker just because you can FEEL the seams of the engine coming loose with the gameplay. Still insane what they managed to achieve otherwise, though.
SUMMER ~夏の14日~
Dieselmine games are always a highlight of the year. This SUMMER game is notably different from the last two carrying the name, focusing instead of two sisters that are childhood friends of the main character. If you’ve played the earlier SUMMERs it’s nothing new gameplay-wise, but I appreciate how it reinforces the element of there being other clients in the ryokan you’re staying in with entries and exits you might not even notice.
The circle’s games are always pretty, but playing it when I did had me like “Oh God I gotta go out to a beach like this”. Alas, the game released in November.
フェアリーメイト ～手乗り妖精と過ごす日々～
An erotic desktop partner sort of game. It’s very involved because the partner in question will ask you to name a show you like, or a genre of movies you like and then she just casually mentions them. It’s unironically more engaging than any sex chatbot out there as a result.
The author recommends treating it like a real time thing, like you’re catching up with her and the relative dullness of feeding her answers definitely adds to that sensation of “this is meant to be played slowly”, but you CAN press a button and accelerate the process.
AVカントクLIFE! ~色んなわたしを撮ってください~
A porn-producer simulator. It’s shockingly complex with it keeping track of the angles, experience, camera quality, length of the clips, and even what you’ve released beforehand. It’s legitimately engaging on a pure mechanical level.
Shame that they had a bunch of AI-generated assets for a couple of minigames. Sure, they changed them on a later update but the thing is that once you see a single one of those assets you start wondering how much of the rest of the game is AI-geneated and that’s a disservice to the actual illustrators involved.
SEVENSTELLAE
Fantasy Game is another circle that really came to my crosshairs last year and they opened the year strong with this RPG where you take control of different girls in different scenarios before facing the final boss with all of them.
勇者と使者～女神の代弁者の俺にできること～
With this one they tried to do the single-heroine defeat combat style.
サキュバスロードレガリア
Succubus battle-themed. The combat system is more involved requiring you to click in specific spots. It was a tad confusing at the start.
ルシファーリリスVSミカエルリリア RUST BATTLE地上を賭けた最終決戦
I’m assuming it’s supposed to be “Lust Battle”? Regardless, you can really tell they’ve improved with their art real fast this year alone in the progression with these four games.
ルーザーメーカー
An open-ended action RPG. That circle has been iterating in the idea for a while and this one is the most polished one so far. The price is a tad high but given the production values to production scale it’s definitely worth it.
ブルマの冒険4
Yamamoto Doujinshi is another quality circle, I’m adding it more because I’m shocked I haven’t mentioned them before.
パイズリクリッカー
The title is self-explanatory. The biggest shocker is that it’s not just a Coolkyou-looking artstyle, it was ACTUALLY illustrated by Coolkyou and even has a Tohru and a Komori outfit in it.
牛娘メイドのミルクカフェ
First release of the year by Kuroneko Kisaten. It’s meant to be a raising sim where you can get “special” characters if you raise the base girl a specific way. I loved the game but it felt stuck between two different good ideas (character-driven management and raising sim) while not developing either properly.
メス犬トレーニング
Kuroneko Kisaten’s second release of the year is a fun contrast tonally. Instead of being the benevolent head of a harem you’re now a cop in a world where there’s dogpeople and you’ve been assigned a really bratty doggirl as a partner.
Notably it doesn’t have any pixelart animations, but it tries something interesting where all CGs are instead framed like panels of a comic page. I love the idea but the resolution of the screen could’ve been higher.
奥様はNTR志望 純愛?復讐?
The shadow Handyman Densetsu casts over this scene is long. Azucat has always been the kind that feels like they’re emulating things they like instead of just copying them just because or chasing a trend, though.
But yeah, you take the role of a guy wooing a neighbor and if I had any complaints it would be the fact that the game seems to forget it’s supposed to be an NTR game for like 90% of it until a single ending.
I’m not even that into NTR but I’m also not into tomatoes, and if I’m being sold tomatoes I expect fucking tomatoes and not carrots.
エロ検閲者(the censor)
I’ll admit this one makes me annoyed in a way that is unfair and petty in a “this is a me problem” way. The premise is supposed to be that you work as a social media moderator where you decide if photos should be censored or not. If you purposefully let some pass while still meeting quota, the level of chaos in the city rises and morals lower. That premise is good enough, I like it.
Then there’s the “you can convince the hot married neighbor to cheat on her husband with you” and this is already losing me because this circle’s attempts at NTR stories read like “she should’ve been MINE and not YOURS” which feels… whiny? It doesn’t feel like powerful cunning NTR man, it feels like resentful man that was NTR’d in the past and is getting revenge which is a very different vibe.
THEN there’s a whole exploration element and two other heroines with their own questlines and it’s just a game that feels like it’s trying to be three or four different games into one with little coordination between them.
Also on release there weren’t even endings making it all feel very… rushed, I guess. Just a very unfocused experience in general.
“I’m not really into NTR” says the bitch currently expounding very detailed opinions on what NTR should be about.
参上っ！パイズリ忍者！～いぢわる VS 甘やかし～
Have I talked about Nyuu Station games before? One problem I have with them is the fact that they feel like they made a whole game with no images and then comissioned the art afterwards. That’s not a bad approach…. if not for the fact that it feels like even the consideration of what image goes where feels like an afterthought also.
This was just a general quirk in earlier games but in this one it really feels like that came to the forefront in an obstructive way.
満車率300% 3≒
Beelzebub’s chikan simulator in its ultimate form with an absolutely ridiculous price.
I’m used to paying extra for DLsite games because hey, they sell in smaller volume so it makes sense. But even if you tell me they’re adding girls from the other two train chikan games, 27500 yen is A Lot.
…I mean, I still got it thanks to accumulated points, but still.
モブ娘電車
Oinari Soft has been making these erotic Papers Please-type games for a while. I get them to see how (and if) they shake up the formula but it’s sadly a sort of “you’ve played one you’ve played all” situation in a way that feels unique in this list, where the similarity is a detriment instead of just a “WOW TWO CAKES” scenario.
ぼくと夏のおねえちゃん達
I’m always on the lookout for the next Boku no Natsuyasumi homage and this one didn’t disappoint. While the variety of body types might be slightly limited, that’s just a sign of how smartly the whole game was produced, honestly.
奉仕人形との海の家での3日間
Momoyama Production didn’t release their usual puzzle affair, but they did release this short vacation with the main character of said puzzle games. It’s short and neat.
淫紋憑きのマザー・アリシア
Noumu made two of my favorite NPC Fucking games ever that I still revisit to this day so it was nice to see them back with a short game about a nun fighting her corruption. I also appreciate the fact that she’s not young but you do get to see flashbacks to when she was younger.
THE NPC姦 2 『勇者も邪神もモン娘も 犯しまくりヤりまくり』
If we talk about NPC Fucking games, the biggest OG to me is Mezo Pumpkin’s original, so seeing them release a new one this year was amazing.
NPC姦～自我を持った俺が女を食い荒らす～
Land Wharf also threw their hat in the ring with an NPC Fucking entry and it’s pretty good.
アンドロイドの整備士さん
They also released this one about a prison-like complex where both maladjusted people and discarded gynoids live. It has a certain melancholy to it that I appreciate.
アイランドサーガ:エロシーンおまとめパック -カミチチガールズ-, ハーレムファンタジー:エロシーンおまとめパック -カミチチガールズ-,福音のアパスル:エロシーンおまとめパック -カミチチガールズ-
Kamichichi rereleased some of their old games as CG compilations, basically the gallery function without the rest of the RPG tied to it. And I’ll admit I dig it quite a bit.
I have a soft spot for Harem Fantasy in particular because it was one of the first games I purchased back in the day once I had a means to make online purchases.
オチドル ー大好きな君は下衆な権力に腰を振るー
While this one isn’t anything too crazy in the grand scheme of things, after seeing so many games this year basically reuse the same models purchased from Pixiv Booth, it’s noteworthy whenever someone makes their own models or at least customizes them thoroughly.
フォーリンウィッチーズ
A third person shooter about dominating witches you capture in a map. I really like the idea of using the randomized element as a means to also randomize the gameplay style of each girl you capture.
理想のひきこもり生活 ～父娘イチャイチャ同棲～
Neko3’s games are on the more extreme side of things and while thankfully they keep all the more grotesque elements off by default, this is a circle where I’d be very VERY careful about trying their stuff.
I will still give it a spotlight however, because their simulations are quite on a different level from the usual stuff you see. Their first game involved being a girl’s “dad” (and later a DLC lets you court her bustier friend) and this one is instead about living with a hikkikomori.
砂漠王国と奴○狩り
Speaking of games I wouldn’t recommend lightly or at all just on principle, this is another one that involves slavery and torture… and to be honest it didn’t have anything that particularly appealed to me even with that. I’m still giving it a spotlight, however, because it’s just impressive in execution and post-release support.
Nakara
Yet another one in the “wouldn’t personally recommend but it’s impressive still” category. Mind you, less because of any extreme content and more just because I’m not into femdom and I find femdom gameplay dull as mentioned before.
おっぱい育成クリッカーR18
A simple clicker game about a girl’s growing breasts. I thought it was cute.
爆乳天国エンジェルビッチーズ2
Mikanhata is one of those circles that basically does one thing but they do it consistently. I’m picking this one more as a random pick than because it specifically stands above the rest of their recent releases.
I don’t know how intentional it is, but the extreme proportions always read in my head like when a porn video tries to film stuff with a wide-angle lens so the artstyle feels less exaggerated somehow.
最強の女戦士。ただしアホ。 魔王城潜入！,最強の女戦士。ただしアホ,犯されメイドの除霊方法3,犯されメイドの除霊方法4
Nagasaki Iroha-tei basically specializes in short games light on gameplay but full of stunning animations. So I’m just listing the ones they released this year.
逆！えろサバ, らんだむ痴○電車
I love Yakiimo Musou. They give me this vibe of someone that plays a specific type of game and then goes on to copy it to try and figure out what makes them tick. So seeing them crop up after being absent last year was nice.
The first one is another iteration in the real time management type of game they’ve been doing for a bit. The second one is a simple chikan simulator, but it’s funny because the save system reveals they’re reusing code from an older game of theirs, since it keep tracks of parents and such, a mechanic that doesn’t exist in this one.
漫研顧問は佐伯ささらを支えたい
Raise an introverted girl into a slut. Simple enough. It’s by the same circle that made a game with a similar premise last year but instead of being about the only person in the school’s manga club, last one was about a gyaru spending time in the janitor’s room.
I dig the monochrome artstyle, though. I also like the theming where you have to remind the girl about deadlines with her project and such.
ひみつきちのヒミツ
A short game about meeting up with two sisters on a secret base in the woods. It was in production for a while and it was definitely worth the wait. The animations are gorgeous.
賢者タイムのスッキリ人妻冒険記
A Sage (like the DQ class) that can only fight during Sage Time (what we in the west call “post-nut clarity”) so all the housewives in the town help him with that. The enemies are also hot girls and if you don’t deal with them fast enough your own horniness will be your undoing which is an interesting idea to see.
This is one of those games that feels like the author had way too much in their head compared to how much they put on paper, down to having a “wanna hear the backstory of the main character?” aside on the post-game gallery.
月紅神姫コーネリア
Honeysoft’s last game was a 2020 one about an isekai where the main character reincarnates as an Orc. It tried really hard having full sequences like openings that made it feel more like an attempt at an anime (or something heavily anime-inspired as it were) which was really interesting.
This one is the usual Magical Girl Ero RPG affair but it carries quite a bit of that energy.
Also I keep thinking this was illustrated by Pinesphere when it wasn’t.
恥辱連鎖
This one has a central minigame and the more you progress in it, the more sex scenes you unlock. It’s all prerendered 3D but God Damn it’s some good 3D.
セックスセラピスト GAME版
Speaking of 3D: Umemaro’s entry for this year was nice as usual.
性欲ゾンビの夏休み
Inu no Tamagoyakiya-san is another circle that really came to my attention last year (though they’ve been making games for a while before) and they got busy this year. The main highlight for me is this one where you play as a guy during summer vacation right as a zombie breakout happens.
It’s also a loop game so you gotta look for the best outcome where you save everyone.
色仕掛けクエスト～淫魔誘惑と籠絡～
Another entry of theirs, this one vitality-draining-themed.
モンスター娘の鎖と快楽
And this one is monstergirl tamer(?)-themed.
ギャルとオタクしかいない島
Last year the trend seemed to be WWA (Worldwide Adventure)-type games (the kind where you pick the stat boosts off the floor), and this year there’s been a proliferation of Survival games instead. This one is Gyaru/Otaku-themed.
おねショタ無人島性活～短小包茎のハーレム天国
Similar premise, but make it Oneeshota-themed.
終末シェルター性活
Similar premise but apocalypse shelter themed. Mind you 7senchi has been making those for a bit.
無人島社員旅行記 女たちの生存戦略
Similar premise but “stuck with coworkers on an island”-themed.
Yami-Yami City
The gameplay loop of this one can be a little bit repetitive (it’s just about making money to hire prostitues and eventually hire the most expensive prostitutes) and the position variety isn’t the highest but I still liked what I played of it.
It’s also not the first game I’ve encountered that thinks draglook is acceptable over mouselook in 2025 and that’s endlessly fascinating.
やりたい放題マン in オフィス
This is another one with draglook. The cover isn’t the best and the UI is clunky but it gets all the marks for what it tries to accomplish, which in this case is a simulator where you gotta fuck everyone in an office with skills like turning invisible and such.
ギャルベヤ！?～学校最寄りのギャルのたまり場～
You leave your door open for Gyarus to hang in your room and then if you have better stuff or stuff they like, they like you more.
This is very weird to explain unless you’ve played it but it really feels like gyarus are the author’s kink in a way you only feel when someone’s kink is in full display. There’s other games involving gyarus in this list but this was the first one where it felt like “damn”.
しすたーず!-義姉妹との性活-
This one’s a short adventure game about living with two sisters.
聖転使クロスニアハート
Last time Ixy released a game it was two years ago with an expansion for the game they released five years ago. While it might look similar in the surface because both had pink-haired magical girls, this more recent one is actually about a boy becoming a girl so it’s more like Ore Twintail Ni Narimasu except…
…I was gonna fall into the usual “except not for cowards” joke, but I’ve read the OreTwi novels to the end. Let’s say instead that it’s like OreTwi but with sex.
起きないでねむこちゃん
This one’s a neat short game about having your way with a sleeping girl.
合成×爆乳進化！バニーガールVIPパイズリ！
This one amused me because it’s basically Suika Game but the bigger your score the bigger the girl’s tits.
家出少女といっしょ。～ダウナーゲーマーJKとイチャラブ同棲生活～
Simple cohabitation sim about living with a “Downer Gamer JK”. On one hand the design doesn’t fit either of what those descriptors entail, but on the other I can’t get enough of 検索結果’s artstyle.
身体測定士のおしごと
This one was driving me insane because I knew I played it but couldn’t find it on my purchases list.
Anyway, it’s another collection animation, this time the theme is physical examination. My only complaint would be that the flow forces you to examine all girls regardless of preference which I guess fits the theme but also it can get a bit repetitive since you don’t unlock the next set of animations until you finish that tier with everyone.
神宝の解放者≪リベレイター≫
A nice ol’ RPG, the kind where you get really invested in the story before long with a lot of big hype moments thrown in. Easy recommend, the gameplay also clearly had a lot of effort put into itself.
Hoi Hoi Hoi
This one’s not a game but a whole circle. Just like how I’ve highlighted specific circles by the end of the last two lists, I figured I could spotlight this one here.
This year was interesting because in terms of games that made huge emotional impressions it felt thinner than the last two… BUT I feel like I played more things of a quality worth spotlighting?
Like, I’d struggle to say anything this year hit me the same way DECOY or Sakura Gozen did last year, or Natsu no Sagashimono did two years ago… but also the list has way more items this year that I felt worth the space here and there’s a lot I didn’t mention because I bought but haven’t tried (and I feel like the fact that I didn’t feel the need to prioritize them is worth weighing in on the whole).
I guess if the games were a curve, the peaks are lower but also the valleys are higher resulting in a more even graph.