GOG has launched the Freedom to Buy initiative, offering delisted or controversial games for free to protest silent censorship and promote access to legal, responsibly made titles.
  • blobchoice@feddit.ukEnglish
    1581·
    27 days ago

    I have to say since this whole anti porn in games thing has happened, I’ve ironically exposed myself to more porn games.

    Before I wouldn’t imagine playing porn games. Ever since the itch unban, I’ve tried a few games on itch.io to see what the fuss was about and got absolutely hooked on Queens Brothel - to the point where I’ve paid for the full version on Patreon. And now I’ve got these games on my gog library.

    If the Christian brothers and sisters at Collective Shout wanted less people exposed to porn games, lol. lmao even.

  • GriffinClaw@lemmy.zipEnglish
    87·
    28 days ago

    Bless you, GOG. If you werent so expensive in my country, Id completly port my Steam lib in a heartbeat.

    Ima grab the titles at least :)

  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    77·
    27 days ago

    FYI, clicking the “Claim now!” button under a game will still claim the whole bundle

    i now own a bunch of porn games cuz i wanted to try Postal 2 -_-

    edit: it is thankfully possible to hide games from your library, tho unfortunately heroic games launcher does not care 😖

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      27 days ago

      FYI, clicking the “Claim now!” button under a game will still claim the whole bundle

      i now own a bunch of porn games cuz i wanted to try Postal 2 -_-

      Uhh, yeah me too. And they used my credit card to sign up for porn. Smh, GOG

  • Gerowen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    27 days ago

    Word of warning, clicking “Claim” on any of these games claims them all. I clicked claim on Postal 2 and got a warning message that I never thought to read, but now I have “Lust Theory” and other timeless classics in my GoG library.

    Just wanted to put this out there.

  • buttnugget@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    27 days ago

    The exact list of games is as follows:

    • POSTAL 2
    • Agony + Agony UNRATED
    • Leap of Love
    • Being a DIK – Season 1
    • Leap of Faith
    • House Party
    • HuniePop
    • Lust Theory
    • Treasure of Nadia
    • Summer’s Gone – Season 1
    • Fetish Locator Week One
    • Sapphire Safari
    • goodnighttothe_spoon@lemmy.todayEnglish
      12·
      27 days ago

      I legit thought this was a joke at first. They really said here have all these porn games. Not that I ever paid for them anyways, or played them even …

        • Nico198X@europe.pubEnglish
          12·
          27 days ago

          Haha it’s a little weird! Postal 2 isn’t a porn game, but is ultraviolent and has been generating controversy for 20 years!

          Still got it, Postal Guy

          • rozodru@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            26 days ago

            Free marketing for Running with Scissors.

            I used to live in Tucson, I knew a couple guys at Running with Scissors and yeah this doesn’t surprise me. Dudes are pros at getting their names out there free of charge. When there’s any sort of controversy of even the slightest thing in the games industry they WILL try and slap Postal on it. it works. they’ve been around for like 30 years now and have made like what? 4 postal games? and then remastered the others a few times that they had other devs work on. Completely independent too. They’re not a huge company but everyone that works for them has been comfortable without much effort for some time now.

  • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    27 days ago

    I am the gayest gay who ever was a gay. And I apparently own these things now. In solidarity with the goons! Freedom!

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      26 days ago

      I am the gayest gay who ever was a gay.

      I feel like this is going to be a trivia question.

      “Who was the gayest gay who ever was a gay?”

      “JohnVanDenver?”

      “No, I’m sorry, the answer is JimVanDeventer.”

      • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        26 days ago

        Someone called out the name “Archie” and I turned around to see who wanted my attention. Call me whatever you want; it apparently doesn’t matter.

  • wagesj45@fedia.io
    291·
    28 days ago

    Anyone else having issues redeeming it? Hope I can nab them before the deadline.

    Nevermind, I got it when I disabled my PiHole. 🤷

    • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
      39·
      28 days ago

      Nevermind, I got it when I disabled my PiHole. 🤷

      Quite ironic, given the subject

        • AgentRocket@feddit.orgEnglish
          3·
          27 days ago

          Yes. Germany for example requires a proper age verification with id, but since stores don’t want to implement that, they just block these games. At least GoG lets you buy them through a VPN. Steam is much more thorough and won’t let you buy them if the account has German payment info or a German address linked to it. You can create a second account with vpn and buy the games on that account using gift cards, but you can’t gift the games to your main account.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      27 days ago

      I couldn’t redeem on my phone until I opened Firefox instead of embedded chrome and log into GoG before I could get past the damned Cloudflare hell

      • wagesj45@fedia.io
        31·
        27 days ago

        I hate Cloudflare so much. It’s getting to the point that some apps I use in browser will just stop working, and when I reload the tab to reset it, turns out Cloudflare was blocking the traffic until I do their stupidass human test.

  • Deflated0ne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    27 days ago

    I haven’t played a porn game since I was a teen in highschool. 20-odd years ago. Now I own a whole mess of the things.

      • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        27 days ago

        So, there’s this game still on Steam called Slaves of Rome that is the definition of non-consentual NSFW games, and it’s also an open-world action RPG, so the format is very accessible and also not badly done for an indie. So, it has me very confused why it was spared.

              • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
                3·
                26 days ago

                … How is that the name of an actual game?

                Just in case, no, that was a joke about Voltaire, the philosopher.

                The phrase “Holy Roman Empire” is most commonly used for the German empire that went from Charlemagne to 1800-ish (long after the fall of the “other” Roman Empire). Voltaire criticized the HRE of his time calling it “neither holy, nor Roman or an empire”.

                This quote is kind of a meme among Crusader Kings players for example because HRE is kind of a pain in these games.

                • lath@piefed.socialEnglish
                  2·
                  26 days ago

                  In the wide world of indies, no name is too weird to use.

                  I did think of Voltaire the person, but I wasn’t aware of the Crusader Kings connection.

          • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
            61·
            27 days ago

            Eh… I am not gonna protect games fundamentally about raping people. And would ask that you maybe not associate that with smut and art games.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
    261·
    27 days ago

    Of the list, I would say Lust Theory is worth a look.

    You are groundhogs daying through high school/college trying to bang every single woman in your life. Animations are… sufficient and I do kind of like that any of the more fucked up stuff is almost always followed up with “and then you were kicked so hard in the balls you died” although it would be nice if they weren’t critical path for progression. And it is pretty hilarious that the game lets you define your relationship to the various ladies you live with… but it is still pretty clearly coded for incest of some form which leads to hilarity like “It is so morally wrong that you are having sex with your Live In Janitor”… which I guess would actually be really morally wrong…

    But yeah. Mostly the bundle is the bottom of the barrel. Or stuff that has been around so long it is mostly just a meme for how bad porn games are (house party).