Steam's most-wanted sex game is trapped in development hell
There's only one adult game in the ranking of Steam's 100 most-wishlisted games(opens in new tab) and it's at number 25, above Homeworld 3, Darkest Dungeon 2, and Redfall. This is Operation Lovecraft: Fallen Doll(opens in new tab), a 3D, Unreal Engine-powered game described on its Steam page as «a Cthulhu mythos inspired sex simulator and third-person sandbox.»
It's not just big on Steam. Over on Patreon, where developer Project Helius is raising funding for Operation Lovecraft: Fallen Doll, it's got almost 15,000 patrons and is the fourth most-popular adult game(opens in new tab).
What's made this by far Steam's top upcoming adult game? While the majority of Steam's flood of hentai games are 2D or static or pre-rendered, Operation Lovecraft is 3D, professionally animated, and interactive. It's being made in Unreal Engine 5 after beginning in UE4, and has real-time hair rendering and mocapped models. Patreon updates boast of «Physics based real time body fluid simulation» and «Dynamic Sweat». In addition to customization sliders for hair color and breast jiggle intensity there's one for skin wetness that applies a sheen of sweat to collarbones and other places it might naturally pool. It's a long way from the average match-3 puzzle game with stolen art, and boasts of VR compatibility. Characters still sometimes clip through their clothes or the overactive breast physics go wild, but it's a rare adult game that looks like a big-budget release.
Operation Lovecraft is also making greater effort than many of its pornographic peers to seem like a genuine game, and its developers have outlined a kitchen sink of features, some of them hard to imagine. The first sentence of its Steam description declares it a «roguelike strategy
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