Thread 720024375

For decades, the end of the month has meant one thing for eroge fans: new releases. But in August 2025, for the first time in industry history, not a single full-priced eroge was released—a shocking and unprecedented milestone.

Although several titles are slated for September, the fact remains that an entire month has gone completely barren, erasing what was once a staple tradition of the industry: the monthly flood of new eroge at retail.

The reasons are likely more complex than simple scheduling. In recent years, stricter regulations and the mounting pressure of payment processors like VISA and Mastercard have made distribution increasingly difficult, forcing some developers to scale back or reconsider projects altogether. It’s no longer just a question of whether a game will sell, but whether it can even be released.

While fans can look forward to upcoming titles in the months ahead, the drought of August 2025 serves as a sobering symbol of the eroge industry’s decline. Gone are the days when stores lined up shelves with multiple new titles every month and fans queued eagerly on release day—a monthly ritual that now seems to be fading into history.

I only play indie h-games so I don't really care about this.

>>720024375 (OP)
It's because all the devs are saving for September release
Where 3 anime adaptation of visual novels are ending : Nukitashi, Nine, and Summer Pocket in hope for getting new consumers introduced by those anime

I don't understand the appeal of porn or masturbating in general.
if you want to satisfy your dick, why not just have sex?
once a week should be enough.

>>720024580
Hey,
I'm a retard just like you, except I have a hard time figuring out the appeal of racing. Why don't they just drive a car irl?

>>720024375 (OP)
>credit card schizo rambling out of nowhere
Didn't read

Im glad zoomers the porn addict generation keep getting fucked by the government and corporations, you deserve it for being the most retarded generation that has ever existed

>>720024375 (OP)
>Silksong stopped the entire eroge industry too
Damn that game is too powerful

remidner

>>720024580
Retard like you would never understand anyways.

That isn't the reason at all. Eroge devs have been hemorrhaging money for the past decade because their studios are expensive, don't release a lot of content, and are slow to adapt to market trends.

The actual H gaming market has pivoted almost entirely to independent doujin works on DLsite, which can be made by one guy in his basement and sell for a far more competitive price. All that has happened is that the "AAA" porno market has died off, because nobody wants to pay 80 bucks for a 15 hour VN and if they did, they could just buy an old one on sale because there are a billion of the fucking things.

>>720026510
I do find it funny normalfags spend the entire 10s telling da icky weebs their feelings for fictional characters were not valid because they weren't real only to spend the better half of the 20s defending pixels harder than they defend real kids, especially when said normalfags are also helping sweep the epstein shit under the rug.

sankaku gone to shit ages ago

>>720024375 (OP)
Came here to say this >>720026853 there's more eroge being made now than ever, it's just that "full price eroge" was never really sustainable and it's naturally winding down.

The bottom line is, with modern technology, you don't really need a whole corporate structure with management and HR and support staff to create these titles.
Therefore, you don't need to charge the high prices they once commanded to sustain that structure, and the audience that once paid those prices have "retired" from eroge anyway.
So these games either get undercut by cheaper and better indie titles, or smothered by gacha titles which massively outscale them in revenue.

>>720026998
This implies the site was ever not dogshit.