The Secret Adult Gaming Platform That's Bigger Than Steam
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Note: Miyamoto-san never said this (4:11). Mental note to self: must improve sarcasm skills.
You're a good channel making good video
lolol I had assumed that was a joke
i thought it was real and almost showed my mom😭
I thought you fell for a fake post there for a second
Not a single Nutaku game is on steam. In fact the site isn't large. Its a scam. Its literally a scam. It has a bunch of demo games but the last time it was actually a usable game site was 15 years ago. Its not popular its just a site that is actually a site that has a shit ton of scam networks running threw it. Basically anytime a site sends you to something you did not want to go to Nutaku is to blame. The company that owns Nutaku is the company that sends you endless spam emails that try to steal your information mostly banking information. The company was actually created back in 1958 and was a porn magazine company that sold to kids in Japan then around 2004 they moved to online only. Then in 2006 they started making web comics and games. By 2008 they became a spam site that would send everyone emails telling them to join or force their way by having the most links on other porn sites. In reality they have been banned off most porn sites and they were banned on Steam years ago. The site has a bunch of crappy flash games and that is it.
So the lesson here is to buy smaller porn games from indie developers to support them instead of big corps
😂😂 that’s an interesting way of looking at it
A lot of the non-Mindgeek-published games of Nutaku can be found on Itch and Steam, so if you want to, you can buy the games on the platforms that have owners that actually care about their player base.
Surprisingly enough, there are a few good ones. Though so far I've found only one of them, which is Cloud Meadow, a really good turn-based strategy with a bit of farming sim inbetween. Though I'd also note to not trust the overwhelmingly positive reviews on those games, as, for example, Scarlet Maiden and FlipWitch are mediocre at best
None of the nutaku game's comes close to the indie devs in itch and steam
@@stranger066 for example? asking for a friend 🙂
Plot twist: She actually made this video as an excuse to try out these games without people calling her weird.
“I was doing RESEARCH on tentacle hentai!!!”
Bro
1: women usually don’t really do that as often as men
2: idk her sexuality (straight or lesbian) so most might not even appeal to her
@@rizz-xz9zs
It's a joke,chill
@@rizz-xz9zs Some woman do it just as often if not more. It's not even a matter of woman or man but a matter of person
@rizz-xz9zx No disrespect, but judging from your username, you'd probably think that.
POV : You actually fall for the ' *You won't last for 5 minutes ads* '
I actually haven't seen them do any of those ads.
@@6th_Army You're the chosen one
Nutaku aren't producers, just exploitative rent-seekers. I'm not surprised they're too shy to interview, since it's not a business to be proud of. Even players of Nutaku games don't respect them.
Half true. Nutaku Publishing is where they actually do produce some games (like Project QT, which is really the only game from it that massively took off).
The only really good games come from DMM though.
Can you explain what you mean by rent seeking here? Why is their business something to be proud of?
@@agnishom "Rent seeking" is economic activity that doesn't produce value. There's plenty of studies on it and the economic drain that it incurs, but with regard to Nutaku I'd just identify them as exploiters rather than producers.
@@enkephalin07i just read an article that says a better term would be "privilege seeking"
I've avoided Nutaku like the plague since their inception because I knew *_EXACTLY_* what they were up to, and I was completely right in their scumminess. None of their "success" (if you can even call it that) is literally due to the work of others, namely DMM R18 games that are half-decent. I'm honestly shocked that Nutaku is still in business, but I also don't actively seek out R18 games on the "normal web" and usually am using torrent sites and specialty websites focused on GOOD R18 games.
Ok, entered for the funsies, didnt expect to get groundbraking journalism. Props to you
groundbreaking journalism is reading the wikipedia page, that lists the parent company, now?
@@flatterkatz lighten up buddy its okay
@@cuefy it's ok, yes, at best. Not groundbreaking
@@flatterkatz well no ones saying its ground breaking lmaao. just aan over exaggeration for dramatic effect no harm in being nice.
Don't let them fool you, nutaku games are all trash, have very little gameplay, and have predatory microtransactions. They are just your standard shitty mobile games with nudity.
Obviously its trash, NSFW games are like flash games from 20 years ago
@@lowstaar Honestly, flash games from 20 years ago are better than modern mobile games in general.
Everything aside from localised DMM game are straight trash
when they started at least they took pretty good games from DMM but now its mostly trash
speaking with confidence implies that you have experience
Nah. Those in "adult" gaming communities know what Nutaku is. They have a pretty negative reputation for either taking games from sites like DMM and packaging them with microtransactions (and often butchering them in the process), or just straight up selling trash games that make 20 year old flash games look more professional.
Not to mention that they used to heavily advertise themselves as the "steam for adult". Since then, their history of censorship lead most to distrust them and Steam ended up allowing adult games anyway making Nutaku's selling point a bit moot. Outside of Steam, other places that people go for adult games would usually be DLsite, Mangagamer, Fakku, DMM, Getchu, and maybe sites ran by the publisher itself like Kagura Games.
But I don't doubt that Nutaku still makes a lot of money because they advertise themselves so much so that when somebody wants to play an adult game, they will likely come across Nutaku at some point or another, especially early on. So a lot in the adult gaming communities have had first hand experience with Nutaku. Much off Nutaku is aimed at mobile too and unlike on PC there isn't as much competition there so I can easily see Nutaku getting a lot of users in that area.
But yeah, they have too much baggage for most in the community. They've often made promises to not censor games that they license anymore only to immediately break that promise. They tend to prefer mostly the most bland corporatised version of NSFW as possible so anybody who isn't into that have to look elsewhere. And since the gameplay of their other stuff is pretty bland and the artwork not very well drawn it just isn't appealing. The predatory Microtransactions are the icing on the cake. Nutaku is to Adult Gaming what mobile is to PC/Console gaming.
They shouldn't lie about censorship, but I don't blame them for doing it. Look at all this pearl clutching over pron hub. It's the same kind of ppl complaining about these sites that want more censorship everywhere on the internet. Unfortunately bc of ppl like that ppl start to self censor to avoid problems.
have you played into the nightmare?
They're pretty smart. Buy games from indie developers add microtransactions and they earn more than what they bought. Smart smart smart
It's never not struck me as generic low quality. You can't reinvent the flash porn game wheel. It's just a flash porn game. What people who've never played pornographic video games imagine them to be capable of is like what someone who's never played video games imagines them to be capable of: We're not there yet.
3D games are overly simple, often times just convoluted scene players at their most sophisticated. If there's a way to gamify sex that's legitimately novel/interesting, we haven't found it yet.
So that part about gameplay was all a lie...
How 100% expected.
Literally nothing I saw leads me to believe gameplay is even remotely a primary consideration.
That's your view. Not what people who play these adult games think. They came for porn and gameplay.
@@WallNutBreaker524 What they come for doesn't matter, Nutaku still cares only about hooking people to the adult aspect, and it shows. All they do is take medicore failing games and shoehorn erotic aspects into them. They are not taking any gameplay into consideration, and to be honest most other indie adult games aren't either: literally all adult games are either RenPy or RPGM. This is mostly simply due to the fact that it's often artists trying to make these games rather than programmers, meaning they resort to visual novels or repetitive game templates.
@@TrueOracle So.... there's still Potential for this Genre of Gaming to Grow. 🤔 Very Nice. 🤑😈
@@WallNutBreaker524 Oh 100%, it's an untapped taboo market that doesn't have the publicity and funding to take the next step. Almost all the games are made by individuals.
I think one of the main problems is the large divide between video games, and 'adult' games. There is no game which has a balance of fun gameplay and sufficient erotic content. It's similar to how as soon as you pass the threshold of anime to hentai by adding sex, all good plot and story choices get thrown out the window, it's pretty sad really because it just makes the divide between life and sex larger, how if something has sex it has to only have that and nothing else.
So I mean only time will tell whether the improvements will happen and there is enough funding for an actually good game to be made, but if all else fails, you could always try mods to games such as Skyrim, but they'll never live up to what these games could be...
It's hard to SEE gameplay.
If the reporting here is accurate, the idea is to take existing games and slap some adult stuff in, not the other way around.
The fact that adult content website has tens of billion visit each month is crazy, shows that, 18+ content is as big as gaming industry (videos, images, games combined) but the fact that no one knows that is absolutely odd.
I think that should tell people that there must be other screaming topics that are left in silence, and not just adult stuff.
industry is mostly forced to operate in the shadows
you can't advertise your game anywhere
payment processors are coming down on you hard
No one knows that? Adult content has been a massive moneymaker since the early days of the Internet
0:28 that's hilarious 😭😭😭
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a video so nice it got uploaded twice
Real
exactly
are you surprised
she misquoted someone in the original
First she Nutakued, then the post-Nutaku clarity hit and she cleared her upload history.
"good gameplay"? you've got to be joking, I've been there a good 6 times and honestly I thought all the games were garbage. They're like all cheaply made and short, and don't actually provide the sexual content that people are looking for without locking it behind predatory monetary practices. Nutaku is overall just a waste of time and it is insane that it's bigger than steam.
There are, in fact, a few very good ones with good story abd characters and gameplay, namely Magicami and Legend Clover for example... And they were made with a very high budget.
The sad thing is that these really good ones are only 2% if not 0.5% of all the games there...
Also Magicami EOS'd a while back due to poor management and because it was too high budget to maintain D:
With all due respect, your comment just proves the strategy of the company. They have no interest in solving anyone's desires or needs in one game, they want you to fish the market and keep trying new ones. It's like when people browse X rated content, they open up dozens of tabs and look at a few mins of each one then close. That's the human behavioural patterns they're profiting off, and your comment just proved its succession.
@@dustywoood People really need to learn to quit. Consumption on the internet is effortless and endless, none of this endless consumption is healthy. They just want all your time and money.
@@JohnPeacekeeperwait magicami is dead? Shit, that one actually seemed good
Irony is that Project QT started on Nutaku, then further grew on DMM... usually it's the other way around.
But yeah, unless it's from (or on) DMM as well, consider it a meh to crap game that's an even bigger cash grab. But surprisingly, some stuff was done to be "better" for the Nutaku side just to be fair. It's few and far between though.
"aphrodisiac hot sauce" have you ever gone down on someone with capsacin still on your tongue? That's how you lose a friend
Hence their main audience are those with nobody.
What "friend" do you go down on?
no wonder theyre all virgins
As someone who's failed to reduce his lust, I'm very dismayed that despite adult companies saying they want to put gameplay first, the ones that earn the most or are more lucrative games are just steamy scenes with a little gameplay. This is from small and big studios alike. The audience has sadly voted for these with their wallet. Thank you for the insight into this industry.
Tbh I dont care much about gameplay in h games. Not why I go to them, lol.
My favorites tend to just be simulation/time management type games.
Definitely a tricky topic to discuss on CZcams with their strict policy but am very glad you uploaded it again. Your content is amazing and you do a great job.
a sticky topic
...one hand at a time.
Thank you for spreading awareness on predatory practices in the gaming industry.
It's sad that many people's hobbies have been turned into nothing more than business ventures, with individuals who do not care about their consumers driving the industry.
Well said.
Not to burst the bubble but games are a business like everything else, Maybe there are 100 people naive enough to believe that someone would spend time and efforts and 5 years in a college (and 100K+ to get a degree) to make a game just for fun without get anything out of it,
The time of the developer working in his/her bedroom and selling floppy disks outside a store are long gone; this industry makes a ton of money and big business smell money pretty fast.
@@fcf8269 no one's saying they should be free though, it's just the anti-consumer practices. And tbh you shouldn't go to college for that, unless you can do it for free.
@@fcf8269 "Leave the billion dollar company alone."
@@Seeks__ But she also attacks coomunities like the furry community here. Why such condescension? Is this "objective reporting" when I can see the "journalist" actively seething against the contect she is supposed to objectively report about in every single sentence? I am very surprised with so many people commenting "this is peak journalism" when the negative bias against the industry is evident from the start. It is very clear that she disapproves of porn in general, but this calls to question the entirety of the video for me.
Never played Nutaku (saw ads online a lot in the past), but when I am presented with the dilemma of believing "a billion dollar company" and someone who clearly hates porn and shows is time and time again, I don't think I will trust the reporter on this one. A pity, because there are some interesting facts I didn't know here.
It got funnier each time you said "one hand at a time" throughout the video
your delivery is hilarious. subbed
"Cun-Li from Fortnite"
Bro i'm dead. Do kids these days don't get taught History in school anymore?
It's the parent's fault honestly. Imagine not having your dad beat you in Street Fighter by pressing only one button all the way even into adulthood.
Cun Li sounds like a weird abbreviation of cunnilingus.
I wonder if that was the editor´s fault (probably very young or not into games) or that is the way it appears on the mentioned web site.
@@h0laPlaneta its possible that is how it appeared on a website, I am guessing Capcom at some point did a licensing deal with Epic to put SF characters into Fortnite. I guess I just have to remember that fighting games do not get the media they once did, And also that Fortnite is just that damn huge that it can become the one connected to a licensed in character rather than the originating franchise of said character.
@@h0laPlaneta It probably appears on the site like that. Chun-Li's Fortnite model is known to be uhh... particularly 'bottom heavy' in a way that the original street fighter model isn't. A lot of 'fan content' was made based on this model, and it was a pretty transparent case of Fortnite selling sex to kids (which seems to be half their business strategy).
Crazy how you have less than 20k subscribers. This video is insanely high quality
This video is so great that it's not really a problem to watch it for second time to help with algorithms
I am just waiting for youtube to take it down/demonetize it for nudity, even though youtube doesn't realize promoting these games to kids is not ok.
@@dueeek or...you know.. false information like claiming numbers that cannot be real and have no sources attached to it. this is a nutaku ad.
And why is it great? Should I enjoy someone making judgemental faces because they hate porn and getting all passive-aggressive all the time? This is miles away from good reporting.
Last time I saw something like this was years ago when a guy hating PC reviewed Witcher 2 on... PC.
well, good idea, ill let it play in the background
@@HoaxManTheOne A nutaku ad wouldn't even mention mindgeek. The entire second half of the vid was her just criticizing and exposing the company - not something an ad would ever do.
Well, this actually makes me believe more in the theory that many of these games are actually used as a money-laundering scheme.
These studios rely on drunk and high people who impulse buy games or accidently click on them.
I’m not sure what happened with the original upload but CZcams is way too strict when it comes to using certain words, even if it’s used in a news connotation. You see this all over true crime channels too.
Got taken down in the middle of when I was watching it. Thought the video was frozen so I refreshed the page only to see the community guidelines take down
It's only the Channels CZcams "Verifies" like CNN that they allow these things.
Man finally original topics of investigation. I'm so happy I found this channel. Great work I cant wait to see this channel grow!
The metaverse cyberpunk dystopia isn't even scifi anymore, the internet has been that for years at this point. The moment companies realized that the real product of the internet was us. Good coverage, thanks for the info. The more people that see behind the curtain, the better... I really worry about the not-too-distant future.
@kaiserfranzjoseph9311 I agree. Certain practices can be "dystopian", but I don't think we're living in a dystopia as long as people recognize corruption, greed, etc. If we really were living in a dystopia, nobody in that society would realize that they were living in one.
@kaiserfranzjoseph9311 But to be honest, I'm just tired of people parading around the saying that we live in a dystopia. They remind me of those individuals who claim that the world is "objectively speaking", completely meaningless and that "humankind is inherently evil". Because opinions are derived from our own personal experiences, and the majority of those who state such thoughts are completely miserable.
Like come on, what happened to the heroes in fiction that were all "never give up" and "hope will always prevail"? Now we get relatable villains and grey morality. Not saying that's wrongs, nuance is always enjoyable in stories. But the mindset of our society has obviously shifted from hope to hopelessness, from trying hard to giving up.
Yes, it's a personal bias I have, and I recognize that. But I'm just tired. I am so tired of seeing hopelessness are negativity and depression, and people celebrating it as if that makes them superior or intelligent. No. The only difference I see between you and idiotic, idealistic people is they actually want to wake up in the morning don't wish they died in their sleep.
@@ctrl_x1770 from as far as I've been on the internet I noticed it is made of bubbles, bubbles of people and ideas. Sometimes, the bubbles overlap (for good or bad), but most times they stay well isolated.
Needless to say that some people live in distopias of their own making, inside those bubbles.
What do you think created the Internet? It wasn't Myspace and Ebay.
Couple days ago, police aired a perpetrator who beat up an elderly couple for.... taking too long returning old cans to the supermarket. There was some grainy CCTV. That happened 2 months ago. Police are notoriously bad at such random violence incidents because they lack a motive and the perpetrator could be anyone. People have literally gotten away with murder because good luck finding them. So those two elderly people would probably have nothing left except to lick their wounds and wait until the next roided-up hothead comes along. I myself have some 5 outstanding cases of people who assaulted me during security work, but good luck finding them back then.
Grainy CCTV... Enter the internet. Some people cleared up the CCTV, shoved the criminal's face into reverse image search. Roughly 40 minutes after the police message being reposted to there, someone on Dumpert posted 'Well hello there' followed by a url of said criminal toasting to the next phase of a construction project, in his company clothing meaning it's down to six suspects, which also geolocated him to a specific region which narrows it to 3 suspects.
Within 2 hours of uploading police amended the message to say the suspect had come forward and turned himself in. His company published a news announcement next day going 'Yeah we know he's a criminal, the police knows who he is, stop e-mailing us'.
Explain to me again how we're in a dystopia?
the video quality and your professionalism is insane!
Why is this literally every comment? Are y’all all bots or npcs
Can’t come up with an original line? Literally every single comment is this . Wtf
@@taxxzempt3576 i agree bro ut its not wrong
This woman has a great balance in her speech. She knows when to joke and uses her body language effectively to drive her points home. Very impressive!
Once you came back around to the ending with the twist company reveal -- I basically said the name in tandem, it seems so obvious. I love your mention of how private consumption does not match what we are pushed. It's a huge hole in the gaming market they managed to grab.
Then why the clear shaming of people (both men and women) who privately consume that? I see the author heavily disapproves adult content, that's ok for them. I wonder what my ex fiancee would say about this video. She enjoyed her shirtless men calendars. Would the author also shame her for that?
I dislike this biased approach to the subject.
@@azradun3903 I was going to say this, if author has interest in shaming this form of business, shouldn't she be shaming down OnlyFans, Pornhub, RedTube as well? Let's not forget that Nutaku is deemed a 'safe' site in terms of there not being invasive or dangerous trojans that could use personal information of ours in less convenient things. Her throwing shade on Nutaku's ToS on marketing is rather pathetic, we're talking about terms of marketing that other companies earn extra revenue by having customer's informations sold to other companies to market to. This is basic marketing vice in ALL companies.
Also, many, many dangerous phishing and casino sites prey upon Pornhub and RedTube on its own sites, it has never been a safe site to begin with. 40% of visitors are in age groups that end up majority of time in email scams and other relatively dangerous predicaments that take thousands of hours time from bankers to solve and millions of wealth thrown to criminals.
Yes, Nutaku is very sus site. It's literally 18+ porn game hub, except safe version compared to numerous dangerous hentai and porn sites there are in internet to this day. I would safely say, that as a seldom customer to them I see no point ditching it.
I instantly knew it was Nutaku tbh.
@@McCaroni_Sup Me too, I said "Nutaku" in my mind when I saw this video being discussed by Asmongold. There is no other as successful of a NSFW gaming industry as Nutaku. (Something that isn't just a dodgy website with viruses lurking in games)
I’m really surprised this channel doesn’t get more attention. I had the Monopoly GO video recommended to me and the quality of the content is brilliant.
So you're telling me I can make a living purchasing indie passion projects from destitute game devs, and turning them into shitty thirst trap hentai games?
As a hobby game dev thats the main takeaway for me, too. Think there will be way more games like that soon.
Start one up, I bet you get an acquisition offer pretty quick.
Asmongold brought me here.
this lady deserved it, lots of works put into it and i'm glad she bold enough to talk about it.
@@JayThalea I am confused though, are people trying to say it's bad to have adult games? Because I vehemently disagree. I think if that company was involved with trafficking or anything close to it that's disgusting and something needs to be done about it, but adult games are not bad nor is there a problem with them existing. I subscribed to her though for great reporting, but I never got the feel from the video it was saying it's bad for that stuff to exist
@@eldenvedetta635 no, she saying it's supply and demand. Just like Strip club, it there and make money cause people want it, and there's nothing wrong with it. Still better than Alcohol and Tobacco company cause adult stuffs don't kill people. If anything I'm amazing how they manage to make money out of cheap broken game by adding "adult contents" to them. It's still better than like most American company just abaddon the game wasting all the works. It's a recycle method for bad game and it works.
@@eldenvedetta635 adult stuffs are sensitive topic, that not everyone want to talk about. Just like you don't want to talk with your mother or workplace about these things. I'm glad she talk about it cause it's fascinating.
@JayThalea I wouldn't mind talking to them about these things but I understand the point 😂
Honestly if someone can release more high quality adult games, I think it could become a huge success, the closest thing I can think of is House Party on steam.
The comment of “that’s not how our company really works” seems off to me. Why? Why would a company refuse to make any sort of comment on what they do? Even just from a pure PR bullshit point of view?
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I can easily see that Google and Meta are scared from mindgeek 😂😂😂
The p*rn industry has larger revenues than the top technology companies (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple and Netflix) combined. American children begin consuming hardcore pronography at an average age of 11.
Nutaku still is looked as a mediocre adult game company. They don't come even close to what the idie devs have made such as FlipWitch by MonoGames, Mage Kanade's Futanari Dungeon Quest by Dieselmine or Scarlet Maiden by Otterside Games. All these make the NSFW part of the actual game. While Nutaku just throws it in.
This reminds me of that meme which said: "When a video starts directly with the adult stuff: "There is no plot! There is no aggression! There is no fking mindset!" "
Well, technically Nutaku's games are like 'playable porn'. There is no practicality or sophisticated gameplay to instill to it. Despite there being few casual games that bring some effort in what game has. In a way it's watered down game, and the difficulty not being the major part of game, porn is set to it.
Some years ago (2016-2018) i've seen a lot of these ads popping without even going to x rated sites, now not so much, so yes, the company grew a lot. But not only due to the low supply of h games, but the fact that the big monster of the gaming industry, Steam, didnt allowed adult games in its platform until 2019-2020 (i know the first 18+ game on the platform debuted in september 2018, but the trend really began the next year), so nutaku capitalized the lack of platforms to launch their own.
Also another thing i see that the vast majority of games that nutaku offers are free to plays, with the same profit models from mobile games and nutaku being the intermediary in the form of tokens (gold) that the platform sells.
I remember there were gaming platforms like that in the region where i live (latin america), but not with mobile games, but pc online games (counter strike clones, rythm games, etc ). I was so addicted to gunbound back then.... good memories :)
Just saw Asmondgold's reaction. Thought the video was really well done so I had to come here to give you a like and a view.
It's not surprising even minimal effort would get success here as sexuality is essentially eradicated from mainstream culture, except for advertising.
If you question my premise here, I will remind you that the very word *sex* was censored out of this video. It is literally unspeakable.
@@shodanxx the west, Especially the USA is weird about even the mention of sex on any platform that depends on advertisers.
honestly, their ads make the games look like trash, and I am pretty sure all of them are.
this isn't even low effort adult games or hentai, it's just trash.
14:12 i loved that line
Literally no one actually care about their privacy, or rather dont want to be bothered
i dont mind companies collecting data on what im into when it comes to this topic, them knowing might actually encourage more of it!
just dislike the other every day data collection, like location, sites visited, things bought etc
Man I live in a country where these games are illegal and don’t show up on steam. It sucks because I genuinely wanted to “investigate” this
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W country
@@Aperson-rs4eh hehehe yes (almost) free healthcare too😉
@@Svabre canada?
@@Aperson-rs4eh Go fish🤣
Wow, this story legitimately makes nofap seem like the cool guys for a change...
Also misandry in hentai, not just misogyny. More people should talk about misandry in media.
people never talk about misandry
Wait what? Misandry in hentai???
Me when I lie
I am now twice the informed gamer that I was
😂🙏
so glad to life in the EU, where ads are regulated to not be that aggresive. I have never seen a nutaku ad here and am glad about that
Same, never heard of that Nutaku bs
That's both good and bad. It stops shit Ads, but you're also giving up your rights to Government. Good luck balancing that. 😂 You either get bad Corporations or bad Government.
@@WallNutBreaker524 Keep spouting talking points you've heard.
@@jandjhroco that guy is not wrong though
in my country all/ most our public transport is gov run. theres no ads anywhere, road only show gov 'slow down your speed' ads, most shopping centre have no ads as well except their own shop ads and no one but older people watch tv so...
and we are a capitalist 1st world country still... so yeah never heard of Nutaku lol- would cost too much to advertise in my country anyway
Fantastic video! Glad to hear your insight into this topic. I hadn't delved into this section of Steam lol
first time on this channel - it was very well presented, researched and so... good job there! Belinda
1:43 it's tough because there's no innovation every new game is the same. the only real difference nowadays is the graphics
Thanks for letting me know!
I'll have to go play some games and throw money at them.
I had no idea they existed.
You're the best!
daaang thats crazy.. the more you know.. thanks for the vid Belinda! :)
Wow, good gaming journalism. I don't remember the last time I have seen anything like this.
I knew you were legit as soon as I heard Leisure Suit Larry
The reason for why Adult only games sold less, was because store fronts, didn't want to sell them, or had them behind locked doors. Meaning people had to ask for the adult stuff, but then rose the other problem. Which store had them, and which ones didn't?
While before that, you could find all games out in the open, as easily as you could find adult oriented mags. Which to this day, still appear out in the open in many stores, just high enough for children to not see them. Or have a sign saying "We have this, ask for it, to preview." stuff.
But that never went for the adult only games, so of course they didn't get sold as much.
I was fascinated with how strategic this all was. Because we all know NSFW games have bad rep.
But in the wise words of Tuffnut Thorston "If something is too good to be true, it probably sucks!"
So there's little surprise that there was a puppetmaster.
I can't call Nutaku's ambitions noble but finding out anything past the start of the growth stage was all just orchestrated, it feels malicious from that point on. *Especially* the privacy policy.
Just here to support the channel.
Asmon sent me here. Cant believe this video was produced by a creator with just 21K subs. Great Stuff. Keep it 'coming'.
it wasnt
she is employed at a corp
Came in from the asmonworld. Good job. Subscribed.
"tough for a game studio to-.." literally over a dozen indie dev's have made highly successful games that massively blew up. Its not really that hard, you just have to make a good game.
As an aspirant of developer, i wanted to know if it is worth to publish with Nutaku but daaaamn. I can only imagine how a microtransaction of 100$ is just paid 3$ to the creator.
a take so bad im not sure how i should insult you
Such a coinsidence I found this vid on recomended. I also want to make adult game. Visual Novel with some interaction and different endings.
And I also know that there is a chance that my game can be declined by Steam store, many such cases.
Now I know there is a place to go. But I don't think I would go with Nutaku.
As long as there are no lolis and not set in a highschool setting, steam is surprising lax with adult games.
As a fellow dev, can I ask what is the place you're going to?
@@thugzilla6266 Well, I think I'll stay indie and hope that Steam will allow me to release it.
Add option to skip some "scene" since some 18+ games on steam has that kind of option, i believe it would higher the chance of your game being accepted.
That's crazy!!! Absolutely insane. I clearly need to look into this... For research purposes of course...
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I can't express how good this doc was. Congratulations!!!
This channel is criminally underrated. This could be a gold mine for react streamers.
I attended a developer conference organized by the Argentine government in 2017, and a phrase from that event has stayed with me: "We bought your unfinished game, completed it for you, and you will receive a fair percentage."
Guessed it was going to be DMM at first, but turns out it was Nutaku. My guess wasn't that far off! The business strategy aspect is fascinating, and makes a lot of sense especially now that we know where Nutaku got all their capital from.
Also for additional context for 5:06, back then about 10-15 years ago Steam didn't allow adult mature games on the platform. And even regular non-adult games were sidelined if they happened to have anime artstyles, especially if they were made by indie devs. I still remember when games like Recettear and Fortune Summoners were among the rare few anime style indie games on Steam.
No wonder steam started hosting adult games!
One of the best gaming journalism videos I hv seen!
I mean, I guess, reading wikipedia is above most gaming journos pay grade
@@flatterkatz Unfortunately Wikipedia is insanely biased when a topic is politicized for whatever reason. Take Yasuke (African Origin person in Japan) and how he is being covered in Wikipedia - pure propaganda
@@RahulKaushal1983 oh I'm well aware, but it isn't some deep journalism when the thing being unveiled has been in the main info box of the company on wikipedia for years. At best it's a quick google to confirm
@@RahulKaushal1983 I agree, but it's still not particularly deep journalism if the big unveil has been in the main info box of the company on wiki for years.
It's not about the product or fancy marketing, it's about having gullible people without proper education and access to honest media. General education does nothing to prepare young people for the new world, and media makes sure the information given is at best half truths. Channels like this are our only hope.
I didn't know about this grossness. Thank you for diggin' this out. Now I might understand WHY sometimes even Steam recommends me this +18 games, even though I hide them or filter them to be "removed".
I wonder what is problem of yt with this video 😑 that the creator has to re-upload.
I bet it was the background music being copyrighted
@@gacd2104 and i thought it was maybe being on adult topic i guess (＃°Д°).
@@only-anime8241 just waiting for youtube to take this video down for nudity.. while not seeing an issue promoting their games to kids 🙃
@@dueeek hopefully it doesn't as creator has put his precious time and research to make this video
Guess who pays youtube for ads? Never seen dumb adult games thumbnails? ;)
Loved this , liked your humor too
Everything about your videos is top notch - delivery, structure, editing, design. I really love seeing you tackle unique deep dives like this. Keep up the good work and don't let a little algorithm nonsense get you down. You've got a great thing here
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not quite finished but I feel compelled to note that Liesure Suit Larry was first published by Sierra in 1987 for DOS, may seem picky but the details of the story matter. I mean DOS was released in 1981 so the entire 70's was out, sorry, I am a computer nerd, and I was just checkin the vibe of the channel, which I like. (Also the next title after that you mentioned, Leisure Suit Larry series was based on softporn adventures)
"They were about to throw in the towel." You mean 'sock', right?😅
Interesting video!
"Ahh! Uh, um, it's not what looks like! It's for research, I swear!"
How do you only have 33.2k subscribers?
I'm going to subscribe to you because of the great puns and presentation!
This video was so well-written, well-edited and interesting, how the hell do you not have more subscribers? This was the first video I saw from you, but I'll 100% check the others.
F**k Fortnite, Chun-Li is from Street Fighters!
as an active nutaku player in the past, I can approve that the marketing was spot on and I believe it is now, I have paid more for free games than I have ever paid for AAA games on other platforms, non adult games. The gameplay is addictive, plays on hidden desires, dreams, fantasies, but progress costs money, a lot) I'm glad that is't in the past) I wish all to left it, it could cost you problems in real life
Haven't played an adult game since I was 14 on Newgrounds but it looks to me like the quality has actually DROPPED from Flash game levels.
asmon sent me! subbed for sure, good reporting. way to shed light on the dark side of everyone xD chaotic neutral ftw
Congrats on the asmond shout out!
a solid 15 minute difference is why I'm glad I just clicked the video link instead of watching the reaction.
I guerentee Christian Weston Chandler single handedly put Sonic so highly searched on The Hub.
this is what video gaming journalism should be, unlike some click-bait and self inserting typical one sided media with political correctness agenda.
What a brilliant piece of journalism
Asmon brought me here. Good video, immediate sub. Keep up the great journalism!
In the time when dudes buy bathwater, there's nothing remarkable about Nutaku
This needs a lot more coverage.
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"The fandom is very... diverse."
-Random german vampire soldier, Hellsing Ultimate Abridged.
yep im uninstalling that shit, thanks
Every time I see your videos I wonder how you aren't more popular with the quality these videos have. Great work and interesting topic!
seems many people are able to spot an astroturfed advertisement. I'm surprised as well.
One of the best produced videos i have watched. Subbed!
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As a weeb, nutaku is the worst thing to happen to the h-game industry. The censorship, shitty localization, and misplaced focus on what the appeal of h-games really are. Trying to make it more mainstream and centralized, all are unwelcome. Whenever I see a game with the nutaku branding on it I instinctively check out instantly.
Genuinely interesting gaming journalism on youtube?? Whaaaaaat?!?!? Genuinely one of the most well constructed and executed videos I have seen on a phenomena that has been propagating for so long in steam and gaming as a whole.
Nutaku sounds like its named after the CZcamsr Nux Taku 😂😂😂
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MindGeek is the main villain of our world
How the in hell does a site with such horrible interface have millions of clients ?! I took ages to try and determine if this is a real video or a joke, because I simply could not believe that nutaku has this large a consumer base, when it looks like the interface was designed by a 13 year old in the early 1990s. Sweet mercy, I am speechless...
Just curious what exactly is wrong with the interface? From a brief testing of it's UI it seemed about as good as any other gaming platform/store.
@@MaunomauClips Users cannot leave reviews. Reviews are written by the developers. There are no user-driven ratings. You cannot hide games or mark games as completed.
Until recently, you could not even see what games you had played, and since many games are free to play unlike in other stores, your collection does not answer that issue.
There are no forums to discuss game-related issues. Both GOG and Steam forums have a lot of discussion and sharing of information and data, something which is completely absent here.
The system of tags tells you almost nothing about the games and instead just refers to kinks. The reviews given by the developers do not need to say anything about actual gameplay. In fact, some of them say nothing of use whatsoever.
The amount of clicks for common operations is higher than on steam and GOG, and searches work much worse. There are much fewer options to order or sort games than you find in other such stores.
There is no way for user-based curation to occur. Any discussion is taken in developer-created and controlled communities like discord, etc, and some games have literally none whatsoever.
There are more, but this is long enough already. Suffice it to say that this storefront lacks a huge amount of features which should be considered basic, and the ones it does provide are mediocre at best, and requiring higher effort and time than other stores.
@@Random2 Cheers for a detailed reply, when I heard horrible interface I expected somewhat different types of (and more minor) issues.
The only game that is successfully rated and seen with a Ao18+ rating is HATRED. That game is on Steam.
This was a well done video and straight to the point. Rarely do 15 minutes feel so short and not dragging like most others.