Why Do You Play Incest Games?

[zeraligator]

I like that genre too, but I don't know why...? It's not like I'm interested in my mom or anyone in my family - it's just an instant boner off for me when I even think about it.

I share your sentiment, I find it interesting in games(or what have you), but I have no such interest in my own family.

 

[Ataios]

Incest is a taboo today more so than in the past, because people are aware of the negative effects. The bible is not against incest in general, only certain constellations. Among most Christian countries, cousin marriage was not a taboo and even part of every day politics among nobles. In many Muslim countries, it is still today.

Personally I think a ban on incest should only apply if reproduction is possible, otherwise anything that goes on between consenting adults is private. Couples that use contraception or same-sex couples are ok. There are already laws against rape and child abuse, so there is no need for additional laws against incest from that perspective.

 

[Ataios]

Maybe you're a pedo.

Assuming that a straight man who likes porn involving elder women is pedo, is a bit weird, isn't it? A guy with mommy issues or maybe gerontophil, that would make some kind of sense, but pedo in that case seems just like a random insult thrown at a person with a fetish you find gross.

 

[bomg]

Because that's the only good thing being made. If there were new good games where, say, you fuck your teacher, students or classmates I'd play those. Incest games with the incest removed (the ones with incest patch) don't count

 

[Sphere42]

Because that's the only good thing being made. If there were new good games where, say, you fuck your teacher, students or classmates I'd play those. Incest games with the incest removed (the ones with incest patch) don't count

Basically this to a lesser degree. I don't seek out incest games but I'm hardened/desensitised enough to "tune out" the incest when it's just drawings/CG.

Also while still crude, illogical and sometimes creepy the basic plot of some incest games comes off as slightly less farfetched as far as early-game nudity/softcore go once you accept the PC being a pervert. Note I say some i.e. the "watch your frustrated sister masturbate" type not the "blackmail your mother with proof of her affair" ones.

 

[trumpthatbitch]

Mainly because they tend to have the hottest mature women.

 

[Deleted member 710237]

i was born & raised in the 80s,
i ran into this concept in 2012 & it was new to me,

i loved the concept of the forbidden taboo love themes behind it,
japan managed to find ways to make it look beautiful in there Jav/VN porn,
and can something like this forbidden romance work?,

it felt new & exiting to learn on how they can pull something like this off,

my only issue i have with them in fictions now is----->do all female family members & mothers have to looks like a mediocre teen super-model ,
and why do 98% of those male main leads in those incest western fictions has to be a blackmailing scumbags?

 

[OkamiJ0ker]

For me, it's just the taboo nature of it. Like, I would never do anything like that in real life, so it's.... Like, a vicarious fantasy thing. The fact that it's taboo yet still safe since it's only a game makes it kinda appealing to me.

 

[FORNICATOR420]

First and foremost: incest=mah boners.

That being said, I also think it's an excellent plot device. Assuming the world isn't one of those 'what? Sure! Incest away!' worlds that make no sense to me, the initial seduction will always have the dramatic tension of how the other person will react (in my opinion, incest-themed fiction where the female partner is the reluctant one makes way more sense than when the female character is the aggressor and the male character is the reluctant one). The fewer barriers to sex that two people have, on the other hand, the less interesting it is when they cross them in fiction.

Second, it's easy to convey the relationship between family members in a way that most of your audience will understand, whereas friends or schoolmates or even spouses have a vast array of accepted arrangements. You have the cool sister and nerdy brother, the wussy son and overprotective mother, the cool dad and the skanky daughter, the virgin nephew and the 'cool' aunt, etc. These can be conveyed quickly and convincingly, so the audience doesn't need to have a deep explanation of the characters beforehand to sympathize with them properly or just end up disconnecting from the characters because that groundwork hasn't been sufficiently laid out.

Incest is highly transgressive while still being able to encompass literally any sex act, and a big part of a fantasy worth having is that it be something you can't or shouldn't do in real life. You can have gay incest, heterosexual incest, incestuous furries, mind control incest, the list goes on. Considering how the literary community, at least in terms of what you can visibly sell to people, has largely turned its back on incestuous fiction, I think a lot of that energy has been pushed into the Patreon community.

But I think the biggest draw is that everybody has or has had a family. Literally everyone. You were born to a mother, a father had to be involved, and whether they raised you or you were raised by somebody else, society made sure to let you know that you absolutely weren't supposed to fuck either your biological family or any adoptive/step-family as well. And how, exactly, is a horny teenager going to respond when society arbitrarily tells them not to fuck somebody? Maybe that energy doesn't get expressed through actually fucking a relative, but I happen to think it can get healthily redirected to porn.

is there are anyone in f95zone who has already fucked his mom.

 

[pxlzXppl]

I think gunderson summed up a good lot of it, not to infer that what I say they would agree with =)

I put a good amount of thought into this as, full disclosure, shortly after finding this style in gaming I really wanted to make one and am up to my neck in the process but back to the point. I wasn't totally set on doing "incest" exactly, but a game and it seemed as if the most popular were of the incest variety. No coincidence and not unlike many others Big Brother was the first game I played. I had zero issue with the topic but struck me as odd that so many people played them and it didn't seem probable that everyone that did would have a thing for their own family. My best guess was simply that the charects or archetypes of incest games were fairly formulaic, that may have more to do with knockoffs than the topic but the result is mostly the same. Mom, experienced, voluptuous, nurturing. Older sis, hot, fit, little stuck up. Younger sis, cute, sexy youthful bod, innocent. If someone had a thing for any one of those types they'd be in one of these games. If someone liked variety, whelp, there ya go. Getting into creating the challenge was to take that, more or less, and try to figure out a motive other than "MC has a dick."

To go even further I talked to a shrink, told him about these games I had stumbled on and that I was going to make one and that it was based on incest. Hand to God I actually did and this is what he said "That sounds like a pretty good idea, incest is pretty popular these days." He was speaking in an entertainment sense, not that he had a bunch of clients participating just to clarify =) And he went on to say rather nonchalantly that it was just because it's taboo. Didn't go into some long Freudian explanation, just that it's taboo.

And I didn't realize it until I was a good chunk into my game but it's kind of crazy that as a topic it still has the stigma that it has, to the point that content deemed as "incest" is banned on some sites when Game of Thrones ... do I need to even finish that?

And my last little tid-bit of prattle about it is that I was a good chunk into working on mine that I realized, the first novel I ever read was loaned to me by a neighbor girl when I was somewhere between 9 and maybe 11. She was reading it and there was a pretty girl on the cover and I asked her what it was about. She gave me the basics along the lines of this woman's husband dies and she has three children and goes to live with her parents but can't let her Dad know about her kids so she and her Mom hide them away and lock them in the attic. Flowers in the Attic is was called by V.C. Andrews. I asked her if I could borrow it when she was done and she was like "I'm not sure it has some dirty stuff." which of course only made me want to read it more. So she said I could but she'd have to ask my Mom first. Apparently my Mom said something like "If he want's to read then yea! Let him borrow it!" I'm not sure if she told my Mom and I didn't realize till reading it that the naughty bits were about a brother and sister but my larger point is that the book was released in 1979 and was sold anywhere and everywhere including the frikkin grocery store. And VC Andrews became HUGELY popular, and the follow up books, Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, right next to Harlequin Romance novels at the grocery store. She went on to write a slew more similar, and even after she died her publisher hired ghost writers to keep writing books in her name.

Which leads me to conclude, there's a whole lot of stuff that seems more "perverted" that really ain't, not saying in practice, but as a topic or theme or element. But it seems to me that when it comes to the internet, the general public assumes or asserts a darker, more sinister, perverted spin on it. HBO, grocery store, and still Shakespeare would have been kicked off of Patreon. Figure that one out.

 

[Joshua Tree]

Which leads me to conclude, there's a whole lot of stuff that seems more "perverted" that really ain't, not saying in practice, but as a topic or theme or element. But it seems to me that when it comes to the internet, the general public assumes or asserts a darker, more sinister, perverted spin on it. HBO, grocery store, and still Shakespeare would have been kicked off of Patreon. Figure that one out.

Maybe there is this weird notion that people that "play incest themed games" will get influenced to force themselves onto family members. Just as there is those that claim people playing shooter games and what not will be more prone to go on a rampage in real life. It's all bullcrap. In games you are more an active participant, where with books, movies, what not, you a passive one. Doesn't really matter, jedi mind tricks all the same...

Just because a person might get excited and turned on by what is considered "taboo" doesn't mean they will act on it. It's just a fantasy. The porn industry got it, they deliver on peoples fantasies and desires. Whether its a gang bang with 12 bbc's up the baguette chute, or an "all in the family" situation.

 

[Ataios]

is there are anyone in f95zone who has already fucked his mom.

Is there anyone in the FIFA forum, who is a professional soccer player? Is there anyone in the GTA forum, who has already shot a cop? Are there any Gods, who have already slain Titans in the God of War forum? It's games and fictional stories. I guess there are quite some people, who jerked off thinking of their moms, but for most that is how far it will get.

 

[megaplayboy10k]

I kinda chuckle when I see talk about realism in incest games. On the one hand, yeah, a lot of the seduction "methods", if you can even call them that, are kinda ludicrous. On the other hand, the underlying premise--a young man, living with his mother and sisters, decides to seduce all of them--is inherently ludicrous. Such an undertaking requires someone deranged, delusional and damaged. IRL actual incidents of incest might run around 2%, but that includes abuse and molestation. Actual consensual incidents are often fleeting and can cause lasting emotional damage. But the odds of seducing one's mother as an 18 year old have to be in the low single digit percentages...and the odds for an entire family? Lotteryesque.
So there's a degree to which "realism" goes out the window, of necessity. If you want to make it "semi-realistic", you can throw in things like Mom's divorced, lonely, horny, or even has some latent attraction to the son; the son has been away from the family for several years, so genetic sexual attraction kicks in; the family is vulnerable because dad died/left/ the family moved/is in dire economic straits; son has opportunity to exert non-sexual dominance due to [special circumstances] and only a matter of time before it extends to sexual dominance...
But basically you kinda have to suspend disbelief and indulge the fantasy.

 

[pxlzXppl]

lol, megaplayboy10k I'm with ya! Hence why the one I'm working on will be a wee bit different than the BB knockoffs and copycats. I've had to try and beg friends for money to try, try, to keep afloat till I can finish up this prequel and as I'm telling them about these games I mention BB and how half the games out there are all just copycats with the same now universal story-line and motivation which can be summed up with two words "horny guy." That's it. What more would any MC want? =P

 

[Space_Cow99]

Imagining life if people all died and reincarnation was thing I would have less restrictive I mean Roman Catholic parents suck shit. Except Spiritualist except faiths and even atheism has a place in world. Doubters will one day either accept it or not, choose believe not. I have no grudges I am super happy as spiritualist, as Athiest you can't believe in anything, skeptical at drop of hat, and prejudice against all life until submit to your doubt belief.
So for that, I believe incest should sometimes exist, it helps sustain those who can't find love in least likely places. Or traveling to find love is harder. If travel was easy it would made finding vanilla or gay person easier in life.

Incest in question, I can't imagine some are very poorly done and some aren't, In game world, lesbian sex, futa sex and some other vanilla sex are rare these days, voice acting, and animations are not so common.
Did you know goats are higher practioners of public/private incest in world, Not just humans.

 

[kalel78]

the women are generally dominant and i prefer women in their late 30s and 40s.. that is when they are the most sexy.

 

[woody554]

lol, megaplayboy10kI mention BB and how half the games out there are all just copycats

common misconception is that BB started anything. but it's just a collection of time-honored cliches in incest VNs. go on vndb, click open tags, and you'll see there are thousands after thousands of incest VNs with everything and much more than BB had.

 

[VonPanic]

I'm not really that into incest, and as long as it isn't "father having sex with his daughter" I don't care. I play incest games because a lot of them are high quality and I don't really care about the taboo.

 

[215303j]

I kinda chuckle when I see talk about realism in incest games.

I think you misunderstand the term "realism". It's not about likelyhood.

Let's say your wish/fantasy is to become a soldier. The chance that you become Navy SEAL and participate in killing Bin Laden is extremely small. Yet it happened. So writing a story about a wannabe soldier who ended up killing Bin Laden could be done with perfect realism. The chance of a wannabe soldier becoming a normal infantry guy and doing nothing but training and maybe a bit peacekeeping is much higher. That story can also be told with perfect realism. Both stories can be very worthwhile to read, or not. That depends mostly not on the event, but on the way it is told.

As you said, the likelyhood of happy consentual incest romance which doesn't go horribly wrong at some point, is very small. That does not mean you cannot write a plausible story about it. It does not excuse porn logic (my son has a huge dick! need to fuck!), copycat characters or otherwise just weak storywriting.

I do agree with you about heaping up fetishes. The chance of banging your (insert close family member) is very small. The chance of having a harem is also very small. Combining these two is extremely unlikely and therefore harder to write convincingly.

 

[Joshua Tree]

As you said, the likelyhood of happy consentual incest romance which doesn't go horribly wrong at some point, is very small. That does not mean you cannot write a plausible story about it. It does not excuse porn logic (my son has a huge dick! need to fuck!), copycat characters or otherwise just weak storywriting.

I do agree with you about heaping up fetishes. The chance of banging your (insert close family member) is very small. The chance of having a harem is also very small. Combining these two is extremely unlikely and therefore harder to write convincingly.

That is where the skill of the creator/dev start to shine ain't it? Creating a good plausible story. Not the flashy animations or graphics. The horse cock mc who all family members want to bang due to his dick size feels more like a substitute crutch for lacking the former.