There are two main ways to talk about games: seriously, and light-heartedly. I like to write about things light-heartedly for a few main reasons: One, I like to make people laugh. Two, I’ve generally found that light-hearted writing makes people attack me less. Three, it’s much more fun to write humour.

Love Island is a British reality TV show in which several glistening, muscular men with sleeve tattoos and unaddressed anger issues are sent to a sunny island villa along with several glossy-haired, incredibly basic women who I’m pretty sure have their perma-bikinis sewn onto their skin, and are then expected to “couple up” in order to avoid being evicted.

Akabur, one of the true frontiersmen of porn games, is finally cashing in. His two most popular erotic games, Princess Trainer and Witch Trainer, remain free for anyone to download on his website, but the public is paying him over $US5000 ($6779) per month to facilitate his work.

Why Is This Dragon So Fucking Cute?? isn’t as graphic or particularly sexual as its title might imply, but it is very sweet.

You know what really turns me on? Microtransactions.

If I had a time machine, it would not be a tool for bettering the world. It would be a way for me to see how people from the past might react to modern-day weirdness.

Sometimes I wonder if writing about sex games has ruined me. It's certainly ruined my experience of Steam, given that my home page recommendations are now made up of roughly 50 per cent visual novels that are really just two-hour-long excuses to look at anime boobs.

Genderwrecked, a 2017 visual novel about trying to find the meaning of gender - which the game styles as GENDER, like a hellish scream-question - promises the following on its itch.io page.

Whenever someone starts talking about their guilty-favourite games on Twitter, they're usually thinking of something tame, like one of the weirder Metal Gears or that one Metroid that everyone thinks is bad.

But mine comes with a lot more guilt than most - an appropriately Catholic amount of guilt, in fact, because my guilty favourite is Dante's Inferno, a game based on the namesake epic poem that describes a journey into the depths of hell.

What I was expecting from Angels With Scaly Wings was something like Persona 4, but with fewer confusing dungeon crawls and a lot more dragons making out. What I got was Phoenix Wright, but with even less sexual tension.

Doodle Date, a game that has been out on Steam for a week, and can be bought for the low, low price of $US1.99 ($3), is not at all what I expected. I expected a dating sim with more player input than usual. What I got was a surreal journey of attempted murder, identity crisis and divorce.

Kindness Coins is a dating sim, released on itch.io in 2013, that asks the question: What is it like to be on the receiving end of the protagonist's flirting in a dating game?

What do you do when your body is telling you to have sex -- but you'll die if you do? It's probably not a relationship problem that many people have dealt with, but it's the central conundrum in the game Don't Make Love.

UFO STI WTF is a short, visual novel browser game, built by a team as part of a game jam during the sex, love, and relationship-focused Australian games festival Heartbeat.

The game attempts to remove the shame and fear that come with the process of getting tested by walking the player through a dialogue-based STI clinic scenario as someone who needs to have an STI check-up, for reasons you decide.

The card game Consentacle is an awesome exploration of the complexities of sex, as told via interactions between a human and a tentacle monster. True to its name, however, every interaction is aggressively consensual.

At first glance, Strive for Power seems unassuming enough. In this PC game, you have a mansion that's fallen into disrepair and you have a servant, some stockpiled food, and a bit of cash. With that, you're expected to survive. Then things get sexy.

Crowdfunding website Patreon was known as a haven for uncensored erotic games that couldn't exist on traditional storefronts, but a recent crackdown on adult material has users worried about the future of such fringe games.

Like falling into an old habit, I come back. Not because I need you. Not because I want you, even. But because I can't pull myself together and let go of what's easy and safe.

I always felt that One-Punch Man's Saitama and his cyborg student Genos were bound by something stronger than fighting together. What I didn't consider is that it's a threesome with one of One-Punch Man's goofiest villains.