So I have been placed in a bit of a position where I am having to consider where exactly I am getting my Adult Contented games. I try really hard to support Steam and its Indie Content creators because for years it has been a very well constructed gaming platform that allows a lot of indie game developers to put their games out there for people to get them and for the Indie groups to earn some money and get noticed.
Sadly recently over the past couple of years STEAM has decided to do a lot of content blocking and even dictate a great deal of the content that games can use. The most recent case of this was the delayed and possibly the complete removal and release of Evenicle 2. Developed and Published by Alicesoft, they released the 'Clinical Trial Edition' for supporters of Steam to try the game out and to help them do some quality control.
After months of the team at Alicesoft working on the game to get it ready for release on Steam and in the US Market, a post by a lead developer from Alicesoft stated they would not be releasing the game on Steam. Their reason was because that STEAM had changed its ToS and what it would allow on their marketplace. They wanted Alicesoft to create a 'watered down version' of the game removing the more adult oriented content and then have that content available as a patch like many do, or offered on a different site.
Alicesoft stated they would not do this and instead they would seek out a third party storefront to sell the game. However, after that was said there has been back and fourth between supporters and the dev team due to the fact that Alicesoft has still yet to state what storefront will have the game and when the US Version will be released. Many thought it would have been last year...but it still has not been released.
Steam has taken an unusual stance on games recently by allowing some games to make it through with adult oriented content intact while others are treated as a plague. Because of this there is growing concern that eventually Steam will not allow any form of adult oriented content forcing those that do have it in their games to seek out third party storefronts to sell their games. While this in most peoples minds would be a form of capital suicide, we can not say that it's still something they may do simply because of the current political and social climate.
So I recently have been looking and finding several third party sites that are dedicated to the selling of adult oriented content games and many offer free or paid DLC content for games you can obtain off STEAM. Most times though if you get the game through the third party storefront you don't have to get any DLC content due to the fact that the game will already have the adult oriented content supplied with the game. This means that you will get the game without the need of worrying about if you get the H-Scenes or get to see those tig ole bitties.
The problem however is though that there are many indie groups that will not use these third party storefronts because they do have a higher rate they charge to sell through their storefront. I don't know the exact numbers but I was put under the impression that STEAM's take on games old through their storefront isn't as much as these third party storefronts are.
I have bought a few games from Denpasoft which is a third party storefront that sells all kinds of different Adult oriented Visual Novels. I have also obtained more than my fair share of DLC content from Denpasoft for games that I have gotten from STEAM. If I had to hedge my bets on which storefront would have the game your looking for it would Denpasoft.
Cherry Kiss Games technically isn't a third party storefront, but it is an example of another option to obtain games with adult oriented content. CKG is a developer that takes Hentai based Visual Novels and games from Japan, localizes it in English for US based fans and then sells them directly to the consumer via this website. Now CKG also has games that it sells through STEAM, but they also have their own storefront that sells only their games.
All three of these are some examples of different ways to obtain Hentai or Adult oriented Visual Novels and games and while I still would prefer to get games from Steam I am debating if it is still technically worth it or if I should go direct to the company and order from their storefront like CKG or if I should spend my time looking at third party storefronts and get what I want from them instead.
Usually the third party storefronts are a little more expensive and they don't tend to have as many sales on games like STEAM would have but the chance of you getting the game in full content without the need for any dlc's is greater.
I want to think that STEAM will eventually grow up a bit and tell people to just grow up and allow all types of games to be posted on their site and not take the stance against indie content like others have done. I will continue to consider all my options while I wait for my new computer to come in and then we'll decide to go from there.
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