I was going to write an editorial today on content creation and how those more successful than you will always pull the ladder up. Then I saw the views on Hentai Golf, a game so bad, it’ll get on 2023-2024’s best/worst list. And my heart sank. I’ll be quite clear: I do hentai games because they drive the majority of the traffic to the website. On any particular day, most of the hits come from a minority of titles, usually with word “Hentai” in the title. seven out of the top ten reviews on my website are hentai games: Starting with Hentai Stars at #1 and ending with Hot Love Dreams, quickly climbing the ranks at #10. The only three not hentai games in the top ten are Wolf Simulator, Mom Simulator, and Those Games.
I complain about this endlessly on Dscord all the time, the disparity between the views on the hentai games and the non-hentai games. The answer always is: “sex sells” but it doesn’t make me any happier. While The Game Slush Pile is a passion project done out of love for gaming, I don’t want to do if I’m not being read by anyone. And for most of this site’s existence, I wasn’t, until I discovered the magic of Google Search Console. Now I’m getting read. But a part of me still wants the regular game reviews to get read, and they do, just a lot less. But again, sex definitely sells and hentai games drive the majority of the traffic.
So what do I? I guess I must come to terms with reality. Hentai games must be done. They must get reviewed. But at the same time, I should review the games that I want to review, like Molecano. So I must find that happy medium to do what get read, but exist for the games you want to review. There is no other way to go if The Game Slush Pile will continue on into the future. Otherwise, I’ll just be eaten up inside. I could do more popular regular games more often I guess, but that would defeat the purpose of this site, to give reviews to the unreviewed! I’ve chosen my lot, I must accept it.
This will be the last time I will talk about the views on hentai games, as its now off my chest, and I’ll continue on.
