The current environment of erotic games is that they are basically unsellable if you are producing outside of Japan.
The narrow window of access to funding through Patreon has produced our current glut of "Alpha" games.
However there is distant rumbling of change.
Steam is not averse to hosting and selling erotic games. They simply do not have the software infrastructure to gate adult material properly. If they did however then they would.
If this eventuality did happen... Things would be different.
This tiny lake of game development would empty out into a vast ocean rippling with sharks and horrors of the deep. Our humble titles on their bargain basement engines would be competing against actual publishers and professional producers of shovelware.
The narrow window of access to funding through Patreon has produced our current glut of "Alpha" games.
However there is distant rumbling of change.
Steam is not averse to hosting and selling erotic games. They simply do not have the software infrastructure to gate adult material properly. If they did however then they would.
If this eventuality did happen... Things would be different.
This tiny lake of game development would empty out into a vast ocean rippling with sharks and horrors of the deep. Our humble titles on their bargain basement engines would be competing against actual publishers and professional producers of shovelware.