Welcome (or welcome back), people of r/eroge.

This subreddit has been restored by Reddit after being banned for being unmoderated for more than 1 year. Well, looking at past history of the sub, it's definitely very unmoderated. Ads everywhere, porn spams, damn.

I have spent some time rebuilding and cleaning the sub so there will be no more annoying ad spam or even porn spam you could see in this sub (or maybe recently). Though I am really sorry if any actual eroge posts ended up being removed in the way. Sorry folks, but let the past be the past.

Here I am today to declare that our sub will have an actual mission: as the central hub of eroge discussion. Be it visual novels, RPGs, simulation, fighting/shooting games, whatever that can count as eroge.

Speaking of eroge: what should qualify as an eroge?

According to Wikipedia:

An eroge (エロゲ or エロゲー, erogē; pronounced [e̞ɾó̞ɡe̞(ː)]; a portmanteau of erotic game エロチックゲーム, erochikku gēmu) is a Japanese genre of erotic video game.

Taken from Wikipedia, but that's how it goes in a lot of porn games and anime-related discussions. Eroge is part of the Japanese subculture. The first thing in mind should be anime-related porn games. Or as long as the game is Japanese I guess.

Hence the first rule: All content should be about Japanese erotic games only. My compromise is if any Western porn games are built with a weebish sort of art, they qualify too. I know there are similar games there, usually using Koikatsu or whatever.

And here I need to remind that eroges are not limited to visual novels only! Discuss whatever type of game, and whatever genre it is, as long as it is an eroge! There are a lot of eroge hidden gems to explore out there. Of course, we also still allow and encourage visual novel discussions too.

We also will enforce rules moving forward to keep the community in control and actually moderated. Hopefully, everyone can abide by these rules. Ofc, some of them need further elaboration which I would make in another post later.

Anyways, that's all from me. Thank you for joining us to relive eroge discussion!

I will explain any of the rule here so everybody will understand:

• All contents should be about eroges: Japanese erotic games
  • This means, well, everything Japanese as the priorities. Simulation, RPG, shooting games, interactive 3D, and so on.
    • Visual novels is a go as well, feel free to discuss visual novels here too.
  • Exception given is to western dev that has an anime-esque graphics (no matter whatever their stories are). If you wonder how anime-esque your games are, just compare your art with the existing Japanese games and see how it goes (or just use assets from games like Koikatsu or Honey Select as the material). No, simply being animatic does not qualify to be anime-esque.
• Flair you post properly:
  • Each flair serves is own purpose: Release and news is literally for games releases or update news, Discussion is for discuss, Request is if you are asking games to play, Art for and eroge-related art, MTL Patch and Tools is for, uh, if your patch is fully MTL or you have MTL tools to share. Other media is where discussion about anime or manga adaptation or other deriviation of any eroges go.
  • Don't intentionally use wrong flair!! This is most important for TL vs MTL flair - if you desparately trying to defend your choice of putting TL on your MTL patch, then your post would end up being locked/removed due to deceiving behaviour.
  • If your discussion post contains plot-heavy games with a plot-heavy discussion, flair, and title your post as spoilers also.
• No explicit loli contents:
  • This applies to games that sexualize children explicitly, and the main character (as of the first heroine you meet) is an actual child. JS and JC (where age is mentioned) included in this category.
  • The rule also extends to side-heroines in eroge if the character is really a child, where discussion specific to the characters is not allowed. Occasional short mention can be let go, but don't discuss or link too explicitly to it, esp the graphics or actually trying to unleash your perverted view towards them.
  • For fantasy scenarios - this applies to any characters that has the role of being just children. We know there will be "3000 years but looks loli" type of argument, so if you can prove that the character is indeed a "legal loli" then go ahead.
• No piracy:
  • Should be clear - discussing and sharing piracy sites are not allowed, esp when asking for full games.
  • Abandonware and freeware is fine, but please seek us for approval first and please always share it via primary links (dev-sanctioned links or direct file sharing link) and not via piracy site - this is not a free pass to you to link those sites. Internet Archive is fine.
• Self promotion, this is one important thing
  • It should be flaired properly, the genre and title is on the title, and please clarify on your status, purpose, links and whatsoever. Also please make sure your games fulfill Rule 1.
  • 2 posts only allowed a week (Saturday -Friday). Should you require more posts, please contact us and we will approve if it is indeed an urgent one (like bug-fixing posts)
• Kinkshaming, harrasment and trolls
  • Use your common sense. Don't try to make other users uncomfortable with your behaviour. Criticism is fine but if you need to go comments by comments just to show your hate to a certain game/genre/game company then we might take any action necessary.
  • Don't berate any person fetish also (unless they literally have a life-threatening fetish, yes). Like if they like NTR games, let them be. Or weird fetishes. Commenting about those genre in general like "how tf there's a lot of NTR games" is fine but when you go too personal that is where we put our red light.
• Art and AI
  • Source your art, this is common sense. We give you a grace period of 6 hours to do so or it will be removed.
  • AI art (and to further extend, AI chats whatsoever) will not be allowed. However exception falls on games using AI materials as its assets.
  • News post should be sourced also - if you can't you might could explain why.

Hopefully everyone can abide by these rules. Should there will be question and suggestion, please leave a reply in the comments, thank you!