Why sex simulator, Honey Select, is a game we should actually be talking about

Article by Matt S.

Note: None of the below is any more NSWF that what you’ll usually see on DDNet, and please read through it all, because I’m not actually going to spend long talking about the “adult” side of the game. Just in case you skim through the first couple of paragraphs and think this is a “review” of an adult game rather than a more sociological discussion piece. 

Recently, Fakku – an adult entertainment publisher that typically focuses on manga, but has been selling adult games for some time – announced that it would be publishing a game for the first time itself, developer Illusion’s Honey Select. Honey Select is a remarkably simple game. In it, you create a female character, and then “interact” with her in a hotel that you’re both staying at. And by “interact” I do of course mean have sex with her all over the place. The game supports an apparently bewildering number of different sex acts, from the romantic right through to stuff that would make 50 Shades of Grey seem positively prudish. Each character has her own personality, and each interaction has a different result, which can affect the way the woman responds to you. Offend her enough by doing stuff with her she doesn’t like and she’ll leave the hotel, and that appears to be what the game considers to be a “lose state”.

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