H-games (or, more properly, eroge, an abbreviation of erotic game) are Video Games with sex/pornographic contents or heavy Fanservice in them.
Though there are some examples of eroge in nearly every genre, the most common forms are the Dating Sim (especially in the early examples of the genre) and the Visual Novel (more popular in recent years). Also common are 3-D simulators like Artificial Girl, which throw out the plot entirely and leave in only the bare minimum of Dating Sim elements in favor of more Jiggle Physics.
Although the term "H-game," literally translatable as "pervert game," would suggest otherwise, the erotic content is sometimes about as important as similar content in an R-rated film. Many games tend to only have one sex scene at the end after hours of play, and in a large number of others, sex scenes can be disabled by menu options. As a result, many are re-released with said content cut for the sake of reaching a wider audience. There is a large crossover between Visual Novel and Porn with Plot because of the more story-oriented nature of Visual Novels.
In general, the protagonists will be one of several specific character types, and only rarely if ever generic and faceless. Nice Guys and Troubled, but Cute characters who may be flawed or even somewhat jerks with a good heart can be found in games with a lighter tone. The Handsome Lech is also a popular character archetype that is rarely portrayed negatively. Darker games may employ an unlikeable jerkass who changes for the better or for the worse, and some may even use a Villain Protagonist, or someone not human and subject to Blue-and-Orange Morality - in either case, completely devoid of morals.
These games popularized, largely through Visual Novel works, the Netorare genre.
Examples:
- 7 Sins (Simulation game made by the French company Monte Cristo. Best described as The Sims, but naughtier.)
- AIR
- Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka
- Akatsuki no Goei
- Alien Quest EVE (still in demo)
- Amatoria
- Amorous
- Anubis and the Buried Bone (Western variant and NSFW version only)
- Aokana: Four Rhythm Across the Blue
- A Profile
- Atlach=Nacha
- Beach Bounce
- Bella The Barbarian Barmaid
- Boyfriend To Death
- Brave Soul
- A Bridge to the Starry Skies
- Briganty
- Bubble Bath Babes
- Biing! Sex, Intrigen und Skalpelle
- Canvas 2 ~Niji-iro no Sketch~ (fan translated in October 2010)
- Cartagra
- Castle Fantasia 2 Renewal
- Cloud Meadow
- Cobra Mission (Not to be confused with ASDER's Famicom Unlicensed Game of the same name, or Sachen's Mission Cobra)
- Coming Out On Top
- Coμ - Black Dragon in a Gentle Kingdom
- Crescendo (JP)
- Crimson Gray
- Crimson Memories
- Critical Point
- CROSSCHANNEL
- Cross Days
- Crush Crush
- Da Capo
- Dark Elf Historia
- Deardrops
- Deep Space Waifu
- Demonbane
- Dengeki Stryker
- Divi-Dead
- Divine Sealing
- Dragonia
- Dra+Koi
- Dracu-Riot!
- ef - a fairy tale of the two.
- Eien no Aselia
- Eiyuu Senki: The World Conquest
- Elise the Devil
- Anything by the company Eushully, including:
- The Battle Goddess series
- Kamidori Alchemy Meister
- Everlasting Summer
- Fate/stay night
- Fate/hollow ataraxia - More so than Fate/stay night, where the sex serves a purpose, as opposed to it being there just for the sake of being there.
- Flambeau
- Frank's Adventure
- Foto Flash
- Future Fragments
- G-Senjou no Maou
- Green Green
- Grisaia Series
- The Guy Game
- Hanachirasu
- Harem Party
- Happiness
- The Heiress
- Highschool Romance
- House Party
- HuniePop
- Ideology In Friction
- If My Heart Had Wings
- Kaede The Eliminator
- Kana: Little Sister
- Kanon
- KARAKARA
- Kara no Shoujo
- Kare Wa Kanojo (Initial release only)
- Katawa Shoujo
- Killing Time
- Kindred Spirits on the Roof
- Kira-Kira
- Knights of Xentar
- Ladykiller in a Bind
- Lamento - beyond the void (yaoi)
- The Last Sovereign
- Les Fleursword
- Little Busters! (Updated Re-release Ecstasy only)
- Little Busters!: Kud Wafter (spin-off focusing on Kudryavka "Kud" Noumi)
- Looters of Dystopia
- Loren: The Amazon Princess
- Love, Election & Chocolate
- Lucky Dog 1 (yaoi)
- Lucy Got Problems
- Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai! (The anime also includes an in-universe example in episode 3.)
- Making Lovers
- Mashiro-iro Symphony
- Material Girl
- Meritocracy Of The Oni And Blade
- MGCM DX a.k.a. the hentai/NSFW version of MGCM.
- Millennium War Aigis
- Miss Peach World (pornographic clone of Color Dreams' Menace Beach)
- Monster Girl Island
- Monster Girl Quest
- Monster Girl Quest: Paradox (the sequel, set in an alternate universe)
- Monster Mind
- Morenatsu - A kemono boys love visual novel.
- Muv-Luv
- My Girlfriend Is the President
- Nekojishi
- Nekopara
- Ne no Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto
- Nine Series
- No, Thank You!!!
- Off the Cuff
- Our Lovely Escape
- Ouroboros (Sierra Lee's indie RPG, not the prototype version of Edmund McMillan's The End is Nigh)
- Phantom Thief Silver Cat
- Princess & Conquest
- Princess Evangile
- Princess Lover! (adapted into a 12 episode ecchi series, later followed by a 2-part H-OVA).
- Princess Waltz
- Prism Ark
- Private Nurse
- Rabbit Burn
- Riana Rouge
- Sabbat of the Witch
- Saya no Uta
- School Days
- Sekien no Inganock
- Senren Banka
- Shady Lewd Kart
- Sharin no Kuni
- Shikkoku no Sharnoth
- Shining Song Starnova
- Shiny Days
- SHUFFLE!
- Snow Daze
- Snow Sakura
- Soul Link
- Anything produced by StudioS, including:
- The FightDoll and Strip Fighter series
- Mon*Musu Fight!
- Suika
- Sunrider
- Swan Song
- sweet pool (yaoi)
- Syukusho Gakuen
- Taima Miko Yuugi
- Taimanin Asagi (a series of NSFW games with a heavy focus on action in addition to sex)
- Tayutama
- They Are My Noble Masters
- Third Crisis
- Three Sisters Story
- Tick! Tack!
- To Heart
- Togainu no Chi (yaoi)
- Triangle Heart series:
- Triangle Heart
- Triangle Heart 2: Sazanami Joshiryou
- Triangle Heart 3: Sweet Songs Forever
- Tsukihime
- Under the Moon (otome game)
- Utawarerumono
- Variable Geo (later rebooted to the Advanced V.G. series)
- Venture Seas
- The Viper series:
- Viper CSR
- Viper GTS (later adapted into a 3-part H-OVA).
- Viper V16
- Walkure Romanze
- White Album
- Wonderful Everyday: Down the Rabbit-Hole
- Words Worth (H-rpg by Elf Corporation, which was later adapted into a 5-part OVA, by Media Blasters)
- Yandere: I Love You So I Want to Kill You
- Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro Na
- Yosuga no Sora
- Yumina The Ethereal
- YU-NO