I hope I don’t get my weeaboo card invalidated for saying this, but Kagura Games didn’t immediately strike me as the kind of platform I’d get much masturbatory use out of. The general presentation is downright wholesome, a contrast to all the hentai-themed joints with exposed boobies and gropy tentacles all over the place. There are big-eyed cuties aplenty, though, and if you take a closer peek at any random product listing, you may notice something titillating: everything available has a big Adult Content Warning about the mature themes and graphic images within. “You must be 18 years of age or older to purchase.”
KaguraGames.com isn’t another sketchy archive of bootleg hentai adventures and half-baked adult indie RPGs. The company specializes in translating and publishing Japanese video games for the English-speaking market. I’m not sure I’d label it a fully NSFW shop, as I’m guessing there’s some relatively clean content if you look hard enough, but I’d also bet their half million monthly visitors include a whole lot of horny neckbeards. Yours truly is among the throng today, so let’s take a closer look at that catalog, shall we?
What Are They Selling at Kagura Games?
Product selection aside, KaguraGames has the kind of sleek, polished presentation I love to see on any type of e-commerce site. If you’re into kinkier or just more obscure smut than your typical Pornhub offering, you often have to cross your fingers and hope the ugly sites don’t rip you off. Right from jump, KaguraGames comes off like any legit SFW internet shop. Honestly, you get the sense right away that place is run by true otaku nerds who love the content as much as we do, which tends to make for a better overall experience than all the fly-by-night cash grabs out there.
As I mentioned in the intro, the site is almost comically clean considering what you’ll likely do after making a purchase. The imagery is colorful, though, and almost every thumbnail and larger promo pic seems to focus on gorgeous manga chicks. You’ll probably notice the sheer variety of material right away: there are innocent-looking anime schoolgirls, fox-eared babes with big racks, French maids with doe eyes and kawaii cuties in safari hats, on the prowl for monsters.
The boobs may be covered out on the front page, but there are plenty of them and they tend to be huge. In case the pics themselves don’t give away the sheer depravity of the possibilities, perhaps the titles will. As I type this up, the Weekly Featured Products include games with names like Cosplayer’s Quest, The Reason My Wife Has Gotten More Beautiful, Bunny’s Rent-a-Mom Agency, and Aisha’s Futa Diaries.
All this is to say that there’s a very wide variety of oft-freaky themes to these Kagura Games, going beyond what you’d expect from a more traditional adult website. You can explore classic porn scenarios like meeting the hot neighbor or banging your teacher, or go the hentai route with furry freak forest fucking, succubus BDSM, or the joy of building your very own hentai harem.
If I have one general complaint about the setup, it’s just that tagging could be better, especially when it comes to the dirty stuff. The list of keywords is extremely trim for a hentai site, a niche where they often include a thousands-deep index of obscure and overlapping tags. They do include some kinky options like Netorare, Bunny Girl, Monster Girl and Succubus, but most of the tags are SFW game elements or subgenres. The search bar was really hit or miss when I tried keying in my fetishes, and I’m sure some better tagging would help sell more products to those seeking them.
Freebies and Japanese Porn Game Patches
While most of the KaguraGames.com catalog focuses on the titular Kagura Games, they’ve also got a small aisle of Digital Goods. They’ve weirdly included Games as a subsection, with a selection that sure looks like the rest of the shop, but
there are also some wallpapers and cosplay photosets to download. There are better-stocked sites out there if you’re looking for this kind of material, but it does make for some nice eye candy as you’re browsing.
You can filter the entire KaguraGames.com catalog by price, just in case you’re on a tight budget. If you drop your ideal rate down to the low, low price of just zero dollars, you’ll find another nice surprise. There are assorted freebies available, including cosplay galleries, anime-themed wallpapers, and patches for your Japanese video games.
You don’t need to patch anything you’ve purchased or plan on picking up from Kagura Games; they’ve already handled that on their end. If you got your games from Steam or elsewhere on the internet, though, they’ve got hundreds of game patches available to level up your experience. They’re mostly focused on translation, but they can also include bug fixes and general improvements. When you’re lucky, the best patches can also strip out the traditional Japanese mosaic censorship and make things more explicit.
Hundreds of Cheap Adult Video Games
As with any good collection of adult content, it can be difficult to decide where to begin with Kagura Games.
Pricing is solid, with most games running around ten bucks or less, which means it won’t cost much to keep your mind occupied, your hands busy, and your boner raging—at least until that big pop.
Oh, but where to spend your money? As of this writing, there are around 500 translated video games in the collection, covering all types of play styles. As you’ve probably already guessed if you’re into adult video games, especially Japanese ones, visual novels and RPGs make up a huge chunk of the catalog. If you’re looking for a change of pace, they’ve also got localized doujin games tagged with Action, Dungeon Crawler, Puzzle, Simulation, Stealth and Survival.
If you’ve been a porn gamer for a while, there’s a damn good chance you’ve got some favorite game makers already. This is one of those elements where it really pays off to visit a shop run by real enthusiasts of your niche, because the folks behind KaguraGames have their eyes on the same studios and indie tinkerers as the rest of us. To that end, they carry games from hundreds of developers.
Some of the most popular brands on the menu include FAKKU and Denpasoft, which are hot enough to get their own thumbnailed links out on the front page. They’ve also got a couple dozen each from Medibang and NekoNyanSoft, half that on the MangaGamer and AliceSoft shelves, and a few strays from smaller outfits like Memotora, Myosuki and Oinari Cat.
That last one only has a singular game, the $25 Revenge Paradise – Secret Resort. It’s an island adventure featuring beautiful locations, engaging missions and gorgeous 3D women. The only problem is that the naughty bits are covered up in those pesky digital mosaics, but I really appreciate how clearly KaguraGames has labeled the censorship in multiple places.
It’s kind of an odd approach: most hentai-oriented platforms are quick to point out the uncensored material rather than the content that’s been pre-edited to protect your innocent little brain. I love the transparency, but like I said earlier, I’d prefer to be able to find the dirtiest, sleaziest, most sexually explicit content with a few simple clicks. Speaking as a smut peddler myself, the dick-slanger behind PornDudeCasting, I know for a fact that horny dudes will spend more money when they have a better idea what kind of filth they’re paying for.
Either way, though, I don’t get the sense that KaguraGames.com is hurting. To the contrary, this is easily one of the finest sources of localized Japanese video games aimed at a horny English-speaking audience. The catalog is already an impressive thing to behold, unlocking all kinds of content that was previously only available to masturbators who could speak Japanese. I expect the selection to keep growing, and I’m hoping to see it snowball as more consumers find the shop and the hentai game niche itself. There are freebies to download and cheap-ass adult visual novels to get you hooked, so I’d recommend freeing up some time on your calendar and then digging in.
