Those games you ask for are usually tagged "lgbt" in other stores simply because women don't (rarely) play adult video games, they go more for romance ones, and that's not a cliché, you can easily see it in forums and reviews.

If you're talking about those games, i'm sure GOG will try to put a few up for sale at some point.

Please Gawd No... GOG please don't be STEAM

RPGmaker game with lewd assets. Nothing special.

Your link is unavailable for German users (leads to the main store page).
We only see this version: https://www.gog.com/game/castaway_of_the_ardusta_sea (notice the lack of "_unrated"). You mean "the GOG version of the patched game" is region locked for us.
Because "the GOG version of the patch" is available for us, and even labeled as "Steam and GOG patch", on Kagura's site.

Makes still no sense to me, that GOG can put the link to the patch on the store page, but not the patch itself.

shrug

So they can sell it freely in over the top youth protection states like Germany or Australia
The patch is here on Gog too but you won't see it as german without VPN.

Women are actually interested in BL and it is surprising that even with the Jast partnership, we don't have any BL games. According to a MangaGamer poll, 29% of eroge players are now women. Small, but growing. 64% are men.

https://blog.mangagamer.org/2022/04/22/2022-licensing-survey-results

There are a pretty big bunch of countries where it is illegal to sell adult content entirely or without verifying the age of the buyer.
The key word is: sell.
This means that if you give content away for free (rather than sell it), this rule does not apply.
So it's a loophole to legally circumvent the restriction: the game is sold censored, but the "adult" content is given away for free.

P.S. Germany and Australia are not among the countries with this loophole as far as I know, so GOG won't offer the uncensored patch to residents of these countries anyway.


Like this? https://static0.gamerantimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/the-witcher-geralt-bathtub.jpg
and this? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gjEwIfj-qrI/maxresdefault.jpg

or this? https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/elderscrolls/images/1/19/Botrir.png
This blue guy without pants at all: https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_small/3/34651/1203445-0raziel.jpg
How about this? https://mortalkombatspriteedits.weebly.com/uploads/4/8/5/3/4853604/6191146.gif
And this? https://www.vgfaq.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Deus-Ex-Human-Revolution-1-1024x640.jpg

This could go on forever.

Um... About half the catalog? Well, you know, all those men with broad chests, huge muscles, biceps, triceps, and a buffalo neck, that's not what most men look like at all. And it's just a show of masculinity-exactly what you're demanding.

The prototype for this kind of character would be the 80s action hero.
And after that action game heroes were based on that picture of men. Like the good old Duke Nukem with his red tanktop.
You could even argue, if for all of them the Greek sculptures are the oldest foundation.

So yeah, it was always both ways.

5/10 nice bait but you're overusing it.

It's not bait, because these games do exist. They're called the Boys Love or BL genre. They feature mostly gay pretty men. And yes, they are the most requested games by female eroge readers. In fact, Jast have what is called Jast Blue, which is all dedicated to the Boys Love genre. There's even a separate Jast Discord server for it.

Also, enough with low rating my comments. If you have an argument, discuss it with me like an adult.

Oh I know that they exist.
The comment is the bait, Frodo did that a few times before in these threads.
If Frodo cared they could suggest a few they were interested in and also would recognize that topless is happening all the time with male chars.

As far as I'm aware, the patch is already integrated in the https://www.gog.com/en/game/castaway_of_the_ardusta_sea_unrated version of the game (I didn't check it via VPN, too much of a hassle for a game, I'm not interested in, anyway).

And that (already patched?) version is unavailable for Germans. That much is true.

However: if the unrated game is LEGALLY (meaning: by German law) forbidden from being sold to Germans - then offering the patch to Germans is forbidden, too (following the same German law).

Nope, sorry. That's so not true. If you want me to believe that: give some examples please.

What GOG does here is the equivalent of a brick and mortar store selling two versions of a game/movie to its customers:
one version being for international customers only, the other version being for German customers only.

BUT...with the content missing in the version for its German customers, being offered for free on the cash counter.

A brick and mortar store doing that would come into "Devil's kitchen" (as we say in Germany).

And we don't have to go with the "international/German" example for that to be true.
Let's simply say, one version is uncut for customers "over 18" and one version is cut to be able to be sold to customers "under 18".

You can not LEGALLY offer the "over 18" content to the "under 18" customers.
And it definitely doesn't matter, if it's offered for free, or not!

That's why I'm saying this makes no sense.

Since GOG is putting the link to the "forbidden" patch on the game's store page, it could equally well just put the "forbidden" patch itself on the game's store page.
Legally, it's exactly the same.

PS: Loger13,
I don't know where you're from, but try to put what you just said into practical use:
simply put up a stand on a street in the US (or anywhere, really) , and give any porn magazines away for free to anyone who walks by.

According to your logic, that's a totally legal loophole, since you don't sell them, right.

Good luck explaining your logic to the judge.

I'm confused as to why you are complaining about almost naked people in the release thread for a 18+ game.

May I introduce you to "Top Secret" (1984)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSJVEb-qljA

Edit: missing word added