As you may know, I am a champion of adult content on various platforms. However, there is a right way and wrong way to handle this kind of content.

First and foremost, as many have asked, it is imperative for GOG staff to add a filtering option, especially one that hides this content from the site's homepage.

There are a number of reasons for that. Several of us get up in the morning or whenever and check the website for new release titles. These normally appear on the front page with sale announcements. However, there have been a few games which may have risqué art, designs or titles that may be a problem for those who have a family computer or children present in the room.

As of right now, I haven't seen anything too naughty (Kurokami-sama's breasts appear to be covered on the home screen) but there were a few titles like Being A DIK which did show some rather racy imagery. If one was married and the wife walked by, one might have to do some serious explaining.

Additionally, manga and anime are all the rage with the youth, but not all of them know about the sexual nature of these games. Some look like manga covers or anime posters. Children do get very curious if they happen to glance at the screen and see a cartoon image, especially if it reminds them of anime or manga they are reading. While yes, we can say, "no, this is an adult cartoon game" or similar in order to tell them it is not for kids, it would be much better if one didn't have to look over their shoulder just in going to a regular game retail site. Steam filters this kind of content from their front pages and GOG should do the same.

Another reason for this is due to sheer amount. I love that all of these games are coming here and to be fair, not all of them are even adult - but with such a large amount and people starting to accuse GOG of being a porn store, it might be better to have a simple option for these, nor their announcements to never appear at all. You already filter this content in Germany and other areas, so maybe having that function available for users at their own discretion might be a good idea in general.

In addition, this would also cut down on forum battles, accusations of sexual abuse and other things that we just should not be discussing on this platform to begin with. I firmly believe that accusations of rape, pedophilia and other horrid things would decrease or disappear entirely if people who found this content objectionable had the simple ability to just plain filter it out.

I love this content and I've supported from Jast and MangaGamer on their own sites, knowing that they are adult sites and not to be viewed around the public, especially around youths. Just like with any pornographic website. But GOG is not a pornographic website and should use better discretion with this kind of content. Some people are also (and I don't mean to be rude here) a bit older than we may realize and they have never heard nor seen this content before. So they don't know how to react to it and it may come off highly objectionable to them. We may not realize that people in their fifties, sixties and beyond might be here because they enjoy the old games and love the throwback days.

Adult content is fine, but GOG needs to realize it's audience and set proper filters for this kind of thing. I understand the frustration and yes, they have a point. Enough is enough.

My question is why don't we have a tag for sexual content for games whose primary purpose is delivering sexual content and a way to filter that?

Or give us the ability to filter by rating, and we can ignore or specifically find any rating we like, be it E or M, or AO.

In itself, fair enough, as long as the user would need to specifically enable such a filter, not have it forced upon them or enabled by default. But the question remains why single out sexual content and not apply it to anything else people may find objectionable. Is sexual content really the worst possible thing that can be depicted? Is it the one thing people may be bothered by or not want to see for whatever other reason? If they'd be added for one thing, shouldn't all content descriptors be added, and filters allowing users to select to not see any of them, along with any ratings, like paladin181 said, and/or genres, plus individual games?

I'd prefer just the option to hide any game in the catalog, like a reverse wishlist. more tags would be good though, like "visual novel"

There are already tags for other things. The hot ticket item that most of those complaining over is sexual content though. So I'm rolling with that.

Yes. Well said and I agree to the point that we need filtering options available for the content, whether it's banners / newsletters / or store search results. GOG, it's pretty standard stuff to do this these days and since you're adding more and more explicit content games lately it is well overdue you give people a handy way of keeping this stuff from appearing on-screen by accident.

I for one don't need it personally. I don't find the content necessarily offensive nor do I have any little 'uns around. But I respect the fact that other customers do. C'mon GOG, let's get this done already.

this seems like something that should just be rolled into the generic wishlists; not it's own topic.
You know a little 'GOG should tag and allow screening preferences.
Job done

Options for filtering are always good, so we should also have one to hide all the needlessly violent games, too.

It is easy , just dont release them here.

I think having it enabled by default is better. When spreading the idea of a DRM-free store by word-of-mouth, I don't want to name a site that I'm familiar with as a family-friendly site, only for the person that I'm recommending it to to immediately see porn or gore on the homepage.

Given that The Witcher series has always been sold here, GOG has never been family friendly. Or have you forgotten how The Witcher 3 was praised for its hours of motion captured sex?

Remember that Gog / CDPR are European companies, what you mention are US age rating and the whole "Sex in it's own age rating" is mainly an US thing. In Europe PEGI only care about recommended age, so both Doom 3 and this game will both be PEGI 18 with no difference between them.

I agree, GOG needs filtering options for everyone. Even if I don't see myself using them, there are others who would benefit from their inclusion.

What I want to see:

-- ability to hide games ourselves/reverse wishlist (even if it just blurs or grays out the thumbnail, that in itself is easy to spot at a glance)
-- "hide sexual content" and "hide violent content" toggles in user settings, or at the very least put checkboxes in the store filtering menu
-- "I am over 18 and consent to seeing adult content" toggles (preferably as separate toggles for sexual/violent) when creating an account, so new users can immediately set the store to their preferred settings

What I don't want to see:

-- hiding adult content on the front page/storefront by default. This is what Steam has, and consequently it has a big problem with censorship. This is because very few people know of the "show adult content" switch in the user settings, even if they are interested in those titles. And so less people see those games = less sales = death sentence for many games flagged as adults-only. This then leads devs to neuter their original vision for a game just to get it to be all-ages - like Lust From Beyond, and many Japanese VNs which only release a censored version to the west.

-- user-made content tags that are public on the listing and/or usable by others for filtering. Just... no. That's asking for drama and censorship, and not just around adult content. Steam also has this problem, with people tagging any anime game as "sexual content" even if it's PG rated.

those are fine , it is just part of a game which is good without these
these porn "games" clearly the other way ,they are bad and just have a few action part to be able to label them as games
those shouldnt be here

You people complaining about adult content are funny. Your kids are all on pornhub and you b!tch about games behind a pay wall. lol

That level of ignorance is pretty much the same reason they keep ignoring you.