Developer qureate’s Dream C Club series spiritual successor Bunny Garden proves that people still crave ecchi video games, with the game being an overnight hit for the small developer, hitting 2nd on the Japanese Nintendo eShop (DL) and No. 1 on Japan’s Steam sales ranking.
The game starts off with an unemployed man getting tired of life before stumbling onto a bunny girl-themed hostess bar named Bunny Garden. The girls there manage to get him motivated and find a new job, and players have to guide the protagonist through a delicate balance of earning money and going to the bar to meet and woo one of the three main hostesses there – the endlessly gentle Kana, the genki gyaru Rin, or the quiet type Miuka.
The game was first released on Nintendo Switch last week with an announced Steam version, which got pushed forward to be released only a few days after the Switch version due to the booming success of the former.
The game’s culture seeps from all areas – from being able to ogle the girl’s panties while they are fetching drinks, to playing mini-games like a palm-pushing game (though the icons for the hands are suggestively placed on the oppai), Twister with increasingly suggestive poses, ASMR segments, and more. All this comes at a price though, as reality sinks in with the accumulated cost of spending at a hostess bar:
People are praising a return to form with these games on console, unabashedly proud of its premise and gameplay, with enough buzz around the game that the game trended on Twitter for a day and a half (partially thanks to no streaming limitations other than the ASMR sections). The success of the game possibly paves the way forward for Japan’s trickling stream of mainline console suggestive ecchi games, serving as a beacon for future games to come.
Omake:
One Twitter blogger has gathered the entire rotation of panties worn by Kana, the cover hostess.
It’s great that an ecchi game is selling well, but I’m still miffed at Qureate, because they censored so many of their games for no good reason.
Didn’t Dream C Club have the player simp hard only to get friendzoned after the girl reveals she’s riding a better man’s cock?
You are friendzoned on Dream C Club unless you get the girls to fall in love with you. Nothing out of the ordinary for the genre.
Maybe. I haven’t played it. After the censorship fiasco Qureate are on my blacklist.
I wish they included “smaller” girls, then it would be perfect!
This! Also, for the sake of realism, they should include full “off-menu services” with the smaller girls.
I get it that the normies feel like they’re doing something forbidden by playing this but for anyone who have played c3dm, kk or hs it really isn’t a good game, it’s okay.
You cannot win against ecchi… 10 times more since women are becoming more and more toxic and less and less feminine every passing day that we cannot call them “Ladies” anymore.
Y’know, I always find it funny how guys never seem to consider the possibility that girls also like ecchi stuff
I have a female friend who likes ecchi more than I do (I don’t dislike fanservice but I dislike harem series with few exceptions, too samey for me)