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* ''VideoGame/AmorousAdventures'' is a mod for ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' which adds lots of quests adding sexual encounters with [=NPCs=] from the unmodded game. The romance quests are closely interconnected with Vanilla quests. Some of the sexual encounters are completely optional, some others are required to progress the new quests. The BleachedUnderpants version only fades to black with a quick text description of your encounters, while there's more explicit versions that work alongside with third-party sex animation mods.

* In ''VideoGame/DuelSaviorDestiny'' if you trigger the right scenes with Dahlia and win a few fights, you can stumble across one of these with her. While it cuts to black in the BleachedUnderpants version, it's still pretty clear what happened.

* Similarly, one of the ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' routes ([[spoiler: Shizune]]'s) will give Hisao the option of sleeping or not with a certain girl [[spoiler: Shiina aka Misha]]. [[spoiler: And if you accept, you're ''cheating on Shizune with her best friend'', [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome which locks you into her route's bad ending.]]]] Noticeable in that this is the ''only'' sex scene in the game that abides by the trope; all the others are mandatory, in as much as you can skip the scene itself but the sex will still happen in-story.

* Each ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' game has one of these except ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarAscension Ascension]]'', the [[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 fourth game]] and ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok Ragnarok]]''. You get a decent amount of red orbs for doing them, although this is useless in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'' since you lose all your red orbs shortly after before you have a chance to use them. However it could be worse - you could get [[DoubleEntendre blue orbs]].

* Each game from ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' has one of these except ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarAscension Ascension]]'', the [[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 fourth game]] and ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok Ragnarok]]''. You get a decent amount of red orbs for doing them, although this is useless in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'' since you lose all your red orbs shortly after before you have a chance to use them. However it could be worse - you could get [[DoubleEntendre blue orbs]].

* Each game from ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' has one of these except ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarAscension Ascension]]'', the [[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 fourth game]] and ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok''. You get a decent amount of red orbs for doing them, although this is useless in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'' since you lose all your red orbs shortly after before you have a chance to use them. However it could be worse - you could get [[DoubleEntendre blue orbs]].

** By the way, one should take note that the sexual encounter in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'', (The Nintendo DS Remake) is not exactly "optional" but it is in fact required. Because the game won't let you progress until you've gotten married, and then if you marry any one of the other eligible brides instead of Bianca, you don't have to go back to the Roundbeck Inn in order to get a cutscene implying sex. Because apparently either Nera or Debora (depending on who you married) had already had sexual intercourse, with you,(the player character) on her wedding night, the evening before she decided to become your traveling companion spouse.

* Since ''VideoGame/ThreeDDotGameHeroes'' is [[FauxRetro essentially]] a massive ShoutOut to early 8-bit games, some of the situations from VideoGame/DragonQuest make a cameo appearance: You get a trophy ("Have a Nice Night?") for stopping to rest at the inn during the short window between rescuing the princess and taking her back to the castle, and "Puff Puff" is revealed to be merely a platonic massage [[spoiler: administered by an elderly gentleman]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'' if you get your mistress's approval level high enough, she will invite you into the bedchamber. The doors shut behind you and you hear her moan as the entire tower shakes. In the sequel, you can not only convince your multiple mistresses to do so, you can even get them in a Foursome.

* In the sapphic werewolf interactive novel, ''{{VideoGame/Moonrise}}'', the player can have sex with all, none, or some of the three love interests.

* Similarly, one of the ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' routes ([[spoiler: Shizune]]'s) will give Hisao the option of sleeping or not with a certain girl [[spoiler: Shiina aka Misha]]. [[spoiler: And if you accept, you trigger Shizune's bad ending, since it basically equates to ''Hisao cheating on Shizune with Misha''.]] Noticeable in that this is the ''only'' sex scene in the game that abides by the trope; all the others are mandatory, in as much as you can skip the scene itself but the sex will still happen in-story.

* ''VideoGame/QueenAtArms'' has these with the assorted potential love interests. One of them has two, with the second one being a case of MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces. Another has the gentleman in question promptly lose interest when he realizes that his HoYay with protagonist Marcus (who is really a girl) isn't HoYay at all.
* In the sapphic werewolf interactive novel, ''{{VideoGame/Moonrise}}'', the player can have sex with all, none, or some of the three love interests.

** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' allows you to have a LoveInterest or several, unlike previous games. In addition, you also have the opportunity to seduce [[TheChanteuse a synthetic lounge singer]] and a Vault-dwelling Robobrain. However, Holly at the Slog averts this due to all four dialogue options claiming you're still grieving over your wife moments after flirting with her [[GameplayandStorySegregation even if you've screwed everyone you could before meeting her]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Nethack}}'', the player's character has the option of engaging in risky encounters with SuccubiAndIncubi. The character can gain (or lose) constitution, wisdom, health, energy, or experience. Players occasionally seek out gender-benders for their characters in order to match the available demons. The sexual encounter can also be ''non''-optional if the "foocubus" supernaturally seduces the character and strips off his/her armour while the character is in the middle of deadly hand-to-hand combat.

* ''I-0'' by Creator/AdamCadre (billed as "the 'jailbait on the interstate' game") can be completed without screwing your way through every {{NPC}} you run into, though, assuming you skip the DeathBySex moments, it's a lot less fun.

** One of the options you can choose results in the normal fade to black once you've made your move... followed by an "Oh no you don't" and the sound of an overeager playing character getting a good talking to. No ChristmasCake for you!

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* Each game from ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' has one of these except ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarAscension Ascension]]'' and the [[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 fourth game]]. You get a decent amount of red orbs for doing them, although this is useless in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'' since you lose all your red orbs shortly after before you have a chance to use them. However it could be worse - you could get [[DoubleEntendre blue orbs]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Nethack}}'', the player's character has the option of engaging in risky encounters with [[HornyDevils succubi and incubi]]. The character can gain (or lose) constitution, wisdom, health, energy, or experience. Players occasionally seek out gender-benders for their characters in order to match the available demons. The sexual encounter can also be ''non''-optional if the "foocubus" supernaturally seduces the character and strips off his/her armour while the character is in the middle of deadly hand-to-hand combat.

* Each game from ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' has one of these except ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarAscension Ascension]]'' and the [[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 fourth game]]. You get a decent amount of red orbs for doing them, although this is useless in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'' since you lose all your red orbs shortly after, before you have a chance to use them. However it could be worse - you could get [[DoubleEntendre blue orbs]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' a.k.a. ''[[MarketBasedTitle Indigo Prophecy]]'' has two: between Tyler and his girlfriend Sam ([[spoiler:you have to use the "heart" action on her right after Carla calls Tyler in the scene Sam is first introduced; this is so easy that you don't get to see anything]]) and between Lucas and his ex-girlfriend Tiffany ([[spoiler:this one is a bit trickier: when she comes to pick up her stuff, you must talk a bit about herself, offer her a drink, and at all costs avoid trying to kiss her or going to pick her stuff right away; if you do that right, she'd ask you to play guitar for her, and if you succeed even in that, you win; yeah, winning a woman's heart ain't easy but in this case, you'll be actually allowed to participate in the process]]), in addition to one mandatory sex scene ([[spoiler:between Lucas and Carla]]). No wonder the uncut version this game got an AO rating in the US.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Blackout}}'', one of the visitable locations is a brothel by the name of New Orleans down by the dock district, and the player can choose to have a session with any of the four prostitutes employed there. There is even an extra layer to the "optional" part, as each of them give the player a choice between "sex" or "conversation", so it is possible to actually interact with them in other manners than just having intercourse.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Elona}}'' you can prostitute yourself to any neutral NPC which is drunk (and you can get any NPC drunk simply by handing them a bottle of booze). It'll give a small hit to your KarmaMeter and has the chance of giving you an STD, but it's an easy way to make money. If you marry someone and are sleepy, you can also "make a gene", which lets you [[NewGamePlus restart the game with most of the items you are currently carrying]].

** In the first game, the protagonist, Geralt, can have sexual encounters with a wide variety of women, including a princess, a dryad, a vampire and a minor goddess. While we do not get to see the action, the game displays drawings of whoever Geralt went to bed with. In the uncensored version, most of these include exposed breasts.
** In the sequels, the sex scenes are animated and don't shy away from nudity, and while the second game still cut away for most of the action the third installment really doesn't hide much.

** In the early ''Dragon Quest'' games, particularly ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'', there are girls who offer the player character a "Puff Puff", implied to be a sexual encounter. It however, turns out to be [[RunningGag her giving you a massage where her burly dad is instead doing it.]]

*** There are several others hidden throughout the game, with both men and women. Most of them give you the well rested perk. Which means 10% more exp.

** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' allows you to have a LoveInterest or several, unlike previous games. In addition you also have the opportunity to seduce [[TheChanteuse a synthetic lounge singer]] and a Vault-dwelling Robobrain. However, Holly at the Slog averts this due to all four dialogue options claiming you're still grieving over your wife moments after flirting with her [[GameplayandStorySegregation even if you've screwed everyone you could before meeting her]].

* In the first chapter (excluding Prelude) in the first ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' game, you have the option of going to a brothel to, um...spend some time with a courtesan or (if you're male) two. You even get some experience points (and a little sidequest from one of them, if you're male) from them after the session. Needless to say, the screen only fades to black when it starts, and shows both participants in their skivvies afterwards.

** The ''VideoGame/TheBastardOfKosigan'' module series (male characters only, for story reasons) also includes several optional sexual encounters. In one case the woman disappears as soon as you leave the area and doesn't show up again until the ending sequence, and in another case you can invite the woman to join your party, but she never references your experience again. With the red-headed peasant you have the option of coming back during the siege to rescue her from the French, implying that she will be important in the as-yet untranslated fifth module; Yannia does comment on your experience together later on; and the AuthorAvatar that shows up in the prologue scenes to give plot exposition has no relevance to the story and doesn't even seem like the same person in her two appearances (in the first you can seduce her, in the second you are limited to flirting). Curiously, the only major female character who you can't have sex with is your character's first lover (not counting the French lord's daughter and the ugly daughter of the Duke of Burgundy), though you do get a rather thorough make-out scene with her if you choose the right dialogue options.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' is much more sexual than the first game. As a male you can train with Handmaiden, who insists that you and her fight with [[{{Stripperiffic}} no armor]]. There's also a female gambler who invites you to a "card game", but only if the PC is male. If not, your friend scoundrel will take over.

** These scenes are also notable for NOT fading to black, or at least not until everything that's there to be seen has been. Then again, the game's pretty low res.

* The culmination of the romance paths in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate II'' is the chance to sleep with your paramour (though, in at least one case, doing so is a bad idea). There is also a mod which adds a number of one-off sexual encounters.
** Interestingly, if the player character is male, ''Baldur's Gate II'' also features a (nearly) mandatory sexual encounter - while your party is attempting to infiltrate a Drow city, a Drow female will order the PC to sleep with her. If you refuse her, the whole city will turn hostile. Saying yes will upset any [=NPCs=] you may have been wooing, but has no other repercussions. There are ways bluff your way out of having to sleep with her: you can [[spoiler: convince her you're a eunuch or afflicted by a curse that prevents you from becoming intimate, that you made a vow of celibacy to Lolth, or that a priestess from another city already has you tagged]].

*** Of course, doing this can provide for some... interesting results. Fable 2, for whatever reasons, considers getting pregnant/getting your mate pregnant... [[UnfortunateImplications an STD]].

** One of the options you can choose results in the normal fade to black once you've made your move... followed by a "Oh no you don't" and the sound of an overeager playing character getting a good talking to. No ChristmasCake for you!

** The prostitutes and blood dolls may count; for them the Kiss ''is'' sex, even if for you it's just feeding.

*** Sleeping with Isabela the pirate is one way to learn the Duelist specialization, with the additional options of a threesome (with Zevran, a hardened Alistair or Leliana) or a foursome (with Zevran and a hardened Leliana). Morrigan disapproves of such nonsense, so leave her behind if you want to get lucky.

*** The human noble PC can have one within the first ten minutes of the game, in the starter area, with either the son of a visiting noblewoman, or said noblewoman's handmaiden. A male dwarven noble can have one with two female "noble hunters" in a similar fashion.

** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' dials back on the encounters compared to its predecessors; outside of the romance quests, there are no opportunities for threesomes and the like. Two of the potential romances (Josephine and Solas) actually do not include sexual encounters, or at least none onscreen. There is also no opportunity to visit a brothel. There is, however, the option to seduce an Orlesian noble to ensure her cooperation on a sidequest, but it FadesToBlack immediately after she accepts your offer and is entirely PlayedForLaughs.

* ''VideoGame/AmorousAdventures'' is a mod for ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' which adds lots of quests adding sexual encounters with [=NPCs=] from the unmodded game. The romance quests are closely interconnected with Vanilla quests. Some of the sexual encounters are completely optional, some others are required to progress the new quests. The BleachedUnderpants version only fades to black with a quick text description of your encounters, while there's more explicit versions which work alongside with third-party sex animations mods.

** At the beginning of ''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' Caterina Sforza jumps in bed with Ezio as a "welcome home" present after [[spoiler:going to Rome, beating up Rodrigo Borgia and opening the Vault.]] Later you find out [[spoiler:she only slept with Ezio to ensure her protection and his continued support. Gotta love politics.]]

** The sequel brings the old Soul Breed System back with a new twist [[YouLoseAtZeroTrust if your relationship with your chosen one is bad enough]], she will still bear your child but it will be heavily implied you raped her to make the heir as the scene is rather dark with an ominous music to it.

* ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance 2'' has one. In San Mona, the local [[WretchedHive Wretched Hive of Scum and Villany]], a quest involves freeing a girl from forced prostitution. The easiest way is [[spoiler:just paying the pimp madame for an hour, stealing the key and [[EscortMission sneaking out the back door.]] ]]If you get lost on the way to the target, you may end up in the room of another hooker, which results in a fade to black, a [[TheImmodestOrgasm sound effect]], and your mercenary ending up outside the brothel. This happens regardless of [[EveryoneIsBi who is doing it.]]

* In the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' games, encounter with prostitutes actually do have a benefit: they regenerate the player's health beyond the normal maximum limit.
** Rather than fade to black, the car just bounces with the camera at such an angle as to obscure the player's vision of the naughtiness (if the player is driving a convertible the health bar fills up instantly and the prostitute immediately leaves the vehicle). However, by switching to the first-person view and activating the rear view one can see the characters sitting motionless, perfectly clothed and behaving themselves.

* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' has this as well with Ho-ing Diversions located in Red Light Districts where you have sex with hookers or other guys if you are a girl. You see nothing though, though quitting the diversion will give you "You should be ashamed" rather then "Diversion cancelled". It is as if they want to rub salt in ''GTA'''s wounds.

-->'''Chako:''' [[AccidentalInnuendo You wanna through my fireplace?]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Blackout}}'', one of the visitiable locations is a brothel by the name of New Orleans down by the dock district, and the player can choose to have a session with any of the four prostitutes employed there. There is even an extra layer to the "optional" part, as each of them give the player a choice between "sex" or "conversation", so it is possible to actually interact with them in other manners than just having intercourse.