Stuff that took a multiple of the effort of those games, like Escape Goat, Gateways, or Vintage Hero? They can’t even sniff the farts of the best seller list. Let’s face it, there’s a reason why games like Try Not to Fart or Baby Maker Extreme or Don’t Die Dateless Dummy are among the top-selling XBLIGs ever. If We Are Cubes had been about a penis shooting sperm into vaginas, it would have been one of the top 100 selling XBLIGs of all time. Having boobs and flesh rockets in your game doesn’t mean your game will come into its own, but it certainly helps.
It really boils down to this: copious amounts of sexual anatomy > gameplay.
The dongs don’t factor into the gameplay at all, and are merely there because developer Daniel Steger learned the lessons of XBLIG a little too well. You’ll remember Mount Your Friends as the game where penises swing freely like the pendulum on a grandfather clock. They have almost nothing in common with each-other, except they’re designed with multiplayer in mind. Recently, a couple of my favorite Xbox Live Indie Games made the jump to Steam.
