I’ve been thinking of making my own weight-gain themed game for a short while. However, I want to try to make a game that’s both fun and replayable besides the fetish aspect, but can also interact with the fetish aspect meaningfully. So, I made this thread as a sort of open-forum for brainstorming good replayable games that can service gainers.
I’m currently thinking of a dating sim mixed with some kind of time-limited management game. For example: operating a farm, a-la Stardew Valley, that could grow fattening produce; managing and living in a small town, growing it’s infrastructure and possibly make it a gainer’s paradise; dungeon-delving to help protect and expand your home village and potentially its people.
Well there is those two runner games Amazon running Diet and Panic Diet, where both don’t focus on weight gain but on weight loss. Even with this both, at least to me, have pretty decent replay value along with the chubby forms being both cute and fun.
Eh, pretty much any genre can have WG slapped onto it:
Dating sim: offer you the choice to pick a wider variety of foods/meals as your date likes you more. Have the added weight affect some jobs negatively and some positively.
RPG: More weight = more HP/def, but lower spd, or maybe even lower magic stats. Alternate take: no health potions in the game, all healing is through food, try not to get TOO fat, or you’ll be too heavy to move.
Kart racing: place food on the track (maybe even throw food at other drivers?) Heavier characters accelerate slower, but can shove other drivers MUCH easier. Maybe automatically lose the race if you WG into a blob?
Shooter: Easy. Just shoot someone, they get fatter. Fatten them too big to move as your way to “defeat” them. Could make for a pretty good arena shooter. Multiplayer?
Farming: basically what you said, but keep everyone’s belly capacity realistic, BUT pull a Harvest Moon and be able to collect special fruits that can raise capacities of whoever you give them to. Early in the game, stuffing/WG is realistic, but by the time you’re finished, everyone’s able to practically eat anything and everything, no problem. Maybe the story involves something about a fairy of fertility (the nature and growth kind, not explicitly pregnancy,) who thinks everyone’s not taking advantage of the countryside and will punish everyone if they don’t start enjoying the land and its bounties. The game’s goal is to get at least one person to a huge size to appease the fairy.
I am currently creating such a game. It is an interactive fiction dating sim that focuses on the romantic side of being in a relationship with a BBW, so one doesn’t HAVE to be into the fetish to enjoy the game, but it would certainly help.
I understand your search: I also wanted to find/create a game where the main focus wasn’t just on fetishes. As for original ideas that have WG elements but focused on another aspect I’d have to sit down and really think, but I am sure there are those out there. I tend to gravitate toward realism with this fetish, so I would always opt for a realistic game that has realistic WG elements in it. If you are looking to create your own game, hit me up in the DMs and I would be happy to assist you!
A good “gameplay loop” is key to a good game. Take a look at Animal Crossing. Every day you wake up to do your daily chores: hit rocks, dig fossils, talk to villagers, etc. Sometimes there will be something new to do, but most time spent wit AC will be doing your chores. That’s the loop. Most games have some kind of core gameplay loop. In a shooter game you’re entire experience could be summed up as “point gun at creature, shoot”. It’s what you do to spice that loop up that makes things interesting.
Platformers usually have power ups, and if the game is a weight gain-centered platformer, the power ups would often increase the character’s weight (think a stackable version of the Mario series’ Super Mushrooms) and power downs would decrease the character’s weight (think a stackable version of the Mario series’ Poison Mushrooms to counteract the stacks until the player is at normal weight, in which case the player loses a life, if extra lives are implimented, if another one comes in contact with them), with larger characters usually being slow and heavy but also being able to easily bypass gaps that can normally be jumped over (like a circular hole in the ground that thinner characters can fall into, for example), even to the point where the character can’t jump due to their weight and move very sluggishly, though their weight will slowly decrease over time, even when left idle, until they’re back to their normal weight. And there’d even be power ups that won’t increase a character’s weight but will provide beneficial powers like invincibility, being able to take an extra hit from enemies without losing an extra life, gaining the ability to attack enemies that can’t be defeated through normal means outside of being invincible, or even giving immobile characters the strength to be mobile and run and jump like they would at normal weight. And provided an extra lives system is incorporated, a character that becomes immobile can either lose a life via something like a heart attack if they don’t lose a certain number of pounds to stop being immobile (like the ROM Hack known as Sonic 2 XL), an enemy attack if they don’t have a power up necessary for protection (like the Barriers of the Sonic games or Arthur’s Armor from Ghosts 'n Goblins), or, in the case of being force-fed, popping (like in Joliair’s Big Fatties addon or Riki’s Inflation Game 2). There’d also be collectibles that don’t count towards the player’s weight, but do count towards extra lives if enough are collected (usually either 50 or 100), with some collectibles even granting a bigger number of them (like the Banana Bunches from the Donkey Kong games or the unused behavior of the Yin Yang Yuk from an early prototype of Crash Bandicoot prior to E3 1996 or even Super Mario 64’s Blue Coins). The characters can also use their own forms of self-defense like throwing punches and kicks when thin enough or belly-bumping enemies when big enough but still mobile. And end-level goals can probably be shaped like weight scales or giant food items, with optional things like a rank system based on the character’s current weight and possibly the time it took to get to the goal or how many points were scored based on factors like current weight and time (similar to some 3D Sonic games since Sonic Adventure 2). And it doesn’t matter whether the levels are linear (like early 2D platformers) or non-linear (like most 3D platformers), as levels can contain secret bonus areas (like the Coin Heavens from the Mario games or the Gumball Bonus from Sonic 3) that can be access dependent on the character’s weight and size (like some levels containing certain holes or weight scales that allow access to their bonus areas and the collectibles they contain). Plus, if the character is heavy enough, they can also attack enemies from high-enough places by dropping to the ground and either crushing the enemies or causing some type of shockwave that covers a radius depending on the character’s weight. All in all, things like that would make for a great weight gain platformer.