But it's true bigger budget games shy from sex, or depict sex as a cutscene reward for the act of talking with a person enough times. You don't have to go far into the independent game space-heck, just browse the visual novel section of any storefront-to see creators have been engaging and normalizing sex in the medium for a long time.
It's a reach to say Haven developer The Game Bakers is breaking ground in its depiction of sex, and even the developers of Haven pointed to the work of designers Nina Freeman and Robert Yang.
