Star Channel 34 [Akabur] (Звёздный Канал 34)

It goes without saying that everything about Witch Trainer and Princess Trainer is commercially radioactive. It liberally borrows copyrighted characters that belong to some of the most family-friendly corporations in the world, sexualizes a character usually portrayed as being a student, and it indulges in fringe kinks like sex slavery, which, while rampant and accepted on fanfiction.net, has scarcely crossed the canonical Rubicon. Naturally, those games are not available at Gamestop, nor the newly democratized Steam PC gaming store.

But that doesn’t matter anymore. Akabur, who declined to give his real name but said he is Russian and in his mid-30s, has been churning out erotica anonymously for over a decade. He said he used to make about $8,400 a year from his work. In 2013, he turned to Patreon and now is pulling a miraculous $5,100 monthly stipend from loyal subscribers, making him the harbinger for a new class of developers who are making an ample living by developing explicit video games. This is a job that was nearly impossible a few years ago, explained Akabur. While there was always a demand for gamer smut, the market needed to correct itself to find it.