Top Video Game Sex Scenes

In Bioware's awesome space-faring RPG Mass Effect, players are given an unprecedented amount of control over who and what their character is. And, because we're all adults here, the game also allows the player's character to initiate romantic relationships with other characters, and some of those relationships naturally lead to a bit of the ol' hokey-pokey. The choice of gender for both the player character and the romantic interests also meant that Mass Effect had something for the non-heteros in the audience as well. Never mind that the sex scenes are brief, classy, and non-exploitaitive - the moral crusaders of America got their panties in a bundle, penning hilarious articles with titles like "Sexbox" and calling for Mass Effect to be pulled from shelves. Thankfully, the Ned Flanderses of the world don't control what we play, so we can make out with hot blue alien babes all the ding dang diddley day.

The 1995 adventure game produced by legendary designer Roberta Williams was not only extremely expensive to produce, featuring massive amounts of video, a script over 550 pages, and 100 pages of storyboards, it was also extremely boundary-breaking, featuring copious gore, terror, and even a very controversial sex scene. As Adrienne Delaney, the player navigates an increasingly creepy world of psychological terror inside a creepy old house. After her husband Don becomes possessed by a demon, his behavior grows increasingly violent and erratic, and he quickly becomes the antagonist of the game. About halfway through the story, as Adrienne brushes her hair in the bathroom one morning, Don crashes into the room and rapes her. This act of sexual violence towards the player character is shocking, unexpected and brutal, and resulted in the game being banned in Australia and other countries. Williams claims that Phantasmagoria is the one game that best illustrates her design philosophy, which is disturbing and telling all at once.

In this Polish-developed action RPG, the player takes the role of Geralt, a traveling monster hunter who wanders the land in a quest to regain his lost memory. In addition to the standard adventuring tropes of gaining new equipment, learning new skills and slaying new monsters, Geralt can also meet and mate with over a dozen different women. Some are as easy as paying them a little cash money, while others require several quests to be completed before you gain access to their naughty bits. Of course, the scenes are somewhat censored by conveniently-placed objects, but the sheer variety of the babes Geralt scores with - from milkmaids to vampires - earns this game a spot on our list. Even better, after each successful conquest the player is rewarded with a lovely painted trading card of his babe in full-on Boris Vallejo style. If we had cards of all our lady loves, we'd have to open a casino or something.

Solid Snake probably doesn't have any problem landing the chicks. After all, he's a genetically engineered super-spy who has saved the world more times than we can even count - the honeys are probably on him like white on rice. But what of Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich, Snake's nerdy sidekick? Ever since his introduction in Metal Gear Solid, the cowardly scientist has been a perpetual second banana, helping Snake out by codec but never getting any action himself. All that changes in Hideo Kojima's berserk masterwork Metal Gear Solid 4. When the traitorous Dr. Naomi Hunter realizes that the cancer in her system is going to kill her, she disables the nanomachines that are keeping her alive - but not before engaging in one last session of boot-knocking with Emmerich in a helicopter. The sequence is short and sweet, and seems to be leaving fanboys baffled, but it's just one more note in the grand symphony that is MGS.