Frequently Asked Questions
Downloads, saves, updates and the things people email us about most. If your question is not here, the contact page reaches a real person.
A free index of adult games — visual novels, NSFW RPGs, dating sims and sandbox games. We write up each game, keep its version number and changelog current, and point you at the download links. Everything on the site is free and nothing is behind a paywall.
No. This is the most important thing to understand about the site. We do not store a single game file. A listing here is a description, screenshots, a version number and a set of links — and those links point to third-party file hosts like Mega, Pixeldrain, Workupload and Datanodes. When you click download, you leave LewdPub.
No. You can browse the whole site and download anything without signing up. An account is only for the extras: a watchlist, comments, game requests, and your own viewing history.
The watchlist, mostly. These games get updated for years, and the hard part is not finding a good one — it is remembering which of the twenty you follow just got a new build. Add them to your watchlist and they are one click away. You also get to comment, request games we do not have, and see what you have already looked at.
Try one of the other mirrors on the listing first — most games have several, and hosts delete files at different times. If they are all gone, tell us. Comment on the game or email [email protected] and we will chase down a working link.
We cannot promise you a file is clean, and we are not going to pretend otherwise — we did not upload it and it is not sitting on our server. Scan what you download, and keep your antivirus on. That said, false positives are genuinely common with these games: Ren'Py and RPG Maker builds are self-extracting archives full of unsigned executables, which is exactly what heuristic scanners are built to be suspicious of. If a scanner names a specific, known trojan, delete it. If it just says "suspicious" or "unknown publisher" on a Ren'Py game, that is almost always noise. Use your judgement, and if something really is malicious, tell us and we will pull the link.
The waiting is the file host monetising free downloads — that is their business, not ours. But no legitimate host ever needs you to install a "download manager" or a browser extension to give you a file. If a page insists on that, close it. Nothing you actually need is behind it.
Usually you do not — you extract them. Almost every game here is a zip or archive containing a folder with an .exe in it. Unzip it somewhere sensible, double-click the executable, and that is it. There is no installer and nothing gets written to your registry. Use 7-Zip or WinRAR if Windows chokes on the archive.
Do not overwrite the old folder. Extract the new version into a fresh folder next to it, launch it, and check your saves are there before you delete anything. Ren'Py normally keeps saves outside the game folder, so they carry across on their own. RPG Maker and Unity games often keep saves inside the folder — in that case copy your save files or the "www/save" folder across by hand. And be aware that big story updates sometimes break old saves outright, in which case the developer will usually say so in the changelog.
Ren'Py: in your user folder, under AppData\Roaming\RenPy (Windows) or ~/.renpy (Linux/Mac), in a folder named after the game. RPG Maker MV/MZ: inside the game folder, under www/save. Unity: usually AppData\LocalLow, under the developer's name. HTML games: in your browser's local storage, which means clearing your browser data will wipe them — export a save file if the game offers one.
They are the developer's own numbering, and adult games almost never reach 1.0 — a game at v0.8 might have sixty hours in it. What actually matters is whether the number on your copy is lower than the number on the listing. If it is, there is new content. The listing shows the current build, when it changed, and what changed.
Ongoing means the developer is still shipping updates. Completed means the story is finished — it has an ending, and you can play it start to end without waiting. Abandoned means the developer has stopped, and the game is as done as it will ever be. That last one is worth checking before you start a sixty-hour game.
Yes — use the Request page. Give us the name and, if you have it, a link to the developer's page or a thread. We add requested games regularly. Requesting the same game five times does not move it up the list.
Constantly. New games get added and existing ones get bumped whenever a developer ships a build. Recently Updated on the front page is the honest answer to "what is new" — that is the part of the site we care most about getting right.
Some of them. Ren'Py games often ship an Android .apk alongside the PC build, and HTML games run in a mobile browser. Anything Unity, RPG Maker or Unreal is almost certainly Windows-only. The listing shows which platforms a build supports — check there before you download 4 GB on mobile data.
Email [email protected] and we will take it down — no forms, no lawyers, no argument. Or, if you would rather it stayed but done properly, we will happily change the listing to point at your own Patreon or itch.io page instead of a mirror, with your name and links on it. We would genuinely prefer that. See the DMCA page for the formal route if you want one.
If you can, yes. Nearly every game here is made by one or two people working evenings for years, funded by a Patreon or Subscribestar that most players never touch. If you put forty hours into someone's game and you have the money spare, go and give them some. It is the difference between the game getting finished and getting abandoned.
There are no ads on the site today. Hosting is not free, so we will probably add some eventually — and when we do, we will say so on the Cookie policy page before it happens rather than quietly slipping it in.
Discord and Telegram, both linked in the footer. That is where update chatter, help with broken builds, and requests actually happen.
Wrong version number, dead link, a game filed under the wrong engine, a broken page — email [email protected] or use the Contact page. One inbox, and a real person reads it.