Wild West porn searches soar 700% in wake of Red Dead Redemption 2 launch
PornHub Insights team reports that the release of Rockstar's Western epic have sent pervy gamers hunting for more than bounties and perfect hides
HORNY gamers have sent searches for cowboy and Wild West pornography soaring, according to adult entertainment site Pornhub.
The launch of Red Dead Redemption 2 not only sent searches for smut related to the game itself , it sent the number of people looking to enjoy someone else's roll in the hay by 745 per cent.
It seems that the immersion promised by the game has well and truly delivered, with pervy players not wanting to get out of character even after they've put down their controllers.
As well as that huge spike for Wild West themed filth, Western searches went up 489 per cent, with cowboy searches up 189 per cent.
And that comes despite the game not being out on PC yet, although rumours suggest that this is coming soon.
Red Red Redemption 2 is the best game of the decade according to critics across the Internet, and you can find out why by reading our full review here.
RDR2 isn't the only game to have had an impact on smut.
Fortnite has been the focus of all manner of pervy posts online and has been the subject of its own porn parody film.
It has also sparked booms and busts for pornography websites, sending traffic soaring as games go offline and plummeting during big events.
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WHAT IS RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2?
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a prequel to Red Dead Redemption, a cowboy game from the makers of Grand Theft Auto.
You play as Arthur Morgan, a senior member of a gang of outlaws in 1899.
It's an open-world game set in a (slightly) compressed version of the Old West. Bits are very much modeled on Colorado's mountains and plains, others on the swamps around a large town modeled after an early New Orleans, and plenty more besides.
With mountains, forest, desert and more all having their own ecosystems, it features hundreds of different types of animal and gorgeous vistas.
It has hundreds of characters -- the cast numbers around 1,200 when you include motion capture and voice actors -- with pixel-perfect renditions of everything from the largemouth bass you've just caught to the can-can girls on stage whose show you've just taken in.
You'll meet small-town tough guys, robber barons, bloodthirsty agents, crooked clerks, slavers trying to make a living and slaves trying to survive.
You story starts shortly after a robbery gone wrong has forced your gang into hiding in those mountains -- and carries on as you try and settle old scores and rebuild your fortunes.
But it builds to much more than that.
As a study of the damage that can be done lust for revenge it stands with the best of them, and it's as brave and ambitious a portrait of a man's descent into madness as you'll find in any medium this year.
Gameplay is relatively simple -- you have a huge array of guns and other weapons to choose from as Arthur, and the majority of missions do involve shooting your way into or out of situations -- Arthur knows what his skills are, as do those who come asking for his help.
Whether you're on foot, on horseback, on a moving train or anywhere else, that core gameplay feels satsifying and compelling in and of itself.
And it keeps on working whether you're creeping through the mountains tracking a cougar, or defending your home and 'family' from an invading gang.
You can read our full review here.
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