I like feminine/twink guys, so everyone recommending bug buff guys ππ
But I'm a gay guy so not the target of OP's question π I just barged in because it's a dry desert in terms of my preferences out there π

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I like feminine/twink guys, so everyone recommending bug buff guys ππ
But I'm a gay guy so not the target of OP's question π I just barged in because it's a dry desert in terms of my preferences out there π

To sexualize men for women, you have to understand women.
To men, attraction is largely visual. So to sexualize a woman for a male audience means making her look attractive, and dressed in a revealing outfit. Swapping the genders doesn't work. A visually attractive man in a revealing outfit is far more likely to appeal to either gay men sexually, or men generally as a power fantasy. To appeal to women you need a fundimentially different strategy altogether.
Consider erotic literature. Its a genre that is disproportionately popular with women. Its basically anti-porn, no visuals all story. Male characters in these stories are almost always sexualized by women for women. The attraction mostly from their choices and actions than appearance. You need a completely different approach.
Go read some smut. Talk to straight women about who and what they find attractive. You have to learn a lot about women to appeal to them. What they are looking for, and how they are looking for it is entirely different from men.
I guess that's one of the less-acknowledged reasons why you see more sexualization of women in games. It costs next to nothing in terms of game design. Take any game, slap a scantily clad woman on it and bam, you've significantly increased your appeal to male audiences. To do the same for female audiences you have to build the entire game around that requirement.
One of the biggest mobile games on the planet is Love and Deepspace. It is a game that appeals to women(and gay men?) and on top of being kinda conventional videogame, it is the modern version of erotic literature.
I have only seen clips and they were much more spicy than most mobile games, even mobile games that appeal to straight men.
For anyone wanting to know more about these books, Reading Smut is a side-project podcast by the hosts of Reading Glasses. It's really interesting, with lots of thoughtful guests and often odd books. One of the first episodes covered a book about a door that comes to life and lusts after the woman who lives inside.
Consider erotic literature. Its a genre that is disproportionately popular with women. Its basically anti-porn, no visuals all story. Male characters in these stories are almost always sexualized by women for women. The attraction mostly from their choices and actions than appearance. You need a completely different approach.
Yes, its no visuals. Thats why there isnt 500,000,000 books with fabio ripped and glistening on the covers.
Hey, dont judge a book of smut by the rippling muscled hunk on its cover!
Watch some episodes of Charmed and look at the characters the sisters are flirting with, they are all different kinds of straight woman wish fulfillment.
Ofc women also sometimes are in the mood to get railed and knocked up, then a big hairy muscular guy is often the thing. But that mood comes upon most women relatively rarely. It's a kind of comfort and trust that makes you want to melt into a guy.
Jiggle Physics Ding Dongs
Conan Exiles has good donger physics.
God I wish I could run that game on my PC. I'm relegated to ginormous goongaboongas on console.
But how to sexualize male characters and do "fan service" for the female audience?
Easy, just add Caius Cosades to your game:

I think Hades is an excellent example of a game which just sexualizes everyone.
I think you need to check out the genre of Otome games. There's hundreds of weird dating sim style games catered to women which feature a male cast.
It's debatable of how sexualized these characters are. But whatever they do appeals to their female audience.
Werewolf him
And vampire too
So lots and lots of cocaine. Got it!
Cocaine doesn't even begin to cover what happened during Zardoz.
Same way. Hot bods, tight clothes, show plenty of skin.
Testicle cleavage and beer belly shirts. What's the sluttiest hair style a man can have?
Seconding the otome comment, and a link to a relevant tag on vndb - you can probably find anything from not very sexualized to pure smut on that list, and there's often screenshots. https://vndb.org/g542
Watch jojo. You are gonna get your answer best way possible
I've tried to get into Jojo so many times for the beautiful men, but I kinda get bored.
Regardless ,thanks Araki. I still love the art.

Strange, cause I'm a straight(ish) dude and it hooked me in season 2. Season 1 was cool, but the hyper batshit insanity of the following seasons hits.
I think I never finished season 1... I don't remember exactly but I felt it had a lot of filler. Might give it a chance again if season 2 is where it ramps up.
Jojo Rabbit? Not sure if Hitler is that sexy..
That's sexualizing men for everybody. He's asking how to do it specifically for women! It may seem like the same thing but it is different.
According to my wife...
Dress shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbow.
Kilts.
It depends on the genre of the game.
Fighting games like Mortal Kombat? Put the men in skimpy outfits that show their muscles like the women.
Survival game? I don't need to see the characters sexualized while they're trying to survive a zombie apocalypse. Give me character depth and growth, empathy, and strong story-telling visuals. I'll fall in love with man or woman that way.
Ever play Days Gone? I'm a straight dude and even I fell in love with Deacon St. John. Dude is the total package.
If itβs uncomfortable and disempowering for men, youβre probably doing it right. Itβs often a power dynamic.
But to draw back from a sour take: This will also turn off some people. Both ways. For instance: I love sexualized designs, but some games genuinely went too far. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Nier Automata had genuine, serious stories to tell, but fell flat on some people for sexualizing their main (female) characters in such an objectifying way.
I also think for women, the pure visual isnβt quite as important as their movements and actions. That part gets tricky since tastes vary.
Thereβs a few gacha games out there designed for women that can give an idea of an extreme end to take it to. Again, keep in mind, thereβs not one universal appeal for a whole gender (same for guys) so it will often turn out that the most universally appealing designs are the relatively safe ones you already see.
Love In Deepspace is your example of highly sexualized men for women.