Quote Originally Posted by Beefy Hits View Post
Not familiar with this genre of game. Enlighten me. Do you mean visual novels like the Silent Hill game that came out on the PSP?
Nope: doujin means something along the line of "homebrew" in Japan: doujin manga is HUGE and there's a pretty big scene for doujin games as well. Any game labeled "doujin soft" essentially means PC homebrew from Japan, usually coded as hobby projects in bedrooms by a few guys. Most of the weird eroge stuff qualifies, even if it's on sale in stores.

It should be noted that a disturbing amount of doujin content, games, manga, animation, whatever, involves humping, often with tentacles or the cast of Gundam or Evangelion. This can be explained as "Japanese Otaku Culture".

Sometimes a doujin game or franchise can end up becoming something more: Melty Blood (actually, most if not all the Fate/Night stuff) and the Touhou games are examples of this.