In this post, I will do a 3DXchat review. It is a multiplayer online sex game that I want to compare with other online sex games and Second Life.
The 3DXChat trailer and the different user comments on their forums actually sparked my curiosity Hence it did not take me long to register and give it a go.
If you want to know more about 3dxchat, find out here:
After several quite exciting hours in-game, I thought it is time for a review and comparison with the Thrixxx sex game (called Chathouse 3D) and Second Life.
I know it’s actually not really fair to compare that kind of multiplayer online sex game with Second Life. Unlike 3DXChat Second Life is not just about sex.
Sex is only a small part of what Second Life has to offer. Therefore my comparison is limited to the sexual aspects of Second Life, disregarding all other aspects in this context.
Update August 2017:
Time for a little update.
I yet discovered another amazing multiplayer online sex game called AChat. This is why I rewrite today this article to include Achat in my multiplayer sex games review.
Update July 2021
A company called Lovense, producer of remote-controlled sex toys teamed up with 3DXChat. All animations in 3DXchat can now be synchronized with a few clicks to a Lovense toy.
This takes this sex game to a whole new level. Thanks to this recent upgrade, players can choose from a selection of diverse Internet-connected sex toys. The devices synchronize with the in-game action so you can actually feel virtual sex as it unfolds.
There are some sex furniture creators in Second Life who did the same. They are building sex beds and sofas fully compatible with all Lovense toys.
I evaluate four „multiplayer online sex games“ by 6 different categories:
Diversification of Sex Locations
The winner is: Second Life
Second life has a huge number of regions that cater for sex play. This is obviously due to most locations being actually user-created and due to Second Life being around now for quite some time.
You can find nearly anything one might fancy when it comes to sex. Hundreds of clubs, BDSM locations, sex and nude beaches, swinger clubs and escort places make the choice of location unrivalled to any other game.
3DXCHAT comes second. It offers 6 stunning locations. Discotheque, pub, night club, beach, love island and a party yacht. All very well designed and very detailed.
In addition, every user gets free land on which you can build whatever you like without prim limits. Many users make their place a shared location for others to visit when the owner is online.
That means in addition to the 6 standard locations, you have almost always a choice of about 20 to 30 accessible user shared locations. Usually, the user organizes themed parties or events on his location and allows access during the event.
Chathouse 3D Roulette is the clear loser in this category. All you have is a beachfront villa and against payment of 20.000 of their coin (about 20 US), access to a fetish BDSM room.
Thats all.
I don’t know if they plan to add more locations to the game. Maybe if an active player or even a member of staff is reading this, please feel free to comment.
Quality of Graphics
The winner is: 3DXCHAT
I have yet to see a game with better detailed, high-resolution graphic work than the 3DXCHAT. The realism is incredible. This accounts for both in-game items and textures as well as for the avatars.
The loser here is clearly Second Life. There is an obvious difference between the work of a professional graphic designer and user-generated content.
In addition, Second Life runs on technology that is more than 10 years old, whilst 3DXChat and Thrixxx are based on modern engines and servers.
Sex Animations
The winner is: 3DXChat
This was a difficult one. The two best are AChat and 3DXChat. The animations system is very intuitive and the animations are very realistic.
I gave AChat a little edge over 3DXChat because it has an abundance of poses (so-called scenes) that come with at least 16 different actions each.
The varity is amazing.
However, because of the recent upgrade, making all animations compatible with Lovense toys, this category clearly goes to 3DXChat.
One could say that about the Thrixxx animations and some huds in Second Life too. But I think, having used numerous sex animations in all four sex games, Achat has the edge over the others.
To be fair I want to add:
Second Life animations are user made. In other games, animations are made by professional programmers and designers. Not a fair comparison, I know.
Here some Screenshots from 3dXChat and AChat for you to see how small the difference really is:
AChat Sex Animations
3DXChat Sex Animations
One clear disadvantage of sex animations in Second Life is the need to adjust poses all the time.
In 3DXCHAT and Thrixxx, poses and animation adapt automatically, with no need for adjustments in height of the avatars or the correct positioning of a penis.
I am sure many of my female readers remember those awkward situations when trying to get a blow job look right, but his cock sticks out of the back of her head.
Sounds weird reading this?
It feels weird writing it and even more so doing it. If you have had a similar experience share them in the comments please, for a bit of a laugh.
Socializing and Flirting
The winner is: Second Life
Unlike Chathouse 3D Roulette and 3DXCHAT, Second Life is not sex centred. You meet all kinds of people in music clubs, events and many other locations which are there to chat, socialize, get to know people and so forth.
You can do that in 3DXCHAT too if you want to, but it’s far more limited than Second Life in that aspect and most users have actually something else in mind.
The clear loser in this category is Chathouse 3D Roulette. In Thrixxx you meet one person only most of the time. You log in, arrive at the villa having a blind date basically. Yes, you can change to another server and meet somebody else, but you have no clubs, events or public places.
Don’t get me wrong.
Blind dates can be exciting, but if you are a social animal who loves going out dancing, flirting and all the motions to chat somebody up then Chathouse 3D Roulette is not your best choice.
Availability for Sex
The winner is: AChat
I got laid three times within a few hours on my very first try. Easy. The site has actually a “sex partner search” as well as a blind date facility. It also has some public places, called party places, where one can go to hook up.
The second is Thrixx Chathose 3D. This is possibly an obvious one. Almost everybody who comes to Thrixx goes on a blind date with having sex in mind. If you don’t get laid in Thrixx, there must be something terribly wrong with you!
The loser in this category is Second Life. Yes, there are fuck regions in Second Life, but you still need to put some effort into chatting somebody up.
“Wanna fuck” as a chat-up line will not get you very far in most cases, whilst in Thrixxx Chathouse 3D Roulette that might be just the right thing to say after a short “get to know chat”. In fact, sometimes you don’t even need that. Just lay on the bed, play with yourself and wait for a partner to join in. It is that simple, especially for women of course.
The easiest way in Second Life is, simply to hire one of the escort girls in Second Life. Myself or Cathy for example. For 2.000 Linden an hour, I will be your sex toy, your lover or whatever you want me to be and I will make sure you have a really good time.
Cost Involved
This is a difficult one to answer. There is no clear winner or loser. So let’s look at the three individually.
Second Life
Second Life is free to join. You only need Premium Membership if you intend to buy land. If it’s only for the sexual aspect of a virtual world, you don’t need premium membership (about 70 US per year plus fairly high tear fees for land).
However, your avatar looks shit when you first enter Second Life. Sooner or later you will want to invest a little in your appearance. Noob like looking avatars does have a hard time finding sex partners, for the obvious reason: You are downright ugly!
To create a decent looking, attractive avatar with a mesh body and a couple of different outfits you need around 30 to 50 US. You buy the stuff not from the company, but in shops where other Second Life residents sell their designs.
The choice is overwhelming. There are hundreds of good shops with quality cloth and other items at fairly reasonable prices.
Thrixxx Chathouse 3D Roulette
The Thrixxx Chathouse 3D Roulette is also free to join. The content, however, such as sex animations, cloth, avatar design is sold against “coin” at their online shop.
You need to buy coins first at relatively high rates. The stuff that comes free with it is not very good quality, and you have only a few animations you can use.
There is actually a subscription option, which starts at 9.95 US $ per month. With this option, you get access to all content, poses and features, just the same as in 3DXChat. This includes all available sex poses, a room editor and the features of the avatar maker.
3DXCHAT
3DXCHAT is pay to play. There is no free version, not even a trial version. You are asked to pay when you sign up. If you pay monthly the recurring fee is 9,90 US and all developer created content is included in the price. This includes actually your own room or parcel, where you can now build whatever takes your fancy.
You don’t pay for animations (available in abundance) and all cloth, items, avatar amendments and even your own customizable room is included in the price. No hidden cost, one flat fee and you are done with everything.
AChat
Joining is free, and the free versions include quite a bit of possibility even so limited. You can edit your avatar a little, you have some animations and you can join the party places and you can use some basic free rooms. If you want more choice you buy A$. Packages start at 14,50 US.
There are also premium subscriptions available starting at 9,95 USD per month or 49, oo USD for a year. This is substantially cheaper than 3DXChat and the same as Thrixxx Chathouse 3D.
Conclusion
Share your own Experience
If you have been in any of those three games for sex, please share with us your own views. Leave a comment (moderated) and tell us which one is your favorite and why!
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22 Comments
April
Interesting article, but looking at the pics you shared I’d have to disagree that the graphics look better in 3dxchat than in second life. With decent graphic settings, and a good quality skin avatars look so much better than the ones in your pictures. Maybe your pictures are just not good examples of the actual ingame experience, but the skins remind me of the cheap ones you can get in sl. Given that it’s not that cheap to try to see if that’s the case, I think I’ll stick with sl.
I also think that animations in sl have come a long way in the last couple of years. I wholeheartedly agree with the penis out of the back of your head issue in sl, but to be fair that’s more to do with the men giving themselves unrealistically sized junk than an issue with animations. No matter how good the animations if the guy’s given himself a dick the size of a baby’s arm it’s gonna cause issues lol.
Caroline
Hi Mandy
I compress all pictures here for the sake of better loading time. The graphics do loose quality in that process.
Site speed is a ranking factor in Google.
Carol
Kytteh Wytchwood
Sex animations have been updated to bento. So you can achieve the perfect fit with bento animations and not as much adjustment as there was before bento. Some mesh furniture, there is no adjustment needed if both avatars are in similar height.
As far as looks go, you can get a high quality look from the fitmesh bodies running high in your graphics with advanced lighting model enabled.
Add VR goggles greatly heightens the experience.
With properly made physics, breasts and butts can jiggle naturally.
There are mesh genitalia as well.
Materials enabled hair and accessories gives it a more realistic look to the avatar.
Rob
I am in 3dxchat, very hot fun game, I love the sex, and fantasys, thats my number one reason I play, and love experiences with good escorts, love the spontaniety of it all, choose thier sexy outfits,escorts give a good effort to please,and make you cum, and appreciate it.I have had some amazing fantasys fullfilled, and incredible orgasms with really gifted escorts..
I love that they want to give me what I am in need of , and leave me relieved and satisfied, and wanting to come back for more..So Caroline, I am not in second life but would love to come in , and meet up with some fun escorts and enjoy your satisfying services. Is there also Directory were I can just look you and them up and go and enjoy?
Caroline
Hi Rob,
To find escorts in Second Life is actually quite easy. You simply type “escorts” in the ingame search facility. You will find numerous places where escorts offer their services.
Most are escort or strip clubs. Some are advertising places where escorts place their ads on display.
Alternativelly look me up in people search and hire me :-). My user name is carolinestravels.
Make sure you have some inworld currency, called Linden dollars (L$). The more upscale escorts (like me) charge around 2002 to 3.000 L§. At places like “street whores” it is much less than that.
Carol
Rob
Well, I watched and seen some of your pics, of your Avi in action,I want to Definitely, get an account in Second life, and enjoy your sexy skills and Cum for you, im a kinky lingerie guy, would love to do you in sexy garters and stockings,…Im horny thinking of it..is it fairly easy to quickly make a decent Attractive Avi, meet you in game and play?, and how does poses work?do i need to buy poses, or are some of the girls equipped with hot poses?
Caroline Resident
Rob,
to start with, the avatars you get at the beginning are not that bad. But typically most SL Residents start buying stuff to look better sooner or later.
You need to change some US$ into what we call Linden$, in order to be able to buy stuff like skins, body, hair, shape and so on (and to pay me of course).
There are thousands of options.
Don’t worry about poses. I have all we need 😉
Carol
Foxyme
Chathouse is very low and not many play there for many good reasons, if you ask me 3dx way is better and even look better. Thrixxx only existing for sexvila witch is free for play on the web.
Caroline Resident
Foxy
Thanks for commenting, its always appreciated.
I had to delete your other two comments, as they were not objective but slandering product and people working there in inappropriate language. Nothing wrong with critic, but please watch the wording.
Thank you in advance.
Yours
Carol
Ash wizardly
Sure we can compare sl with the other two.
The difference here is that sex is a part of sl, it’s second life you can totally not indulge into sexual acts and live a good life whereas the other two are entirely focused into sex. It’s not fair to compare them but sure one can always.
I do agree if you are just about having sex, then the other options are better suited but well sl is amazing as well. Some good sl sex are slow burn! Meaning you can tease and keep teasing for a long time.
Priapus
sorry, just realized the names are different but they are the same thing, sorry for the dumb question
Priapus
HI Caroline – thanks for this review. Will you be reviewing / comparing these with 3D SexVilla 2?
We are just getting into this and looking for the right one to start with. – reviews like yours really help,
DayKight
Can you add or comment of virtual escorting in each game including the availability of cam, advertising services if there’s an economy to charge except and redeem currencies and so on?
Caroline Resident
Hello DayKight
very good question actually.
As far as I know, Second Life is the only one with a florishing and diverse in-world escort market. The reason being is, that it has its own currency which is exchangable into US currency. In 3DXChat there are whores as well, but they only get a symbolic gift, which costs next to nothing. In fact you get more “rewards” each time you login, than what a gift would cost. However I do suspect, that in all 3 games some people advertise “out-of-game-services” such as webcam fun.
So redeeming curency, only in Second Life.
Why you aks? You want to hire a whore or be a whore? If its the first see me in Second Life. I am known to be good whore! If its the later, then see me too, I can show you whats important.
Carol
EndlessKnight
I agree 3DXchat does have better quality. For the sex I have to disagree. I have had more than 500 sex partners in the last year. Secondlife is an easy place to find sex. The main thing is people have no clue how to talk with others. Do to all the cell phones and email facebook twitter. No one gets up and physically walks to some ones house to talk with them. This makes everyone antisocial and unable to deal with people properly.
mikeismike
Caroline thanks for the review and thanks to the others who have commented.
I think we all agree that 3dxchat has really good definition – i have always believed that some good programming could enable one to avoid the dreaded penis poking through the back of the head syndrome. Having said that, as all of us have said in the blog – virtual sex takes place in the mind. The fidelity of the avatars joining is important but so is the context, environment, easy of movement, clothes, and on and on. 3DXChat does not come close to the fidelity of SL if one ants to create and experience and not just jerk off.
Caroline Resident
Hello Mike,
I totally agree with your comment. This blog actually proves in a way, that Second Life can be a very diverse experience. Stories like you have read here (remember sailing around the world) are simply not possible in 3DXCHAT. It is simply to small for that.
I wonder if the makers of 3DX will further develope thier world with more content, more places, more poses, more activities. Remember SL startet with only 16 regions when it was first launched. Now we are talking about more than 20.000 regions!
Me, as an advertiser, would actually welcome constant content development. If it doesn’t develope further we will see a high churn rate, because people will get bored and cancel their subscribtions. No good for an affiliate advertiser.
Would be cool to get somebody from their part to comment on this!
Take care
Carol
AnaDuarte Xue
In all fairness you cannot compare 3DXChat to Second Life.
3DXChat is a sex game, Second Life is a virtual world where its users decided to make nude avatars and sex animations, and LL was basically “ok” with it.
The animations in Second Life are completely independent, and since each Avatar can be unique it is completely unreasonable to expect the avatars would fit nicely with each other.
On the other hand 3DXChat is built for that sole purpose, and because of that Avatar customization is FAR more limited, on Second Life any Avatar you can imagine can be done.
As far as graphics go the problem with Second Life is poor optimization from the creators, that is the main reason why it runs so poorly, but that aside, you can build absolutely anything on Second Life, and if you look at some high end photographers on Flickr, you can see some truly amazingly decorated rooms that are above and beyond any other virtual world and can even trade punches with modern super video-games.
So while 3DXChat might be the latest on online sex games, nothing comes close to the customization potential of Second Life where you’re only limited by your imagination…. and wallet.
Lonnie
Maybe. you should check out Red Light Center.
Sandie Foxxx
Great comparison and I couldn’t agree more although I only had a brief trial of SL and Thrixxx.
I switched to 3DX since January 2016 and I still like it very much, although updating and adding new content is rather slow (but they recently changed to Unity 5, so I guess all development time goes into debugging now) .
I have a 4 years experience on Red Light Center Utherverse and one year on their successor in developement Curio. (playing as Sandie Foxxx in all 3 of the games)
As far as I can compare, RLC is comparable to SL, both being a little outdated now. To me, Curio has the most potential of them all:
* it runs on Unity 5
* sex game depends on positions chosen and strokes (being slight variations of the same pose, which is brilliant)
* there’s a large number of places and worlds
* user content and users designing clothes and avatars is allowed
* it is fun to play with the load of parameters that are available to edit your avatar, but it is very hard to get it right
On the downside:
* development goes terribly slow and it is still buggy as hell
* they still can’t match the graphics quality 3DX proposes today already
* while in preview your avatar looks great (after playing around with all the parameters for hours), once in game it looks downright ugly
In conclusion I’d rather say that there’s indeed no clear winner, but there’s only one loser: the user …
Whatever choice you make, none of the platforms is actually answering to all requirements.
In an ideal world, the programming skills of both SL, Curio and 3DX combined would make a perfect game.
Caroline Resident
Hi Sandie
good points. Thanks for commenting!
Kisses
Carol
Lonnie
You are correct. All of the games( SL, RLC, ACHAT, 3D XCHAT) have advantages over one another. A combination of all of the advantages would result in a sex game on steroids.