Pleasure Forge Review: The Dungeons-and-Dongs Indie Doing Fantasy Silicone Right

What They Make

Pleasure Forge makes hand-poured, body-safe silicone fantasy toys: dildos, plugs, and suction-cup pieces, all built around creature and monster designs. Their own catalog organizes everything under a heading called "Our Models," with a separate sub-collection branded "Qimera Forge by PF."

The defining trait is theme discipline. A lot of fantasy brands feel like a grab bag of unrelated sculpts. Pleasure Forge's lineup looks like it came from one world, one creature taxonomy, the same hand. That cohesion isn't just decorative. It usually signals a maker who sculpts deliberately rather than cranking out variations on a single base form, and in this category that's the difference between a toy that works and a toy that surprises you with how the texture shifts as you move it.

What they don't currently do: custom commissions. Their FAQ states plainly that the guided-customs request form is unavailable for the foreseeable future and that they are not taking custom orders at this time. That's a real divergence from Bad Dragon's always-on custom configurator, and worth knowing before you get attached to the idea of a bespoke colorway.

The Catalog

The catalog advertises 40+ designs, which is large for an indie maker, plus the Qimera Forge sub-line. Real models from their current lineup include the Aboleth, Ankheg, Centaur, Chrysalid, Illithid, Kobold, Kraken (in Rogue and Wizard variants), Mimic, and Merfolk, alongside egg-style plugs like the Dragon's Egg Plug and Roc's Egg Plug. The Qimera Forge sub-collection adds pieces like the Sentry, Amphibian, and Salamander.

There's also a blind-box style product line called Forgelings (Lawful, Neutral, Chaotic, and a Mini Mimic) plus a "Bag of Holding" surprise option, for people who like the gamble of not knowing exactly what colorway shows up. Each model typically comes in a rotating set of named colorways rather than a build-your-own color picker.

Sizes and proportions vary by model, and because the catalog turns over with drops and limited colorways, the specific pieces available on any given day shift. If you want a particular model, the move is to know its name going in and watch for it to appear, rather than browsing for whatever's in stock.

Material & Firmness

Pleasure Forge's FAQ states their toys are made from "100% body-safe platinum cure silicone and other body-safe pigments." Platinum-cure is the standard you want in this category: body-safe, nonporous, boilable, no mystery fillers. It's the same material class that Bad Dragon, Mr Hankey's, and the other reputable fantasy makers use, and it's the baseline that separates a real silicone brand from the jelly-and-TPE bottom of the market.

Firmness is selectable on their own scale: Super Soft (00-20), Soft (00-30), Medium (00-50), and a rarely-offered Firm (10A). That's a wider firmness ladder than many indie makers publish, and it matters more than people expect. The same sculpt in Super Soft versus Medium is effectively two different toys, one that compresses and folds around you, one that holds its shape and applies the texture directly.

For most people and most of these designs, Medium is the sensible default: enough structure for the textures to register, enough give that ridges and scales compress during insertion instead of jabbing. Super Soft and Soft make the larger pieces more approachable. The rare Firm is for people who specifically want the shape to push back.

The Drop Model

Here's the thing the earlier version of this review got flatly wrong, so let me correct it directly: Pleasure Forge runs a drop model. Their homepage carries a live countdown ("Next Drop" with a date, time, and a "no pre-shop" warning), and their FAQ describes stock dropping on Thursdays around 8PM EST, announced through the site, their mailing list, and social. You buy during the live window. Between drops, most of the front catalog reads as sold out.

What they don't appear to run is a separate waitlist or lottery on top of the drop, so it's not the full bot-fighting circus that the worst drop systems become. But don't mistake "no waitlist" for "order anytime." The honest framing is: this is a competitive timed release, and if you want a specific popular model you need to show up when it drops.

If a predictable, order-whenever experience matters more to you than this brand's specific designs, Exotic Erotics runs an order-anytime made-to-order model and Bad Dragon keeps a large ready-made section. Pleasure Forge asks more of you logistically. Whether that's worth it depends entirely on how much you want what they make.

Two more practical notes worth flagging. Processing runs roughly 2-10 business days, domestic ships discreetly in a plain box, and international goes UPS-only with duties landing on the buyer. And the refund policy is strict in a maker-protective way: inspect the toy through the sealed bag before opening, because opening it forfeits refund eligibility, and they explicitly don't refund wrong-size, wrong-firmness, or buyer's-remorse orders. Read the product page carefully before you commit.

vs. the Competition

Against Bad Dragon: BD has the bigger catalog, the always-on custom configurator, the ready-made section, and the community infrastructure. Pleasure Forge counters with a tighter artistic identity and the same platinum-cure material class, but it asks you to catch a drop and currently can't take customs at all. If you want a specific BD design or guaranteed availability, BD wins. If you want a cohesive D&D aesthetic and you're willing to work for it, Pleasure Forge is a real alternative.

Against Primal Hardwere: these two occupy adjacent corners of the indie space. Primal's whole identity is built on a niche the big players ignore (ovipositors and alien egg-laying), while Pleasure Forge is more of a general fantasy-creature catalog with a tabletop theme. Different specialties, similar material tier. Pick on which world appeals to you.

Against Exotic Erotics: Exotic Erotics runs order-anytime and made-to-order, which is logistically friendlier, but the two brands take very different design approaches. Pleasure Forge is sculpted-fantasy with a drop model; the access tradeoff is the main axis to weigh.

Pricing

Pleasure Forge's pricing runs roughly $15 to $110. Small plugs and Forgelings sit at the low end (some sale and blind-box items dip to around $15-35), while the signature large creature pieces land in the $80-110 band. The Qimera Forge sub-line is priced similarly, with pieces like the Sentry around $110 and the Amphibian and Salamander around $80.

That's squarely mid-market for hand-poured platinum-cure silicone. Cheaper than Bad Dragon's comparable large sizes, more than the budget floor of Exotic Erotics, and roughly in line with the rest of the reputable indie field. For made-to-order silicone from a small US operation, it's a fair number. If platinum-cure fantasy silicone cost $30, something would be wrong with it.

The value caveat is the same as the access caveat: you're paying mid-range prices for a brand you have to plan around. No custom option right now, a drop you have to catch, and a strict refund policy. The silicone justifies the money. The logistics are the tax.

“The silicone is the easy part to praise. The hard part is catching a Thursday drop before the model you want sells out.”

— Sasha, on the access tradeoff

ALTERNATIVES

Bad DragonBigger always-in-stock catalog and full custom configurator

Review7.8

Primal HardwereSimilar indie tier, ovipositor specialty

Review7.9

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Exotic EroticsOrder-anytime made-to-order, no drop window

Review6.9