Otome Games

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Rules

  1. Please stay on-topic: post about otome games. Otome games are romance games aimed at women who want to romance men. For the purposes of this community, games with female love interests (LIs) count as long as it isn't mostly female LIs: men should be at least half of the LI options. Note that you do not have to be a straight woman to post: people outside the target demographic play too, and you are welcome here. Amare games will be allowed given how small the community on the Fediverse is for it, and how they overlap with otome, but if the community starts to overwhelmingly have non-otome amare posts I reserve the right to change this rule and redirect those posts to a new amare community.
  2. In an effort to keep this community more discussion-based, please only post fanart and the like if you made the art yourself. Your own fanart, cosplays, etc. are very welcome.
  3. Don’t be a jerk.

3a. No bigotry or discrimination. This includes but is not limited to homophobia, racism, sexism, etc.

3b. Be respectful of other peoples’ tastes. You may absolutely despise an LI and want to discuss it, and that’s fine. Casting negative aspersions on or directly insulting people who love that LI is not fine. What we find interesting in fiction does not always directly translate to real-life desires.

  1. Please don’t directly link to pirated content.
  2. Tag any NSFW content as such. If you are not sure whether to tag it that way, err on the side of caution and tag.
  3. Please indicate spoilers. The following format works on both Lemmy and Kbin, but if you are using an app it may not. See this comment for which apps handle spoilers. Note that spoilers in post bodies will just show the text in the preview if you link the post in, say, Discord, instead of spoiling it.
Spoilers for OtomeGame: The GameSomething that happened at the end of the game! Something else that happened at the end of the game!

That will appear as:

Spoilers for OtomeGame: The GameSomething that happened at the end of the game!

Something else that happened at the end of the game!

7. When promoting an otome you have worked on, please use common sense for what is spammy. If there's about four new posts here weekly, don't post a progress update weekly—we don't want self-promotion overwhelming the community. But we do want to inform people of new otome and dev updates are cool, so do post them here every once in awhile! I reserve the right to change this rule to be more specific about what exactly counts as spammy and what does not, but I feel I'll know it when I see it and trust most posters to operate in good faith.

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Synopsis: The year is 1995, and you're newly single and ready to mingle in Stradania, the dysfunctional micronation whose chief exports are pig iron, human misery, and radioactive souvenir mugs. Sample the nightlife, try a VR trip or two, and maybe even find love - just try not to get your organs stolen.

Steampage

Itch.io

VNDB

The co-writer and artist for this game is on fedi btw! If you're interested in this game, consider giving her a follow~

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Weekly what are you playing post! Post about the otome games you have been playing!

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Late weekly what are you playing post! Post about the otome games you have been playing! One day I will have enough free time to fix the bot!

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Game released on 9/12, so I am a bit late to this post! The sale applies to both Switch and Steam, with both ending on 9/26. The Nintendo eShop also provides a sale end time: 02:59 a.m. EDT.

Steam Nintendo eShop (US) Nintendo eShop (United Kingdom)

According to the otomekitten review, the localization was done well, which I am relieved about. I think when I originally posted about this game on the kbin.run otome community (the community that came before this one and went down when the instance kbin.run went down), I noticed a mistake on the official website that made me worry about localization, so I'm happy to hear it was well done. But people might want to be warned about this:

Unlike your usual otome visual novel, this game does not branch from a common route to individual love interest routes. Instead, the game is very linear and follows only one story path. This means all the dates happen within the main storyline. So, if you want to experience it as if you’re playing one specific route at a time, you’ll need to carefully choose the options that lead to certain date scenarios with the guy you prefer. Otherwise, the heroine will jump from one love interest to another in each chapter.

This happens because this is a straight port of a mobile game, where certain scenarios were paywalled, which is likely how the guys were separated out—just pay for the ones you want to see. This game removed the paywalls (and thank goodness, paywalls in a game you already paid for would feel bad) but judging by the review it did not restructure requirements to see certain scenes. Not sure if this will come off as her falling in love with all the guys people, or if it will feel like it was intended to be one at a time and that some of the scenes you see were not intended to be shown to you at that time. The otomekitten review says it feels like she's three-timing. If that's your thing in fiction, more power to you, but I figured I'd toss a warning 1) for those who do not want it and 2) I feel people who would be into legit loving multiple people and people who would be into a more deceptive three-timing thing would want it to feel like the story actually intends that to be happening, and not like an unintentional byproduct of just removing paywalls form a mobile game. I have a feeling it will feel like that unintentional byproduct, though of course I could be wrong.

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Weekly what are you playing post! Post about the otome games you have been playing!

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Switch & Steam

  • Ephemeral Fantasy on Dark
  • The Crimson Flower that Divides: Lunar Coupling

Switch

  • Steam Prison
  • Hana Awase New Moon -Mizuchi Volume-
  • Hana Awase New Moon -Himetsugi Volume-
  • Hana Awase New Moon -Karakurenai/Utsutsu Volume-
  • Hana Awase New Moon -Iroha Volume-

There are also two BL titles on sale.

  • Hashihime of the Old Book Town (Switch)
  • Of the Red, Light, and the Ayakashi Tsuzuri (both Switch and Steam)
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It has the latest news on relationship-focused indie games~

Itch Link for Download

Tumblr Link for Web View

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Weekly what are you playing post! Post about the otome games you have been playing!

Making this post manually, hope to fix the bot soon.

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Weekly what are you playing post! Post about the otome games you have been playing!

Making this post a day late, bot is broken and I was very busy yesterday.

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Related: what platform would you like to play otome on, even if very little/no otome is currently offered for it?

I may repost this at a later date when we have more people and engagement: I like to discuss otome with people!

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Demo Release: Lost in Limbo - A Dark Fantasy Romance Visual Novel by Ravenstar Games

Preview & Review of the Demo by BlerdyOtome:
https://blerdyotome.com/2024/08/20/lost-in-limbo-demo-review/

Itch.io:
https://ravenstar-games.itch.io/lost-in-limbo

Steam Demo:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3103010/Lost_in_Limbo_Demo/
Full Game to wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3058760/Lost_in_Limbo/

@otomegames

#Otome #Amare #IndieGame #VisualNovel

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This Twitter post announces the sequel, and this one confirms the same person who did "character design and original art" (according to what Google Translate spits out) will also be doing it for the sequel, and that a stage play adaptation of 9 R.I.P. is coming out.

(Twitter will not translate the posts for me, so I popped the text content into Google Translate instead.)

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Manually making this post myself as the [email protected] is… struggling.

Weekly what are you playing post! Comment about the otome games you’ve been playing!

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It's a free fortnightly bulletin with news all about relationship-focused visual novels/interactive fiction (found under the "Amare" tag on itch.io)❤️

Here's the download on itch

Tumblr link for web view

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Sometimes when trying to try different routes I end up just getting sucked back into making the choices I know will put me on my favorite's route all over again…

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