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.

    • No bigotry or discrimination. This includes but is not limited to homophobia, racism, sexism, etc.
    • 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.
  4. Please don’t directly link to pirated content.

  5. 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.

  6. 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 advertising something you have worked on (think your own otome review website, or an otome game 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 finding new otome creators is 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.

Not Rules

Magazine/community icon from My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! -Pirates of the Disturbance-

Our backup community is !otomegames@lemmy.zip.

Q: Why is this needed?A: TL;DR: We have had to start over a lot due to instances dying.

  1. First, otome on Lemmy/Mbin started with Kbin, at [!otomegames@kbin.social](/c/otomegames@kbin.social), which went down when kbin.social had federation issues and eventually went down.
  2. Then we moved to [!otomegames@kbin.run](/c/otomegames@kbin.run), which went down when kbin.run unexpectedly vanished.
  3. So we moved again to !otomegames@ani.social, where we can hopefully stay. If not, we jump to…
  4. !otomegames@lemmy.zip.

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

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social to c/otomegames@ani.social
 
 

These folks are so helpful. Double points if the walkthrough creators are the devs.

Sometimes I'll be willing to bash my head against the game, not sure why I keep hitting an end or outcome I do not want over and over again, but if I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong and get frustrated, help becomes very welcome, especially with otome. I like organically discovering which choice was the one that changed things enough to get a good end (or even a bad end I particularly want to see) but sometimes it is too difficult/time-consuming, and I need a little help. (And it's not a puzzle game so I feel okay doing it lol.) Sometimes I am enjoying the game but not enough to bash my head against bad endings repeatedly and will consult a walkthrough to get where I want to be sometimes.

Thank you to these people for saving me time and frustration. Sometimes I try to join them, adding information to a wiki or posting information that I have not seen online yet for certain games. It can be pretty fun!

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

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by berin@goblin.band to c/otomegames@ani.social
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Issue 30 of the Amare Fortnightly Bulletin is out!

Hello everyone, Issue #30 is out now!We are back with a new winter theme we hope you enjoy.As 2024 comes to a close, it's hard to believe how quickly the year has flown by. With the holidays approaching, Amare news is slowing down, but there are still some exciting new launches, updates, and projects to check outHave a great fortnight and we will see you in the next issue!~Amare News Team

Itch Link for Download

Tumblr Link for Web View

@otomegames@ani.social

#AmareGames #AmareGame #VisualNovel #InteractiveFiction #VisualNovels

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

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I went to GameStop today to buy holiday gifts, and I spotted an otome. (Celestia: Chain of Fate for the curious.)

Every time I see otome at a physical store I feel good, it's nice to know this niche genre I enjoy is popular enough to make it to a physical storefront.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Berin@discuss.tchncs.de to c/otomegames@ani.social
 
 

The DLC expands the story and adds additional endings to the free-to-play amare-game. Features:

  • five new days
  • new CGs
  • four new endings

Steam Link

VNDB for A Date with Death

Two and a Half Studios also released an Art and Guide Book along with the DLC.

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

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

Missed last week's post thinking the OtomeGamesBot would pick it up. I was wrong. Ugh.

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  • A Date with Death - chat-sim with fully customizable protagonist in which you enter a bet with the grim reaper himself (the base game is technically Pay What You Want, but there are DLC) VNDB
  • Obscura - dark and mature VN with a fully customizable protag VNDB
  • Speakeasy -- fixed female protag and a mature story set in prohibition-era USA VNDB
  • Royal Order which is available in a bundle with Royal Alchemist - both are magical fantasy stat-raising dating-sims with either a choosable male/female protag or fully customizable protag Royal Order VNDB, Royal Alchemist VNDB

If you have any more recommendations, feel free to add them!

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

Attempting to use the OtomeGamesBot again, this time with the Lemmy Scheduler.

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As someone who enjoys both visual novel video games and video games that aren't visual novels, I'd love to see otome with more than just the usual visual novel gameplay. I found this neat list, although it is from 2014 so it's missing newer games with gameplay, excludes 18+ games, and if the game lets you pick your gender it has also been excluded.

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Soliciting community input on two things that should happen, but if I don't receive input in several weeks I'm willing to proceed myself—in other words, I'm not just kicking the ball to the community to make a decision for me and refusing to make any decisions myself.

Backup Instance

This community exists on ani.social because...

  1. someone else made !otomegames@kbin.social and I participated. kbin.social died.
  2. So I made an otome community to replace it: !otomegames@kbin.run. kbin.run died.

I really thought kbin.run would have longevity, especially because its admin was an Mbin maintainer (Mbin is the software kbin.run ran on) and kbin.run had been up for over a year. I was suggested to make a backup community just in case ani.social also goes down, and I'm finally taking care of that.

I was wondering if ya'll have any communities you'd prefer to have the backup !otomegames to be on, or to avoid it being on. I've heard of lemmy.ml being very controversial and also overrun with politics, and otomegames is supposed to be a fun gaming space so I can definitely tell you it's not going there. I also won't put it on lemmy.world, because that's the huge flagship instance and one of the points of the Fediverse is decentralization. I would prefer to go to a gaming-centric, anime-centric, and/or fandom-centric instance. I was going to put the backup community on some Lemmy or Mbin instance, but I could be convinced to try out PieFed.

Icon Picking

Communities without an icon tend not to get clicked on as much. I made the current one. The current one also doesn't really fit in on ani.social (which has anime images for its communities, not my crappily-made pixel art). The current one frankly would also fit romance games that aren't otome.

I was wondering what image we'd want to put up there that more clearly screams "otome". I was thinking an image of Katarina from My Next Life as a Villainess with a guy looking at her with desire, because it's a guy wanting a girl, because that anime has a corresponding otome game, and that anime is not very male gazey. I know Hakuoki has an anime too, so I could try looking there. If I can find a picture of an anime girl playing an otome game that might be even better. Maybe a pixel art again except it's clicking on anime boys with hearts in their eyes? EDIT: Icon picked!

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

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and say which one you chose and why in the comments ;)

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Weekly what are you playing post and one I missed last week! Post about the otome games you have been playing!

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LicoBiTs announces otome visual novel UN:LOGICAL for Switch

https://www.gematsu.com/2024/10/licobits-announces-otome-visual-novel-unlogical-for-switch

Plot:

“UN:LOGICAL” is a virtual reality game that can only be played by invitation.

In this virtual world—where touch, taste, and pain feel real—adorable “apprentice angels” are said to welcome players as NPCs.

However, those who join for the reward money soon find themselves threatened by the “side effects” caused by the game.

VNDB

@otomegames@ani.social

#Otome #OtomeGame #VisualNovel #unlogical

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

Forgot about this post yesterday ;-;

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