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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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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Typically we think of otome games as visual novels. But I have played quite a few text-based games where you can play as a woman with a bunch of (male) love interests. Usually no or few images, definitely no CGs, but your choices affect the story and often characters' opinions of you. Some are more focused on the relationships, some less. I was wondering how many people play otome who also play these interactive fiction games, or vice versa, how much the audience for both overlaps. Was also wondering if some IF might qualify as otome.

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Source: BlueSky post. A little late to it unfortunately.

Hey #OtomeArmada and all otome games fans!

As is tradition at Aksys Games, all otome titles are on sale in celebration of #valentines day. Stock up on the titles you don't have and pre-order the upcoming games.

Only while supplies last and only through Monday!

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

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Valentine's Day is either approaching or officially here, depending on your timezone. Given these games are usually about getting in a romantic relationship with a guy, so I figured at least one post acknowledging Valentine's Day would be appropriate. Are you going to play a particular otome game, perhaps going through your favorite LI's route? Draw fanart or write fanfic of MC and an LI? Spend more time developing your own otome game? Something else?

Valentines Otome (yes, that's really the title, no apostrophe) is especially appropriate for the day. I'd also think Cupid Parasite to be so.

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cross-posted from: https://goblin.band/notes/a44a17xygz4rxl19

Signups for the Otome Game Jam 2025 are open now!

The game jam will run from May 1st 2025 until July 1st 2025.

Check it out here

(Also there's a brand-new VNDev Lemmy community!)

@vndev@discuss.tchncs.de

#GameJam #Otome #VNDev #OtomeJam

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social to c/otomegames@ani.social
 
 

Link to announcement post, alternate link, and in case those go down, the original Twitter link.

FINALLY!!!! years of blood sweat and tears are OPEN SOURCE and PUBLIC‼️

https://pacthesis.neocities.org/

what to do with these (.fla) files?

☕️ exhume the corpse of adobe flash

☕️ make fun of how i code

☕️ whatever the hell you want

Considering giving it a crosspost to an open source community as well.

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

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Issue 32 of the Amare Fortnightly Bulletin has been released!

Inside, you’ll find:

- New game releases, including fantasy, otome, and yuri titles

- Fresh episodes and chapter updates for episodic games

- Exciting Kickstarter campaigns to keep an eye on

- Highlights from Queer Winter Jam, featuring Amare-themed entries

Download it on itch

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Otome game releases:

Legends of Savvarah: Children of the Sun

Love Bubble

Furthermore, Love Cult, an otome game inspired by Cult of the Lamb, successfully completed its crowdfunding campaign!

@otomegames@ani.social

#VisualNovel #VisualNovels #Otome #OtomeGame #OtomeGames #Amare #AmareGames #IndieGames

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

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The Sealed With A Kiss Game Jam is finished! - Here are 6 notable Otome games

The SWAK jam is a month long visual novel game jam that ran from January 1st to February 1st. Here are a few interesting indie otome games to check out:

Ninefold Promise

Until We Meet Again

Fool Me Once

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You're Just a 3rd Wheeler!

Trail of Stars

Check out all the jam submissions for more romance games! There were 79 entries in total!

@otomegames@ani.social

#VisualNovels #SWAKJam #VisualNovel #Otome #OtomeGame #OtomeGames #IndieGame #GameJam

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

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The indie game studio Crystal Game Works is going to host an otome games themed steam festival and it's going to run from May 19th-26th!

Otome fans can subscribe to their newsletter to be informed when it starts, and otome devs can sign up for the festival until March 15th.

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Friend of mine said this song from Period Cube sounded a lot like Yiruma's "River Flows in You".

I checked it out, and yes it does. I intentionally played bits of "River Flows in You" a little out of order as some parts sound closer to the Period Cube song than others and I wanted to show the similar parts, but just playing straight through also works together. If you check the chord progression of the Period Cube song in that specific part, it's the same as "River Flows in You". The left hand of the Period Cube song in that part is also quite similar.

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It includes:

  • New game releases
  • Fresh episodes and chapter updates
  • Exciting Kickstarter campaigns
  • Highlights from the Winter VN Jam, including Amare-themed entries

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Itch.io download

Notable indie otome game releases:

In the Rearview

Supersize My Heart

Dekiai Heart Candy Kun

A Wish of Snow

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

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by OtomeGamesBot@lemmy.zip to c/otomegames@ani.social
 
 

!otomegames@lemmy.zip

Finally got around to creating the backup community in case this goes down!

The backup community won't have any posts unless this main one goes down. (I can guarantee this because it's locked down to just mods being allowed to make posts—aka, me, aka Elevator7009.) If the main community goes down, I will post about it on the backup community and reenable posting for everyone there. So you can safely subscribe to both the main instance and the backup instance without getting spammed. Only one will ever be active at a time.

Why a backup community?

  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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