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!

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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what route you can find this onKeith's route

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Manually making this post myself as the OtomeGamesBot@lemmy.zip 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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