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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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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Was looking forward to this coming out! After the review, I might just back off. Cannot quite identify what's turning me off. But that is what reviews are useful for: further discerning if the product is for you or not. I'll thank BlerdyOtome for helping me not inflate my backlog even more.

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Put together by Sammi❀ ‪@otomeaddicted.bsky.social‬

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VNDB | Posting this here since this is a relatively new blog for reviews of non-localized titles, so I wanted to help promote it^^

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cross-posted from: https://goblin.band/notes/afap7d6unrl1qjtt

The MangaGamer Fall Sale has begun!

Link here

There's a broad selection on VNs on sale, including otome and BL titles 👀

@visualnovels@ani.social

#visualnovel #gaming

Steam Prison, OZMAFIA!!, Fxxx Me Royally! and Fashioning little Miss Lonesome are on sale right now~

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If you understand Japanese, you can search for a game and it will return the game's official website. I think it covers both commercial and indie releases, but I know for sure it covers indie.

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  1. Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom
  2. Amnesia: Memories
  3. Code: Realize
  4. Diabolik Lovers
  5. Uta no Prince-sama
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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Berin@discuss.tchncs.de to c/otomegames@ani.social
 
 

Synopsis: Welcome to the Spirit Realm’s most scandalous hot spring inn, where every wall hides heartbreak and every whisper speaks of betrayal.

You are Akine, a sharp-tongued former Okami (innkeeper) reborn as a bold Ookami (wolf yokai/spirit) with a dangerous talent for flirting–especially with the masked white tiger who saved you.

Enter Shimon, the stoic beauty who is utterly clueless when it comes to emotions. But perhaps, his silence is hiding something.

Your mission? Restore the inn, exorcise wayward spirits, and peel away the layers Shimon hides behind. But beware; his trust is fragile, and every choice you make could heal old wounds–or tear them open wider.

Are you ready to ring the bell and check in?

VNDB | Prototype Demo on Itchi.io

You can follow the team via their bridged bsky account: @mushroomallow.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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Fall in love with visual novels! These romance-themed stories about love, horror, comedy, and more will never leave your heart.

Posted over at !visualnovels@ani.social, but since it focuses on romance and does include otome games I thought I ought to post it here too.

As per usual for Steam festivals, some games are on sale.

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Another nice post from otome.com.

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(the announcement was on twitter so i'm not posting it)

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An article on the recent drama by a small website, https://otome.com/! I think I have promoted the site here before.

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This after the delisting of such games.

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Explanatory post, not a shaming post for those who like red flag LIs. Found this useful for anyone who wants to understand—I certainly read a lot of similar explanations from fans of red flags in otome during my time on Reddit. Also useful for engineering an LI for your own game 👀

Recommendations are at the bottom of the page.

Do any of these reasons resonate with you personally?

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Essentially, Steam (check rule 15) and itch.io are getting rid of/delisting content that payment processors don't want to process. (It's mostly adult content.)

This website has more information on what will happen if you own a game that gets delisted, and how to get it back if at all. I would personally recommend downloading it and backing it up somewhere, especially for itch.io which is not listed on the website.

A video with link sources for its information in the description validates this. If you just want to click a link here instead of going to the video, here's one for Steam and one for itch.io.

If you would like to protest this, https://yellat.money/ works for anyone and Americans can take action at https://aclu.com/mastercard.

Please remember rule 5 and tag NSFW content as such. Discussion of NSFW's existence is fine, getting into details should be tagged.

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You can also read about it here on otomekitten's site.

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