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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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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/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

@otomegames Half of the LIs are male, and you can pick the protag's pronouns, so this counts as an otome according to the rules, right? 😁

I also discovered that BlerdyOtome is now mirroring her blog posts on the fediverse, so keeping up with the news will be a lot easier 🎉

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay, the annoying part of this is that I get an error/cannot find her on Lemmy, but on Mbin I can find her. Looks like I'll have to get an alt involved or finally make a Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@Elevator7009sAlt bridged accounts don't show up in the search for me either unless I search the whole account name, it's really weird 🤔

BTW these here should populate soon-ish as well:

@otomekitten.com
@otomeology.com
@noisypixel.net
@vnstudioelan.com

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can I ask what you typed out? I see @otomekitten.com, was there anything else to what you typed? For blerdyotome I searched @[email protected] and @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

@Elevator7009sAlt
"@ [website] @ web.brid.gy" for each!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yep, it counts!

I was thinking of Our Life and What in Hell is Bad when I was allowing games where you could be something other than a woman, so long as a woman was an option. I would not want them excluded. Nothing in the game's pages vibe check as "doesn't fit this but technically fits the rules" 😊 I have those rules because most things that can pass the vibe check also pass those rules, and this game passes the vibe check!

I have to go find BlerdyOtome's Fediverse posts and set up a post to promote her tomorrow 🙂 so glad more otome fans are coming over!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@Elevator7009sAlt Her actual fedi-account is inactive but she's sharing her blog posts automatically via webmentions at @/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I also found she is on Threads when trying to find her on the Fediverse before I saw your comment. ani.social is defederated from Threads, but for sake of completeness I figured I'd mention that. Wondering if she'd move to Mastodon 🤔 Will try to figure out the web.brid.gy thing soon, it is not playing nice with me on mobile at the moment. Thank you!

And since you and some otome creators are on Mastodon… wonder if I should finally suck it up and make one if that's where all the otome people are, if I really want to help otome break up from Reddit. I have got nothing against them, but I do face server choice paralysis and a preference for forum-style discussion.

And now with that analogy I just made I am imagining a cracky stupid otome with MC as an innocent social media user and a bunch of websites or social media as her LIs…