3 of the guys feel kind of mysterious. Maybe that is just me and the game differentiates them better.

I do wonder if they’ll do anything with her holy position. That made me wonder (bit of a tangent): I am curious how interested a Japanese audience, that I assume has more exposure to Shinto and Buddhism, would be in works exploring Christianity, especially from perspectives of people who faced religious abuse. Would they find it an interesting story of stuff that someone in a foreign country might go through? Would it not resonate because the popular Japanese religions and culture around it are different enough for it to be unrelatable? The hearsay I found online in fandom spaces suggests they might think Christianity is cool, though not sure if that is just an aesthetic thing.

Always happy to see small indie blogs like this!

I feel otome is niche enough our reviews are not flooded by bots pretending to be human and paid-for fake reviews, but it’s still nice to see what’s clearly a small independent site made by a person just offering their opinion.

I know the DARK routes will appeal to some of my friends and I find it interesting too because it can reveal aspects of what the character could be but didn’t become if you did a different route.

Because of her black eyes and black hair, she is imprisoned for being “demon-possessed.”

oh boy, these folks finding out about what most people look like in our most-populated continent of Asia would go over so poorly. MC is isekai’d, presumably from Japan, so I wonder if she thinks the same thing that I just wrote…

Artstyle is very not my thing, but relevant to otome and single indie dev, so figured I might as well post

I remember reading about this on Bluesky. Nice to see a more forward MC, and pleased to see a bridged BlueSky! I was doing that with mine. Last I actually checked, I don’t think Mastodon was bridging my BlueSky over so I have to check that.

Small and chill. I was only asking about IF, which was absorbed under !adventuregames (I think the two are separate genres?). I’ll respect your wishes and avoid posting pure IF there! Thank you for replying

Well, lemm.ee went kersplat. Wondering if we and !visualnovels@ani.social should absorb it or not. @Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world

Thought about this because I came across https://www.filfre.net/2025/09/choose-your-own-adventure/ and it was a good read and wanted to post it somewhere here.

Seeing mobile grow makes me seriously hope that console and PC stay relevant. I’d like nice premium otome to play, freemium drives me nuts, but worst comes to worst even if a freemium hellscape takes over and few to no console/PC releases happen, at least I can play my giant backlog of already-existing otome.

xcancel can be swapped for twitter in an URL and still get the post if I recall correctly

premise sounds interesting, hope it gets better than MTL

The article’s assessment of the fan reaction to a boycott feels pretty in line with what I saw happening with Infold/Papergames’ other recent game aimed at women, Infinity Nikki, and peoples’ sentiments about that particular boycott, or #girlcott (which I think was what people started using to talk about it once posts with “boycott” started getting censored in official Infinity Nikki communities). Two blowups on big properties in relatively quick succession, wonder how they’ll handle this.

The premise sounds cool, especially the Princes’ Path where multiple guys fight over you (great for fulfilling the fantasy of being wanted, as well as just goshdarn interesting, romantic drama is always fun). However, the fact it is originally a mobile game makes me a bit concerned, given how the port of Celestia: Chain of Fate from mobile to PC and Switch went down: poorly. (The lemmyverse.link title preview might make you think it is just a notice of the sale, but I discuss how it went badly in the post body.)

Great CG!

If the CG does not show up in the preview thumbnail, no need to mark as NSFW, but no rule against doing that.

Thanks for the review. I have been meaning to play this as soon as I figure out how to get the English patch working.

I wonder if it is a translation thing or if the route is still that ???-inducing in Japanese. I know some Choose Your Own Adventure books can be totally nonsensical, so not out of the realm of possibility an otome game would be.

No, but I was intending to. Also seems totally like my thing.

I like stat-raisers for… huh, I have no idea why. I just do. It’s fun. I actually do like the thing you hid in your spoiler, to be honest, as well as its opposite. After all,

Thanks for the review! I actually stopped the weekly threads because people did not usually post in them, and I figure it is more searchable and useful for folks to see review posts that typically mention a title instead of wading through tons of weekly threads CTRL+Fing or hoping searching by comments actually turns up the game and not (every single time I search Lemmy comments, every time) some unrelated political comment that happens to include the words they searched for.

if I recall correctly, MC getting locked in a cage by an LI isn’t that uncommon

Was it Yandere Town or something like this?

I was so excited for this.

I did hear about the animations being too much, and the title drop coming with logo all the time sounds just awful. I can handle aloof weirdos, though, and the premise is still something I really like. Thanks for the review!!

Totally valid post here, not sure why you are being downvoted. This content is on-topic and you’re not being mean to anyone. You put in a lot of genuine effort, and this kind of OC is exactly what we need more of on Lemmy.

Given how often PC is treated like a second-class citizen for JP gaming I appreciate the release of an otome on Steam!

Hey! So originally you would have a lot of people telling you no, we don’t even have villainesses most of the time. Then some fans of the “isekaied into an otome as its villainess” genre started making actual otome games after it.

The My Next Life as a Villainess series, with this exact premise, got an otome game based off of it in Japan that also has an English release for Nintendo Switch.

Everything else I mention can be played on PC.

Save the Villainess also has this exact premise, although there has been drama behind the behavior of its devs in regards to criticism.

Haven’t played The Villainess Just Wants To Eat! yet but same premise.

I gave Saintess of the Golden Bow a shot which does have MC isekaied into a romance fantasy world, albeit not as the villainess and she got isekaied into a BL novel instead.

Do not know from the description yet if Villainess Menage has her isekaied but you definitely have MC as the villainess.

There are probably more that I’m forgetting right now!

I hope you enjoy that binge. I really enjoy that manga/manwha genre.

Now I’m curious about what the LIs’ and MC’s storylines in regard to theatre are. And I can indeed tell you that performing arts, while fun, can become very competitive and full of stressful comparisons of yourself to others (or an ideal you who practices more and has more “grit” and determination), because in the end that is what happens when people audition. Each auditionee gets evaluated on if they fit any part in the show, and if multiple people fit multiple parts they get compared to others, especially on if they have the skills to pull off what it takes. This causes lots of drama and angst in real life, and I’m wondering if the game’s storylines match on to the patterns that I know exist in real life.

I loved taking personality quizzes and “what do the [intellectual property] characters think of you” quizzes as a tweenager and it turns out they are still fun to take as an adult! I also started filling out surveys for academic studies on r/samplesize as I got older, and I think my enjoyment of that comes from the same place that makes me enjoy these types of quizzes.

I got Jumin Han from Mystic Messenger, which tracks because he’s the one I pursued in that game. I feel the quiz pegged what I’m looking for, what I’d be like, etc. in a relationship pretty well.