August 2021 Game of the month: Ozmafia

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Our heroine awakes to find herself in an unfamiliar land. She has no memories at all, not even knowing her own name.

To make matters worse, the first person she meets is out to kill her.

Our heroine runs for her life through the unknown streets, only to run headfirst into another stranger. Fortunately for her, this man is the don of the mafia famiglia Oz. With no love for would-be murderers of innocent women, he drives off her attacker and takes her underneath his famiglia’s wing.

This is hardly the end of her troubles, however. Famiglia Oz is but one of many different mafia famiglie in town, and bitter conflicts for territory rage eternally between them all. Only on Sundays does peace return to the town by a mutual compromise, and come the next day the battles continue anew as if they had never ceased.

It is in this war-torn town that our rootless heroine must find her way. Who amongst the mafias simply seeks to use her for their own ends, and who can she truly come to trust... and even love?

Here's my reaction posts and a character guide. There's a wide variety of fairytale-themed love interests, including a cute if sadly platonic route with a dashing, sword-wielding catgirl. The worldbuilding is completely ridiculous, the heroine is pretty dense, and it's a bit silly in general, with dashes of darkness. But it has a lot of cute and fun moments.

I liked the first few routes I played and then one route's consent issues triggered me so badly I haven't managed to play any more since :( I do want to get back to it one day, from all accounts there's a few routes (Robin Hood and Manboy/Dorian Grey/Alfani) with significant consent issues, but the rest are safe and come highly recced, especially Scarlet.

Ozmafia is available on MangaGamer and Steam. The first is cheaper, but I had so much trouble getting the download to work they gave me a Steam key.

So, has anyone else played it? What did you think?