What Out of Copyright Characters Would You Like To See A Game About?

[alias_sqbr]

There's a bunch of otome about out of copyright characters: all the Alice in Wonderland influenced games, Code Realise about various 19th Century European characters like Frankenstein, Ozmafia about fairytale characters etc.

But there's a whole bunch who never get to be sexy bishonen (/bishoujo/whatever the non binary term is)

A while ago I had fun pondering Australian examples on my blog, including The Jolly Swagman, The Man From Snowy River, and The Magic Pudding.

So who are some obscure or unusual out of copyright characters fictional characters you'd enjoy seeing in a dating sim/otome game? Extra points if they're not from the UK or US.

Copyright law is a mess, but anything from around 1920 or earlier is a fair bet.

Comments

[alias_sqbr]

SHAKESPEARE, YES. Twelfth Night the dating sim . You are very good at this game.

Yeah, I thought about mentioning historical RPF but that feels like a slightly different topic. Historical RPF specifically through the lens of Shakespeare could be interesting too, maybe something which plays around with the contrast between his take and other interpretations of events. Especially with Richard 3!

Ooh this has me thinking about a work that sifts through the many ways history and fiction have seen a character or person. LIke you play as Watson or Queen Elizabeth I, and the choices/endings line up to some extent with various popular/iconic interpretations. I feel like I've seen that done but can't think of where.

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Yes! I was thinking the English reformation is a time period where we have lots of different takes on some of the historical figures. Maybe a choice between dating Queen Mary vs Queen Elizabeth? And for both routes you'd have an option between something more historically accurate (Mary marries someone else and then dies, Elizabeth leaves you b/c she doesn't do marriage) and an AU happy ending?

Or hm, what if you only have one option of who to date, but based on your choices you get a very different version of them, coming from a different historical account of their life? Queen Elizabeth would be great for that.

[alias_sqbr]

This is ringing SUCH a bell for me and I can't think of why. But yes, those would all be really interesting.