Game of the Month: Lovestruck

[chrry]

Choose your ideal romance and enjoy the love you’ve always wanted to in this unique visual romance novel game! Find a story that captures your heart and decide who you want to fall in love with from a selection of 50 unique characters!

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Lovestruck was released back in 2017 with the objective of being a library with all the original titles by Voltage USA. Before that they used to release standalone games where you had to pay per story. With Lovestruck the standalone apps disappeared, and all new titles were available only there.

It's a free to play app that uses the ticket + heart system. You need tickets to read the chapters (they recharge with time) and you need hearts to choose the best options in the stories (there is a daily mini game where you can get some for free if you're lucky). There are many different stories and characters you can romance, including women and some non binary characters too.

I'm not going to talk about all the titles individually because there are many and at this point I'm not familiar with most of them. If you check the official site there is a list with small introductions. And you can read the prologues/first chapters for free on the app.

This is basically what I remember but I haven't touched this app since 2017? 2018? so please correct me if I said anything wrong. Though now I feel tempted to start playing again even if it's just to check the route of the dude I used for the header lol.


Anyone has played? Tell us about it ♥

(And happy new year!)

Comments

[chrry]

I actually downloaded the app and played a bit last night and.. *sighs* I forgot how annoying and demotivating the heart system could be. And expensive. I don't think it was the reason I stopped playing but it's not exactly helping here lol

It's all so overwhelming too. There are so many stories to read. And most characters have more than one season, and for some reason that's something that kills my motivation lol. Like there are so many charas I want to ~meet~ but starting any route feels like a huge commitment.

I was thinking that I'd like to pick up the routes I started years ago too, but I'd have to start from the beginning again because I remember nothing. So I basically have the same issue with those.


And idk man, took a while but in the end I started reading Cecelia's route last night (Wicked Lawless Love) because I saw some CGs the other day and she caught my attention. I like her so far but I'm not sure how I feel about the actual story, or setting, or whatever. I enjoy supernatural stuff and I like the concept, but I'm finding the action scenes kind of boring so far, which is probably a me problem tbh but I'm wondering if it's worth it to sit through those to enjoy the rest.

[icecheetah]

I know you posted this a while ago but 1: in Lovestruck the hearts are not necessary to get good ends anymore except in some of the really old seasons and 2: if you want I can write you a guide to farming hearts for free. The heart scenes are often good, yes, but sometimes the non heart version is actually better.

[chrry]

Sorry for the late reply ;; I know they're not necessary for good ends but I get frustrated anyway orz sometimes I really want to use hearts to read a scene, but then I wonder if after that a better scene is going to come up and I'll regret using my hearts earlier. I don't like dealing with that kind of uncertainty when playing otome (and who does, really lol)

That's not necessary but thank you so much for the offer, you're very kind <3

[icecheetah]

I'd started playing Lovestruck years ago, because someone said it had an NB love interest, and I was so hungry for nonbinary representation. Since then, two more NB love interests have been added!
My first route was Medusa. Like, how could I NOT romance her first?