Choice of Games has a ton of not-actually-otome with romance as a selling point!
My favorite is Fallen Hero: Rebirth, in which you play a superhero turned supervillain and there is a lot of identity kink. The writing is excellent and there's a lot of opportunity for playing with gender (as the game says, "Juggle two bodies and three identities, play as male, female or genderqueer"). The amoral mercenary doctor is not the most popular of the love interests, but I fell hard into shipping.
Hades is not really a romance game, but there are romance options.
Fire Emblem is very much not otome, but I've definitely had feelings of "But I must manage this character's life by picking them the perfect partner!!" playing it.
I've played Doki-Doki Literature Club before with mixed feelings, and wrote it up here (CN for mentions of character death, depression, and suicide).
I'm trying to branch out into non-otome VNs, on my backlog is:
- Sweet Pool - BL omegaverse-ish body horror, as I understand it? - Hashihime of the Old Town - Taisho Era BL that is giving me 20th century literature vibes - Saya no Uta - seems like it will be male gazey m/f horror that I fully expect to be squicked out by - Detention - deeply allegorical horror. ;____; Indefinitely delayed until I can find someone to sit next to me because I am a wimp and I know this will not go well. - Raging Loop - No idea what it is about, but peer pressure says I should play it so I guess I should?
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Date: 2021-06-27 17:24 (UTC)My favorite is Fallen Hero: Rebirth, in which you play a superhero turned supervillain and there is a lot of identity kink. The writing is excellent and there's a lot of opportunity for playing with gender (as the game says, "Juggle two bodies and three identities, play as male, female or genderqueer"). The amoral mercenary doctor is not the most popular of the love interests, but I fell hard into shipping.
Hades is not really a romance game, but there are romance options.
Fire Emblem is very much not otome, but I've definitely had feelings of "But I must manage this character's life by picking them the perfect partner!!" playing it.
I've played Doki-Doki Literature Club before with mixed feelings, and wrote it up here (CN for mentions of character death, depression, and suicide).
I'm trying to branch out into non-otome VNs, on my backlog is:
- Sweet Pool - BL omegaverse-ish body horror, as I understand it?
- Hashihime of the Old Town - Taisho Era BL that is giving me 20th century literature vibes
- Saya no Uta - seems like it will be male gazey m/f horror that I fully expect to be squicked out by
- Detention - deeply allegorical horror. ;____; Indefinitely delayed until I can find someone to sit next to me because I am a wimp and I know this will not go well.
- Raging Loop - No idea what it is about, but peer pressure says I should play it so I guess I should?