Not Quite Otome

[alias_sqbr]

I know I'm not the only one who keeps wanting to talk about/rec games here but they're not quite otome, even though they feel otome-ish in their appeal.

So this is the post for discussing our favourite not-quite-otome! There's no objective definition, any game (or almost-game) counts if it feels otome-ish to you. I imagine we'll all draw the lines differently, but that's fun to compare in and of itself.

I'll put my own examples in a comment, and would love to hear about yours!

Comments

[scytale]

Oh, thank you! I will try to check those out; they have so many games that it's hard to sort through them, so recs are nice! Paying off student loans. :D And Tally Ho sounds interesting!

The other one I remember very vaguely is Mysteries of Baroque, which is...Gothic Weird City stuff? I remember liking the roleplay potential there; I can't remember the romances, but there might have been one that I liked?

For the commentary in Doki-Doki, it ended up working for me based off knowledge of general tropes...but it ended up falling short of where I wanted to see the commentary go, though, and the meta really didn't really work with the horror for me. I prefer deep immersion, I guess!

I did end up having a pretty clear idea of my protagonist in my head through the first part of the game, which was interesting, because of course the second part was about tearing that down.