Game of the Month for October 2021: Halloween Otome

[alias_sqbr]

You are cordially invited to the Annual Valdemar Halloween Extravaganza. Two weeks of luxury await you.

Let's see if you can keep up the masquerade…"



Halloween Otome is a free otome visual novel in which the protagonist wins an invite to a most exclusive and sought out Halloween getaway. What she doesn't realise is that it's far from relaxing. The Halloween getaway turns out to be a annual game hosted for the rich and famous and every contestant is thrown into miscellaneous groups, challenged over the course of ~ 2 weeks.

I quite enjoyed this game when I played it a few years ago. It's a little rough around the edges, but pretty good for a free game. There's three male love interests, and skippable minigames.

This is the first in Synokoria's series of games, followed by Valentines Otome and the upcoming Christmas Otome.

Comments

[icecheetah]

Well, I'm trying to play it but... it keeps hanging.

[alias_sqbr]

Oh no! Maybe they haven't updated it for newer systems /o\

[icecheetah]

Actually, the problem might BE that they updated it for newer systems? I tried downloading the old, 1.1 version and it is working a LOT better for me. No hanging at all and it is very responsive (in 1.2 there was some lag between every textbox). And it looks like the only difference between the versions is that the remade it with a newer version of Ren'py.

The only LI who stands out so far is Mr. Bandages. In how annoying he is.
Edit: So, of course somehow I keep on clicking the "Interact with Mr. Bandages in your freetime" options. (I mean, how was I supposed to know he'd be at the Café AND the gardens?)

[alias_sqbr]

THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM MR BANDAGES.

I'm glad you managed to get a version to work but it's unfortunate if them updating broke it!

[icecheetah]

Luckily his route was interesting in the end.

And at least I don't think I'm missing any features in the newer version.

[icecheetah]

Thanks for having this be the GoTM, it was a lot of fun in the end!

[alias_sqbr]

I'm really glad :)