#Always Sometimes Monsters

[rpgchoices]

Useless rpgs recs. Rpgs with romance... but I actually tell you my opinion on the romance. PART 6/6

️‍🌈 = you can romance a same sex character

Faery - Legends of Avalon: Not played yet

Always Sometimes Monsters️‍🌈 (and sequel): In this game you have to basically reach your ex who is about to marry someone else. The game is not focused on the romance, but the romance is a big plot point. Amount of content: 2.5/5

Solstice️‍🌈: This is a visual novel but not a dating sim as it is more of a "uncover the mystery", so I can add it here in the rpgs. There are two protagonists and each get a romance (if you choose), one is a gay man, the other a bi or straight woman. The romance is some flirty options and a kiss/romantic scene. Amount of content: 3/5

Divinity Original Sin 1 ️‍🌈: You create two characters and based on your dialogue choices during the game you can end up with them in a romantic relationship, this is minimal, mainly in the ending slides you find out they fell in love. Amount of content: 1/5

Fable️‍🌈: You can flirt and romance with NPCs, and marry/flirt one NPC who is actually a character (a woman). In general the content is minimal. Amount of content: 0.5/5

Eternal Home Floristry️‍🌈: You play as a gay man hiding with an elderly florist. You can rekindle the relationship with your ex boyfriend. Very cute, very touching. Loved it. Amount of content: 2.5/5

Hades️‍🌈: You play as Zagreus and you can romance a female character and a male character, also at the same time and end up together with both of them. Amount of content: 1.5/5

Also, rpg games where there is romance but does not really depend on your choises:

Ash of Gods: Technically there is no full romance, but you can see that two characters are in love with Gleda and you can choose to interpret the relationship between Reet and Lo Pheng as romance, if you want. Amount of content: 0.5/5

Overboard!: Not really a romance but you can unravel the relationship with a character and exchange a kiss/romantic encounter. Amount of content: 1/5

Drowning Cross️‍🌈: This is a small free game about a gay man and his husband, where you can try to fix the problems of their relationship. Amount of content: 1/5

Red Strings Club️‍🌈: The story is not based on romance but you will play two married men so there is a small romance element. Amount of content: 1/5

Tower of Time: You control a party of six, and two characters can have a developing romance through the game. It is out of your control tho. Amount of content: 0.5/5

[ziracona]

Always Sometimes Monsters Protag on his way back from ruining Sam’s life, facing the consequences

Sometimes Always Monsters Sam on his way back from ruining Protag’s life, facing the consequences

[ziraconarose]

Player and really enjoyed Always Sometimes Monsters. Sam and Korsel rotating in my head.

[apollolewis]

The pain of being into a game series that I'm sure only like a handful of people know about.

[mysteamgrids]

Always Sometimes Monsters

[fairsweetlonging]

truth serum / system reveal au where shen qingqiu gets hit with an uncloaking spell that reveals the system in the reflection of his eyes every time it pops up.

during one of his missions, in the treasure hoard of some dragon-like creature, he finds a golden, oval shaped hand mirror, its gaudy style more victorian based than anything (airplane you hack!), that doesn't seem to do anything when he looks into it. but when he does, it reveals the system's screen in his eyes.

he doesn't notice this, of course, because he can't see it, and the system, surprisingly, stays quiet.

the peak lords think he's cursed.

maybe mu qingfang is the first to notice, during the mandatory post mission check-up, when shen qingqiu is scrolling through his most recently accumulated points and mu qingfang can see the strange vividly-blue lines reflected in his pupils. it's gone when shen qingqiu blinks, like it was nothing but a trick of the light.

it comes out when yue qingyuan is visiting and, just as he's done laying out the plans for a new mission, shen qingqiu's eyes glaze over and a bright blue box takes over the whole of his iris. shen qingqiu goes quiet; the thing in his eyes moves, shifts, pulses for a second, like static worms crawling all over his pupils. then he blinks, and it's gone, and shen qingqiu accepts the mission that yue qingyuan was almost sure he would decline.

maybe there is an intervention, when the peak lords corner shen qingqiu at qian cao peak and try to figure out what's wrong, subjecting him to all kinds of treatments and curse-finding spells that turn up empty, they can't find anything.

of course, the silencing threat is still very much up and running. at first shen qingqiu was kind of confused by the whole ordeal, but when the peak lords start describing a "strange blue box", he realizes, with sickening suddenty, that they're describing the system. and he can't say anything.

this only makes everything worse, because their fellow peak lord now keeps evading every question and acts like he doesn't understand. liu qingge points right at his face and asks, "that blue box, what is it?" and shen qingqiu laughs nervously and starts talking about how bright the weather is and surely it's the sky and nothing to worry about!

even worse, during the intervention the system thought it was a good idea to start talking to him, so now even the peak lords who hadn't seen it and who might have been persuaded by light tricks and reflections, get a first row view that no, that definitely isn't a trick of the light.

they try to do the whole thing of "are you in danger, blink twice" but shen qingqiu can't even do that because it's still a direct admittance!

maybe eventually he starts saying vague confirmations that don't actually confirm anything, like "this master hears what you're saying", or maybe he goes with a classic "this master can neither confirm nor deny that." but the system starts warning him for that too and eventually he stops saying anything, which worries the others more.

luckily mu qingfang catches on that every time they ask a direct question about the box or shen qingqiu says anything vaguely confirming, it appears. it doesn't appear when they ask about curses or demons, so it must not see that as a threat.

for a little extra angst: maybe the peak lords keep pressuring him for answers, and at some point shen qingqiu gets fed up and snaps out something like, "why don't you understand that i'm not allowed to answer that!" the system counts this as a direct admittance, threatening it's existence. so it punishes. shen qingqiu has a qi deviation so bad it lasts two weeks and takes two people every day to cleanse his meridians. the system doesn't appear in that time. it doesn't appear for a long while after that, either. the peak lords stop asking, mainly because shen qingqiu will instantly leave the room if they do. they don't stop searching for a cure, though.

shang qinghua returns from a business trip and catches on the second someone mentions a blue box and forced silencing.

[smash-or-pass-otome]

Jane from Always Sometimes Monsters?

Jane

[ecogothchild]

Playing always sometimes monsters! Come say hi!

Twitch.tv/ecogothchild

[curiousmons]

Torn between wanting an intellectual monster partner that I can learn and hear about monster society from, and a sex-crazed beast that stalks me for the perfect time to kidnap me to return to their cave for a breeding frenzy

[prettymediocrewizard]

I heard you guys like women

[ziracona]

I have a lot of feelings about these games

[ziraconarose]

Always Sometimes Monsters and Sometimes Always Monsters sure are some games

[microtyalm13]

yaay i did it. sillies for mermay! 🦞xiao is the prettiest merman out there who could've guessed....

gavriil, orca.

derzena, carpet shark.

and xiao, fimbriated moray!

[chaosfairy18]

Sometimes I just need Spot to go batshit insane when beating someone up, be it because of the circumstances or because of something the other one did

Spot going absolutely feral because someone was about to be attacked or already was and got injured

Yes he usually plans and thinks before he acts but sometimes

Sometimes you really don't want to be on the other end of his fists or cane

No I didn't listen to too much six hundred strike and got inspired

[sunb0ts]

something that always gets me about klavier is that he is so clearly just like. friendly. he cares so much and he cares too much. he's one to tease simultaneously but he so clearly just like. loves and loves and loves, even when it puts him in harm's way, he likes people and he likes being around people enough to be desperate for it and for friendship like. ough

[iidsch]

also more codelyokoposting but I really really dig XANA as a villain. It's not a person with a complex background that led them down the path of evil, it's not a morally grey character you sympathize with but condemn. It's a powerful AI capable of controlling almost anything in the real world. It doesn't have a face or a body, we only know it for its symbol and for the monsters it controls in the virtual world. It's willing not just to kill people through various methods (poisoning, drowning, car crash, fucking space lasers too?) but also Earth as a whole (it tried to blow up a NUCLEAR PLANT and crash two trains with toxic chemicals in them). And we don't even know why it does this, at least not for now. It may not even have a particular reason, just some sort of virus or malware in the form of an AI that seeks nothing but destruction without any goals in mind. This "pure evil" characteristic doesn't come off as childish, like in some children cartoons, it's just kind of scary to think that such an incomprehensible and destructive force exists, almost feels like a natural disaster