#romance games

[hpowellsmith]

Honor Bound: Guard students and secrets at an elite school!

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Protect an exclusive boarding school and rebuild your life after scandal as a military bodyguard for the children of the rich and famous! Return to the world of Crème de la Crème, this time as a military officer in the Republic of Teran.

Honor Bound is an interactive novel by Harris Powell-Smith where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based, 595,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

You've built a promising career in the Teranese military, a force which has not seen major engagement in decades but which holds vast influence. Thanks to an injury, you're no longer in the field. Thanks to the complicated (read: scandalous) circumstances of that injury, you've been quietly reassigned as a bodyguard for the teenage child of a famous scientist. This should be an easy assignment: your charge is at boarding school in the wilderness, an exclusive sanctuary where the children of the rich and powerful become artists and scientists of the future. The school sits close to your own hometown, so you'll be familiar with the area. Finally, you can recover your health and get your career back on track.

But danger is closing in, and peril can come from inside as well as out. What secret projects are your colleagues pursuing in the dead of night? What is your commanding officer not telling you? Bandits lurk in the wilderness—including one of your childhood friends!—and natural disasters constantly threaten the fragile environment. And then there's the danger to your heart, from the complicated feelings that come from returning to your birthplace, and from adjusting to the new reality of your life. Can you really go home again?

Build a warm community and bond with your colleagues, or impress everyone with your aloof competence. Chase ambition to receive glowing reports and get your life back on track—or become such a disaster that only bandits will tolerate your presence. Or, just maybe, you will have to risk it all for the sake of doing the right thing.

Play as male, female, or nonbinary; cis or trans; gay, straight, or bisexual; asexual and/or aromantic; allosexual and/or alloromantic; monogamous or polyamorous.

Customize your age: play a junior officer in your 20s, a mid-ranking officer in your 30s, or a senior officer in your 40s.

Befriend or romance a severe military officer; a bold, easygoing outdoors expert; a determined and overworked priest; an earnest but scatterbrained fellow bodyguard; a childhood friend turned disgraced bandit; or the anxious, serious widowed parent of your charge.

Pet the dog, the cat, or both.

Meet the main characters of Crème de la Crème, Royal Affairs, and Noblesse Oblige, and find out what their lives are like now!

Shape the school life of your teenage charge: encourage her to make friends or sabotage her rivals; let her slack off or push her to achieve; and get caught up in boarding-school drama.

Unearth and thwart shadowy schemes—or join in the scheming for your own gain.

How far will you go for ambition, duty, and your country?

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[bruhainrot]

DOL is my favorite rape otome game. Ive been longing for a harem game where u can actually ting tang walla walla bing bang with the characters

[yesiplaygamez]

me at any non- romanceable NPCS that I like: If they didn't want me to romance them. Why make them hot?

[alexis-royce]

NonPlatonic Forms ver 0.36 is now available for $5 and up patrons, and ver 0.35.1 is available on itch.io!

Includes:

Nearly 175,000 words to read! And listen: don't sleep on this update. You'll see.

Over 35 new illustrations!

Various bug & typo fixes.

[lacunafiction]

Would Mal say yes if the MC proposed to them 👀

A most intriguing question, Anon. 👀

_ _ _

Before you can even take out the ring box, get down on one knee, or shift closer to Mal for a romantic handhold, they're smiling a little more widely at you. There is more tenderness beneath that ineffable knowing quality that you've grown to accept. It's enough to make you pause, blinking for a second when they take out their own ring box—no, wait, that's yours. Your hand flies to your pocket, patting its newfound emptiness while you balk at your mysteriously hot beloved.

"I know we'll be together forever," Mal confidently concludes. "But you're welcome to put a ring on it if I can leave my own claim on you."

You're still a little stunned by this turn of events; however, Mal's hand finds yours to create an unyielding yet certain hold. They won't let go.

They won't let you go.

(To read Mal's full response, go: here. It's public on my Patreon. 🌲)

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New TFS Patreon benefits, including spicy stories 🔥, monthly alpha content drops ✨, and more! Please check it out: here. If you enjoyed your time in Fernweh, please consider reviewing/rating it. 🥰

We're into RO excursions (date branches)! 👀

[museaux]

I am gonna rant for a bit here about ‘The Thunderstorm Saga,’ a new story on Romance Club. And before anyone says it, yes, I understand that I can always read other stories and that some stories on RC don't have BIPOC MCs--I just really wanted to dive into this one with a Black MC lol. I would love to hear other BIPOC players thoughts on the character design as well, which is why i am posting this here. well, that and because the reddit page won't let me post it there lolz.

As a Black person who plays these games, whether on Choices, Chapters, or LITG, I can’t help but notice when the ball is dropped in terms of character representation. Since I have yet to get past choosing my MC, you could attribute it to the genre—sure, fantasy often lacks non-white characters—but Time Catcher does exist and offers pretty decent Black and POC MC options. So, I don’t know, I just feel kind of disappointed because RC has had some of the best BIPOC MC representation by far compared to other apps. It just rubs me the wrong way that these are the options available now when they were doing SO well, in my opinion.

[bitemedatingsim]

Bite Me is now on Kickstarter!

Do you long for a world filled with dark and twisted vampires? Want a glimpse of our alluring POC, Queer, and Trans characters? Crave a story with world-ending passion, wild love, and a touch of gore? THEN THIS GAME IS FOR YOU!

In an alternate-universe Iran, you are invited to an elegant Yalda-Night party at the Kymiagar family mansion. This is where you meet your six charming and elegant hosts. All seems well- until they slaughter everyone in the house to feed to their Mother. Will you be lucky enough to win their hearts and convince them to spare your life?

Check out the Bite Me Kickstarter page to help make this game a reality!

[mr-weirdo-mcgee]

I LOVE dating sims but I can't deal with the embarrassment, but also, why is it me?? I don't wanna be involved, I want to see ships, but I can't be picky!! Like why can't I just find a hero x villain dating sims where I'm not involved?? And when I mean hero x villain, I mean cartoonish! Kids tv show kinda hero and villain, because I can! Like stereotypical hero with "underwear" over pants and a mask and a stereotypical villain. But NOO I can't have fun and whimsy!!

[dokidoki-digest]

Episode 1 - An Unlikely Duo

RJ and Scum record the first podcast of Doki Doki Digest! Get to know about us as we discuss who we are, what we’re known for, and touch on some childhood trauma that we probably should have edited out.

[taylorannnx]

Oh Gosh I've Released A Lot Of Games This Year & Other Thoughts by Taylor Navarro

We're just over half way through February and I've released two new games, "re-released" a game, and I've been actively promoting my Kickstarter for about a week now. That's a lot of work! So let's elevator pitch my TTRPGs because I'm very proud of them all :D

Chefs de Partie

Need a breather from your RPG campaign? Make your characters cook together using this cosy one page minigame! (Examples of how to integrate with other TTRPGs included). Grab it on DriveThruRPG for $4.95 (options for 50% and 100% off available).

Constellation Crafting: Chaos Mode

Someone can't make it to session? Doing some worldbuilding? Want an RP warm up? Make your own zodiac in less than 15 minutes in this chaotic one-page dice-rolling game for 1-9 players! Grab it on itch.io here for $2 (free community copies available).

Dice of Life

This one-page TTRPG is an emotionally heavy exploration of parenthood, isolation, and the crushing, repetitive nature of too many pulls on your attention. Get it for Pay What You Want on itch.io.

Not Yet

Not Yet is a romantic duet TTRPG based on the "just missed them" and "right person, wrong time" tropes where you and your partner attempt to defy the odds to meet one another. This will be my first ever Kickstarter (and game with physical copies!) so if you liked the yellow umbrella saga of How I Met Your Mother, please sign up to the pre-launch page so you're notified when crowdfunding goes live!

[hpowellsmith]

Chemistry in Project Amble

All my games have slightly different romance structures behind the scenes.

Blood Money has a base level of romantic eligibility that can be gated first by the PC's orientation (so you can't romance Nico if you're a lesbian, for instance), and then by various actions. There are variables describing being in a committed romance and also being ineligible. (Fun fact, I did this in the same way that Baldur's Gate 2 does its romances, because modding BG2 was where I first wrote interactive romances.)

In Creme de la Creme, there are romance_expressed variables which represent having flirted with someone or having started a romance, then romance_locked which means you're committed to a particular character. Then there are seriousbreakup variables for each character that describe having been committed to someone before breaking up.

In Noblesse Oblige, it's simplified, with a romance variable, a friendship variable, and end-romance variables.

In Royal Affairs, there are romance_expressed variables and slowburn variables. This is the first one where there's a dedicated flirt variable tracked.

In Honor Bound, there's an added complication in which you can discuss romance with someone without officially starting a romance, either because you're keeping things casual or the other character is reluctant for whatever reason (the latter is what can happen if you make a move on one of the slower-burn characters early on). I also separated being interested in a character with flirting, so the PC can silently yearn without showing it if they wanted to. There are also different kinds of breakup, like in Creme, where the NPC is more upset with you afterwards if you've broken up under more fraught circumstances.

In starting Project Amble, I've already planned the different possible shapes of the romances. Each character's romance has distinct tones, but also includes a lot of variety in how you can engage with it. So for example, one character is up for having an early fling. It can be a one-off thing, something that remains emotionally casual throughout, or becomes romantic - slowly or quickly. Or you can not do the fling at all and get to know them over a longer period, becoming romantic later on.

I'm keeping the silent-yearning options from Honor Bound as I know players are into it (so am I!), and the potential fraught-breakup variables from it and the earlier games. Project Amble has the most dramatic breakup possibilities of any of my games.

What I'm adding for this one is a hidden chemistry meter. It's separate to the relationship meter, and it tracks when the PC does something that the NPC thinks is particularly attractive. It likely won't gate off starting a romance, but it'll add flavour, so for example if the PC initiates a romance there might be these sorts of responses:

"I can't believe I'm actually thinking of romancing you when you're SO frustrating, ugh, I can't stop thinking about you" - low relationship, high chemistry

"I've been thinking about this but wasn't sure how to say it - yes, I want to be with you!" - high relationship, high chemistry

"I've been really liking how close we've become and - wow, I never thought of it like that but I'd love to see how we can make it work" - high relationship, low chemistry

"You're serious about this? Well. Maybe we can try..." -low relationship, low chemistry

The reason I'm doing this is:

there are characters for whom I want to be able to have more specific interactions based on the sort of things listed above.

various characters will think the PC is doing something attractive... without necessarily liking the PC more.

I love the Dragon Age 2 style friendship/rivalry romance structure and while this is a bit different, it means I can stretch some muscles in that direction

I want to experiment with NPCs developing crushes on the PC and tweaking if/how/when they initiate or flirt with the PC. I did this a bit in Honor Bound with the more flirty characters and built in responses to the PC overtly flirting, but would like to develop this more for Project Amble.

Some of this was inspired by Michelle Clough's work. I'm not someone who necessarily minds a "do sidequests/bring gifts for NPCs and then they like you more" structure, but I do enjoy different ways of doing things and I especially like when NPCs respond in ways you don't expect (or when they cause trouble for the PC even if they're in a romance). I'd very much recommend Clough's Kindness Coins, or Chemistry Casino? for a deeper dive on this subject.

[heart-forge]

The Distant Sound of Dancing

Attend a ball with Commander Abeni, or more accurately, attend to a dark and quiet place to people watch because you've both had enough of schmoozing.

Happy March! I'm crawling out of a crater in the ground to get this to you, but I did it and good for me. Thank-you for your support 🙏

Support me on Ko-fi to access to early access to updates of my interactive fiction projects Manor Hill, Bad Ritual, and Hybrid, as well as monthly drabbles featuring the LIs just like this one! And check out my page on itch.io for various one shots and longer projects!

[lovesoflauryn]

Representing The Human Race In A Romantic💕Survival Game

Death Game🔪 x Otome💕 x RPG Maker 👾

[yesiplaygamez]

when you try to befriend the love interest and this happens

them

your oc:

[lacydigital]

Screenshots from my upcoming indie otome/amare visual novel, Ardency: Heart of the Rebellion. Lots of drama is taking place in camp after taking the elf, Kasanov, prisoner!

Extended demo coming soon!