Otome News Round Up
Otome News Round Up
Recent Releases
Nothing I could find in the last two weeks. Continue to catch up on your backlog or check out the demos from this weeks active kickstarters
Upcoming Releases
July 20th
Switch port of Masquerade Kiss (ESRB M)
July 27th
Radiant Tale
physical
digital
You play as Tifalia, a women who gets recruited as a producer for a dysfunctional circus troupe that’s traveling around the world to save their crown prince.
July 31st
The Radiants
An ordinary young women's life is changed after she becomes the next Oracle and has to attend a magical school.
Recent announcements:
Ikemen Villians will be released in English in 2024
IFI announced western switch releases of My Life as a Villainess in winter 2023 and Sympathy kiss in early 2024
JAST Blue announced two BL game localizations Masquerade: Hell Academy and Paradise
Active Kickstarters
Speakeasy (18+) Funded: An otome set in a 1920’s jazz club. This is going to be published by JAST. They’re currently working towards stretch goals , the next one up is a polyamorous route.
Sweetcore Brews Funded: releasing for PC and Mobile, will be set in a magical tea shop. It should be noted that the studio behind this still hasn’t released the PC version of their last game, Untold atlas, on Steam even though they said they would do so in June
Of Sense and Soul (BL)
A slow burn BL set in 1870’s Victorian London. There’s one relationship; the two main routes are played from each man’s perspective. Features reserved journalist Hugo, and outgoing gentleman (as in landed gentry) Seamus.
VERBENA: A Romance Visual Novel
A paranormal visual novel set in 80’s small town Vermont. The main game will be free, kickstarter backers get the DLC. I’ve played the demo and the script has some issues, but the art is nice.
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https://qeresi.itch.io/a-tale-of-crowns
Public release: August 31Added to my list of games to keep track of. :)
I didn't know how far out you wanted this thread to be. Are you planning it for a monthly
I'm planning for these threads to be every-other-week, featuring games releasing 2 weeks prior and 2 weeks forward from the posting date. So the next one will be on July 29th and feature: games releasing between July 15th and Aug 12th, announcements made between July 15th and July 29th, and Kickstarters that are active as of July 29th. This means most games will be featured twice, once in "upcoming releases" and then in "recent releases" a couple of weeks later. Since most kickstarters run for a month, they'll also be featured roughly twice.
I picked this period because I don't want the threads to be so long that people don't want to read them, but I also want to fully include indie games. To this effect, I've not been including demos, early access, or individual route releases because they there are so many of them they could take over the thread. For A Tale of Crowns specifically, it looks like the Aug 31st date is when chapter 11 of about 25 chapters is going to be released. So I won't include it for quite some time. To keep track of things I've made bookmark folders labeled by expected release dates of games. I put A Tale of Crowns in my "2024 and beyond" folder.
I'm not sure if this schedule will make sense long term or if the summer is just packed with activity. If things slow down, I'll switch to a monthly thread.
That's probably far more than you wanted to know about how I think, but here you go. If you have any suggestions about the format let me know, I'm especially not sure if the title and icon I've been using really convey the content of the threads well. And, please do keep pointing out games to me; it's very helpful!