Faves

Dishonored

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more" - me, to the Dishonored franchise.

Wish I was joking but safe to say this is my game. Mine. This is my game. Made for meeee.

Dragon Age: Origins

Elissa Cousland my BEST CHARACTER!! My girl's family got massacred, she went from a sheltered noble to doomed Grey Warden, she became sisters with a bog witch, and declared herself Queen of Ferelden because her boyfriend was dithering about it. And then apparently fucked off elsewhere for the next 15 years?? Who knows!

In my mind her and Alistair are living it up and somehow neither is dying of blight. And that she simply decided she did her duty and everything else going on in Thedas was simply Not Her Business.

Dragon Age 2

HAWKE!!!!! I love this game. I love how small scale it is, wedged in between two world-ending plots. I love that your entire friend group largely hates each other, but you can still have the most incredible time getting to know them. I love the rival/friend dynamic in lieu of a straight approval mechanic.

Because I play bioware games as dating sims, I also cannot avoid talking about Fenris who is the BEST and the most special character and he is so precious to me.

Baldur's Gate 3

I grew up watching my big brother play the original baldur's gate, so trust me I was HYPED when I heard this game was being made.

I'm not telling anyone how many hours I have in this.

Date with Death

Mass Effect

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Fable

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Assassin's Creed: Revelations

Is this here just because I had the world's biggest crush on Yusuf Tazim..? Mmmmmmm you can't make me talk

Kingdom Come Deliverance

Kingdom Come Deliverance II

Citizen Sleeper

Pokemon series

Well I had to have some pokemon game here, but this can represent all of them. Tho maybe S/V is my favourite tbh!

It's the first time since I was a kid that I felt super part of the pokemon community while playing, and was around when other people were still playing and trading. So it has a special place in my heart!

RPG/Action

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

My first FE game! Bought it and it immediately became an obsession. Turn based combat! Not-too-complex builds! ROMANCE.

Clair Obscure: Expedition 33

Outer Worlds

I love space capitalism satire action games, I'm just a sucker for colony towns as a setting! Super fun game, I had a blast playing.

Dragon Age: Inquisition

okay listen I did LOVE this game, I do love this game!! It's exclusion from the faves tier is because it's so bloated with side quests. I love so much about this game but I cannot fathom doing another 800 mindless fetch quests to get to the actual great meat of the story. It was worth it once, but not a third time.

Danganronpa

In finding the image for this game, I have discovered - there are a LOT of fangames made for this series. I never knew!! Pretty cool honestly.

Anyway, yet another game that formed part of my personality for my entire teenage years. Was and still am obsessed with Junko, I've been on that unhinged woman fangirl grind since day 1.

Divinity: Original Sin 2

Inscryption

PLEASE play this game, and just go in blind. Phenomenal.

Why is it not in my faves? Theres a point in the game where the format changes a bit, and for whatever reason I utterly lost steam and just never actually finished it. But still a brilliant game!!!

Stardew Valley

This is the game where I work in the mines all day so I can provide for my hardworking farmer boyfriend, and I love my job so much.

He's the brains of the operation running the farm and I'm the himbo wife who cracks rocks and runs around town collecting items for the community center at his command

Fallout: New Vegas

Undertale

Disco Elysium

Sea of Stars

Oxenfree

Persona 5

My first Persona game, and I loved it, obviously! The characters, the story, the ART, the addictive game play loop. I was Locked In playing this.

Also, the soundtrack got me through an entire year of college work.

Infamous: Second Son

Have not played this since release, but listen, this was when "choices matter" was this crazy new thing and the idea that you can lead your character down two different paths was revolutionary. And it was SICK as HELL.

Also I had a hugde crush on Delsin I am an easily pleased woman if I like your fictional man I'll love your game T.T

Otome

Cupid Parasite

All routes? ✔

It's just SO goofy. Just so, so silly. Idiots, the lot of them, and so I adore them all.

One of the LI's routes ends in him using a mech to come save you. Like yeah, fuck it, why not, sure. (this is praise)

Collar X Malice

All routes? ✔

If you know me well, you know the boys I went crazy for - YES it's the white haired characters once again!! I am predictable!! One's a short snarky tsundere and the other has something seriously wrong with him, but he's my fave.

Café Enchante

All routes? ✔

My first proper otome!! What a one to start on. Pure fluff, great story, genuinely the most likeable band of LIs to exist. Every path I played I kept going "surely this is my favourite..!" but they all were so lovable in different ways!

If you need convincing this game is good - I didnt know you could auto skip scenes, and so I sat through the common route every. single. time. And somehow still finished this game.

Bustafellows

All routes? ✔

A little silly at times (pos), but with a story worth unraveling, and very fun. Loved all the boys actually, their routes really do an excellent job in showing you new sides to them.

Faves are Limbo, Shu, and Crow, to no one's surprise. But honestly, Helvetica was the only one I didn't love, and I came around to liking him in his route anyway!

Nightshade

Bro this is so slow.... In limbo, might pick this up to finish it again but after Goemon I have zero interest in the other LIs

Virche Evermore: Error Salvation

All routes? 1/5 (or 1/10, depending on how you look at it)

Pain and suffering: the game!! Actually really enjoyed this, I love seeing my favourite characters in horrible scenarios, gotta go back and play through to the actually happy endings some time, to get the real catharsis!!

Tengoku Struggle: Strayside

The boys all actively disliking you on opening is uhhh a choice. An understandable one given the story, but it's not suuuper enticing. Fingers crossed they warm up fast!

Date Everything

This is a cute little game! I probably won't finish it honestly, I think most of the fun is finding out the character designs.

Given the literally 100 characters to meet, there isn't much time to give me the full on romance squees that I'm looking for in these kinds of games.

Worth a buy on sale for sure though, if you're interested!

Jack Jeanne

This game is apparently a masterpiece but man it is just toooo long. I'm not even through the first LI route yet, it is taking forever. But I will push through, someday!

Love and Deepspace

The CHOKEHOLD Sylus has on me is actually embarassing. I hope I never find out how much money I've spent on this game, because anything is too much.

Amnesia

On the to-play list!

Piofiore

On the to-play list!

Olympia Soirée

On the to-play list!