Romance Option Tournament

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No apology necessary at all, don't worry! I'll go through and quickly double-check all the submissions before the tournament starts anyway so I'll catch any that don't count then. It's really no trouble for me :)

Games where you can virtually marry anyone but there isn't much of a real character / story to it don't count - though if it's a game like Fable where you technically have hundreds of marriagable NPCs but a few plot-important options that are more developed you could submit those ones from it

That feels like a really drawn-out and unhelpful way to explain, but hopefully you get what I mean!

I'd say so yes, as long as they're actually romantic in some way! A one-night stand wouldn't count, but some sort of brief or more minor relationship liiike e.g. Kelly in Mass Effect is probably fine

If you have to make an active choice to enter a romantic relationship with the character, that would count regardless of whether they're the only option or not - for example if you can also end up with a platonic relationship with them based on choices - but a game with only one love interest where you end up with them by default no matter what wouldn't count, because the "option" part of "romance option" wouldn't really be there. Same deal with the ex - if you can choose to get back together with them later, that would count, but otherwise no!

It has to be someone you, the player, can romance, regardless of who you're playing - so you playing a custom character would count, you playing a pre-established character and playing out a romance with another character while you control them would count, but two characters you don't control getting together while yours is uninvolved wouldn't!