#queensroad

can you rec any other romance sims?

Sure! Most of these games are from Japan so I’m not sure if that’s your thing... Some of them seem to exist in fantasy worlds, but then there’s some that are just straight up real world soap opera-y stuff.

The one I’m playing right now, Midnight Cinderella, is currently doing a Newbie Bonus feature ‘til July 12th. Log in for seven days and you get a bunch of cute stuff, such as items to dress up your in-game avatar; you get tons of resource items to restore stamina and tickets, and new little things to dress up your avatar. It might seem totally overwhelming at first, but you’ll get the hang of it quickly. It also has a cute little in-game minigame where you get to design your palace garden. If you’re lucky enough when you play the gacha (think of it like a dice roll game of chance), you can even get a little avatar of your romance choice to put in the garden with you. ;-; I got super lucky and got mine, so now he’s chillin’ in the garden with me.

This game, much like Ikemen Sengoku [another one I recommend, though I sorta fell off with it] is one of the flashier, fancier, much more involved otome games I’ve seen. It also doesn’t feel like too transparent of a cash grab. You can buy things if you want, but they give you so much just for logging in daily or poking around that I don’t see the need for it. Honestly for the time required to get through it, MC and Ikemen Sengoku (they’re made by the same people) are probably some of the better ones to choose from.

Writing-wise, I really like how they write the main character! She’s assertive and speaks her mind, she has a good heart and is determined/no nonsense. IS runs a little more into the territory of pushy love interests, which might not be everyone’s thing (it wasn’t for me lol but there’s so many to choose from in that game that there will be someone for everyone). So far everyone in MC runs that trope-y romance gamut, but MC was recommended as a romance game with love interests who respect you.

Ikemen Sengoku is a kind of absurdly endearing over the top time-travel romance where you head back to a... very melodramatic version of Sengoku era Japan and you can choose which warlord you wanna smooch. Me being me, I chose the scariest motherfucker of them all, and I’m kinda glad I did. That guy still haunts me (in a good way!!) to this day.

There’s also an IKEMEN VAMPIRE GAME WHICH I AM TOTALLY GETTING but sadly most vampire romance games are a bit eh and icky. Will let you know how this one goes.

There’s Mystic Messenger which has probably one of the better romance game gimmicks that I’ve seen. You basically get pulled into a groupchat between friends/acquaintances, and there’s set chats that happen at all hours of the day. Characters can call you to talk (the voice acting in this game is so good!), or send you private messages. You start with three basic routes first, and completing one of them then lets you unlock the second tier of routes (which has my favorite romance in it). Honestly this is one of the rare romance sims I played multiple times because I really liked each of the choices. They’re funny, charming, realistic, interesting, and the story was just so absurd.

Pulling from this list of romance games with respectful love interests:

Destined to Love

My Forged Wedding Party

Be My Princess Party

Shall We Date? Scarlet Fate+

Shall We Date? The Niflheim

Sweet Scandal: Horai and Misato routes

The Cinderella Contract: Ingrays and Turkiye routes

Royal Midnight Kiss: Rene and Asim routes

My Sweet Proposal: Mitsui Keita, Sakura Ryoichi, and Seo Eishi routes

Shall We Date? Magic Sword+ : Ethan route

My Romantic Three Kingdoms: Zhou Gongjin route

Love Legend of Sengoku: Mitsuhide Akechi route

Shall We Date? Destiny Ninja: Yotshisune, Benkei, Noritsune, Kazemasa route

Office Lover: Shiraishi Anri route

Shall We Date? My Fairy Tales+: Gretel Route

Shall We Date? Angel or Devil+: Fyril route

Once Upon a Fairy Love Tale: Luca and Albert Routes

I can’t vouch for all of these yet, but I do intend to start a few of them and will post here about my impressions. The Sengoku game on this list is not the same as I mentioned above, btw.

If you’re interested in games with older male love interests (like late 20s~40s), otome-obsessed put together a good list:

Maximillion Levaincois (36) from Be My Princess2

Kazuki Serizawa (38) from Finally in Love Again

Kunihiko Aikawa (35) from My Forged Wedding

Atsumu (35) from Love Letter From Thief X

Johji (mid-30s) from Dream Days in West Tokyo

Mamoru Kishi (30), Shuichi Hishikura (31), and Baba Mitsunari (35) from Kissed by the Baddest Bidder

Tadanobu Nomura (33) from Metro PD: Close to You

Shinobu Narita (32) and Jinpachi Yushima (40) from Serendipity Next Door

Satsuki Kitaoji (32) from Seduced in the Sleepless City/Sleepless Cinderella

Hyogo Kaga and Hideki Ishigami (both 31) from Her Love in the Force

Kyosuke Narumi (32) Issei Sezaki (36), and Soichiro Irie (40) from Kiss of Revenge

Maynard (late 30s-early 40s?) from The Cinderella Contract

Nozomu Fuse (35 even though he’s 39 in the JP game) from True Love Sweet Lies

Same as above: I can’t personally vouch for these yet, but these are all games I’m going to try out.

oh god thank you

fuck: TYWINmarry: barristan (he still loved ashara after 38473 years so i guess he’d be loyal if he was into me)kill: walder frey (i cannot emphasize enough how much i will kill walder frey)

 “apparently my school is transitioning from blackboard to canvas this...”

uk did that a few years ago it was a pain in the ass

you should make a page for your ocs!!

very interested to hear your opinion of mary, if you do decide to do her quest/s. she's a very dividing figure in the fandom

Gonna be real honest, I have zero interest in this woman. I’ve seen a few posts both in pearl-clutching support of her or a “yeah but what she did is shitty and I don’t feel bad about not liking that”. I’ve skimmed the posts to avoid spoilers. My hunch says my opinion will be squarely in the same category I place Hudson, Pratt, and Jerome from FC5: I just simply do not care about them.

Who covers the other person with a blanket when they fall asleep somewhere other than their bed?

Nem, to Arthur--her being the blanket. 

Who accidentally falls asleep on the other?

Nem, on Arthur. He’s the only person she feels comfortable literally sleeping with, and if she’s particularly drained (usually after some serious magic), Arthur will just carry her to bed and she curls up on him.