When did you start playing otome games?

Forgot when I started playing, but the one I remember the most is The Imprisoned Palm.

2015. I bought a discounted Vita at the time (they clearing stock due to end of life retail sale) and best decision I ever made and Code Realize was schedule to release in few times so timing was great.

I vividly remember playing all of the otome games I could find on the google play store since I was like 10 years old 5th grade. All the ikemen, swd, and sometimes voltage inc games but those were paid and I didn't have money back then. Our Two Bedroom story had me in a chokehold. I knew the free story passes reset at 2pm and I would be desperately trying to connect to the internet wherever I was so I could keep progressing in the story and I would be really upset if I knew I wasted passes by not using them before the timer reset lol.