First otome game?

[Kimmanbong]

Amnesia: Memories

 

[titus alexius]

Mystic Messenger. I didn't even know it was an otome game and the real messaging was kinda new at the time.

 

[razznilix]

Amnesia!

 

[VisualNovel21]

Amnesia memories for me. I remember saving up my allowance to get it on the psp

 

[Utauko]

It's funny that I remember my first visual novel (Saya no Uta), but I'm not sure about my first otome game. I think it was Starry Sky in Spring

 

[Rudy_2489]

Mystic Messenger. I was so hooked that I even bought the VIP set.

 

[Sunshine.A]

My first game was Our life, I feel it was a good game for the first time, I had already played games about choice, but they never got into the romantic side, after playing Our life, no game I played compares to that first feeling of playing it for the first time!

 

[kamilya5]

Amnesia

 

[valrrta]

I think i played a few before, but I don't remember which ones they were; I'd say the first one was Amnesia i remember watching a playthrough on youtube and wanting to play it.

 

[linseed]

Taisho x Alice! I didn't finish it though

 

[Ted]

My start was wild... back then, I didn't know there were R18 otome games, so I ended up reading Ijiwaru while I was still a minor. I never finished it, but my taste in otome games has definitely always leaned toward the softer side (not involving explicit R18 content lol)

 

[Rinnie]

It's been so long I actually don't remember what my first one was. I feel like it might have been The Second Reproduction. Either that or Sangoku Rensenki. I vaguely remember struggling through playing a couple of routes using AGTH or ITH with hook codes, Translation Aggregator, and Atlas while not actually understanding Japanese lol. I don't even remember what drove me to want to play it so badly in the first place.

If it's not one of those, then it could have been any of a handful of original English language indie otome games floating around at the time online, since there were basically no officially translated otome games back then. How nostalgic to think about...

 

[Kevin1255]

Mystic Messenger was my gateway drug lmao! Back in 2016, my entire feed was screaming about 3 AM chatrooms and answering fake phone calls from anime boys. Setting literal alarms in the middle of the night completely ruined my sleep schedule, but that rollercoaster of emotions dragged me headfirst down the otome rabbit hole—and I've never managed to escape since!