What Otome/BL game would you NEVER recommend? And why?

[甘味鎮痛剤]

Yeah, I agree — I feel the same way about DIABOLIK LOVERS.

The game just has way too narrow of an appeal. The boys are handsome, sure, but the way the heroine just puts up with everything really gets on my nerves.

 

[kaenyu]

This actually made me stop and think. Usually even if I don't like a game, I would still recommend it to other people depending on their taste in the plot and character designs.

For a game to fall into the list of never ever recommending ever, hmmmm I would say... Hadaka Shitsuji.

I know it's less of a story game and more of a porn game, that's exactly why I can't recommend it. You'd have to be into certain kinks (or at the very least, not into, but okay with seeing it) to digest the whole game, there's an overarching story but let's be real the porn takes the center. Plot seems to be added on for the sake of it.

I'm personally fine with seeing the sex scenes but I don't wanna gamble recommending it to other people. Even to friends I know well it'd still be a no.
Same goes for any other R18 game heavy on the porn content which I can't think of right now. The other R18 BL/Otome I've played has a plot that is somewhat acceptable.

 

[切羽詰まる]

i've been in the community for some time now and i've seen people agree to disagree over what they like, what they dislike, and how one man's trash can be another's treasure and vice versa, so i'd say, it depends first on what your preferences are, especially when it comes to your favorites or your hard-stops. our standards are varied and we have different limitations and likes anyway, so no matter how controversial it is, it's only a matter of how you like your games cooked. i.e., if you dislike anything with shallow world-building, or if the romance department is too short then it's a no-no, if you dislike yandere elements, if you like it seasoned with trash, if there's a specific vibe or setting you dislike, or tropes you're particularly weak to, etc.

 

[makancurry]

Hmm tricky questions, when recommending VNs i usually choose the most safe type of VNs from what i usually play....
I guess i would be lying if i said i never recommend mada labo BLVNs, but they are certaintly BLVNs that is hard for me to recommend to people...
Among 3 series that have been released (Hadaka, Kanja S, ChukiEro), It's hard for me to recommend Hadaka most cuz one route contains extreme stuff like forced beastiality... Kanja S and ChukiEro have some extreme stuff too but mostly it's more adjacent to ridiculous sadism wrapped as love, which still hard to recommend to general people but still recommendable to some (Kanja S being the easiest for me to recommend cuz i love the game too much to not reccomend it)

As for Otome i don't really have any games i won't recommend (i haven't played many otome to begin with), i honestly would still reccommend DiaLover to some people (though with more precaution) cuz honestly the Seiyuu and those sucking ASMR is worth it :)

 

[801_9ma]

While I will try gacha games, I can't in good faith recommend them, especially as someone who fell right into their predatory tricks when I was more impressionable. The format itself preys on FOMO, and the games are always at risk of being shut down if one day they don't perform well, meaning that virtually, if you pay in the game and the game never gets an offline version once the servers go down, your money has effectively gone down the drain.

As for more traditional games, I can't think of any, really. In general if I talk about anything I've played and people are interested, I will give content warnings so people can judge whether or not they want to try.

 

[mammonsfluffysheep]

Hmm... while I obviously play them, I could never recommend otome or bl gacha games due to the predatory marketing and microtransactions. There have been Otome Games and BL games I don't like but I don't think there's any I wouldn't recommend as it's all up to individual preference.