What's the longest you've left an otome game unfinished?

[MikuMikuni]

I just realized that it's almost been a decade since I have put Hakuoki Edo Blossoms on pause lol. It's not even because I didn't like the game (I already played all routes in Kyoto Winds), I just happened to put a pause on it one random day and then never got around to continuing it again. Which is hilarious now that I think about it bc within these past years, I've already completed plenty of other otome games

...I definitely have to start all over again with Kyoto Winds. I can't remember the finer details of every route anymore... Seriously, why didn't I just do: play one route in Kyoto Winds and continue the route in Edo Blossoms...

 

[Suzu鈴]

I have an otome game that I've left unfinished for the past three years, and I didn't even make it to a single ending lol. I honestly can't even remember why I stopped playing it... I think I just got more interested in other games, and once I moved on, it became harder and harder to feel like going back to it. It's not even that I disliked the game, either.

 

[summerkaraoke]

Probably around four or five years! Not with a otome but a bl. I got completely stuck on Mink's route in dramatical murder, I never liked the character, neither his personality nor his style, but I had to clear his route to unlock Ren's, so I Ieave it unfished for quite a long time till I felt like playing it again recently. But it definitely took me a while to find the motivation again.

 

[usagii]

its been 2 years since i last played bustafellows apparently.... didnt know it had gotten that long. it was hard for me to get into it, the common route felt kinda slow even though i was probably in the beginning of it which is why. i think i'll try to make it my goal to finish it by the end of the year and put an end to it collecting dust

 

[fleyrin]

It's been 2 years since I started Akaza's route, and I still haven't managed to get through it because I don't want to say goodbye to the game. (Although I keep rereading Riku's route). But I guess it's probably time, especially now that the fandisc is out.

It's been a year and a half since I've been held hostage by Yang, making it impossible for me to move on to the next route. I just keep rereading his route over and over again

And it's been a year since I completed the Cupid Parasite common route. And I actually liked it

 

[sagiscor11]

yup, it could very much be a decade. I was caught up in work and life and had to stop for a while.

 

[End8less]

I left Nameless by Cheritz unfinished for 13 years and I only am working on finishing it because I fished out the same copy of the game I had gotten back in 2013 from the dying drive I decided to resuscitate, it was one of the only things I managed to extract from it after an hour of work before it the rest of the files were gone for good, kinda like a vengeful ghost lol.

 

[muragaki]

i had bought radiant tale back in 2024, only to start playing it by the middle of 2025 and only yesterday finished it by playing almost in one go............

 

[sweetymana]

Piofiore is the game that I didn't like to continue to play. Long play with stories that I never understand no matter how many times I read. I brought second one expecting spin off but its another long play hours and so many routes. I guve up after playing a few hours! I am really hard time how mafia is connecting to main character in different ways. I feel likt it's more target on romance than story itself. I just cannot understand and I am like what am I reading for a long time. When the first season finished too, I am like what is it going on!

 

[oricha]

I have that problem of suddenly stopping to play a game one day and not returning to it too, and it is not even strict to otome games, unfortunately!

That reminded me that I have to finish playing Amnesia: Memories, but I haven't played it for over 6 years. So, I will probably have to play it all again to remember what happened on the routes I had played...

 

[めいこ]

It's been about five or six years now—because I started so many games, a lot of them have been left unfinished. Amnesia is still missing just one final line, but recently I've started playing it again!