#josei jam

[englishotomegames]

Deep Sea Boutonniere

Release date (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Online) English: June 28th, 2026

"You awake in the deep sea as a Blobfish and meet some strange, dangerous fish boys."

This is a free game created for Otome Jam 2026 and Josei Jam 2026 by Faesu! You can download it or play it online here.

[otomedev]

In the mood for more toxic relationships or even... Yandere? These jam submissions might be of interest for those of who you who seek out the red flags! Sometimes sweet, sometimes (always) toxic and always obsessed with the MC.

Yandere, Toxic & Red Flags Love Interests!

Free Fall by @devadelaide

A story about love, obsession, and what is means to know someone else more intimately than you know yourself…

Death and Love by Ash (Josei Jam)

In a world where Heaven and Hell signed an uneasy truce, a winged bartender tries to survive between underpaid shifts, strange customers, and a rising number of disappearances. Everything seems normal… until a charming client starts asking too many questions — and the smiles begin to crack.

Severed Love - 欠損失愛 by zakurobento

Missing limbs, amnesia. Limb-Severing Devil's Confinement and Devotion. Your only way to survive… Pretend to be a lover.

A Yandere experience through a Live2D full animation and 360-degree panoramic exploration. There isn't a single moment without movement!

CR33P by @try-froggery

Chat up a bunch of strangers (& Hope none are obsessed with you!!) Your friend Dove invites you to a group chat to make some new friends. Everyone is so different but so friendly! They all seem so interested in you—too interested. Have fun navigating online relationships! (Or don't)

Maid to be Yours by @imissa3en

After a well timed dream about a cute maid and certain circumstances happening, your friend ends up living with you for a month. Will this cute maid change your life?

[butterflyrocketstudios]

New Game Release: Even Lovers Drown

In the thoroughly modern era of the 1920s, one meets all sorts of characters while traveling the vaudeville circuit. Lark (gender selectable) has seen acts enough—and cons enough—to place very little stock in either magic or fairytales.

That is, until two beings straight from myth turn Lark's world topsy-turvy. Entangled in a selkie's daring heist and stuck ferrying a stolen siren prince back to sea, the question is no longer whether magic exists—but whether Lark can survive without it. 

Because where magic is not a mere act, forces beyond reckoning loom in the shadows, and the monsters of old are neither phony, nor dead: rather, they are much closer—and much more dangerous!—than Lark has ever dared to imagine them. 

Features:

45k Words (~3 Hours of Playtime)

2 Love Interests (One Male, One Female)

2 Individual and 1 Polyamorous Route

Pronoun Selection (she/her, he/him, they/them)

Multiple Endings

Custom Musical Soundtrack

The game is out now as a full release, included in not only MerJam but also the Otome and Josei Jams as well, each of which have a number of fantastic submissions well worth checking out!

Happy July! Given the sweltering summer so many of us have been having, this felt like a great time to dive into a MerJam project! I had the pleasure of signing on with the fantastic @skywritestudios to create something a little different from my last foray into the depths, and oh my stars, it has been such a fun ride working on this project!

I couldn't ask for better leads than Skywrite Studios' own FlowersforJoy and GreyEnwright, who assembled an absolutely incredible team: Dillaya Art (sprites) and Arghbulous (CGs) brought the two love interests to gorgeous, colorful life, while Remnantation (silhouettes) and Rananculus (backgrounds) paid stylish homage to the early animations of Lotte Reiniger. Programming and cinematography were in Kay's immensely capable hands, while Siyokoy designed and implemented the stunning intertitle-inspired UI. And of course, October's sweepingly atmospheric score sets the tone for a rollicking, fantastical adventure!

I hope that you are all keeping cool and staying well; looking forward to sharing a Bright Oak update again soon!

B.

[arimiadev]

Otome Game Jam is back again!

Otome Jam & Josei Jam are returning this May! 💜

Join us from May 1st to June 30th for Otome Jam & Josei Jam, two visual novel-oriented game jams about making games for women.

Otome Jam gives you 2 months to make a romance game with a female lead (gender can be chooseable) and at least a partially male cast to date. Josei Jam gives you 2 months to make a game meant for women, regardless of romance or character genders.

General rules:

no specific themes for either - this year our banner was community-voted to be cyberpunk themed, but you can make an entry with any kind of aesthetics and themeing!

18+ content allowed

previously started games and brand new games are okay, but games finished before the jams start aren't allowed

visual novels and hybrid games allowed

These two jams are sister jams and run concurrently. New developers are welcome! We have a guide for new developers with lots of resources for making games.

Check out the itch.io pages above for more info.

[pizzawriters]

Text Your Life - Chapters 1, 2 and 3 are now AVAILABLE! English / Spanish - ITCHIO & STEAM

Play now on Itch.io! Available in English and Spanish

(Early Access - Windows, Mac, Linux & Android)

Play now on Steam! Available in English and Spanish

(Early Access - Windows only)

This game is still in an early access state, and only Chapters 1, 2 and 3 have been released. Follow us on social media and don't miss any content update!

As a fourth-year Law student with a part-time job at the Catal Café, you might as well end up going bald from stress. Fortunately, you can keep in touch with your peculiar group of friends and Daniel, your long-distance boyfriend, through your favorite messaging app (😉). They help you see the fun side of your busy life, as well as keep every hair in its place (or not).

Now you've just moved out of home and into your new apartment, and everyone knows that means... party time! Music, alcohol, laughter, kisses... Wait, what?! Kisses?! Your memories are blurry, but somehow you clearly recall the feeling of someone's lips on yours. A warm and pleasant feeling. Hold on!! Pleasant!? 😳

Who did you kiss that night? Will you be able to find out with the help of your girlfriends-turned-detective? How will that kiss affect your relationship with Daniel? And most importantly - how much does a good wig cost 😱?

Trigger Warnings: alcohol, smoking, cheating, swearing, mention of violent acts (only in a humorous context), ghost stories, and sexual themes/jokes.

Text Your Life is a mobile phone chat simulator for android or PC that lets you put yourself in the shoes of our protagonist, a female university student with a group of eccentric friends and a love life that has suddenly turned somewhat... complicated.

* Play comfortably on your mobile phone, or on PC if you prefer, as if it were a real messaging app. Chat, receive and make calls, browse the profiles of your contacts...

* 7 different routes, and 6 unique love interests. Will you continue your relationship with Daniel, or will you catch feelings for someone else? Surely you won't end up in a love triangle with two best friends, right...?

* Shape the protagonist's personality with every choice you make, as well as her level of affinity with every character. Your personality and your choices will affect the course of the story.

* Only Chapters 1, 2 and 3 are available for now, with more than 108,600 words of content and roughly 904 choices (about 8 hours and 30 minutes for playthrough). Make a choice every 20 messages at most! Already finished the available content? Play again and change your choices to experience completely different playthroughs!

* This game was originally written in Spanish, and it's been completely translated into English.

What are you waiting for? Log in, create your profile, put an inspiring quote that makes no sense as your status, and start chatting right now!

Enjoying Text Your life so far? Then show it some love! There are different ways to do it:

* Leave comments, follow us on social media, send feedback or report bugs… Your opinion is of great help!

Itchio

Instagram

X / Twitter

TikTok

* Share your experience with your friends or on social media. The more the merrier, so spread the word!

* Writing: Alma Moral and Vera Lobo

* Programming, icons and app UI: Vera Lobo

*English translation: CeCe and Vera Lobo

*Profile pictures, emojis, fonts, music, sound effects and other assets: Text Your Life makes use of several assets under attribution license. See in-game credits for detailed attribution.

Artificial Intelligence WAS NOT USED in any way to create this game or any of its assets.

Download here:

Text Your Life by Pizza Writers, Alma Moral, Vera Lobo

Who did you kiss that night? :O

[bluepuzzlebox]

WATER MAGE ACT 1

Savay is to become the village Guardian on her eighteenth birthday. However, on the morning of her ceremony,  a dead body is discovered on the outskirts of the village...

🔮 Water Mage is a medieval fantasy visual novel. You play as Savay, a young magician next in line to become the village guardian. However, she has yet to prove her worth to the townspeople and her peers.

✨Play free on itchio

[kitsuren]

DEMO // PLAYLIST

Flirting with Death is a 18+ Otome-like action dark romance in the form of an interactive fiction. The game focus will be mostly into character and relationships development, exploring how you interact with the world and the reactions to your decisions.​

Take charge of Eris, a newly (and forcibly) inducted operative of a shadowy organization, as she enters a world way more twisted from what she is already used to. 

The game will be released chapter by chapter and it will be entirely free after completion!

You died. For all your life, you have been making bad decisions after bad decisions and this time your luck ran out. During your years working with the wrong side of the law you had seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. What you never expected was that your choices would take you into a maze of lies and backstabbing capable to bring countries to their knee. Something big is happening and you are not in the small leagues anymore. To bring down titans you will have to ally yourself with the shady HADES Project, a group with dubious objectives and even more dubious reasons. In a race against time you will have to do the unthinkable before it is too late. There is no right or wrong in this game and the stake is your second chance in life. The clock is ticking. Grab your power suit. Gather your allies. And remember: Trust no one.

Play as a female gender locked protagonist;

Customize your Eris: decide on your past, specialization, appearance, and attributes, bringing your character to life;

Romance one of the 3 initial ROs, each of them having their own unique route that explore the story trough different perspectives;

Make  decisions that impact the people around you for the good or the bad;

Use state of the art never-seen-before technology, including your very own power suit so you will never die (again!) during a mission;

Choose between 5 classes that will assist you during the various dangers that will follow you and your team as you try to solve the mystery;

Be a a righteous vigilante or a complete menace to society;

Kick a billionaire in the face (or not)!

This game is rated +18. Not only it will touch on heavy subjects, but it will also contain: 

Graphic depctions of violence; Strong language; Unhealthy coping mechanisms; Guns and gun violence; Manipulation tactics; Explicit sex (if chosen); Taboo relationship; Toxic relationship; Mature content; (This list will be updated if and when necessary!)

Yes, the protagonist is gender locked: This is my first time coding an IF and I didn't want to bit off more than I could chew. Not only that, I wanted to mix the otome/josei genre with the interactive format. Maybe it will work, maybe not.

This game is a ROMANCE first and foremost: You will not be able to opt out of it. I am aware that some people are not fond of this type of content and yes, you as a player will have the choice to have (or not!) sexual content/pda, but you will not be able to get out of locking into a romantic route.

Cold, cynical, and incredibly sardonic, Phobos is all objective, giving up on any and all distractions and not being afraid to do whatever it is necessary for the greater good. His no-nonsense attitude and his constant tries to intimidate anyone into submission​ turned him infamous in the organization. His morality is almost black and he doesn’t care about the sacrifices that he needs to do to obtain the desired result. Killing for him is second nature, but most of times he will let Deimos talk him down from his murderous rampage. At least until he decides that the more approachable way is not being efficient anymore.

Friendly, good natured, and helpful. Everyone who knows Deimos has the impression that the man is not fit for this kind of work. He is well regarded by anyone across HADES and normally tries to resolve everything without violence, doing a really good work as a “face” in his Kerberos Unit. But don’t be mistaken, even preferring to not harm innocents, Deimos is a perfect killing machine, honed by his past to be the perfect assassin and torturer. He has an approachable personality, but when working he only focus on the job that needs to be done. Can be quiet work focused and hyper fixate on the mission, which feeds his insomnia.

With zero chills to give and almost always having and anxiety attack due to Phobos and Deimos shenanigans, his boyish appearance masks very well his personality and he constantly runs with the power of coffee and spite. As a handler he is extremely methodical and professional, being proficient with first aid, tech, engineering, and plan making, even if his ADHD tries as hell to hinder his plans. Being a genius, he mostly always lose patience with stupidity and prefer to work by himself. Chaos is the youngest handler in HADES history and by far one of the most respected, at least by name, since he is the only one capable to make Phobos and Deimos to actually shut up with just a glare.​ Can be a tad dramatic and fatalist, but he rarely is wrong. His favorite phrase is “I ain’t paid enough to deal with this shit” (Yes, he is.).

[juneakaspace]

Hello,

Welcome to a semi-serious post. Celestine part 2 is kind of on its way to production (sort of) for the josei and otome jam.

It' s a jrpg otome just like Celestine: One to Eleven. It features Celestine and a love interest who isn't Secta. They're gloomy and miserable ♡. These changes are meant to emphasize the many facets of the jrpg for the players to experience. There are more battles, but it doesn't lose its identity as an otome.

I'll give you a sneak peek of the love interest a bit later. I'm so happy about it. I've been thinking about their personality and design for quite a while. I'll give you all a first look and some information on them before their design is officially released to the public. Hopefully, Lune will leave a good impression. I put a lot of time into their look, personality, and job class.

Thank you all for reading this. - Space