#otome 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.

[910o4]

Love's Young Dream, an otome visual novel, is out now!!! 💗🪶🧺🦊

(I was the character artist working with a team of several other talented people!!!)

Summary:

The Ashbrook family has always been born beneath an unfortunate star. They aren’t destined to lose their lives at sea, nor lose their fortunes to disaster, however. They are only doomed to lose their first loves to unrequited feelings. No Ashbrook to date has had the luck to prove that curse baseless superstition.

Yet that doesn’t stop you, the youngest Ashbrook, from trying to defy that fate. Clearly other Ashbrooks of the past just haven’t tried hard enough.

Having fallen in love for the first time, you’ve set yourself to the task of throwing aside a tradition of heartbreak and earning the affection of one Prof. Heron Renaude. With the help of your dearest attendant, and with the backdrop of the romantic Reedford Manor, your brother’s countryside home, surely you’ll prove yourself more powerful than fate.

...Won’t you?

Features:

A customizable protagonist; choose their name and gender

Three love interests; one f/m or m/m route, one f/f or m/m route, and a final exclusively m/m route

A historical romance with supernatural elements set in Edwardian era England, with multiple endings

~ 101k words

Made for Otome Jam and Josei Jam 2026!

[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?

[deadvnstudios]

New Sci-Fi Otome Demo Release: Calling all Researchers for Project Sporesight! Your nation needs you… and so do the two love interests...

🧪 SYNOPSIS 🧪

In the wake of a looming Telluricene, you have been selected to conduct research on a preternatural, highly intelligent, and swiftly emerging species—the Vivus Glomerorum. With only two weeks until D-Day, it’s up to bright minds like you to investigate and decide: friend or foe?

Volunteer here: https://deadline-co.itch.io/telluricene

🫀 LOVE INTERESTS 🫀

👩‍🔬 CUSTOMIZABLE RESEARCHER 🧑‍🔬

🔍 FEEDBACK FORM 🔍

DEADline Studios aims to provide unique, engaging experiences with our games and TELLURICENE is no different.

We’d love to hear any feedback about your experience with the demo, and invite you to tell us what you thought about it at the following google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNU78nUl5ObWJhNscn_Zw79NHOhYKaTzQWE73BSlH4pu2RCg/viewform 

Your great nation thanks you for volunteering in Project Sporesight. 

[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.

[chattercap]

🌊 RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT 🐙

My Otome Jam project is a psychological/drama/romance visual novel about a sweet marriage that slowly rots into a nightmare. Try to navigate a rocky relationship with your husband and unravel the mysteries surrounding him over the course of seven days. You can play it here!

Your life should be perfect. The perfect career. The perfect family. The perfect husband. And bit by bit, that perfect life is cracking all around you.

As your life falls apart, you retreat to your family's estate on a remote island. But after a storm washes away your only means of escape, you find that you're trapped with your devoted, perfect husband... who might not be the man you married.

🌊 Customize your character with your own name, pronouns, skin color, and sexuality.

💍 One male love interest who you're already married to! No work required! (Although things could be going better for you two.)

🐟 3 days and 23k words in the demo (~2 hours playtime)

📖 Different font options to customize your reading experience.

🐙 A bittersweet, emotional story with darkness waiting for you under the surface.

🖥️ Playable on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, and browser.

Please note that this project is in active development. (The final game will contain 7 days, 50k+ words, and 8 endings.)

This game deals heavily with sensitive topics, including mental health and grief, with discussions of things like drug abuse and suicide. Please review the content warnings and play with discretion.

The game currently contains 3 out of a total of 7 planned days. I plan to release the game episodically (although maybe I'll release it all in one big batch... still deciding). I don't have any specific release dates since I do like to keep games in the oven until I'm sure they're ready, but I plan to finish the game within a year (as long as someone can restrain me from adding more assets...) I won't spoil anything, but players can expect the final endings to be very bittersweet.

If you'd like updates, I post my monthly devlogs here on itch.io, so you'll see the updates in your feed if you follow me! I also plan to post more often on Bluesky, with weekly devlogs on my Patreon.

I hope you all enjoy the game if you decide to check it out! And please check out the other Otome Jam entries as well, I'm sure there are a lot of good ones! 😊

Until next time,

Chattercap

[doksagames]

Europe is so hot I'm getting fried alive right now... but you know what's even hotter? Abracademia's Love Interests!

Designed and drawn by the amazing hakugeii (白鯨), the professors in our otome game about fantasy academia will get you swooning!

Abracademia is coming to Itch very soon, and will be 100% free!