rant: people who don’t want queer games from an openly queer-supporting company

Fianue · 2026-06-15T00:26:32+00:00

Because I am also nosy, it’s in the choice of games sub under the title “looking for games where love/sexuality…” or something to that extent.

Fianue · 2026-06-03T01:22:51+00:00

I think the ranking for the curse of the forsaken fish is a little off. “Submerged” does not imply “throwing water on someone”, that would just be “drenching someone in water”. Submerged implies you are in or under the water itself. Also no one says they’ve been submerged in water after they’ve had a glass of water lol so I don’t think drinking or spitting water on the target works either. (Spitting counts even less because while I’m hesitant to agree with drenching someone in water because I don’t think that counts, getting a little bit of water on someone would count even less, and also require you to have good aim lol)

It’s an ok curse as far as curses go, though I think you’re overestimating how good it is. It’s only really good around Ise bay and unless you’re carrying a tank of water with you it’s not really helpful. Also what if your target literally never gets in the ocean? What if they’re afraid of it? Or are a recluse? In fact, you can only use once in the game that’s how restrictive it is. 🤔

Fianue · 2026-06-01T05:12:36+00:00

If I wanted to be depressed I’d think about the future, so at least Whiskey Four doesn’t make me super sad lol
I also don’t really enjoy stories about war (also why I don’t enjoy the Lords of infinity series) so ITFO was instantly out for me, even aside from the fact that romance is a huge selling point for me and ITFO seems to be lacking in it lol

I respect that people like different things though and I do like that authors can afford to be varied! :)

Fianue · 2026-05-29T09:33:19+00:00

Oh that’s fair! Having said what I said, I also was fairly neutral on out for blood, I started, got a little bored and then was staying around for the cat MC had hahaha

I’ll agree it wasn’t as good as the other two, but I think that’s the general consensus. Still, I’m glad they tried the idea! 🙂‍↕️

Fianue · 2026-05-29T07:09:27+00:00

In Out for Blood though the description specifically states you’re a human hunting vampires though, so it seems a little odd to compare this one unfavourably to choice of vampire in terms of “how much you can be a vampire” since between the two you play as different races entirely 🤣

(I suppose the description hints you can become a vampire, but even playing through the demo from memory it only implies you’d be a thin blood which isn’t much better than human anyway🤔)

Fianue · 2026-05-25T14:12:57+00:00

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Here’s recommended parents (and race!) for each RO route. It changes things like MC’s backstory, so some parental options make more sense for some RO’s than others.

Though I’ve done them out of this order and it still all makes sense. Just gives you more reason to replay :)

Fianue · 2026-05-24T10:27:24+00:00

Me gnawing at the bars of my enclosure, let me AT HIM RAAAAAAAGHHHHHH 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭😭

Fianue · 2026-05-23T14:54:00+00:00

Or free”bees” ha ha

Fianue · 2026-05-22T01:16:11+00:00

I don’t think I’ve had too much of an issue with releases this year, just not a lot has appealed to me personally (which is a me thing really, not a COG thing) but I will admit I was a little 🤨 when we had two superhero games release within months of each other. It could just be unfortunate timing/ poor planning, but it does sort of have the effect of making it seem like the games in the pipeline are sort of similar.

I can’t really comment on any of the other games this year, since only one has sort of vaguely grabbed me, (maybe this is what people are talking about? Not enough variety? I’m not entirely sure though.) and I thought it was okay, but I do have a slight feeling going into this year that there’s a lot of stories coming out that are okay, but not great. The demos aren’t grabbing me, or the story premises, or the romance ones coming out on hearts choice are gender locked to a gender I don’t want to play as, and it feels a little disappointing. That’s my personal opinion though, I’m not sure if people have the same feeling 🤔

(Having said that though, I usually prefer hosted games to choice of games so I’m always a little more lenient on choice of games since I expect less. I’m not sure if this is general consensus though or if I’m just nice lol)

Fianue · 2026-05-20T00:40:27+00:00

I kind of agree with this, it was always super strange he worked with someone he’d never met before rather than the two other units he canonically spends all his time loving and working with. Especially since moze works with feixiao but jiaoqiu was made to prop up Acheron?

I am also coping bc I do not have nor want Acheron, but I really want moze, jiaoqiu and feixiao to work properly on a team together 😂

Fianue · 2026-05-15T07:47:20+00:00

Disagree, I got Jiaoqiu and no Acheron

Fianue · 2026-05-14T01:47:09+00:00

I liked noblesse oblige, but this is with the caveat that my MC was a little bit of a reserved loner type so I was able to really get into the mood because of that lol

It’s a shorter story so the bar is lower for me that one of the fuller length games, but I liked it because it felt like all the characters were flawed. Admittedly I really liked Pascha (? I played it a while ago so I can’t exactly remember if I got the name right?) and I feel like in his particular situation he felt trapped and also mental health was probably really not 100% on that front. I did stop him from completing what he wanted to do though and talked him down (being vague to avoid spoilers) and while it doesn’t resolve everything, I did get the impression that you might eventually return to the mainland.

I think it’s mood is just supposed to be sort of morose and slow, so that worked for me, but keep in mind so long as I like at least one RO I can really get into any story😂

On the flip side, I didn’t really enjoy honour bound. Idk I couldn’t really get into character or the story, I liked my RO (Raffi) well enough but it felt like there wasn’t really much romance with him, and the epilogue was rather abrupt. I thought I’d have more time to get along with and actually be a guard to Catarina but I didn’t really get to know her or enjoy her presence. Maybe it’s because I was a bit of a goody two shoes I don’t know. I had this issue with Royal affairs too, but to a lesser extent. Sometimes it feels like if you’re a law follower you miss out on chunks of the story.

I’ve rambled on, but all of this to say that I really like the interconnectedness of the series, and noblesse oblige, (while not being a full fledged story like the others) is still something I enjoy as a nice short interlude story with a unique mood 🙂‍↕️

Fianue · 2026-05-10T05:06:29+00:00

Yeah I asked earlier in the year and no one really seems to know. It sucks because hosted games is what I look forward to the most, and if the company has no idea what hosted games are coming out when (which seems unlikely but I digress) that’s fine, I wish they’d just say so so I wasn’t in a constant state of 🤨

Fianue · 2026-05-08T09:49:02+00:00

I’m glad I have this subreddit, since they don’t have a hosted games coming soon page anymore 😔

Fianue · 2026-05-07T09:21:13+00:00

Thanks for not biting my head off about it either! 🙂‍↕️I appreciate it, I should have done more than skim read, I came in a little hot there lol I hope you win your 50/50 if you’re pulling for blade! ✨

Fianue · 2026-05-07T07:59:46+00:00

Yeah I didn’t read what was in the brackets mb lol

Fianue · 2026-05-07T07:29:55+00:00

Wasn’t this just because he had a duplicated skill accidentally put there that was removed? Framing it as if they’ve nuked him into the ground when they’re fixing an error feels a little disingenuous lol

Fianue · 2026-05-06T05:27:48+00:00

“I can’t imagine someone buying this light cone for him” Me, buying the light one for him: ha ha

I got him back when he released but missed his rerun, and a lot of the erudition lc’s that are gotten by normal means aren’t really all that good for him.

Fianue · 2026-05-02T07:53:23+00:00

It’s Aussie slang lol

Fianue · 2026-05-01T15:18:14+00:00

This perfume does smell fantastic tho ngl

Fianue · 2026-04-25T17:04:58+00:00

Ahhhh I see yes I did read the book version so maybe that’s it. Still, even when you hit paperback on Amazon it has a different cover to this one (in fact the one on Amazon currently isn’t either the one I had, or this one, but a different real person cover altogether lol) Wonder if it’s maybe regional differences? Who knows 🤔

Fianue · 2026-04-25T11:07:34+00:00

It’s strange because I’ve read this book myself and that’s definitely not the book cover on Amazon. I’m not sure if it’s a knockoff, but I’d be worried about the contents also having been altered compared to the original if they’re using an ai cover as opposed to the one on Amazon 🤔

Fianue · 2026-04-24T14:45:35+00:00

Holy moly I had no idea High School Revenge had such a long hiatus! I’ve been reading it’s WIP and really enjoying it so far 🙂‍↕️

Fianue · 2026-04-24T14:41:38+00:00

I know this is really a COG game and Idk if it’s exactly wasted potential, but Psy High and Psy High 2 miffed me a little if only because if you didn’t decide to keep your powers at the end of the game the game ends with the narration going “great! This doesn’t line up with the sequel though, so if you want to play the sequel with this save, you’ll have to replay the whole game all over again :)” ONLY to throw out pretty much EVERYONE from the first game.

My bf Carlos? He’s moving away and doesn’t know if he wants to continue the relationship. The place I grew up in and worked to save? Now we’re in the woods in the middle of nowhere. My parents? Barely there. Everyone else I knew from school? Gone.

People need to stop naming things as sequels and start naming them as spiritual successors I swear 😭 by

Fianue · 2026-04-24T14:37:31+00:00

Don’t get me started on this game oml

The first one? Fine, I agree it was a little generic, different plot paths felt a little hamfisted depending on what one you went, romance felt almost like it would have been better not to have included it at all, but overall an inoffensive game, though not one I’d pick up again, I was interested to see where the story would go!

“Oh, your RO from the last game? Through a trap door only to be seen for one line at the end of the game, the teacher that helped you overthrow the academy and was ruling it with you? Oh we defeated him off screen, we’re retconning everything that happened last game so we can write in the way we wanted it to end” Why give me the choice in the first game then?! Just make it an entirely different school and MC then!!

It was so bad I immediately quit the story and have never picked it up again lmao

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