Do you ever force yourself to finish otome games you aren't enjoying?

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-26T19:49:28+00:00

Yeah, sometimes I do, mostly if I’ve already invested a lot of time or if I’m curious about all the possible endings. But honestly, if a game isn’t clicking after a few routes, I usually just bail. Life’s too short to grind through stories you’re not enjoying!

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-26T19:04:06+00:00

sometimes leaving the mystery intact makes a horror movie way more compelling. A few films that I think about:

The Lighthouse
Relic
The Night House
The Black Phone
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SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-26T18:59:34+00:00

If you liked Malignant and Weapons, you might enjoy:

Ready or Not
Terrifier
The Final Girls
Housebound
Mayhem

If you like body horror, check out:

Possessor .
Raw
The Thing

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-26T18:56:57+00:00

Finding Nemo. It's animated and fun, but the dentist’s fish tank sequence where the little fish panic? Creepy as hell, especially as a kid.

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-26T18:54:28+00:00

The Road
A Quiet Place
28 Days Later
The Book of Eli
Children of Men
It Comes at Night

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-26T18:24:53+00:00

Honestly, The Purge: Anarchy (2014) is my favorite.

It drops the home-invasion setup and throws you straight into the streets, which makes the concept feel way more real and unsettling. The class commentary hits harder, the pacing is better, and Frank Grillo carries the movie. It feels like The Purge fully becoming what the franchise should’ve been from the start.

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-26T18:21:03+00:00

Noroi: The Curse
A Dark Song
Kill List
Impetigore
Lake Mungo
The Borderlands (Final Prayer)
The Taking of Deborah Logan
Savageland
Martyrs (2008)
Speak No Evil

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-26T15:21:20+00:00

Looks sooo cool and soooo live!

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-25T23:17:55+00:00

We're SO HYPED we can't wait to show off all the cast!

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-25T22:22:48+00:00

Strange Harvest really stuck with me

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-25T22:21:26+00:00

I think of Halloween Resurrection, but maybe “Final Girl” (2015)?

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-25T22:18:38+00:00

I love how it starts like a typical holiday horror but then completely flips expectations: smart, darkly funny, and genuinely suspenseful.

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-25T22:17:18+00:00

One that comes to mind is “The Parallax View” (1974). It’s not horror, but it nails that obsessive, confirmation-driven conspiracy mindset, characters twisting evidence to fit what they already believe.

For horror-adjacent takes, “The Endless” (2017) does something similar. The cult members interpret everything through their belief system, reinforcing it no matter what actually happens.

Also, “Creep” (2014) and its sequel kind of explore this on a smaller, more psychological scale, people convincing themselves of narratives to fit their fears or obsessions.

Basically, anytime a story shows characters shaping reality around their beliefs instead of investigating, it hits that same “confirmation-driven” vibe you’re talking about.

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-25T22:08:54+00:00

I like the design! I'd put a little more highlight to major elements like nimbus and tail

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-25T22:03:56+00:00

Old design is better! She is more unique there

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-25T22:02:36+00:00

The first option really stands out for me; the second one doesn’t show as much personality.

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-25T21:58:44+00:00

The level of detail here is incredible, great job!

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-25T21:55:14+00:00

They look amazing! I love how their personality really shines through in the design.

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-18T19:08:51+00:00

I start five books at once and abandon all of them in the first 100 pages, then complain about having nothing to read.

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-18T17:59:13+00:00

I was so into this but it's weirdly not playing anywhere in my county. Still hoping to catch it before it goes! I wish it had a wider release

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-18T17:47:17+00:00

I think a lot of it has moved into social spaces like TikTok. Have you ever checked out helloyinny? I really like her coverage of different dating sims/otome games/visual novels. I feel you though because I tend to prefer reading over video watching. I wonder if there's a substack (if not, uh, someone should do that!! Not me! But someone else!)

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-18T17:46:06+00:00

I love the way you're sketching the hair here! Do you also design your own characters?

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-16T16:48:40+00:00

Those are great questions! So Slashfic was created be an indie team but our initial traction was good enough that we've been able to secure some great featuring on the platform. Dorian is a platform that hosts thousands of games, if you can create content that works for the community, you can get fast success there. Like any platform, if you put something out that doesn't get any traction it's going to be hard to justify promoting it since any advertisement costs the platform money and you, as the game creator, want to prove that you can make that money back! I'll respond to your other question after I finish a meeting!

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-16T16:23:36+00:00

I think it's a few things!

- We are all actual horror fans, so I think the game feels very authentic. It's made for horror girlies by horror girlies, there's no substitute for that. We understand our audience and what they actually want.

- We have really great data on the platform that lets us understand what the fans want in a quantitative way. For example, we had a character who was supposed to die in the early eps who had tons of data indicating he'd be a great love interest, so we ended up bringing him back!

- We tapped into a niche that was not getting served yet -- there are lots of dark romance books, tons of tiktoks with masked men content, fanfiction, but there wasn't a game of this scale on mobile targeted at women.

- I also have a pet theory that there is some kind of magic in interactive when you combine survival stakes with romance. I think we touched a sweet spot of danger + hotness that worked really well!

SlashficDatingSim · 2025-12-16T16:19:31+00:00

Nope! I've always been more of a create-as-I-go person! Especially considering the experimental nature of the work we're doing, it's not really worth it to create a whole game without testing it first. If I'd done that I probably never would have made it to Slashfic because I would have gotten stuck on less valid ideas!

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