Edit 27 June 2020: This page has been rather outdated for a while, so I put it through a major revamp. Please mention in the comment section if you notice any lingering old info!

Mar 03, 2018 Oh yeah, Mangagamer made it possible to enjoy Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome as it was intended. (Thanks again for the 18+ patch) I'll try contacting them. We need to get as many people as we can to request them to localize the game. Please spread the word. Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome - 18+ Patch: Type: Complete, patch: Language: English: Publication: Freeware: Platform: Windows: Medium: Internet download: Released: 2017-09-08: Age rating: 18+ Censoring: No optical censoring (e.g. Mosaics) Publisher: MangaGamer: Links: Official website, Steam, SteamDB. Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome didn’t really suffer too much from either of these problems, which was nice to see. However, the H-CGs weren’t anything outstanding or amazing and they were the typical scenes I expected to see in an R18 game. Music and Voice Acting ★★★. Aug 05, 2021 I'm looking for recommendations for a overly flirty and explicit otome game. Mangagamer has two 18+ otome games: Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome and F. Me Royally. They're on Steam and MG's store. The Steam version has a patch. If you want something more lighthearted, check out Cute Demon Crashers.

Edit 9 September 2020: Added information on hooking text from PSP visual novels.

Since the opportunities to get otome games are almost zero in my country, I mainly live off downloading freeware or rely on friends getting them for me. Due to piracy rules and such I won’t be sharing any links in my blog other than the ones that are freeware, but feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions, and I’ll try my best to answer. No promises about troubleshooting though 😛
Now, let’s start~~

Oh, before that. As many people would ask about this, I mainly play visual novels on PC, I cannot promise any guidance on PS2, PSP, nintendo DS, iphone or android games.

Where to buy:

Japanese/English games:

This wonderful blog Yumi’s Game Factory has some good directions 🙂 The WONDERFUL cadavaberry of tumblr has also provided very detailed instructions in her reblog of this post on buying Japanese games, check it out.

EDIT: Otome Jikan has an even better and detailed article than the 2 above HERE.

Only English games:

Among the companies that make English otome games for PC, the ones I like most are:

Sakevisual
Roseverte
Hanako Games
Winter Wolves
Cheritz

English freeware downloads: Will move this section to a separate page.

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List of Notable Commercial games available in English

OELVN (original English language visual novel)
Always Remember Me
Love & Order
X-Note
Cafe 0~The Drowned Mermaid
Date Warp
Fatal hearts
Magical Diary Horse Hall
The Flower Shop: Winter in Fairbrook
dUpLicity – Beyond the Lies
Host Holic
Cinders
The Royal Trap
Changeling
Backstage Pass

Japanese/Korean Games translated to English
Starry ☆ Sky ~in Spring~ (PC)
Starry ☆ Sky ~After Spring~ (PC)
The Second Reproduction (PC)
Hatoful Boyfriend (PC)
Tokimeki Memorial: Girl’s Side 1,2 (DS only)
Hakuoki ~Demon of the Fleeting Blossom~ (PC, PSP, PSVita, PS3, 3DS, Android/Apple)
Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds (PC, PSVita)
Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms (PC, PSVita)
Otometeki Koi Kakumei Love Revo!! (DS version translated, PC version untranslated)
Yo-Jin-Bo ~Unmei no Freude~ (PC)
Princess Knightmare (PC)
Dandelion ~Wishes brought to you~ (PC)
Nameless (PC)
Mystic Messenger (Android/Apple)
Sweet Fuse: At Your Side (PSP)
Ozmafia!! (PC)
Dot Kareshi -We’re 8bit Lovers- (PC)
Re : BIRTHDAY SONG ~Koi o Utau Shinigami~ (PC)
Amnesia (PC, PSVita, Android/Apple)
Ayakashi Gohan (PC)
Nightshade (PC, Switch)
7’scarlet (PC, PSVita)
Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly(PC, PSVita)
Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk (PC, PSVita)
London Detective Mysteria (PC, PSVita)
Steam Prison (PC)
Shirahana no Ori ~Hiiro no Kakera 4~ (PC port made by fans)
Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome (PC, optional R18)
Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~ (Switch, PS4, PSVita)
Code: Realize ~Future Blessings~ (Switch, PS4, PSVita)
Collar x Malice (PSVita, Switch)

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How to play NON-ENGLISH PC VISUAL NOVELS (without English patches):

I mainly play the VNs that either have been translated by company themselves or have an English patch, but since most of the BEST otome games tend to be in japanese and are rarely translated, I had to learn the tricks to use translator programs to translate in game text. Mainly you need:

A text hooker to extract the Japanese text from the game
A offline or online translator service to translate that text
Translator Aggragator which shows the translation and also word meanings

So what you have to do is:

First download and extract the software pack here, and then follow the below steps.

Japanese VN reading tools pack

Step 1: Change System locale or use Locale Emulator:

In order to make sure your computer can properly recognize the Japanese text used in the games, you can either change your regional settings to Japanese (google it, Sasugasugoi’s Regional Settings Tutorial is good for Windows XP/Windows 7) or use the Locale Emulator to pretend that you have done so. The latter is a more popular option.

Once you extract and install Locale Emulator, you can right click any game exe file and run it in Japanese locale. The first time you’ll have to configure it, nothing to do except checking the mark on run as administrator and clicking save. If needed, you can uninstall it in the future by clicking the installer again.

Step 2: Set up a Text hooker software:

Use a text hooker software like Textractor/ITHVNR/ITH/AGTH to extract the text from the game. Sometimes one game works with one software but not the other, start trying from textractor because it’s the newest and go in Textractor > ITHVNR > ITH > AGTH order if you fail.

For all these software, no installation is needed (though textractor offers a setup file if you want), just copy it wherever you want. Note: Try to run these software as administrator whenever possible, otherwise sometimes they cannot detect the game exe.

Note: Textractor actually has locale emulator and bing/google translation options built in, so you can skip locale emulator and translation aggregator if you want to use only online machine translation and do not want to look up words.

Step 3: Install Offline Machine translation software:

ATLAS is an OFFLINE translator which instantly translates the text extracted by the text hooker even when you’re not connected to internet. Install ATLAS according to sasugasugoi’s tutorial. We only need to install it once and forget about it, since Translation Aggregator doesn’t need ATLAS open to use it.

Note: If you get any issues about the trial having expired, set your computer date to 2000 or something, then turn it back after installation. Also make sure to add the user dictionary to ATLAS for machine translations that sound less crazy.

Japanese VN reading tools pack

Step 1: Change System locale or use Locale Emulator:

Step 2: Set up a Text hooker software:

Step 3: Install Offline Machine translation software:

Step 4: Set up Translation Aggregator (displays ATLAS & online translation and JP dictionaries):

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