![]() ![]() ![]() One out of its four routes can vaguely be viewed as being romantic, and even then, the game’s true ending concludes with the main character learning from what has transpired and taking a more realistic approach to their newfound relationship(s) by that point. It’s safe to say that you should not expect to play the game for any dating sim or romance notions – it’s not that kind of game instead, it’s using the tropes and attractive selling points of these as your reason to play it. We’ll instead ponder why this short but sweet game - one which took me merely half a day’s worth of playing - impressed me to this extent. That includes any potentially triggering material the less you know about it going in the better, so we won’t be mentioning anything story-related here, just so you don’t ruin the surprises the experience has in store for you. There are some more things worth discussing, but we’ll be delicate about them, because Billionaire Lovers is a game best played completely blind. Honestly, we should probably leave any discussion of the game at calling it a “fake-out”, since saying anything more will get well into spoiler territory. And while you might assume that means they’re after you in a romantic sense, the truth is rather different. Things seem a little too good to be true when we learn that CEO Elias (a lookalike of Mystic Messenger’s Jumin), sensible mathematics professor Kyle, cute neighbourly Justin and flirtatious resident Steven are all out to get us. It feels like we’re turning over a new leaf with this sudden opportunity, especially when fate has four very attractive bachelors vying for our attention soon thereafter. Our hero(ine) is down on their luck, broke and feeling at a loss with the direction their life is taking - that is, until their distant uncle invites them to live in their mansion, and sends them a hundred million dollars. Money, money, moneyīillionaire Lovers casts you in the role of a player character for whom you can choose your preferred pronouns, effectively allowing you to play it as either an otome or boys’ love title. Created by a solo developer and based on a single, simple idea which the rest of the game was built around, Billionaire Lovers is something new, different and unforgettable - and deserves to be appreciated. It’s also one that you can likely get through in barely a day’s worth of playing - and suffering relatively few scares along the way.īut it’ll surprise you in unexpected ways instead, either through its very clever narrative that gradually builds up to a super-satisfying finale, or how its outlandish premise teaches us real-world lessons worth learning. It’s tagged as a psychological horror, and for good reason - although compared to these other titles, it’s far more contained and nowhere near as triggering. Naturally, Billionaire Lovers invites comparisons to these titles. Likewise, an indie title that often gets raised in this context is Cooking Companions, a seemingly wholesome visual novel about cooking - with plenty of food puns to keep you in an unsuspecting state before its mask completely slips and all hell breaks loose. Nitroplus’ YOU and ME and HER did the fake-out thing before DDLC ever did, for example, and the two are often compared to one another.
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