Since its release in 2021, an indie game ‘Dormitory Love’ has gained attention from many Otome game lovers in Japan for its unique love stories of the heroine with foreign students from abroad. It has won PLiCy’s ‘Honorable Effort Award’, and it was also selected as one of the 100 best games in 2022 on Freem, the biggest indie games platform in Japan.

Although it may appear as a conventional romance game, the story exceeds itself from its genre for the lively interactions among the residents in the dormitory and their rich background stories. It has thrilling emotional ups and downs, enjoyable seasonal events such as flower viewing, hot spring visit, and summer festival, which has its appeal for anybody who are interested in Japanese culture. One of the unique features is that the game is fully voiced, and has more than hundred stills.

The game was designed, illustrated, and also written solely by a Japanese developer, Mirin. After dedicating more than ten years to the project, she has thoroughly created a universe of the people evolvinginthe world of Dormitory Love. Also her life experience living in Japan, United States, France and Germany with insight to a traditional Japanese culture as a connoisseur of tea ceremony elevated the game with its profound depth in the story.

The heroine, Jun Minase suddenly finds herself working as a manager in a student dormitory in Tokyo, where students from overseas reside.

There are six love interests in the game:the calm and serious German Felix, the selfish femboy French Guillaume, the star basketball player Josh from the United States, the taciturn Chinese Ling with a somewhat mysterious background, the gentle and carefree photographer Russian Sasha and the cynical British nerd Sean.

From spring to the end of summer, you can enjoy seasonal events such as cherry blossom viewing, hot spring trip, water park visits, and summer festival with the residents.

Alongside romantic moments, there are also many laughs and a few tears.

Fully voiced

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Bonus content