A recent lament on the #AnimeBlogger channel about the apparent dearth of a certain type of bishoujo games, namely the sort which had a happy, cheery story, and yet didn’t focus on sex, resulted in my being introduced to Heart de Roommate. (It also resulted in another post in my drafts folder being discarded for inaccuracy, mainly for the assertion that “there’s no such thing”. But that’s another matter.) Thanks to Xebek for the recommendation.

Heart de Roommate is a fun bishoujo game, with gameplay typical of its genre (one needs to make only a few choices in the entire game), albeit still adult. One gets the impression that the ero scenes were tacked on because the makers, Angel Smile, felt that it was expected of them. I’m not entirely sure if I’m allowed to link to any way to obtain the game, largely because of the “no H content or links thereof” clause in the TOS. It’s pretty safe to say that if you Google it, you’ll be able to find some place that stocks it, so I’ll leave it to your resourcefulness.

The game itself plays out much like a very standard harem comedy anime, and indeed I think it may map well onto an anime made from it, with the H-scenes removed. I counted three outright H-scenes per scenario in the entire game, although there were a couple of cases of nudity, mostly boob-grabbing sequences (female-to-female, even), and one other case of nudity later in the game that might have to be rewritten. Other than that, though, there’s just the usual ecchi situations (improbable accidents resulting in embarrassing positions) and such.

Mostly, I can say that putting the dialogue on Auto makes it feel as though I’m watching an anime, rather than playing a game. In this case, it works.