Roommates

good

总体来说都还挺不错的，男的最后那个呻吟声可以关就好了，确实听烦了。

Roommates is a choice-driven visual novel developed and published by Octaday, released on Steam on February 7, 2024. Its premise is much more intimate and contemporary than the title alone suggests: rather than following campus life or a broad life-sim structure, the game centers on a protagonist who has recently entered society, struggled to find a satisfying job, and ends up sharing an apartment with three women, leading into a romance-focused story about cohabitation, attraction, and the social complications that come from living under the same roof. The Steam listing frames the experience around this shared-living setup and presents it as a narrative game built around multiple relationship paths and branching choices. The game’s biggest appeal lies in that setup. “Living together” stories work best when they can turn ordinary routines into emotionally charged moments, and Roommates clearly leans into that formula. The apartment is not just a backdrop but the center of the drama, because proximity naturally creates tension, familiarity, jealousy, and opportunities for connection. Everyday scenes such as conversations at home, shared downtime, and private one-on-one moments become the main engine of the story. That makes the game less about external plot twists and more about interpersonal chemistry. For players who enjoy visual novels that focus on romance, attraction, and domestic closeness, that structure is inherently appealing because it keeps the emotional stakes immediate and personal. The Steam page’s emphasis on “three lovely beauties” and a “wonderful journey” makes it clear that the game is selling fantasy and relationship progression first, with the shared apartment as the fantasy’s central mechanism. As a visual novel, Roommates stands or falls on the strength of its routes, dialogue flow, and character appeal. Because the premise is simple, the characters have to do most of the heavy lifting. A game like this succeeds when each roommate feels distinct enough to justify a separate route, with her own temperament, conversational energy, and emotional arc. The appeal is not simply in choosing among three options, but in getting the sense that each route offers a different mood and different type of romantic development. Even without elaborate gameplay systems, a romance VN can be satisfying when the writing gives each heroine enough personality that players feel encouraged to replay for alternative paths. Roommates appears designed exactly around that repeat-play structure, using its apartment setup as a branching social space where the player’s choices shape which relationship deepens and how the overall story unfolds. The pacing of this kind of game is usually one of its most important qualities, and Roommates benefits from having a premise that does not need to overcomplicate itself. Since the hook is straightforward, the story can move quickly into the interactions that players actually came for. Instead of building a giant world or juggling a large supporting cast, it can focus on scenes of growing familiarity, flirtation, and shifting emotional boundaries inside a small domestic setting. That narrower focus can be a strength. In many romance visual novels, the most memorable moments are not dramatic external events but smaller scenes where characters open up, reveal insecurity, or let their guard down. A shared-apartment setup is well suited to that tone because it creates natural excuses for repeated contact and gradual intimacy. Presentation also matters a lot in a title like this. Even when the mechanics are mostly choice-based, visual novels depend heavily on the attractiveness of their character art, the clarity of their interface, and the mood created by backgrounds and CG scenes. SteamDB indicates the game uses Ren’Py, which suggests a fairly standard visual novel framework rather than a highly experimental structure, and that is not necessarily a drawback. For romance VNs, familiarity can help the player settle into the experience, because it keeps attention on the character scenes rather than on unusual systems. If the artwork is appealing and the scene transitions are smooth, a conventional interface is often exactly what the game needs. One important point in evaluating Roommates is that it appears to have been received decently by its niche audience. Third-party tracking sites report a strongly positive user-review trend on Steam, which suggests the game is landing reasonably well with the players who are actually seeking out this kind of romance-focused visual novel. That does not automatically mean it is exceptional, but it does indicate that the game is likely delivering on its premise. In niche VNs especially, that matters more than trying to satisfy every possible audience. A title like this does not need to reinvent the medium to succeed; it mainly needs to offer appealing heroines, readable pacing, and enough route variety to make its fantasy engaging. Its weaknesses are also fairly easy to predict. A romance VN with a compact premise can feel limited if the writing is uneven or if the routes are too similar to each other. Without complex gameplay systems, there is not much to fall back on if the player does not connect with the cast. The same goes for replay value: multiple routes only matter if they feel genuinely different in tone and payoff. If the heroines’ paths are too structurally similar, the second or third playthrough can start to feel like repetition rather than discovery. Likewise, because the premise is built around cohabitation fantasy, players looking for broader narrative ambition, deeper simulation mechanics, or more elaborate world-building may find the experience narrower than the title initially suggests. Still, judged on what it seems to be trying to do, Roommates looks like a focused and competent romance visual novel. It understands its core appeal and builds the entire experience around it: shared living space, repeated contact, branching affection, and character-centered fantasy. That kind of clarity can be a real advantage. Rather than stretching itself into something larger and less coherent, it appears content to deliver a compact relationship-driven experience for players who already know they enjoy this style of interactive fiction. For that audience, the smaller scope can actually make the game feel more comfortable and direct, because it gets to the heart of the romantic setup quickly and stays there. Overall, Roommates comes across as a modest but effective visual novel for fans of intimate, route-based romance stories. Its strength is not mechanical depth or narrative complexity, but the immediate charm of its premise and the replayable structure that comes from living with three potential love interests under one roof. It is the kind of game that succeeds best when approached with the right expectations: not as a sprawling life simulator, but as a focused apartment romance story built around character interactions and branching choices. For players who enjoy that niche, it likely offers a relaxed and satisfying run through a familiar but appealing setup. Rating: 8/10

不要看劇情的話還不錯 常遇到repny錯誤，按忽略就好了 提示大部分看了也不知道在說啥😊隨便玩就好

買來補票很久了，今天才把進度搞定，目前登場的角色只剩Tang Na未製作完成，離上次更新也差不多7個月了，希望作者加油早日補完。女角眾多，戰鬥場景豐富，取景視角也都在點上，適度的護甲加成，比歐美那種全果互博的場景好看的多，這也是我補票的原因，基本上是后宮向爽遊但參雜微量NTR，主要是主角牛人居多，某事件也可以不選，算是能夠接受。 說完優點那就來靠北缺點，首先就是無雲存檔得自己備分，中文翻譯和報錯的問題屢見不鮮，但改成英文就沒有問題。明明就是單純的對話場景為啥非得在對話框旁放個返回鍵然後要按下才能繼續，該放返回鍵的購物車頁面竟然沒有，要自己往旁邊隨便按才能退出=.=，再來就是人物身材同質性太高，御姊和MILF系的角色也沒有比較大，好看是好看但就是太過單一。筆記本雖有提供觸發條件，但有些需要在特定日期和場景的事件沒有細講，得自行去試。最後希望能增加女BOSS的相關場景，和其他人物相比真的有點少。

不知道为什么，有时候游戏会BUG卡住，问题光游戏卡也无所谓重开就行，这游戏是唯一一款可以影响到我电脑系统的游戏，游戏卡的同时会带系统一起卡着不动，这时候只能强制关机重启，我还找不到BUG触发的规律，人都麻了，人物全攻略，但有几个人物的CG不知道怎么触发，因为BUG触发太多次，心态崩了，所以这里给到差评 下面是我个人的评价自行取舍 1：BUG多，多到我都不知道该怎么评价，上面我提到的恶性BUG直接影响电脑系统，我在这里只能竖大拇指（不知道有没有和我一样的，附上电脑配置） 2：新手引导方面极弱且没有自动存档，新手打开游戏甚至都不知道该干嘛 3：人物攻略后需要自行解锁相关CG，但问题出在一些CG极难触发或者需要特定条件触发，这游戏没攻略的！而且我刚刚说过，没引导！没引导！没引导！所以现在我都还有几个CG不知道怎么触发 4：看了一下游戏社区，说这游戏一直在默默更新，这一点我不否认，但真的，修一下BUG吧，救救孩子吧 5：这一点纯夸奖好评，游戏风格、CG画面、审美、姿势等各个方面都相当不错 6：怨念深重，BUG太多，真的如果能看到这条评论，求求了，修一下顺便出一个解锁CG所需条件的攻略或内置任务

剧情上来说就提示部分较少解锁不难全收集还是比较麻烦的，CG做的都不错就是姿势稍微少了点，偶然触发CG也是不错的亮点

chen ke 怎末拍照啊，买了相机，没有摄影棚啊

畫面做的很棒

差评BUG一堆 还有最后一个女主TONG NA 为什么没有剧情 设计出来了却不给剧情