Thrifty Gaming: Games That Won’t Blow Your Budget #131

You’ve just become the manager of the rookie idol group, “♡Melonchu♡”!
To make their debut concert a roaring success, dating any of the active idols is absolutely, 100% off-limits…!
And yet, romance flags keep popping up left and right, and the members’ affection levels are already at MAX from the very start!
How on earth will you navigate this crisis?!
An otome game industry first (!?)—a slapstick rom-com where romance is strictly forbidden!

One day, without warning, you become a ghost. You lived an honest life and committed no wrongs, so your soul should surely find peace… right? But the thought of being separated from the one you love is more terrifying than the abyss itself. If you can no longer stay by his side, then you must bring him with you before your soul passes on. Torn between love and obsession, you struggle against fate in this dark, emotional pixel-art visual novel about devotion, loss, and the desperate choices made in the afterlife.

Arthur Ruthven’s thirty-fifth birthday is fast approaching, but he’s worried that his life has started to stagnate.

Arthur was once a history teacher in Edinburgh​, but an incident with a former pupil causes Arthur to retire early. Newly uneasy about teaching, and unsure if he can pursue the career he once loved, Arthur returns to live with his mother in their old family bookshop. He would prefer to forget his days as a teacher, and the anxieties that came with them…

But Arthur can only keep his past at bay for so long, and his life takes an unexpected turn when his mother hires a new helper at the bookshop over the summer holidays: one Mason Tierney, one of Arthur’s former students.