A bishōjo game (美少女ゲーム), Girl game, Gal game or Galge is a type of Japanese video game that is targeted towards a male audience, and centered around interactions with attractive anime girls.
Bishōjo games are a uniquely Japanese phenomenon: they have virtually no equivalent in the western video game industries. They form a sizeable fraction of the Japanese market: the most popular have sold over a million copies, and they make up the majority of ...
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A bishōjo game (美少女ゲーム), Girl game, Gal game or Galge is a type of Japanese video game that is targeted towards a male audience, and centered around interactions with attractive anime girls.
Bishōjo games are a uniquely Japanese phenomenon: they have virtually no equivalent in the western video game industries. They form a sizeable fraction of the Japanese market: the most popular have sold over a million copies, and they make up the majority of offline PC games in Japan. Nevertheless, because of real or perceived cultural differences, only a few titles of this sort have been translated or commercialized outside of East Asia.
Notable subgenres of bishōjo games are ren'ai games (often called "dating sims") and H games (often called "hentai games").
Since bishōjo elements can be present in practically any type of game, gameplay in bishōjo games varies drastically within the genre. For example, Gals Panic is a variant of the classic game Qix where the objective is to uncover 75% or more...
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