Reincarnated as the Unlovable Villainess?!
A downloadable game
You are reincarnated into a fantasy otome game you love. Unfortunately, you are not the beautiful and lovely Protagonist Penelope. Rather, you her romantic rival, the arrogant, petty, and unlovable villainess who is rude to Penelope whenever, wherever. What’s worse is that you are doomed to be killed or imprisoned in every single route. How can you avoid all the bad endings?
Reincarnated as the Unlovable Villainess?! is a solo journaling game. To play this game, you will need at least 1d6, 1d20, and a method of recording your game.
While the title and setting of this game play into the tropes of various webtoons, light novels, manga, anime, and otome games, the gender presentation of the Villainess and the Protagonist is not a crucial aspect. Although she/her pronouns are used for simplicity, players of any gender can create and play characters of any gender presentation. Feel free to change Penelope's name into Philip or Phoenix or Pink Panda if you wish.
Now comes with a paranormal and a wuxia setting.
Special thanks to kiwinojam and nanamaru for their creative ideas and inspirations, which contributed to the development of the 15 Hearts and Time Travel optional rules.
你重生到你最愛的奇幻戀愛遊戲裏。不幸的是，你并不是那受人愛慕，帥氣美麗的主角，而是主角的情敵—高傲、自大、小氣又惹人厭，對主角無禮的惡役。更糟糕的是，在每一條路線上你都註定被殺死或被監禁。你會如何避開所有壞結局？
《重生為沒人愛的惡役》是一個單人TRPG遊戲。遊玩需要最少一顆六面骰子，一顆二十面骰子，和記錄遊戲的工具。
現在還有超自然戀愛遊戲和武俠戀愛遊戲版本。
特別鳴謝：kiwinojam 與 奈奈丸 提供 15心與重生可選規則的靈感點子
Game 3 for Shit Or Get Off the Pot: A Solo Game Jam
Check out Laboratory [Redacted], Medieval Anxiety, Memoria, TTRPG Nightmare Simulator, The Last Doctor, The Final Girl Self-Help Club, This Ending Sucks So I Am Going to Write A Fanfic, Welcome to the Dungeon, and You’ve Killed A Man for the same Jam.
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Development log
- New Settings: Paranormal and WuxiaAug 05, 2024
- Rules Changes, New Optional Rules, and Chinese TranslationJul 14, 2024
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This is a really great game! Thank you so much for making this available to all of us.
Lovely novel ideas.
Thank you for the comment! I hope you have great fun playing the game.
I love this game! The concept is very original and I really like the execution. When I first died, my reaction was delight because I could properly envision the bad ending I had made, haha.
Thank you so much! When I played it, I also liked getting the bad ends cause it was fun to write out what happened.
Hi! I just found your game and got my characters set up, but there is something that is unclear to me and doesn’t seem to be mentioned in the rules at all. On page 6, what is the Character - Goal and Focus table for? Is it for the Villainess? The other characters? In what situation(s) is it used?
Thanks! I can’t wait to get this game started!
This is an optional tables for LI, protagonist or other npcs. It's used only if you want some inspirations for answering the prompts.
Hi! I started playing this awhile ago and I'm enjoying it! I just have a question, what are they ways to increase the attributes? Is it only increasable when you reached 10 hearts with an LI or are there other ways?
You are right, reaching 10 hearts is the only way!
i cant download it :(
Which file you are unable to download? If you are still unable to download it, I can maybe send you the file through email or discord?
Just the concept alone has me hooked. I haven't gotten far into my first play-through, but it's so much fun!
Thanks! I'm glad you like the game. I hope your villain is going to survive till Day 30!
This is perfect
Thank you for the comment. It means a lot to me.
EXACTLY what I was looking for
I'm so glad to hear that! Thank you.
This is absolutely lovely. Thank you so much for this!
Thank you for saying that!!
Hi, I've been playing the game and enjoying it so far. I'm amazed at how accurately it simulates the feeling of playing an otome game. Just a few things:
1) There's a typo on the 4th page; 2nd sentence of the 2nd scenario, "wnho is this?"
2) Also, the epilogue implies you can increase attributes, but I'm a bit confused how you do that?
Very excited to play with the new rules!
Hi! I'm glad you are enjoying the game! Thank you for pointing out the typo. I'll make a change now.
As for increasing attributes, you can choose to increase your lowest attribute by 1 when a Love Interest's Hearts reach 10 Hearts for the first time. However, to have the combined attributes become higher than 10, you will have to play with the new optional Time Travel rule, as you can retain your attributes even when you time travel back in time.
Please let me know if you have any questions! Or the rules are unclear!!
Hello～
Thank you for providing such an interesting system setup! Playing as a villain is really fun. When I tried playing, the BE dramatically happened on the second day! She just died again and now she's starting her second life XD
Additionally, may I translate it into Chinese and share it with my friends? I will include a link to the original post.
I apologize if there are any mistakes in my message due to using machine translation.
I look forward to your reply and thank you again!
Oh sorry! I didn't see the message until now. And I love that she died the next day /j
And of course you are welcome to do so! I love seeing translation so much!!
Thank you so much!🥰
Really enjoying this. But when you get the twin secret, is there a recommendation for handling their starting heart level?
Also, on the day of the BE, does the BE occur at the start of the day or after scenario resolution?
EDIT: Sorry, one more question! I had misread the encounter table and now realize it's divided between 1-3 and 4-6, not by the Heart level. What roll does that correspond to? Or is it its own roll?
I'm sorry! I've been busy for the past few weeks 😭
1) Twin secret: When I was writing the game, I was thinking the new twin LI will start with having 3 Hearts. So this new LI would not get a 1 Heart Date or a 3 Hearts Date
2) Bad Ending: The Bad Ending occurs at the start of the day. But if you have any Dates, the Dates event will take place first. I should clarify it in the rules 😅
3) Encounter Table: The encounter table is just it's own random roll. The Date Events table is optional though, just there to help spark some ideas. So you can actually just use it however you want!
Missing parts??
So I was reading through the Scenarios and I don't see anything that decides how to roll for the scenarios if I pass or fail. Plus I think some words got mistyped like "Then resolve the scene by rolling a 1d6. Roll +1D if your way to to resolve this challenge---" +1d what?? Imma try my best on my own but wanted to share that
Another 1d6. +1d typically means rolling an extra die.
Ah, thank you for clarifying that part
I'm sorry! I've been busy for the past few weeks 😭
I may have misunderstood the question, so please let me know if this isn't what you're asking! For Scenarios, you roll 1d20 to determine which Scenario you will face first. Then, you roll to determine if you pass or fail. You determine which attribute is related to this Scenario.
And yes, +1d means rolling an additional 1d6
I think I understand what your saying but to clarify, I CHOOSE the pass or fail roll for the scenarios???
Oh, you choose which Attribute you want to roll for the specific scenario. So for example, do you roll Love or Lore when a Love Interest publicly humiliates you? Roleplay how you're going to use that specific Attribute to react, then roll 1d6 and compare to the Attribute. So if you use Love and Love is sitting at 3, and you roll 2, then that's a success. You pass the Scenario.
It seems like -1 and 1 got swapped on the Heart meter description?
I'm really looking forward to playing this!
Thanks for catching that! I've uploaded a new PDF that swapped the numbers back. Thank you again.
I love the system. The plot twists are fantastic. I am going for a full harem. Penelope the three LIs and countess (yes I do know that was not an option) May are going to be very happy together. <3
Aw thanks! I love full harem and this is honestly why Penelope can be a Love Interest for the plot twist. And our Villainess can be whoever they want. We have no limit haha