Low Effort Romance is an otome visual novel about two tired adults who accidentally fall for each other between quarterly reports. Can you juggle deadlines, nosy coworkers, group projects, and a romance that keeps almost happening on company property?

Sign in to add this item to your wishlist, follow it, or mark it as ignored

Check out the entire Neoclassic Games collection on Steam

Download Low Effort Romance Demo

This game is not yet available on Steam

Planned Release Date: Q4 2026

Interested?
Add to your wishlist and get notified when it becomes available.
 

About This Game

Low Effort Romance is a romantic comedy visual novel about a girl who finally gets the job, loses the boyfriend, and then has to keep running into the IT guy whether she likes it or not.

You play as Emma Yang. New hire, accounting, still figuring out how to corporate. She has to juggle being broke, a parasocial relationship with a 2D yandere otome love interest she will not be explaining, and work dramas that she invents in her head.

Things are fine, right?

Maybe? Probably?

...No.

Something is happening though. She can feel it.

The game focuses on:

  • Realistic office romance in a corporate setting.

  • The struggle of balancing burnout with a new relationship.... or returning to an old one

  • Family pressure and cultural boundaries.

  • Text your friends and loved ones while you spiral into anxiety

Features:

  • 100,000 words of story content.

  • Multiple routes, multiple ways to fumble it completely.

  • "Chapter Zero" prequel chapter.

  • DnD segments that reveal the characters' inner messes.

  • An expanded cast including Becca from Marketing, Hal's Mom, Emma's Ex Owen, and many more!

  • Numerous CGs capturing comedic and romantic milestones.

  • Consult your favorite otome husbando, Leon from Pocket Fantasia. The guy offers top tier emotional validation while providing zero actual help with your tax returns.

Low Effort Romance is for players who enjoy character-driven stories, slow-burn tension, and the unique horror of realizing you are an adult and have to deal with things... yourself.

The people who have to deal with her:

  • Owen is her golden retriever ex. Three years of living together and parental disapproval ended in the ditch. He's great, and he has washboard abs. It wasn't anyone's fault, life happens.,

  • Hal is IT. He shows up, fixes the thing, disappears. Says something that lands a little too well, then goes back to the server room. Emma has started noticing things she has no business noticing. She's not going to unpack that.,

  • Raymond has been in Emma's corner since week one and has made it everyone's problem. He knows exactly what's going on before she does, shows up at her desk with unsolicited commentary, and is right about everything in the most irritating way possible. She owes him everything and he knows it.,

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows 7
    • Processor: Pentium 4 - 1.5 Ghz
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Display 1280x720
    • Storage: 700 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: Intel i3 1.7 Ghz - AMD Ryzen 1.7 Ghz
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Display 1920x1080
    • Storage: 700 MB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
There are no reviews for this product

You can write your own review for this product to share your experience with the community. Use the area above the purchase buttons on this page to write your review.

Review Filters