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For most people who play VNs, taking a break is a normal thing. Even taking a hiatus of a few months or a year seems to be standard for many in our little community. For ten years, for me, it wasn't. My new addiction to litrpgs succeeded in breaking me of my compulsive VN-reading for the first time in a decade. While some might consider this a bad thing (and have told me so), others have said that it was a good one. Personally, as I've started playing Purple Soft's latest game, Seishun Fragile, I'm leaning more towards good than bad. Many things that had ceased to be joyful in recent years have regained their luster, such as cheap manzai humor, obvious moe, and general donkan harem protagonist antics. I won't say I love that last part (ha, like that would happen), but I can say that my viewpoint on it is less... bitter and jaded than it was before. I've had a refresh, and I don't regret it, despite how much it built up my backlog with those few games I bought anyway despite not starting any. One thing I find interesting is that I find it easier to find good stopping points than before, instead of just forging on ahead for a straight twelve hours and then flopping into bed. I no longer stare at the screen for entire days while downing endless snacks and bottled water. I also didn't want to get rusty on my Japanese, which is why I started up a new VN today. It was then that I realized that I no longer felt the pressure that still remained, even after I tossed aside VN of the Month. To me, this was an amazing sensation, harking back to my third year playing VNs, when my love of the medium was at its most fanatical. I've advised many people to take a step back and rest from VNs when they have started to lose their way, but this was the first time I took my own advice... and it worked (even if it was by accident).

Nitroplus's games are probably the closest you'll get in English. Take a look at Saya no Uta and Demonbane. A Clockwork Ley-Line from Unison Shift is also a good fit. Black Cyc and 3rdEye also have some titles that qualify. I've combined the "heroine with a gothic look" and "loli heroine tags" to pull up a list of other titles on VNDB: https://vndb.org/v/all?q=&fil=tag_inc-154~527.tagspoil-0.plat-win&rfil=&cfil=&s=rating&o=d The "vampire heroine" tag also tends to give results with goth lolis (including the rare and precious immortal loli): https://vndb.org/v/all?q=;fil=plat-win.tagspoil-0.tag_inc-130;rfil=;cfil=;o=d;s=rating Last but not least, DLsite has a goth loli tag you can use (as usual, Japan caters better to ladies and gentlemen of culture): https://www.dlsite.com/pro/fsr/=/language/jp/sex_category[0]/male/work_category[0]/pc/genre[0]/085/genre_name[0]/ゴスロリ/per_page/30/without_order/1/page/1/order/review_d

This girl from Yumina the Ethereal looks like a gothic loli to me.

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Welcome to Fuwa! Hope you'll have fun around here and all your questions receive a satisfying answer.

Welcome to Fuwanovel, and perhaps you may try Chrono Clock as well seeing that it's from the same developer as Hapymaher so you can enjoy the same style of the art. I hope that you'll have fun here.

Have you played Ib? It's an RPG maker game, not a VN but it's pretty great. https://vgperson.com/games/ib.htm

so, Umineko is not a romance-oriented game, but it draws a lot of inspiration from gothic lolis [in their art]