History VideoGame / Roommates

''Roommates'' is a UsefulNotes/RenPy-based DatingSim from Creator/WinterWolves, playable on both PC and smartphones. Players may choose to be one of two incoming freshmen to Latin House: either the shy, bookish Anne or rockstar-wannabe Max. After settling in, it's a year's worth of deciding schedules and keeping up with crazy roommates in hopes of getting together over spring break.

* AnythingThatMoves: Isabella, especially according to Sally and Dominic. [[spoiler: In pursuing her you find out she actually places a lot of value on monogamy, and breaks up with her boyfriend because he just assumed she seemed promiscuous enough to be up for a threesome.]]

* SweaterGirl: Anne's winter outfit includes a [[FormFittingWardrobe perfectly tailored]] cable knit sweater.

* DoingItForTheArt: In-universe. Rakesh's main motivation for doing pretty much ''anything'' is that he thought it would make good art. He says that he follows nature's example: nature doesn't ask you if you like its flowers, or expect you to pay it anything in return; it merely blooms because it feels like it.

* BareYourMidriff: Both Sally and Isabella. Anne's Halloween costume is also this.

* {{Expy}}: Isabella greatly resembles [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII a certain Rivaini pirate]] and, for all intents and purposes, could be seen as a modern-day college equivalent. Rakesh may put people in mind of [[Series/TheBigBangTheory another quirky Indian fellow]] [[NamesTheSame with a one-letter difference in his name]].[[note]]It doesn't help that the two letters are side-by-side on a standard QWERTY keyboard, making it ''extremely'' easy to mistype one for the other.[[/note]]

* {{Meganekko}}: Anne wears glasses.

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Both Sally and Isabella.

* MulticoloredHair: Isabella's hair is dark with blond tips.

%%* TheFool: Rakesh, when the muse takes him (which is most of the time).%%zce

%%* BareYourMidriff: Both Sally and Isabella. Anne's Halloween costume is also this.%%zce
%%* BetaCouple: Unless you're playing as Max and are pursuing her Sally hooks up with Max's bandmate Memphis.%%zce

%%* BrainyBrunette: Anne.%%zce
%%* ChekhovsGunman: Marvin, and maybe Tara too, during Prof. Tasque's pair-assignment. Because of Marvin being a whiner about Tara betraying him, the main characters get to go to the beach for spring break.

%%* ClosetKey: Depending on player choice Rakesh can be this for Max while Isabella can do the same for Anne.%%zce

%%* EmotionlessGirl: Roxanne, more or less. This seems to be by choice though, as she plays the acts of a tsundere just fine during the Halloween event.%%zce

* BareYourMidriff: Both Sally and Isabella. Anne's Halloween costume is also this.
* BetaCouple: Unless you're playing as Max and are pursuing her Sally hooks up with Max's bandmate Memphis.

* BrainyBrunette: Anne.
* ChekhovsGunman: Marvin, and maybe Tara too, during Prof. Tasque's pair-assignment. Because of Marvin being a whiner about Tara betraying him, the main characters get to go to the beach for spring break.

* ClosetKey: Depending on player choice Rakesh can be this for Max while Isabella can do the same for Anne.

* EmotionlessGirl: Roxanne, more or less. This seems to be by choice though, as she plays the acts of a tsundere just fine during the Halloween event.

** Likely not intentional, but Rakesh's behavior brings to mind [[VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo Rin Tezuka]], if she were male, Indian, and more lucid.

* TheFool: Rakesh, when the muse takes him (which is most of the time).

* BiTheWay: Isabella is pansexual and Rakesh is bisexual. During their routes, Max and Anne will begin to become bi-curious if they pursue their respective [[GayOption gay options]].

* HiddenDepths: Isabella is a HardDrinkingPartyGirl, she's hot and she knows it, and she has no qualms taking boys back home with her. She is, however, strictly monogamous, and while she does have a lot of flings with guys [[BiTheWay and girls]], she'll take her relationship much more seriously if it's with a partner she respects.

* TheVamp: Isabella. Her Halloween costume plays with this by [[VampiresAreSexGods making her a vampire]]. Rakesh being a [[FurAgainstFang werewolf]] may also play with this, as he's the only character who could be a [[VampireWerewolfLoveTriangle potential romantic rival]] whether the player is [[BiTheWay male or female]].

* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: When Isabella prances downstairs in a towel, Dominic scolds her to go get dressed before waltzing around the house. When she steals his clothes, he'll beg Anne or Max to pass him a towel. Anne can peek on him (raising his affection).

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Isabella is normally seen in a very tiny top and shorts, [[{{Stripperiffic}} both of which are barely enough to count as "clothes" by most standards]], and she has no problems walking around in a towel, either. As long as she's ''technically'' not naked, she's not in danger of being arrested for public indecency and that's all that matters.

* TheSmartGuy: Dominic, though he's drawn with a physique and [[DumbBlond hair color]] that would more suggest him to be the DumbJock; he's extremely keen on studying and keeping grades up, as well as ensuring that the others do the same. He's also quite the gamer nerd.

** And Carmen at the end.

* ClosetKey: Depending on player choice Rakesh can be this for Max while Isabela can do the same for Anne.

* JerkJock: Chad, Isabela's hulking boyfriend. Throws his weight around, insults her friends and disrespects Isabela herself. It's a wonder it takes her as long as it does to give him the boot.

* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Isabela and Rakesh. [[spoiler: Despite the group setting aside a bedroom specifically for hook-ups during the Spring Break trip if you're on Isabela's route (with either character) she'll have sex with the [=PC=] on the beach while on his route Rakesh will lose his virginity to the [=PC=] in the garage. In addition to this several routes feature the [=PC=] and their LoveInterest hooking up at work.]]

* SpicyLatina: Isabela is this and doesn't she just know it...

* InsecureLoveInterest: Anne is convinced she's dull and less attractive then the rest of Latin House's residents. It takes her a while to realise that Max and Dominic are actually fighting over her rather than just butting heads generally and Isabella's flirting in intended seriously.

* InsecureLoveInterest: Anne is convinced she's dull and less attractive then the rest of Latin House's residents and it takes her a while to realise that Max and Dominic are actually fighting over her rather than just butting head generally and Isabella's flirting in intended seriously.

** Although Anne's Isabella ending implies that that version of Anne actually ''is'' gay and [[ClosetKey didn't realise until she met Isabella.]]

* LetsWaitAWhile: On Max's route with Anne. [[spoiler: During the Winter Break visit to her parents house Anne overreaches a bit with the flirting and ends up straddling Max on the bed, not actually ready to go further at this point but afraid to back down. Max picks up on this and says they should wait until she ''is'' ready.]]

* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Isabela and Rakesh. [[spoiler: Despite the group setting aside a bedroom specifically for hook-ups during the Spring Break trip if you're on Isabela's route (with either character) she'll have sex with the [=PC=] on the beach while on his route Rakesh will lose his virginity to the [=PC=] in the garage.]]

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: Max and Anne are both playable and available as a romance option for the other character.