How did you find out about Visual Novels/Otome Games?

I think I discovered thiese games while chatting with a friend about Hakuouki(the anime), then she told that she  played the game and I was like super jealousxD!  Exactly after a mounth I brought a psp and then I downloaded the game hakuouki(I was in middle school back then) then I discovered that there's also otome games for ds so I brought a ds and 2ds too!

And after 5 years playing an otome game called Tokimeki memorial girl side 3rd story I stiil haven't got all the cgs (I replayed the game like 1000times and I still can't get them all)...

W-well, I discovered them when I was browsing on net for some rpg games.(this genre is my second best)
Its probably a lame thing to do when you r bored.Meh...but who cares...

I first found out about visual novels through anime like Fate/Stay Night and Kanon. Since they didn't have official releases, I never ended up reading the source material.

Then I watched the Hakuouki anime. Really liked the story and characters (especially Okita), so I looked up the source material. Then I realized the VN was getting an English release, so I bought a PS Vita and downloaded it. Loved it, and I've been playing otome games ever since.

I discovered Otome Games/VNs ever since I watched La Corda d'Oro even though I haven't played it. I just looked up the source material and that made me wish I could play it.

I started playing Otome Games when a friend of mine told me to play a mobile Otome Game she was playing. I thought twice but I ended up playing it (She showed me a ton of screenshots and that killed me. XD) After that I played Starry Sky ~In Spring~ when the PC's available and I played Hakuouki when it's not.

After all that, I became a fangirl of Otome Games. But it pains me that I can't play much because I don't have my own PC/laptop let alone a Vita. It's also sad that only a few are localized. If only I knew Japanese, I wouldn't bother much.

Let's all hope for more Otome Game localizations~

I found them through youtube haha I used to watch a bunch of gameplays and stumbled upon it

Hmmm... My story was:

Played flash dating sims for guys.
Got curious if there was any for girls..
Discovered Harvest Moon MFoMT...
Found out about TMGS 1 (no patch back then)....

And yeah, despite my nearly non-existent Japanese knowledge during those days, I was hooked.

I was also pretty much the only otome gamer in our anime club when I was in uni... And so I would usually coerce my female clubmates/kouhai-tachi who would show even the slightest interest to otome games to bring over their laptops so I could change their local settings, install AGTH, ATLAS, and one or two otome games. Ohohoho~

A couple of years after I graduated, apparently the kouhai-tachi who still remained introduced me to the new otome gamer who joined them as the "otome queen."

I... can't remember. 
I either first heard about Clannad or randomly chanced upon Da Capo II. And then I discovered fuwanovel, which had otome games, 

When I was a young little lass who had depleted all of her resources for BL Yaoi tv series I was like I MUST HAVE more and found Enzai...nonetheless that is how I found out about VN

i used to play a lot of dating sims when i was like 4th or 5th grade??? and then like i kinda grew out of it and found shoujo mangas and anime instead lmao that's when i first learned about otome back then I thought otomes were only available in japanese so i naturally thought it was impossible for me to play one lmao
but that was until i learned about lemmasoft forums a few years ago which then gave birth to this otome trash called me