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>What explains this phenomenon?
Regarding anime and manga fans, men self-insert way more often than women. If there's no girl eyeing the "camera", or the "camera" itself looks too different from the male audience, (whether due to the "camera" being a different gender or something else) it stops being as engaging. Male anime and manga fans need the romance to include them. Female anime and manga fans can disconnect more easily (acting as a "wall") and thus can easily find both subjects worthy of titillation, hence BL becoming popular.

This is not the case for games however, as women are often self-inserting as the player who controls how their love life goes about. Thus, otome and other yume series can only truly thrive in games like LaDS because that's where they're relegated to.