Character sim blasts from the pasts

My recent rabbit hole is researching the raising sims and dating sims in the Flash era. Not just Flash games themselves (although I have found an excellent starting point there) but it's good shorthand for the period and enthusiast scene I'm investigating here.

• English Otome Games has a wealth of information collected in one place

• Longtime developers like Hanako Games and Winter Wolves have also helped me gain a better picture of the era

• ...and you can get solid results from restricting Google search results to "before September 2017"

I'm getting confident enough in my ability to identify and gather these that I might put together an Itch collection for them... but I'd need to come up with a good name for it, "character sims" is just my mental shorthand for them. "Character Sim RPGs?" "Life Sim RPGs?"