I have not *intentionally* taken inspiration from them (I actually still haven't played Dream Daddy, and keep intending to fix that), but I am certainly not going to complain about being told this has that vibe!
But the entire Mother series (including what I'm counting as its "capstone" in a daddy-based dating sim in the lots-of-choices-and-routes-with-intertwined-narratives style of YAGS) is intended to be focused more on middle-aged gays dealing with middle-aged issues (divorce, death, jobs, finance), rather than college students coming out
Thanks for checking my stuff out again, and hopefully I'll make more progress shortly on other games in the series!