In Dragon's Dogma, it's less romance and more "this is the character you talked to the most before the main story reaches a certain point", or who you gifted a unique ring to before that same point. It's treated as a romance by the game, even results in a fade-to-black love scene by a campfire, and they'll be with you in the ending, though.
I also didn't know that this game had romance in it, I played a little bit of it and didn't dislike it.
Story and immersion are really good, it reminded me a bit of some MMO, but I was under the impression that it had zero romance because of how things were developing, would you mind telling me more about it? I'm now really curious about who this character is and in which part of the main story does she appear
She's a character who you run into all across the game. It's not really a romance and more that maybe she might be open to a romance if the fate of the world wasn't hanging by a thread, but nothing comes of it.