60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Dating Sim, Otome, Romance.
After a year of bad dates and failed job applications, you've nearly given up on the love story you've always written about. One night, you write your perfect man into a notebook... the next day, he becomes a reality. A romance visual novel about identity and the line between fiction and reality.
Twisted Lovestruck
A romantic date with the devil! Run for your life!
MindMindMind
A dark, psychological romance VN about a British ghost who has haunted you since childhood. When you get close to a new boy at college, he starts to get possessive, and the mind games begin!
A romantic date with the devil! Run for your life!
Why similar: Otome 28.1% ★, Dating Sim 14.1%, Romance 10.6%, LGBTQ+ 9.4%, Visual Novel 8.1%
A dark, psychological romance VN about a British ghost who has haunted you since childhood. When you get close to a new boy at college, he starts to get possessive, and the mind games begin!
Why similar: Otome 22.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 15%, Dating Sim 14.2%, Psychological 9.5%, Visual Novel 8.6%
Grab your guitar and rock along to this hilarious boy band dating sim!
Why similar: Otome 26.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.5%, Dating Sim 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Modern 8.4%
You're leading an ordinary life in sunny California when suddenly you get kidnapped by LA's most wanted gang! Thrown into the extravagant life of these stylish but dangerous gangsters, you must choose one of them to watch over you.... but who can you trust?
Why similar: Otome 25.4% ★, Dating Sim 17.1%, LGBTQ+ 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Visual Novel 12%
Face the nightmares of your childhood and unveil the truth behind your summoning to the realm of Limbo. Fight your way back home with the help of seven deities sworn to be your protectors. Will love be the key to your freedom, or the first chapter of your downfall?
Why similar: Otome 31.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Dating Sim 14.3%, Romance 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.4%
Play as twins Hazel and Jace in this wholesome romcom visual novel. After a silly bet is made, the protagonists must find a boyfriend or girlfriend before their twin beats them to it!
Why similar: Otome 27.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 19%, Dating Sim 15.9%, Romance 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.7%
You can't save him... but what if you could meet him again? Unquiet Grey is a heartbreaking timeloop visual novel about a troubled young woman and the kind-hearted musician she loves through countless lifetimes.
Why similar: Otome 29% ★, Romance 13.8%, Dating Sim 12.6%, Emotional 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.5%
A cozy, heartwarming visual novel in which you take a familiar face (boy or girl) on a romantic spring festival date. Customize your player character (femme or masc) and play several low-stakes mini games!
Why similar: Otome 29.9% ★, Romance 14.6%, Dating Sim 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, LGBTQ+ 12%
Join a cozy chat server created by Odi! Share stories, laugh, make friends... or fall in love? ♡
Why similar: Otome 28.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Dating Sim 12.7%, Romance 11.4%, Visual Novel 8.7%
Fling with a Tiefling is a short fantasy romance visual novel that follows you, an adventurer whose journey is about to come to an end. With tonight potentially being the last night with your treasured Tiefling companion Karrus, how will you spend it with him?
Why similar: Otome 28.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Dating Sim 11.4%, Romance 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
A trans otome game about a woman beginning a new leaf—until her childhood friend shows up at her door.
Why similar: Otome 35.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Romance 13.3%, Visual Novel 8.1%, Dating Sim 6.8%
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Why similar: Otome 25.8% ★, Dating Sim 25%, LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Romance 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%
A 20% chance is all you have to survive the surgery. Will love give you the strength to continue this life or will you be singing with the angels? The choice is yours.
Why similar: Otome 34.7% ★, Dating Sim 14.1%, Romance 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.4%
Heileen soon discovers a deck of tarot cards representative of the seven deadly sins and the seven heavenly virtues. The cards have the power to change both her dreams and her reality, and will help Heileen discover hidden things from her past, and what she wants to be. A saint, or a sinner?
Why similar: Otome 26.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Dating Sim 14.2%, Romance 13.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Everyone's heard of Mothman– the moth creature that haunts the outskirts of Point Pleasant, West Virginia– but no one's heard of it like this! In some random idyllic Midwestern town, you meet Artemis (aka Mothman) at your favorite coffee shop and begin an agonizingly slow burn romance with them.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Dating Sim 18.6%, Otome 15.5% ★, Romance 14.6%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is the follow-up to 2019's Arcade Spirits, a visual novel of love and pixels, in which you seek friendship and romance while working in an arcade. Now the tables are turned, as you seek friendship and romance while PLAYING in an arcade!
Why similar: Otome 18.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Dating Sim 13.4%, Romance 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.5%
A fantasy-romance visual novel featuring a not-quite-human cast, shown with animated sprites and painted backgrounds.
Why similar: Otome 30.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Dating Sim 13.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Romance 10%
A bickering and bantering rivals-to-lovers visual novel where you fall in love after first hack.
Why similar: Otome 24.4% ★, Dating Sim 15.6%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Romance 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.6%
Gripping psychological thriller Yaoi game full of difficult choices. Can you trust your own mind?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17%, Romance 12.6%, Crime 11.7%, Psychological 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
Upon finding a mysterious social media account, Alex sets out to find the origins of the photos and meets three urban explorers, each of them unearthing something new and unfamiliar in her heart.
Why similar: Otome 32.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.8%, Dating Sim 16.1%, Romance 13.2%, Visual Novel 11%
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Otome 19.6% ★, Dating Sim 16.2%, Romance 16%, Visual Novel 12.9%
A short visual novel about isolation. You try to search for comfort in the lonesome people around you. Keeping the darkness at bay with small embers of light. Will you let the fear change you?
Why similar: Dating Sim 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Modern 11.4%, Hand-drawn 9.4%
In this hand-drawn romance-mystery visual novel, play as Sky, a love-struck impostor scientist. Survive your own secrets in a world shattered by earthquakes. Grow closer to characters whose obsessions can both aid and destroy your desperate bid to recreate a cure that only you know existed.
Why similar: Otome 24.6% ★, Romance 12%, Dating Sim 11.6%, Psychological 10.5%, LGBTQ+ 10.2%
In a heartbeat, the ordinary becomes legendary. Transported to a magical world and accused of being the Evil Witch Queen, you must choose your protector from 7 heroes. A fantasy romance Visual Novel featuring complete Main Stories through Season 5.
Why similar: Otome 25.6% ★, Dating Sim 17.3%, LGBTQ+ 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%
A psychological/drama/romance visual novel about a sweet marriage that slowly rots into a nightmare. Over the course of seven days, try to navigate a rocky relationship with your husband and unravel the mysteries surrounding this man... who might not be the man you married.
Why similar: Otome 31.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.8%, Dating Sim 13.9%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
The ultimate 18+ yuri visual novel! Romance seven beautiful ladies, work at the weirdest love hotel in Japan, and live your best life in Akiyama's red-light district!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.4%, Dating Sim 17.3%, Romance 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Crime 9.7%
Paradise is a Boys Love visual novel and tells the story of a group of men who go on holiday on a deserted island. When things begin to go wrong, they realize to their horror that they are stranded. Turns out that’s only the start of their problems.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.2%, Dating Sim 16.1%, Romance 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Modern 8.1%
An anime, choice-driven expedition visual novel where you bond and interact with fellow coworkers and three romance-able characters to unlock group chats & romantic scenarios in the story! Choose daily actions to experience branching routes based on your answer choices and relationships (GxB or GxG)
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Otome 16.3% ★, Dating Sim 15.5%, Romance 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
Labeled a “troublemaker,” you transfer to the worst high school. There, you become entangled in dangerous relationships driven by desire, jealousy, and manipulation. Will you get closer, be used, or get hurt— your choices will determine how your story with them ends.
Why similar: Dating Sim 19.6%, Crime 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Cinematic 10.8%
Spend Winter break with the popular and unapproachable Prince of the Empire in this cozy and heartwarming Magic Academy visual novel
Why similar: Dating Sim 21.5%, Otome 21.5% ★, Romance 17.1%, LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%
A sci-fi otome game where your choices shape love — and the future of society.
Why similar: Otome 37.5% ★, Dating Sim 13.8%, Romance 13.4%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Psychological 9%
June Pinegar is forced to spend the summer working at her father’s quaint country café, far away from her urban home. Will romance spark with the dutiful barista or friendship form with the bubbly cashier? Or perhaps she’ll mend the strained relationship between her and her quirky father.
Why similar: Otome 34.4% ★, Dating Sim 15.1%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Modern 10.4%
In this otome-style visual novel, journey from the depths of the jungle to the royal halls of Castle Krondolee. Young Serafina must uncover the dark secrets of her past and choose whom to trust in this dramatic adventure of romance and intrigue.
Why similar: Otome 33.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Dating Sim 15.4%, Romance 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.2%
The Good People (Na Daoine Maithe) is a lore-rich, choice-driven visual novel inspired by Irish myths. Venture into Tír na nÓg, the Celtic Otherworld, in order to retrieve your family's stolen valuables...and get swept up in deadly fairy politics and a whirlwind romance along the way.
Why similar: Otome 32.5% ★, Dating Sim 18%, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
In finding love for the Parasite 5, will Cupid find love herself?
Why similar: Otome 36.6% ★, Dating Sim 15.8%, Romance 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.1%
「これからせんぱいには体験版として、わたしとデートしてもらいます！」本作は、片想いをしているバスケ部のマネージャー桜木桃花と、キャプテンを務める榎本海斗、ふたりの関係を描いたフルボイスの青春アドベンチャーゲームです。※全編無料でプレイが可能です。
Why similar: Dating Sim 16.5%, Otome 13.7% ★, Romance 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Running from a painful betrayal, you retreat to the quiet countryside, hoping to leave the past behind. Instead, you find unexpected relationships, buried secrets, and a future that depends entirely on the choices you make.
Why similar: Otome 22.9% ★, Dating Sim 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Psychological 8.2%
Navigate your relationships and figure out the truth behind the ghost of a 80s children's TV show host who's been haunting you in this fully voiced R-18 visual novel filled with nostalgia, romance, and horror. Can everyone get their happily ever after?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Romance 13.4%, Dating Sim 12.8%, Psychological 11%, Visual Novel 10%
TOUCHSTARVED is a dark romance visual novel where your choices determine whether the story ends with gothic romance or blood-curdling horror. Explore an enigmatic city and find a cure for your curse by entrusting your fate to 5 love interests, each uniquely monstrous in their own way.
Why similar: Otome 32% ★, Dating Sim 17.6%, LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Romance 13%, Visual Novel 11.9%
Cats + Armies + the Apocalypse! In a world ruled by bushy-tailed, bipedal catfolk, "humans" are mythical beings worshipped as gods. Those who pass a human's trial will have their wish granted... This is the tale of the girl who met a god.
Why similar: Otome 42.7% ★, Dating Sim 17.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Romance 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
Killer Chat! Expanded Edition fleshes out our serial killer dating chatsim to make it bigger, better and bloodier than ever before! Play as a writer, pretend to be a serial killer, get inspiration for your book, and try not to call the cops as you fall in love with your murderous beau of choice.
Why similar: Otome 24.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 13.4%, Dating Sim 13.1%, Crime 12.4%, Romance 11%
A 400 year old vampire wakes up in a band's basement with a stake hole in her chest and nowhere to go. She strikes a deal, front the band, win the Battle of the Bands, figure out what a dollar is. A story driven visual novel about music, found family, and a heart that forgot it could feel.
Why similar: Otome 34.8% ★, Dating Sim 16.1%, LGBTQ+ 13%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
Help Elliot recover his memories and unlock the truth of what happened before it's too late. A Mexican-American gothic, boys' love visual novel, featuring interactive spell crafting and point-and-click exploration.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Visual Novel 13%, Romance 11.5%, Emotional 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
Plastic Trick - an otome game inspired by mannequins An absurd, comedy game about plastic mannequins that have come to life and are fighting each other for your kiss, featuring a GxB/GxG romance!
Why similar: Otome 34.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Dating Sim 15.5%, Romance 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.4%
"Object of Love" is a slice-of-life BL visual novel about the mysterious charm of faceless characters known as object-heads.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22%, Dating Sim 20.3%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Modern 10.3%, Hand-drawn 8.2%
The hit series BUSTAFELLOWS continues with an all-new season! Fight for love and fight against crime, in this romantic, mystery, visual novel!
Why similar: Otome 24.8% ★, Crime 16.4%, Dating Sim 13.7%, Romance 13.1%, Cinematic 10.5%
Descend under a mountain to the marketplace below, where everything has a price. Meet the four men who can each give you what you need, but beware: they have their own hidden motives and uses for you. OBSCURA is a dark fantasy romance VN that asks how far you'll go to get what you need.
Why similar: Otome 32.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Romance 12.8%, Cinematic 11.8%, Visual Novel 10%
Transported into a dark fantasy novel, Lin Tangtang must navigate dangerous missions, tangled relationships, and fate-changing choices. Win the trust of the enigmatic Shen Run, uncover hidden secrets, and shape your own ending in this choice-driven visual novel.
Why similar: Otome 37.5% ★, Romance 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Dating Sim 10.1%, Psychological 10%
Think you can handle a little romance with creatures from Spanish folklore? ❤️🔥 Careful: your love life isn’t the only thing at stake at Mythic Love: Iberian Legends.
Why similar: Otome 30.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.4%, Dating Sim 13.1%, Romance 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Embrace the monster within to free yourself from a curse in this dark fantasy visual novel, a standalone introduction to the characters and setting of Sigh of the Abyss.
Why similar: Otome 27.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.9%, Romance 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Cinematic 8.6%
An erotic visual novel about heartbreak, self-discovery, and curious turns of fate- Lena and Ian are two very different people who find themselves in a very similar moment in their lives.
Why similar: Otome 23.6% ★, Dating Sim 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.8%
A mysterious program called “Cupid’s Chatroom” suddenly appears on your PC, transporting you into a private chatroom. You find yourself joined by five others, who have also been dragged into the server—and it turns out they’re your potential bachelors?!
Why similar: Otome 33.6% ★, Dating Sim 20.2%, Romance 16.1%, LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%
A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery. Each death reveals another piece of the puzzle that is their shared past and forbidden love. For fans of House in Fata Morgana and literary dark fantasy.
Why similar: Otome 35.5% ★, Visual Novel 12.4%, LGBTQ+ 11.6%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Emotional 7.8%
Fall in love, and rewrite literary history. Romance legendary Japanese authors—including Osamu Dazai, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kenji Miyazawa, and Natsume Soseki—in a literary mystery visual novel. Your choices shape not only your romance, but also the fate of literary history itself.
Why similar: Otome 31.9% ★, Dating Sim 15.3%, Romance 11.8%, Psychological 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.5%
In this funny, slice-of-life otome visual novel, you take on the role of a very forward magical princess who has come to the modern world to find her ideal husband. Date two cute men, and ultimately choose one to wed. ...Or maybe both?
Why similar: Otome 31.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.4%, Romance 12.6%, Dating Sim 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%
You've been invited to a Halloween party! Yay! Music! Food! Drinks! Vampires! Wait. VAMPIRES!? Velvet Bite: Softly, With Teeth is a Romantic Visual Novel featuring 6 romanceable vampires.
Why similar: Otome 33.2% ★, Dating Sim 21.2%, LGBTQ+ 20%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Romance 6.3%
A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery. Each death reveals another piece of the puzzle that is their shared past and forbidden love. For fans of House in Fata Morgana and literary dark fantasy.
Why similar: Otome 28.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.5%, Romance 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.5%
“When are you getting married?” When you’re finding the reality of your romantic life too bleak to bare, you’re matched through an app to a man with a 99% compatibility rating. Who could be the man of your destiny?
Why similar: Otome 45% ★, Dating Sim 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Romance 10.7%, Visual Novel 7.4%
An otome with strong, independent protagonist and hints of spicy scenes! The healer Thalia has developed magical powers and the gods of her world think she might be a new goddess they can marry. Poor Thalia just wants to do her work.
Why similar: Otome 38.8% ★, Dating Sim 17.2%, Romance 15.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
Aeterna: Rubra Plena is a visual novel otome game about happy romance, and dealing with depression, anxiety, and trauma. You play a beautiful young noblewoman dealing with her current and past experiences while finding love.
Why similar: Otome 32.6% ★, Dating Sim 14.2%, LGBTQ+ 13.9%, Romance 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
