Games Like Chinese Parents

Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!

Why similar: Life Sim 59.2%, Dating Sim 10.9%, Simulation 9.2%, RPG 7.6%, Anime 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It similarly revolves around planning a daughter’s education, activities, stats, friendships, and future across multiple branching endings.

This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?

Why similar: Life Sim 55.8%, Simulation 13.5%, Dating Sim 10%, RPG 9.4%, Casual 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest match, following a child from early life through adulthood with time management, changing relationships, skill growth, and major life-path choices.

Getting a girl-friend before National College Entrance Exam, I know it's crazy, but from today, we will face everything together.

Why similar: Dating Sim 49.4%, Simulation 19.1%, Anime 10.5%, Casual 8%, Cute 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This visual novel directly explores the pressure of preparing for China’s Gaokao while balancing romance, schoolwork, and personal choices.

Daughter Raising Simulator with in-depth management gameplay, backed by an outstanding City Pop soundtrack. Take a young girl under your wing and raise her to adulthood. Set in a future where humanity has fled earth, your choices for your daughter will determine the outcome for humanity.

Why similar: Simulation 40.8%, Life Sim 35.4%, Indie 9.1%, RPG 5.9%, Anime 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: You raise a girl over several years by assigning her weekly activities, balancing attributes, and shaping her relationships and ending.

Princess Maker 2 Refine is a life simulation game which you play as a father of a girl, who had descended from the star. You have 8 years to raise your daughter from age 10 to 18 – your daughter will grow into her adulthood through various experiences.

Why similar: Simulation 38.7%, Life Sim 35.6%, RPG 10.1%, Anime 7.4%, Cute 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational child-raising sim built around schedules, lessons, jobs, stat growth, and many possible futures for your daughter.

Life Simulator is a simulation game with relaxed atmosphere. Players will play as a college graduate getting into the big city, you will fight for your life for four years, you can be a winner with cars, houses and soul mate, or maybe a salty fish with nothing, and you can also find love...

Why similar: Life Sim 48.1%, Simulation 17.8%, Dating Sim 9.5%, Casual 8.7%, Anime 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on improving attributes through everyday choices and progressing through a character’s life fits the accessible routine-management appeal of Chinese Parents.

Welcome home to Sun Villa! After a long summer at grandpa's ranch, it's time to finish school, get a job and move into your own place. Let the adventure of life begin!

Why similar: Life Sim 41.3%, Memes 29%, Simulation 9.4%, RPG 7.7%, Casual 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This lighthearted life simulator lets you develop skills, choose activities, build a career, and steer a character toward different lifestyles.

Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.

Why similar: Life Sim 56%, Dating Sim 16.2%, Simulation 13.2%, RPG 10.8%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Although set on another planet, it shares Chinese Parents’ life-stage structure, study-and-schedule choices, evolving stats, relationships, and highly replayable endings.

Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?

Why similar: Life Sim 38.8%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Dating Sim 9.2%, RPG 7.6%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: You balance study, work, hobbies, relationships, and personal ambitions through stat management and time-limited life decisions.

Discover magic in our world with Princess Maker 5! A lone princess needs your care in a realm where fantasy meets reality. Guide her growth and shape her destiny. Create unforgettable memories as you raise her.

Why similar: Simulation 42.6%, Life Sim 33.5%, RPG 9%, Anime 6.2%, Dating Sim 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its modern-school setting, parental management, extracurricular scheduling, and coming-of-age outcomes make it especially close in spirit.

This is a story where you do something more terrifying than entering a haunted house, more dangerous than assaulting an alien horde, and more important than ruling a fantasy kingdom. You, and you alone, must turn your newborn baby into a functional adult. Will you be a tiger mom or a helicopter dad?

Why similar: Simulation 32.9%, RPG 23.6%, Life Sim 20.6%, Casual 15.3%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on parental choices and their long-term effects on a child, making it a direct thematic companion to Chinese Parents’ generational premise.

Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.

Why similar: Simulation 30.7%, Anime 28%, RPG 15.6%, Cute 6.9%, Strategy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: You train a young protagonist through classes and decisions, with stat checks and branching outcomes making each upbringing feel consequential.

《Homework Is Crazy》is a game that simulates Chinese primary school students doing their homework. Here you will become a new generation primary school student, and face the mountain of tons of homework. This may be the biggest challenge you have ever encountered!

Why similar: Horror 49.5%, Casual 33.1%, Indie 17.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the exaggerated, darkly comic stress of Chinese schoolwork and parental academic pressure that underlies Chinese Parents.

Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.

Why similar: Life Sim 72.6%, Simulation 17.3%, Survival 6.4%, Strategy 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: This grounded Chinese life sim extends the same day-to-day resource balancing into adulthood, focusing on work, survival, family, and dignity.

A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

Why similar: RPG 50%, Simulation 28.3%, Indie 7.9%, Strategy 6.4%, Singleplayer 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It follows a character from childhood onward through difficult family, education, career, and moral decisions that reshape an entire life.

A coming of age story that sets the protagonist and his friends on a journey kickstarted by a chain of serial murders.

Why similar: RPG 32.1%, Anime 30.2%, Dating Sim 26.2%, Singleplayer 7.1%, Strategy 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its calendar-driven school life, social-stat growth, studying, friendships, and balancing of daily activities echo Chinese Parents’ routine-planning loop.

Lead the Phantom Thieves of Hearts in this award winning, stylish turn-based RPG filled with dungeon crawling, party customization, strategic combat, and Persona fusion. Explore Tokyo, build relationships, battle Shadows, and infiltrate the minds of the corrupt to make them change their ways!

Why similar: RPG 33.3%, Dating Sim 32.5%, Anime 26.4%, Singleplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Managing school obligations, knowledge stats, friendships, part-time activities, and a tightly scheduled year gives it a similarly satisfying self-improvement rhythm.

be you 2 is an interactive visual novel. In this sequel to "be you", you must raise a child by making story choices. There are multiple routes and endings based on your offspring's personality.

Why similar: Life Sim 54.5%, RPG 10.8%, Dark Humor 10.6%, Funny 6.2%, Casual 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its branching life story, character development, relationships, and choice-driven routes offer a more narrative-focused take on shaping a young person’s future.

When a series of gruesome murders shake a small town after a strange aristocrat dies and his body goes missing, rumors of a supernatural monster abound. In life Sir William was known to be a cruel and evil man, rumored to be the murderer behind many unsolved crimes.

Why You'll Like It: This introspective choice-based life story follows personal growth and identity through decisions that gradually define the protagonist’s path.

You have been invited to attend a magical school. You can make new friends, learn spells, face exams, run for class office, and try to find a date for the May Day Ball.

Why similar: Dating Sim 39.8%, RPG 22.4%, Anime 20.3%, Simulation 8%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: You allocate time between classes, studying, friendships, and exams while developing a student toward different story outcomes.

Become the most successful youtuber on the planet! Create videos, get subscribers, attend events, interact with your fans… and grow your channel. Live a youtuber’s life!

Why similar: Memes 42.7%, Life Sim 34.6%, Simulation 9.5%, Casual 4.3%, Funny 4%

Why You'll Like It: The game turns everyday scheduling into an approachable life sim of studying, socializing, upgrading skills, and pursuing a career.

You have 3 weeks to get a date for Monster Prom! Go through absurd and funny situations, raise your stats and seduce one of your classmates. Beautiful art, bold, unapologetic dialogue and hard choices make up this Multiplayer (1-4 players) Dating Sim. Be your worst self.

Why similar: Dating Sim 50.3%, Life Sim 20%, Simulation 16%, Funny 9.1%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its school setting and repeated stat-raising choices create a compact, comedic dating-focused version of balancing social development and limited time.

Intrigue, betrayal, deaths! An Otome / BxB survival Raising Simulation in a high-fantasy royal court setting with RPG elements.

Why similar: Simulation 27.4%, Dating Sim 26.8%, RPG 22.2%, Anime 12.3%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: You tutor and develop a young royal through lesson planning, stat growth, relationships, and branching narrative outcomes.

Dive into the exhilarating role of a headmaster entrusted to revive your alma mater! Beyond just bricks and mortar, train teachers, recruit students. Sculpt your school into a unique educational haven! Let's School!

Why similar: Simulation 38.1%, Education 27.1%, Funny 13.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Indie 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Rather than controlling one child, you manage the pressures of student schedules, education quality, discipline, and campus growth from the school side.

Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.

Why similar: Life Sim 56.1%, Simulation 13.5%, Dating Sim 13.3%, Casual 5.6%, Funny 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-ended household simulation supports long-term character development through school, skills, relationships, careers, and family generations.

Join Max or Anne in Latin House for their first college year! They'll juggle classes, jobs, and social life with four dorm mates, potentially sparking some extracurricular fun. As Anne you can romance Max, Isabella, Dominic and Rakesh. As Max, romance Anne, Isabella, Sally and Rakesh.

Why similar: Life Sim 32.7%, Dating Sim 23.6%, Simulation 19.4%, Anime 11.7%, Funny 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This college-life stat sim combines class schedules, activities, romance, and career preparation in a character-driven coming-of-age format.

Kudos is a turn-based game that puts you in control of a single character and manages their life from age 20 to 30. You get to pick their friends, their job, and how they spend their free time, but there is a catch! You can only choose to do one thing each day, or two at the weekends.

Why similar: Life Sim 60.3%, Simulation 13.4%, RPG 10.2%, Casual 5.9%, Strategy 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more adult-oriented but similarly choice-heavy simulation of career, relationships, personal values, and life progression.

The player will play the role of an older unmarried young man Lao Wang, because of the lack of money for marriage in thinking of ways to accidentally be attracted by the pop-up ads of an online game endorsed by a certain celebrity, and the gears of destiny began to turn at that moment.

Why similar: Life Sim 69.8%, RPG 12.2%, Dark Humor 10.9%, Casual 5.3%, 2D 1.8%

《学生时代》是一款可自由构筑的校园人生模拟器。你将在高度还原的中国校园中，从入学一路走到高考，与多个性格鲜明的同学一起成长，互相陪伴。你的养成和选择，不但会决定你的人生，也会影响到朋友们的未来。

Why similar: Life Sim 63.1%, Dating Sim 18.8%, RPG 11.2%, Cute 5.3%, 2D 1.6%

Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Why similar: Simulation 42.9%, Casual 14.5%, Funny 12.4%, Education 9.9%, Strategy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its humorous campus management focuses on student needs, classes, extracurriculars, and educational success in a lighter strategic format.

"The Scroll of Taiwu" is an indie game themed around Chinese mythology and wuxia. Players assume the role of the mysterious "heir of the Taiwu clan" in an alternate ancient China, working through generations of heirs to defeat a powerful hereditary enemy and shape the fate of the human world.

Why similar: RPG 26.1%, Simulation 23.2%, Dating Sim 22.4%, Casual 10.4%, Strategy 6.2%

Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!

Why similar: Simulation 40.2%, Education 21.9%, Funny 14.2%, Cute 10.9%, Strategy 9%

Why You'll Like It: This school-management sim scratches the academic-planning and student-welfare side of Chinese Parents on a larger institutional scale.

Raise your daughter while she attends a magical academy. Choose which classes she attends, jobs she does, training she undergoes, and more in a character raising sim packed full of story and over 50 endings to reach. How she grows up to be the world's cutest princess depends on you!

Why similar: Life Sim 52.4%, Dating Sim 11.9%, Simulation 11.7%, RPG 9.6%, Anime 7.5%

Tale of Immortal is an open-world sandbox based on Chinese mythology and cultivation. You will grow to become immortal, conquer the beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Season, make your choices carefully and grasp your own destiny.

Why similar: Dating Sim 33.6%, Simulation 33.3%, RPG 23.6%, Singleplayer 5.9%, 2D 3.5%

RE0: VTuber Life is a VTuber simulation game where you manage the protagonist’s daily life, livestream schedule, friendships, gossip intake, and fan interactions—all leading to multiple possible endings.

Why similar: Memes 41.6%, Life Sim 28.4%, Simulation 9.3%, Dark Humor 6.9%, Anime 3.9%

Customize your own character, streaming, training, and become a famous Vtuber!

Why similar: Life Sim 35.9%, Memes 20.1%, Simulation 12.4%, RPG 8.5%, Casual 5.8%

It’s a humorous project about a young parent's difficult weekdays. If you feel worried, irritated, you don’t understand what’s going on and what you must do next, so don’t worry. We want to give you exactly these feelings in our game.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 56.9%, Simulation 18.5%, Casual 7.4%, Education 5.1%, Funny 4.8%

Playing as Normis, you are a typical representative of the mainstream with a traditional stable life, ironically referring to youth subcultures, avoiding conflicts and extreme actions, preferring routine and social adaptation.

Why similar: Life Sim 29%, Memes 27.3%, Simulation 17.3%, RPG 11.6%, Casual 6.3%

Alt-girl simulator in the form of tamagotchi and a visual novel with immersion in the Russian atmosphere!

Why similar: Memes 48.2%, Life Sim 26.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Casual 5.1%, Anime 3.2%

Are you a quadrober?

Why similar: Life Sim 34.4%, Memes 32.7%, Simulation 11.2%, RPG 8.3%, Dark Humor 4%

In Campus Life you’ll experience your final year of college. Study, party and join campus events! Everything that happens during this one academic year will be entirely up to you.

Why similar: Life Sim 56.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Education 6.9%, Funny 6.3%, Casual 6.2%

"Richman10" is a classic chess game in which players earn money by luck (dicing) and strategy (buying land and buying cards) to defeat other players. Fine arts adopt pure 3D Q version of the original painting style. Game modes include: story mode, biography mode, multi-person hot seat mode, network mode.

Why similar: Casual 71.4%, Strategy 28.6%

Sweet Home is a visual novel set in a Chinese high school. Parted friendships, ambiguous romances, tangled relationships, and flawed families... Are these just the pangs of adolescence—or something heavier? Step into the shoes of Zhao Ying, shape her choices, and uncover every possible path.

Why similar: RPG 27.2%, Dating Sim 26.9%, Simulation 17.6%, Psychological Horror 13%, Anime 5.8%

In this first FMV game about emotional fraud, you’ll face their true colors. As a hunter of hearts, strike back against a secret network of gold diggers. Unmask lies, evade traps, and let revenge ignite. Will they burn—or you? Or could love still rise from the ashes? The choice is yours to make.

Why similar: Dating Sim 50%, RPG 38.9%, Strategy 10.1%, Singleplayer 1.1%

《觅长生》是一款想要还原真实修仙世界的开放世界角色扮演游戏。 在这里，你可以体验到从零开始一步步积攒修为突破境界的逆天修仙之旅，也可以体验到那些充满修仙味的故事和剧情。当然也少不了寻求奇遇、探索秘境，更可以和游戏中的角色互动，与人为善或是杀人夺宝全都由你自己抉择。

Why similar: RPG 46.9%, Simulation 23.7%, Anime 9.1%, Strategy 8.3%, Indie 6.4%

What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 40.9%, Simulation 20.8%, RPG 15.3%, Horror 7.1%, Puzzle 5.5%

Are you ready to take on the challenge of the Chinese driving test? For which it will test your skill of driving, knowledge of vehicle and traffic rules. The Chinese Driving Test Simulator will show you a complete, realistic Chinese driving test experience.

Why similar: Simulation 41.9%, Casual 20.5%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Education 12.4%, Indie 3.1%

Gujian 3 is a mass 3D single-person RPG developed by Aurogon Info & Tech (Shanghai), a subsidiary of Wangyuan Shengtang. As the latest hit of the Gujian series, it boasts more free and smooth combat experience with its full real-time combat system. This generation expands the world of Gujian based on previous works.

Why similar: RPG 87.4%, Singleplayer 9.5%, Anime 3.1%

The player becomes Gu Yi, uses the first-person perspective to immerse himself in meeting six beauties, and embarks on a joyful and sweet love journey with them. Six girls that are charming, innocent, intelligent, wild, sexy, glamorous, who will go to the end with you is up to you to decide.

Why similar: Dating Sim 53.7%, Simulation 22.4%, RPG 17.6%, Singleplayer 6.3%

Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.1%, Simulation 16.8%, Dark Humor 12.5%, RPG 12.3%, Survival Horror 10.5%

A survival stealth role-playing simulator where you play as a rat in a suburban neighborhood.

Why similar: Memes 44.8%, Simulation 23.1%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Casual 8.8%, Indie 4.7%

Are you Skoof?

Why similar: Memes 40.9%, Life Sim 33.2%, Simulation 8.1%, Dark Humor 6.6%, RPG 5%

A visual novel adapted from a real story.To tell the most authentic Chinese story in the most simple words

Why similar: Psychological Horror 37.2%, Simulation 17.4%, RPG 12.4%, Anime 9.9%, Casual 5.8%

The most realistic simulator of the life of a Russian person. Collect pension from birth, collect bottles to survive and become part of an exciting life-long story.

Why similar: Memes 50.8%, Life Sim 26.4%, Simulation 11.6%, Casual 3.8%, Strategy 2.3%

A game in which you have to go from an insignificant person to the king of the world

Why similar: Memes 44.3%, Life Sim 33.3%, Simulation 7.8%, Dark Humor 6.3%, Funny 3.9%

Dive into a massive 2-million-word immersive life sim. Use card-based strategies to survive office politics, rise from a rookie intern to a business tycoon, and find true love. Career, Romance, Wealth—why choose when you can have it all?

Why similar: Life Sim 45%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Dating Sim 12.7%, Simulation 8.4%, RPG 6.3%

<3 Bond with your Family, but there's something wrong going on in this house........

Why similar: Psychological Horror 42.7%, Simulation 35%, Horror 7.9%, Anime 7%, Indie 2.7%

Ever wanted to be a tea party extraordinaire? Well now you can. Each new level brings it's own challenges you must overcome on your quest to become the ultimate tea party master. Comes with the original Tea Party Mode and now a Mode 2 (after beating all the levels), for a whole new experience!

Why similar: Memes 36.1%, Life Sim 20%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Simulation 8.6%, Survival Horror 4.2%

An online party game of drawing and guessing for up to 16 players with a variety of modes. Bring out the best (or worst) of your drawing and guessing skills!

Why similar: Casual 27.4%, Funny 27.1%, Cute 18.9%, Puzzle 11.6%, Singleplayer 8.6%