- #1 Doki Doki Literature Club!
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 221,125 reviews2017
Dev: Team Salvato
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Why similar: Dating Sim 26.2%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Anime 13.7%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Romance 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: This iconic title masterfully subverts the dating sim genre with psychological horror and meta-narrative elements similar to the seed game.
- #2 Sucker for Love: First Date
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,966 reviews2022
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Put the 'love' in 'Lovecraftian horror'! Perform terrifying rituals to win the affections of eldritch horrors and smooch 'em... at any cost!
Why similar: Dating Sim 22.8%, Romance 17.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Anime 10.2%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines the absurdity of dating eldritch horrors with the high-stakes tension of potentially catastrophic outcomes.
- #3 Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™
96% matchVery Positive90% of 6,618 reviews2022
Dev: PsyopPub: Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Welcome to Murderer’s Island. Your companions: four dead-sexy Killers who, underneath their murderous exteriors, just want a little romance. Flirt your way into their hearts, uncovering dark twists along the way. Will you find true love, forge friendships… or get hacked to death?
Why similar: Dating Sim 31.9%, Romance 16.2%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game directly mirrors the 'killer dating show' premise by forcing players to romance dangerous entities to survive.
- #4 YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,620 reviews2020
Dev: NitroplusPub: JAST
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 131.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story is the visual novel medium in its purest form. Will Shinichi choose Miyuki, the beautiful queen bee of the school, or the endearingly awkward misfit Aoi? With art by Tsuji Santa, these beautifully rendered romances will stay with you forever.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23%, Romance 15.3%, Sexual Content 14.3%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Dating Sim 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A deeply psychological visual novel that challenges the player's perception of romance through intense, reality-bending consequences.
- #5 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
94% matchVery Positive94% of 55,246 reviews2022
Dev: WSS playground
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is a “multi-ending ADV” depicting daily life with “OMGkawaiiAngel”, a young girl with a rather extreme need for approval attempting to become the #1 “Internet Angel” (streamer).
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Sexual Content 20.1%, Anime 15.6%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the chaotic, anime-inspired psychological horror of managing a high-pressure relationship with life-altering consequences.
- #6 Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 4,059 reviews2023
Dev: NankidaiPub: 0UP GAMES
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority- is a multi-ending horror adventure game. Sara Chidouin returns home from school late one night to discover that something's gone terribly wrong. When she comes to, she finds herself, her friend Joe, and 9 other people trapped in a mysterious place.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Anime 20.3%, Psychological Horror 17%, Story Rich 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the 'death game' genre, forcing players to make difficult choices that determine who lives and who dies.
- #7 Sucker for Love: Date to Die For
92% matchVery Positive95% of 1,287 reviews2024
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Put the ‘love’ in 'Lovecraftian horror!' Avoid the fanatical cultists and survive dangerous rituals to escape the Black Woods with your life in this 90’s anime inspired visual novel!
Why similar: Dating Sim 31.2%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Anime 12%, Romance 8.7%, Sexual Content 8%
Why You'll Like It: The sequel continues the blend of Lovecraftian horror and dating simulation, maintaining the high-stakes humor of the original.
- #8 Kill or Love
93% matchVery Positive89% of 2,191 reviews2020
Dev: Andy Church
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about obsession, loneliness, and, based on your choices, varying amounts of murder.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.8%, Romance 19.2%, Anime 16.2%, Psychological Horror 13%, Sexual Content 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on the intersection of romance and survival in a dangerous, high-stakes environment.
- #9 A Date with Death
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,836 reviews2023
Dev: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Dating Sim 45.3%, Romance 18.9%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Multiple Endings 5%, Anime 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: This supernatural dating sim features high-stakes romance with a character who holds the power of life and death over the player.
- #10 REFLEXIA Prototype ver.
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,432 reviews2022
Dev: MAHOUMAIDENPub: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 37%
REFLEXIA's story starts out as a parody of its genre and ends as a psychological drama.
Why similar: Dating Sim 27.5%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Romance 16.9%, Emotional 9.4%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror dating sim that uses cute aesthetics to mask a darker, more unsettling narrative experience.
- #11 Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 36,871 reviews2016
Dev: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.3%, Anime 26.6%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Story Rich 11.2%, Dark Humor 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A quintessential death game visual novel where social interaction and character relationships are vital to surviving a deadly situation.
- #12 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 30,999 reviews2021
Dev: Team SalvatoPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 81.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.
Why similar: Dating Sim 24.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Romance 12.9%, Sexual Content 11.6%, Psychological Horror 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: An expanded version of the psychological horror classic that adds more depth to the original's meta-narrative.
- #13 GNOSIA
89% matchVery Positive94% of 4,865 reviews2022
Dev: Petit DepottoPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.1%, Anime 25.3%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Story Rich 14%, Singleplayer 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: This title blends social deduction with visual novel storytelling, forcing players to navigate relationships in a life-or-death sci-fi loop.
- #14 Find Love or Die Trying: Til Death Do Us Part
88% matchMixed69% of 166 reviews2025
Dev: Sunseeker Games
Windows · Linux
The afterstory to Find Love or Die Trying is here! Continue your romance with your chosen partner in the world beyond the killer dating show. Will your love survive, when the world turns against you?
Why similar: Dating Sim 28.9%, Romance 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Emotional 10.3%, Anime 9%
Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel provides more of the same high-stakes dating show drama found in the original title.
- #15 missed messages.
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,474 reviews2019
Dev: Angela He
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 18%
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28%, Romance 24%, Emotional 17.1%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Sexual Content 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A short, impactful visual novel that explores themes of life, death, and connection through branching narrative choices.
- #16 LoveChoice
85% matchVery Positive92% of 36,143 reviews2021
Dev: Akaba Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
"What is love?" We try to answer that with this game. The game encourages people to have a warm, soft, and understanding heart.
Why similar: Dating Sim 35.9%, Romance 27.3%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Story Rich 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A unique visual novel that focuses on the weight of romantic decisions and their impact on the story's outcome.
- #17 Monster Prom
86% matchVery Positive93% of 14,278 reviews2018
Dev: Beautiful GlitchPub: Xelu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 57%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Sexual Content 10.3%, Comedy 9.7%, Story Rich 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: A comedic dating sim where the pressure of the upcoming prom creates a high-stakes environment with many ways to fail spectacularly.
- #18 The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
86% matchVery Positive86% of 1,515 reviews2017
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.8%, Sexual Content 14.5%, Anime 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A branching narrative horror game where every choice you make for the characters can lead to their gruesome demise.
- #19 Helltaker
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 127,364 reviews2020
Dev: vanripper
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
Why similar: Sexual Content 23.8%, Dating Sim 23.2%, Anime 20.2%, Comedy 9.5%, Visual Novel 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A stylish, anime-inspired puzzle game about romancing demons that balances humor with the risk of failure.
- #20 Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
84% matchVery Positive93% of 7,129 reviews2017
Dev: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.3%, Multiple Endings 17.8%, Anime 14.4%, Story Rich 13.2%, Psychological Horror 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: An intense death game visual novel that relies on complex puzzles and branching paths to determine the survival of its cast.
- #21 DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation
84% matchVery Positive95% of 3,738 reviews2019
Dev: Idea FactoryPub: Idea Factory International
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 139.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Show the Spirits the power of love and save the world in this romantic visual novel!
Why similar: Dating Sim 29.2%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Anime 14.8%, Romance 14.4%, Sexual Content 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: An anime-style dating sim that incorporates sci-fi elements and high-stakes narrative pressure.
- #22 Hush Hush - Only Your Love Can Save Them
82% matchVery Positive94% of 1,632 reviews2023
Dev: Sad Panda Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 82.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A Visual Novel with a twist - improve skills, charm girls, and learn dangerous secrets... by any means necessary.
Why similar: Dating Sim 28.2%, Sexual Content 22.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Romance 10.6%, Anime 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A dating sim where the player must romance various characters to prevent a catastrophic event, blending survival with romance.
- #23 Tricolour Lovestory
82% matchVery Positive81% of 28,032 reviews2017
Dev: HL-Galgame
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 48.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Time flies and never comes back. But with an incredible 1-million-word script and 100+ original CGs, this game will take you back to when you were young, simple and pure. Go and get the love of your life back, start something new, or end everything in flame, that's for you to decide!
Why similar: Dating Sim 34%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Sexual Content 15.1%, Anime 9.2%, Romance 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A mature visual novel that explores complex relationship dynamics with a focus on emotional stakes.
- #24 PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,838 reviews2023
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
How far would you go to bring someone back from the dead? Discover the depths that some will go to in this horror-adventure game.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.8%, Anime 21.7%, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Story Rich 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A supernatural mystery visual novel with branching paths where player choices are critical to solving the deadly curse.
- #25 Fatal Twelve
81% matchVery Positive92% of 1,003 reviews2018
Dev: LYCORISPub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Shishimai Rinka was a high schooler who ran a small café named Lion House in place of her grandmother. She lived her life much like any other person her age, but one day, she was caught up in an explosion while returning home on the train alongside her friend, Hitsuji Naomi.
Why similar: Dating Sim 35.7%, Visual Novel 26%, Anime 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Story Rich 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A death game visual novel where twelve participants must compete in a ritual to determine who survives.
- #26 Carpe Diem
81% matchVery Positive89% of 8,560 reviews2015
Dev: Moonlit Works
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 13%
Seize the day
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.8%, Dating Sim 24%, Anime 22.5%, Sexual Content 8.3%, Romance 3.7%
Why You'll Like It: A short, anime-style visual novel that emphasizes the importance of choices in a time-sensitive romantic scenario.
- #27 Gaokao.Love.100Days
80% matchVery Positive90% of 8,203 reviews2015
Dev: 高考恋爱委员会Pub: NVLMaker
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 35.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 39.5%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Romance 13.7%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Anime 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A dating sim that captures the immense pressure of academic success, where failing to balance love and study has consequences.
- #28 Everlasting Summer
79% matchVery Positive94% of 77,532 reviews2014
Dev: Soviet Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 58.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Visual novel loved by many – Everlasting Summer – now on Steam!
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.6%, Romance 15.9%, Anime 14.6%, Dating Sim 13.2%, Story Rich 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A classic psychological visual novel with a Soviet-era setting that features multiple endings and dark, surreal undertones.
- #29 Selene ~Apoptosis~
77% matchVery Positive88% of 5,527 reviews2023
Dev: Viscum keyPub: Nupu Neko Dev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 48%
A beautiful stranger appears at your doorstep. Will you let her in? Dive into a captivating nightmare and decide the fates of those around you in this free mystic thriller visual novel.
Why similar: Sexual Content 28%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Romance 11.4%, Anime 10.6%, Nudity 8.3%
- #30 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
75% matchVery Positive93% of 20,460 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.2%, Dating Sim 17.5%, Anime 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Psychological Horror 12%
- #31 Spirit Hunter: Death Mark
78% matchVery Positive82% of 512 reviews2019
Dev: EXPERIENCEPub: Aksys Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A strange rumor is spreading through the shadows of Tokyo's H City: a mysterious disfigurement has been appearing on the bodies of certain individuals. Anyone who receives the Mark will rapidly die of unknown, horrifying causes. The countdown to death has already begun...
Why similar: Visual Novel 65.2%, Anime 21.5%, Horror 13.3%
Why You'll Like It: A horror visual novel where characters are marked for death and must solve mysteries to survive their final days.
- #32 Corpse Party
78% matchVery Positive89% of 1,376 reviews2016
Dev: GrisGrisPub: XSEED Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
Why similar: Anime 26.8%, Visual Novel 25%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A legendary horror visual novel that focuses on the desperate survival of students trapped in a supernatural nightmare.
- #33 Date Everything!
73% matchVery Positive94% of 7,103 reviews2025
Dev: Sassy Chap GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Date Everything! is a sandbox dating simulator set in the comfort of your own home, featuring 100 fully voice acted datable characters! Let the romance flow between your bed, smoke alarm and… Overwhelming Sense of Existential Dread? Are you ready to Date Everything?
Why similar: Dating Sim 31%, Sexual Content 17.3%, Romance 17.1%, Visual Novel 8.8%, Multiple Endings 6.3%
- #34 Crush Crush
77% matchVery Positive89% of 28,060 reviews2016
Dev: Sad Panda Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 96.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Welcome to Crush Crush - the Idle Dating Sim! Meet, flirt, and fall in love with a motley cast of girls in this heartfelt and hilarious game.
Why similar: Sexual Content 29.5%, Dating Sim 28.2%, Anime 10.5%, Nudity 10%, Hentai 7.7%
- #35 Sucker for Love: Prelude
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 520 reviews2021
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Preform a series of scary rituals to win over an eldritch cutie and win a smooch!
Why similar: Dating Sim 66.8%, Multiple Endings 14%, Sexual Content 8.6%, Horror 5.6%, Casual 2.3%
- #36 Hey Stranger! I Dare You to Love Me!
73% matchVery Positive87% of 222 reviews2025
Dev: Pound Cake WorkshopPub: Kupaa Games
Windows
In this saucy 2D visual novel, you find yourself in a strange new town in which all of its residents are promiscuous and eager to get to know the newcomer! The story will depend entirely on your own choices. Will you give in to passion and accept the locals' blatant advances?
Why similar: Sexual Content 20.5%, Dating Sim 18.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Anime 8.6%, Romance 7.7%
- #37 PockeDate! - Pocket Dating Simulator
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,449 reviews2024
Dev: TERNOX
Windows
Your Pocket-Sized Dating Simulator! Every launch brings a new date with unique dialogues! Spend endless hours with your adorable, love-struck virtual girlfriend.
Why similar: Dating Sim 32.5%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Romance 16.6%, Psychological Horror 7.7%, Anime 6.9%
- #38 Monster Girl2
75% matchVery Positive82% of 1,936 reviews2023
Dev: jksoftPub: Jksoft
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Monster Girl2 is a spot-the-difference game with branching stories and multiple endings.Uncover secrets, make choices, and decide the fate of alluring demon girls.Will you conquer them—or save them? Your decisions shape their destiny.
Why similar: Sexual Content 39.6%, Hentai 15.7%, Nudity 15.6%, Romance 15.5%, Multiple Endings 4.2%
- #39 Trick and Treat - Visual Novel
76% matchVery Positive90% of 3,616 reviews2016
Dev: Eternal Night StudiosPub: Alberto Herrera
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Trick & Treat is a Visual Novel that test your instincts by making choices that can get you out from the cursed forest or drive you to death… or maybe just maybe your choices can guide you to something more?
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.2%, Anime 20.1%, Romance 13.4%, Dating Sim 13.1%, Sexual Content 11.9%
- #40 Killer Chat! - Original Edition
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,237 reviews2025
Dev: rosesrotPub: angelrot games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Killer Chat! is a satirical serial killer dating chatsim. Play as a (customisable!) writer as you pretend to be a serial killer, get inspiration for your book, fall in love and try not to call the cops through a whirlwind six months with your murderous beau of choice. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Dating Sim 31%, Romance 17.7%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%, Psychological Horror 8.4%
- #41 Flower girl 2
74% matchVery Positive81% of 2,139 reviews2022
Dev: 9Garden
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 31%
《Flower Girl 2 》It is a game of beautiful girl + elimination + plot combination. The story is the story of players stealing sacred objects and fleeing the flower demon country with the tears of the flower god.
Why similar: Sexual Content 44.8%, Nudity 15.5%, Hentai 12.8%, Visual Novel 8.5%, Anime 8.1%
- #42 Bloody Painter Dating Sim
72% matchVery Positive90% of 1,652 reviews2024
Dev: DeluCat Productions
Windows
You have unfortunately been captured by a serial killer, and you must increase your chances of survival within seven days. Your choices will determine how he treats you and the outcome of your relationship. What will your final relationship with him be...?
Why similar: Dating Sim 47.5%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Romance 14.9%, Anime 6.3%, Multiple Endings 5.6%
- #43 Dream Date
74% matchVery Positive85% of 2,616 reviews2020
Dev: ADOG
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Date, communicate, enhance feelings and record good memories with girls!
Why similar: Sexual Content 34.5%, Dating Sim 15.9%, Nudity 12.4%, Hentai 10.9%, Visual Novel 7.5%
- #44 Vampires' Melody
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,701 reviews2020
Dev: AsicxArt
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 35.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
3 centuries have passed after sleeping for one night!? On a rainy night filled with thunderstorms, a young chef Raylan encountered a mysterious girl who resembled Sleeping Beauty in a huge tree hole, but everything suddenly went black before he could find out what happened...
Why similar: Dating Sim 34.5%, Visual Novel 23%, Anime 13.1%, Romance 12.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
- #45 Duel to The Holes
71% matchVery Positive81% of 134 reviews2025
Dev: GoldenmasterPub: Big Holes games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Welcome to The Hole, where the only thing bigger than the trouble is... well, let's just say the locals have a few extra tricks up their sleeves - and their pants.
Why similar: Dating Sim 26.9%, Sexual Content 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Romance 11.6%, Anime 8.8%
- #46 Chasing Tails ~A Promise in the Snow~
71% matchVery Positive92% of 4,568 reviews2021
Dev: the last evil wizardPub: Nupu Neko Dev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 38.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Trying to get away from trouble, June moves to a small town... to find even more trouble! A yuri comedy/horror visual novel, featuring a haunted house, fox-girls, and GxG love ❤︎.
Why similar: Sexual Content 23.6%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Romance 13.4%, Anime 9.8%, Hentai 8.8%
- #47 From Madness with Love
70% matchVery Positive91% of 501 reviews2023
Dev: JamsanpoidPub: VampireK.K.
Windows
This is a dating sim with guys you will never be on the same page with! For some reason, you just can't communicate with the guy you like... An unusual yet extraordinary experience with a cute pixel art style, fully voiced in Japanese.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.7%, Romance 19%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Comedy 9.1%, Psychological Horror 8.4%
- #48 ATRI -My Dear Moments-
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 22,666 reviews2020
Dev: FrontwingPub: ANIPLEX.EXE
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 107.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
"As the world sank, I found you." In the near future, a sudden and unexplained sea rise has left much of human civilization underwater. In a little town slowly being enveloped by the ocean, an unforgettable summer is about to begin for a boy and a mysterious robot girl...
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.4%, Dating Sim 21.2%, Romance 17.3%, Anime 11.1%, Emotional 7.7%
- #49 花妖物语/Flower girl
70% matchVery Positive83% of 2,647 reviews2021
Dev: 9Garden
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 39.5 hrs≥1hr: 34%
" Flower Girl " is a "Sexy Flower Elf+ Flower Match-3 game + GALGAME" combination of casual games. You will play a mission as a "Royal Spirit Master". In order to save your lover, you will go to the legendary land of flower elf, and encounter all kinds of flower elf on the way......
Why similar: Sexual Content 41.5%, Nudity 13.9%, Hentai 13%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Anime 8.6%
- #50 Action Taimanin
70% matchVery Positive83% of 19,288 reviews2020
Dev: LiLithPub: Infini-Brain inc.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 58.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
An intense, gorgeous hack-and-slash action RPG from the Taimanin fame!
Why similar: Sexual Content 56.9%, Nudity 16.6%, Hentai 15.4%, Anime 10.2%, Visual Novel 0.6%
- #51 Kagura Survivors: Endless Night
69% matchVery Positive80% of 2,760 reviews2023
Dev: Big Bang StudioPub: Kagura Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Something is wrong in the Kaguraverse. An anomaly is creating tears in space-time and causing parallel worlds to converge! It falls upon Kagura-chan, the vessel of the Goddess's will, to get to the bottom of this crisis and return order to the various universes.
Why similar: Sexual Content 57.6%, Anime 17%, Hentai 12.7%, Nudity 11.1%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #52 Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy: Prologue
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,376 reviews2021
Dev: GAMEPULSE 游戏脉冲
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy Prologue is a fanmade indie game developed by GAMEPULSE.To save the Princess of Misty Lake "Daiyousei", from the evil who took her captive. You must play as the brave Hero of Ice Fairy "Cirno" and face "Remilia Scarlet" of the Kouma Castle
Why similar: Anime 46.4%, Story Rich 23.1%, Comedy 16.4%, 2D 11.8%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #53 Getting Inside: Hentai Story
66% matchVery Positive88% of 311 reviews2025
Dev: 4ny StudioPub: Horny Capybara Studio
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
🔥 Getting Inside is a visual novel where devilishly seductive beauties aren’t shy about crawling into your zipper. Is it nothing more than a lucky coincidence, though? Find out exactly what demonic forces have fallen on your head and use them wisely!
Why similar: Dating Sim 22.3%, Sexual Content 17.2%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Romance 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
- #54 Moe Era
68% matchVery Positive88% of 4,830 reviews2020
Dev: Comfy Company
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to Moe Era, the era of cute things! It has everything but a hero to help four adorable girls. You're the one they're waiting for!
Why similar: Dating Sim 23.1%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Sexual Content 15.1%, Anime 11.9%, Romance 9.5%
- #55 ERROR143
66% matchVery Positive92% of 4,892 reviews2022
Dev: Jenny Vi Pham
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%
A bickering and bantering rivals-to-lovers visual novel where you fall in love after first hack.
Why similar: Dating Sim 33%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Romance 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%, Anime 6.4%
- #56 Muse Dash
66% matchVery Positive91% of 120,809 reviews2019
Dev: peroperoPub: hasuhasu
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 34.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Paradise of parkour & rhythm game ★★★ — Muse Dash!!
Why similar: Anime 38.4%, Sexual Content 34.8%, Hentai 8%, Casual 4.2%, 2D 3.7%
- #57 Love Sucks: Night Two
65% matchVery Positive99% of 338 reviews2024
Dev: Art Witch StudiosPub: Critical Bliss
Windows · Mac · Linux
This is Love Sucks:Night Two, the second part in your mission to get laid and not die doing it. When sexy monsters are out to kill you for their own mysterious goals, it's date or die! You've survived the first night, but can you survive your second?
Why similar: Dating Sim 26.8%, Romance 17.5%, Sexual Content 16.8%, Visual Novel 15%, Nudity 6.6%
- #58 ヘブンバーンズレッド
68% matchMixed61% of 6,084 reviews2022
Dev: WRIGHT FLYER STUDIOS
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 164.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Key 麻枝 准が描く、最後の希望を託された少女たちの物語『ヘブンバーンズレッド （ヘブバン）』 フィールドを駆け回り、かけがえのない日常を体験しながら、命を賭した戦いに挑むドラマチックRPG！
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.2%, Emotional 21%, Anime 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Comedy 10%
- #59 BAD END THEATER
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,656 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.6%, Multiple Endings 19.2%, Romance 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Story Rich 10.8%
