Games Like Growing Up

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 18.3%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%, Dating Sim 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like Growing Up, this game features a deep life-sim loop where your childhood choices and stat management directly dictate your future and the fate of your colony.

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 30.2%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Dating Sim 11.5%, Visual Novel 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This raising simulator shares the core loop of balancing education, social activities, and stat growth to shape your daughter's personality and career path.

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+ 24.9%, Dating Sim 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at capturing the emotional journey of growing up alongside a romantic interest, offering deep customization and branching narrative paths.

Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.

Why similar: Choices Matter 14.4%, Emotional 13.8%, Dating Sim 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the nostalgic, emotional essence of teenage social life and the impact of digital interactions on personal growth.

Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Life Sim 10.2%, RPG 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A choose-your-own-adventure game that mirrors the life-sim experience by forcing you to make moral choices that define your character's growth within monster society.

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: Visual Novel 29.6%, Dating Sim 29.3%, RPG 12%, LGBTQ+ 8.6%, Choices Matter 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines school-life simulation with stat-based RPG mechanics, where your choices in class and social life determine your magical aptitude and relationships.

select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.1%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the consequences of your choices, offering a narrative-rich experience where you must explore multiple endings to understand the full story.

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: Visual Novel 31.4%, Simulation 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, RPG 9%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging life-sim that requires careful stat management and decision-making to ensure your character survives to adulthood and takes the throne.

Live the day-to-day of a magic school student! Whimel Academy is a cozy magic school simulation game. Manage your time and balance between studying magic, part-time jobs, and befriending (or romance) classmates in this wholesome and enchanting world!

Why similar: Life Sim 22%, Dating Sim 12.7%, LGBTQ+ 11.4%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A life-sim set in a magical school that emphasizes time management and building relationships, mirroring the school-life aspect of Growing Up.

Venture into the woods as you play Little Goody Two Shoes, a phantasmagorical horror narrative adventure where all your decisions matter!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23%, Dating Sim 17.9%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, RPG 10%

Why You'll Like It: It blends narrative-heavy adventure with life-sim elements, where your daily choices and social interactions significantly impact the story's outcome.

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 21.8%, Multiple Endings 18.7%, Life Sim 18.2%, Management 11.6%, Choices Matter 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: As a foundational title in the raising-sim genre, it offers the same satisfaction of guiding a character from childhood to adulthood through daily scheduling and events.

Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.8%, Emotional 16%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A heartfelt visual novel trilogy that explores the nuances of friendship and personal growth through multiple perspectives.

Take fate into your own hands in Lakeburg Legacies, a social-based village management sim where love is your favourite resource. Play matchmaker to create the most effective, and most loved up, couples and help your kingdom thrive. How long will it take you to crown a sovereign?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.6%, Management 17.4%, Dating Sim 17.4%, Life Sim 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management of a village and its inhabitants' relationships, capturing the life-sim aspect of finding partners and building a legacy.

Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…

Why similar: Emotional 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an emotional, narrative-driven experience centered on social connection and personal growth, much like the interpersonal focus of Growing Up.

Yearning: A Gay Story (YAGS) is a realistic coming-out-focused character-driven slice-of-life visual novel where you play as a gay man starting his freshman year of college at a generic university somewhere in the midwestern United States.

Why similar: America 16.2% ★, Life Sim 14.7%, LGBTQ+ 13.4%, Dating Sim 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the social and romantic aspects of the college experience, emphasizing the importance of dialogue choices.

In LongStory you can be and date who you choose. Play as the gender of your choice and date the cutie you like best! LongStory is is based on real stories - things that have happened, if not to us, to people we know and love. We hope it is funny, sad, perplexing and wonderful… Just like life.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30%, Dating Sim 19.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Simulation 10.1%, RPG 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A school-based life-sim that focuses on the trials of adolescence, including navigating social circles and identity.

Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.

Why similar: Choices Matter 20.1%, Dating Sim 19.7%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Simulation 12.2%, Story Rich 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sequel that continues the exploration of teenage social dynamics and the lasting impact of past choices on future relationships.

Can you save magic before the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve? Life After Magic is a queer, retro visual novel that follows jaded ex-magical girls as they reconnect, deal with young adulthood, and face off against one last threat before Y2K hits.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.6%, Dating Sim 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Story Rich 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This visual novel explores the complexities of post-school life and personal identity, resonating with the themes of Growing Up.

《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 18.9%, Emotional 13.7%, Dating Sim 11.5%, Management 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive-sim that focuses on the social and emotional complexities of high school life and the impact of your interactions.

You're just a simple inhabitant of the endless Gigastructure. The best you'll get is seven shifts at a machine and a bowl of feed concentrate, and that for good service to the party.... Is that it? Or do you have a choice?

Why similar: Life Sim 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Visual Novel 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-oriented life-sim where every choice you make has immediate consequences on your character's longevity and success.

Start from humble beginnings and take charge of the daily life of a wannabe influencer. Balance your day between creating trend-based content, completing tasks to earn money, and building trust with your neighbors to uncover their stories. Are you ready to embark on your road to fame?

Why similar: Life Sim 39%, LGBTQ+ 19%, Management 17.2%, Simulation 10.7%, Cute 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A career-focused life-sim that requires balancing your daily schedule, social life, and professional growth.

Urban Tale is a realistic, vibrant and unique RPG that will allow you to fulfil your dreams, and pursue your most wanted goals in life. You start from scratch, having nothing in the city where you can meet a lot of people, that can help you throughout your adventure. Your goal is to succeed in life.

Why similar: Life Sim 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, 1990's 12.2%, Management 10.4%, Simulation 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a life-sim experience where you must navigate city life, find work, and manage your character's needs.

Marchen fantasy raising simulation 『Lullaby Days』 is a game where the goal is to grow a duckling girl into a hero. Your duckling girl will grow through education, part-time work, exploration, and more. Create 70 endings in the Kingdom of Oberebach with around 90 sub-characters.

Why similar: Life Sim 23%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Dating Sim 8.5%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Story Rich 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that focuses on the daily life and personal development of its protagonist through multiple narrative endings.

Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance is a dating sim about a teen girl who moves to a small secret community of cryptids. Romance a magical Fairy, a sensitive Sasquatch and a bold Velociraptor. A satirical 90's teen drama about trying to find love in your last year of high school.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Dating Sim 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, 1990's 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique take on the high school dating sim that emphasizes the social pressures and narrative choices of teenage life.

「Princess Maker: Children of Revelation」is a raising simulation game that returns after 18 years as part of the "Princess Maker" package series, where you raise a young girl into adulthood. Become a parent in the game and help fulfill your daughter's dreams!

Why similar: Life Sim 38.5%, Simulation 17.2%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A modern entry in the raising-sim genre that allows you to guide a character's development through various life stages.

You move to a new city to live with your "former" stepfather. Work, make friends, and explore the thrilling world of romance in this captivating game. Are you ready for the excitement? Let the journey begin!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33%, Life Sim 15%, Dating Sim 13.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%, RPG 6.7%

In the game, players will be the first perspective to a male homosexual. Through the game experience a gay's childhood, adolescence, prime and leap year through the whole life stage. During the game, the player can influence the entire life track of the protagonist through different choices made by himself.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 66.5%, RPG 17.3%, Adventure 8.2%, Casual 8%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven life-sim that follows the protagonist from childhood to adulthood, focusing on identity and social choices.

The new edition of a classic Living with Temptation contains all expansions, with redesigned gameplay, refreshed visuals, and a lot of new content. Relationship simulator where you may try to stay faithful to your wife, exploring her wild fantasies or... go wild and date other girls behind her back.

Why similar: America 16.5% ★, Life Sim 15.6%, Dating Sim 10.1%, LGBTQ+ 10%, Emotional 9.6%

You have just entered the society, and since you have not found a satisfactory job for several months, you have to share an apartment with others. Your roommates is three lovely beauties, and then you will have a wonderful journey with three roommates and the people around you

Why similar: Life Sim 22%, Dating Sim 14.8%, RPG 11.6%, Simulation 11.6%, Emotional 10.2%

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: LGBTQ+ 23.7%, Dating Sim 20%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Choices Matter 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A college-life simulator that focuses on balancing academic responsibilities with the social and romantic lives of its characters.

The first step that you never knew you needed to take to get to wherever you're wanting to go...

Why similar: Emotional 16.4%, Life Sim 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 11.5%

You can play as a newcomer, start a new life, and date 12 uncles

Why similar: Life Sim 25%, LGBTQ+ 20.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Emotional 10.8%, RPG 8.5%

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 29.8%, Dating Sim 17.4%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Story Rich 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.4%

《College Diaries》 is a simulation game set against the backdrop of college life. Players take on the role of a college freshman, shaping their college career by choosing different majors, joining various clubs, participating in campus activities.

Why similar: Life Sim 23.5%, Dating Sim 15.1%, Emotional 13.1%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.3%

You have two weeks to save the harvest festival! Tend your garden and collect plants for spells and rituals to help the villagers of Flora. After all, if magic isn't for solving everyday problems, what’s the point of a village witch anyway? A cozy story filled with chaos, friendship, and romance!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Life Sim 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Dating Sim 12.7%, Multiple Endings 9.1%

A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.5%, Management 15.3%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Simulation 8.7%

When your loved one hurts you, what do you do? A classic love story about letting go.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.3%, Emotional 22.9%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

"Pact between us" is a FMV. After the loss parents, you and your younger sister become siblings who only have each other. You must tenderly care for her daily life.What kind of woman will your sister grow into? Every arrangement you implement during her upbringing carries profound weight.

Why similar: Life Sim 22.2%, Dating Sim 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.9%

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: RPG 27.1%, Simulation 26.6%, Life Sim 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Casual 11.7%

The acclaimed gay dating sim. Have a sweet, sexy, or bizarrely comedic adventure with the man of your choice!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 57.6%, Dating Sim 14.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Visual Novel 6.6%, Multiple Endings 4.6%

An adult visual novel about desire, trust and the secrets we try to hide even from ourselves. In South Lake, every choice reveals scars, silent manipulations and paths that bring you closer to or further from who you truly are.

Why similar: Dating Sim 28.9%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Simulation 15.8%, Emotional 8.3%

Raise a mushroom from a spore into a fine young woman, then discover the twists and turns her life may take in this creepy-cute fairytale life simulation game.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.8%, LGBTQ+ 20.1%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11%, RPG 8.4%

These are troubling times, Your Grace. The petitioners’ petty matters exceed our limited resources, to say nothing of the war. A careful balance must be struck. Your throne awaits.

Why similar: Life Sim 18.8%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Management 10.3%

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 38.6%, Emotional 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Simulation 9.8%, Management 8.6%

Your high school years are over, and now it’s time to think about the future. You need to pick a good college, find yourself a girlfriend, and start thinking about a job. That’s when your life changes; you’re diagnosed with a mysterious illness and there’s only one way to cure it.

Why similar: Simulation 24%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Dating Sim 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.8%

A visual novel about figuring out life with the help of an AI. //TODO: today is a pastel colored slice-of-life story that let's you freely choose your pronouns and romantic preferences!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.8%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Dating Sim 16.5%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Cute 8.5%

Wanting Wings is a cute and romantic, yuri visual novel about three girls living together and falling in love over the course of their daily lives. Your choices determine which two will ultimately pair together.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20%, Emotional 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Dating Sim 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.1%

Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. It's 20XX and you've just started a new job at the Funplex game arcade. Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Dating Sim 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%

A card game in a Medieval setting where you make decisions on which not only your life will depend, but also the future of the kingdom!

Why similar: Life Sim 26.7%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Multiple Endings 11%, RPG 7.6%

Welcome to Little London! Little Sim World is a cosy 2D life sim set in the heart of a little city full of charm, dreams, and surprises. Design your perfect home, meet quirky locals, build your routine, and live life at your own pace. A gentle world, a fresh start, and a story only you can write!

Why similar: Life Sim 32.9%, Dating Sim 18.6%, Choices Matter 14%, RPG 8.6%, Simulation 8.5%

A campus simulation game full of tons of surprising interactive gameplay elements along the way.

Why similar: Life Sim 30.4%, Dating Sim 21.3%, RPG 9.8%, Simulation 9.3%, Multiple Endings 9%

Welcome to the heartwarming world of Memories: Millennium Girl! Join your sister's journey through 8 unforgettable years, forming bonds with 25 adorable NPCs. With 50+ unique endings awaiting your choices, create a cute and captivating tale filled with connections, joy, and cherished memories

Why similar: Life Sim 30.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Dating Sim 17.1%, Simulation 9.3%, RPG 8.3%

"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 23.3%, Choices Matter 18.8%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Story Rich 11.1%

We meet many people in our lives. Relationships with them are different and can be changed.

Why similar: Dating Sim 18.8%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%

"Charming Hearts" is a real-life interactive dating game. Players will meet, get to know, and fall in love with different types of beauty. Every choice will lead to a completely different chemical reaction with "her"; every entanglement, the sweet love is entangled and pulled.

Why similar: Dating Sim 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.3%

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 32.1%, Dating Sim 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Story Rich 9.6%, RPG 9.4%