Games Like I Just Want to be Single!! Season One

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+ 22.3%, Dating Sim 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Romance 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly deep level of choice that allows players to prioritize platonic friendship over romance throughout the protagonist's entire life.

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 28%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Anime 20.5%, Romance 12.7%, Story Rich 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the definitive subversion of the visual novel genre, using the dating sim framework to deliver a unique and unexpected narrative experience.

Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.5%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Anime 10.4%, Choices Matter 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the art of listening and building friendships through conversation, mirroring the social-centric gameplay of your seed title.

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+ 20.7%, Dating Sim 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Romance 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This dating sim places a heavy emphasis on friendship and community, allowing you to build meaningful relationships that aren't strictly romantic.

VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.9%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Anime 11.2%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: While not a traditional dating sim, it excels at character-driven storytelling where your primary role is to listen and build bonds with a diverse cast.

Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is up.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy adventure that deals with high school life, LGBTQ+ themes, and the complexities of growing up in a changing world.

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+ 17.6%, Dating Sim 16%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Romance 8.6%, Anime 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the chaotic social life of college students living together, focusing on the balance between friendship and romance.

A comfy yuri VN about the foxgirl Miho and her quest to find the person who's most important to her. This emotional visual novel features two different heroines to choose from, and a story that will make you both laugh and cry!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.3%, Dating Sim 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Romance 8.8%, Multiple Endings 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A heartwarming visual novel that centers on LGBTQ+ themes and the importance of personal growth and connection.

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+ 32.3%, Dating Sim 22.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Romance 12.6%, Adventure 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, LGBTQ-friendly adventure that focuses on the social challenges of middle school and the importance of finding your group.

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 34.9%, LGBTQ+ 24.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Comedy 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A hilarious, satirical take on the dating sim genre that rewards chaotic choices and subverts typical romantic expectations.

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: LGBTQ+ 25.1%, Dating Sim 20.5%, Romance 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%, Narrative 7.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: A parody-heavy dating sim that allows you to date inanimate objects, perfectly matching the 'anti-dating' humor of your seed game.

An otome dating sim about a humorously jerky young lady and her mission to woo one of multiple uniquely, but equally, obnoxious guys.

Why similar: Dating Sim 28.7%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Romance 13.7%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Anime 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A satirical dating sim that leans into the 'anti-dating' vibe by featuring characters who are intentionally difficult to deal with.

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: LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Dating Sim 16%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Romance 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that balances romance with strong character-driven drama and LGBTQ+ representation.

Will you lead your marching band to victory as drum major? Explore band camp and attend rehearsal alongside an unforgettable cast of characters, where every choice matters. Find love or face tragedy in 7 routes with 35+ different endings in this colorful, musically-rich otome visual novel.

Why similar: Dating Sim 17.6%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Romance 9.6%, Text-Based 8.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title features complex character choices and multiple endings, focusing on the social dynamics of a high school band camp.

A Wild Catgirl Appears is a short romance visual novel featuring multiple routes, different girls to date and of course, catgirls! You follow the story of Ami, a loner at high school, as she joins the school's coding club and sets about making her first video game.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.6%, Dating Sim 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Visual Novel 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-humorous visual novel that plays with the expectations of the genre while maintaining a lighthearted, LGBTQ-inclusive tone.

Congratulations! You’ve been accepted as the only human student at the prestigious St. PigeoNation’s Institute, a school for talented birds! Roam the halls and find love in between classes as a sophomore student at the world’s greatest pigeon high school.

Why similar: Dating Sim 26.1%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Anime 14.2%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Romance 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This absurdist visual novel uses the dating sim format to tell a surprisingly deep and dark story that mocks the tropes of the genre.

"Hey, do you know the meaning of the four-leaf clover?" Set at "Shonan Saika Academy," a prestigious school in Shonan, Kanagawa Prefecture, this is a youthful story of girls wavering between friendship and love.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25%, Dating Sim 17%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Female Protagonist 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a blend of adventure and dating-sim elements with a focus on character-driven narrative choices.

Join Noah in his first year of university as he decides to overcome his heartache, pursuing either a tomboy classmate, gorgeous doctor, or junior-year goth!

Why similar: Dating Sim 15%, Romance 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Anime 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic visual novel that focuses on the tension and development of relationships within a competitive environment.

Girl protag heartwarming slice of life with bittersweet twists!

Why similar: Visual Novel 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 13.3%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Dating Sim 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich visual novel that emphasizes the emotional weight of choices and character development.

A light admonishment from Mom sparks the realization that these twin sisters care for each other in more than a familial sense. In this dramatic & romantic yuri Visual Novel, it's up to you to navigate the forbidden tension between the sisters so their love can flourish without growing one-sided.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Dating Sim 10.5%, Anime 9.9%, Female Protagonist 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-heavy visual novel that focuses on navigating complex social secrets and personal relationships.

Yuri Dating Agency - a speed dating simulator for WLW. You're a girl who likes girls, walking into this Yuri dating agency to find yourself a date. Here, you will be able to get to know lots of girls. Will you be able to win their hearts?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Dating Sim 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines dark humor with visual novel mechanics to explore unique, non-traditional relationship dynamics.

A story about Ambiguous Affection, Appetite, and Tantalizing Desires.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.5%, Dating Sim 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A quirky and unique visual novel that explores unconventional relationships through a distinct narrative lens.

A visual novel about cute melancholic girls!

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.1%, Anime 15.3%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%

Why You'll Like It: A casual visual novel that focuses on personal growth and navigating life's challenges through dialogue.

In a world where men and women are kept at arm's length by the law... With three beautiful girls breaking barriers to win your affections, who'll be flying into your arms in the end?

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Romance 17.5%, Comedy 11.7%, Choices Matter 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cute, interactive fiction title that emphasizes the narrative journey over strict dating mechanics.

A unique dating sim adventure that gives you total freedom to romance five handsome guys in an open-world metropolis.

Why similar: Dating Sim 36.8%, Romance 21.1%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Female Protagonist 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world life-sim that allows for a more relaxed approach to socializing and building connections.

alternatively: caring romantic partner or delicious confectionery dessert?

Why similar: Dating Sim 35.7%, Visual Novel 29.5%, Romance 12%, Story Rich 8.9%, Funny 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, humorous visual novel that directly addresses the absurdity of dating sims with a lighthearted, choice-based approach.

Anime City is a Japanese high school simulator, focused on anime culture and aesthetics. Study, join school clubs, and make friends.

Why similar: Dating Sim 23.8%, Anime 18.1%, Romance 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choices Matter 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: An adventure-focused visual novel where your choices significantly impact the social outcome of your character's life.

Curtain Call: the latest game from the Noobs Want to Live devs. A strategic roguelite combining auto-battling and deck-building mechanics—recruit performers, take to the stage, and prepare for battle! Win glory and the rapturous applause of the audience. Take that curtain call!

Why similar: Funny 100%

Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction title that focuses on the drama and social interactions of a theater-themed setting.

Love Curse is a GL visual novel. You’ve fallen under a curse, and the only way to break it is to find your soulmate! The clock is ticking… Will you find true love? And what secrets will you uncover along the way?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.7%, Dating Sim 17.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Romance 7.1%

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+ 18%, Dating Sim 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Romance 9.2%, Anime 9%

In this yuri visual novel featuring an all-star cast, you follow one main love triangle as they navigate their budding romance and the pursuit of their goals, unlocking new, heartwarming events to view from the perspectives of each cute girl in six other precious couples as well.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Dating Sim 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Romance 8.9%, Anime 8.8%

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: Dating Sim 22%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Romance 14.9%, Anime 11.2%, Funny 9.5%

select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.8%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%

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+ 22.7%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%, Female Protagonist 6.9%

This romantic visual novel has you joining a financially struggling all-girls' private school as one student's example case for gender integration. The two of you try to prove that going co-ed could save the school, while the story explores themes of traditions, change, family, and relationships.

Why similar: Dating Sim 12.6%, Romance 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Anime 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%

After hearing about a number of student couples forming at her school, Himeka Uchida decides to look for a girlfriend of her own. As she gets wrapped up in the daily lives of her friends and classmates at Solana Academy, will she find the romance she seeks?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.1%, Romance 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Anime 10.8%, Female Protagonist 9%

Bewitching Sinners is a dark comedy dating sim where your choices will either leave you with your true love or ruin a whole world and potentially killing millions of people within it, no pressure! Explore a fantasy world full of witches, hot priests, and the occasional dance with death.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Dating Sim 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Romance 8.6%

"Otaku's Adventure" is a different kind of AVG.The story tells of an Otaku who has been single for many years and thirst for love. While he inadvertently embarks on a fantastic journey, he eventually wins girls' love. The game combines storytelling with alternative TAKAGISM, and mini-games.

Why similar: Dating Sim 20.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Funny 10.6%, Anime 8.7%

A games club’s without members… or games?! Who is this crazy robot girl? Why am I being harassed by this cute bully? Life may not have a controller, but it certainly feels like a big game!

Why similar: Dating Sim 17.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Text-Based 11.9%, Anime 10.9%, Romance 10.9%

Loser Named Hana is a friendship-building visual novel. You respond to an ad advertising $100 a week to be the lonely college student, Hana, friend.

Why similar: Dating Sim 25%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Anime 9.5%

Embark with Heileen in a unforgettable voyage to the New World! Met with old friends, and make new ones. Find romance, avoid dangers and life your life to the fullest!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Dating Sim 11.4%, Romance 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%

You're a REAL GAMER. But are you tough enough to turn down a sexy girl? Dating sims are full of lies, these girls will do anything to keep your date from falling through!

Why similar: Dating Sim 21.6%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Romance 13.8%, Anime 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12%

"Curtain Call" is a visual novel about (literally) breaking through social masks by forming meaningful connections with incredibly deep personalities. Whether you’re looking to make new friends or something more, there’s a whole cast of characters just dying to meet you!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Dating Sim 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Text-Based 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.3%

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 26.3%, LGBTQ+ 21.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Romance 10%, Text-Based 4.8%

A silly dating sim where your flavor decides your fate. Customize your profile, flirt with six lovably unique characters, and try to survive your first date!

Why similar: Minigames 32.8% ★, Dating Sim 24.8%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Romance 8.2%

College Craze is a female gaze adult dating and life simulation game. Find endless sexy possibilities for your own college experience at Sugardale U with your custom female MC, the branching story structure, and +25 love interests. No fade-to-black scenes here, so enroll today!

Why similar: Dating Sim 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Romance 13.1%, Female Protagonist 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%

I Wani Hug that Gator! Is a choice-driven narrative about teenagers struggling to find their way. Help Inco, loser highschooler extraordinaire, navigate his budding friendships (and romance!) while surviving being the only human in a dinosaur-filled school.

Why similar: Dating Sim 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Romance 10.6%

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%, Dating Sim 17.6%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Romance 9.5%, Female Protagonist 7.6%

You’ve become the manager of a brand-new idol group—only to find yourself drowning in romance flags from the start! Love with idols is strictly forbidden. Can you survive this chaotic, no-love-allowed romcom—the first of its kind in the otome world!?

Why similar: Dating Sim 34%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Text-Based 15.2%, Comedy 7.9%

Embrace or resist the demonic influence around you. Romance your companions in this RPG with an emphasis on conversation choices and character interactions.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.4%, Dating Sim 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Romance 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.2%

C-14 Dating is an otome dating sim that combines archaeology, friendships and love.

Why similar: Minigames 20.7% ★, Dating Sim 16.4%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Anime 7.9%

Join the Crafting Club, where the glue is strong and the feelings stronger! Craft chaos, flirt fearlessly, and make some very bad romantic decisions! Find your project partner in this elimination-based Dating Sim!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.4%, Dating Sim 17.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Romance 9.8%

FreshWomen is a choice-driven adult Visual Novel focusing on the best parts of life. Become a freshman attending Minerva Bay College, romance girls and solve a mysterious incident. Your journey will be filled with comedy, drama, and lots of sex.

Why similar: Visual Novel 24.1%, Dating Sim 21.2%, Romance 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%

You're invited to the elite academy for magical girls! Will you take the opportunity to make new friends? Learn magic? Or... Will you try to date a cute magical girl?

Why similar: Dating Sim 25.5%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Anime 19.3%, Romance 12.1%, Female Protagonist 5.8%

Graveyard Girls is a halloween-themed yuri visual novel about complicated grief and overcoming hardships. Collect Elle’s “scribbles” to learn about her struggles, befriend a mysterious girl, and have a conversation about death.

Why similar: Dating Sim 15.7%, LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Text-Based 9.5%

Play as Marcel and determine whether or not he has the skills to become Lord Sandor's heir and whether or not he forms a romantic attachment to one of four potential love interests: an ex-gladiator turned gardener, a perfectionist butler, the local doctor, or a mischievous elven Lord.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.1%, Dating Sim 15.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Romance 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%

An Adult Visual Novel about a young lesbian, her horny roommates and an overcomplicated corporate conspiracy.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.3%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Romance 8.5%

Date your weapons! Romance swords, daggers, and polearms to level them up in this “shack-and-slash” dungeon crawling adventure.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25%, Dating Sim 20.7%, Romance 11.9%, Comedy 11.9%, Choices Matter 9%

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 33.1%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Romance 15.6%, Anime 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.3%