- #1 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 30,737 reviews2023
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Dating Sim 13.3%, Dark Humor 12.2%, Romance 10.5%
- #2 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 30,488 reviews2021
Dev: Team SalvatoPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 79.9 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: Psychological Horror 20.9%, Dating Sim 20.1%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Romance 11%, Conversation 6.8%
- #3 PockeDate! - Pocket Dating Simulator
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,324 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 26.2%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Romance 13.8%, Horror 10%
- #4 Sucker for Love: First Date
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,933 reviews2022
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 19.6%, Romance 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Horror 8.7%
- #5 Doki Doki Literature Club!
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 219,150 reviews2017
Dev: Team Salvato
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 38.2 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: Psychological Horror 26%, Dating Sim 21.5%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Romance 10.8%, Cute 8.9%
- #6 Yuri Dating Agency
94% matchVery Positive89% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Red bean Taiyaki
Windows · Mac
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: Dark Humor 23%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Dating Sim 11.1%, Cute 8.4%
- #7 I Hate My Waifu Streamer
91% matchVery Positive93% of 769 reviews2025
Dev: Nozori Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Get the streamer's attention at any cost before someone else does. Write comments, chat, and make donations to your waifu, but do not dare to hate her!
Why similar: Dating Sim 14.7%, Dark Humor 13.5%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Conversation 12.9%, Romance 11.8%
- #8 Border of her Heart
93% matchMixed67% of 73 reviews2018
Dev: Tuomo LainePub: Tuomo's games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.
Why similar: Dating Sim 17.2%, Dark Humor 15.1%, Conversation 14%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Romance 10.2%
- #9 Find Love or Die Trying
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 12,005 reviews2021
Dev: Sunseeker Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Welcome to the only killer dating show where ending up single means ending up dead! Date or die, it's up to your choices!
Why similar: Dating Sim 33.1%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Romance 18.2%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
- #10 How To Date A Magical Girl!
92% matchVery Positive80% of 469 reviews2019
Dev: Cafe ShibaPub: RIVER CROW STUDIO
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 22.3%, Psychological Horror 21%, Visual Novel 19%, Romance 11.7%, Cute 6.9%
- #11 Psycho地雷InLove : 싸이코지라이 인 러브
90% matchVery Positive96% of 283 reviews2022
Dev: 유진게임즈
Windows
A simulation of an outcast romance!
Why similar: Dating Sim 33.5%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Romance 14.1%, Cute 13.1%, Simulation 5.6%
- #12 GemCrusty
89% matchVery Positive89% of 134 reviews2023
Dev: RedSensationGames
Windows
Dig, Discover, Date! Gemcrusty is a casual mining game, where precious gemstones are actually gems in human form.
Why similar: Dating Sim 28.6%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Conversation 15.8%, Roguelite 11.8%, Romance 11.6%
- #13 Folie Fatale
88% matchVery Positive86% of 2,482 reviews2024
Dev: Kanmidoko (神海処)Pub: 346lab Localization
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
All capture targets are mentally "Jirai"(landmine)!? Meet these eccentric boys, reveal the truth beneath in this Psycho-love-horror VN!
Why similar: Dating Sim 24.9%, Psychological Horror 22.8%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Choices Matter 8%
- #14 Speed Dating for Ghosts
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 544 reviews2018
Dev: Copychaser Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Branching dialogue! Hard choices! A cemetery's worth of phantoms, wraiths, and poltergeists lookin' for love in all the blight places.
Why similar: Dating Sim 18.5%, Conversation 17.7%, Dark Humor 15.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Romance 9.4%
- #15 BAD END THEATER
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,533 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.3%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Romance 13.7%, Story Rich 10.8%
- #16 Your amazing T-Gotchi!
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 720 reviews2020
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A cute game where you care about a green anime girl!
Why similar: Dating Sim 25.3%, Conversation 16.6%, Horror 13.1%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Visual Novel 8.9%
- #17 Otome Legends
86% matchVery Positive91% of 110 reviews2023
Dev: Jagaimo Studios
Windows · Linux
Play a dating sim inside of a dating sim to become an otome heroine protagonist. Nothing can possible go wrong... right?
Why similar: Dating Sim 25.8%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Horror 11.4%, Cute 10.1%
- #18 Sucker for Love: Date to Die For
84% matchVery Positive95% of 1,247 reviews2024
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 28.7%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Horror 11.2%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Romance 8.2%
- #19 From Madness with Love
84% matchVery Positive91% of 496 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: Dark Humor 23%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Romance 13.9%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #20 SCP: Doki Doki Anomaly
85% matchVery Positive92% of 91 reviews2021
Dev: Flightyfelon Games Inc.
Windows
SCP-8008-1 IS A HORROR DATING SIM WHERE THE BEST YOU CAN HOPE FOR IS SURVIVAL. SMOOCH SCP-173, SCP-682 AND EVEN SCP-096. DO NOT RUN THIS SOFTWARE WITHOUT CLASS-4 AUTHORIZATION.
Why similar: Dating Sim 21.7%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Romance 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Cute 9.3%
- #21 Bloody Painter Dating Sim
82% matchVery Positive90% of 1,598 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 42%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Romance 13.1%, Horror 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 6.1%
- #22 Midnight Witch
83% matchVery Positive93% of 345 reviews2023
Dev: Crimson Moon Studio
Windows
Your average student life quickly descents into horror as a mysterious witch takes over the college... Can you save the girl you love? Or even make it out alive?
Why similar: Dating Sim 20.1%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Romance 13.2%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
- #23 My succubus Kukula
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,344 reviews2024
Dev: 火鸡头工作室
Windows
Click the cute pixel Succubus Kukula, as she barges into your house—she'll kill you, if you don't sign her pact! ^o^ Save yourself!! Life and death are in your hands, so take care not to anger Kukula.
Why similar: Dating Sim 31.7%, Romance 21.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11%, Interactive Fiction 7.2%
- #24 Killer Chat! - Original Edition
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 913 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 18.1%, Dark Humor 16.4%, Dark Comedy 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #25 Doomsday Paradise
79% matchVery Positive91% of 244 reviews2023
Dev: Lemonade Flashbang
Windows
Can you get a date before the end of the world? Doomsday Paradise is a goofy, multiplayer dating sim about finding love before the apocalypse. With over 130 different endings and 12 different singles to woo- no two games will ever be the same.
Why similar: Dark Humor 22.3%, Dating Sim 21.6%, Conversation 12.8%, Romance 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.3%
- #26 Superstorm Melon Date
81% matchVery Positive91% of 74 reviews2021
Dev: A. Hagen
Windows · Mac
It's date night in the dystopian future. You're going out with Mel, a half-melon person with psychic powers. They seem a little weird, but at least they're cute. Choose where to go, what to do, and what to say in this highly interactive, romance visual novel.
Why similar: Conversation 20%, Dating Sim 18%, Romance 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #27 SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim
77% matchVery Positive88% of 678 reviews2025
Dev: SAFE HAVN STUDIOPub: HYPER REAL
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
You opened your eyes to find a giant girl looking down at you. Experience the fate of Saeko and the little people in this cruel yet captivating story with avant-garde art.
Why similar: Dating Sim 20.4%, Psychological Horror 18%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Romance 12.6%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #28 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
76% matchVery Positive95% of 53,234 reviews2022
Dev: WSS playground
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Psychological Horror 30.1%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Dark Humor 14.9%, Cute 10.3%, Conversation 9%
- #29 Tri City Monsters
77% matchVery Positive97% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Studio Peaches
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tri City Monsters is a supernatural, monsterlovin' visual novel where you can romance and/or de-pants 3 demonic love interests. Navigate a dangerous urban jungle with their help and maybe you'll get a taste of what it means to be a monster.
Why similar: Dating Sim 16.7%, Dark Humor 15.9%, Romance 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
- #30 Our Lovely Escape
80% matchMixed66% of 79 reviews2019
Dev: Reine Works
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your life is a peaceful one. Each day, you work alongside your (otherwise?) all-female workforce in the pursuit of creating otome games. Will you complete your life with a cute girlfriend? Will you be doomed to a life of normalcy? Or...? Find out in this (mostly...?) normal visual novel!
Why similar: Dating Sim 21.2%, Romance 15.5%, Psychological Horror 15%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Cute 8.5%
- #31 Sucker for Love: Prelude
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 515 reviews2021
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Preform a series of scary rituals to win over an eldritch cutie and win a smooch!
Why similar: Dating Sim 50.8%, Horror 15.9%, Cute 14%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Casual 3.4%
- #32 Charming Hearts
75% matchVery Positive88% of 572 reviews2024
Dev: 坤舆科技
Windows
"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 21.5%, Conversation 18.2%, Romance 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
- #33 Purrfect Date - Visual Novel/Dating Simulator
79% matchMixed60% of 470 reviews2017
Dev: Bae TeamPub: Bossa Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 38%
As Cat Island’s newest arrival, it’s not long before you realise something’s seriously amiss, or should we say… amorous! A blend of mystery, intrigue and wickedly black humour, will you discover your Purrfect Date before it’s too late? Remember, curiosity killed the cat...
Why similar: Dating Sim 33.2%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Romance 12%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
- #34 Doodle Date
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 338 reviews2018
Dev: Nicholas Lives
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Romance, seduce, and even marry your own drawings! Forget about finding true love; In Doodle Date, you create it!
Why similar: Dating Sim 17.4%, Dark Humor 15%, Dark Comedy 15%, Romance 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.1%
- #35 Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,847 reviews2025
Dev: Xso
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Dating Sim 36.5%, Visual Novel 25.2%, Romance 16.8%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
- #36 Finding Cinderella
75% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: 2humanstudiowo
Windows
A lighthearted game about love and murder.
Why similar: Dating Sim 17.7%, Conversation 16.3%, Dark Comedy 14%, Romance 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%
- #37 Deadly Heart Gambit
73% matchVery Positive93% of 129 reviews2025
Dev: Blink Hydrate ブリンク
Windows
You only have 3 months left to live. Gamble for extra time in Alice-sama’s life-or-death game. Be careful — she wants to steal your heart. 🔪🔪🔪💜
Why similar: Conversation 23.7%, Visual Novel 20%, Romance 17.3%, Cute 12.4%, Dating Sim 11.6%
- #38 Emily is Away <3
74% matchVery Positive91% of 6,586 reviews2021
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Dating Sim 21.4%, Conversation 14.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Romance 8.4%
- #39 Volcano Princess
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 47,364 reviews2023
Dev: 养蛋人 Egg Hatcher
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Dating Sim 30.4%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Multiple Endings 16.8%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Cute 9.6%
- #40 5omeday
72% matchVery Positive91% of 205 reviews2026
Dev: Indigo IngotsPub: Waku Waku Games
Windows
You have been assigned to guard a dragon girl set to be executed at the end of 5 days and have the ability to kill her instantly at any time with the push of a button in this multi-ending visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Conversation 17.8%, Cute 11.5%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
- #41 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
71% matchVery Positive93% of 19,673 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 15.7 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 24.3%, Psychological Horror 23.6%, Dating Sim 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Cute 9.7%
- #42 Mushroom Musume
72% matchVery Positive97% of 212 reviews2025
Dev: Mortally Moonstruck Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Dark Humor 26.5%, Romance 14.1%, Cute 13.7%, Roguelite 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #43 The Test: Reality Check
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 632 reviews2025
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.
Why similar: Dark Humor 18.1%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Roguelite 8.8%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
- #44 Bewitching Sinners
70% matchVery Positive96% of 487 reviews2024
Dev: Miss Xero
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Dating Sim 24.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Romance 14.4%, Dark Humor 13.3%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
- #45 Hotel Tutwin
74% matchVery Positive80% of 61 reviews2019
Dev: Roxiano Creations
Windows · Mac
Hotel Tutwin is a visual novel designed for horror / romance lovers, but can also be quirky and cute. Each story line is quick and to-the-point, but there are many to discover. Prepare for inevitable deaths.
Why similar: Dark Humor 21.7%, Romance 16.1%, Dating Sim 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #46 My Therapy
70% matchVery Positive96% of 332 reviews2022
Dev: Suvorov Mikhail
Windows · Linux
A visual novel about cute melancholic girls!
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.2%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Romance 10.8%, Choices Matter 8%
- #47 Dangerous Fellows: Otome Game
73% matchMixed44% of 140 reviews2023
Dev: Storytaco
Windows
Otome dating sim - make your choices and survive this thriller romance game!
Why similar: Dating Sim 26.3%, Conversation 18.7%, Visual Novel 17%, Romance 16.7%, Choices Matter 6.3%
- #48 Love Alone Death
69% matchVery Positive99% of 402 reviews2023
Dev: vivid selfish
Windows · Mac
Build relationship with the characters. Your choices might earn you favor from one character, but disdain from another. Use items to solve problems. Confront various endings. Choose one person and face the end with them.
Why similar: Dating Sim 24.1%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Romance 17%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #49 Lilith Wants to Buy Your Soul
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 783 reviews2023
Dev: Pyon Pyon Platinum
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take a personality test with a definitely-not-clingy demon girl.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.6%, Psychological Horror 22.3%, Cute 14.1%, Horror 12%, Interactive Fiction 10%
- #50 Love, Internet, and Murder Magic
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 242 reviews2025
Dev: Renka
Windows
Love, Internet, and Murder Magic is a Roguelike game. You will role-play an agent of a streamer who died because of a murder. You are trying to "bring her back" through AI technology on the Internet, making her the unique creation of the Internet.
Why similar: Dark Humor 25.7%, Psychological Horror 19.9%, Roguelite 12%, Roguelike 11%, Visual Novel 10%
- #51 Sato Killing Time Chat.exe
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 127 reviews2026
Dev: DankHearts
Windows
It was supposed to be just a harmless chat to kill time with a stranger named Mina. But from the other side of the browser, the boundary between your reality and the internet is slowly being eroded. This is a desktop-invasion chat horror.
Why similar: Romance 26.6%, Conversation 21.7%, Horror 14.4%, Cute 10.3%, Story Rich 8.7%
- #52 A Date with Death
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,259 reviews2023
Dev: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 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 43.9%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Romance 18.6%, Multiple Endings 5.4%, Choices Matter 5.1%
- #53 Tsunagari Chess School
69% matchMixed68% of 149 reviews2024
Dev: Mintkuru
Windows
Welcome to the chess school! Connect with the brilliant girls of Sakuragi town and engage them in chess matches. How will you master the moves that come your way?
Why similar: Dating Sim 27.7%, Psychological Horror 22.6%, Conversation 19.2%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Story Rich 4.8%
- #54 Hydrangea
68% matchVery Positive93% of 123 reviews2024
Dev: Meiri Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Romance 15.2%, Psychological Horror 14%, Cute 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
- #55 My Desktop Sister
67% matchVery Positive85% of 97 reviews2025
Dev: Sibling InteractivePub: Okasan's Recipe
Windows
My Desktop Sister is a computer desktop companion. Experience the love and kindness from My Desktop Sister.
Why similar: Dating Sim 21.6%, Conversation 18.4%, Romance 13.8%, Simulation 11.3%, Horror 9.6%
- #56 LoveChoice
66% matchVery Positive92% of 35,756 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 27.8%, Romance 21.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #57 Love Love School Days
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,064 reviews2023
Dev: OTL GAME
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The protagonist is trapped in the world of a love game. Can you return to the real world again...? Try to escape while running away from the gal game heroine A love simulation-style survival horror game!
Why similar: Dating Sim 28.3%, Romance 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Cute 12.1%, Horror 11.5%
- #58 AI2U: With You 'Til The End
65% matchVery Positive90% of 1,539 reviews2025
Dev: AlterStaff Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
You wake up in a cute girl's home who's eager to keep you by her side! Engage with thematic stories, puzzles, and unique AI NPCs who'll go to any lengths to protect you—even when it means contradicting themselves. Bask in meet-cutes or brace for chaos if you try to escape.
Why similar: Conversation 20.7%, Dating Sim 19.7%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Romance 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.9%
- #59 Kamikaze Lassplanes
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 75 reviews2024
Dev: Inky DreamsPub: Crunching Koalas
Windows
Fly and fall for powerful Lassplanes! Discover a hand-crafted anime VN with story-driven arcade shoot-'em-up gameplay. Take part in a romantic story with drama and comedic elements set in a steampunk Kingdom filled with magic and torn by a brutal war. Decide the fate of your country and heart.
Why similar: Dating Sim 19.6%, Conversation 19%, Romance 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Cute 8.2%