- #1 Gaokao.Love.100Days
97% matchVery Positive90% of 8,191 reviews2015
Dev: 高考恋爱委员会Pub: NVLMaker
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 35.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 40.3%, Romance 19.6%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Cute 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: This is another Chinese romance visual novel built around relationship choices, multiple endings, and sincere young-adult emotions.
- #2 Emily is Away <3
96% 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 25.5%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Romance 13.8%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its chat-based presentation is different, but it captures the same bittersweet, choices-matter relationship progression where small responses reshape the romance.
- #3 Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,175 reviews2016
Dev: Modern Visual Arts Laboratory
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 38.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
If there was a robot that could laugh, cry and smile. ...Does it have a soul?
Why similar: Dating Sim 23.7%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Romance 21.6%, Story Rich 7.7%, Great Soundtrack 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Like LoveChoice, it mixes cute presentation with heartfelt romance and emotional turns that make your attachment to the central relationship matter.
- #4 Our Life: Beginnings & Always
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 13,335 reviews2020
Dev: GB Patch Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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: Romance 29.3%, Dating Sim 26.1%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Few games match LoveChoice's warm, choice-shaped romance as closely, letting you build a relationship through intimate everyday moments and highly personal decisions.
- #5 Florence
94% matchVery Positive93% of 15,716 reviews2020
Dev: MountainsPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Florence Yeoh feels a little... stuck. Her life is an endless routine of work, sleep, and spending too much time on social media. Then one day, she meets a cello player named Krish who changes everything about how she sees the world and herself.
Why similar: Romance 35.9%, Dating Sim 13%, Visual Novel 12%, Story Rich 11.4%, Cute 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Though more linear, it delivers the same soft, beautifully presented romance arc about connection, misunderstanding, and emotional growth.
- #6 We should talk.
94% matchMixed57% of 163 reviews2020
Dev: Insatiable CyclePub: Whitethorn Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 46%
It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk is a short-form narrative game that will make you think carefully about the words you choose. Can your relationship survive the night?
Why similar: Romance 22.5%, Great Soundtrack 17.3%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses almost entirely on conversational choices and relationship outcomes, making it a strong fit if you loved LoveChoice's decision-driven intimacy.
- #7 Arcade Spirits
93% matchVery Positive92% of 622 reviews2019
Dev: Fiction Factory GamesPub: PQube
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Dating Sim 27.7%, Romance 25.3%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Story Rich 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This wholesome dating sim emphasizes kindness, emotional connection, and branching romantic outcomes in a bright, feel-good setting.
- #8 Tricolour Lovestory
92% matchVery Positive81% of 28,032 reviews2017
Dev: HL-GalgamePub: SakuraGame
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 48.3 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 39.7%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Romance 12%, Great Soundtrack 10.1%, Story Rich 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the same Chinese romance VN roots, multiple romantic routes, and polished, pretty presentation, though it skews more mature.
- #9 CLANNAD
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 10,460 reviews2015
Dev: VisualArts/KeyPub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 105.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
From the world renowned visual novel studio Key, the highly rated story of CLANNAD is now available on Steam! Improved visuals, achievement integration, and Dangopedia make this the best version of CLANNAD to date.
Why similar: Romance 23.3%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Great Soundtrack 14.8%, Dating Sim 13.6%, Story Rich 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its route-based structure, tender character writing, and ability to move from cute everyday scenes to deeply emotional romance make it a classic follow-up.
- #10 ATRI -My Dear Moments-
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 22,459 reviews2020
Dev: FrontwingPub: ANIPLEX.EXE
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 106.2 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: Romance 23.2%, Dating Sim 20.1%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Great Soundtrack 9.2%, Story Rich 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: If you liked LoveChoice's cute aesthetic and emotional storytelling, ATRI offers a similarly sweet-yet-poignant romance focus.
- #11 Making*Lovers
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 652 reviews2020
Dev: SmeePub: NekoNyan Ltd.
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 38.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Making*Lovers A story about the way love can bloom after dating begins. The focus in Making*Lovers is on the things that come after a relationship's beginning. With "start dating, then fall in love" as the concept, you will work towards the moment when love truly blooms.
Why similar: Dating Sim 32%, Romance 25.2%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Simulation 8.4%, Story Rich 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: This modern romance VN is lighter and more comedic, but its route-driven dating structure and focus on building affection are a strong match.
- #12 If My Heart Had Wings
89% matchVery Positive92% of 4,609 reviews2014
Dev: MoeNovel
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
An animated visual novel of a lovely and bittersweet tale of youth, you play as Aoi Minase in this romantic-comedy as he meets various young girls in his hometown and works together with them to revive their school’s glider-flying “Soaring Club” in order to realize their shared dream of flight.
Why similar: Dating Sim 23.8%, Romance 23.8%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Story Rich 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This is a gentle, uplifting romance VN with multiple heroine routes, lovely art, and a similarly earnest emotional core.
- #13 Otaku's Adventure
89% matchVery Positive95% of 8,860 reviews2019
Dev: Spacelight Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
"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 27.8%, Multiple Endings 15%, Romance 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Choices Matter 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its tone is goofier, yet the route-based dating structure and many possible outcomes make it a fun adjacent pick.
- #14 Aokana - Four Rhythms Across the Blue
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,383 reviews2019
Dev: spritePub: NekoNyan Ltd.
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 136.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
In a world where flying through the sky is as simple as riding a bicycle, the sport "Flying Circus" is all the rage. Following the discovery of anti-gravitons, special shoes that allow an individual to fly, Anti-Graviton Shoes, took the world by storm.
Why similar: Romance 25.9%, Visual Novel 25.3%, Dating Sim 22.2%, Story Rich 8.8%, Great Soundtrack 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It pairs bright anime presentation and charming romance routes with strong character bonds and a polished, heartwarming story.
- #15 Find Love or Die Trying
87% 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 35.9%, Romance 27.1%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Story Rich 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: This one is much darker and more suspenseful, but it still revolves around branching romantic decisions and multiple endings in a compact VN format.
- #16 WHITE ALBUM: Memories like Falling Snow
86% matchVery Positive94% of 854 reviews2023
Dev: AQUAPLUSPub: DMM GAMES
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 36.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The classic visual novel from AQUAPLUS that launched one of Japan's most beloved franchises, WHITE ALBUM is a story of love in many forms. Will a couple cling together, or drift apart on the cold wind? The album of their relationship will be as white as snow, and as poignant.
Why similar: Romance 23.6%, Dating Sim 23.5%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its relationship-centered drama and multiple romantic paths suit players who want another emotional visual novel built around love and difficult choices.
- #17 Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator
85% matchVery Positive92% of 6,231 reviews2017
Dev: Game Grumps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is a game where you play as a Dad and your goal is to meet and romance other hot Dads. Are you ready? Hi ready, I'm Dad.
Why similar: Dating Sim 42.7%, Romance 24.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choices Matter 6.7%, Multiple Endings 4%
Why You'll Like It: Its appeal is in choosing how to connect with lovable characters and pursuing sincere, wholesome romance paths through dialogue choices.
- #18 Hush Hush - Only Your Love Can Save Them
83% matchVery Positive94% of 1,619 reviews2023
Dev: Sad Panda Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 82.9 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 41.6%, Romance 22.3%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Story Rich 5.5%, Cute 4%
Why You'll Like It: It uses stat-management and dialogue choices to steer multiple romance routes, giving you the same sense of trying to win hearts while staying emotionally engaged.
- #19 Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~
84% matchVery Positive98% of 387 reviews2018
Dev: SmeePub: NekoNyan Ltd.
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 66.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Springtime. The season of the cherry blossoms, and a time of new beginnings, new encounters, and new people. For Aoba Kyousuke, this new season marks the start of his second year in high school, and also the year he resolved himself to finally fulfill his long-cherished dream: finding a girlfriend.
Why similar: Dating Sim 28.3%, Romance 25.1%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Story Rich 6.5%, Cute 5%
Why You'll Like It: The whole premise is about turning everyday interactions into romance routes, which makes it a great pick for fans of relationship-building choices.
- #20 Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,111 reviews2017
Dev: Dicesuki
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Why similar: Romance 31.7%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Dating Sim 14.6%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Great Soundtrack 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This branching romance VN rewards emotional understanding and character growth, echoing LoveChoice's interest in how choices shape affection.
- #21 Please Be Happy
82% matchVery Positive99% of 376 reviews2022
Dev: Studio Élan
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Dating Sim 21.4%, Romance 20.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: It leans cozy and emotionally sincere, with romance routes and a gentle sense of human connection that fits LoveChoice's softer side.
- #22 Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers
82% matchVery Positive89% of 186 reviews2022
Dev: Fiction Factory GamesPub: PQube
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is the follow-up to 2019's Arcade Spirits, a visual novel of love and pixels, in which you seek friendship and romance while working in an arcade. Now the tables are turned, as you seek friendship and romance while PLAYING in an arcade!
Why similar: Romance 26.5%, Dating Sim 25.2%, Visual Novel 15%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Story Rich 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Like the first game, it offers upbeat dating-sim choices, supportive character writing, and multiple relationship outcomes.
- #23 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,518 reviews2022
Dev: Northway GamesPub: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Dating Sim 30.2%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Story Rich 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is more life sim than pure dating sim, but its deeply reactive choices and emotionally meaningful relationships make it excellent for choices-matter romance fans.
- #24 Amnesia™: Memories
81% matchVery Positive92% of 4,125 reviews2015
Dev: Idea FactoryPub: Idea Factory International
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You awaken to find your memories gone. To learn the truth behind your amnesia, you’ll choose from five romantic paths, each its own world. With 20+ endings, can you write the lasting love story you deserve, or will your love and life come to an end?
Why similar: Romance 29%, Dating Sim 28.5%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Multiple Endings 7.9%, Choices Matter 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: If you want more route-based romance built on dialogue decisions and multiple endings, this is a polished otome counterpart.
- #25 Love Is All Around
78% matchVery Positive93% of 45,840 reviews2023
Dev: intiny
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The player becomes Gu Yi, uses the first-person perspective to immerse himself in meeting six beauties, and embarks on a joyful and sweet love journey with them. Six girls that are charming, innocent, intelligent, wild, sexy, glamorous, who will go to the end with you is up to you to decide.
Why similar: Dating Sim 32.7%, Romance 21.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #26 Kindred Spirits on the Roof
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,454 reviews2016
Dev: Liar-softPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 61.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
During lunch one day, Toomi Yuna meets two "Kindred Spirits" on the roof of her school. When they insist she help them nurture young love, Yuna finds herself playing "yuri cupid" to six unique and adorable couples. Can she remain aloof or will the promise of a "yuritopia" reach her too?
Why similar: Romance 39.9%, Visual Novel 29.8%, Cute 7.8%, Dating Sim 7%, Anime 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: This yuri visual novel shares LoveChoice's sweet, affectionate focus on helping relationships bloom, even if its structure is less compact.
- #27 Highway Blossoms
79% matchVery Positive94% of 2,684 reviews2016
Dev: Studio Élan
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A yuri visual novel about Amber, a girl who's trying her best to be alone on the road, until she stumbles upon a young hitchhiker and the journal of a prospector from long ago. Fully voiced in English.
Why similar: Romance 32.5%, Dating Sim 19.6%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Story Rich 9.9%, Cute 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It trades multiple routes for a more focused romance, but its heartfelt character chemistry and beautiful presentation make it a strong emotional match.
- #28 Charming Hearts
77% 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 25.4%, Romance 23.2%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
- #29 A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,153 reviews2020
Dev: Oracle and Bone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A Summer's End is a visual novel set in 1980s Hong Kong. It tells of a love story between two women. Lush and vibrant visuals, the game features over 400 unique hand-drawn artwork inspired by Asian cinema and 1980s anime.
Why similar: Romance 33.6%, Visual Novel 28.6%, Great Soundtrack 14.1%, Story Rich 7.9%, Casual 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its gorgeous presentation and intimate, character-driven romance make it a strong final recommendation if you want another emotional love story.
- #30 Heart of the Woods
79% matchVery Positive95% of 955 reviews2019
Dev: Studio Élan
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 76.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A fantasy yuri visual novel filled with magic, fairies, and a ghost girl. When Maddie and her best friend, Tara, journey to a remote forest village to investigate rumors of the supernatural, they find a whole lot more than they bargained for.
Why similar: Romance 31.1%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Story Rich 9.5%, Cute 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is a more mysterious yuri VN, yet its lush art, emotional bond-building, and romance-driven narrative resonate with LoveChoice's story-rich side.
- #31 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
75% 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 25.2%, Dating Sim 19.8%, Multiple Endings 18.1%, Story Rich 11.3%, Cute 8.6%
- #32 Why do you love me?
76% matchVery Positive98% of 214 reviews2024
Dev: Alkinoy
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short romantic novel about modern relationships. We took some situations from life and tried to answer the question "why do people love each other?".
Why similar: Romance 28.2%, Dating Sim 27.9%, Visual Novel 12%, Story Rich 8.6%, Cute 7.4%
- #33 In Search Of You
76% matchMixed70% of 181 reviews2024
Dev: Celestial Star Studios
Windows
This game is to rekindle the exhilarating sensation of youthful passion—to perfectly capture the essence of romantic endeavors, making the experience of falling in love both sweet and meaningful, and to inspire players with the beauty of love within the nightlife entertainment industry.
Why similar: Dating Sim 26.6%, Romance 24.3%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Visual Novel 9.5%
- #34 Yixin
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 129 reviews2025
Dev: 神風教主 (Master Kamikaze)
Windows
The first love simulator, the real immersive real-life love game, the video novel type, the only pure love experience, takes you into the pure and beautiful love world that seems like dreams, and feels the emotion that has been buried in your heart for a long time.
Why similar: Dating Sim 32.1%, Romance 30.9%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Story Rich 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 6.6%
- #35 Love starts again
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: WWWave Corporation
Windows
A live-action romance adventure with high-definition images from a first-person perspective. A love drama begins with a friend, a childhood friend, a junior from high school, a senior at a part-time job, an influencer you like, and a student you saved from a delinquent...
Why similar: Dating Sim 36.2%, Romance 29.7%, Choices Matter 12%, Cute 8.4%, Multiple Endings 4.6%
- #36 Revenge on gold diggers
72% matchVery Positive80% of 50,687 reviews2025
Dev: 前方工作室
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In this first FMV game about emotional fraud, you’ll face their true colors. As a hunter of hearts, strike back against a secret network of gold diggers. Unmask lies, evade traps, and let revenge ignite. Will they burn—or you? Or could love still rise from the ashes? The choice is yours to make.
Why similar: Dating Sim 33.8%, Romance 19.8%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Story Rich 11%, Visual Novel 9.7%
- #37 Draw & Guess
73% matchVery Positive84% of 34,781 reviews2021
Dev: Acureus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
An online party game of drawing and guessing for up to 16 players with a variety of modes. Bring out the best (or worst) of your drawing and guessing skills!
Why similar: Cute 52.9%, Puzzle 17.8%, Casual 17%, 2D 12.3%
- #38 Vampires' Melody
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,697 reviews2020
Dev: AsicxArtPub: SakuraGame
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 34.9 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 30.4%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Romance 15.8%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 7.5%
- #39 TryAndLove
74% matchMixed52% of 229 reviews2024
Dev: MYSTERY CROWN
Windows · Mac
A man's life is a life of pursuing love. The childish love of childhood sweethearts? White Moonlight's pure love? Ignorant of the astringent love of forbidden fruit? Blind love like a moth flying into a flame? True love that transcends the world? Act Ren Xing and make a willful choice.
Why similar: Dating Sim 32.8%, Romance 27.5%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13%, Interactive Fiction 6.8%
- #40 Volcano Princess
69% 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 27.9%, Multiple Endings 18.3%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Visual Novel 12%, Story Rich 6.8%
- #41 Rubber Bandits
71% matchVery Positive84% of 7,049 reviews2021
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Rubber Bandits is a criminally fun multiplayer party game for up to 4 players. With 8 action-packed game modes, players steal, brawl, and dash to the finish line with the most loot to win!
Why similar: Cute 79%, Casual 21%
- #42 Young Hearts
70% matchVery Positive93% of 91 reviews2024
Dev: Sky SeekersPub: Evening Studio
Windows
‘Young Hearts’ is a visual novel in the genres of romance and slice of life, telling stories about the everyday life of a student company living in a warm southern town: stories about their secrets, dreams, love, their problems and ghosts of the past…
Why similar: Romance 30.7%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choices Matter 13%, Story Rich 8.8%
- #43 PockeDate! - Pocket Dating Simulator
68% 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 34.1%, Romance 24.6%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Cute 6.7%
- #44 Climber Animals: Together
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,693 reviews2024
Dev: Devotion Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Climber Animals is a challenging and dynamic parkour game for 1-8 players. In this game,overcome obstacles and climb to the top with your friends. If you fall, your progress is lost and you start over. Keep your balance on this challenging climb and compete with your friends to reach the top.
Why similar: Simulation 54.9%, Casual 27.8%, Adventure 17.3%
- #45 To the Moon
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 84,848 reviews2012
Dev: Freebird Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 44.5%, Story Rich 23.5%, Romance 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 5.4%, Indie 3.3%
- #46 Four Rendezvous
71% matchVery Positive88% of 69 reviews2020
Dev: Diada Novels
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hero meets a mysterious girl in the park. Who is that girl? What is a mystery surrounding her? And what about the world they met in? There's definitely something wrong with it. So many questions! So the hero has to deal with all of it to find his love.
Why similar: Beautiful 28.2% ★, Romance 21.8%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Story Rich 8.7%, Great Soundtrack 8.6%
- #47 Love in the distance
72% matchMixed66% of 334 reviews2021
Dev: Level-Buster Studio
Windows
A word adventure game based on a long-distance relationship. On high school and college campuses, pick up memories that belong only to that time. Ideal and reality, if we can chose it again, can we not have regrets?
Why similar: Dating Sim 43.5%, Multiple Endings 19.1%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Story Rich 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 6.2%
- #48 恋爱模拟器 Love Simulation
73% matchMixed55% of 1,051 reviews2018
Dev: 橘子班Pub: PeriScope Game
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Have you ever been in love? Do you want to be in love? Try the Love Simulation before you fall in love!
Why similar: Simulation 69.9%, Casual 30.1%
- #49 NARAKA: BLADEPOINT
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 298,547 reviews2021
Dev: 24 EntertainmentPub: NetEase Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 122.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Dive into the legends of the Far East in NARAKA: BLADEPOINT; team up with friends in fast-paced melee fights for a Battle Royale experience unlike any other. Find your playstyle with a varied cast of heroes with unique skills. More than 40 million players have already joined the fray, play free now!
Why similar: Anime 69.3%, Adventure 30.7%
- #50 Last Day of June
70% matchVery Positive87% of 4,640 reviews2017
Dev: OvosonicoPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A deep, interactive adventure about love and loss, beautifully depicted and offering an intense cinematic experience. What would you do to save the one you love?
Why similar: Romance 23.2%, Beautiful 21.3% ★, Great Soundtrack 19.7%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Story Rich 12.3%
- #51 花奴令 Huanu Poems
66% matchVery Positive93% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: FishfarmsPub: FISHFARMS
Windows
Huanu Poems is a multi-ending love adventure game. As a photographer, carrying the secret of being a bloodline inheritor of HuaNu Town, you will take lovely Peach to run a B&B, encounter gentle Cloudia. Your choices will affect the direction of the story.
Why similar: Dating Sim 19.8%, Romance 16.7%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.7%
- #52 DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation
68% matchVery Positive95% of 3,724 reviews2019
Dev: Idea FactoryPub: Idea Factory International
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 138.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Show the Spirits the power of love and save the world in this romantic visual novel!
Why similar: Dating Sim 35.9%, Romance 24.9%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Anime 5.5%, Story Rich 5.2%
- #53 Voice Love on Air
67% matchVery Positive87% of 523 reviews2024
Dev: SOFTSTAR ENTERTAINMENT
Windows
A BL dating sim with elements of studio management and interactions with voice actors! Follow Aki, a newbie voice director who has to complete the recordings for several BL dramas, and interact with the charming voice actors. Come give voice to the language of love!
Why similar: Dating Sim 31.9%, Romance 26.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #54 Riders Republic
66% matchVery Positive82% of 29,128 reviews2023
Dev: Ubisoft AnnecyPub: Ubisoft Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Jump into a massive multiplayer playground! Bike, ski, snowboard, or wingsuit across an open world sports paradise.
- #55 Muse Dash
67% matchVery Positive91% of 120,271 reviews2019
Dev: peroperoPub: hasuhasu
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 34.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Paradise of parkour & rhythm game ★★★ — Muse Dash!!
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 37.4%, Beautiful 23.2% ★, Cute 20.7%, Anime 10.6%, Casual 3.8%
- #56 One Last Chance
71% matchMixed68% of 87 reviews2016
Dev: Last Lotus
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Do you remember that high school crush you never confessed your love to? Do you ever wonder what could have been if things had gone different back then? This short Visual Novel/Dating Sim explores those questions that we constantly ask ourselves.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 32.1%, Visual Novel 31.4%, Story Rich 11.5%, Simulation 8.5%, Indie 6.1%
- #57 Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate
63% 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 34.3%, Romance 21.6%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #58 The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
63% matchVery Positive95% of 57,826 reviews2024
Dev: 零创游戏(ZerocreationGame)
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 24.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.
Why similar: Dating Sim 23.1%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Romance 17.7%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Story Rich 8.2%
