Games Like Nova Hearts

Join Luce and her friends in this FREE first chapter: The Spark! A mysterious force transforms you and other residents of Vermillion into heroes and villains. TEXT, DATE and FIGHT in this turn-based combat dating adventure!

Why similar: Superhero 19.5% ★, Dating Sim 11.2%, LGBTQ+ 10.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Visual Novel 7.1%

Enjoy a dramatic romance in this fairytale otome visual novel. Who will you decide to trust and fall in love with in this mysterious town where fairytales have become warring mafia famiglia? Explore this exciting world through a dozen routes and 20+ endings!

Why similar: Otome 28.3% ★, Dating Sim 12%, LGBTQ+ 10.7%, Visual Novel 8.3%, Magic 7.9%

Winning Love by Daylight is a Visual Novel that puts you directly amongst the action as a High School student who slowly uncovers the secret that several of their classmates are actually magical girl super heroes!

Why similar: Superhero 26.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Dating Sim 16.3%, Romance 8.8%, Magic 7.4%

Solve pixel puzzles, date superheroes, and save the day! Dating sim meets puzzle game in this romantic comedy adventure.

Why similar: Superhero 23.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Dating Sim 14.7%, Otome 10.6% ★, Visual Novel 8.8%

Mission: It’s Complicated is a narrative-based, visual novel where you match super-awesome superheroes to go on missions during the night and dates during the day. The more compatible the pair of superheroes are, the more likely that they will fall in love and save the world.

Why similar: Superhero 32.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Dating Sim 16%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Romance 9.7%

The Radiants is a magical adventure visual novel with light stat raising & multiple endings. Choose what kind of Oracle you will become and maybe find romance along the way.

Why similar: Otome 32.2% ★, Dating Sim 15.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Romance 8.7%, Female Protagonist 8.6%

Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.

Why similar: Otome 31.9% ★, Dating Sim 15.6%, LGBTQ+ 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Romance 8.2%

Date wizards, match gems, and level up in this match-3 visual novel with a lot of heart and a little spice. Form deep relationships with faeries, sirens and werewolves, each with their own endearing personalities and challenges. Make choices that affect your relationships, and their destinies.

Why similar: Dating Sim 18.4%, LGBTQ+ 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Magic 10.3%, Romance 10.3%

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: Otome 32.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 15%, Dating Sim 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Female Protagonist 8.4%

A bickering and bantering rivals-to-lovers visual novel where you fall in love after first hack.

Why similar: Otome 28.1% ★, Dating Sim 17.3%, LGBTQ+ 17.2%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Romance 8.2%

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: Otome 23.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 19%, Dating Sim 16.8%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Romance 9.4%

A superhero-themed yandere romance visual novel. He's your coworker, your crush, and the villain you need to stop? Make choices to be with your supervillian ex, or move on to a new hot superhero.

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Superhero 14.6% ★, Romance 14.3%, Otome 13.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 13.5%

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: Otome 27.5% ★, Dating Sim 25.2%, LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Romance 8.9%

Witches x Warlocks is a cute and light-hearted Halloween Raising Sim; featuring a customizable protagonist and 4 love interests of different genders!

Why similar: Otome 35% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Dating Sim 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 5.6%

Discover the secrets of the witches and demons in this dark fantasy romance game, featuring a female protagonist whose personality is completely up to the player thanks to extensive dialog choices.

Why similar: Otome 32% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Dating Sim 13.9%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Romance 8.6%

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: Otome 29.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Dating Sim 15%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Romance 7.2%

Interactive teen supernatural mystery! You and your friends have developed magical psychic powers. Solve the case, save your school, find a date for prom!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 100%

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+ 23.5%, Dating Sim 18.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Romance 9.3%

A story-rich tale of breaking the bonds of fate... and meeting some cute guys along the way!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.7%, Dating Sim 16.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%, Magic 10.4%

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: Otome 20.9% ★, Dating Sim 20%, Visual Novel 18%, Female Protagonist 11%, Magic 8.8%

"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 25.5%, Dialogue Heavy 18.4%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Romance 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12%

Planet Stronghold is a sci-fi role-playing game with a turn-based combat system. You take the role of a young, new recruit that somehow gets assigned to the most well-known, and well-defended, human outpost in the whole galaxy: Planet Stronghold.

Why similar: Otome 27.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Dating Sim 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Romance 9.7%

《My Vow to My Liege》is a visual novel dating game. Players get to play as a girl disguised as the King of Ng, a man. The 4 dateable characters are: the guide, the enemy, the minister and the guard.Will they choose the man over the country? Love over hate? Who will they finally end up with?

Why similar: Otome 47.3% ★, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Romance 13.3%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Anime 4.3%

Save your grandparent's failing café/magic shop from bankruptcy and possibly fall in love!

Why similar: Otome 26.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 16%, Dating Sim 14.4%, Visual Novel 8.8%, Magic 8.7%

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: LGBTQ+ 26.4%, Dating Sim 22%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Anime 9.5%

Discover secrets long forgotten, and nurture relationships waiting to bloom. In a game inspired by the lore of Dragon and Fae, make choices that can shape your story, relationships, and even personality. Will you be brave, kind, wise, charismatic? Only you know the answer to your fate.

Why similar: Otome 28.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Dating Sim 13.5%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Magic 8.4%

Become Atom Eve and take control of your own path as one of the most powerful superheroes in the Invincible universe! Unravel a mystery and balance the dangers and responsibilities of being a superhero with the relatable challenges of everyday life.

Why similar: Superhero 37% ★, Visual Novel 13%, Turn-Based Combat 10.9%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 7.5%

You've been invited to a Halloween party! Yay! Music! Food! Drinks! Vampires! Wait. VAMPIRES!? Velvet Bite: Softly, With Teeth is a Romantic Visual Novel featuring 6 romanceable vampires.

Why similar: Otome 29.2% ★, Dating Sim 17.8%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Female Protagonist 8%

Upon finding a mysterious social media account, Alex sets out to find the origins of the photos and meets three urban explorers, each of them unearthing something new and unfamiliar in her heart.

Why similar: Otome 31.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Dating Sim 14.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Romance 8.5%

Unleash your inner villain and head over to the Villain Conference, the one and only interdimensional business event for evildoers! Who knows, maybe you'll even find a partner - whether it's in crime or love…

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.9%, Visual Novel 20%, Romance 19.2%, Dating Sim 13.4%, Cute 8.1%

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+ 34.6%, Dating Sim 19.6%, Female Protagonist 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Romance 8.1%

A mysterious program called “Cupid’s Chatroom” suddenly appears on your PC, transporting you into a private chatroom. You find yourself joined by five others, who have also been dragged into the server—and it turns out they’re your potential bachelors?!

Why similar: Otome 35.5% ★, Dating Sim 20.4%, LGBTQ+ 16%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Romance 11.3%

Play as the young witch Shar, as she moves in with a famous witch who keeps demonic prisoners in her basement. Will you find romance or doom?

Why similar: Otome 29.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.5%, Dating Sim 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.2%

An immersive MMORPG-simulation chatroom based romance / otome visual novel. You are the leader of a raiding guild in the world's hottest MMORPG, Emberfate. Will you lead your guild to success in the newest raid — and perhaps find love along the way among your guildmates?

Why similar: Otome 36.8% ★, Dating Sim 16.6%, LGBTQ+ 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 7.8%

Intrigue, betrayal, deaths! An Otome / BxB survival Raising Simulation in a high-fantasy royal court setting with RPG elements.

Why similar: Otome 31.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Dating Sim 13.7%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Romance 7%

A surprise kerfuffle with unhinged space demons sees campus nobody Seiji “tied by fate” to Yuuri, the undercover magical girl who’s also his covert classroom crush! With both their secrets out of the bag, can Seiji still shoot his shot? Or will the evil Majin’s minions invade Earth first?

Why similar: Superhero 30.7% ★, Visual Novel 14.3%, Magic 12.9%, Romance 11.9%, Anime 8.8%

A visual novel/sim game about life, love, and working in the entertainment industry. Play as makeup artist Sian Goodin as she navigates the world of showbiz. Make friends, forge business relationships, and maybe even find romance!

Why similar: Otome 45.8% ★, Dating Sim 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Anime 7%

An otome-fantasy visual novel. Play as Alto, a fearless knight, and enter a world of magic and myths with secrets waiting for you to unveil.

Why similar: Otome 38.4% ★, Dating Sim 16.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Romance 9.9%, Female Protagonist 8.9%

A story-driven romance visual novel where your choices shape relationships, uncover secrets, and lead to multiple endings with your childhood friend.

Why similar: Superhero 22.2% ★, Dating Sim 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Romance 10.3%, Anime 8.1%

Kitty Powers’ Matchmaker is a hilarious dating simulator with a difference. Manage your own matchmaking agency with the guidance of your fabulous boss, drag queen diva Kitty Powers!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.1%, Dating Sim 29.4%, Romance 16%, Female Protagonist 7.7%, Cute 4.4%

In this sequel to the award-winning roleplay visual novel, Arcadia Fallen, you play as a senior student at the Seven Winds Academy. Choose from three different magical disciplines, and let your choices shape the personality of your character as you navigate school life during a time of great change.

Why similar: Otome 31% ★, Dating Sim 15.3%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Romance 7.6%

Spirited Heart is a fantasy life simulation game. Create your fantasy alter ego choosing between an apparently normal human, a cute elf and a wicked demoness. Run your life in a virtual fantasy world: choose a job from the 20 different ones available, raise your stats, and maybe even find romance!

Why similar: Otome 28.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.2%, Dating Sim 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Female Protagonist 9.9%

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: Otome 27% ★, LGBTQ+ 18%, Dating Sim 15%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Romance 9.5%

You are a girl with a demonic heart, trapped with a group of suspicious individuals. A demonspawn arrives, setting off a chain of mysterious murders. Can you trust any of your fellow captives and find love in the chaos? Or will you fight for your life alone?

Why similar: Otome 31% ★, Dating Sim 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Romance 8.3%

The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily is a turn-based strategy game. Framed for murdering the Emperor, villainess Scarlet and Lily, fight the Empire as the first Streamers in history. Capture every enemy and turn them into allies for a happy ending... Or execute everyone and become the Demon Queen!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.2%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.7%, Romance 11%

After saving the life of a mysterious old woman, a young girl is gifted a magical spell book with the power to make anyone whose name she writes inside of it fall madly in love with her until the next full moon. "Love Spell" is a romantic-comedy otome game full of magic, laughs & cute penguins!

Why similar: Otome 36.8% ★, Dating Sim 14.6%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Romance 9.2%, Magic 9.2%

Outwit your professors at superpower school! Ace your exams, date classmates, and bring down the nation’s most wanted villains to earn your degree.

The sequel to "Heroes Rise: The Prodigy." It's America's #1 reality show for heroes! As a contestant on "The Hero Project," you'll battle villains and heroes alike with your newly discovered "Infini" powers.

Why similar: Superhero 38.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 27.1%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Story Rich 9.6%

In this turn-based RPG you'll embark on the journey of becoming a Magical Girl cosplayer! But don't let this journey fool you, because this is not just roleplaying: your costumes will give you real life powers, and the world's fate will be in your hands!

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 17.5%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Magic 13%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%

During your first year of university, immense magical powers are forced onto you, thus revealing the supernatural world hidden within ours. But you must learn to control your powers with the help of a partner or risk destroying everything around you. Will your new fate be one of tragedy or serendipity?

Why similar: Otome 53.8% ★, Visual Novel 22.8%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Romance 5.7%, Anime 3.7%

A murder mystery visual novel with a romantic twist. The killer is randomly chosen at the start of each playthrough, and you may unknowingly fall in love with them. How will your story come to its end? Will you bring the killer to justice, fall in love with them, or die at their hands?

Why similar: Otome 27.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.9%, Dating Sim 17.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Romance 8.5%

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 25.9%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Romance 18.7%, Anime 12.1%, Story Rich 11.4%

Spend 4 days with 2 boy failures in this otome visual novel. Will you choose Julian, the lost tourist with golden retriever energy, or Riku, the quietly intense guy in a bear suit, to steal your heart in this short & sweet romance?

Why similar: Otome 41.1% ★, Visual Novel 11.3%, Female Protagonist 8.6%, Romance 8.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%

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

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.5%, Dating Sim 27.5%, Romance 14.7%, Story Rich 11.3%, Cute 8.4%

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: Otome 37.7% ★, Dating Sim 18%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Romance 9.2%

A gay superhero visual novel! The Lone Wolf Mister Versatile thinks super teams are a pain in the ass, but four super-hotties have decided they want to watch his back anyway! Date a villain, a rookie, a symbiote, and a superman-ish alien. Loaded with explicit CGs.

Why similar: Superhero 28.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 26.8%, Dating Sim 15.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Romance 8.1%

Your blind date invades Earth!?

Why similar: Otome 46.2% ★, Visual Novel 13.5%, Romance 11.9%, Female Protagonist 8.7%, Story Rich 4.8%

Do you have what it takes to become a legendary Powered hero? "Heroes Rise" is an epic interactive novel where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. How high will you rise?

Why similar: Superhero 54.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 18%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Female Protagonist 8.3%, Story Rich 7.4%

Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.7%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Dating Sim 15.3%, Romance 13.8%, Story Rich 9%

A visual novel where you wake up in a strange new world before going on a real-life RPG adventure with three wacky party members.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.8%, Anime 25.1%, Dating Sim 18.1%, Romance 14.4%, Cute 5.6%