Games Like Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance

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: Dinosaurs 25.6% ★, Dating Sim 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Romance 12.1%, Choices Matter 7.1%

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 25.9%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Otome 14.5% ★, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Romance 9.2%

Kaichu is a dating sim about kaiju! You play the role of Gigachu, a gigantic romantic looking for love. Meet 6 other eligible kaiju and visit 24 famous landmarks where Gigachu will answer challenging compatibility questions to decide the fate of your relationship.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 33.7% ★, Dating Sim 17.7%, Romance 12.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choices Matter 7.1%

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

Why similar: Dating Sim 18.4%, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Romance 11.9%, Otome 11.4% ★

DDinosaur has felt alone for millions of years now... Will she be able to find love without revealing her biggest secret? That she's a Dinosaur...with double D's.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 39.4% ★, Dating Sim 18.2%, Visual Novel 14%, Romance 9.6%, Story Rich 7.3%

Everyone's heard of Mothman– the moth creature that haunts the outskirts of Point Pleasant, West Virginia– but no one's heard of it like this! In some random idyllic Midwestern town, you meet Artemis (aka Mothman) at your favorite coffee shop and begin an agonizingly slow burn romance with them.

Why similar: Dating Sim 21.4%, LGBTQ+ 19.6%, Romance 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Otome 8.2% ★

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: Dinosaurs 35% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.8%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Story Rich 8.5%, Choices Matter 8%

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

Why similar: Dating Sim 18.3%, LGBTQ+ 14.9%, Otome 13.2% ★, Visual Novel 12.6%, Romance 10.2%

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+ 19.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Dating Sim 14.3%, Romance 13.3%, Female Protagonist 10.4%

Can you find love as the only boy in an all-girls school? Find out, in this slice-of-life visual novel game with multiple endings.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.8%, Romance 21.6%, Dating Sim 21.1%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%, Multiple Endings 4.8%

Think you can handle a little romance with creatures from Spanish folklore? ❤️‍🔥 Careful: your love life isn’t the only thing at stake at Mythic Love: Iberian Legends.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.1%, Otome 17.4% ★, Dating Sim 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Romance 13.1%

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: Dating Sim 18.1%, LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Otome 12.5% ★, Romance 10.4%

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 15.8% ★, Dating Sim 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.7%, LGBTQ+ 11.3%, Romance 11.2%

One boy, three girls, what could possibly happen? Summer of Heisei period 9 (1997), you play as a young boy who just moved to a small village near Osaka. You will meet three girls in this new school. One of them keeps a really deep secret… What secret? Well, if you can decode the title, you’ll guess it…

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Romance 15.5%, Dating Sim 15.2%, 1990's 11.3%

A chat dating sim game inspired by Mystic Messenger, VTuber communities, and internet spam

Why similar: Dating Sim 15.6%, LGBTQ+ 14.4%, Otome 13.8% ★, Visual Novel 10.8%, Romance 10.5%

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 23.9%, Otome 19.7% ★, Visual Novel 16.6%, Romance 12.4%, Female Protagonist 9.4%

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 16.3%, Otome 13.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 13%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Romance 11.9%

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: Dating Sim 21.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Otome 15.3% ★, Visual Novel 13.7%, Female Protagonist 7.7%

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 19.8%, Otome 18.2% ★, Visual Novel 12.4%, Romance 11.8%, Multiple Endings 8.8%

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

Why similar: Dating Sim 26.6%, LGBTQ+ 26%, Romance 16.6%, Story Rich 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.5%

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: Dating Sim 18.8%, LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Romance 9.6%, Female Protagonist 8.9%

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+ 20.1%, Dating Sim 19%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Romance 11.2%, Female Protagonist 8.6%

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: Dating Sim 17.8%, Otome 16.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Romance 11.9%

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+ 26.3%, Dating Sim 22.8%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Romance 13.8%, Story Rich 5.2%

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 23.1%, LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.2%

"Date Z" - a captivating mix of high school drama, romance, and mystery. As a transfer student, your challenge is to navigate relationships and secure a date by Friday to survive a deadly virus outbreak. Unravel the hidden secrets. Every choice you make counts.

Why similar: Dating Sim 24.9%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Romance 16%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Story Rich 8.2%

An ironic adventure with cyberpunk aesthetics set in a world where humans have been replaced by dinosaurs. Become a top-notch repair shop mechanic: fix gadgets, have heart-to-heart talks, and offer drinks to your customers — everything to fulfill your ultimate dream.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 43% ★, Visual Novel 15.3%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Story Rich 7.6%

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: Dating Sim 19.1%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Otome 11.3% ★, Romance 11.2%

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+ 28.3%, Dating Sim 19.8%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Female Protagonist 13%, Romance 9.5%

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: Dating Sim 25.3%, LGBTQ+ 22.7%, Romance 16%, Visual Novel 7.8%, Multiple Endings 6.8%

A beautiful Dark Knightess from another world enlisted me in her quest to slay a rogue wizard, and now we're dating! But what if she finds out I have no idea who the Gray Wizard is?!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.4%, Romance 20.6%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Dating Sim 14.2%, Female Protagonist 12%

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+ 29.8%, Romance 20.5%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Multiple Endings 5.9%

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: Dating Sim 16.9%, Otome 16.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 15%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Romance 11.5%

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: Dating Sim 26.4%, Visual Novel 26.3%, Otome 12.1% ★, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Romance 8.8%

This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Dating Sim 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, 1990's 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%

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: Dating Sim 18.4%, Otome 16.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Romance 10.7%

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 39.7%, LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Comedy 3.8%

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+ 21%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Dating Sim 15.7%, Romance 14.1%, Female Protagonist 10.6%

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: Dating Sim 19.3%, Otome 17.7% ★, Visual Novel 14.2%, Romance 12.8%, Female Protagonist 8.7%

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 19.5%, Romance 16.5%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Story Rich 8.7%

Lovebirb is a rhythm-based dating game about finding love one date at a time. Swipe right, chat on Bumbird, and impress your dates by playing all the right words to the rhythm of the music. 🎶🐤

Why similar: Dating Sim 28.1%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Otome 18% ★, Choices Matter 7.9%, Multiple Endings 7.4%

Olive is trapped in school in the midst of the apocalypse! With demons slaughtering every dog in sight there's only so many left to spend time with! Will their special someone be Brownie the snack-loving corgi, Sparky the sporty husky or Patches the dalmatian bookworm? You decide!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.1%, Dating Sim 23.1%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Story Rich 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.9%

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: Dating Sim 25.8%, LGBTQ+ 25.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Romance 12%, Multiple Endings 7.2%

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: Dating Sim 17.8%, LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Otome 14.1% ★, Romance 13%

A Visual Novel and Dating Sim. Lead a chaotic development team through high-pressure deadlines and personal drama. Make choices to balance the demanding project, relationships, and ambitious goals, determining your team's ultimate success or failure.

Why similar: Dating Sim 25.5%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Romance 15.8%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choices Matter 6.5%

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: Dating Sim 18.8%, Otome 17% ★, Visual Novel 14.2%, LGBTQ+ 13%, Romance 11.5%

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: Dating Sim 28.8%, LGBTQ+ 27.3%, Romance 15.1%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Multiple Endings 6.9%

A “routine” earthquake drill locks you underground with Riley, a shy femboy graphic-designer. Cook, flirt, and gently unlock his guarded heart as the two of you plan what life might look like when the door finally opens.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.6%, Dating Sim 19.3%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Romance 14%, Multiple Endings 6.6%

Explore a colorful underwater world and help a pink dolphin find the perfect date for Valentine's day!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.5%, Dating Sim 18.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Romance 14.2%, 1990's 10.1%

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: LGBTQ+ 19.1%, Dating Sim 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Romance 12.6%, Otome 10.7% ★

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+ 24.7%, Dating Sim 22.8%, Visual Novel 15%, Romance 13.9%, 2D 4.1%

Evil forces have turned these five hunky beefcake time-displaced boys into animals! You've got to help cure them and maybe even fall in love! Mystery! Intrigue! Romance! No furries, despite the title! A dating sim by Wilson Taylor, Maia Gross and Travis Tohill.

Why similar: Otome 24.3% ★, Dating Sim 19.3%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Romance 14.8%, Female Protagonist 10.1%

Tender is a narrative game that explores connection and rejection in the era of swipe culture. It’s a story told by and through the modern interface for finding love.

Why similar: Dating Sim 28.4%, Visual Novel 18.6%, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Romance 9.5%, Simulation 5.4%

"Trivia About You" is a romance visual novel about furry characters sharing meaningful moments in Carol’s House. After moving into the shop, you become roommates with three charming furry characters. Through daily life, from spring to autumn, you slowly build deeper connections with them.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30%, Dating Sim 22.1%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Romance 9.9%, Multiple Endings 6.9%

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 22.6%, LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Visual Novel 16%, Romance 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%

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

Why similar: Dating Sim 22.2%, Otome 21.4% ★, Visual Novel 14.5%, Romance 10.1%, Female Protagonist 9.9%

Play as the dark elf Amber in this dating sim with optional crafting gameplay. 3 otome (Bernard, Daniel, Lair), 1 yuri (Ruby) and 2 poly (Lynn, Cosmina) romance routes.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18%, Dating Sim 17.2%, Otome 16.2% ★, Visual Novel 14.2%, Romance 10.7%

A story about a guy who finds love in unexpected circumstances—on a film set!

Why similar: Dating Sim 28.2%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Romance 19.4%, Story Rich 12.5%, Comedy 4.2%

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+ 28.5%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Dating Sim 14.3%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.3%