- #1 I Wani Hug that Gator!
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,486 reviews2024
Dev: Cavemanon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 24.7% ★, Dating Sim 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Romance 11.8%, Choices Matter 7.1%
- #2 Hatoful Boyfriend
96% matchVery Positive94% of 7,550 reviews2014
Dev: MediatonicPub: Epic Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Congratulations! You’ve been accepted as the only human student at the prestigious St. PigeoNation’s Institute, a school for talented birds! Roam the halls and find love in between classes as a sophomore student at the world’s greatest pigeon high school.
Why similar: Dating Sim 26.6%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Otome 14.4% ★, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Romance 9.5%
- #3 Kaichu - The Kaiju Dating Sim
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 150 reviews2022
Dev: SquiddershinsPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 34.1% ★, Dating Sim 18%, Romance 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #4 Arcade Spirits
95% 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 18.4%, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Romance 12%, Otome 11.1% ★
- #5 Goodbye Volcano High
94% matchVery Positive89% of 1,797 reviews2023
Dev: KO_OP
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 34.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Story Rich 8.5%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #6 ERROR143
94% matchVery Positive92% of 4,810 reviews2022
Dev: Jenny Vi Pham
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 53%
A bickering and bantering rivals-to-lovers visual novel where you fall in love after first hack.
Why similar: Dating Sim 21.9%, LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Otome 12.9% ★, Romance 11.9%
- #7 DDinosaur with Double D's
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 793 reviews2025
Dev: KudPub: Lekker spelen
Windows
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 40.4% ★, Dating Sim 18.9%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Romance 10%, Story Rich 7.6%
- #8 Kare wa Kanojo
92% matchVery Positive83% of 75 reviews2019
Dev: JMF Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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+ 18.2%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Romance 13.7%, Dating Sim 13.4%, Drama 11.4%
- #9 Drops of Death
90% matchVery Positive93% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: Snowhaven Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
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+ 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Otome 12.2% ★, Romance 10.4%
- #10 Highschool Romance
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 590 reviews2015
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 31.7%, Romance 21.6%, Dating Sim 21.1%, LGBTQ+ 12.5%, Multiple Endings 4.8%
- #11 Demonheart: The Ice Demon
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 128 reviews2022
Dev: Rolling Crown
Windows · Mac
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 15.2%, Otome 14.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Romance 10.3%
- #12 Band Camp Boyfriend
89% matchVery Positive97% of 119 reviews2023
Dev: Lovebird Game Studios
Windows
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 18.5%, Otome 16.4% ★, Visual Novel 11.6%, Romance 11%, Drama 9.1%
- #13 Velvet Bite: Softly, with Teeth
89% matchMixed52% of 75 reviews2025
Dev: EVERIUM
Windows · Mac
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 20.7%, LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Otome 14.3% ★, Visual Novel 13.3%, Female Protagonist 7.4%
- #14 Wanting Wings
87% matchVery Positive99% of 135 reviews2023
Dev: BaseSonPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
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+ 19.7%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Dating Sim 14.7%, Romance 13.7%, Female Protagonist 10.5%
- #15 Dynopunk
86% matchVery Positive93% of 518 reviews2023
Dev: Tomato Fantasy GamesPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 43.6% ★, Visual Novel 15.7%, Multiple Endings 10%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Story Rich 7.9%
- #16 Enamored Risks
88% matchVery Positive86% of 204 reviews2020
Dev: Crystal Game Works
Windows
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 17.1%, Otome 15.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Visual Novel 13%, Romance 11.5%
- #17 Date Z
86% matchMixed68% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Mass CreationPub: We Dig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
"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 23.3%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Romance 15.1%, Drama 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #18 Life After Magic
84% matchVery Positive98% of 264 reviews2023
Dev: Team StarlightPub: Chirashi Games
Windows · Linux
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%, Dating Sim 18.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Romance 11.2%, Female Protagonist 8.6%
- #19 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
83% 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 22.9%, LGBTQ+ 20%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #20 Melancholy Love
85% matchVery Positive94% of 71 reviews2021
Dev: White Dew GamesPub: Kikai Digital
Windows · Mac
Melancholy Love is a Yuri Visual Novel between an elite and a misfit in an All-Girls' High School. How will sparks flare between the two?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.1%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Romance 14.4%, Drama 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #21 Boyfriend Dungeon
82% matchVery Positive92% of 2,624 reviews2021
Dev: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Date your weapons! Romance swords, daggers, and polearms to level them up in this “shack-and-slash” dungeon crawling adventure.
Why similar: Dating Sim 27.7%, LGBTQ+ 27%, Romance 17.4%, Story Rich 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #22 Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate
79% 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: LGBTQ+ 28.6%, Dating Sim 20%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Romance 9%
- #23 XOXO Droplets
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 348 reviews2017
Dev: GB Patch Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 24.4%, Otome 19.5% ★, Visual Novel 17%, Romance 12.7%, Female Protagonist 9.6%
- #24 Growing Up
80% matchVery Positive88% of 3,558 reviews2021
Dev: Vile Monarch
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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+ 15.8%, Dating Sim 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, 1990's 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #25 Winning Love by Daylight [Ep 1 Demo]
81% matchVery Positive88% of 138 reviews2021
Dev: Cutlass Boardgames
Windows
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 25.2%, LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Romance 16%, Visual Novel 7.8%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
- #26 Speed Dating for Ghosts
81% 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 22.5%, LGBTQ+ 20.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Romance 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #27 LongStory
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 104 reviews2017
Dev: Bloom Digital Media
Windows · Mac
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+ 26.2%, Dating Sim 22.7%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Romance 13.8%, Story Rich 5.2%
- #28 taking my Dark Knight Girlfriend to the corner store
75% matchVery Positive99% of 293 reviews2025
Dev: ForeverFuture Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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+ 26.1%, Romance 21.7%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Dating Sim 14.9%, Female Protagonist 12.3%
- #29 Purrfect Apawcalypse: Love at Furst Bite
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 872 reviews2021
Dev: Denny TruongPub: 90% Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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+ 24.8%, Dating Sim 23%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Story Rich 9.4%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #30 Blooming Nightshade
79% matchVery Positive83% of 224 reviews2019
Dev: Nightshade
Windows · Mac · Linux
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+ 26.6%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Romance 18.4%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Dating Sim 10.5%
- #31 Date Everything!
73% matchVery Positive94% of 6,867 reviews2025
Dev: Sassy Chap GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 27.9%, LGBTQ+ 27.6%, Romance 15.5%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
- #32 Rivalhearts
75% matchVery Positive91% of 85 reviews2024
Dev: Studio Spiritus
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 17.8%, Romance 15.2%, Visual Novel 15%, Drama 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #33 The Radiants
76% matchVery Positive86% of 85 reviews2023
Dev: Rose Arcana Games
Windows · Mac
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 19.4%, Otome 17.2% ★, Visual Novel 14.3%, Romance 12.9%, Female Protagonist 8.6%
- #34 Magical Diary: Horse Hall
77% matchVery Positive90% of 1,019 reviews2012
Dev: Hanako Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 26.5%, Visual Novel 26.4%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Otome 11.6% ★, Romance 8.8%
- #35 Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers
76% 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: LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Dating Sim 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Romance 11.4%, Otome 9.4% ★
- #36 Love Love Mystery Club
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 559 reviews2026
Dev: LuminDrivePub: NANA Stories
Windows · Mac
In Love Love Mystery Club, you’re the newest member of the Detective Club at a seemingly ordinary high school. Through Full Motion Video (FMV) storytelling, your choices steer the narrative—will your heart find tenderness… or will hidden horrors emerge from the darkness?
Why similar: Dating Sim 33.9%, Visual Novel 22.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Female Protagonist 10%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #37 Roommates
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 231 reviews2014
Dev: Winter Wolves
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 19.7%, LGBTQ+ 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Romance 11.5%, Otome 11.2% ★
- #38 A Wild Catgirl Appears!
78% matchMixed57% of 280 reviews2016
Dev: NewWestGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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 19%, LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Romance 9.7%, Female Protagonist 8.9%
- #39 Monster Prom
73% matchVery Positive93% of 14,244 reviews2018
Dev: Beautiful GlitchPub: Xelu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 41.1%, LGBTQ+ 23.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Story Rich 3.2%
- #40 Lovebirb
73% matchVery Positive82% of 272 reviews2023
Dev: Anonymous Penguin Studio
Windows
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 28.3%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Otome 17.5% ★, Choices Matter 8.2%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #41 Tender: Creature Comforts
74% matchVery Positive90% of 106 reviews2021
Dev: Kenny Sun
Windows · Mac
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 28.3%, Visual Novel 18.5%, LGBTQ+ 15.4%, Romance 9.5%, Simulation 5.5%
- #42 Love Craft
70% matchVery Positive99% of 89 reviews2025
Dev: Toiu
Windows · Mac · Linux
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+ 22.7%, Dating Sim 20.9%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Romance 12.9%, Drama 9.7%
- #43 Animal Lover
74% matchVery Positive86% of 160 reviews2017
Dev: Trainwreck Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 98%
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 23.7% ★, Dating Sim 19.4%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Romance 14.9%, Female Protagonist 10.1%
- #44 BAD END THEATER
69% 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: LGBTQ+ 24.9%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Multiple Endings 14%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Story Rich 10.2%
- #45 Doomsday Paradise
71% 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: Dating Sim 25.8%, LGBTQ+ 25.5%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Romance 12%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
- #46 Lilycle Rainbow Stage!!!
72% matchVery Positive92% of 167 reviews2019
Dev: ParticlePub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 243.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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+ 21.4%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Dating Sim 16.2%, Romance 14.5%, Female Protagonist 10.5%
- #47 Millennium Whisper
70% matchMixed67% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: Parable Studios
Windows · Linux
Millennium Whisper is a next-gen dating-sim set in 1999 at the fictional Escafeld College with an AI trained by real actors portraying the cast! Who will you confess your feelings to at the end of the millennium?
Why similar: Dating Sim 22.6%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Romance 15.3%, 1990's 13.7%, LGBTQ+ 7.3%
- #48 Tri City Monsters
69% 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 19.5%, LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Romance 13.9%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
- #49 Arcadia Fallen
69% matchVery Positive94% of 508 reviews2021
Dev: Galdra Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 19%, Otome 16.7% ★, Visual Novel 14.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Romance 11.5%
- #50 C14 Dating
72% matchVery Positive91% of 65 reviews2016
Dev: Winter Wolves
Windows · Mac · Linux
C-14 Dating is an otome dating sim that combines archaeology, friendships and love.
Why similar: Dating Sim 22.7%, Otome 21.4% ★, Visual Novel 14.9%, Romance 10.4%, Female Protagonist 10.2%
- #51 Sweet Home
64% matchVery Positive95% of 8,945 reviews2025
Dev: 开心茶房Pub: Tailtone Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Sweet Home is a visual novel set in a Chinese high school. Parted friendships, ambiguous romances, tangled relationships, and flawed families... Are these just the pangs of adolescence—or something heavier? Step into the shoes of Zhao Ying, shape her choices, and uncover every possible path.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.9%, Dating Sim 18.1%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Drama 8.8%
- #52 My Vow to My Liege
67% matchVery Positive92% of 4,072 reviews2020
Dev: YETU GAMEPub: 方块游戏(CubeGame)
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
《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 27% ★, Romance 21%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, LGBTQ+ 4.6%
- #53 The Divine Speaker
68% matchVery Positive96% of 436 reviews2022
Dev: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A story-rich tale of breaking the bonds of fate... and meeting some cute guys along the way!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.5%, Dating Sim 18%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Romance 12.2%, Drama 10%
- #54 Sugar,sugar,sugarcoat
67% matchVery Positive97% of 161 reviews2024
Dev: pankuzufactory
Windows · Mac
"Sugar,sugar,sugarcoat" is a dating simulation game set in a school. Interact with the girls and gain their love. You must then offer that love to the devil you love.
Why similar: Dating Sim 32.6%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Drama 12.3%, LGBTQ+ 11.8%, Simulation 8.5%
- #55 Deep Sea Valentine
70% matchVery Positive90% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: KigyoDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore a colorful underwater world and help a pink dolphin find the perfect date for Valentine's day!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20%, Dating Sim 18.9%, Romance 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, 1990's 10.5%
- #56 Our Life: Beginnings & Always
65% 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: LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Dating Sim 18.3%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Romance 14.7%, Otome 9.9% ★
- #57 A Pinch of Magic
68% matchVery Positive84% of 236 reviews2021
Dev: Crystal Game Works
Windows
Save your grandparent's failing café/magic shop from bankruptcy and possibly fall in love!
Why similar: Dating Sim 19.5%, LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Otome 15.3% ★, Visual Novel 13.2%, Romance 8.1%
- #58 Bunkered with Femboy
64% matchVery Positive91% of 281 reviews2025
Dev: Pink Twilight
Windows · Mac · Linux
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+ 23.2%, Dating Sim 19.2%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Romance 14.2%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
- #59 Yuri Dating Agency
67% 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: LGBTQ+ 28.2%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Dating Sim 14.2%, Female Protagonist 10%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #60 1 to 1 humanoid edible toys
64% matchVery Positive93% of 2,339 reviews2024
Dev: 汉谟拉比炒面Pub: 无
Windows · Mac
A story about Ambiguous Affection, Appetite, and Tantalizing Desires.
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