- #1 Drinks With Abbey
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 400 reviews2019
Dev: Ramify Games
Windows · Mac
Drinks with Abbey is a short, slice-of-life visual novel about a first date.
Why similar: Conversation 16.9%, Dating Sim 15.8%, Romance 15.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
- #2 Speed Dates Summer Edition
96% matchMixed64% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Icarus Interactive Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Summer's here and hearts are heating up! Meet five different beauties, hang out, flirt a little... and maybe even find your summer romance. Your choices matter — and the story’s all yours.
Why similar: Dating Sim 20.6%, Romance 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%
- #3 PockeDate! - Pocket Dating Simulator
95% 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 28.6%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Romance 23.3%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Cute 7.5%
- #4 Speed Dating for Ghosts
96% 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: Conversation 18.2%, Dating Sim 16.9%, Romance 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.9%
- #5 A Date with Death
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,259 reviews2023
Dev: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Why similar: Dating Sim 34.6%, Romance 22.7%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Choices Matter 7.2%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
- #6 Doodle Date
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 338 reviews2018
Dev: Nicholas Lives
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Romance, seduce, and even marry your own drawings! Forget about finding true love; In Doodle Date, you create it!
Why similar: Romance 18.5%, Dating Sim 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
- #7 Plenty of Fish in the Sea
93% matchVery Positive95% of 75 reviews2025
Dev: Nullblade Studios
Windows
Plenty of Fish in the Sea is a cozy narrative-driven dating sim where you engage in heartfelt conversations with charming salmon and take them on delightful underwater dates.
Why similar: Dating Sim 18.7%, Romance 17.2%, Conversation 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #8 Tri City Monsters
92% 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: Romance 17.9%, Dating Sim 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%
- #9 Date Everything!
91% 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 28.6%, Romance 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #10 Spread The Love
91% matchVery Positive86% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: jamms
Windows · Mac
A silly dating sim where your flavor decides your fate. Customize your profile, flirt with six lovably unique characters, and try to survive your first date!
Why similar: Dating Sim 31.5%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Romance 18%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Cute 6%
- #11 Doomsday Paradise
90% 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 25.3%, Romance 18.5%, Conversation 17%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
- #12 Landmine Princess
89% matchVery Positive94% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: Jeistar
Windows
Meet Mina! She's a landmine girl! That means she's cute on the outside, but dangerous on the inside! But maybe she's the kind of danger you've always been looking for. This is a rogue fast-love dating sim. And the only sim that teaches you to be nice to girls. Or else.
Why similar: Conversation 20%, Dating Sim 18%, Romance 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #13 Heartspell: Horizon Academy
87% matchVery Positive96% of 107 reviews2025
Dev: Dire Kitten Games
Windows
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: Romance 19.1%, Dating Sim 18.2%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Conversation 11.2%
- #14 Arcade Spirits
89% 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: Romance 21.9%, Dating Sim 21.4%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.1%
- #15 Over The Phone
88% matchVery Positive84% of 93 reviews2021
Dev: Ramify Games
Windows · Mac
A short talking sim with choices. Get to know Harper over a handful of voice-acted calls and text chats.
Why similar: Conversation 17.3%, Dating Sim 16.3%, Romance 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
- #16 Psycho地雷InLove : 싸이코지라이 인 러브
85% matchVery Positive96% of 283 reviews2022
Dev: 유진게임즈
Windows
A simulation of an outcast romance!
Why similar: Dating Sim 29.1%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Romance 18.9%, Cute 9.6%, Simulation 7.1%
- #17 Tender: Creature Comforts
86% 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 22.5%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Romance 11.9%, Hand-drawn 11%
- #18 boyfriend or cake??
84% matchVery Positive94% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: Nolan TaylorPub: Tactical Toad LLC
Windows · Linux
alternatively: caring romantic partner or delicious confectionery dessert?
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.5%, Dating Sim 30.4%, Romance 17.6%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Casual 3.9%
- #19 Mission: It's Complicated
84% matchVery Positive93% of 230 reviews2020
Dev: Schell Games
Windows · Mac
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: Romance 29.7%, Dating Sim 26.4%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Casual 2.3%
- #20 //TODO: today
82% matchVery Positive93% of 426 reviews2021
Dev: Boys Laugh +
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about figuring out life with the help of an AI. //TODO: today is a pastel colored slice-of-life story that let's you freely choose your pronouns and romantic preferences!
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.8%, Dating Sim 28.8%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, Cute 11.6%, Indie 4.8%
- #21 Charming Hearts
81% 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: Romance 16%, Dating Sim 15.5%, Conversation 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
- #22 Five Dates
82% matchVery Positive85% of 2,798 reviews2020
Dev: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Five Dates is an interactive rom-com about the unpredictable world of digital dating. With five potential female matches, Vinny explores whether compatibility, chemistry and connection is still possible in a world where physical touch is no longer an option.
Why similar: Dating Sim 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%
- #23 Border of her Heart
83% matchMixed67% of 73 reviews2018
Dev: Tuomo LainePub: Tuomo's games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.
Why similar: Dating Sim 15.1%, Conversation 13.9%, Romance 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%
- #24 obi3011-prologue
79% matchVery Positive94% of 94 reviews2024
Dev: 火鸡头工作室Pub: 糕薯科技
Windows
This is a cyberpunk-themed pixelated psychological horror, romance, and adventure game. Amidst a chance encounter in the rain and a forced gathering, an unexpected journey unfolds—a humorous romance and adventure story between you, a robot, and your furry companions.
Why similar: Dating Sim 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 18%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Simulation 7.9%
- #25 The Radiants
79% 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: Romance 20.5%, Dating Sim 19.6%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%
- #26 Forbidden Fruit
81% matchMixed65% of 87 reviews2022
Dev: Lustration Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
A nonlinear visual novel where you find yourself on an island of temptation and mystery. Flirting, dangerous adventures, and charismatic furries, every dialogue can turn into a romance, and every choice you make shapes the story ❤️
Why similar: Dating Sim 26.5%, Visual Novel 23.6%, Romance 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Multiple Endings 5.7%
- #27 FutaDomWorld
78% matchVery Positive95% of 156 reviews2021
Dev: New Dawn Games
Windows · Mac
FutaDomWorld is a dystopian, futanari-femdom dating sim. Let's get weird.
Why similar: Dystopian 23.2%, Dating Sim 21.3%, Romance 14.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Conversation 8.9%
- #28 Speed Dates
80% matchMixed47% of 285 reviews2023
Dev: Icarus Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Embark Speed Dates, where you control first dates with 18 attractive women in this interactive FMV game. Shape your story with charm and humor for a personalized romantic journey.
Why similar: Dating Sim 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Romance 12.1%
- #29 My Sweet Summer
76% matchVery Positive89% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: W-I-WPub: Bow Studio
Windows · Mac
A romantic visual novel with interactive elements. Flirt, choose, and pour your charm into short but intense stories. Take control of the situation, meet new characters, and play through mini-games where every decision can change the course of the night.
Why similar: Visual Novel 42.5%, Conversation 31.4%, Simulation 23%, Indie 2.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #30 OmOneko
76% matchVery Positive100% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: TaleChaser
Windows · Mac · Linux
“A story about cat girls … with bite.” Nekos have evolved in the shadows of human society. Beautiful. Mysterious. Chaotic. And now, three of them live with you. Will you be able to get past the stigma and grow closer to them? OmOneko is a tale of cat and mouse... and rats.
Why similar: Romance 17.3%, Dating Sim 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
- #31 Curtain Call
77% matchVery Positive92% of 59 reviews2022
Dev: Dramatis Personae GamesPub: Juggernaut Entertainment
Windows · Mac
"Curtain Call" is a visual novel about (literally) breaking through social masks by forming meaningful connections with incredibly deep personalities. Whether you’re looking to make new friends or something more, there’s a whole cast of characters just dying to meet you!
Why similar: Romance 15.2%, Dating Sim 15.2%, Conversation 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
- #32 Date Z
77% 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: Romance 20.1%, Dating Sim 19.7%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 13.4%
- #33 Summer Meetings
78% matchVery Positive92% of 59 reviews2019
Dev: Mikołaj Spychał
Windows · Mac · Linux
We meet many people in our lives. Relationships with them are different and can be changed.
Why similar: Dating Sim 18.8%, Visual Novel 16%, Romance 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #34 Emily is Away
74% matchVery Positive89% of 32,165 reviews2015
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Choices Matter 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Romance 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Dating Sim 12.4%
- #35 Kaichu - The Kaiju Dating Sim
75% 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: Romance 18.8%, Dating Sim 17.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Choices Matter 11%
- #36 Fling with a Tiefling
73% matchVery Positive92% of 83 reviews2024
Dev: Kristi Jimenez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fling with a Tiefling is a short fantasy romance visual novel that follows you, an adventurer whose journey is about to come to an end. With tonight potentially being the last night with your treasured Tiefling companion Karrus, how will you spend it with him?
Why similar: Romance 21.3%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Dating Sim 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
- #37 Kunado Chronicles
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 173 reviews2023
Dev: Purple SoftwarePub: Shiravune
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
The dragon is already dead. Help what's left of humanity learn how to live in this post-apocalyptic fantasy visual novel.
Why similar: Romance 17%, Conversation 16.7%, Dating Sim 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
- #38 A Warmer Shade of Summer
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 117 reviews2021
Dev: 52.6 Productions
Windows
You return to the family farm to find it in disrepair. Maybe you have what it takes to bring it back to its former glory? Who knows who you'll meet on you're way? An old friend? That special someone? Anything is possible in Summerset.
Why similar: Dating Sim 28.2%, Visual Novel 26.4%, Romance 26.1%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Casual 4.1%
- #39 A Date With Chester 2
71% matchVery Positive99% of 86 reviews2026
Dev: Chester the Otter
Windows
It's been three years since your first date with Chester the Otter. It's your anniversary today, and you've both got surprises in store. Are you ready for a date that's truly out of this world?
Why similar: Dating Sim 32.9%, Romance 30.2%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Indie 1.3%
- #40 Infinite Stars - The Visual Novel
73% matchVery Positive89% of 95 reviews2022
Dev: Wraiith303Pub: IF THEN ELSE Interactive Fiction
Windows
Infinite Stars is a visual novel filled with romance, mystery & roleplaying elements where you choose how the adventure unfolds. Establish your character & personality through the hundreds of choices presented in this interactive fiction inspired by stories like Dune, The Expanse & Mass Effect.
Why similar: Dating Sim 18.7%, Romance 18%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%
- #41 I Wani Hug that Gator!
69% 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: Romance 18.5%, Dating Sim 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #42 Yuri Dating Agency
72% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Dating Sim 14.6%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
- #43 Katawa Shoujo
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,256 reviews2024
Dev: Four Leaf Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Katawa Shoujo is a romantic visual novel set in the fictional Japanese Yamaku High School for disabled children. Hisao's congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right.
Why similar: Romance 19.4%, Dating Sim 17.1%, Visual Novel 16%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #44 taking my Dark Knight Girlfriend to the corner store
69% 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: Romance 43.2%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Dating Sim 18.9%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Casual 2.3%
- #45 Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance
72% matchVery Positive93% of 141 reviews2021
Dev: Rocket Adrift
Windows · Mac · Linux
Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance is a dating sim about a teen girl who moves to a small secret community of cryptids. Romance a magical Fairy, a sensitive Sasquatch and a bold Velociraptor. A satirical 90's teen drama about trying to find love in your last year of high school.
Why similar: Dating Sim 23.1%, Romance 19.7%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
- #46 Pandemic Love
71% matchVery Positive93% of 232 reviews2021
Dev: Red Skald
Windows
A short visual novel about isolation. You try to search for comfort in the lonesome people around you. Keeping the darkness at bay with small embers of light. Will you let the fear change you?
Why similar: Dating Sim 23.6%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Hand-drawn 14.1%, Romance 13.1%
- #47 Sucker for Love: First Date
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,933 reviews2022
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Put the 'love' in 'Lovecraftian horror'! Perform terrifying rituals to win the affections of eldritch horrors and smooch 'em... at any cost!
Why similar: Romance 24.6%, Dating Sim 20.6%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #48 Nova Hearts
70% matchMixed69% of 90 reviews2025
Dev: Lightbulb Crew
Windows
A mysterious force of power transforms you and other highly attractive people in your area into superheroes and villains! TEXT, DATE and FIGHT your friends and enemies alike.
Why similar: Dating Sim 24.4%, Conversation 22.7%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Romance 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
- #49 Dating Simulator
70% matchMixed55% of 462 reviews2023
Dev: piratecat gamesPub: Cheesecake Dev
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Dating Simulator is a simulation game where you meet and interact with different people.
Why similar: Dating Sim 29.8%, Romance 28.6%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Simulation 8.2%
- #50 Hydrangea
67% matchVery Positive93% of 123 reviews2024
Dev: Meiri Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.7%, Romance 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Cute 8.3%
- #51 Emberfate: Tempest of Elements
67% matchVery Positive98% of 140 reviews2023
Dev: Wind Chimes Games Limited
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Dating Sim 19.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Romance 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%
- #52 Trinoline All Ages Version
70% matchVery Positive89% of 153 reviews2019
Dev: minoriPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 26.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
When tragedy sparks the advancement of science, a sentient android is created. Now, in this heart-wrenching, romantic, and beautiful visual novel, you will explore whether or not it's possible for man and machine to truly love each other.
Why similar: Romance 20.7%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Dating Sim 16.6%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #53 Sand Castle
68% matchVery Positive94% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Alice NowakPub: Unusual Meaning
Windows · Mac · Linux
A date on the beach, small talk, a little bit of nostalgia and an important decision. All of that taking place to the accompaniment of the summer breeze.
Why similar: Romance 22.4%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Dating Sim 15.5%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
- #54 Neon Nights
71% matchMixed51% of 100 reviews2021
Dev: CrazySky3D
Windows · Linux
Get a glimpse of Metropolis 12's seedy back-alley nightlife in the sci-fi cyberpunk visual novel, NEON NIGHTS!
Why similar: Romance 30.7%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Dating Sim 17.2%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #55 I Will Never Fall For My Tsundere Classmate, So I Will Just Date A Background Character Instead!
65% matchVery Positive100% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: Kaijoseisoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short parody visual novel about romance with a tsundere girl... Or not?
Why similar: Romance 27.6%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Dating Sim 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
- #56 Bloody Painter Dating Sim
64% matchVery Positive90% of 1,598 reviews2024
Dev: DeluCat Productions
Windows
You have unfortunately been captured by a serial killer, and you must increase your chances of survival within seven days. Your choices will determine how he treats you and the outcome of your relationship. What will your final relationship with him be...?
Why similar: Dating Sim 36.6%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Romance 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
- #57 机械恋心
65% matchVery Positive100% of 92 reviews2024
Dev: Lunatic Works
Windows · Mac · Linux
当科技突破伦理的局限,当天才的火花和机械的纯洁相遇,当积久的矛盾与必然的巧合共鸣,不受祝福却被期待的恋爱就此展开......
Why similar: Romance 20.3%, Dating Sim 18.7%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Conversation 11%, Multiple Endings 10.2%