Anime Romance Rpg

It’s time to sharpen that wit, tidy up that profile and swipe right as we check out the best anime romance games!

These anime romance games have long been a gaming staple in Japan, but it’s only in relatively recent years that developers and publishers have taken the time to translate them into other languages and take them beyond their country of origin.

Anime romance games tend to feature very well written narratives and offer a choice of which character – sometimes even multiple characters – that you can date.

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Though you may think that Hatoful Boyfriend is more of a joke than a ‘real’ dating sim, it actually has a great story and plenty of options when it comes to romance.

Though that is the case, you can choose to change the visuals so that the pigeons are instead represented as humans in anime-style  illustrations.

Yet despite the psychological horror elements, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! does wrap itself in the tropes of anime romance games – with your main character joining the titular Literature Club, looking for love.

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There’s so much bubbling under the surface and so many clever twists in Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! that it would be poor form to reveal any more than the above.

Suffice to say that, if you don’t mind a little subverting of expectations with your anime romance games, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! will likely be right up your street!

Imagine waking up and finding yourself in a world populated by notable historical and legendary figures – who all happen to be beautiful women.

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Well, considering that Eiyuu Senki: The World Conquest appears on the Retro Dodo list of anime romance games, you can probably imagine how things progress!

Eiyuu Senki: The World Conquest also received a sequel titled Eiyuu Senki GOLD. Iinstead of continuing the story, it poses a ‘What If?’ style scenario change in which the events of the game play out differently due to the main character’s first interaction with one of the NPCs!

Nightshade is a unique title that sees your main character romancing one of five ninjas. It’s a historical romance game, set shortly after the Sengoku period in Japan (which ended in 1615, just for you history buffs out there!).

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Interestingly, though the story and several characters are fictional, many events and other NPCs are real, making Nightshade quite the history lesson!

Replaying the narrative in order to romance all of the available characters is a must to see all sides of the main story, with two endings for each of the five romanceable characters depending on the choices made throughout the game.

Little Busters! has proven so popular since its original release – back in 2007 on the PC – that it’s also been adapted into a manga, an anime and has had several sequels too!

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The hugely popular and long-running Sakura Wars series of games – which debuted in 1996 – took a long while to be localised into English, but it was worth the wait.

Though many of the Sakura Wars games have a Steampunk setting, Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love (the fifth game in the series) is set in an alternate 1920s.

Incredibly, the localisation into English took two years to complete. It just goes to show why so many visual novels and anime romance style games were deemed too costly and difficult to bring to the West!

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One of the few non-Japanese originated titles on the anime romance games list, HuniePop combines the mechanics of dating sims with that of a match 3 puzzle game and light RPG elements.

When taking one of the game’s romanceable characters on a date, players must play a puzzle game. The aim is to match tokens to score points – and to score enough points for a successful date in a limited number of moves.

Succeed and you’ll initially get a photo of your dating partner, with subsequent dates yielding further rewards until things get decidedly NSFW.

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If that kind of thing doesn’t bother you, there’s an awful lot of fun to be had with this title’s unique, well thought out puzzle game and dating sim elements. 

The Sakura Wars games make another appearance on this list with this fantastic reboot. The sixth entry in the series is actually known as New Sakura Wars in Japan

In a first for the Sakura Wars games, the reboot steps away from turn based strategy between visual novel style romance scenes – and instead embraces real time, third person combat.

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The gameplay is definitely skewed more towards the anime romance elements, however. The mech combat offers a neat and intense diversion from the melodrama and comedy of the dating sim scenes.

As the first game in the main series since Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love, this contemporary version of Sakura Wars had a lot of expectation placed upon it by fans – and it lives up to that beautifully.

Like several other games on the best anime romance games list, Steins;Gate proved so popular that it was adapted into a manga and an anime.

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Though it’s one of the most traditional of visual novel style games to feature on this list, it does have a unique mechanic in the form of the ‘Phone Trigger’ system.

This sees the player’s in game phone ringing and replies – or even outright ignoring the call or message – leading to the narrative branching.

With such a tightly controlled narrative – which features lots of time travel elements – it’s the fantastic story that makes Stein’s;Gate such a memorable experience.

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Steins;Gate is a hugely beloved and perennially popular anime romance game that very nearly made it to the top of the anime romance games list.

Originally released as simply ‘Catherine’ back in 2011 on PS3 and Xbox 360, this re-release brings the game to contemporary consoles and adds quite a few new features too.

First thing’s first though: Catherine is another example of a multi genre anime romance game. It’s part visual novel/dating sim, part puzzle game with elements of platforming too.

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In Catherine: Full Body, players are in charge of a guy named Vincent, who’s in a long term relationship with a woman named Katherine.

Though he’s a bit commitment-phobic, everything is seemingly fine until the eponymous Catherine walks into his life – and presents a tempting alternative to Vincent’s current situation.

The player is given lots of moral choices that affect the progression and outcome of the story – and this ‘Full Body’ edition even adds in an extra character named Rin, presenting an entirely new branch of romance that can be chosen.

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The puzzle/platform elements come into play at night, with you having to navigate Vincent’s unsettled sleep in frantic, brilliantly implemented nightmare stages.

Catherine is an incredibly unusual, brilliantly designed, one of a kind game – which is why we rank it at the top of our best anime romance games list!

Looking for more anime style games? Why not check out Retro Dodo’s very own anime games on PS3 recommendations, our overall best anime games list or even – if you’re looking for pretty much the polar opposite of romance – our best anime fighting games list!

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Jason – who lives in the UK – has had a lifelong interest in video games, which all started when he discovered Space Invaders in the early 80s. The first game he ever completed was Wonder Boy in Monster Land on the Sega Master System – which remains one of his proudest gaming achievements. Jason is a passionate writer – and has been writing about gaming since the late 90s. He currently runs pop culture blog midlifegamergeek.com, which he updates on a daily basis (and has written more than 700 articles on the blog alone!).For the first time since graduating high school, 30-year-old Moriko Morioka is unemployed—and she couldn't be happier. Having quit her long-standing job of over 11 years, Moriko quickly turns to online games to pass her now-plentiful free time, reinventing herself as the handsome and dashing male hero Hayashi in the MMO Fruits de Mer. With the pesky societal obligations of the real world out of the way, she blissfully dives headfirst into the realm of the game, where she promptly meets the kind and adorable healer Lily. Befriending each other almost instantly, the two become inseparable just as Moriko herself becomes more and more engrossed in her new life as Hayashi. Eventually, Moriko adopts the reclusive lifestyle in its entirety, venturing out from the safety of her apartment only when absolutely necessary.

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