Higurashi: When They Cry
Higurashi: When They Cry is a series of Adventure and Visual Novel video games developed and published by 07th Expansion for Multiple Platforms. The first title in the series was released in 2002, and the series contains up to eight installments. It mainly deals with a murder mystery, and the series unfolds the story as a sound novel, similar to Visual Novel in that the gameplay needs a relatively small player interaction as most of the game is played reading text dialogues. There are up to seven main characters available, and each appears in every scenario. Keiichi Maebara is the main protagonist, who is a young boy and recently shifted to Hinamzawa with his family and started to adapt to life in the country. The player has a natural charisma which enables him to make new buddies. As the game advances, other parts of the story will be revealed. With immersive gameplay, superb mechanics, and cool graphics, Higurashi: When They Cry is the best game to play.
#1 Army Gals
Army Gals is an Adventure, Visual Novel, and Single-player Psychological Horror video game with Dating Simulation developed and published by Dharker Studio for Multiple Platforms. The game deals with Visual Novel element takes place at a retreat for delinquents. It introduces a beautiful cast of characters, and the story focuses on the protagonist who is forced to attend after a misunderstanding back at home. The player is expecting a fortnight of hell, and he is shocked to locate he is sharing the retreat with three most beautiful women. The ordinary retreat takes a fast turn when the four of the player are left in the midst of nowhere, waking to discover a staff went and only the four of the player left behind, the player quickly come to the point he will all need to rely on each other in order to survive. As the player start exploring the world, he will encounter different events. Now, it depends on the player to try and escape this nightmare while making possible choices to advance through the story.
#2 Cinders
Cinders is an Adventure, and Visual Novel video game based on the story of the Cinderella developed and published by MoaCube for Mac and Windows. The game offers four multiple endings and lets the player to reads the story and makes the decisions or select the choices at crucial points to change the outcome of the story. It enables the player to watch variations including ends again. There are up to eight trophies available for the player to gather during the gameplay. The game features different characters such as Cinders, Sophia, Gloria, Lady Carmosa, Madame Ghede, The Fairy, and more. According to the story, the protagonist Cinders is a young woman, living with her overbearing stepmother and her two ugly daughters. The game deals with a story about balancing dreams and freedom with harsh reality. It features more than 120 decision points, up to three-hundred choices to select from, and different endings, Cinders offers you a full control of the primary character’s personality and her story. With exciting gameplay, cool features, and well-written story, Cinders is the best game to play.
#3 Lucky Rabbit Reflex
Lucky Rabbit Reflex is an Otome styled Visual Novel Dating, Love and Social Networking Simulation by Studio Super 63. The game allows you to be a character in the game (Boy or a Girl) try finding out a boyfriend or a girlfriend for you while building and developing a life and enjoy a wonderful Life Simulation experience. As the 17 year old girl student of Northmain Collage, Lucky Rabbit Reflex lets you focus on your studies, make new friends, hang out with them, find your specific one, go partying, find a god job and enjoy being part of a wonderful world. With a marvelously engaging choice-based game-play, 20 different game endings, a lot of beautiful characters to select, brilliant visuals and a great story-line to follow, Lucky Rabbit Reflex is a great game to play and enjoy.
#4 Nicole
Nicole is a great Otome and a Visual Novel style Dating and Life Simulation by Winter Wolves. The game features a female protagonist Nicole as your character who after modifications and customization helps you get into the game world. This game is set is set in a collage where Nicole (You) gets admitted for study and soon after her admission finds out about the mysterious disappearances of girls. She vows to find out the culprits who are kidnapping the girls and besides that, continues the daily tasks at her collage. Nicole lets you interact with other online players and NPC’s, take part in different dialogues, and activities like games, puzzles and romance as to collect more clues about the culprits. As a new student to the collage, you don’t have much friends, so you should make new friends and also find your true love by hanging out with boys and dating the right ones. In game you’ll be asked by the boys to go out and have lunch or dinner etc. so you should choose carefully who’s better for you. You can also buy different items from in-game markets to gift the boys you like. With all the fancies this game has to offer you, I’m sure you’ll like the game and enjoy playing it.
#5 Pirates in Love
Pirates in Love by Voltage is a wonderful Otome, Visual Novel Style Dating and Romance Life-Simulation created by Voltage inc. Japan. Just like all the Voltage games, Pirates in Love offers a great story as well as it allows you to join a group of Pirates and embark on a journey to find the lost treasures. Being an only girl on-board, you are the center of the universe and definitely the center of attention to every man on the ship. As the battle for your attention is already going on, it solely depends on you to choose whose best for you. You must interact with them, check out their personalities and find out who is your best match. The choice-based game-play lets you make your own choices and build a relation that will depend on your choices and actions, so you better be good at making choices. With a marvelous setting, great visuals, addictive game-play and a lot of other cool things, Pirates in Love is one of the best Dating and Social Networking Simulations to enjoy. Do try it out.
#6 The Flower Shop: Summer in Fairbrook
The Flower Shop: Summer In Fairbrook, made available by Winter Wolves is an amazing Dating, Life and Farming Simulation. This game also follows the tracks of other wonderful simulations of the same type and lets you get into the game world by creating and customizing a 3D avatar of yourself. Once the initial stage is completed, you can get into the game world and act as you like. The game spawns you as a College student named as Steve who after breaking up with his girlfriend gets settled to his uncle’s farm for the season of summer. You get to the farm and start doing the daily chores by raising the crops and balancing the land etc. The game totally lets you decide about how you want to spend your week and start Dating and Romancing with one of the four girls available. As mentioned above, the ending of the game depends upon your actions and the path you take, so be sure of what you are doing in the game and you’ll definitely enjoy it. The Flower Shop: Summer in Fairbrook is an interesting and quit engaging Dating, Life and Farming Simulation to enjoy. Try it out and you’ll enjoy playing it for sure.
#7 The Flower Shop: Winter in Fairbrook
The Flower Shop: Winter in Fairbrook, the second game in the series of The Flower Shop is an amazingly addictive Dating, Farming and Life-Simulation by Winter Wolves. Because of the Otome setup of the game, this game represents a girl named Natalie as your character who just finished her first semester in the collage and is being sent to get a job for winter season. You get to FairBrook and start working on a flower shop. Now its totally up to you to decide how you are going to spend your next week and find a boyfriend for the in-game Romance. You can choose between the four available boys and the chosen one will be your boyfriend for the rest of the game until you break up with him. You can also alter the ending of the game by manipulating the events and happenings. Just like The Flower Shop: Summer in Fairbrook, The Flower Shop: Winter in Fairbrook is also a super addicting and quite interesting Dating, Farming and Life-Simulation to enjoy. Do try it out for a wonderful experience.
#8 Magical Diary
Magical Diary is an astounding Fantasy-based Dating and Life-Simulation by Hanako Games. The game lets you spawn yourself in the game world by selecting and customizing a 3D avatar. You act in the game as a freshman girl to a magic school in which you can make new friends, learn magical spells, attempt magical exams, attend classes and find a date for the famous school event May Day Ball. You get to choose a community of girls from different cliques of halls. E.g. Horse Hall, Butterfly Hall, Snake Hall etc. And you can also choose your date from any of the boy’s halls E.g. Wolf Hall, Falcon Hall and Toad Hall. Because of the Visual Novel nature of the game, you can always get to know the story properly and if you want to end the story a bit differently, you can alter the events and the ending will be different. The game also lets you interact with other online players, solve puzzles, play different magical games etc. Magical Diary is a good Life and Dating Simulation to enjoy.
#9 Always Remember Me
Always Remember Me is an immersive Dating, Social Networking and Life-Simulation by Winter Wolves that offers a very realistic experience . The simulation features the character of Amy who used to date Aaron back in the days before a car accident that totally took the memories of Aaron. Your task in the game is to help Aaron out with remembering things from his past and continue on the course where you both were before. There are three other character in the game that you can date with but your focus is Aaron. As you are in control of the character of Amy so it’s your duty to control Amy’s destiny. Besides helping out Aaron with his past, you must focus on building a life for Amy too. Social interaction, making new friends, finding a job etc. are the tasks you will have to complete. With 9 different ending to the game, plenty of choices to make, superb visual details, soundtracks, a really well-written story and an engaging game-play, Always Remember Me is a great Dating and Romance Simulation to enjoy.
#10 X-Note
X-Note is another great Visual-Novel, Supernatural Mystery that offers a brilliant combination of Life and Dating Simulation aesthetics. The game revolves around the character of Essi, a young girl whose mother dies in a car accident and that affects her life badly. As the result Essi gets reserved and starts behaving differently than her past. Going through the stuff and memories she finds a USB flash Device that has the info about her mother in a folder named X-Note, she tries hard but fails to see the contents of the folder. Meanwhile a boy named Yuon asks for her help regarding a murder at Xen-Institute, Essi finds it interesting and starts digging about her own history and also the murder mystery that Yuon is working on. Your task is to be Essi in the game, go with the story, make choices and get the different endings all based up on the actions you perform. With a brilliant story, addictive game-play and eye catching visuals, X-Note is a fun game to play and enjoy.
#11 Supple
Supple is a wonderful Episodic Online Dating and Life-Simulation video game that sets you up into the character of Arin Costello. Your tasks in the game are to control her life, and help her excel in life by getting a good job, finding a date, Romancing and by doing all the things you can imagine in real life etc. You’ll also have to have good conversations with your co-workers and develop a good social life to remain connected with the people around you. Supple is actually developed as a brilliant Sitcom in which you’ll have to interact with other online players, make new friends, date your crushes and enjoy spending your life as you like it to be. With a wonderful character to groom, cool objectives to complete and a game-play totally dependent on the choices you make, Supple is a really amazing MMO, RPG, Dating and Life-Simulation to enjoy.
#12 Spirited Heart
Spirited Heart, a tremendously addictive and quite immersive Dating and Life-Simulation marvel from Winter Wolves. As usual, the game lets you create and customize your avatar and get into the game world to enjoy it fully. As an otome visual novel, Spirited Heart provides you with a female character who roams in the game world, talks to other online players, interacts with objects and NPC’s, engages in different fun filled activities like dances, puzzles and daily life events, Dating with the cute boys and Romancing etc. The main and quite important event in the game is Races in which you take part and try to defeat you opponents and boost up your XP Level. As the life fantasy nature of the game, you act as your normal daily life routine and you can get a job that boosts up your skills and your hard work results in a job promotion. Another interesting aspect of the game is that you can alter the ending of any story or episode in the game by simply acting naturally and a little bit different than the story-line. Try it out and you’ll definitely like it.
#13 Love and Order
Love and Order is one amazing Mystery-based Dating and Life-Simulation developed by Winter Wolves for all the amazing players around the globe. The game takes you to Montreal where you as the main character of Dana Larose work in the Crown Attorney’s Office as a Secretary. Your task is to complete your daily tasks with full attention and devotion and besides that develop your social and love life. With three choices Your Boss Ross Kim, a third year law Student named as Jonathan and Pierre Martine to the Assistant Attorney, Dorothy McCoy, you can select anyone as your partner just according to their specialties, skills and attitudes. The game further develops with the choices you make, so with any selected partner, the story ending differs from other endings. Make the right decisions and choices and enjoy a wonderfully amazing Life-Simulation, Dating and Romance experience. Love and Order offers an immersive game-play, cool visuals and a well-written story to follow.
#14 Katawa Shoujo
Katawa Shoujo is a Single-Player Visual Novel, Nakige and Life/Dating Simulation video game by Four Leaf Studios. The game takes you to the fictional setting of Yamaku High School for Disabled Children in Japan and tells the story of a young boy named Hisao Nakai whose life changes dramatically because of Cardiac Arrhythmia and because of transfer to a new school where he avails the chance of making new friends and falling in love. Katawa Shoujo offers a choice-based gameplay in which it allows you to read the text that appears on the screen and make decisions to initiate and end all the possible events or long and short dialog and conversations. Because of a Choice-based gameplay, Katawa Shoujo offers multiple endings of the game all based up on the decisions and choices you make during the gameplay. With all the amazing stories and options for you as the main character Hisao Nakai, the game offers five female characters and allows you to make your own love stories and enjoy a brilliant gameplay. With a wonderfully appealing story, great visuals and choice-based game-play, Katawa Shoujo is a brilliant game to play and enjoy.
#15 Supple: Episode 2
Supple: Episode 2 lets the players enjoy another brilliant episode of the popular Social Networking and Virtual World Simulation, Supple. This time the game lets the players play the game as Arin Costello and enjoy the Coveted promotion of Style Editor at Supple Magazine. The game allows the players to always stay on top by being the most favorite employee of the Boss by doing all the fun things such as maneuvering around the office mates, offering great ideas, being part of the Office Politics, etc. The players can enjoy the game by writing articles, eating lunch, changing outfits, chatting with friends and by flirting with the boys. Supple: Episode 2 offers a gameplay separated into Days and each day performance, so with all the other things that the players will regularly do in the game, competing and being ahead of the competitor Trevor Simons has its own charm. There is always a hustle between the two and whoever does the best in all the office things, wins the boss’ attention and gets rewarded with one of the most luxurious uptown Condos. For players, being at the top is necessary because if the boss think their performance is down, they can be fired. Being fired from the job that Arin loves, means the end of the game, so the game lets the players be always in competition and enjoy a real life-like experience of Office politics. With a near reality and the best 3D Life-Simulation experience, Supple: Episode 2 offer brilliant visuals and an immersive gameplay to enjoy.
#16 Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly
Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly is an Adventure, Visual Novel, and Single-player video game created by Otomate and published by Idea Factory for Multiple Platforms. The game allows the player to read exciting stories and make many decisions that directly affect the direction of the plot, leading the player to different endings. The game revolves around an amnesiac woman who is tasked or forced to participate in the black butterfly hunt. It features an interactive flowchart, which the player uses to go back and struggle to make alternative choices in order to keep track of what he has done in the game. Additionally, there are three more stories are included where the player can learn more about the cast of characters. At the start, the player acts as a woman find herself in a Western house, which is attacked by brutal monsters. During the gameplay, the player encounters men in the house who similarly lost their memories and now, the group is forced to jump into the hunt to collect the kaleidoscope fragments.
#17 Material Girl
Material Girl is an Adventure, Visual Novel, and Single-player video game, revolving around a female protagonist who receives a small amount of money from her parents for her living costs. The game supports a Single-player mode only and offers the mix of Anime, Role-playing, and Dating Simulation elements for those players who love reading stories, instead of doing action. As the story advances, the parents of the protagonist refuses to give her money anymore, so she has no choice but to do a part-time job. Now, she must do a part-time job to make money and meanwhile goes to school. All of her classmates think that she doesn’t like to interact with anyone, but they don’t know what she is thinking about at ordinary times. While playing the game, the player needs to interact with NPCs, find the job, date handsome boys, and do the job for a living. The player spends his/her lots of time reading dialogues and making choices to advance through the story. Material Girl includes prominent features such as Multiple Endings, Anime Characters, Dating Simulation aspects, and more.
#18 The Labyrinth of Grisaia
The Labyrinth of Grisaia is an Adventure, Visual Novel, Anime, and Single-player video game developed by Frontwing and published by Frontwing USA. The game acts as the sequel to The Fruit of Grisaia, and you should play the first game before trying this. The storyline of the game revolves around a young man, who throughout the game will interact with NPCs using the dialogues, and struggle to find his love. There are several objectives, and like other Visual Novel games, it offers multiple endings. The actions and choices of the player will determine the outcome of the game. Several scenes are available, and the player needs to select the scene to jump into the game. Most time the player spends in reading dialogues between characters and making choices to advance the story. The story follows a young man, who feel guilty while looking back on his past due to a girl he’d met in his peaceful life. With an engaging storyline, anime characters, multiple endings, and smooth graphics, The Labyrinth of Grisaia is the best game to play.