Best Dating Sim Games on Steam
Games about romance routes, affection choices, relationship stats, and character endings.
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1Stardew Valley - You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Feb 26, 2016
In this game, you can…
- marry someone with the exact salad you found in a trash can.
- build an 8-player farm together and even tweak the group profit split for a harder run.
- spam bombs in a monster-filled cavern to blast straight through floors for loot.
- run the mines in co-op, with one person fighting monsters while the other grabs ore and bolts.
- restore a run-down community center to reshape the whole town, or buy into a big corporation instead.
- ignore farming and still build a whole life by fishing, mining, foraging, cooking, and specializing into different work paths.
- befriend townspeople by learning their schedules, catching them at dawn, and steadily unlocking personal cutscenes and secrets.
- turn an overgrown inherited farm into a working homestead by clearing debris, planting crops, upgrading tools, and expanding your setup.
2Undertale - UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
Sep 15, 2015
In this game, you can…
- decide whether to spare or kill every single character, and watch the dialogue, music, endings, and even boss behavior change.
- murder everyone on purpose and have the game treat it like a moral catastrophe that it remembers even when you try to play nice later.
- pet a dog over and over until the game reacts, then get carried across a river by a duck that picks you up and flies you over.
- talk enemies down and end fights without killing anyone.
- dodge enemy attacks in real time while you pick dialogue options to change what the enemy does next.
- accidentally kill one monster and end up on a different route, then reset and unlock a completely new pacifist path by sparing everyone.
- go on a date with a skeleton and build friendships that unlock new scenes and outcomes instead of just giving you stats.
- finish what feels like the ending, get pushed to rethink your choices, then replay and see huge route-specific scenes you missed.
3ULTRAKILL - ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.
Sep 3, 2020
In this game, you can…
- toss a coin, shoot it midair, and ricochet the bullet into an enemy you can't even see.
- heal by getting right up next to enemies and absorbing their blood while you keep fighting.
- punch your own shotgun blast so it explodes on impact instead of just firing normally.
- time that coin shot at the apex so the bullet splits and detonates into a bigger hit.
- parry enemy attacks by punching them, including reflecting projectiles back at whoever fired them.
- swap between a big stack of guns mid-fight to cancel animations and fire faster without ever slowing down.
- chase perfect level ranks by optimizing routes and shaving tiny fractions of a second off your clear time.
- fight an endless survival arena where waves keep escalating until you finally die.
- spawn 10,000 rats in a sandbox, ground-slam, and crash the game and your PC.
4Doki Doki Literature Club! - The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Oct 6, 2017
In this game, you can…
- have a character break the fourth wall and address you like she knows you're at the computer.
- check the game's files for secrets as part of what the story is asking you to do.
- watch the story pretend to restart, then keep changing as it reveals it wasn't actually over.
- write poems by picking single words, each choice steering the poem toward a specific girl.
- pursue a childhood-friend romance, confess your love, and have the route end with her suicide.
- see dialogue and visuals degrade into corrupted-looking text as the game starts to fall apart.
- replay to shift who you spend time with and which poem words you pick, and uncover different storylines.
5Persona 5 Royal - Lead the Phantom Thieves of Hearts in this award winning, stylish turn-based RPG filled with dungeon crawling, party customization, strategic combat, and Persona fusion. Explore Tokyo, build relationships, battle Shadows, and infiltrate the minds of the corrupt to make them change their ways!
Oct 20, 2022
In this game, you can…
- get framed for assault, moved to Tokyo, then dragged into a parallel world by a talking cat to commit heists.
- send a calling card, break into someone's mind, and steal their "heart" to change how they act in real life.
- talk enemies into joining you mid-fight, then fuse them into new monsters to build custom battle strategies.
- spend a full in-game year budgeting every day between school, jobs, friends, workouts, and night-time dungeon raids.
- hide behind cover, grapple to hidden routes, and ambush guards in themed dungeons that play like stealth heists.
- trigger a critical hit, chain teammate follow-ups, and end the turn with a screen-filling group finisher.
- build friendships that unlock concrete combat perks and special moves, not just extra dialogue.
6Persona 4 Golden - A coming of age story that sets the protagonist and his friends on a journey kickstarted by a chain of serial murders.
Jun 13, 2020
In this game, you can…
- step into your TV on a rainy night.
- build friendships — even with a shrine fox — that directly power up your combat fusions.
- fight someone's "other self" so their Persona can awaken and join your team afterward.
- live a full school year where every day is two choices.
- capture Personas, then fuse them into custom builds with the exact skills and resistances you want.
- dive into a foggy TV-world dungeon of random floors, hunt the staircase, and push deeper for treasure and rare fights.
- investigate a string of disappearances by chasing clues across town, watching the Midnight Channel, then entering the next victim's TV world before the deadline hits.
- bounce from goofy school trips and club hangouts to life-or-death boss fights as your classmates become a full detective squad.
7Everlasting Summer - Visual novel loved by many – Everlasting Summer – now on Steam!
Nov 19, 2014
In this game, you can…
- fall asleep on a snowy night bus and wake up in a Soviet summer camp as a younger teenager.
- clear all six main character good endings to trigger a new character appearing at the mine and pushing the central mystery further.
- piece together clues from multiple routes until the overarching story turns into reality-bending psychological sci-fi revelations.
- live through a summer camp that treats your sudden de-aging like it's completely normal, even rooming you with the camp director.
- follow a prank into a disused mine and bunker, uncovering an underground mystery thread that keeps resurfacing across routes.
- finish a good ending and unlock an extra route that swings the whole story into horror-comedy territory.
- replay the same days and get completely different late-game events depending on which route you're on, like uncovering secret versions of the summer.
- play a poker-inspired card game as a side activity with real strategy instead of just dialogue choices.
8Yakuza 0 - SEGA’s legendary Japanese series finally comes to PC. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka as junior yakuza Kiryu and Majima. Take a front row seat to 1980s life in Japan in an experience unlike anything else in video gaming, with uncapped framerates and 4K resolutions. A legend is born.
Aug 1, 2018
In this game, you can…
- build a real-estate empire and appoint a chicken as your property manager.
- switch between three fighting styles mid-fight, including breakdancing as a real combat style.
- protect a moonwalking Michael Jackson lookalike from zombies using a motorcycle.
- grab almost anything nearby and beat people with it.
- get jumped by a huge crowd, swap styles on the fly, and end the brawl by slamming someone with a street object finisher.
- run a full cabaret club management mode, hiring hostesses and setting them up to dominate the night.
- spend piles of cash to unlock skills and get stronger, turning money into character growth.
- load up the game and immediately go sing karaoke with full music-video scenes.
- play Pocket Circuit toy-car racing and tune your build to crush kids at the track.
9Persona 3 Reload - Dive into the Dark Hour and awaken the depths of your heart. Persona 3 Reload is a captivating reimagining of the genre-defining RPG, reborn for the modern era with cutting-edge graphics and gameplay.
Feb 1, 2024
In this game, you can…
- step into a secret 25th hour at midnight, when everyone turns into coffins and your school becomes a monster-filled tower.
- climb a 264-floor tower during the hidden hour, clearing shifting layouts, looting chests, and pushing deeper one floor at a time.
- open a random door in the tower for a risky detour that can drop you into a hard fight, rare treasure, and even a full floor map.
- hit a weakness to knock enemies down, hand off extra turns across the team, then finish with a group attack once they're all floored.
- charge character-specific super moves in different ways, save them up, and unload them on bosses when you decide it matters most.
- play out extra mini-story arcs with party members, get new scenes, and unlock a new fusion reward when the episode wraps.
- spend late nights in the dorm cooking, gardening, watching DVDs, or reading with friends, then wake up with useful items and stronger bonds.
- plan your year day by day, choosing between school, friendships, side episodes, dorm life, and dungeon runs with limited time windows.
10The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty - He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.
Apr 22, 2024
In this game, you can…
- start as a bandit escorting four girls for sale, then learn the "buyer" is a thousand-year-old swine demon who eats children yearly.
- make choices so wrong that Man Sui kills you on the spot, and the death scene can expose her real motives early.
- spare a charming scumbag partner you chose to trust, then watch that mercy immediately backfire at a crucial moment.
- use a route flowchart to jump between branches, track endings, and see exactly where your choices split the story.
- hit a point where just three key dialogue choices set your relationship level and decide whether you get the best ending.
- replay deadly branches to uncover new context, turning earlier scenes into clues once you've seen what happens in other runs.
- travel through famine-ravaged late Ming China while flashbacks peel back the girls' pasts, shifting the trip from escort job to personal horror.
