Helltaker is a game designed by Polish developer Lukasz Piskorz, also known as Vanripper, that combines idle clickers, dating sims, puzzle adventures, and dating girls from hell. Helltaker is a short game, so you won't be romancing any girls from hell for very long, but Helltaker has a lot of replayability and is completely free to play.

Helltaker is a dating simulator in which you end up dating demons and have to solve puzzles to keep them from killing you and instead falling in love with you. The thrill of Helltaker comes more from meeting the inhabitants of the endless plains of torment than from navigating its labyrinths. Helltaker is the type of experience that doesn't take itself too seriously while still being incredibly entertaining.

Helltaker may not be a traditional dating simulator, but its rabid fanbase appears to take great pleasure in attempting to romance the game's hellspawn. Helltaker follows a man on a quest to assemble a harem of downright adorable dateable demons, and, as silly as it sounds, the demons he meets are all uniquely wonderful despite their status as rulers of the underworld.

Pros:

• The replayability
• The art style is adorable
• The theme is very consistent
• The sound is pretty good

Cons:

• Too short

Rating on Vanripper: 4.8/5

Price on Steam: Free to play

See it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1289310/Helltaker/

Max Gentlemen Sexy Business is the game for Dating Sim fans who want to mix humor and shenanigans into their romance. Max Gentlemen Sexy Business is a titillating and hilarious journey through Victorian-era London as a social elite. Your family business has been stolen, and you must join forces with other powerful executives to fight your competitors and restore your company's former glory.

You can personalize their characters and run their businesses in any way they want. You can customize not only your "Gentsona," but also your executives by unlocking outfits and items. With a spoiler tag system and character-specific settings, you can also control what content you want to see in the game.

Max Gentlemen Sexy Business is an adult-oriented dating sim in which players run a business while competing for the love of a dozen Victorian ladies and gentlemen. Romantic and professional relationships go hand in hand in this game, so learning from both the tycoon and dating sim ends of the game is essential. Max Gentlemen Sexy Business is also notable for its adult content options, which allow players to choose what content they are comfortable seeing and interacting with.

Pros:

• This game features a multi-tiered safe mode system that allows you to tailor your experience
• Sexy visual content.
• Interactive text-based romance novel.

Cons:

• May contain content that is not suitable for all ages or is not suitable for viewing at work: Nudity, sexual content, and mature content in general
  

Rating on Plitch: 4.4/5
Price on Steam: $19.99 and $24.98 for soundtrack

See it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/817840/Max_Gentlemen_Sexy_Business/

Arcade Spirits' intriguing premise may appeal to fans of video game history. The prompt for the setting is that the 1983 video game crash (a major recession in the video gaming industry, primarily in the United States) never occurred and arcades are more popular than ever in the year 20XX.

Arcade Spirits allows you to experience love, friendship, and other adventures in a retro-style arcade setting. Players assume the role of an employee at a futuristic arcade and have the opportunity to romance the arcade's diverse range of customers and employees.

In Arcade Spirits, you take on the role of a new employee at Funplex, a popular local arcade that attracts gamers, programmers, cosplayers, and other eccentric characters. You can be able to develop your personality and relationships in any way you want with roleplaying-based options: friendship, platonic, or something more intimate!

With a total of seven romanceable characters, work hard to build the relationship you desire! The Identity Identifier System, or IRIS, can keep track of your relationship statuses with all of the characters in Arcade Spirits, as well as your personality traits, which range from quirky, steady, and kind to gutsy and basically.

Your character is completely customizable, including conversation options as well as the appearance and personalities of the main characters. You can also romance both men and women, and you can make decisions that affect both their romantic futures and the arcade's future. Every decision you make has an impact on not only the development of your relationships but also the fate of Funplex in Arcade Spirits.

Pros:

• The story and characters that Arcade Spirits presents are wonderful
• It has a great soundtrack
• Art in a vibrant style

Cons:

• There are few options for customizing the protagonist.
  

Rating on eBay: 4.4/5

Price on Steam: $19.99

See it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/910630/Arcade_Spirits/

Official site: arcadespirits.com/newchallengers/

Have you ever wanted to learn Japanese while also falling in love? Love Language Japanese, on the other hand, is the ideal way to combine those two elements. Love Language Japanese is a clever hybrid of a visual novel/dating sim and an E-learning experience. Love Language Japanese is a unique and unusual dating sim game set in a school for young adults where players fall in love with women at a university while also learning a language.

This game uses visual novel elements, minigames, and built-in lessons to teach players Japanese for reading and speaking. Learn Japanese every weekday morning for 90 in-game days and spend your free time roaming the map in search of new adventure, new friends, and possibly new love. You will study Love Language for a full trimester at Koto Gakuen, a prestigious language school for international students in Tokyo. During the next 90 days, your decisions will determine where and with whom you end up.

It's a cute, if slightly erotic, simulator in which you get to feel like a real Japanese student who studies and hangs out with friends during the week. Nonetheless, Love Language Japanese is entertaining and educational while retaining all of the elements you've come to expect from the best dating sim games.

Love Language Japanese is definitely on the bawdier end of the dating sim spectrum, but it will appeal to those looking for a visual novel gaming experience that will teach them something in the process. Furthermore, Love Language Japanese is intended for beginners who are completely unfamiliar with the language, so prior knowledge is not required.

Pros:

• You have a new Japanese lesson with the lovely Professor Saito every weekday morning. Each lesson will be planned so that it is not too overwhelming, but also sufficient for you to learn more and more.
• These tests, as well as the opportunity to review your lesson at home, will be mini games with varying levels of content.
• During your 90-day stay in Tokyo, you will learn a lot about each character as well as where you should go in the future.

Cons:

• Love Language Japanese can not get you to fluency Japanese in a few hours of gaming

Rating on GameLoop: 4.2/5
Price on Steam: $19.99
See it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/445800/Love_Language_Japanese/

Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim is an intriguing paradox. For most studios, this project would take the form of an April Fool's joke or an Easter egg. However, Dead by Daylight has a notoriously thirsty fan base, which developer Behaviour has capitalized on by creating a dedicated game where players can get to know their favorite notorious killers.

It may seem strange to date Dead By Daylight killers in a dating sim, but Hooked on You: A Dead By Daylight Dating Sim brings that concept to life. Hooked on You abandons the intense survival gameplay of its inspiration, the multiplayer horror game, in favor of a choice-driven visual novel romance.

Hooked on You's violence lurking beneath the surface of potential beaus is offset by a tropical getaway setting, making this a surprisingly relaxing experience. Its appeal is undoubtedly geared toward gamers who have previously played Dead By Daylight, but the game can be enjoyed by anyone.

The premise is simple: you wake up on an island surrounded by some of Dead by Daylight's sexiest killers, and instead of shanking you and hanging you on a hook, they want to play beach volleyball and smooch with you. The players select which killers they want to spend time with, participate in beach activities organized by awkward survivors Dwight and Claudette, and occasionally play minigames.

If the players are fortunate and make the right choices, they will be able to cuddle up to one of these lethal killers. They are stabbed if they are unlucky. The plot also hints at something darker going on beneath the surface, almost as if this is some kind of misery-generating machine disguised as a dating simulator.

Pros:

• As the player, you're frequently presented with the amusing notion that this dating game is actually canon to what's currently going on in the never-ending cycle of violence that the killers have created in the asymmetrical horror game.
• The aesthetic and the artwork put in for the killers

Cons:

• This game may contain content not suitable for all ages, or may not be suitable for viewing at work

Rating on NME: 4/5

Price on Steam: $9.99

See it on Steam:

store.steampowered.com/app/1866180/Hooked_on_You_A_Dead_by_Daylight_Dating_Sim/

Official site: hookedonyoudbd.com/

Hato Moa, a manga artist, created the original Hatoful Boyfriend, which was made available for free in 2011. The artwork and display text in Mediatonic's remake of the text-based avian romance game have been overhauled, resulting in a more polished visual experience and a smoother play-through.

Aside from a new look and a few new scenes written specifically for this new version by Moa, 2014's Hatoful Boyfriend retains the original's core ideals and charm. Hatoful Boyfriend moves from strange to bizarre to uncomfortable, but never into the realm of self-awareness. It's one of the most bizarre and incoherent dating simulators ever created.

Hatoful Boyfriend is a dating sim that has players romancing talking birds as the only human at an elite avian school. Hatoful Boyfriend is mostly like a visual novel, with storytelling that leads players through twists and turns to make decisions that affect which bird they end up with.

Though the birds are not explained in the original game, it is important to note that it is later explained in the game Bad Boys Love that Hatoful Boyfriend takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where humanity has been wiped out and birds with human intelligence have taken over as the dominant species.

One of the best aspects of Hatoful Boyfriend is that its numerous plots and options allow you to replay the game multiple times, each time taking a different path. Hatoful Boyfriend's multiple paths and endings, like many other visual novels, will gradually reveal a more complete story when all of them are completed.

Although the premise of Hatoful Boyfriend is very humorous, there are also mystery elements in the game, such as an alternate murder mystery story involving the death of the protagonist of the main story - and that's what makes it so entertaining.

Pros:

• Many plots allow the players to replay the game numerous times
• The writing is genuinely amusing, and the plot is frequently surprising and provocative

Cons:

• The graphics are mostly a jumble of photos and simple backgrounds

Rating on Theguardian: 4/5

Price on Steam: $9.99

See it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/310080/Hatoful_Boyfriend/

The best dating sims are those that defy expectations and surprise you. Doki Doki Literature Club is a popular dating sim due to an intense twist that occurs halfway through the game. Doki Doki Literature Club is a psychological horror experience disguised as a cutesy dating sim for the uninitiated.

Though it appears to be a typical cutesy and rose-colored dating sim, Doki Doki Literature Club gradually devolves into an intense and brutal psychological horror. This twist sparked a surge in popularity in streaming communities, as fans wanted to see how their favorite creators reacted to each aspect of the game from beginning to end.

Nonetheless, despite some seriously sinister twists later on, the first half of the game succeeds in presenting the player with all of the best tropes associated with the dating sim genre. Joining the titular club and getting to know Yuri, Monica, Natsuki, Monika, Sayori, Monika, and especially Monika can be a lot of fun if players are prepared for Doki Doki Literature Club's unexpected twists and turns.

Pros:

• Well-drawn 2D art graphic
• The characters are interesting, and as you get to know them, you learn more about them than their outward appearance
• For those interested in delving into the game's plot, the game files contain a few Easter Eggs
  

Cons:

• Although the plot is light, this is a horror game that leaves a deep obsession after playing. Because not every scene in the game is covered, it is likely that you will be haunted while playing
  
  

Rating on Glitchwave: 3.4/5

Price on Steam: Free to play, $9.99 for all DLC
See it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/698780/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club/

Official site: ddlc.moe/

Monster Prom is a dating simulation game published by That Awesome Guys and developed by Beautiful Glitch, a Barcelona-based studio founded by Julián Quijano. On April 27, 2018, the game was released on Steam for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Monster Prom is a cute, quirky, and entertaining dating simulator in which you take on the role of one of several monsters as they navigate the perilous waters of high school.

Monster Prom, set in a monster high school, challenges players to secure a date for the title event in three weeks. You'll have plenty of opportunities to improve certain stats in order to woo various monsters (each monster has a preferred personality for potential partners) in time for the prom (which comes at the end of the game).

The majority of Monster Prom revolves around assisting your monster friends with their personal issues. Nobody ever said high school was easy. Not only does this relaxing game have humor, heart, and cool monsters, but it also has mechanics that encourage multiple playthroughs, such as a variety of items and hundreds of possible events.

A multiplayer mode, which allows up to four players to compete against each other to find a prom date while helping and hindering each other along the way, is one of the game's most unique features. Monster Prom also has DLC and two sequels, so there is plenty of content to explore in this monstrous universe.

Pros:

• The multiplayer mode
  
• Interesting dialogue and storylines

Cons:

• Event items can completely lock the players out of dating certain characters

Rating on Common Sense Media: 3/5

Price on Web: $11.99
See it on the official site: monsterprom.pizza/

Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is a visual novel video game that was released on July 20, 2017 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux, and on September 22, 2017 for Android. Game Grumps created and published the game, which was written by Vernon Shaw and Leighton Gray.

Because of its viral popularity at the time of its release, Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is one of the most well-known dating sims on the market. The players can be able to create your own dad/character and explore a charming little town.

Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator, a popular dating sim known for its association with the YouTube comedy duo Game Grumps, puts players in the shoes of a single father who has recently moved to a new neighborhood with his daughter. There are several other single fathers in the neighborhood for the player to talk to and, hopefully, date.

The players get the chance to try their luck with several local fathers while also helping their daughter during her transition from teenager to young adult. Complete with several nostalgic mini-games, this quirky and lovable adventure is a must-play for all who have a soft spot for romance.

Throughout Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator, the players will encounter many social situations and problems that will require them to make decisions or play various minigames like fishing. The players can customize their dad to their liking, and Dream Daddy's many romantic options provide a lot of variety and replayability for those looking to romance every dad the game has to offer.

Pros:

• Character design and dialogue are good
• Music is effective and appropriate.

Cons:

• Each story is relatively brief
• Animation and design use static images

Rating on Glitchwave: 2.3/5

Price on Steam: $14.99 and $11.99 for all DLC

See it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/654880/Dream_Daddy_A_Dad_Dating_Simulator/

Official site: gamegrumps.com/dreamdaddy/

I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger-Lickin' Good Dating Simulator is a dating simulator developed by Psyop. I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger-Lickin' Good Dating Simulator is authorized by the restaurant chain KFC and released for free on Steam on September 24, 2019.

Though I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin' Good Dating Simulator may appear to be a clumsy marketing stunt, it is a clever and entertaining take on the genre. There's never a dull moment in this KFC-endorsed romance saga, with everything from talking dogs to anthropomorphized kitchenware to the eponymous Colonel himself, and players won't need a KFC gaming console to play it.

While dating is literally the name of the game, I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin' Good Dating Simulator places a strong emphasis on comedy. The developers were clearly aware of how ridiculous their project was, and the title riffs on everything from common dating sim tropes to the complexities of JRPG combat.

For the most part, people will play a dating simulator to get a taste of real life, which, when combined with a dash of ridiculousness and a hint of hidden desires, makes for an effective dating sim. So, if dating Colonel Sanders is one of your hidden desires, I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger-Lickin' Good Dating Simulator is the sim for you.

I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger-Lickin' Good Dating Simulator is just a game in which you romance someone who looks a little different than how most people imagine him. It's a classic dating sim with fantastic artwork and a story that keeps you laughing and engrossed from start to finish.

Pros:

• Free to play
  
• Funny characters

Cons:

• The game is dialogue-heavy
  

Rating on Glitchwave: 1.6/5

Price on Steam: Free to play

See it on Steam:

store.steampowered.com/app/1121910/I_Love_You_Colonel_Sanders_A_Finger_Lickin_Good_Dating_Simulator/

Official site: psyop.com/work/i-love-you-colonel-sanders/