

Chocolate Kiss is a dating sim visual novel game featuring a high school student as a protagonist. The game's story starts in January, and this year, he is determined to find a girlfriend that will give him a chocolate for Valentine's Day, however he has only one month time to achieve that goal. The game's story advances through the days, and allows the player to go to different locations. Depending where he goes he will run into a different girl, all of which are potential candidates for becoming his girlfriend.
You are a high school student that begins the game on the 15th of January. You want a girlfriend that can give you chocolate on Valentine's Day and have one month to complete your mission. There are 9 different girls to date: Marie, Sachi, Saeko, Yayoi, Miko, Anju, Natsuki, Yuka & Kira.

Role-playing (RPG) / Strategy / Turn-based strategy (TBS) / Fantasy / Romance
Released in 1996 for the Sega Saturn, Sakura Taisen is the first game in the iconic Japanese game franchise. It combines strategy RPG elements with dating sim-style character interactions to make "A Storm of Romance amid Taishou Cherry Blossoms!"

Visual Novel / Business / Romance
Get ready to step into the shoes of Kraft Lawrence as you strive to take Holo back to her hometown of Yoitsu. Having secured a contract to collect some money from a town on the other shore, everything should be plain sailing ahead for the duo, but of course, the best laid plans of mice and wolves often go awry…

A dating simulation game released in 1998 by Mycom.

A dating sim adaptation of the 1998 original anime by Genco.

Simulator / Visual Novel / Romance
Anokodokonoko is a dating simulation board game released by Success in 1998 that features 2 main game mode: - Story mode: Only one player game. In this mode there is a strong element of simulation. The hero (the player) has the purpose of meeting with the girl, and make her fall in love with him, the game in this mode features different events. - Party mode: This mode can be played by up to 4 human players. This mode is more focused in the board game style but without squares and dices, since the game is also playable in the story mode game maps and is a sort of a competition between the human characters to win and know who between them got more friends or dates with the different girls.

Visual Novel / Drama / Romance
True Love Story is a visual novel styled love simulation game where the protagonist meets many girls and has one month's time to make one of them fall in love with him. The player moved to a new town and is living with his younger sister. The story progresses in a typical visual novel style where one reads onscreen text, talks to present characters and moves from location to location in a determined order. Free movement is not done directly on a map but is rather scheduled. During school and lunch breaks the player can schedule places on school campus he wishes to visit, and after school additional scheduling of the place around the town can be selected. Depending on place one visits, the location will have different girls to talk to, or if noone and the player will soon leave the place without engaging in any dialogue with anyone.

Role-playing (RPG) / Strategy / Turn-based strategy (TBS) / Fantasy / Romance
The sequel to the original Sega Saturn system seller (in Japan at least) becomes one of the Saturn's last great hurrahs. Head back to early 1900's Tokyo as Oogami Ichirou, a naval commander who's now become the last line of defense against the demons that stalk the capital. The all-female cast from the original returns in full, joined by two additional members. The grid-based strategy battles from the original are improved with better spell attacks and cleaner graphics, while the "LIPS" interactive conversation sequences feature better production values, color depth and a few additional twists on interactivity.

Adventure / Visual Novel / Comedy / Romance
To LOVE-Ru is a Japanese-style adventure game based on the ecchi-comedy anime and manga series created by Saki Hasemi and Kentaro Yabuki. Rito's class is off to a beach resort for a four-day school trip, meaning lots of fun and lots of cute girls in swimsuits. The story is told from Rito's perspective as the trip progresses, and the player is regularly given choices that affect the story path and which character's ending the game leads to. For example, while riding on the bus to the resort, the player can choose to sit with either Haruna or Lala.