No plans on Valentine’s Day? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. How about some wacky virtual love? Japan pretty much invented dating sims – from cats to robots to aliens, they’ve got a title out there for everyone. We combed the internet and came up with the strangest, weirdest, most entertaining dating RPGS for your special day. We don’t judge.
1. A dating game featuring schoolgirls with disabilities.
In Katawa Shoujo, you play a boy with a unique medical condition who attends school for special needs. Your romantic interests are a blind girl, a deaf mute, a burn victim, an amputee and a girl who was born without arms. Hey, disabled virtual girls need love too.
If humans are too normal for you, maybe Hatoful Boyfriend is more your thing. (Disguised as a bird?), you attend a school for talented birds, where all the students and staff are duh – birds. All of whom you can pursue romantic relationships with. Except maybe the school nurse, a plump pigeon who turns out to be a psycho serial killer bird cannibal. That bird cray.
In Doki Doki Majo Shinpan, you play a 14 year old boy who’s been recruited by an angel to purge a junior high school of witches. You detect witches by touching your classmates to increase their heartbeat, causing a “witch mark” to appear on their half naked bodies. I don’t even know what is happening in these picture.
Complete with nonsensical English translations. If you can read Japanese, click here to date a virtual printer.
He’s the sensitive type. Play the perfectly named Jurassic Heart online now.
