The in-game date is shown in the top left, and the arrow button in the top right allows the player to skip dialogue.

Hatoful Boyfriend is an interactive text-based visual novel that follows a branching plot line, with the player's decisions determining which of the game's multiple endings they receive.

As such, let’s get into some popular dating sims and discuss why exactly they have made such a name for themselves in the gaming industry.

If love can bloom on the battlefield, then by God, it can bloom anywhere it damn well pleases.

Regardless of race, creed, species, plane of existence, or definition of "alive," your perfect match is waiting for you somewhere in the great cosmos.

Since then there have been a small handful of releases increasing each year, including Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom for the PSP and 3DS.

The genre has many style elements in common with shōjo and josei manga,, and sometimes there are Boys' Love elements in otome games, but the two genres are usually kept separate.