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Dating sim

You talk, pick activities and manage your time to win the affection of one or more characters. The challenge is learning what matters to each of them and spending your days so as to reach the ending you want.

Also known as: dating simulation, ren'ai game, romance simulation

This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.

History

  1. 1987
    Origin

    Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School (1987), for the Famicom Disk System, was one of the first games centred solely on dating. Girl's Garden and Tenshitachi no Gogo (1985) already had elements of the genre.

    Dating sim (Wikipedia)
  2. 1992

    Dōkyūsei relies on timed events and becomes a foundational title of the genre.

    Dōkyūsei (Wikipedia)
  3. 1994

    Tokimeki Memorial popularises dating sims in Japan.

    Dating sim (Wikipedia)