History Main / DatingSim

** ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonNatsume''

** ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngelII''

* ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial'' - One of the first truly successful "family-friendly" Dating Sims, proving that the genre didn't have to rely on porngraphic material, but could indeed court a more mainstream audience, [[TropeCodifier thus parving the way for a wave of]] TamerAndChaster entries into the genre (plus some of the older examples getting released in BleachedUnderpants versions).

Some Sim Date games have been made into [[HaremGenre Harem]] anime, though the result is usually nothing special due to [[BleachedUnderpants the removal of sex]] and the fact that the narrative can no longer focus on any single character.

* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' games include Dating Sim subplots.
** ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons''

* ''VisualNovel/OurLovelyEscape''

* The genre in some forms is OlderThanTheyThink, as are parodies of it: the UrExample in commercial games, ''Softporn Adventure'' (released on the UsefulNotes/AppleII in 1981 by [[Creator/{{Sierra}} Sierra On-Line]]) went far in [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructing]] the nascent genre even as it was [[UnbuiltTrope setting the stage for it]]. The game was later remade in an ActionAdventure style as the first game in the infamous ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' franchise, which took the satirical elements even further. Despite this, it is unlikely that those games significantly impacted the style's evolution in Japan, which developed independently of them, and remains a rare Western example of the type.

* ''VideoGame/LaMulana'', upon acquiring certain {{UsefulNotes/MSX}} [=ROMs=], lets you play what at first appears to be an MSX knockoff of ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial'', and the heroine, Shiori, is talking about how she'd like to take her friendship with Taihei (your character) to the next level until [[spoiler:she comments that she had a toothache since this morning. Taihei then discovers a piece of fake skin on the ground, and Shiori then [[ReplicantSnatching reveals herself to be a]] VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}. After satirical dialogue on women in dating sims, you're thrown into a battle against Shiori while being careful not to shoot the "game mascot", Gyonin (A.K.A. Metal Fish [=MSX3=] Turbo R Plus)]]. After the whole ordeal is over, another girl named Nijino runs up... [[spoiler:only to reveal herself as a Snatcher as well.]] And the whole thing starts all '''Syntax error in 1220'''

* ''VideoGame/{{Angelique}}''

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' has four women that you can go on a dating sidequest with. The reward for completing them is that collectibles will show up on your mini-map. The dates are all treated as flings rather than anything serious and [[spoiler:two of the girls you date end up calling Wei out for his philandering ways]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Edelweiss}}'': A dating sim set in the universe of VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg, an AlternateHistory GameMod for grand strategy game VideoGame/HeartsOfIronIV (yes, you read that right).