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** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' uses a variation. The game keeps track of each party member's "affinity" with the others, doing things like helping them out in battle or performing sidequests together can increase the relationship. Once it reaches certain values, you have the option to view "Heart-to-Heart" events between the two, potentially increasing their relationship even more. Interestingly enough, this only really affects gameplay: characters can learn skills off those they have a high affinity with, make better gems while crafting and get slight boosts in battle.
*** The [=NPC=]s in the game also have affinity values with each other, which can be strengthened or damaged based on your choices during sidequests (such as how you resolve an NPC LoveTriangle, for example). These don't really do much, though, aside from providing VideogameCaringPotential.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRebirth'' expands this system adding timed dialogue choices at specific moments as well as sidequests that affect a character's relationship with Cloud. In addition, there system now applies to the entire party. Interestingly enough, the game also codes some of the "dates" as non-romantic, with those with Barret, Red XIII, and the group of Cait, Cid and Vincent shown more as friends having a night out and deepening their friendship. Only Yuffie's, Aerith's, and Tifa's are clearly shown as romantic [[spoiler: with the last one even ending in a BigDamnKiss]].
** They had something similar for the prequel ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', where the actions taken to find the thief who stole Zack's wallet can lead to a different type of conversation with Aerith. For some reason, having Zack act like a Schmuck and listen to all the unhelpful bystanders earn points on Aerith's affection scale.
*** In a similar fashion, completing certain side quests would effect how many people joined Zack's fanclub and its final mail message.

* ''VisualNovel/FamicomDetectiveClub: The Girl Who Stands Behind'' gives you a compatibility check with heroine Ayumi Tachibana after the game's credits. The ratings score is dependent on your interactions with various characters throughout the game, including not just Ayumi, which could end up giving you a bad score if you just check through every interaction option.

** Reaching bond level 10 rewards the player with the Servant's bond Craft Essence, which often contains insight into most personal parts of a Servant's history. Bond Craft Essences are often not useful in gameplay due to their subpar stats, and when combined with the long time it takes for one to reach bond 10 it makes them BraggingRightsReward.

* ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'': As you slowly gain the trust of the villagers with your skills as a Chemist, you can track your friendships with them in the task menu's Social tab. You can bond with them a little by talking to them [[InUniverseGameClock once per in-game day]] and giving them Moon Cloves as gifts for a big boost. Once you max out their friendship meters and complete their Friendship Events, you unlock more details in their profiles, with the romanceable characters having one extra page than the others. Reaching Level 3 with a villager unlocks their portrait in your album.

* ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'': As you slowly gain the trust of the villagers with your skills as a Chemist, you can track your friendships with them in the task menu's Social tab. You can bond with them a little by talking to them [[InUniverseGameClock once per in-game day]] and giving them Moon Cloves as gifts for a big boost. Once you max out their friendship meters and complete their Friendship Events, you unlock more details in their profiles, with the romanceable characters having one extra page than the others.

* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon''
** Some of the bachelor(ette)s have these, usually in the form of hearts, that tell you how much they love you. Once you get them to a certain level, you can then use the Blue Feather (''HM''[='s=] equivalent of a wedding ring) to propose to them.

* In ''VideoGame/GoodbyeVolcanoHigh'', the characters' closeness to Fang can be seen in the game menu, with each character appearing as an icon orbiting around Fang. When the player makes choices that improve a relationship, the icon will move into closer orbit. Likewise, making poor choices will move a character's icon further away. Stronger bongs will cause certain sequences of the story to play out differently and unlock {{flashback}}s to events prior to the game's story.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Angelique}}'' series, your relationship values effect both the dating sim and the world-building sim portions of the game. Guardians who like you will give you free buildings and guardians who like your rival will either give her buildings or destroy yours.

* ''VideoGame/BraveSoul'' gives each party member LevelUp as you pursue them romantically: the healer gets more powerful spells as your relationship deepens, and so on.

* In ''VideoGame/RootsOfPacha'', you can track how close you are to the villagers by the number of flowers in their dialogue boxes, with 10 being the max. You can bond with them by talking to them, giving them gifts, and dancing with them. The romanceable characters are marked with pink flowers (which turn red when you start dating them and white when you're in a [[HappilyMarried Union]] with them) while the non-romanceable ones are marked with yellow flowers.

* In ''VideoGame/SilentHill4:TheRoom'' Henry has one with Eileen. The more damage Eileen sustains,[[spoiler: the more antagonist Walter Sullivan will be able to possess her. Depending on how hurt/possessed she is, Eileen may speak like a baby, recite the teachings of the Order, attack herself, refuse to move, or sap health from the player. Possession can be counteracted with Holy Candles.]]) This also affects the game's ending, since the more Eileen has been hurt by the end of the game, the [[spoiler: faster she will move toward the Death Machine during the final battle with Walter Sullivan. Eileen's survival or death]] is one of the two factors that influences the game's ending.

* In ''VideoGame/RootsOfPacha'', you can track how close you are to the villagers by the number of flowers in their dialogue boxes, with 10 being the max. You can bond with them by talking to them, giving them gifts, and dancing with them. The romanceable characters are marked with pink flowers (which turn red when you start dating them) while the non-romanceable ones are marked with yellow ones.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Roots of Pacha}}'', you can track how close you are to the villagers by the number of flowers in their dialogue boxes, with 10 being the max. You can bond with them by talking to them, giving them gifts, and dancing with them. The romanceable characters are marked with purple flowers while the non-romanceable ones are marked with yellow ones.

* ''VideoGame/MsDirector'' keeps track of how often you interact with Ida by examining objects while she is in your party, and you need at least a few in order to achieve the best ending.