Harem Genre / Video Games

• Agarest Senki requires you to pick one girl out of three in each generation after you've spent some time with them. The system works similarly to Phantasy Star III's system. Rex, the final hero, however, can end up with one of any girl you've gotten in your party so far of the maximum number of nine in the Golden Ending.
• The Ar tonelico series is a RPG hybrid with Visual Novel element in the form of Cosmos Sphere, focusing on romance developments between The Hero and two (later three) heroines. Ensemble Dark Horse Cocona not included.
• Any game created by Bioware has romance side-plots reguarding the player character. Most of the time it's just a love triangle, but the amount of people your male/female Shepard can become interested by someone in Mass Effect 2 pretty much borderlines a harem.
• In Bully, Jimmy is capable of winning the affections of the lone girl from each of the major cliques (namely: nerdy Beatrice, Pinky, Lola, Mandy and Zoe) With each one he successfully woos, he gets a framed photograph of them displayed in his dorm room. Of course, he can also make out with any of the non-clique girls around his age (and also one guy from each clique, too), provided you give them a gift of either flowers or chocolates beforehand.
• Riviera: The Promised Land pits you with 4 girls, each with their own ending, and the game provides another special ending that's really hard to get. Since this is a linear RPG, romance paths aren't really obvious.
• RPG Shooter: Starwish is a hybrid RPG shooter where the harem consists of 5 girls (only 4 are available at a time) and 2 guys, with a special ending if you can get all of the individual endings (and another one — featuring a fifth girl who was not previously in the story except for a few lines at the beginning, which the protagonist assumed was All Just a Dream — if you don't).
• RPG Maker 2000 game Romancing Walker features a pretty boy hero and his six love interests.
• In Scarface: The World Is Yours, Tony Montana can obtain a large collection of trophy girlfriends.
• Hakuoro of Utawarerumono sleeps with six women throughout the game, five of whom love him. Kuuya, empress of the bunnypeople, also seems to love him and offers her best friend as a concubine without knowing quite what that means. Mikoto and possibly Mutsumi in the back story. Yet he's entirely oblivious of how most of them feel until the very end of the game, thinking of them as mostly friends/retainers and of the sex as being rather casual.
  • Considering that he's the king, who also comes from modern society, where sex IS casual, and they live in a world which still has EMPERORS… it makes sense.
• In the Sakura Wars games, both Ichiro and Shinjiro can end up attracting the affections of all of their female teammates (and even some of the support staff); in fact, your party's combat stats are in large part determined by how well the heroes can build up their relationships with the ladies during the Dating Sim sections.
• Shining Resonance is a jrpg that includes harem and Dating Sim aspects as a central part of its narrative and gameplay mechanics. Yuma bonds with his female party members by dating them, which unlocks their character traits and affects how they respond to him during battle. Achieving max affinity with any of them makes it possible to see their character ending upon beating the game. So Yuma's free to date as many of the girls as the player chooses, without consequence, to facilitate seeing them all.

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