Love Potion / Video Games

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• The main plot of Clarice's Memories storyline in Arcana Heart 3 Love Max!!!!! has her making one in order to get Elsa to fall for her. Complications however arise, from Clarice having second thoughts about the whole thing (especially when Scharlachrot compares it to brainwashing^note And considering what she went through, who could blame her?) to the potion itself... tasting like ass. Turns out, the main use of the potion isn't really to make the intended target drink it; rather, you have to chug it down yourself, get ill from it, be nursed back to health by your loved one and then fall for them for their deed.
• In Discworld, you can find a custard-pie recipe from Nanny Ogg which acts as a Love Potion. You need to use it once on Rincewind so that he can actually give Nanny Ogg a Big Damn Kiss to obtain a Plot Coupon and use it at the very end of the game on the Dragon, causing her to fall in love with the Swamp Dragon Mambo and leave Ankh-Morpork alone. Furthermore, trying to use the pie on the sexy amazon has her falling not for Rincewind but for an anonymous old man standing several feets away from her.
• Arcadia, an alchemist from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, turns out to want the Frost Salts given to you by Whiterun's resident court wizard Farengar for one of these.
• Elona has them, and they do work as advertised on a character's relationship score. However, one, they only move it by a small amount, requiring multiple potions; two, using them incurs a hefty karma penalty; and three, it doesn't prevent a character's relationship score from going down.
• In Fairytale Fights, love potions can be thrown or used in glory attacks to stun enemies or drank which fully heals you and makes you temporarily invincible.
• Used in an optional subquest in Fallout 3; upon visiting Rivet City, the protagonist comes across a waitress who confesses, after some prodding, into being in love with a member of the in-city clergy. You then have the option of giving her a mutant insect gland full of a particularly potent pheromone, allowing her to seduce the apprentice holy man. After their wedding, if you speak to said apprentice, he admits that he feels a little odd about the whole thing, but that he feels obligated to make an honest woman out of her. You even get a Positive Karma boost out of it!
• Fate/Grand Order:
  • The Elixir of Love Craft Essence, which has the mechanical effect of increasing Charm success rate by 15%. Not even a Servant can resist its effect (...for the one turn that Charms last for). The Craft Essence is a reference back to Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver, where Nigel Sayward creates a love potion to fuel Brynhild's love towards Arthur to make her stronger.
  • Kiyohime (Lancer) gives you chocolates spiked with a love potion for her Valentine's Day gift, and per most Love Potion usage examples it fails. She doesn't hide it at all, either, despite its name of "Just Some Ordinary Chocolates" — the Craft Essence itself shows the same bottle from the Elixir of Love CE open and pouring out, and the long description of this CE has Kiyohime confess what she did since she hates lying, but also continuing to scheme that she'd sneak in during the night to force-feed these chocolates to the Master. Oh, and she's nice enough to attach an antidote to the love potion anyway, making it a moot point.
• A short series of quests in Final Fantasy Tactics A2 involves a student becoming sick after drinking an unfinished love potion. And then falling in love with the teacher. Eventually, it turns out she fell in love with him because he stayed by her side while she was sick, not because the love potion worked, similar to the Arcana Heart example above.
  • There's also the Ranger ability Love Potion, which sets a trap that inflicts Charm.
• In Granblue Fantasy, Vyrn becomes the unwitting drinker of one provided to him by Sierokarte. Its effects on those who already adore him heighten their adoration to insanely scary levels.
• Guilty Gear: Elphelt's Instant Kill "Magnum Wedding" has her fire a special bullet at her opponent that makes them fall in love with her. However, some characters, like Ky and Dizzy or Zato, are either unaffected but are taken down anyway or fight against the effects.
• Higurashi Daybreak and its single-episode anime adaptation revolve around a pair of magatama that will cause its holders to fall in love with each other. In the anime version, Rena accidentally swallows one of them, and the other one passes around from one person to the next, including a female character. Needless to say, Hilarity Ensues.
• Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards: you can obtain some aphrodisiac pills: if you use them alone, Larry decides to indulge into acts of bestiality offscreen and gets a Game Over. The actual use is to give them to Faith, one of the girls you have to seduce. They do work, but she's attracted to her boyfriend, not Larry.
• Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail! has a variation with the Juggs: after reading an anedocte in a magazine, you have to switch their deodorant for silicone lubricant and tamper with the lights. The combination of lubricant, heat and latex has an aphrodisiac effect on the duo, who proceed to tackle Larry for Twin Threesome Fantasy action. In a downplayed example, you also have to lace your kumquat quiche with orgasmic powder to win the cooking competition.
• Normally an avid man-chaser (and magnet), Nikki from Mana Khemia Alchemists Of Alrevis, soon tires of the many admirers that she attracted. The solution her friends make? A Loveless Potion. It worked well for her. Maybe a little too well. Things went from bad to worse. Well, worse for Nikki, that is...
• Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny, a Love Potion is an item you can find. Using it as a gift will improve your relationship with the other playable characters, though only one of them is a woman.
• In the Pokémon video games, the technique "Attract" can be used to make an opposite-sex Pokemon fall in love with your Pokemon (temporarily), so that it won't attack your Pokemon.
• Tia from Potion Maker is secretly interested in it. The disturbing fact is that she's probably capable of actually making it.
• Quintessence - The Blighted Venom has a particularly nasty one, deliberately designed and used as straight-up Mind Control. After killing the one who was supposed to administer it to her, the female co-protagonist of the story ends up using it on the protagonist, seemingly purely to keep him focused on the job of helping her.
• In Shin Megami Tensei II, The Rival Daleth attempts to put Aleph out of commission by throwing a love potion (Taken from A Midsummer Night's Dream) on him in order to make him fall in love with a local girl. However, Hiroko ends up taking the hit for Aleph, and becomes infatuated with Daleth. What follows is rather uncharacteristic for a main series Shin Megami Tensei game.
  • The love potion appears in a side quest in Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon where Oberon uses it on Titania after she falls for Raidou.
• Most of the games from the Rune Factory series have them, and just like the example above, work in small increments on a neighbor's affection values. Usually they're pretty unaware of what's happening when the effect kicks in, but try giving these potions to someone specialized at Pharmacy (the skill you have to work on to craft it), like for example witch / doctor Marjorie, to hear the granny snark at you for trying to fool her like this... And then drinking it anyway, because it was a pretty expensive and taxing effort to get all the required ingredients, and it tastes good all the same.
• The Sims 2. It can either be bought from the matchmaker, a witch, or if your sim is a witch/warlock, they can make their own. It doesn't do much except make romantic interactions easier.
  • In The Sims 3 Supernatural expansion, love potions are brought back. In this game, they make whatever person the Sim next talks to become a Romantic Interest.
• Played with a lot in the fancomics of Touhou Project, from Eirin's shady new drugs to youkai-only-aphrodisiac mushrooms that Marisa picked and Alice accidentally ate when she was staying over.
• In World of Warcraft, in Stormwind, you can overhear a group of three female mages talking about various magical practices and rituals. One of their conversations ends with this line.
  "Wow, all of this for a love potion. Hope he's worth it."

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