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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: The 15 Weirdest Dating Sims Ever Made

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Ignacio Weil

Galleries - August 16th 2026, 15:00 GMT+2

Dialtown Phone Dating Sim 1 — 15. Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim (2022)

*Dialtown* begins several exits past sanity and keeps driving. Its citizens have telephones, typewriters and printers for heads; dogs wear gramophones; cats come equipped with keyboards. Against that civic backdrop, the protagonist seeks a date mainly because another person can pay their funfair admission, granting access to a dank pit where they intend to lay eggs. The deliberately chaotic mixture of photographs, rough drawings and 3D objects makes the town look assembled from an office-supply cupboard during a fever. With multiple routes and 26 endings, it is less a dating sim than a municipal emergency in which several pieces of obsolete technology are somehow kissable. | © DirectDoggo

Kaichu The Kaiju Dating Sim — 14. Kaichu: The Kaiju Dating Sim (2022)

Kaiju movies are usually too busy evacuating cities to ask whether the monsters have chemistry. *Kaichu* finally gives that question the irresponsibly expensive attention it deserves. As the pink behemoth Gigachu, players court six potential partners by roaring, dancing and answering compatibility questions across 24 famous landmarks, all of which become collateral damage. Because nobody speaks a human language, two excitable news anchors narrate each romantic gesture like commentators covering the end of civilization. Remembering a crush’s preferences matters more than brute force, although flattening half of Paris remains a perfectly acceptable love language. | © Squiddershins

Sucker for Love First Date — 13. Sucker for Love: First Date (2022)

Most crushes require courage; Ln’eta requires candles, chanting and a pink Necronomicon. In *Sucker for Love: First Date*, a dangerously devoted occultist performs forbidden rituals in exchange for kisses from anime-styled cosmic entities inspired by Lovecraft’s pantheon. Players must follow the book’s instructions around an increasingly compromised apartment, so the joke is not merely selecting flirty dialogue—it is personally completing the ceremony that may erase humanity. The bright colors and breathless romance keep colliding with body horror, apocalypse and partners who regard reality as disposable. Nobody can accuse these women of fearing commitment; one kiss may end the world. | © DreadXP

Dont Make Love — 12. Don’t Make Love (2017)

Here is a sentence no couples therapist expects to hear: “I love him, but mating may cause me to eat him.” *Don’t Make Love* places players on either side of that dilemma as two praying mantises debate desire, fear and the biological possibility that date night ends with one partner becoming dinner. Instead of choosing from preset replies, players type what they want to say and watch the other mantis interpret it, while the music shifts with the conversation’s mood. The premise sounds like a one-note sketch; the writing treats it with such bruised sincerity that the punchline gradually turns into an ethical crisis with antennae. | © Maggese

Hooked on You A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim — 11. Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim (2022)

Imagine checking into a tropical singles resort and learning that the available hotties include a masked trap enthusiast, a bell-ringing stalker, an ax murderer and an extremely angry ghost. *Hooked on You* recasts the Trapper, Wraith, Huntress and Spirit from *Dead by Daylight* as swimsuit-ready prospects on Murderer’s Island, complete with dates, minigames and branching endings. The sunny reality-show presentation makes the bloodlust look almost charming, while each route sneaks in enough character lore to reward existing fans. Pick the wrong answers, however, and “I could fix them” becomes “they have killed me,” which is admittedly useful closure. | © Behaviour Interactive

Mr Massagy — 10. Mr. Massagy (2016)

*Mr. Massagy* asks the question every dating app has been too cowardly to address: what if a jar of mayonnaise swiped right? Johnny’s nine matches also include women, an alien, a werewolf and a body pillow, each requiring the correct combination of conversation choices before romance can advance. Success earns the promised “massage,” administered through the vibration motors of a connected controller—a hardware feature unlikely to appear in any respectable product demonstration. The game is short, tacky and visibly delighted with itself, escalating its profiles until ordinary human courtship seems like the least interesting option on the menu. | © Green Lava Studios

Hot Date 2015 — 9. Hot Date (2015)

Three minutes is barely enough time to learn someone’s name, which may be why *Hot Date* fills the room exclusively with pugs. Each speed-dating partner arrives with a randomized personality and opinions on everything from hobbies to ideal dates, forcing players to choose questions quickly and endure whatever judgment comes back across the tiny table. One pug might flirt, another might snap, and the next may reject you for reasons too personal to process before the bell rings. Underneath the canine gimmick is a sharp little simulation of first-date panic: frantic small talk, mismatched expectations and the sinking realization that even dogs think you are trying too hard. | © George Batchelor

Paca Plus 1 — 8. PacaPlus (2011)

One nap turns Kazuma Saeki’s school romance into a livestock problem. After returning from Alpaca Kingdom, he wakes beside an alpaca that speaks in his girlfriend Yukari’s voice, attends her classes and plays her violin, while nearly everyone behaves as though this is business as usual. *PacaPlus* does not rush toward an explanation; it makes Kazuma seriously reconsider attraction, loyalty and whether hooves should be allowed near string instruments. His choices can resist the transformation or accept an increasingly woolly future. The straight-faced emotional treatment sells the absurdity: the game sees a teenage relationship crisis where any responsible adult would see a farm-animal incident. | © PacoProject

Jurassic Heart 2013 — 7. Jurassic Heart (2013)

Ukulele shopping rarely carries life-or-death emotional stakes, but most customers are not anxious Tyrannosaurus rexes. Taira is a full-sized dinosaur—tiny arms, anxious eyes and all—whose instrument broke after a humiliating concert, leaving the player to help him choose a replacement and navigate his wounded pride. Even offering to pay at the wrong moment can damage the relationship, because *Jurassic Heart* treats music-store etiquette with the seriousness of a diplomatic summit. Its brevity works in its favor: there is no elaborate explanation for the dinosaur boyfriend, only a vulnerable reptile and the dawning knowledge that you may have hurt his feelings. | © Hima & Piti

Panzermadels 1 — 6. Panzermadels: Tank Dating Simulator (2016)

Erwin Lemmor enrolls in Tank School expecting strategy lessons and discovers that his classmates are armored vehicles presented as anime girls. The dating pool includes Panzer IV, T-34, Tiger I and M4 Sherman, whose personalities borrow from their real-world reputations for armor, firepower and mechanical reliability. Classes become history jokes, rivalries become route choices, and romantic compatibility can apparently be measured in millimeters of steel. *Panzermadels* follows the familiar visual-novel path toward confessions and endings, except every schoolgirl can also level a building from several kilometers away. It is hard to play coy when your crush’s dating profile includes a cannon caliber. | © DEVGRU-P

Creature Romances Kokonoe kokoro 1 — 5. Creature Romances: Kokonoe Kokoro (2018)

*Creature Romances* refuses the standard monster-girl compromise of attaching cute antennae to an otherwise flawless human model. Kokoro is an enormous grasshopper in a school uniform, with compound eyes, mandibles and a face built for eating leaves rather than sharing a tender close-up. Almost nobody finds this remarkable. The story instead concerns studying, university plans and Ichitarou’s growing feelings for the childhood friend he has known all his life, granting the romance an almost aggressively ordinary rhythm. That sincerity produces the best joke: after enough gentle conversations, the game makes the player feel impolite for continuing to stare at her exoskeleton. | © Sekai Project

I Love You Colonel Sanders A Finger Lickin Good Dating Simulator — 4. I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator (2019)

This is not a fan parody or a cease-and-desist letter waiting to happen; KFC genuinely released a dating sim about seducing a young, muscular Colonel Sanders. The player studies beside him at the University of Cooking School: Academy for Learning, where a three-day semester includes culinary rivals, cooking challenges and lessons taught by Professor Dog. Every scene is marinated in fried-chicken branding, yet the polished anime art and cheerfully ridiculous dialogue push the advertisement into genuine entertainment. The alarming part is not that a fast-food chain made Colonel Sanders handsome. It is that the strategy works, and the white suit starts looking unfairly good. | © KFC

3. Hatoful Boyfriend (2011)

The famous “pigeon dating game” is actually using the pigeons as bait. At first, *Hatoful Boyfriend* simply asks the only human student at St. PigeoNation’s Institute to choose among photographic birds: a vain aristocrat, a sickly childhood friend, a pudding fanatic and other feathered bachelors. Complete enough romances, however, and the comedy cracks open to reveal murder, political conspiracy, biological warfare and a history far sadder than the bird puns suggested. That tonal ambush should collapse under its own nonsense. Instead, it turns the joke candidates into characters worth mourning, which may be the most humiliating trick any pigeon has played on humanity. | © PigeoNation Inc.

2. Date Everything! (2025)

Losing a job to artificial intelligence is grim; receiving magical glasses that reveal the human forms of your furniture is one possible rebound. *Date Everything!* lets players romance 100 fully voiced characters hiding around the house, including the bed, refrigerator, smoke alarm, air and overwhelming existential dread. Each can become a lover, friend or enemy, so even rejecting the refrigerator may create lasting domestic tension. The game backs its one-liner premise with more than a million words of dialogue, turning a home into an impossibly crowded soap opera. After flirting with the bed itself, dating another human starts to seem painfully unimaginative. | © Team17

My Horse Prince 2016 1 — 1. My Horse Prince (2016)

A tired office worker goes to a ranch looking for handsome men and meets Yuuma, an ordinary horse with a smooth human face that apparently only she can see. The ranch owner calmly blames her birth year, as women born in the Year of the Horse may perceive horses this way—a diagnosis no medical board gets to review. Gameplay involves tapping carrots and other objects until Yuuma runs out of energy, then restoring him through conversation before the next improbably romantic pose. *My Horse Prince* never flinches, explains itself properly or grants the player emotional shelter. It simply waits for that face to start looking normal, which is its most frightening achievement. | © USAYA Co., Ltd.

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Dating sims are supposed to help players find romance, but some developers apparently took “anyone can be your soulmate” as a challenge. Here, courtship extends to pigeons, household appliances, cosmic horrors, fast-food mascots and one horse with the disturbingly handsome face of a grown man. Some of these games are clever genre parodies; others pursue their impossible love stories with alarming sincerity. Either way, they prove that virtual romance has no standards, no boundaries and absolutely no fear of getting weird.

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Dating sims are supposed to help players find romance, but some developers apparently took “anyone can be your soulmate” as a challenge. Here, courtship extends to pigeons, household appliances, cosmic horrors, fast-food mascots and one horse with the disturbingly handsome face of a grown man. Some of these games are clever genre parodies; others pursue their impossible love stories with alarming sincerity. Either way, they prove that virtual romance has no standards, no boundaries and absolutely no fear of getting weird.