Games Like Love Esquire - RPG/Dating Sim/Visual Novel (2026)

Shared: tier:indie, Multiple Endings

The dating-sim wrapper is bait, and MiSide knows it. What starts as idle chores with an anime girl becomes a genre-hopping psychological horror that two developers built better than most studios manage with a full team.

Shared: Moddable

Hundreds of hours in and I still haven't seen everything RimWorld can throw at a colony, that alone tells you whether this one deserves a slot on your drive.

Shared: Multiple Endings

A 6-8 hour RPG that quietly asks whether you actually need to kill anything, then spends its entire runtime making you feel the answer either way.

Shared: Multiple Endings

Pastel sketchbook exteriors hiding a gut-punch story about grief, guilt, and four years of a locked bedroom door. One of the rare indie RPGs where the mechanics and the narrative are actually saying the same thing.

Shared: Moddable

POSTAL 2 is a gleefully unhinged open-world sandbox where every mundane errand can spiral into a catastrophic firefight - if you let it.