[Top 15] RPG Games With The Best Romance

Updated:

23 Apr 2024

A great RPG game should feel like a well written story containing dynamic characters with their own passions, and motivations. Overcoming adversity and challenges can naturally bring people together, and when an RPG has romance these connections can feel more deep and authentic.

We composed a list of the Games that have the most swoon worthy romances.

15. Caribbean Legend:

Caribbean Legend: Trailer

Set in the Golden Age of Caribbean piracy. Explore the high seas, discover treasure, and forge friendships,with a goal of ultimate freedom.

This game is an open-world RPG where you can explore romantic interests, choose a career, and build your own colony.

Immerse yourself in a life at sea, and acquire limitless loot.

Build connections throughout your travels, and charm the ladies.

Become a Caribbean Legend

14. Left on Read:

Left on Read Trailer

In this choice-driven narrative platformer about the harsh realities of modern communication, you play as a college freshman texting your crush throughout quarantine.

Message with your crush and try not to get left on read. Choose your responses, and see if your connection can last through the pandemic.

Experience the highs and lows of a blossoming love story, with your responses impacting the direction of the story. This game asks the question: can you be close to someone who is thousands of miles away?

You texting your crush

13. Love is all Around:

Love is all Around Trailer

Love is all Around is a Chinese romance game, in which you play as a young man who has moved to the big city. You will meet 6 women and embark on a romantic journey.

You are working to pay off your debts in the city, as you decide which girl you see yourself spending your future with. Experience real-life full-motion interactive video in this love story simulation.

Choose love over money, or ignore your feelings. Fall in love with any of the 6 charming ladies, and begin your lives together.

Romance Options

12. To the Moon:

To the Moon Trailer

Players control two doctors as they work to fulfill a dying man's last wish of visiting the moon. This game is emotional, and touching.

Travel through the patients memories, and learn more about the man named Johnny, and his childhood sweetheart River. Solve puzzles, and change his memories in an attempt to fulfill his last wish.

Experience a love story through Johnny’s memories, leave them as they are, or change them to give Johnny a different ending. If it was your love story what would you want done in your last moments?

Johnny and River looking at the moon and stars together

11. Fae Farm:

Fae Farm Launch Trailer

Enter the enchanting world of Azoria, in Fae Farm, a beautiful RPG, life/farming simulator in which you can craft, cultivate, and decorate this lovely island.

Grow and nurture your homestead, meet charming characters, and explore the mysteries of the island. Make friends with the locals, while you work on bettering your farm.

Romance unique characters, and go on dates where you will learn more about your partner and become closer. Each romanceable character has a different personality and interests, so expect different experiences.

Love is in the air on this date

10. Haven:

Haven Couple Update Trailer

Haven is a RPG that focuses on Yu and Kay, two lovers on the run from an oppressive authoritarian society called “the Apiary”. You will find yourself stranded on an isolated planet together.

Play as either character as you explore the unstable planet called “Source”. Search for supplies, explore, and battle as you survive this hostile environment.

Romance is at the center of this game, as the two protagonists are the only characters, and their banter is wholesome and cute. Game mechanics like cooking together, and upgrading by strengthening your bond shows that their relationship is at the heart of all gameplay.

Couples selection, which Yu and Kay do you want to play as?

9. Persona 5 Royal:

Persona 5 Royal All Female Love Confessions (SPOILERS)

Play as Akira codename: Joker in modern Tokyo as he starts at a new school. Join a group of high school vigilanties that seek to expose the crimes of corrupt adults, and soon find themselves involved in a worldwide conspiracy.

Enter the Metaverse, and cause authority figures with bad intentions to have a change of heart by stealing from their “palace”. Complete these heists to improve the world, and hold these adults accountable for their bad behavior.

There are 10 romance options, and each is very different and can have different impacts on the main game. You can go on dates, and get multiple special scenes.

Akira with Makoto

8. Divinity Original Sin 2:

Lohse Romance Divinity Original Sin 2 (SPOILERS)

Divinity Original Sin 2 is the 5th main installment of the Divinity series. Play as a “Godwoken” sorcerer, an important figure in the fight against the creatures wreaking havoc on the world of Rivellon, known as Voidwoken.

Divinity Original Sin 2 uses turn-based RPG combat, and focuses on character development, exploration, and how your decisions impact the story. You will experience deeply woven narratives, and quests throughout the game.

Romances don't affect the main plot, but add a level of intrigue and immersion. Romance generally includes flirting with characters in dialogue, and a few romance scenes.

Sebille offers you a kiss

7. Tales of Arise:

Alphen Almost Confesses His Feelings To Shionne (SPOILERS)

Tales of Arise is an action JRPG that follows two protagonists, a young man and woman from the opposing worlds of Dahna and Rena. They are on a journey to end the Renans’ oppression of the Dahnan people, in this seventeenth entry of the Tales series.

Battle through a beautifully constructed linear story, and an expansive world. With well constructed characters, and fun combat, you will be invested throughout the story.

Romance is at the center of the narrative with Alphen and Shionne each having their own hardships, yet complementing each other. The two will grow and change together throughout the story.

Shionne and Alphen

6. Final Fantasy 7 Remake:

Final Fantasy 7 Remake - All Tifa Romantic Scenes (SPOILERS)

In Final Fantasy 7 you play as Cloud Strife in the city of Midgar, a place full of corruption, and disparity. The remake brings new life and improvements to this fan-favorite that was originally released in 1997.

Take the fight to Shinra, as you play as a mercenary helping rebel factions fight against this corrupt government. Battle through countless enemies, and take on fun side quests.

Begin budding romantic relationships, and explore friendships with this iconic crew. Journey together and learn more about Cloud’s potential love interests.

Cloud with Tifa and Aerith

5. Cyberpunk 2077:

Cyberpunk 2077: Panam Romance Guide (SPOILERS)

In Cyberpunk 2077 you play as a mercenary called V in the dystopian Night City. V gets implanted with a cybernetic “bio-chip” containing an engram of rockstar/terrorist Johnny Silverhand (Keanu Reeves) that begins to overtake V’s own mind. The two must work together to separate and save V’s life.

Play in the first-person perspective, discover more about the chip, and fight for your survival. Bribe, outsmart, and hack your opponents to further your quest, discover the truth, and decide the fate of Night City.

Romances can result in unlocking your partner's apartment, unlocking hangouts, gift giving, and relationships. There are also romantic encounters that don't count as a full-fledged relationship. Cyberpunk 2077 has several deep relationship options that affect the game's ending.

Judy Romance

4. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt:

Complete Triss Merigold Romance (SPOILERS)

In The Witcher 3 you play as Geralt of Rivia, a witcher searching for his adoptive daughter, as she is pursued by the Wild Hunt. Together they must save the world from the White Frost.

Take on a multitude of quests, and adventures along your journey, fight monsters, people, and find Ciri. Battle through immersive scenery, and meet all manner of interesting characters, and creatures.

Geralt can have numerous romantic encounters throughout his adventures, but his main romance options are between Yennefer, and Triss. The Witcher 3 has several memorable romantic scenes, and they certainly get points for creativity. Often humorous, and always interesting, Geralt has quite the love life.

Geralt moving in to kiss Yennefer

3. Mass Effect Legendary Edition:

Complete FemShep & Jack Romance (SPOILERS)

A compilation, and remaster of the Mass Effect series, with over 40 DLC included. Play as Commander Shepard, a soldier in the Alliance Military in 2183, a representative for humanity in the fight against the Reapers, a terrifying foe that threatens all organic life in the Milky Way.

Work to unite a team and save Earth, and numerous other planets. Make choices that change the course of the trilogy, and battle countless enemies, as you work to make allies, and save all that we know, before all life as we know it ceases to exist.

There are many romance options in the Mass Effect series, and players can have romances that continue throughout the trilogy. Each romance is varied and unique, and forging these connections can be very rewarding to the narrative, and interesting as you learn more about each character.

Liara Romance

2. Baldur’s Gate 3:

BG3 Romance Guide (SPOILERS)

Baldur’s Gate 3 is based on the world of Dungeons & Dragons. The game begins with you waking up as a captive aboard an Illithid Nautiloid, you must band together with other survivors and set out on a journey full of choices, and peril. Decide whether to accept or reject implanted mind flayer parasites, and how to handle the Illithid threat.

Adventure through the Sword Coast of Faerun with captivating turn-based combat, and action packed narrative where you choose your path. Everything is a choice including who you recruit to your cause.

There are many romantic options in Baldur’s Gate 3, and you may find yourself being aggressively hit on by some of your companions. From romantic dates to brothels, Baldur’s Gate is full of possibilities.

Astarion Romance

1. Dragon Age Inquisition:

Dragon Age Inquisition - Complete Solas Romance (SPOILERS)

Dragon Age Inquisition follows the Inquisitor as they attempt to save the world from the Breach, a tear in the sky that is unleashing hordes of demons throughout Thedas.

Work to unite Thedas against the dark forces that seek to throw the world into chaos. Gather allies, and form deep relationships as you fight to save the world from utter devastation.

Dragon Age Inquisition has multiple romance options with exceptional detail, and writing. Each romance option is interesting, and can affect character development, and story. Each character is unique, with some romances being carefree and wholesome, while some end in heartache.