Visual novels like Pub Encounter

Still thinking about Pub Encounter and its romantic and story-driven tone? These visual novels are a good place to start.

Office lovers
It's a romance game where you can experience the thrill of an office romance where you have to keep your relationship secret. What will happen when you're alone with him in the conference room?
Romantic, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
48% of 119 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Under Maintenance
An everyday dramedy otome game that asks the tough question: When a game about love goes down for maintenance, can the game of love begin?
Romantic, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
93% of 139 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
INtLOVErt Game Club
A lot of unique Japanese nerds appear one after another! Let's enjoy the exciting daily life with him, a member of the nerds circle who is interested in you!
Romantic, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
96% of 204 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$39.99
Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~
Springtime. The season of the cherry blossoms, and a time of new beginnings, new encounters, and new people. For Aoba Kyousuke, this new season marks the start of his second year in high school, and also the year he resolved himself to finally fulfill his long-cherished dream: finding a girlfriend.
Romantic, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
97% of 390 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Otaku's Adventure
A single otaku thirsting for love stumbles into a fantastic journey and a chance with three very different girls. You read, choose, solve odd puzzles and survive mini-games and strange battles to win their hearts across multiple endings. Hand-drawn, silly and romantic in equal measure.
Romantic, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
94% of 8,357 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$6.99
I've Fallen For You!
Eight women simultaneously appear in your life, offering you unconditional love and support! Will you choose to uphold your beliefs and become a good man, or give in to human temptations and become a bad man?
Romantic, Story-driven, Emotional
88% of 726 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Lost in Secular Love
A Otome game about romancing monks?! All the romanceable characters are monks?! Sweet yet seductive! The untainted body and soul that only you can touch… PS: The game is set in an alternate history with an alternate religion.
Romantic, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
86% of 500 Steam reviews are positive$5.49
My 1/6 Lover
This is a visual novel about a lovestory with 6 routes, numerous CGs and 200,000 words. Small town, afternoon, leisure is in the air. A young man is trying to straighten himself up and finally say it to the girl of his dream. The girl shocked him with an unexpected answer. "I'm sorry, which of us do you like?"
Romantic, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
80% of 551 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Animal Lover
Evil forces have turned these five hunky beefcake time-displaced boys into animals! You've got to help cure them and maybe even fall in love! Mystery! Intrigue! Romance! No furries, despite the title! A dating sim by Wilson Taylor, Maia Gross and Travis Tohill.
Romantic, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
88% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
OshiRabu: Waifus Over Husbandos
A slapstick yuri visual novel about Akuru, a 26-year-old otaku office worker obsessed with pulling her husbando in a gacha game, and Ren, a lucky girl who mistakes her rambling for a marriage proposal and moves in to win her over.
Romantic, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
85% of 3,740 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Making*Lovers
MakingLovers A story about the way love can bloom after dating begins. The focus in MakingLovers is on the things that come after a relationship's beginning. With "start dating, then fall in love" as the concept, you will work towards the moment when love truly blooms.
Romantic, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
96% of 635 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$29.99
ERROR143
A short rivals-to-lovers visual novel about two hackers who keep breaking into each other's systems to leave smug messages. You pick replies, solve hangman-style hacks, and steer toward a bad end, a good end, or a proposal in about one to three hours.
Romantic, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
92% of 5,496 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 78Free

Cheaper than Pub Encounter

Office lovers

It's a romance game where you can experience the thrill of an office romance where you have to keep your relationship secret.

$15.99

My Butler

"My Butler" is a game where you can enjoy falling in love with your personal butler.

$2.99

Dangerous Relationship

"Dangerous Relationship" is a game where you can enjoy the dangerous world of dating a celebrity.

$4.79

Otaku's Adventure

A single otaku thirsting for love stumbles into a fantastic journey and a chance with three very different girls.

$6.99

Secrets of Me

"Secrets of Me" is a game where, after getting plastic surgery, you can stalk a hot guy to get him to fall in love with you!

$4.79

I've Fallen For You!

Eight women simultaneously appear in your life, offering you unconditional love and support!

$7.99

Lost in Secular Love

A Otome game about romancing monks?! All the romanceable characters are monks?! Sweet yet seductive!

$5.49

My Secret Pets!

"My Secret Pets!" is a romance game where you can live a secret second life at home with your pets, which suddenly transformed into cute guys!

$15.99

My 1/6 Lover

This is a visual novel about a lovestory with 6 routes, numerous CGs and 200,000 words. Small town, afternoon, leisure is in the air.

$1.99

Animal Lover

Evil forces have turned these five hunky beefcake time-displaced boys into animals! You've got to help cure them and maybe even fall in love! Mystery!

$9.99

Charming Hearts

"Charming Hearts" is a real-life interactive dating game. Players will meet, get to know, and fall in love with different types of beauty.

$9.99

Otome Legends

Play a dating sim inside of a dating sim to become an otome heroine protagonist. Nothing can possible go wrong... right?

$7.99

Hidden gems like Pub Encounter

Could You Be a Gal Master?

You are Li Ming, a bored college student who ducks into a tiny merch shop called Morning House on a stormy day and stays for the company.

$1.99

INtLOVErt Game Club

A lot of unique Japanese nerds appear one after another! Let's enjoy the exciting daily life with him, a member of the nerds circle who is…

$39.99

Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate

A college junior is told she will die unless she finds her soulmate, so you juggle classes, an internship and a job while romancing four women.

$14

Don't FOOL ME, Beauties!

"Get out!!!" Kicked out in the dead of winter, you land a job at a shady hotel.

$4.99

I've Fallen For You!

Eight women simultaneously appear in your life, offering you unconditional love and support!

$7.99

Charming Hearts

"Charming Hearts" is a real-life interactive dating game. Players will meet, get to know, and fall in love with different types of beauty.

$9.99

Voice Love on Air

A BL dating sim with elements of studio management and interactions with voice actors!

$29.99

Secrets of the Heartbeat

Confronted with life's peak, diverse romance beckons. Do you choose the allure of a charming secretary or the wisdom of an independent yoga…

$6.99

From Madness with Love

This is a dating sim with guys you will never be on the same page with! For some reason, you just can't communicate with the guy you like...

$16.99

Under Maintenance

An everyday dramedy otome game that asks the tough question: When a game about love goes down for maintenance, can the game of love begin?

Free

Otome Legends

Play a dating sim inside of a dating sim to become an otome heroine protagonist. Nothing can possible go wrong... right?

$7.99

ERROR143

A short rivals-to-lovers visual novel about two hackers who keep breaking into each other's systems to leave smug messages.

Free

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