Other games to play If you like Yandere Simulator!!!
These are all mobile games. All free :)
Ai To Nori
You can actually choose whether to be a yandere or not in this game! I really recommend it. Although it’s only in Alpha at the moment, it has multiple endings and plenty of achievements!
As for similarities, a lot of mechanics are similar. Such as the following mechanic. There’s clear inspiration from yansim, though I don’t want to spoil it. Plus, it has a thing a lot of people like out of yansim, which is unique descriptions for each character, with some even having unique dialogue. Something it has that yansim doesn’t is different tasks for NPCs ;p
There’s also some pretty interesting lore with a lot of potential for Theories! At the beginning of the game, a group of girls find a mysterious book. I’m pretty sure the book is what gives them violent urges, although you can look at their backstories and see that they’ve all got excuses, haha…
You can actually choose to play as any of these girls. There isn’t character customization, instead you play as a unique character! This doesn’t affect gameplay but it’s very interesting.
My main complaint with this game is just the somewhat confusing messages and glitches, but this game is in alpha, so I can’t really judge it.
Lethal Love: A yandere Game
The overall build of this game is *verrry* similar to yansim. It has similar shaders, character models, ect. This game isn’t finished, but it has a few rivals already! You can play each rival at any time, like chapters. Each Rival has their own “cannon” ending, some of which multiple choices, but you can eliminate them however you like. This game isn’t very challenging, but it’s a lot of fun to just sit down and play for a few minutes! This game also has achievements, but it’s really just a log of all the endings you’ve gotten for each rival. There’s also a free mode and a mode where you can make your own rival! The way it works is very different though. It doesn’t save your progress within days, so if you kill a non-rival student, they’ll be there again when you do the next rival. This is what makes it a nice game to just sit down and play, though!
Although I do think the main character, Kyoko, is already quite cute, there’s also character customization! However each item (including the uniforms, which only change your appearance on the title screen) either costs an ad or real money to use.
*angry rant ahead in this next paragraph*
Speaking of ads, that’s definitely my biggest gripe with the game. There’s A LOT. You spawn in in your house every day regardless, and once you exit your house to town, you get an add. You can either choose to run across the town, which is useless Except for one shop for one item, every single day. Or you can skip from the menu, which takes you ANOTHER AD. That’s 2 ads in like 10 seconds. Also, every time you manually restart the day or get caught and have to restart the day, you get a guaranteed ad, which happens a lot more than you think since the days are pretty short and it’s easy to dispose of bodies. Most of the time, instead of ending the day and winning, you’ll choose to manually restart the day in order to skip a bunch of useless crap and ads. Also, REAL LIFE MONEY FOR A COUPLE OF IN GAME HAIRS?!?!? That’s insane!!! You also have to watch an unskippable ad to get ANY customization items. And if you’re thinking, “oh, airplane mode,” WRONG!!!!! If the game can’t play ads, IT FORCES YOU TO QUIT THE GAME, YOU LITERALLY CANT PLAY UNLESS YOU CAN PLAY ADS!!! It’s idiotic. Anyway ik that’s a dumb rant but whatever.
at least the app is somehow rates 12+ despite the blood so you can play it with parental controls ?
High School Simulator 2018
okay so I’m pretty sure all the people who have interest this post know this game already. But if you don’t…
This game is necessarily a “yandere game,” perse. I’d maybe call it a “Yandere-lite” or something. It’s more of an anime school roleplay game. HOWEVER! You can actually just murder people!
although you have to do something specific. Turn your phone on airplane mode so you don’t have to watch ads, then unlock all the female hairs. That way you’ll have all the weapons!! (Oh yeah this game has character customization)
This game is fun and silly and cute. There’s a love letter in your room that you can give to a student (male or female) you can straight up kill your classmates and get covered in blood and hide the body and wash off in the shower that’s conveniently outside of your home, you can get the cops called on your ass, there’s a gun, magic, you can join clubs… it’s cute. Yeah. Haha.
The biggest problem I have with it is that there isn’t much to do. There isn’t much actual interaction with students. There isn’t much of an actual gameplay loop. Closest thing is killing and once you’ve killed everyone there’s nothing to do but continuously battle the same cops until the world fades into eternity.
Sakura School Simulator
Same as the last one, this isn’t a yandere game. But it’s funny asf, and there’s a LOT to do. There’s interaction with other students where you can become friends or lovers, you can go to restaurants together, you can go to theme parks together, ect. You can also just fuck around all you want??? I still discover locations I had no idea about. You can run people over with cars, take down you local Yakuza, fight aliens and statues, get beaten up during a theme park show, or honestly just explore.
You Can attack people, but they’ll be revived the next day (and also despise you). There’s a ton of achievements and a ton of random things you can do. Trust me, it’s a lot of fun. Also not too many ads!
The thing I dislike most about it is how, on the mobile version of the game, there’s a lot of stuff that’s just super annoying due to silly solutions to the App Store restrictions. But it also limits gameplay features. Whenever an NPC student is hurt, they turn into a robot and you can’t really fix it??? Same for you, if you get hit even once, you turn into a robot. And you have to teleport to your home to change your outfit if you don’t want to stay as a robot. And when someone is down, they “go to sleep,” but it also spawns a futon wherever they died, which is really annoying. It also makes “violence” not allowed within the school so you can’t attack people in the school (which can get really annoying sometimes). It forces you to be a robot if you want to fight, which you do a lot in the game. Blech, haha. It’s not really a big deal tho, still a fun game!
(Roblox) Love Letter
This is the last one you can skip it if you’re not interested, but this is a Roblox game. But as for yansim rp games, it’s pretty good! It has almost all of the animations in yansim. All the 3D models are in the yansim style, and you can play as any character in the game! Even ones that aren’t actually in the game! And you can use any persona animations and running animations regardless of what character you’re playing as! The complete model for the school is in game, too.
The game also has frequent events and adds new characters that aren’t in the game all the time. It updates pretty consistently.
I guess my biggest problem is that it takes a while to load everything because of the advanced models and the fact it’s in fucking Roblox. But also I have terrible internet and the game consistently runs at 60fps so it’s better than yansim in terms of optimization. The biggest problem I’ve had is that the UI pictures won’t load sometimes, and sometimes textures will just fail and won’t save no matter what. But like what can you expect. It’s Roblox.
Akedmi online is also popular in terms of yansim games on Roblox but I genuinely couldn’t get the game to function properly so I didn’t include it on the list.
