Five incredible games for people who don't participate in Valentine's Day

VALENTINE'S DAY used to be about sharing appreciation for your loved ones, but nowadays it's all about money.

Whether you're single, or just don't like to partake in all the meals, flowers and spending, there are other ways to celebrate.

Play these romantic games with a dark twist

Let yourself be carried away by these fantastic games with a romantic and often dark twist.

If you want to play games this Valentine's Day, these are the games you can try.

Chaos; Head Noah

While there may be romance in Chaos;Head Noah, it is more about a supernatural murder mystery that our main character Takumi finds himself in.

Takumi lives alone in a storage container and rarely goes to school, seeing no point in interacting with the outside world.

He is forced out after discovering that a serial killer is on the loose and that he is the prime suspect.

Chaos;Head Noah, Chaos;Child and Steins;Gate are all sci-fi mysteries with romantic twists that are worth your attention.

Developed by the same team that created the recent Persona games, Catherine: Full Body is a mix of puzzle game and dating sim.

Vincent has been with his girlfriend Katherine for years, and now she wants to get married.

That's when the seductive Catherine and the kind-hearted Qatherine enter the stage, leaving Vincent to debate who he wants to be with.

He spends his nights climbing an endless tower of blocks while answering questions that bring him closer to his final decision.

A game lost in the PSP library, Sweet Fuse: At Your Side combines escape room puzzles and romance in a death-defying adventure.

Saki Inafune – for some reason a niece of Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune – ends up trapped in an abandoned theme park with a few men.

While someone is holding hostages in the park, the team is tasked with completing challenges and discovering the connection between them.

A number of exciting puzzles and a crazy story that you will want to play multiple times to get to the heart of the mystery.

In Nurse Love, you play more of a straight romance game, playing a recent graduate who attends an all-girls nursing school.

Although not a natural student, Asuka does her best at the new school and relies on the help of others around her.

With no memories of her early childhood, Asuka must juggle romance, her stressful job, and figuring out where she comes from.

Another romantic story with a dark twist, this game also requires a number of playthroughs.

Takayuki receives a disturbing letter from his high school pen pal, fifteen years after the two last wrote to each other.

He decides to look for her in the small town of Shimane and combines clues he gathered from her high school letters to find her.

Engage in Ace Attorney-style interrogations with her former friends to uncover the truth behind her disappearance.

You can play detective while also looking for your lost love.

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Written by Georgina Young on behalf of GLHF.

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