The 25 Most Realistic Video Game Romances

Because in real life, the princess is always in another castle.

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Very rarely do games ever try and show us romantic relationships of any substance and even rarer are the times they get it right. Sure, we've had some epic loves that are spellbound fairy tales, but real love isn't always about prince charming and a sleeping beauty; sometimes love's messy, complicated, confusing, depressing, or just plain off.

Love isn't perfect and people in love are most definitely not perfect either, but that's what makes romantic stories so compelling. Each of these cases have something wrong or amiss in them, but they are undeniably more realistic than the myriad of Disney-esque tales we see all over the place.

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Half-Life 2

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Alan Wake

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Gears of War

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The Sims

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Uncharted

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Sleeping Dogs

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Red Dead Redemption

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Silent Hill 2

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Mass Effect

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Dragon Age

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Prince of Persia

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Max Payne

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Plumbers Don't Wear Ties

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Final Fantasy VII

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Monkey Island

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Heavy Rain

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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

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Assassin's Creed 3

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The Darkness II

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To The Moon

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Braid

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Catherine

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Persona 4

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Dinner Date

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Passage

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