Comparison

Love Esquire vs Crunchyroll

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Love Esquire

Embark on a romantic-comedy adventure as a squire seeking love and pleasure. Raise your stats, battle monsters, and forge relationships with five unique heroines, each with their own secrets. Your choices lead to multiple endings in this fully voiced visual novel.

Highlights
  • 5 Dateable Waifus
  • Turn-based Combat
  • Raise Stats (Strength, Charisma, Intelligence)
  • Forge Relationships
  • Multiple Endings
  • Fully Voiced
Features
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Love Esquire is a romantic-comedy visual novel/dating sim with a touch of old-school RPG combat. In this game, you're not a famous knight, but a good-for-nothing squire who's on a quest to find man's greatest pleasure. Getting the girl won't be easy though, since most of them are waaaay out of your league! So raise those stats, battle monsters, and unleash your full potential! FEATURES 5 Dateable Waifus – Love Esquire's heroines are not just pretty faces! Each have their own unique ambitions, backstories, plots, and dirty little secrets for you to uncover. Turn-based Combat – You may not be a decent squire, but you have a number of unconventional techniques to keep your needy knight alive. Taunt, cheer, heal, and loot your way to victory! Raise Stats – Git gud and become the ideal man by increasing your strength, charisma and intelligence. These traits not only affect your combat abilities, but also your relationships. Forge Relationships – Amp up your squirely charm by giving gifts and whispering sweet nothings to your waifu. Get those romance points high enough and they'll open up in more ways than one. Multiple Endings – What's waiting for your squire at the end of the journey? Be careful with those choices! Fully Voiced – Hear your waifus fully express their undying love for you! IMPORTANT NOTES The game contains advertisements and optional items that can be purchased using real money. You need internet connection to play this game. Want more high-quality visual novels? Follow us! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yangyangmobile Twitter: https://twitter.com/yangyangmobile Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yangyangmobile/ Discord: https://discord.com/invite/yangyangmobile Buy Merch: https://www.freewebstore.org/yangyangmobile

About

Crunchyroll

Experience a psychological horror visual novel set in a mysterious Japanese village. Unravel a complex branching story, make critical choices, and uncover the truth behind an ancient curse and a vengeful werewolf. Rewind your decisions to explore different outcomes and escape the endless cycle of death.

Highlights
  • Psychological horror story
  • Branching narrative with choices
  • Story flowchart and rewind feature
  • Unlockable Revelation Mode
  • New Game Plus
  • Tribute to Japanese folklore
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Crunchyroll Mega Fan or Ultimate Fan Membership Required Immerse yourself in a thrilling psychological horror story taking place in the secluded Japanese village of Yasumizu. A heavy mist surrounds the place, preventing everyone from ever leaving. Ancient gods have come back to hunt the villagers down one by one. The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive? A tribute to Japanese folklore Haruaki Fusaishi is a young man freshly arrived to Yasumizu, a remote settlement in a mountainous region of Japan. He will become involved in an ominous local tradition known as the feast. Among the villagers lurks the werewolf, an entity who has sworn to take revenge on everyone. A visual novel with a complex branching story Keep track of all your choices thanks to a comprehensible flowchart. Rewind the story and select other actions to see different outcomes and learn about the characters’ motivation. A death may be rewarded with a new piece of information, a Key that will give you access to new paths and bring you closer to the identity of the killer. An extensive new game plus Clear the game to unlock the Revelation Mode and discover the story in a new light. You will see the inner thoughts of the characters and unlock new scenes that will give you more insight about their motivation. An endless spiral of deaths Haruaki Fusaishi will find himself stuck in inextricable loop from which he cannot escape. Conscious of his own fate, he will take advantage of all the knowledge acquired before his tragic deaths. ———— Crunchyroll Premium members enjoy an ad-free experience, with full access to Crunchyroll's library of over 1,300 unique titles and 46,000 episodes, including simulcast series that premiere shortly after premiering in Japan. In addition, membership offers special benefits including offline viewing access, discount code to Crunchyroll Store, Crunchyroll Game Vault access, streaming simultaneously on multiple devices, and more! Privacy Policy: https://www.crunchyroll.com/games/privacy Terms: https://www.crunchyroll.com/games/terms/

Screenshots

Love Esquire4 screens
Crunchyroll4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Crunchyroll at 100% against Love Esquire's 54%. Crunchyroll also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and ads (none vs shown). Love Esquire's advantage is ratings volume (147 vs 7). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Love Esquire sells 16 one-off in-app purchases and Crunchyroll sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $13.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Crunchyroll holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Love Esquire has 147 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Love Esquire's written reviews are positive against 100% of Crunchyroll's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Love Esquire ships an update every 2 weeks, Crunchyroll daily. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Love Esquire versus Crunchyroll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLove EsquireCrunchyroll
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (147 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews54.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings147 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size276 MB1.7 GB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperMAMA MORIN LLC.Crunchyroll, LLC

Customer experience

Love Esquire

All ratings146 ratings
Positive86.3%
Neutral3.4%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive54.1%
Neutral16.2%
Negative29.7%

Crunchyroll

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

16 purchases

Love Esquire

One-time16
  • Handful of Gems$0.99
  • Bag of Gems$2.99
  • Bowl of Gems$4.99
Show 13 more
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • vipSub$4.99
  • Barrel of Gems$9.99
  • VIP Pass$9.99
  • Squire Bundle$9.99
  • New Game+ Bundle$9.99
  • Arc I Bundle$14.99
  • Arc II Bundle$19.99
  • Arc III Bundle$19.99
  • Cart of Gems$24.99
  • Arc IV Bundle$29.99
  • New Game+ Bundle$29.99
  • Mountain of Gems$99.99
1 purchases

Crunchyroll

Subscriptions1
  • Mega Fan [Monthly]$13.991 Month

Questions

Is Love Esquire free?
Love Esquire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Crunchyroll free?
Crunchyroll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Love Esquire or Crunchyroll?
Crunchyroll is rated higher. Love Esquire averages 4.5 out of 5 from 147 ratings, while Crunchyroll averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Love Esquire or Crunchyroll have ads?
Love Esquire shows ads; Crunchyroll does not.
Which is updated more often, Love Esquire or Crunchyroll?
Love Esquire ships an update every 2 weeks, and Crunchyroll daily. Most recently, Love Esquire was updated on October 21, 2026 and Crunchyroll on October 22, 2026.

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