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

Guide your daughter's life for eight years, making decisions about her education, jobs, and training. Your choices will shape her personality, skills, and destiny, leading to dozens of possible outcomes. Experience a classic child-raising simulation with charming pixel art.

Highlights
  • Manage monthly schedules
  • Explore festivals and events
  • Discover dozens of endings
  • Charming pixel art
  • Classic atmosphere
  • Child-raising simulation
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MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED - Exclusive to Crunchyroll Mega and Ultimate Fan Memberships Based on Princess Maker 2 Refine, the highly rated edition that has earned long-standing praise on Steam, this version brings the iconic child-raising simulation to mobile. Your daughter dreams of becoming a princess, but countless possible futures await. Across eight formative years, you will decide her education, part-time jobs, training, discipline, schedule, and lifestyle. Your choices shape her personality, skills, career, relationships, and ultimate fate. Will she become a noble knight, scholar, artist, queen—or something entirely different? Key Features: - Manage your daughter’s monthly schedules - Explore festivals, adventures, and special events - Discover dozens of different endings - Enjoy charming pixel art and a classic atmosphere ____________ Crunchyroll Premium members enjoy ad-free streaming - 1,300+ titles, 46,000+ episodes, and simulcasts shortly after they air in Japan. Mega Fan and Ultimate Fan memberships also include offline viewing, Crunchyroll Store discounts, Crunchyroll Game Vault access, multi-device streaming, 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: Love Esquire at 54% against Crunchyroll's 0%. Love Esquire also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.6) and ratings volume (147 vs 8). Crunchyroll's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). 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 $11.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Love Esquire holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Love Esquire has 147 ratings behind it against 8, 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 0% of Crunchyroll's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Love Esquire versus Crunchyroll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLove EsquireCrunchyroll
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (147 ratings) — better2.6 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews54.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings147 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
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 ratings6 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative83.3%

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]$11.991 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?
Love Esquire is rated higher. Love Esquire averages 4.5 out of 5 from 147 ratings, while Crunchyroll averages 2.6 from 8 ratings.
Do Love Esquire or Crunchyroll have ads?
Love Esquire shows ads; Crunchyroll does not.

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