Perfectly Arranged Marriage / Video Games

• Crusader Kings: It is extremely rare, but possible, for betrothed to fall in love while still underage if they're raised in the same court. It is, however, fairly common for characters who are betrothed to be raised in a way that gives them highly compatible personalities, ensuring the couple have a high opinion of each other and therefore a stable marriage. Doubly so if the player bethroths their children to compatible characters intentionally.
• Dragon Age: Origins has a couple examples:
  • The City Elf origin story can be like this if you choose the right dialogue when interacting with your betrothed, whom you have just met. Of course, then it all goes horribly wrong...
  • Cailan and Anora appear to have been this. They were betrothed when Cailan (who is a few years younger than Anora) was still in the cradle, grew up as intimate friends, and (according to the World of Thedas books) even went on a few adventures together before marrying. It didn't stop him from having mistresses now and then, according to Anora, but they love each other in their own way. Unfortunately, then he gets killed at the beginning of the main game. It's also revealed that he was going to divorce her and re-marry just to become Emperor of Orlais, though documents in the game indicate that he was reluctant to do so and it took an entire year for his uncle to talk him into it.
  • If the Warden is the daughter of House Cousland, romances Alistair, and places him on the throne of Ferelden, she can set up one of these for herself, and all of Ferelden is enamored with the royal romance.
• Dragon Quest VIII has a roundabout example that almost results in an extremely imperfect arrangement: The kings of Trodain and Argonia agreed to have their children marry if they were the opposite sex. They weren't - both kings had only sons - so the agreement carried over to their grandchildren. Unfortunately, Prince Charmles of Argonia is essentially the trope namer for Prince Charmless, and Trodain's Princess Medea (like essentially everyone else both in- and out-of-universe) hates him. But all is not lost: turns out the Hero, a childhood friend of Medea, is also a potential heir to the Argonian throne - his father was the current king's older brother - and in the Golden Ending (the only one in which the Hero learns of this heritage), even Charmles's father supports Medea marrying the Hero over Charmles.
• The backstory of Dream Chronicles reveals that in the fairy world, fairies go through politically arranged marriages and that love was an alien concept among them until Aeval and Tangle, betrothed to each other, ended up genuinely falling in love and choosing to live in the mortal world so that their son Fidget could marry for love. Unfortunately, Lilith, the fairy to whom Fidget was betrothed, is not pleased when she finds out that he's married Faye, the human player character. And thus Faye's problems begin...
• We have a few in the Dynasty Warriors games, namely those between Sun Ce and his blood brother Zhou Yu and the Qiao sisters. Despite knowing very little about their future mates and having completely opposite personalities, both couples are shown to be very happy. Same goes for Liu Bei and Sun Shang Xiang. Historically, the marriage between Lady Sun and Liu Bei went terribly. She never permitted him to spend time alone with her, outfitting her maids with weapons to make sure of this, and the instant he went to war with her family she left him.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Final Fantasy XII has the marriage between Princess Ashe of Dalmasca and Prince Rasler of Nabradia, with the two of them truly in love despite the union being arranged for political reasons. They even lampshade in a cutscene how people are assuming it's all to do with politics.
  • The Final Fantasy XV characters Luna and Noctis were friends before international diplomacy demanded they marry, though they didn't know the other reciprocated their feelings. This was convenient both politically and cosmologically, as Luna and Noctis are also fate's bitches, and the world depends on their ability to cooperate.
• Rodrik Forrester and Elaena Glenmore are arranged to be married in Game of Thrones (Telltale), but are clearly in love besides. It's to the point that when House Forrester becomes the enemy of the powerful House Bolton and Elaena is engaged to one of their allies, she becomes a Runaway Fiancé and joins the Forresters.
• In the Middle Ages chapter of Live A Live, Oersted wins the tournament for not only to become heir to the Kingdom of Lucrece; but also to be married to the King's daughter, Princess Alethea. Alethea is initially happy to marry Oersted to the point she said she would place her faith to only him. But thanks to the Demon kidnapping her and Streibough betraying Oersted along with manipulating Alethea, she loses her love and faith in Oersted to the point she committed suicide after Streibough's death. This ends up being the final straw for Oersted to lose his sanity and become the Lord of Dark, Odio.
• In Odin Sphere, Oswald 'wins' Gwendolyn's hand — complete with a spell that will make her love him — by Standard Hero Reward. As it turns out, the spell wouldn't have been necessary; Oswald genuinely loved her at first sight and goes through the effort of trying to have the spell lifted, and discovers (after her literally going To Hell and Back for him) that Gwendolyn loves him without it. It's a good thing too because Odin had never added the spell in the first place.
• In Persona 3, during Mitsuru's Social Link, she mentions that her parents were in an Arranged Marriage, and while they were not in love at first, they fell in love over time.
• A justified example in RuneScape's "Throne of Miscellania" quest. To become the regent of Miscellania, you are required to get engaged to Prince Brand (if female) or Princess Astrid (if male). The royal is initially unimpressed, having been presented with suitors for this purpose by their father before, so you have to actively woo them, show interest in their hobbies, bring them presents, and prove to them that your interest is more than just political. Once you succeed, they and your character fall enthusiastically in love and agree to the engagement.
• Oichi and Azai Nagamasa in Sengoku Basara. Unfortunately, Oichi's brother Oda Nobunaga (who arranged the marriage in the first place) is The Demon King, so all happiness went to hell, literally.
  • Same thing happened in Samurai Warriors, except Nobunaga was less (but still) brutal, thus while happiness still goes to hell, bittersweet tragedy also happens in play between Oichi and Nagamasa (they still love each other dearly).
  • Also in the 4th game and especially its expansion, the first meeting between Sanada Nobuyuki and Inahime is basically the latter trying to shoot him dead and they both get locked in battle. And then Nobuyuki gets offered to marry her and then they realize that they're pretty compatible and loving to each other. They did end up happier than the above, although they did have to deal with the death of their stubborn brother Yukimura...
• In Shepherd's Crossing 2, the game's Romance Sidequest is treated more as an arranged marriage. You discuss the prospect of marriage with the town's mayor, who will set you up with one of the townsfolk provided you fulfill the town's marriage customs of giving your intended many sheep (for male players) or handmade blankets (for female players). The townsfolk agree based on how well you can fulfill these customs, making the decision for mostly practical reasons. But they're all shown to be truly happy and loving with the player character afterwards.
• Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns reveals that Ittetsu and Shizu got introduced to each other at an omiai — a marriage-matchmaking service. Despite their different personalities, the two are happily married and have two sons.
• Serenoa and Frederica qualify for most of Triangle Strategy. They're arranged to be married at the start of the game, and the first chapter starts with their first meeting. Over the course of the game, they both fall in love with each other's kind and determined personalities, though things can vary slightly depending on which ending the player gets. It's played fully straight in the Golden Ending, where they get married and are completely happy together. In the Liberty ending, they get married and do care about each other, but their relationship is somewhat strained by political issues. In the Morality ending, Serenoa dies before they can get married, and in the Utility ending, Frederica ends up leaving Serenoa due to him siding with Hyzante and allowing the Roselle to stay in slavery.
• In World of Warcraft, an arranged marriage is suggested by Kurdran Wildhammer to stop two other Wildhammer clans from feuding, at first the man involved agrees just because it would be nice to get the families to stop fighting, but after his bride-to-be gets kidnapped and then kills three ten foot tall ogres with a frying pan, he's so smitten he's left in a stupor, and it's revealed she has an attraction to him as well. Any last doubts get cleared up when a Faceless One attacks the wedding, and bride and groom kick its ass equally, putting them both head over heels for one another.
  • In the backstory, King Varian and his wife Tiffin had an arranged marriage, but quickly fell madly in love. Unfortunately, it didn't last long.