History ChildhoodFriendRomance / VisualNovels

* ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay'':

** ''VisualNovel/HomeForTheHolidays'': Wyatt, Scarlett's childhood friend, is one of her love interests.

** ''VisualNovel/SaveTheDate'': Simon, Lauren's childhood friend, is one of her love interests.

** ''VisualNovel/ForeignAffairs'': Tatum, Kennedy's childhood friend, is one of his/her love interests.

** ''VisualNovel/WakeTheDead'': Troy, Ash's childhood Friend, is one of his/her love interests.

* ''Honoo no Haramase Oppai Shintai Sokutei ~ Osananajimi Joshikousei Karada Sokutei de Zenin Nakadashi Paradise!'' (please excuse the {{Intentionally Awkward|Title}} LongTitle) allows you to get a HaremEnding with '''''fourteen''''' different ChildhoodFriends!

* In ''VisualNovel/ButterflySoup'', Diya and Min-seo become close friends at age 8. The two very clearly like each other (most obviously on Min's part), but Min moves away across the country. They reconnect after Min moves back after
5 years when they both start high school. Their budding romance is one of the main story-lines throughout the game.

* [[VisualNovel/OurLifeBeginningsAndAlways Both]] installments of ''VisualNovel/OurLife'' can have the Main Character be childhood friends with their neighbors whom they can romance later.

* In ''VisualNovel/ButterflySoup'', Diya and Min-seo become close friends at age 8. The two very clearly like each other (most obviously on Min's part), but Min moves away across the country. They reconnect after Min moves back after 5 years when they both start high school. Their budding romance is one of the main story-lines throughout the game.

* Ava Crescentia and Kayto Shields of ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}}'' grew up together and became romantically involved in their last year of high school. Then Ava went off to join the military right after graduation, with Kayto promising to follow in her footsteps. When they finally meet again twelve years later, Kayto has become captain of the Sunrider and Ava is his second-in-command; as such, [[InappropriatelyCloseComrades she refuses any attempt to restart their old relationship as it wouldn’t be proper and could compromise their judgment]]. They don’t get together in either of the main games, but the ''Sunrider Academy'' HighschoolAU DatingSim has them get married at the end of her route and the later released ''[RE]turn'' scenario for the second game can end with the two together.

* Sunao Fujimori and Matsuri Honjou are both Sora Hashiba's childhood friends in ''[[LightNovel/{{Sukisho}} Suki Na Mono Wa Suki Dakara Shoganai]]''. You can choose either one in the visual novel but in the anime [[spoiler: Sunao]] is the victorious childhood friend.

* Anyone you choose in ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'' will become the Victorious Childhood Friend except for Primula since they had all met Rin sometime as children and Asa met him in Jr High. Mess up going after a girl and you end up with Kaede, wishy washy on your choices and you end up with Kaede. She is clearly the default heroine in the game, even more so because [[InnocentCohabitation she lived with him for most of the series]] [[MarryThemAll EVERYONE]] becomes a Victorious Childhood Friend if you choose Tsubomi in Essence+ although it's implied that this is the expected end for the first game too when you choose a girl and Eustoma and Forbesii remind you that polygamy is legal in heaven.

* ''Honoo no Haramase Oppai Shintai Sokutei ~ Osananajimi Joshikousei Karada Sokutei de Zenin Nakadashi Paradise!'' (please excuse the {{Intentionally Awkward|Title}} LongTitle) allows you to take this UpToEleven; you can get a HaremEnding with '''''fourteen''''' different ChildhoodFriends!

* Ava Crescentia and Kayto Shields of ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}}'' grew up together and became romantically involved in their last year of high school. Then Ava went off to join the military right after graduation, with Kayto promising to follow in her footsteps. When they finally meet again twelve years later, Kayto has become captain of the Sunrider and Ava is his second-in-command; as such, [[InappropriatelyCloseComrades she refuses any attempt to restart their old relationship as it wouldn’t be proper and could compromise their judgment]]. They don’t get together in either of the main games, but the ''Sunrider Academy'' HighschoolAU DatingSim has them get married at the end of her route.