The player starts the game by taking on the role of Ayano Aishi, commonly known as Yandere-chan. In the game, the player takes on the role of a school girl named Yandere-chan as she becomes helplessly love-sick- an event that spells doom for the potential rivals in love around her. For the uninformed, the Japanese term "yandere" referrs to a person, often times a young girl, who is crazy in love with another person to the point of aggressively violent psychosis.
The game gets inspiriation from the "yandere" anime trope. Yandere Simulator is a Hitman-style, stealth action computer video game developed by YandereDev.