Lord help me, I'm on my dating simulator bullshit again
Raided Itch.io for stuff that hasn't crossed over (probably because they're already free and none of these have sexual content, but it's whatever). Also most are horror themed but that's an unintentional coincidence. Ladies just love a monster girlfriend.
In ascending quality:
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- ...the Russians are a very existentialist peoples
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- The 'will they, won't they' dynamic combined with very few player inputs leave it lacking. Single love interest, single relationship dynamic regardless of player choices, only 1 main location for the entire game. Even the queer rep felt shallow at times. Oh the asexual wants to eat garlic bread? Cmon that's amateur hour shit!
Do something with it! (I'm probably being too harsh since it was a gamejam, but I think they got the priorities got backwards. If development times is limited; a lot of quick but functional art and a little quality writing.)
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- Starts pretty good but then it just keeps going and going and going... The characters have arcs where they learn and grow and stuff but the repetition of this get stale. It's in desperate need of being trimmed down to have 1 solid, long character arc or for the smaller arcs to have b-plots and shenanigans breaking them up and playing out like a sit-com series. If you've got more patience than me, you might like it.
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- Obscenely cottagecore. Upsettingly cutesy. Offensively sweet. Also
why have I not seen anyone else do turn based flirting yet??? Billion dollar idea! Unfortunately it has to be played in browser and mine keeps running out of memory and freezing before long, it might've taken the 2nd place slot otherwise.
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- It is so funny to me to have 2 perfectly normal love interests and 1 that's just
completely bonkers! Jade's luck powers are a fantastic gimmick, effect set-up, and good source of characterization. Her constant poutty face during group scenes is silly. It just runs clean!
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- I'm surprised by how much I liked it too! Another gamejam hit. What How May I Direct Your Curse got wrong, this did the opposite and
nailed it. The character artist especially got lightning in a bottle- perfect balance between being cutesy and spooky. The monster elements aren't downplayed or up-played, they're just casual facts of life for the characters and really fun to an outside audience. I wanna squeeze Cameron's stupid little wolf face! Short, sweet, works well. Delightful!
Honorable mentions of stuff I haven't gotten around to but looks cool:
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(looks like the gayest one yet!
),
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(another gamejam quickie),
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(will queer women ever recover from Lady Dimitrescu? Experts say "No".),
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(by the same dev studio as Our Life, Now And Forever. What the fuck??),
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(gamer girl? No, gay mergirl!), and
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(man I don't wanna put credit card info on my alt account
).
Anyone got any recommendations for anything intresting or good to play.
(and a bump for boob
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