Have you ever walked into your kitchen and had a sudden urge to ask your microwave on a date? I can’t say I have, but even if you did, it’s a kitchen appliance with no feelings whose only purpose in life is to heat up meals when I’m too depressed to cook. The same goes for things like my hoover or freezer, they are designed to do specific thꦐings to make my existence that little bit easier.
But what 🥀if they not only came to life, but were also kind of hot and wanted to sweep me off my feet? from Sassy Chap Games and Team17 has an answer to that long-held question.
A Dating Sim With A Household Twist
Date Everything describes itself as a ‘sandbox dating simulator’, which is a pretty ambitious way to describe a game in a genre which is usually defined by tightly written routes with th🎃e player only able to make a handful of massive choices throughout each playthrough. Once you are locked into a certain character you want to connect wi🐷th, there’s a point of no return which the genre has abided by for decades. Turning that on its head is a bold move.
After losing your creative job to 💝AI - what a scary sign of things to come - you are stuck at home and don’t know what to do with yourself. Until a friend sends a mysterious package containing glasses known as dateviators. These glasses bring objects in your house to life, but only within your field of vision, or at least that’s what I assume. Look at your toaster, and it will turn into a cute girl with a guitar in the shape of a bread slice. Glance at a nearby clock, and it might transform into a catboy that looks eerily similar to Timothee Chalamet.
Get Ready To Smooch One Hundred Household Appliances
There’s an obscene amount of variety, with the reveal trailer promising 100 characters to be found throughout your apartment all with unique appearances and up to three endings each, likely turning them into lovers, friends, or enemies. That would be my guess anyway, as writing that many distinct stories for that many characters would take years, so a couple of shortcuts must have been taken. If not, I ꦺworry for the quality and that Date Everything is trying to do too much. Then again, isn’t that thꦡe entire point?
Jumping into a game like this, I think the biggest draw for me is finding as many hotties as I possibly can throughout the confined apartment, figuring out how to discover them or what objects the developers thought would be best to date. Because 100 is a lot. Time will tell if the concept is a playful gimmick or convincingly tells emotionally 🐲resonant stories, s🐭ince screenshots seem to indicate that objects across your house also know each other, which opens up a bunch of potential conflicts and gameplay opportunities if done right.
The first-person perspective is also pretty interesting, and could turn this dating simulator into the horniest hidden object game of all time as you empty your fridge and rifle through cupboards in search of potential suitors. You also have a smartphone with legally distiꦛnct apps that hopefully add a few more mechanics to keep things fresh. I sound like I’m down about the game already, but I just want it to be more than a joke, because games like this deserv📖e to be when so much great voice and writing talent are behind them.
Eꦬither way, I’m excited to flir♚t with my washing basket.
