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Fish Make O-Faces, and Other Lessons From the Redding District
Sagan Yee's hookup sim asks what if mermaids lived like Pacific salmon: go home, spawn with everyone you grew up with, then die alongside the whole town.
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A new dating sim highlights the pickup artist’s ugly game of seduction
The dating sim has been experiencing something of a reexamining of late, finding itself in the broader public eye as iterations upon its core tenants are warped, distorted, and pushed past their typical use cases. Whereas dating sims were once predominantly focused around a male protagonist trying t
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A videogame for anyone who’s felt uncomfortable on the dance floor
Team Lazerbeam, the folks behind Snow Cones and Wrestling With Emotions, started their latest game Dress To Express Dancing Success—a dancing and dating simulator—with the intention of creating their least sensible and least complicated game. And they kind of failed. “Before that we’d been on a pret
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Here’s a dating sim about The Rock falling in love with a boulder
“What the hell did I just play?” I pause the game after it’s finished and lean back in my chair, utterly confused. The Rock and The Rock promised five minutes of entertainment and it certainly delivered, although it’s taking longer to process what exactly took place. Created by Kevin Roark Jr., The
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Speed dating sim lets you find the burly wrestler of your dreams
Before the dating app Tinder swept the modern dating scene, one of the only examples of gamified wooing was the absurd activity of speed dating. In speed dating, you’re given a limited amount of time to get to know another person, before a klaxon sounds and the next desperate individual shuffles in
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Play a dating sim about hooking up with erotic architecture
It’s very likely that I fucked a building last night. Now, hold up, I don’t know if I did. We hooked up and then I’m not sure what happened. Unfortunately, the erotic architecture dating sim Tectr doesn’t go beyond depicting your conversation with hot local masonry on a Tinder-style app, and into th
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The Rise of Dating Sims for Women
A traditionally Japanese genre is learning how to spread its wings in the west.
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The meaninglessness of your Tinder existence, in videogame form
Stave off the cold grip of death by swiping right over and over and over again.
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The hardcore gamers of Tinder
What is the ultimate player of Tinder like?
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A hot date with a pug reminded me why I hate dating
I went on a hot date with a pug. He stared into my soul, and found it lacking.
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Tusks will tackle the homoerotic limitations we’ve imposed on orc lore
Let the orcs be gay.
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In Direction, all breakups are nightmarish
Why doesn’t it work out?