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A view of the pink success slide in reality TV show The Crush House, with cast members standing around it

Review

The Crush House review: sassiety of the spectacle

Maniac McMansion

Aug. 9, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

A hoover turned hunk in Date Everything!

News

This upcoming dating sim lets you romance household objects turned absolute fitties

I'm thinking of asking out my kitchen sponge

July 26, 2024 Ed Thorn

A talking house with two wings being a bit of a dom in Building Relationships

News

Building Relationships is A Short Hike, but you are trying to chat up toy houses

Get a Bungaload of this

June 20, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

Two cast members in the Crush House are filmed by the player.

News

Leery first-person reality show The Crush House steps into the limelight in August

"Thirst person shooter"

June 8, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

Astarion and Tav lock lips in a teaser image for Baldur's Gate 3's kissing update

News

Larian's new Polish studio is a "match made in heaven" for the Baldur's Gate 3 developer's upcoming RPGs

Jaheira 'bout this one yet?

May 20, 2024 Nic Reuben

Orpheus and Hermes rock out in a city at night time in role-playing musical Stray Gods

News

Orpheus may be missing from Hades 2 but he's returning to role-playing musical Stray Gods

Sad bard DLC confirmed

May 10, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

Concept art of Solas from Dragon Age standing infront of a six-eyed wolf with a moon in the middle

News

Dragon Age: Dreadwolf set to arrive by next March, according to report

Over a decade since Dragon Age: Inquisition

May 8, 2024 Nic Reuben

A scene of three characters interacting by the poolside in The Crush House

Feature

The Crush House is a saucy 90s reality TV show simulator from the developers of Reigns

Big Bother

April 4, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

Main character Luce transforming into a superhero in Nova Hearts - a close-up sequence showing the character in wild colours with beams of light flying out of her chest

News

The creators of Othercide, the grimmest TRPG ever made, are making a superhero dating sim

OK, it has turn-based combat

Dec. 13, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

Two women, one in a suit and one in a floral dress, investigate a burned-out building in Night Cascades artwork.

Feature

Occult mysteries and sapphic yearnings abound in Long Live The Queen dev's recent(ish) visual novel

Night Cascades came out last year but I'm catching up now

Nov. 17, 2023 Alice O'Connor

A match has been made in Lakeburg Legacies, represented by the image of two bearded men inside a crystal ball surrounded by pink clouds

Review

Lakeburg Legacies review: what's love got to do with town management?

Not as much as the devs would like, to be honest

July 25, 2023 Alice Bell

Podcast

Indiescovery Episode 11: Our favourite indie games of 2023 so far

The GOTFHOTYs special

June 1, 2023 Rebecca Jones

A composite image of characters from Monster Prom, Hatoful Boyfriend, Butterfly Soup and A Year Of Springs

Feature

The 10 best visual novels on PC

Recommended reading

April 26, 2023 Rebecca Jones

A book filled with the friendship level of different villages, one of them is crossed out with the word 'accident# written sext to is in Grave Seasons

News

This murder mystery Stardew-like lets you accidently romance the killer

Just another day of growing crops and solving a homicide in Grave Seasons

April 24, 2023 Rachel Watts

Indiescovery Episode 8: The gang plays Dredge, Terra Nil, Storyteller & Romancelvania

Podcast

Indiescovery Episode 8: The gang plays Dredge, Terra Nil, Storyteller & Romancelvania

Sometimes you just want to see a big weird fish

April 19, 2023 Liam Richardson

Major Malfunction, a smiley wrestling teacher wearing a pink vest, green hat, and shades, points at you and says "welcome, I'm Major Malfunction. I'll be showing you the ropes!", in Wrestling With Emotions: New Kid On The Block.

Feature

Supporters only | Why wrestling is the perfect choice for a dating sim

Team Lazerbeam stonecold stuns us with their answers

Feb. 22, 2023 Ed Thorn

A friendly looking witch from So May It Be, wearing an autumnal orange jumper and with a small, neat black witch's hat

Feature

I’m learning how to curse exes and talk to the dead in So May It Be

A lesson in witchcraft from some cuties

Feb. 14, 2023 Rachel Watts

A girl is standing around in a store in Get In The Car, Loser!

News

Lesbian road trip RPG Get In The Car, Loser! releases its second expansion

The Fate Of Another World follows on from the original

Feb. 14, 2023 Kaan Serin

Feature

Potionomics makes chucking a bunch of teeth into a cauldron feel great

Mix cool potions and upsell adventurers in card battles

Feb. 7, 2023 Liam Richardson

The new infants in The Sims 4.

News

The Sims 4 is "finally freeing the baby" in March with infants update

Also the Sims sequel will have multiplayer, but it isn't an MMO

Jan. 31, 2023 Graham Smith

A schoolgirl looks down at a blue flower that's growing out of her palm in A Space For The Unbound.

Review

A Space For The Unbound review: a supernatural teen romance with a wonderful sense of time and place

School's out

Jan. 18, 2023 Rachel Watts

Key art from That Lonesome Valley showing the main characters Jose and Bud over the Wyoming landscape

News

Robert Yang’s latest is a free romance that channels Brokeback Mountain

Get ready for some country lovin' in the Wyoming wilderness

Dec. 13, 2022 CJ Wheeler

Feature

Have You Played... Monster Prom?

The party has just begun.

Nov. 4, 2022 Rebecca Jones

Three monsters you can date in 2022! Left to right: Ln'eta, the cute curvy Cthulhu lady from Sucker For Love: First Date; Polly, the sexy ghost girl from the Monster Prom series; and The Trapper, a gruesome killer from Dead By Daylight as he appears in Hooked On You.

Feature

A monstrous state of affairs: here are 4 horror-themed dating sims from 2022

Games that make you mate the monster

Oct. 31, 2022 Rebecca Jones

The store page image for Romancelvania, showing Drac and a selection of his love interests against a gothic backdrop featuring a castle, the full moon, and bats in flight.

Feature

Romancelvania: a side-scrolling date-em-up perfect for fans of Hades, Boyfriend Dungeon, and Monster Prom

A highly recommended Steam Next Fest demo for all my fellow monster-dating weirdos

Oct. 11, 2022 Rebecca Jones