What is it?
Date Everything is a humorous dating simulator. You play as a person who lives alone in a house and has just been fired from a job. Unexpectedly you receive a mysterious package containing a pair of glasses. When using these experimental glasses, everyday objects turn into people, and the game’s all about dating and building relationships with these “dateables” – furniture, appliances, training equipment and whatnot – in the house.
You walk around the house in a first person perspective but will spend most of the time in dialogue mode. The gameplay loop consists of waking up, talking to five dateables, repeat. You also use a phone to communicate with some characters and to keep track of things. As you progress, relationships develop and so does the plot.
Is it player-friendly?
The game is easy to get into and the controls are simple enough and work well. There are no timed or stress-inducing sequences. Being a dating simulator, or visual novel-style game, it is not difficult and you cannot really do anything wrong, though the game will take quite some time to finish if you want to do it properly.
Is it any good?
Watching the trailer and reading about the game it’s easy to get one’s expectations up. The humour and concept are more weird than the gameplay, though, and the writing is somewhat uneven. The premise is wonderfully zany, the voice acting (all dateables are voiced) is excellent, and technically and artistically the game is fine. One does want to meet all the characters and see (and decide) how the dating goes and the plot develops, but gameplay-wise it does get a bit samey. Visually, in regards to the dating theme and possible intimate stuff, the game is quite tame, while the writing can be a bit more daring. If you are interested in dating sims and find the premise and humour enticing the game is well worth a try.
Peter Öberg
A review copy was provided.