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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Lovecraftian Dating Sim ‘Sucker for Love: Date to Die For’ Summons Romance on April 23 [Trailer]

Looking for love? For Sucker For Love: Date to Die For fans, your date with Lovecraftian horrors is right around the corner. AkaBaka and DreadXP have announced a release date of April 23 on PC via Steam for the follow-up to the 2022 original.

Sucker For Love: Date to Die For introduces a new protagonist, new abominable love interests, new occult rituals, and a whole lot of heartache. The game centres around Stardust, an asexual woman not driven by love, but instead driven by a desire to escape the rural town overrun by fanatical cultists. After investigating mysterious disappearances in her hometown of Sacramen-Cho, Stardust ends up kidnapped and trapped deep in the creepy labyrinthian woods, equipped only with a copy of the cultist’s spellbook. She notices the instructions for summoning The Black Goat of the Woods, Rhok’zan, the casting of which sets in motion the events of a different kind of dating novel.

Sucker For Love: Date to Die For lets you explore the 360-degree hand-drawn environment in a first-person adventure game navigation style. And unlike your typical Lovecraftian horror games, this one focuses on the often neglected aspect of stories in the genre: the madmen and monsters under the thrall of the gods, rather than the eldritch gods themselves. Inspired by classics like “The Dunwich Horror” and “The Shadow over Innsmouth“, Date to Die For features four possible endings, with a nostalgic art style reminiscent of old-school anime and classic dating sims.

If you’re keen on checking out the game ahead of its release date, the demo for Date to Die For is still up on the Steam page.