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Click click fall in love with host Addison Peacock as she kiss-and-tells you all about romance in video games from pigeon dating sims to open world fantasies. Each episode, Addison brings on a guest to break down the good, the bad, and the sexy of a given game. Whether it's a dating sim with love at the center, or an action-packed adventure with romance on the side, we're getting to the heart of each and every one. Gotta kiss 'em all!
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Love is a battlefield, and sometimes the most powerful weapon is...your heart. And also a talking sword that turns into a hunky guy. Kelly Nugent (Teen Creeps, Exile) returns to talk about our favorite dungeon crawler meets dating sim, where the player dates weapon-people and battles their deepest fears! We also get into some of the controversy aro…
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Episode 25 - Love Spell Written in the Stars
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Let's face it, most of us are one reckless night out with a magic notebook away from accidentally casting a love spell. At least that's the case for the protagonist of Love Spell Written in the Stars from Great Gretsuki Studios, a strange, silly, sometimes cursed and sometimes delightful game about love, figuring out your passion in life, and magic…
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Happy Valentine's Day, gamers!!! This week I'm joined by Adrienne (game developer, cartoonist, animator) to discuss a game that was formative for both of us: SugarScript's Cute Demon Crashers! Join us as we discuss visual novels, the creative process behind making games, and how a consent-centered smut game helped us both learn a lot more about our…
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We're BACK! Hello 2022, are you ready for some CHAOS? Henry Galley and Meg Tuten (Less is Morgue) join as we cover the survival horror dating game Doki Doki Anomaly. This game has it all: deadly matching games, offputting character designs, and a reptilian femme fatale we're ready to risk it all for. And by "it all," we do mean our very lives. It's…
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It's October and we are getting DARK with what is definitely the most intense game we've ever played on the podcast: Crimson Spires. This horror mystery gothic romance follows an FBI agent trapped in a small mining town after the appearance of a circle of strange red towers that kill anyone who tries to walk past them. While trying to solve the mys…
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Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, there was a video game podcast. One day, the podcast found a special game about fairytales, curses, kindness, and royal intrigue. The game was called Cinderella Phenomenon. Kelly Nugent joins as we discuss the free fantasy indie visual novel about a kingdom plagued by Fairytale Curses, and the world's meanest…
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Lunaris is a town filled with danger, intrigue, monsters, and a bunch of eligible hotties. Don't get too distracted by the dating scene, you're still here to solve a series of supernatural murders. Val Petrone (writer, editor, podcaster, production coordinator) joins to discuss the sexy fantasy murder mystery When the Night Comes. Listen in as we t…
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There's something in the air at the remote, beautiful Pinewood Island. It's Love, but it's also...MURDER! Kelly Nugent (Teen Creeps, Exile) joins to discuss Pinewood Island, a murder mystery romance visual novel that can be as cursed or as non-cursed as you want it to be. You can fall in love, solve a murder, or have a very uncomfortable romance wi…
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Monster School's out for Monster Summer, so it's time to head out to the woods for Monster Camp! Let's sit around the campfire, go on a hike, and choose someone to have a summer fling with! JV Hampton-VanSant (AHB 76, JV Reads the T) joins as we discuss this delightful sequel to Monster Prom. Listen in as we chat about an abundance of sexy demons, …
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It's the most incredible night of any young monster's life! The blood punch is flowing, the music is blasting, and you're going to ask that cute werewolf to slow dance. It's the prom, it's the Monster Prom. Vanessa Guerrero (G4TV, Kicking and Screaming) joins to talk about the best horror comedy dating sim set at a high school inexplicably filled w…
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This week's episode is about one of the horniest, wildest games we've ever covered on the show. It's a den of debauchery where anything goes and disaster can strike at any moment. I'm talking, of course, about The Sims 4. Bailey Meyers (Fandom, Goosedrunks) joins to discuss an iconic entry in a classic franchise that introduced so many of us to the…
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We're kicking off Pride Month with a sweet, funny, thoughtful game: Brianna Lei's Butterfly Soup. We'll let the description on the itch.io page do the explaining for us: it's a visual novel about gay asian girls playing baseball and falling in love. MJ (Paper Boat Productions, Paired) joins to discuss the inherent romance of sports anime, young sap…
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Are you HORNY for HISTORICAL FIGURES and also wish they were ANIME VAMPIRES? Boy oh boy we've got the game for you. Kelly Nugent (Exile, Teen Creeps) joins again to discuss a mobile game we've both spent actual human money on, all so we could be yelled at by Vincent Van Gogh's hot mean brother. It's Ikemen Vampire: Temptation in the Dark. Join us a…
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Do you love love? Do you love competition reality television? Do you love unusual hand-drawn rats with distinct personalities and a willingness to open up in front of an audience of millions? Great news, this week's episode is about The Ratchelor. It's exactly what it sounds like, and MORE! Producer Mae joins to discuss this wild delight of an indi…
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Episode 12 - Speed Dating for Ghosts
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Cher once asked, "Do you believe in life after love?" This week, we take a look at a game that instead dares to ask, "Do you believe in love after life?" Jordan Adika (Sad Boyz, Arcs) joins to discuss Speed Dating for Ghosts, a game that is at once thoughtful, comforting, heartbreaking, funny, strange, and deeply human. Join us as we discuss our at…
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"Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild. With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."Come with us into a world of magic, mystery, teen fantasy nonsense, and possibly kissing. This week Emma Fyffe (host on venn.tv, twitch streamer) joins for a discussion on Changeling, an urban fantasy roma…
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Episode 10 - So May it Be: A Witch Dating Simulator
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What's up, witches? This week Lucé Tomlin-Brenner (comedian, filmmaker, podcast host) joins to talk about the indie game So May it Be: A Witch Dating Simulator. This sweet, nostalgic, sapphic little game captures all of the magic of teenage love and also all the magic of actual magic. Join us as we discuss teen witches, high school crushes, harvest…
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Lights, Camera...Romance! This week, we're going back to school with Backstage Pass, a game that's all about the real college experience: working four different jobs, trying to become a successful makeup artist, being a full-time student, and somehow falling in love during all of it.Kelly Nugent (Teen Creeps, Exile) returns to break down this truly…
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“This game sets us up for moral failure, and yet we keep playing.”This week we're talking about HuniePop, a technicolor anime sex nightmare of a game that, at only 6 years old, is somehow already horribly dated. We played this game so you don't have to! BJ Colangelo (This Ends at Prom, filmmaker, film analyst) and Harmony Colangelo (This Ends at Pr…
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It's the first episode of the new year and we're starting it off with a bang (wink)! This week's game is all about the love of business, and the business of love. Liz Anderson (Paired, Campaign, Jackbox Games) joins this week to discuss the sultriest, sexiest, silliest resource management game around: Max Gentlemen Sexy Business! This game pulls yo…
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Episode 6 - I Love You Colonel Sanders
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Love is in the air, and it smells like 11 secret herbs and spices. Tim Woerner (A Horror Borealis, Losers: A Love Story) joins to discuss I Love You Colonel Sanders, a Finger Lickin' Good Dating Simulator. 2020, whether we like it or not, is the year of Inexplicably Sexy Colonel Sanders. And Folks! This game may have broken our brains a little, or …
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Hello, everybirdie! Welcome to St. PigeoNation's Institute, an elite school for birds and exactly one human! Negaoryx (twitch streamer, voice actor, host) joins this week for a deep dive into the best (and only) pigeon dating sim on the market: Hatoful Boyfriend! A game with hidden horrors, surprising emotional depth, and the most shocking worldbui…
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Episode Four - Nicole (With Kelly Nugent)
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Welcome to college, where it's all about flirting with terrible boys, low-rise jeans, and MYSTERIOUS KIDNAPPINGS??? Kelly Nugent (Teen Creeps, Super Punch, Exile) joins to discuss Nicole, an absolutely BONKERS dating sim/mystery/college simulator from Winter Wolves. Join as we discuss college alchemists, the lowest stakes of all time, and a protago…
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Episode Three- Doki Doki Literature Club
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When a love story becomes a horror story and a sweet dream becomes a nightmare...you might just be the newest member of the Literature Club. Alyssa Onofreo (@omgchomp) joins to discuss the stealth psychological horror dating sim Doki Doki Literature Club! Join us as we discuss the scariest moments, the rare bits of sweetness, and the ways in which …
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Sometimes the greatest crop you can ever grow...is love? Bailey Meyers joins to discuss Stardew Valley, one of the most charming farming and life simulators around. Come along with us as we take a look at the most eligible singles in Pelican Town and talk giving someone rocks until they love you, pining after a divorced wizard in a tower, mailbox p…
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Dads dating dads dating dads dating dads! For our pilot episode, Alex Flanigan and Andrew Giotta join to discuss the premier Dad-Themed Dating Sim on the market: Dream Daddy! Join us as Addison shakes the quarantine-induced rust off her social skills to talk about seeing yourself in a vampire dad, lusty mistakes, and a secret cult lurking beneath t…
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