Date Everything is, quite comfortably, one of the dumbest video games I have ever seen in my life.
If you’ve not been following this Team17-published indie debut from the brilliantly named Sassy Chap Games, Date Everything attempts to live up to the promise of its name by allowing you to date… everything.
With the aid of a magical pair of glasses, you can bring objects and pieces of furniture around your house to life. There are, rather alarmingly, over 100 objects to date. Piles of laundry suddenly become beautifully messy boys, hoovers become sci-fi heroes with rippling muscles, and windows turn into gorgeous fashion icons draped seductively in white curtains.
It’s fantastically, unapologetically stupid. It also happens to have one of the best casts in any video game.
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Speaking to lead Designer Ray Chase and co-creative lead Robbie Daymond, it’s clear that these guys are actors first and foremost. Everything in Date Everything seems to have spawned from a genuine love of performing and interacting with fans at conventions.
Ray and Robbie’s combined decades of experience starring in TV, film, and games is something to behold. You’ll have seen Ray recently as Cylops in the critically acclaimed X-Men ‘97, while Robbie starred in the excellent Hi-Fi Rush, and played Spider-Man in the 2017 animated series.
This barely scratches the surface of what they’ve done, mind you, so it’s little wonder they were able to round up such a remarkable line-up of friends and colleagues to debase themselves as household thirst-traps.
Date Everything includes: Ashley Johnson and Laura Bailey (The Last Of Us), Roger Craig Smith (Batman), Neil Newborn (Baldur’s Gate 3), Steve Blum (Wolverine), and Felicia Day (pretty much everything), to name just a few.
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Even attempting to pin just one iconic role to the above actors is a foolish task: these are performers who love what they do, and are clearly having a blast in this utterly unhinged dating sim. If you can think of a beloved voice actor, odds are they’re in this game.
Perhaps what’s most refreshing about Date Everything is that this is very clearly a game that was devised and made by a bunch of friends with a vision and a goal to be as silly as possible. Robbie and Ray stress to me they’re not trying to chase trends or be the next big meme, or force laughs in any way. And because of that, and because these guys are clearly having the time of their lives making this game, I reckon it could very well end up being the next big thing.
Topics: Indie Games