Date with Us: A Dating Sim Podcast

Join us as we discuss our steamiest game to date with special guest Emily from No Small Games!

If you enjoy the show, be sure to rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts and follow us on socials as @datewithuspodcast. 

"Slasher U is an 18+ character-driven RPG dating sim, set in the open-world campus of America’s Horniest Horror Movie University! SLASHER U is a horror-comedy dating sim RPG with full-blown sex mechanics, tons of heartwrenching romance and friendship storylines, and a wicked sick 90's theme sure to make even the most deep-fried saw dungeon aesthetics/dick jokes fans jealous."

FEATURED GUEST:

Emily Merritt co-hosts the No Small Games podcast, along with Kate Hunter. Together they recap and review indie games of sizes and genres, plus dig into indie game news, events, new releases and demos! Most of all, No Small Games emphasizes the personal impact of the games they cover and the stories they tell. Emily also writes and curates content for the NSG website, and streams indie games several days a week on Twitch.

SLASHER U CONTENT WARNING: 

"This game contains three main censorship options: STREAMER MODE, FADE TO BLACK, and FIVE ALARM CHILI. Streamer Mode will censor ANY sex acts, sexual jokes, and obscene references from the game. Fade to Black will censor all sex acts and nudity. FIVE ALARM CHILI will leave everything uncensored. These settings can be selected at character creation and changed at any time.

This game contains a TOGGLEABLE OPTION to turn sex-based minigames and nudity on or off. These minigames include narrative-based sex acts, including but not limited to: full penetration, oral sex, BDSM, consensual acts of roleplayed nonconsent if the player selects this option explicitly, consensual acts of stalking, and supernatural possession. All acts WILL ASK FOR IN-GAME CONSENT via the course of normal gameplay before unlocking this content and can be turned on/off at any time in the Settings menu. All potentially triggering content (here including suicidal mentions, mentions of parental alcohol abuse, and non-sexual slapping) can be adjusted on the game's Settings page. This will remove the content from your game unless unchecked again. This is a game set at a college and contains copious amounts of mentions of drug use and alcohol among adult characters."

Join Matt, Alle, Claire, and Kanisha as they dish over which inanimate objects are the hottest (*cough* DORIAN). Date Everything is a sandbox dating simulator set in the comfort of your own home, featuring 100 fully voice acted datable characters! Let the romance flow between your bed, smoke alarm and…*checks notes* Overwhelming Sense of Existential Dread? 

Content Warning: Job Loss, AI Use, others discussed in episode for specific dateable characters. 

Editor's Note: This is a VERY long episode and came at a crunch time with me (Claire) onboarding to a new job! Feel free to message me if you catch errors in the edit, I did my best but I am LEARNING! <3 

Plunder the dunj and fall in ~LOVE~ along with us as we do a deep dive on one of our favorite dating sims of all time. Fair warning, spoilers ABOUND throughout this episode speaking about Boyfriend Dungeon, we do our best to warn you as they come, but if you're trying to go in to the game not knowing much, play first and then come gush along with us! 

Have you played the Boyfriend Dungeon TTRPG? TELL US ABOUT IT! Do you have thoughts about the lore?? WE WANT TO KNOW! Should we become Boyfriend Dungeon lore scholars? WE HAVE QUESTIONS!! 

Join us to dive into cosplay cafe management! We have a minor mic issue throughout since this was one of our earliest recordings, but the sound will be back to standard with the next episode though. Don't forget to rate, review, and tell your crush about us! WE DARE YOU!! 

Play the game here: https://whalesandgames.itch.io/whipped-and-steamy 

"Content Warning:

Whipped and Steamy • Cosplay Café contains content that is not appropriate for all ages and is not suggested for viewing at work. While the game contains no explicit imagery (explicit sex or genitalia), it still contains writing that could be considered explicit and suggestive imagery."

"ValiDate is a romantic visual novel about 13 adults in Jercy City navigating new relationships and the harsh realities that come alongside them by Veritable Joy Studios." 

CW: This game contains mentions and references to drugs, alcohol, sexual assault, cheating, abuse and other harsh themes. Viewer discretion is advised.

Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1319850/ValiDate_Struggling_Singles_in_your_Area/ 

WELCOME TO THE PILOT! This episode features a dating sim that’s also visceral and sometimes horrifying. The content warning from the game is below: 

Meeting in the Flesh “features text descriptions and non-explicit visual descriptions of: 

By Continuing, you agree to do so at your own risk.” 

Find us online on Bluesky and Instagram as @DateWithUsPodcast!

Kicking off the feed with our INCREDIBLE theme music "Glymr" composed by Jason Deran!