Hey Stranger! I Dare You to Love Me!
by Pound Cake Workshop
A cross-country drive is interrupted by a mysterious oncoming vehicle, landing the player in the nearby hospital of Porte Avant. After the nurse gives him a little more “intensive care” than expected, the player is released and allowed to explore the strange town. With his car awaiting repairs, there's nothing to do but kill some time. What better way than to explore this peculiar town and carouse with the residents? Spoiler What comes next is up to the player. This “choose-your-own-adventure” style game features a gaggle of different endings, scintillating animated scenes, achievements, mini-games, and more! There are even rumors of a so-called “perfect ending”... But can you unlock it?
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v0.9.22 - DLC Update
Lutci's DLC is now available and ready to play. You can find her when visiting for the 2nd time the Cafe in-game location, while having this free DLC installed and enabled.
Constance's 2nd animated scene has been updated in quality.
Text quality have been increased in several in-game windows.
Save files created while having a DLC installed, will make that save file only work as long as those DLCs are installed.
[Lutci DLC]
Updated Cafe location, this location can now be fully completed.
[Lutci DLC]
New achievement can now be unlocked when completing the condition, in Lutci's new content.
Updated engine version, for stability and performance improvements.
v0.8.32
Upgraded internal engine version that includes several bug fixes that could cause startup issues for certain hardware
Updated main menu art elements to better represent the girls that are available in the game, future ones will be added in free DLCs
v0.8.31
Added a warning when trying to load an incompatible save file when trying to load a new game.
Improved screen resolution tolerance so resolutions for standard widescreen up to super ultrawide monitors are now supported and appear on screen resolution settings.
Improved reliability on game input for certain in-game windows
Fixed an issue where the incorrect background music could exist in other scenes when loading a game in some cases.
Fixed location items UI being displayed incorrectly in certain screen resolutions.
Fixed world map location exclamation mark sometimes appearing on top of other windows.
World Map now uses a different shader for the locations glow that is more performant and compatible.
World Map click detection is now more accurate.
Fixed Constance & in-game dialogue window appearing distorted in certain resolutions while in the world map.
Misc stability improvements
v0.8.22
Loading a save file now takes ~85% less time to load.
Severely improved load times in certain scenarios.
Fixed several instances where background music could stop being played.
Several important bug fixes & stability improvements.
vb0.8.15
Added Steam Deck support.
Severely improved sprite quality in certain scenarios.
Improved load times when opening certain windows or entering certain locations.
Improved stability in animated scenes.
Improved text clarity in the user interface, specially on lower resolution screens.
Fixed an issue where you could get Constance's ending before certain conditions were met.
Resolution can now be changed via video graphic settings rather than fullscreen always using native resolution.
Improved game performance & fixed several visual errors.
Added an option inside the options menu to be able to reset earned achievements.
v0.7.1
New Feature! - Cinema Replay
You can now replay all the animated scenes unlocked in the game.
You can also see which scenes you haven't unlocked yet by visiting the vault.
You can find the Vault option in the main menu. Returning player? Don't worry! Any scene that you might've unlocked previously will be waiting for you to replay at the Vault!
v0.6.27
Added a small news section on the Main Menu
v0.6.26
Fixed an issue where the animated scenes were not able to be played on Steam Deck
Improved compatibility for Steam Deck
v0.6.22
Fixed an issue where the Self Help Book was able to be interacted with multiple times if interacting with the Matcha Latte first in the Cafe.
Fixed a possible issue with Steam API that could cause to not unlock achievements sometimes, particularly, the Chastity achievement.
Added extra warnings whenever trying to exit to main menu or exiting the game.
Replaced the main menu theme with Ken Ashcorp's incredible title track "Dare You to Love Me"!
Added credits button in the main menu.
Misc fixes and improvements.
Great game, looks promising and can't wait for more, some adjustements could be made to make the game even better, but if it keep going in this path it will still be good imo. Gameplay : its mostly a vn, no real gameplay except finding objects in different location (aka simply clicking on a magnifying glass symbol). It would be great to have a bit of real gameplay (puzzle, minigame...) in order to find the items rather than just clicking at random. And I wish with all my heart that the dev will enhance the "skip" option, since you can only fast forwards (not skip) by clicking on LMB (no keys, which is really frustrating if you play the game with ONE hand). Story: Honestly, its looking good : several girl, an intriguing plot and yet a light-hearted vibe. Im both interested in the main story and in the girls sidestorsy. H-aspects : Really good animations, but not much as of right now and you can't customize nor interact with the characters (which would be great). However, the dialogue is really well written (especially the dirty talking) and the context of a sex-friendly open minded city is really hot, and the devs seems to know how to make use of it Extra : Full VA for the scenes, some music and nice art. Nothing to say here TL; DR: a promising VN as of right now, and I could only hope for more in the future
The art is pretty good the characters are fun. The game doesn't feel finished yet though. I enjoy the monster girls and the tomboy though those are great. I like the story so far i hope a few different paths emerge as it could easily be expanded upon. It's a few hours for everything at the moment.
At the beginning I thought it would be a 5/5 for me, but it's not as good as it's first impression. Best parts about the game is the art, combined with decent animated scenes and voice over. But the game is mostly a VN, you find items over the world and just go to different locations to progress with different girls. I'm not done with the whole game, but you can have ending with few girls very fast. And the worst part, that so far none of endings I saw had a sex scene. Sometimes there is a black screen with short application of it, but that's it. Definitely too little scenes per girl and overall the game is not very engaging. I'll update the review when the game improves. Current version is 0.6.22, but the game is marked as "Completed".
The art is reallly great and the animations are super fluid and cute but the writing is poorly during sex scenes, they're filled with so much useless information and the worst part is you can't skip them so you are forced to make 1 or 2 min of animation a 5 to 10 min depending of how faster you click the dialog box.
Animations is fluid and characters are drawn well and are cute. It is short game atm , good 30-60min value tho depending if skipping some conversations or not. So give it a shot or wait till 1.0 version comes out and hopefully more girls with it , currently there is 6.
Cinema. better than i expected, if you can get past the voice. Voice isn't bad, i actually liked it, just hearing it with american tones takes a bit to get used to. The autoshop really threw me off, had to do a double take at first
This game is PEAK, easily deserves a 5*. It really stands out from the rest of garbage that's littered here. Art is nice while the Music is even better, the H-Scene is ANIMATED and have more frames than One punch man S3!! But seriously, the orgasm in the H is very well made PEAK ARGHHHH, this alone can carry this game to 5* to me. But i gotta say, it doesn't looks complete. There's even no recollection, which is a crime tbh. Let's see how the further updates will unfold.
The art is nice. The interaction can be a bit laggy. It would be nice to be able to skip dialog if you've seen it before. That being said, the fastest text speed is still a bit too slow. The journal is under the "extras" option in the menu which is sort of odd (maybe the UI isn't complete yet). All in all, it's sort of a clunky but like I mentioned initially the art is good.
At the moment of writing this review game is NOT complete despite the completed tag. Just a warning. You can get couple endings but most of the content is still coming later. Huge chunk of the content still should arrive as, quoting developer, "free DLC", if it was paid i would drop it to 3 immediately. I was going to give it a solid 4, but will instead give very reluctant 4 due to couple reasons. That said, was pleasantly surprised by the game despite expecting very little. Overview pretty much describes the plot which at the moment lasts just couple hours, with you essentially killing time by visiting various girls while your car is in the workshop. So while i usually hate the lack of buildup to relashionships and "this town is just kinda weird like this" isn't a reason really, but the game somehow made it work for me with overall adorable dialogues, not particularly great or complex but adorable. Animations are great and there is fairly decent voice acting, it's not good but it works well enough. The overall tone is also more wholesome than perverted which definitely added to fulfillment. Releasing a game with less of a half of planned content is a geniunely ridiculous decision to me and now i feel unfulfilled knowing that most of the game will come out years later and i played glorified early access. Besides that, while lack of build up in relashionship is acceptable this time, it's still not GOOD by any means, and game needed much more days than 2 before individual endings. Overall worth it if you are an enjoyer of good animations and some fluffy tails and ears.
Really liked the art and the scenes and voice acting were well done but there's not a lot of scenes and there doesn't seem to have any scene gallery that I could find and I didn't see a way to replay scenes.
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