Sucker for Love: Date to Die For

About Sucker for Love: Date to Die For

Sucker for Love: Date to Die For is a visual novel by Joseph "Akabaka" Hunter, published by DreadXP and released on Steam for Windows on 23 April 2024. It follows Sucker for Love: First Date with a new setting, a new eldritch love interest and the same joke at its core: a dating sim where the dates are Lovecraftian gods.

While investigating mysterious disappearances in your rural hometown of Sacramen-Cho, you are kidnapped yourself and dragged to the dark heart of the labyrinthine Black Woods. The rest of the town seems to be under the spell of Rhok'zan's all-consuming love, but you feel different. Your only hope is the cultists' strange purple spellbook, full of madmen's scrawls, pictures of abominations and the instructions for summoning The Black Goat of the Woods.

Its four chapters centre on surviving dangerous rituals. You look around hand-drawn 360-degree scenes, gather the right objects, and follow the spellbook to the letter. Get it wrong and you meet a gruesome end; get it right and you move closer to escape, or to Rhok'zan. Choices along the way decide which of its multiple endings you reach.

The art copies the look of old-school anime and classic dating sims, and the tone is comedy, with insanity, violence and sexual themes the store warns about. It suits players who liked the first game, cosmic horror fans with a sense of humour, and anyone curious what dating a Great Old One would look like.

How to play Sucker for Love: Date to Die For

1. Buy Sucker for Love: Date to Die For on Steam for Windows.
2. Read the story and talk to the people of Sacramen-Cho and the Black Woods.
3. Look around each 360-degree scene and collect the items the ritual needs.
4. Follow the spellbook's instructions exactly to perform each ritual.
5. Make your choices with Rhok'zan and others to reach one of the endings.

Tips

• Read every line of the spellbook; the rituals punish anything done out of order.
• Examine everything in each scene; ritual items are often in odd places.
• Expect to die a few times; the deaths are part of the joke.

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