I had a date with a trash can at gamescom and I don’t regret anything

I don’t know either…

If someone had told me in advance that my best gamescom experience would involve flirting with a garbage can and a candlestick, I would probably have believed them. I make no secret of the fact that my heart sometimes beats for the games that most people don’t even bother to look at.

But I never thought that my trash can talk would inspire me so much. Even though I was excitedly telling everyone who wanted to know (and even those who didn’t) about this event before gamescom, I didn’t expect to be even more excited after the event. And that was despite the fact that only a few minutes of play and a developer talk had passed between then and now.

Have I made you curious enough that you don’t immediately flee the virtual room when I mention the game title? Yes. I’m talking about Date Everything.

Mary has already flirted with refrigerators and weapons and finds in the dating sim genre exactly what she misses in other games: fantastically written characters, great developments and a lot of humor.

Like Pokémon… with voices from Mass Effect and Final Fantasy

In Date Everything, the name says it all. You find yourself in a house, put on magic glasses and suddenly you can have conversations with your garbage can, your chair or the toilet.

There are over 100 characters that you can find. Not all of them are objects. In the interview, the developer tells me that we can also get involved with our existential fear:

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Each of the characters is voiced entirely in English – and at a professional level. Voice actor heavyweights like Laura Bailey (Critical Role, Mass Effect, Spider-Man) or Ben Starr (Final Fantasy 16) also have a board.

To ensure that you don’t lose track of so many characters, the game also has a kind of Pokédex that keeps track of every encounter for you. There are also hints, sometimes more and sometimes less obvious, about where to find undiscovered objects and people to talk to.