3 dating video games to keep you busy during confinement

Rather than twiddling your thumbs, you might as well use it to play these hilarious and sometimes very erotic simulation games.

In view of the health crisis looming over our country, it is wiser to stay at home as much as possible. But, of course, boredom is never far away at home. To remedy this, We has come up with three very, very gay-friendly video games that should fill up your free time. More precisely, we got our hands on a selection of visual novels.

It’s a type of simulation game based more on decisions and narration than graphics. Here, no real animation prowess to which the big studios have accustomed us. Instead, we end up with simple designs, very little cinematics and gameplay based on choices. In other words, the player will be confronted with multiple options that will influence the progress of the game. As a bonus, our selection only includes dating sims, a subgenre from Japan that refers to games that rely heavily on developing sentimental relationships with characters. Let’s get started.

Coming Out on Top

As its evocative name suggests, this sim dating puts you in the shoes of Mark Matthews, a normal college student about to come out. Now, with the help of your wacky roommates and friends, you’ll have to explore a whole new world of possibilities. Every decision will affect how the game unfolds, so it’s best to rack your brains before flirting with your handsome professor in the middle of the lecture hall or giving private lessons that can quickly get out of hand for the campus star athlete.

As you can see, we’re in the real world of flirting. With six different paths to follow and nearly three times the number of guys to charm, Coming Out on Top has captured our attention with its finely written dialogue, which gives a welcome consistency to its many characters. It’s light, sometimes touching, and we applaud the way the game deflects racial stereotypes. The game contains several torrid, highly graphic scenes that will keep your libido high in these confined times.
Coming Out on Top is available on its official website or on Steam.

Dream Daddy

Welcome to Maple Bay, a great coastal town to live in… You’ll play the role of a young, single dad, who’s just moved in with his gossipy daughter. In this town with its fake Desperate Housewives atmosphere, daddies are legion. And the goal of the game is to seduce them with his guile and sense of humor.
Sublimated by a very colourful pop aesthetic, Dream Daddy manages to make its initial concept a little absurd — a game where you have to hit on daddies, you had to think about it — a moment of total fun. Its strong point is obviously its humorous lines, with daron jokes thrown in at any cost. Finally, we’ll underline the possibility to customize his character and thus make him belong to any tribe of the gay scene: otter or bear, it’s up to you to decide according to your mood of the moment.

Dream Daddy is available on Steam or Switch.

Super Health Club

Always wanted to be the manager of a gym? Didn’t you? That’s the basic premise of Super Health Club, at the crossroads between the management game and dating sim. Having just been promoted to manager of a health club, you learn that the company is in the red, drowning in debt. Your mission is thus to save the company, while ensuring that the team, mainly made up of coaches with strong biceps, is in harmony. But it is not impossible that you might be able to give your new colleagues a helping hand, of course.
In this oozing game of testosterone, the objectives are multiple since we must make judicious choices concerning the gym, while making sure to charm the contender of our choice. Surprisingly, the two aspects go hand in hand and the characters have characters that are distinct enough to keep you entertained. More perilous than in the games mentioned above, the choices to be made can very quickly affect the progress of the relationship and even upset all your expectations. So a piece of advice: it’s better to think before you act.
Super Health Club is available on its official website.