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Date Everythingis a game whose premise hardly needs to be introduced. You date everything. And there is a lot to date. That said, not all dates need to end in love. In fact, a lot of the time that won’t even be your choice. Some objects just aren’t looking for love right now, and want to your friend instead.
Or maybe there are some objects you just can’t stand. Have you ever been frustrated with you vacuum being so heavy and getting stuck on corners? Date Everything lets you take out that anger on your vacuum in a more literal sense. Every relationship is valid in Date Everything, but you’ll want to learn what each of them means, too.
How Do Relationships Work?
In Date Everything,there are three types of relationships, which the game refers to as endings for each character. These are:
Onlyone ending can be gotten with each characterand, outside of some very rare circumstances, can’t be changed, either. For the most part, the relationship and ending you get with a character is set in stone once it is achieved. So how do you get these endings?
It depends on the Dateable in question.Some will have quests, and successful completion of those quests will result in them liking you. This usually gives you an option at the end to either become friends, or choose love. Neither is better than the other, but just based on your own personal preference.
In most scenarios, your relationship is built up over time. Characters will have a great many conversations you must have with them, and at the very endthe Dateable will decide whether they love you or not. You can accept this love at this point, but only if the option is offered to them. This typically involves respecting the character across their conversations and passing SPECS checks in dialogue.
Keep in mind that in some instances, such as with Sinclaire,you need to pass a SPECS check to avoid them Hating you, rather than just being able to love you.
After you get an ending with a Dateable, there will be no further dialogue with them beyond when they are involved in other quests or character dialogue. However,you will get five SPECS points once you achieve an ending, with the points you get determined by each Dateable. And you will get SPECS points no matter what ending you get. Each type of relationship is valid and will never stop you from progressing.
Love Relationships
Love Relationships are the romantic idealif you are hoping to woo every one of the Dateables in the game. To achieve these, you typically have to be friendly with the characters and actually be compatible with them. For example,Koa is a couch that likes to relax in silence. As much as it might seem nice to talk with him, he will only love you if you respect his love of silence.
As such, you need to actually pay attention to a Dateable to get their Love ending, and this is built up over the course of all your conversations with them. For some, such as Maggie,you can only get a love ending by successfully solving both of her mysteries. Wallace is a wonderful exception to this, and can be made to love you in their initial conversation.
Friend Relationships
Friend Relationships are when youdon’t quite want to be romantic with someoneand would rather keep your relationship as one more akin to friendship. While this is a valid form of relationship for you to achieve, as it does still give the same five SPECS points, the game does typically class it as a level below Love, seeing as it is typically offered if you make mistakes on the way towards a Love ending.
With Maggie as an example again, successfully solving one mystery but not the other will allow you to be her friend, but not her lover. For someone like Timothy,missing some of their time-based meetings will have them progressively like you less. Miss one of two, and you’re able to still be friends, miss them all and you will end up with only Hate.
Hate Relationships
Hate Relationships are interesting. While Love might be seen as the peak of a relationship, Friends are sometimes offered almost as a conciliation prize if you don’t quite reach Love. You can aim for it, or it is offered if you can’t quite get someone to love you.Hate is something more intentional.
As you might expect, getting someone to Hate you is usually as simple as picking the meanest options you may at any given moment. Sometimes, though,you can get a Dateable to hate you even faster if you hit them where it hurts. For example, Lux is very much in love with themself, so making fun of them is basically instant Hate. It still gives you your five SPECS points, but also lets you cut short the chats with a particular Dateable that maybe you just can’t stand.
Getting a Hate ending may also lead you to a unique Dateable, so Hate can sometimes be rewarding, too.
