Date with Us: A Dating Sim Podcast

Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star featuring Jared from the Play Along Podcast

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE, EVERYBIRDIE! Our inaugural man joins us once more as we explore what happens in another unreality in the Hatoful Boyfriend Universe, this time HOLIDAY EDITION!  
This season at Date with Us, we're so so grateful for you, dear listeners! If you're having fun here, consider dropping a comment, like, or sharing an episode! Rating and Reviewing can really help a fledgling show like ours find its audience and we are so thankful to be connecting with so many fellow romance gamers out there.
 
Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star: The loveable birds of Hatoful Boyfriend are back in the remastered holiday-themed sequel Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star! Developed by Mediatonic Games and Published by Epic Games.
 
FEATURED GUEST:
Jared (He/Him) Graphic Designer and Podcaster. I have a love of everything Nintendo, especially Pokemon and Zelda, two franchises that made me fall in love with gaming. I am a big fan of music, play both the guitar/piano, and love how music in video games can connect people on an emotional level to the worlds they are playing through. I host the Play Along Podcast with my other two co-host, Ky and Ben where we play through video games in a book club format.
 
HATOFUL BOYFRIEND CONTENT WARNING: 
None listed on the Steam page, but when searched from tumblr user atroquiniine:
"my full trigger list for hatoful boyfriend (and its sequel), for anyone curious is:
war & genocide
suicide (including coerced suicide)
murder (including decapitation and dismemberment)
cannibalism
guns
terminal illness and biological weaponry
perusing monster-based horror
unreality
scientific experimentation-based horror
racism
childhood trauma and parent death
infanticide (or more accurately, bird abortion)
emotional manipulation
unhealthy/codependent relationships
death of a romantic interest
twisted morality and gray morality
general heartbreakery "
Oh... and have you told your crush about us yet?? Find them under the mistletoe!

Hatoful Boyfriend featuring Jared from the Play Along Podcast

HELLO SEASON TWO!!!! Everybirdie get ready to fly on the wings of love and darkness as Jared, the first ever MAN GUEST, joins Claire and Kanisha to deep dive into the pigeon dating sim turned beloved cult classic, Hatoful Boyfriend. CARVE IT ONTO YOUR SOUL!
If you enjoy the show, be sure to rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts and follow us on socials as @datewithuspodcast. Seriously, it means a lot.
 
"Congratulations! You’ve been accepted as the only human student at the prestigious St. PigeoNation’s Institute, a school for talented birds! Roam the halls and find love in between classes as a sophomore student at the world’s greatest pigeon high school."
 
FEATURED GUEST:
Jared (He/Him) Graphic Designer and Podcaster. I have a love of everything Nintendo, especially Pokemon and Zelda, two franchises that made me fall in love with gaming. I am a big fan of music, play both the guitar/piano, and love how music in video games can connect people on an emotional level to the worlds they are playing through. I host the Play Along Podcast with my other two co-host, Ky and Ben where we play through video games in a book club format.
 
HATOFUL BOYFRIEND CONTENT WARNING: 
None listed on the Steam page, but when searched from tumblr user atroquiniine:
"my full trigger list for hatoful boyfriend (and its sequel), for anyone curious is:
war & genocide
suicide (including coerced suicide)
murder (including decapitation and dismemberment)
cannibalism
guns
terminal illness and biological weaponry
perusing monster-based horror
unreality
scientific experimentation-based horror
racism
childhood trauma and parent death
infanticide (or more accurately, bird abortion)
emotional manipulation
unhealthy/codependent relationships
death of a romantic interest
twisted morality and gray morality
general heartbreakery "
Have you told your crush about us yet??

First Bite featuring Kate Hunter from No Small Games

It's the HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!!!!!! One Night, Three Vampires, will we survive, thrive, or feel extra alive in bed with some extremely hot vampires????? Only one way to find out! 
 
Content Warnings: 
“First Bite is rated 18+ for strong language, violence (potential player death), blood and gore, (optional) non-explicit sexual scenes (including consensual kink and BDSM), (supernatural) emotional manipulation, and other content that some players may find disturbing. Player discretion is advised.”
 
Guest Info:
Kate (she/any) Has a background in technical theatre and currently works in academia, focusing on arts administration/program management. She discovered video games in March 2020 when the world shut down and now has a deep passion for exploring the artistic elements of indie games. Kate loves all things musical, comedy, horror, and spends free time studying astrology and enjoying the outdoors. She is a founder and co-host of the indie gaming recap and review podcast No Small Games!
Find Kate online through: Blue Sky, No Small Games Site
 
First Bite is created by First Bite Games. Special Thank You to Darius_Minis for Claire's key to this game! 

Slasher U: Act I featuring Emily Merritt from No Small Games

Join us as we discuss our steamiest game to date with special guest Emily from No Small Games!
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"Slasher U is an 18+ character-driven RPG dating sim, set in the open-world campus of America’s Horniest Horror Movie University! SLASHER U is a horror-comedy dating sim RPG with full-blown sex mechanics, tons of heartwrenching romance and friendship storylines, and a wicked sick 90's theme sure to make even the most deep-fried saw dungeon aesthetics/dick jokes fans jealous."
FEATURED GUEST:
Emily Merritt co-hosts the No Small Games podcast, along with Kate Hunter. Together they recap and review indie games of sizes and genres, plus dig into indie game news, events, new releases and demos! Most of all, No Small Games emphasizes the personal impact of the games they cover and the stories they tell. Emily also writes and curates content for the NSG website, and streams indie games several days a week on Twitch.
SLASHER U CONTENT WARNING: 
"This game contains three main censorship options: STREAMER MODE, FADE TO BLACK, and FIVE ALARM CHILI. Streamer Mode will censor ANY sex acts, sexual jokes, and obscene references from the game. Fade to Black will censor all sex acts and nudity. FIVE ALARM CHILI will leave everything uncensored. These settings can be selected at character creation and changed at any time.
This game contains a TOGGLEABLE OPTION to turn sex-based minigames and nudity on or off. These minigames include narrative-based sex acts, including but not limited to: full penetration, oral sex, BDSM, consensual acts of roleplayed nonconsent if the player selects this option explicitly, consensual acts of stalking, and supernatural possession. All acts WILL ASK FOR IN-GAME CONSENT via the course of normal gameplay before unlocking this content and can be turned on/off at any time in the Settings menu. All potentially triggering content (here including suicidal mentions, mentions of parental alcohol abuse, and non-sexual slapping) can be adjusted on the game's Settings page. This will remove the content from your game unless unchecked again. This is a game set at a college and contains copious amounts of mentions of drug use and alcohol among adult characters."

Date Everything featuring Matt aka Stormageddon and Alle

Join Matt, Alle, Claire, and Kanisha as they dish over which inanimate objects are the hottest (*cough* DORIAN). Date Everything is a sandbox dating simulator set in the comfort of your own home, featuring 100 fully voice acted datable characters! Let the romance flow between your bed, smoke alarm and…*checks notes* Overwhelming Sense of Existential Dread? 
Content Warning: Job Loss, AI Use, others discussed in episode for specific dateable characters. 
 
Editor's Note: This is a VERY long episode and came at a crunch time with me (Claire) onboarding to a new job! Feel free to message me if you catch errors in the edit, I did my best but I am LEARNING! <3 

Boyfriend Dungeon

Plunder the dunj and fall in ~LOVE~ along with us as we do a deep dive on one of our favorite dating sims of all time. Fair warning, spoilers ABOUND throughout this episode speaking about Boyfriend Dungeon, we do our best to warn you as they come, but if you're trying to go in to the game not knowing much, play first and then come gush along with us! 
Have you played the Boyfriend Dungeon TTRPG? TELL US ABOUT IT! Do you have thoughts about the lore?? WE WANT TO KNOW! Should we become Boyfriend Dungeon lore scholars? WE HAVE QUESTIONS!! 

Whipped and Steamy Cosplay Cafe

Join us to dive into cosplay cafe management! We have a minor mic issue throughout since this was one of our earliest recordings, but the sound will be back to standard with the next episode though. Don't forget to rate, review, and tell your crush about us! WE DARE YOU!! 
 
Play the game here: https://whalesandgames.itch.io/whipped-and-steamy 
 
"Content Warning:
Whipped and Steamy • Cosplay Café contains content that is not appropriate for all ages and is not suggested for viewing at work. While the game contains no explicit imagery (explicit sex or genitalia), it still contains writing that could be considered explicit and suggestive imagery."

ValiDate: Struggling Singles in your Area

"ValiDate is a romantic visual novel about 13 adults in Jercy City navigating new relationships and the harsh realities that come alongside them by Veritable Joy Studios." 
 
CW: This game contains mentions and references to drugs, alcohol, sexual assault, cheating, abuse and other harsh themes. Viewer discretion is advised.
 
Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1319850/ValiDate_Struggling_Singles_in_your_Area/ 

PILOT: Meeting in the Flesh

WELCOME TO THE PILOT! This episode features a dating sim that’s also visceral and sometimes horrifying. The content warning from the game is below: 
Meeting in the Flesh “features text descriptions and non-explicit visual descriptions of: 
Blood/Gore
Torture
Vore/Cannibalism
Sex
Hand-Holding
By Continuing, you agree to do so at your own risk.” 
 
Find us online on Bluesky and Instagram as @DateWithUsPodcast!

Glymr: the Date with Us theme

Kicking off the feed with our INCREDIBLE theme music "Glymr" composed by Jason Deran!