Rustjaw

Your daring foray into the abandoned industrial sector near downtown was just an experiment to see if you could catch sight of one of the new cryptids that had invaded your world just a few years past. Only a glimpse, and new respect (and possibly riches) would be yours!

Well, we all know how that's going to go for our poor protagonist...

Except we don't. Because all of a sudden, you get... ROMANCE options?! Yes, this is a bit of a dating sim. The heart on the cover might've spoiled that for you, but it didn't sink in for me until I saw the "dating" options and thought, oh.

So this is a quite bizarre game. It looks like horror on the surface, but the structure and some writing foibles scream "dating sim", even though the dating activities are less "traditional candlelight dinner" and more "run away screaming while pursued". But the mixture works better than you'd expect for a four-hour creation.

I'll be honest. I would play this if it was full-length. With great enthusiasm, even.