Sucker for Love: Date to Die For

April 23, 2024 Akabaka DreadXP

Role-playing (RPG) Simulator Indie Visual Novel

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Put the 'love' in 'Lovecraftian horror!' Hide from cultists and survive dangerous rituals to find a way out of the Black Woods!

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While investigating the mysterious disappearances plaguing your rural hometown of Sacramen-Cho, you end up kidnapped yourself! Trapped at the murmuring, pulsating, undulating heart of the woods, your only hope for escaping the labyrinthian roots is to turn to the cultists' strange purple spellbook.

Amidst the fanatical scrawlings of madmen and unsettling images of otherworldy abominations, there's a passage describing the method for summoning the All-Mother, The Black Goat of the Woods -- preserver of life. Will you be able to escape? Or will you find your demise at the innumerable hands of The Thousand?

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Release Date April 23, 2024
Developer Akabaka
Publisher DreadXP
Game Modes Single player
Perspective Text
Themes Fantasy, Horror, Comedy

Sucker for Love: Date to Die For

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