Date Everything

Date Everything! is a first-person dating simulator and narrative sandbox for PC where magical Dateviators turn a home full of ordinary objects into a cast of fully voiced relationship routes. The game remains listed under the same official title, with Sassy Chap Games as developer and Team17 as publisher.

Its central joke is simple, but the structure is more involved than a conventional visual novel. You explore a three-dimensional house, identify objects through the Dateviators, and decide whether each one becomes a lover, friend, or enemy.

Explore the house through the Dateviators

The house is presented from a first-person perspective, giving the game a light exploration layer between dialogue scenes. You look around rooms, point the Dateviators at household items, and activate a D.A.T.E. interaction to reveal the personality hidden inside.

Not every object is immediately obvious. Some dateables are found through ordinary exploration, while others depend on timing, conversations, environmental interactions, or progress with another character. That makes the home function as both a social hub and a character directory.

Each in-game day limits how many characters you can meaningfully approach, so choosing who to visit is part of the strategy. You are not simply moving through a linear route; you are planning a schedule across a large network of independent stories.

The result sits between a dating sim, a visual novel, and a small first-person adventure game. Players who enjoy domestic social sandboxes may also appreciate the broader household experimentation found in life-simulation sandboxes such as The Sims 3, although Date Everything! replaces open-ended character management with tightly authored conversations.

Love, friendship, or hostility

Every dateable has a distinct personality, writing style, voice performance, and route logic. The cast includes recognizable household items, appliances, furniture, fixtures, and more abstract concepts, so the humor comes from translating an object's function into a believable character.

Your decisions shape one of three relationship outcomes: Love, Friendship, or Hate. These are not merely cosmetic labels. Each route provides its own conclusion, giving repeated playthroughs a clear purpose beyond collecting every character.

The game also uses the S.P.E.C.S. system, built around Smarts, Poise, Empathy, Charm, and Sass. Completing character routes improves these attributes, which can unlock additional dialogue, optional interactions, and requirements connected to the game's larger progression.

That progression creates a useful feedback loop. Early conversations help you understand the house and build your stats, while later attempts benefit from the knowledge and social options earned during previous routes.

A huge voice-acted cast

The defining production feature is full voice acting across the main dateable cast. Sassy Chap Games was founded by professional voice actors, and the game uses a large ensemble that includes performers such as Felicia Day, Ben Starr, Laura Bailey, Matt Mercer, Neil Newbon, Troy Baker, and Ashley Burch.

Voice performances do more than add polish. They help separate characters that could otherwise feel like variations on the same visual joke, especially when several objects occupy the same room or share related themes.

Each character also has an individual presentation, including expressive portraits, route-specific dialogue, and a dedicated musical identity. The broad range of tones means one encounter can be romantic, absurd, awkward, hostile, or unexpectedly sincere.

Base game and Lavish content

The base game includes 100 dateable characters and is structured as a single-player experience. Its content model is straightforward: purchase the core game for the main cast and story framework, then add optional paid content if you want the expanded roster and extras.

The separate Lavish DLC adds Michael Transaction and Lucinda Lavish, bringing the total to 102 dateable characters. It also includes a red shirt cosmetic, 26 phone backgrounds, a concept artbook covering the character roster, and a soundtrack.

Steam also offers a Lavish Edition bundling the base game and its DLC. The additional characters are not required to understand or complete the main experience, so the standard edition is the logical starting point for players who want to sample the concept before buying extra content.

There is no competitive economy or online service attached to the relationship system. The appeal comes from replaying routes, testing different dialogue choices, discovering hidden dateables, and completing the game's relationship and achievement goals.

Who should play Date Everything!

Date Everything! is a strong fit for players who enjoy choice-driven comedy, heavily voiced characters, unconventional romance, and games that reward experimentation. It is especially suited to people who want many short narrative routes rather than one long romance campaign.

It is less suitable if you expect a life simulator with deep building tools, a traditional role-playing system, or meaningful combat. The house is a stage for social discovery, not a fully systemic world where every object can be manipulated freely.

The writing also assumes that players are comfortable with sexual references, suggestive humor, alcohol references, tobacco references, and occasional mature language. The tone is playful, but it is not presented as a family-friendly dating game.

Players who prefer completionist goals will find plenty to track: alternate relationship outcomes, hidden interactions, stat-gated dialogue, collectibles, and Steam achievements. Players who dislike rereading dialogue may find the route-based structure more repetitive on later runs.

PC features and storefront details

The PC version is available through Steam and is listed as a single-player title with Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. There is no co-op or competitive multiplayer mode, and the relationship routes are designed for one player.

Controller support is available alongside keyboard and mouse input, making the game workable at a desk, on a television, or on a handheld PC. Recent updates have also included controller-focused interface improvements, which matter because the game combines first-person movement with menu-heavy dialogue.

Steam lists the game with English interface, English subtitles, and English full audio. Players looking for localized voice tracks or a broad subtitle selection should treat English as the confirmed PC localization rather than assume other language support.

The storefront also identifies the game with dating sim, romance, comedy, multiple endings, visual novel, and choose-your-own-adventure tags. Those labels are useful, but they understate the importance of first-person house exploration and stat-based dialogue checks.

Similar PC experiences

Date Everything! has few direct equivalents because its premise combines object-based comedy with a large relationship roster. Its closest comparisons are other choice-heavy romance games and life simulators, but the first-person domestic exploration gives it a distinct rhythm.

For players who want a broader simulation layer around relationships, social life simulators such as The Sims 4 offer more character customization and household management, while Date Everything! delivers denser authored dialogue and more unusual romance routes.

The better comparison is structural rather than visual: both games turn domestic spaces into places where relationships develop. Date Everything! is the more focused choice if you want every object to have a personality, voice, and possible ending.

Date Everything! FAQ

Is Date Everything! the current official name?

Yes. The PC storefront listing uses Date Everything! as the official title. No verified rebrand or replacement edition has superseded that name.

How many characters can you date?

The base game has 100 dateable characters. The Lavish DLC adds Michael Transaction and Lucinda Lavish, expanding the roster to 102.

Can every character become a romance partner?

Every main dateable has relationship outcomes built around Love, Friendship, and Hate. The exact route depends on dialogue, interactions, discovery conditions, and the choices you make.

Does Date Everything! have multiplayer or co-op?

No. It is a single-player narrative game with no online multiplayer, local co-op, or split-screen mode.

Is Date Everything! fully voice acted?

The dateable cast is fully voice acted in English, with a large ensemble of professional performers. The player character communicates through selectable text rather than a conventional voiced protagonist performance.

Is the Lavish DLC required?

No. The base game contains the main experience and its 100-character roster. The Lavish DLC is optional expansion content for players who want two additional dateables, cosmetics, phone backgrounds, an artbook, and the soundtrack.