Later Daters - Premium

I love the diversity of the in-game characters and the choices of character you can play. Most of all it shows old folks have fun too!

I love how much queer representation there was. 10/10 for my polycule with Blair, Mariana and Jax.

this is a game i really wanted to like, make no mistake. and i will give my props to the developers for trying to make a game like this at all; not shying away from the realities, both good and bad, of the elderly in a media culture so obsessed with youth and all that jazz, as well as not shying away from the fact old people do have sex. a lot. one of my complaints about this game would actually be that it isn't sexually explicit enough! seriously, for as much as the game flirts with sexuality, i expected to see some uncensored nudity somewhere, if not an explicit sex scene, and was a little annoyed when i got neither. and that segues into my main complaint with the game: it feels very toothless. nothing you or the other characters do feels like it has any real consequences at all. i understand that the tone of this game is meant to be silly and uplifting, and i don't have any particular problems with that, but there were a few scenes with particular characters that i feel should have led to you reaching a failstate with that character; ie, [spoiler]the bit with Jax and the movie relatively early on, and there's a plot point involving Albert near the end of the game which really exemplifies both points i'm mentioning.[/spoiler] i don't know. maybe some of this is addressed on other routes. (i only did Blair's, for complete transparency) the game also feels very rushed. i think two weeks of in-game time is way too short for any convincing relationships to be formed, especially when one of them is taken up by a nonsensical dream sequence [i]that completely breaks with the established, relatively grounded tone of the game[/i]. if you couldn't tell, [spoiler]]the mac and cheese dream sequence[/spoiler] was bar none my least favorite part of the game. but anyway, i feel the narrative could have massively benefited from having more breathing room, more time to stretch things out and let the player get a feel for these characters, etc. in spite of all these flaws, and the many other problems that other reviewers have pointed out, i don't hate this game at all. i do think it's worth playing at least once, if only to be able to learn from its issues, and because the concept itself has promise — i can see the bones of a better experience in this game, and i want more games like this to be able to exist. but as it exists now, [i]Later Daters[/i] is just a very weak product and a forgettable experience. this does not feel like a 15 USD game to me.

I am very surprised with how much i enjoyed this game! I've never been interested in visual novels but Later Daters had something that made me look into it. And boy, it is a wild ride!Later Dater is very wholesome at times, but also touches up on deeper issues like getting old, loss, experience, and that life is not necessarily over when you are old.I really like that there is an option to redo decisions to see what else could have happened/ find a choice you like more. The artstyle is very cute, as is the music - there is one song in 2-3 episodes that'll be stuck in my head for a good while :DOne playthrough took me about 3 hours and there is a good amount of replay value to explore other outcomes.

Really lovely and fun, surprisingly well written game about dating as elders. Only thing I wish that it would have been longer: I feel like we barely met this characters.

The game is very good but i feel like there's a lot more that could happen, and more stories to unfold, I loved the characters and their interactions but I would like another week!!

I highly recommend this game for anyone 40+ who is contemplating their mortality. Also for anyone who likes The Golden Girls, cribbage, and short visual novels with great art. I took more screenshots of this game than I thought I would! Music is soothing, cribbage club alone is worth the purchase price in my opinion.