Monday, July 9, 2018

Speed Dating for Ghosts is a metaphor for romance in video games

It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.

After playing Speed Dating for Ghosts, I feel a bit like Michael Bluth during the scene in Arrested Development when he opens a bag labelled “DEAD DOVE Do Not Eat!” It’s not that I didn’t expect it to be a game about speed dating ghosts — but it turns out I didn’t realize what that actually meant.

You play as an unidentified ghost that starts out by meeting Fran, a spectre with antlers, who runs the speed dating event. You’re then prompted to pick one of three rooms, each of which has three different ghosts in it who you’ll...

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