Hooked On You: A Dead By Daylight Dating Sim Review - Hooked, Line, And Sinker

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Last night I gave a foot massage to a disembodied ghost girl. As the evening progressed I somehow got a shard of glass caught in me while we… adult wrestled. That disembodied ghost girl is Spirit, the terrifying zombie you fight in Dead by Daylight who has a permanent case of bed head, empty eyes, and contorted limbs. Some people are into that, I guess. I wasn’t, until this Dead by Daylight dating sim (Dead by Dating Sim?). And what’s worse, this is the second time this year I’ve fallen for a corpse. Damn you, Tim Burton, damn you, Psyop.

Dating simulators are known for eventually getting freaky but Hooked on You is freaky. You’re not just dating average joes, anime girls, pigeons, or weapons-turned-people - you’re consorting with bloodthirsty killers. All on a desert island you can’t escape, run by two survivors who can’t die. And believe me, they’re trying. There’s the trapper, a beefcake with guns that put Henry Cavill to shame, Huntress, a big dommy mommy, Wraith, a burnt twink, and Spirit, the dead goth girl who stole my heart. Oh and Trickster, but let’s ignore them. As you’d expect with a dating sim, it’s an adventure novel with the choices to make and minigames to play, a few different endings, and various characters you can romance. But really, I’m here for Spirit and Huntress. Sorry Wraith.

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From the get-go, it’s meta, meta, and some more meta. I’m a huge Scream fan - all things ‘90s slasher, really - so this meta approach worried me. So many have tried to ride the coattails of Scream’s style and fallen on their asses, becoming parodies, but Hooked on You brings that meta slasher vibe to games immaculately. The ocean is a living creature