DemiDato: Monster Dating Show
A downloadable visual novel for Windows, macOS, and Linux
You're on TV - monster TV! ♡
Welcome to the set of the monster world's biggest dating show, DemiDato! Your protagonist (with your choice of name and pronouns) is a plucky human in a silly hood surrounded by a cast of monsters, the latest contestant to team up with the show's notoriously snarky host Paul T. Geist on live TV.
It's time to find your very own demihuman date! But if you can't win anyone over, you must risk leaving the show utterly dateless </3
Good luck! You might need it!
DemiDato features:
- A whopping 12 dateable characters, with multiple ways to arrive at each character's ending, and more than one silly bad end to find!
- Bite-size routes - one run of the game can be completed in under an hour, making it perfect for streaming, and easy to replay. Experience as many routes and character endings as you like, mystery matchmaker style - each branch after the intro is a new story!
- Nameable protagonist with an inclusive choice of pronouns
- VN crafted as a love letter to 'monster girl' tropes and real life dating shows like If You Are The One and Take Me Out - and armed with many puns to poke gentle fun at all of it ♡
- Slick, slightly cheesy reality TV nostalgia baked in throughout our bespoke original soundtrack and UI.
- timepatches (project lead, co-writer, UI artist, additional art)
- Jane Titor & Red-Chan (co-writers)
- VividGrim (character design, CG background & painting)
- yapsharlene (sprites & CG character art) & spaceoutstation (sprites)
- YMRED (music)
- Selavi Games (background art)
- Lunaterra (editing)
For a full list of credits and assets used, visit our website.
Link to Press Kit
For a short narrative-heavy experience set in the same universe, try Grand-Nya!
Purchase
In order to download this visual novel you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $8 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- GrandNya released - the DemiDato continuity expands! 👀✨Jul 02, 2023
- DemiDato is in the Queer Games Bundle 2023!!Jun 02, 2023
- DemiDato v1.1 in progress!May 10, 2023
Comments
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Is this also on steam?
It may be in the future, but no plans for Stream currently!
Okay, thank you for answering!!!
absolutely lovely game (i yearn for geist ) 10/10 would play it again
Thanks so much for playing!! Stoked that you enjoyed :3 ♡
Looks great! It was a pleasure to be in the Queer Halloween Stories Bundle with you!
Thank you!! And same to you ♡♡♡
That was FUN!!! I liked it! And the game even has a walkthrough attached to it too... If you don't feel like thinking. :p
Everyone has their own personality and quirks and hmm... I just liked everyone (almost) with ears. (Tomoe and Finn *cough*) Dmitri was funny in his own way (even though I don't get all the words he used...) andddddd Arien. Have to have demons too. Especially incubi. ^-^
The CGs for good ends are adorable! I would say which one is my favorite, but then anyone who reads this will read too much into it. So hah!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE GAME!!! :) :> :3
Thank you so much for playing and coming back to comment!! So happy you enjoyed ♡♡
(And as for Dmitri... well, they're well aware that they're an acquired taste, hehe)
It might be in the cards for the future! But not anytime soon, so if you'd like to play the best place to get it is itch.io :)
No problem, thank you for asking, I'm happy to answer!
DemiDato has 12 LIs in it, 6 that identify as women and use she/her (Saffron, Thyme, Koe, Jiānrěn, Mako, and Tabitha), 5 that identify as men and use he/him (Mino, Arien, Benji, Finn, and Tomoe), and 1 that identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns (Dmitri the vampire).
Fantastic game!
Some things I really enjoyed:
My only complaint? That I would have loved more time with these characters! :P
Thank you so much for this lovely comment!! So SO happy to hear all the bits you enjoyed, and thank you for playing!! ♡♡♡
And just by the way, while I don't have any concrete plans for a sequel, all my games are set in the same universe, so I wouldn't resign yourself to saying bye to these characters just yet!
(In fact, later this month you might want to stay tuned for... something 👀✨)
Oooooh - consider me officially intrigued. ;)
That's amazing art and bgm. I enjoyed the plot
Thanks so much! So happy you enjoyed it ♡
This game is the cat's meow, daddy-o. I'll see you hipsters at the speakeasy after the show, ya dig?
Hot dog, this hip cat really knows their onions! ♡♡♡