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The only thing that's a little hard to get past is Psyop's recent involvement with NFTs opens in new tab ; a venture that damages my enjoyment a little after the fact, even though it was led by a different project director than the one who worked on this game. Like almost all dating sims, Hooked On You drops you into a situation where it's impossible not to fall into the lap of one of its sexy love interests, or killers in this case. You're stranded on a tropical island and are given the opportunity to chat up the Trapper, the Huntress, the Wraith, and the Spirit.
Each of them have their own distinct desires and open up about their traumatic pasts, which the game's self-aware writing underlines through the voice of its narrator. Courting the killers requires you to impress them over drinks, volleyball, and impromptu dates in an abandoned, magical lighthouse it gets weird fast. If you say the wrong thing and piss them off, you'll get murdered and asked to retry, but, outside of one small stop-the-spinner minigame, it's easy to lock lips with one of the gruesomely attractive villains by the end of its one-hour length.
If the outcome wasn't exactly what you wanted or there are other paths you want to pursue, you can reload and skip through the dialogue to change your fate. The structure is exactly what you'd expect, but the way Hooked On You is able to acknowledge its absurd premise, the game it's based on, and how desperate its characters are for a genuine connection, is magnetic. Once I hit the second day, I couldn't stop clicking through the witty conversations to see how I could convince one of the killers to spend the night with me.
Hooked On You treats everyone, no matter how ridiculous and detached from their violent role in the multiplayer game, like real people, and it all comes through in the writing. And for a short experience, that's a lot more than I could have asked for. It's surprisingly honest and a welcome palate cleanser if you've been knee-deep in much bigger and much more grim games this year. Hooked On You is available on Steam, and if you own Dead By Daylight, you'll earn some in-game goodies for buying it too.
Tyler has covered games, games culture, and hardware for over a decade before joining PC Gamer as Associate Editor.
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