Monster Prom

I didn't understood the allure of dating sims, and didn't play any before this, so can't say anything about game mechanics. But content is great: drawings are nice, characters are interesting and dialoques are extremly funny. It's not a game to play all night long (and I don't think it's healthy to try), but to play 30-60 minutes twice a week - like you favorite rom-com on TV.

Why take a perfectly good concept and ruin it with incredibly terrible writing? Cute artwork - check, monsters, but in a positive light - check. What I expected was something like Munster Academy that actually has monster lore and cute character interactions. What I got was something that could function perfectly well with normal high school kids instead of monsters. I went through 4 short playthroughs to see if I could be convinced that there was a single line of the writing that was good. There wasn't. It has the maturity level of a bratty little kid and it literally took some highschool LOLs from the bottom of the barrel. E.g. A car "breeding" and a car "giving birth" (of course the mechanics behind that are not explained), taking artistic pictures of food is more important than eating the food, going to year X B.C. to "exist before it was cool". And all that bizarreness just builds up, but shifts from one absurd line to another with no substance behind it. It has no head nor tail. The writing isn't even a bit funny and the game doesn't even bother to give you any instructions on anything and lacks some core features of a visual novel. What each stat does, how it affects anything, how to even date or romance a particular character - nothing is explained ever. There is no option to save mid-game, nor an option to reread a line either. All the DLC does is add a few new characters, but it does not improve the core game any, it's still the same mess it was originally. Heck if this is a terrible parody at least say it's a terrible parody, so I can avoid it. The only positive thing I can say is that the artwork is cute and that you can set both your character's name and pronoun - likely a nod towards transgender acceptance. If you want a dating game with real substance, actual monster lore, sweet atmosphere and likable characters; get Munster Academy (by Ran) instead. It's a free game on itch.io that's well made and appropriate for all ages.

Texts are random, over the top but not in a charming or fitting way. Music is annoying. Results are far too predictable for a game like this. If I could, I'd refund it.

This is the first time I wish I could get a refund for a game. This is so incredibly boring that I couldn't believe the good reviews. You pick a character, answer three questions and get points for some personality traits. Then the game "play" is as follows: you choose a location (unless it's lunch time, then you get to choose a table at the cafeteria), you read the text of what happens there, you are faced with a situation and choose one of two options. Depending on your choice you get an increase or decreased in the personality trait points. And that's it. That's the whole game. The long version (which is advertised to take 60 minutes, but took me about 25) gives you eighteen such scenarios. The game tries very hard to be super original and totally out of it, but it just feels silly to me most of the time. The texts and options are quite juvenile and the "risky" topics that are mentioned in the game description are quite tame and lame. The people are one-dimensional, the best strategy is easily found out. I played two runs, the second one was already repetitive enough to bore me even more than the first one. Absolute waste of money as far as I'm concerned. No real game play, very little humor, very little of anything else .

This game is a blast to play with friends or alone. It's full of stupid humor that will at the very least give your a good chuckle. It's definitely a game that you should play in doses, or else it tends to get repetitive or the jokes just seem to lose their spark if you are at it for more than a few hours. A lot of the negative reviews I've seen on it center around it being immature and not serious enough for the visual novel fans, I can understand where they're coming from but this is also a game that doesn't take itself seriously at all.