About This Game Gameplay"Thousands of years ago, lived a man named Oedipus, king of Thebes and slayer of The Sphinx.A man whose fate was to kill his father, Laius, and then marry his own mother, Jocasta.But what if he could have gamed the system and cheated his own fate?"With the generous help of three fates and Dionysus, the Olympian god with his own TV show, your task is to find a date for Oedipus. But it won't be as straightforward as it seems. At first, you won't know their true identities. Once you romance each character to a certain level, their true identity will be revealed to you. After that, you must avoid pairing Oedipus with Jocasta. A piece of cake, right? Well, other complications will certainly arise and maybe, with a little ingenuity, you can even end up with Jocasta and not be punished for it. But how?This game was designed with replayability in mind. That means that there are many different choices to make, with lots of nooks and crannies to explore. While the overall structure of having 15 days with 4 time periods each remains the same every time you play, each character's American name, location in the Casino Hotel and alcoholic beverage of choice will change. If you have additional questions not answered by the dialog trees, you can also try typing the question directly to the character.Features 6 characters for your Oedipal dating needs: Jocasta, Oedipus's Mother Clotho, Goddess of Birth Lachesis, Goddess of Life Atropos, Goddess of Death + 2 other characters 13 achievements for all you hunters out there! 10 different endings (7 good, 3 bad, 0 ugly) 6 types of drink to sway them! 6 types of gift to please them! 5 original background music tracks ♫ ♬ ♫ ♬ 3 jobs to earn you a pittance... 3 gambling options for you to try your luck at! 1 ancient language to learn (Well, that's Greek to me!) 0 walls of text to read, which means you'll be choosing your own path while defying your fate! 6d5b4406ea Title: Oedipus Dating SimGenre: SimulationDeveloper:Wholetone GamesPublisher:Wholetone GamesRelease Date: 12 Mar, 2018 Oedipus Dating Sim Download By Apunkagames oedipus dating sim Tried LARPing this.It\u2019s all fun and games until daddy gets home. ive been trying to \u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665 dionysus for the past half hour and its not working. theres only two dialoge options and he hates both of them. i cant give him gifts, ive tried all his dialoge but nothing. i cant believe i wasted three dollars and i dont even get to have sex with dionysus. such \u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665t.. The name made me laugh. How the hell do you turn Oedipus into a dating sim? For those who don't know, dating sims are... well, how to describe them. Basically they were invented in Japan, and they all seem to follow this basic formula, you meet a bunch of people and you pick one or more and try to woo them with gifts, or by making conversation and choosing enough \u201ccorrect\u201d dialogue answers. Then at the end of the game you win the happy ending if you have a high enough love meter with whoever the lucky person is. They're quite basic, often sexist, and I've never found one that I enjoyed. But I do try to keep an open mind about them, because I like the idea of a game that's about something as nice as love. And I don't think that they inherently have to be bad games.Not that I was expecting this to be the dating sim that finally impressed me. But I thought, they're trying something different, something a bit daring, let's see what it's like. Plus it was like three bucks.The story goes that you're Oedipus. You've just killed your father unwittingly, and you are approached by Dionysus, the only Greek god with his own television show. He tells you that Jocasta is your mother and offers you a way out of your fate. Star in his game show where you must woo several contestants, one of which is Jocasta. But their identities will be hidden from you, so there is a chance that you'll still unknowingly end up with your mother.But once the weird premise is explained and the game actually starts, the boredom begins. Talking to the bachelorettes feels more like being at a job interview, if the job position was to be a philosopher. They all require alcohol and gifts to continue conversation, and there are two ways to get money. One is by working, which is accompanied by a very basic and repetitive mini game. The other way is to gamble, which will lose you all your money unless you just wait until you're feeling lucky (play enough times and it'll just happen) and then you can safely gamble and triple all your money. So once you've discovered how gambling works, money is no object at all.At one point a security guard arrests you for being naked (since you're an ancient Greek) and allows you to take an ancient Greek language test to prove you're who you say you are. The test is a real test of your ancient Greek though, so you have to learn it, and not in a clever fun way. There's a huge list, like over a hundred words, and you're expected to memorise at least some of it. I did not, but I bribed my way through.In the end, I was glad the game was over, which is a pretty bad sign. It took me about an hour. I think the problem is the game is basically a joke, but it doesn't have the humour to back it up. In fact, a lot of the dialogue with the bachelorettes wasn't even trying to be funny. It was like the game forgot it was supposed to be a parody. So sadly, I can't recommend this game to anyone, not even people who really like ancient Greece, or dating sims, or weird indie games.
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