playingstory | Dungeons and Lesbians

Name: Dungeons and Lesbians
Status: Complete
Site: https://noeybodys.itch.io/dungeonsandlesbians
Rating: PG
Pairing: F/F
Description: Flirt with some tumblr nerds

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Dungeons and Lesbians is a cute and quick F/F game, taking place around a single little DnD session. It took me 45 minutes to finish all three routes, and each run through is about 6 or so scenes. The game warns you upfront that it relies heavily on "2018 tumblr humor" but it's not too egregious. It does have a lot of zoomer humor in it, but it doesn't rely too much on complete randomness, or references that you had to be there to get, so I enjoyed it. The romances were mostly cute, though I only liked two of the three. The third character's defining trait appeared to be that she liked being a little mean which I wasn't super into.

The plot bounces between playing the DnD session, which is a snappy little adventure, and breaks in between for snacks and stuff, which is when you interact with the LIs. The art is cute and clean, with some nice little transitional emotes. Because the game is short the pathing is very straight forward. There are a lot of little fun flavor choices, but the important ones are relatively few, and also pretty obvious, like, "which girl do you want to think about" type of obvious. Which is perfectly fine! For a nice little cute game, with cute characters and cute art, there's no reason to complicate anything. The end of each route ends with you and your LI making a confession and planning a date. There's also a a kind of joke end if you don't end up with any of the girls, and an actually sweet and kind bonus scene that you get after you've gotten all three routes that actually touched me with its earnestness. The game's sale page on itch says there are 6 ends, so I don't think I've seen all of them, but there isn't any method for tracking or hints for how to get endings. The game is short though, so it shouldn't be too hard to exhaust all options.