Conversations with My Anxiety

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Name: Conversations with My Anxiety
Status: Complete
Site: https://digitaldaydream.itch.io/conversations-with-my-anxiety
Pairing: M/F
Description: Navigating one bad date while your anxiety verbally abuses you.

This is a first date simulator where your anxiety provides constant commentary in the form of a little version of you popping up inside your own head. The game is made in unity and a fast play. A single run is maybe 10 minutes, and less than that if you's managed to fuck up royally. Your job is to say, if not the right thing, than at least the least wrong thing, to survive through the end of the night and maybe even get a second date. A lot of things manage to go very wrong. Your lyft guy is a pain in the ass. The kid taking your card at the movie theater is a smarmy brat, and your date runs into her ex at dinner. Meanwhile your date will not hesitate to ditch you if she's decided you're not what she's looking for. I played twice because the first time I managed to piss her off enough to make her leave over my giving my opinion on the movie we had watched. This I consider my true ending because I wouldn't be able to date anyone who took an opinion I had about media personally. We'd be fighting all the time! I just don't care if someone thinks something I like is trash so I don't really understand it when other people do. Although, true to the theme of the game, my dude did not explain his position without dipping a toe into his mouth. The next run I managed to thread the needle and said all the right things to be a considerate and friendly date, and got what I assume is the good end, where the woman is considering seeing me again.


 

The anxiety that pipes up every time things get a little awkward is an amusing little addition. Since the game is free and short, I don't really see any reason not to give it a go, although for me it highlighted the fact that one person's bad date might be another person's fun time.