Love is in the Air - February Game Rewards

Posted By: GamerDating Team - February 01, 2023

Love is in the Air, its Gaming Time xoxo Valentines day is coming, but what to get your loved ones? Game dates, valentines day gifts or simply that beautiful gift to yourself. This month, we are offering even more games with your subscription so you can game, whilst we find you a match. We offer games every month with our 2 and 4-month subscriptions. Our list of games is available to view, with updates each month. A subscription

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December Rewards and its Holiday time! So we've restocked!

Posted By: GamerDating Team - December 19, 2022

GamerDating's December Rewards! It's the holiday season, a time for relaxation, spending time with loved ones, and gift-giving. For many of us, it's also a time to get back into our favorite hobbies, like gaming. This year, we've restocked and added some exciting new titles to our collection. Whether you're looking for the latest releases or classic hits, we have something for every gamer to enjo This month, we are offering even more games

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Frozen Flame – a Survival RPG that needs a little thawing out

Posted By: Elena Walker - December 12, 2022

Frozen Flame is a multiplayer survival fantasy RPG, in a world once governed by Dragons and is now in the aftermath of what appears to be a post-apocalyptic world. It was released in its Early Access form on the 25th of November by fresh-faced developers Dreamside Interactive. I’ll be honest – my first impression was that the game looked generic. The style was immediately reminiscent of the many aesthetic copycats of cartoony an

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November includes Core Keeper, Golf with your Friends and Moving with your subs

Posted By: GamerDating Team - November 01, 2022

GamerDating's November Rewards! It's November! Christmas is coming, games are flowing, and its time to plan your gifts! We aim to keep the subscription cost down, while we can offer indie games or popular titles so that you can game, whilst we find you a match. We offer games every month with our 2 and 4-month subscriptions. Our list of games is available to view, with updates each month. Subscription grants you the ability to read

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Fueled up a chaotic couch co-op reviewed

Posted By: Ryan - October 28, 2022

Space-borne chaos or a shiny re-tread of old ground? Couch co-op party games are a small, but still popular, genre. As evidenced by games like Overcooked and Moving Out, there’s a need for one-to-four-player games that rely on communication, a willingness to make mistakes, and an almost sadistic urge to test the strength of friendships. Make no mistake, much like its chaotic forebears, Fueled Up will also put your relationships to the

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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Closed Beta Preview

Posted By: Dan and Team - October 19, 2022

This weekend October 14th to 16th our team had the privilege to try Fatshark's closed BETA of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. We gathered together, jumped into Discord in varied group sizes and chugged through the delights of Darktide. You can play with any variation of your custom characters, a refreshing step away from Vermintide.   The Poundshop Paladin, WoodTier, Farske and Zahur gathered together to dip their toes i

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Games while you date! Imp of the Sun, Potioncraft, Spirit of the Island now available

Posted By: GamerDating Team - October 06, 2022

GamerDating's October Rewards! It's October, autumn is here, winter is coming and the new games are flowing! It's the time of year where curled up on the sofa, with hot chocolate and gaming all evening is ideal. We aim to keep the subscription cost down, while we can offer indie games or popular titles so that you can game, whilst we find you a match. Our list of games is available to view, with updates each month. We offer 2 or 4-

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Pokemon Killer Temtem? Ryan Reviews

Posted By: Ryan - September 26, 2022

TemTem - Pokemon killer? An indie, monster-taming MMO with PvP built into its foundation, and a full PvE story, was always going to be a sure bet for fans of the Pokémon franchise. Temtem goes out of its way to emphasise how much of its gameplay experience is focused around competitive play, so much so that it’s nigh impossible to escape, but, if PvP isn’t your thing, all is not lost! I’m not a huge fan of PvP in m

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Smooth Summer Update to make your experience better.

Posted By: GamerDating Team - August 22, 2022

Say hello to our summer fresh update!  In this update, we focused on some quality of life updates, better email interactions, improved performance and bugfixes. Our last big update was earlier this year when we updated messaging with the use of emojis, gif support, improved updates and optimisation. Now we have introduced a new notifications sidebar, improved email notifications and new anti spammer/bot measures to make your experie

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South of the Circle Preview

Posted By: Ryan - August 15, 2022

A narrative experience about the power of regret. Emotional, story-driven games like South of the Circle (SotC) are not, for better or worse, everyone’s cup of tea. Originally released in 2021 for Apple Arcade, it was developed by State of Play, published by 11 Bit Studios, and is a compelling story of ambition and love set around the Cold War. I played SotC on the Nintendo Switch to write this review and was pleasantly surprised by w

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Overcooked! Our sous-chef reviews a top coop.

Posted By: Will Smith-Parsons - August 01, 2022

Overcooked: All the fun of watching your kitchen burn down, none of the messy clean-up. Overcooked! is a top-down, high-pressure cook-em-up that pits aspiring chefs against the clock and a series of strange circumstances to prepare ingredients and cook dishes to the satisfaction of hungry customers. After each level, players receive a score and a number of stars based on how many orders were completed, how many were missed, and how many wer

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Tails of Iron, House Flipper, Foxhole and Overcooked! 2 added for August subscriptions

Posted By: Alex - July 29, 2022

GamerDating's August Rewards! It's August! The perfect time for some game dates, followed by nice walks in the evening. Our goal is to keep subscription at a low cost, offer unusual indie games or popular titles so that you can game, whilst we find you a match. Our list of games is available to view, with updates each month. We offer 2 or 4-month subscriptions which allow you to read and send messages to any user, your messages allow

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Gloomhaven, Kitaria Fables, Farm Together, and Tavern Master now available with subscription

Posted By: Alex - July 01, 2022

GamerDating's July Rewards! As we roll into July, the peak of the summer season, and we have new games for our subscriptions. Our mission is to keep subscription at a cost low, offer popular or unusual games so that you can start gaming whilst we find you a match! Our list of games is available to view, with updates each month. We offer 2 or 4-month subscriptions which allow you to read and send messages to any user, your messages all

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Wingspan, Cuphead, Children of Morta and Outriders available in our June subscription.

Posted By: Alex - June 02, 2022

GamerDating's June Rewards! It's June, new game time! Available for new subscriptions, we have limited stock, so first come, first served. Our goal is to keep subscription cost low, and always offer new games so you can find a match, start chatting and play a game with your date, preferably one of those new ones you've just got! Our full list of games is now available on our static page which we'll update each month. We offer 2 or 4-

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Games available in our packages

Posted By: GamerDating Team - June 01, 2022

Our gaming offers bundled in with our packages Check out our entire list of new games added and available. Our games we offer are separated between two options of subscription to GamerDating, a gold option and a silver option. Remember you can choose two silver games for the gold option instead of just one gold game if you'd prefer. Each month we add new games, restock and seek out the unusual games for those game dates and couples da

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10 Reasons to Date a Gamer

Posted By: Alex - April 13, 2022

10 Reasons to Date a Gamer There are many benefits to dating a gamer, be you a gamer yourself, or an open minded non-gamer who is looking to support their partner or perhaps even become a gamer. It is also not uncommon for couples with a gamer in the mix to convert the other and introduce them to what it’s like to date a gamer. We reached out and asked some of our successful couples to give a list of reasons why it is good to date a g

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April Rewards - Easter new games for your subscription!

Posted By: Alex - April 05, 2022

GamerDating's April Rewards! Spring Bunnies and Happy Hearts. It is the month of new love, relationships and the blossoming of true love. Love, date, game. Each week we add more new games that are available with your first subscription, and each month we update that selection. We keep our subscription cost low, and at the same time offer you games with your first month so you can play. So get gaming, get matching and find your ideal part

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March Rewards - It's spring and we have new games!

Posted By: Alex - March 09, 2022

GamerDating's Spring March Rewards! It's spring, everyones talking about Elden Ring, and it's time to give them a ring!. Sorry, I couldn't resist. The rhymes flowed, and I was on the road to overload .. and... and... and it's time to, just get on with this update so you can go on a Game Date. Each week we add more new games that are available with your first subscription, and each month we update that selection. We keep our subscription

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Valentines February Rewards - Latest games for you!

Posted By: Alex - February 16, 2022

  GamerDating's Valentines February Rewards!   Happy Valentines Day, and if you are here, maybe you have yet to reach out and connect with your potential special co-op gamer. Well reach out now! Each week we add more new games that are available with your subscription, and each month we update the selection. This month we've added a selection of new games, but also a selection of ideal co-op games or games to have

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Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall - Swing and a Miss

Posted By: Alex - February 16, 2022

Swing and a miss, but literally. Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall is a VR-exclusive action-adventure game. A game that I was super excited about, because who doesn't enjoy being a Stormcast Eternal! When the combat worked, it felt great, but the game didn't support that! I was super stoked for this, as a fan of all things Warhammer I leapt into the game with excitement, looking forward to playing a skilled Lord-Arcanum of

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Battletoads 2020 - Hopping Mad Review

Posted By: Ryan - September 28, 2020

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With a hop, skip and jump into the absurd, Battletoads is the game we need right now.

And really, why wouldn’t it be? At its core, this is a very simple game and that has allowed the developers to polish it. The UI, such as it is, conveys all it needs to: remaining health, remaining ammunition and (if you are doing poorly) the respawn time. At any point, you can check the top of the screen to see how each toad is doing and, with three playable toads, that is incredibly useful.

Battletoads 2020 offers multiplayer and solo play

I only played in solo for my first run throughs. Some levels that shine with coop are obvious.

Playing solo, like I did, gives you the option to swap between the toads on the fly (get it?) in order to extend your combos and each toad has their own health bar which makes health management, on Normal difficulty and above, incredibly important. Whilst I played the game through solo, the expectation of co-op play is fairly obvious. The difficulty levels show you what makes them so difficult (enemy health, strength and respawn times are all affected) so it never feels unfair but the difficulty is such that only the most hardcore of solo players will succeed at the highest level.

Battletoads 2020 still rocking puns

Even if you do die though, the death screens are amusing enough that it doesn’t feel like you’ve wasted anything.

What of the game itself though?

It is… difficult to describe and I’m going to have to settle for ‘hybrid’. It starts out as a beat ‘em up, during which you are encouraged to scour the background for hidden collectables and ways to progress, but changes genre a few times. It took almost four hours for me to beat the story (an hour of which is cutscene) and during that time I played a beat ‘em up, an infinite runner, a 2D platformer and a shoot ‘em up, all liberally sprinkled with minigames (largely consisting of quick-time events).

Beat-em-up 2D platformer or shoot em up?

Battletoads has 2D platforming beatem ups, shooting, racing, minigames. And plenty of narrative.

It strikes a good balance of gameplay styles and no one type of experience outstays its welcome; just be aware that you might stumble upon something you wouldn’t usually play. For me, it was the shoot ‘em up sections, but I know people who don’t really like 2D platformers and would be dismayed if I told them that no single game style lasts noticeably longer than the others (I’d hazard a guess that there is a slight bias towards the beat ‘em up section but it’s only slight) with the exception of the two ‘infinite’ running sequences which are very short. Each gameplay change is associated with a story beat, allowing one diverging plot thread to tell its own story without repeating the experiences of the other.

Whilst short, this selection of mini-games was one of my favourite parts of the game.

I was impressed with the sheer amount of variety the developers managed to cram into their game. Each toad plays differently (in terms of combos available, damage done and movement speed) and each of the many hand-drawn attack animations is crisp, easy to read and oh-so-satisfying to pull off (my personal favourites involve a fish and a rubber chicken).

The two running sections are very distinct; the first has a focus on matching the button prompt to the surface you are running on and the other features both a wall of death constantly following you as well as some puzzle elements. Even the shoot ‘em up sections distinguish themselves with different enemy types and bosses. Perhaps it would be worth thinking about Battletoads as a collection of small games linked with a cohesive, enjoyable story rather than a single game.

Is the Battletoads reboot any good?

This feels like I should be playing with friends who have information I can’t see á la Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.

That said, I had a few problems with some of the choices made: a handful of enemy types were annoying in that they either interrupted the flow of the game by blocking whenever they weren’t throwing things at me from the edges of the screen or had attacks that I lost amid everything else (this was more prevalent in the shoot ‘em sequences). I should also point out that, for people who are easily overstimulated visually, one of the early game bosses may present a problem in terms of parsing the information on screen.

The last niggle I had was standard platformer stuff: collectables hidden in what seem like death pits. This isn’t a new problem in gaming, and it won’t go away any time soon, just know that whilst most of the collectables are easy enough to find (shoot a background element, solve a puzzle, fly into the floating golden thing) you may have push up against every wall and try every pit in the platforming section. Thankfully, the checkpoint system works wonderfully.

Battletoads 2D Coop gets a bit visual heavy

There is too much going on here for me to properly process.

Aside from that, there is little to say about the game play as its mostly genre-standard fare: the combos and health pickups the game opens with are replaced with weapon powerups and spike pits as it progresses. As lean as the game is though, it is polished (as I’ve mentioned); not once did I feel like I had died unfairly or encounter any noticeable bugs (aside from the flies you have to eat to restore the toads’ health).

This may, obviously, be attributed to its short length; at nearly four hours on Easy (as a newcomer to the genre [and a solo player], I was intimidated by the harder difficulties and my concern was warranted when I started again on Normal) the longevity here is mostly around replaying the game. Each level DOES have a handful of collectables plus a bonus objective to complete, as well as a score system, but if you aren’t driven by numbers you’re only going to be coming back to experience the enjoyable moment-to-moment gameplay if you have nothing else to do.

It’s easy enough to see what you’re missing on each level from the pause screen.

However, the game is only £14.99/$19.99 (at time of writing) and is available through Game Pass, which makes its short length suddenly seem more reasonable (as an aside, I’ve played similarly short games at this price point that have far more bugs in them) and I would be hard pressed to not recommend Battletoads. Please do bear in mind though, some of the humour here could be termed immature but is entertaining enough for the most part.

Clean animation is hard to pull off with such heavy effects.

A good summary of the game: wanton destruction, clean animation, puns and surprisingly wholesome moments.

Really though, if you don’t care about short game experiences (or are at least interested in replaying the game) and immature humour, grab your partner, or partners, and enjoy the three-player couch co-op. You almost certainly won’t be disappointed!

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