Our games for March are classics

Posted By: GamerDating Team - March 06, 2023

March, the month of might warriors, fantastic games, and bunnies? As we move into spring, embrace new chances, reach out to those 1up'd matches and arrange some game dates. To help, this month we are topping up the most popular games we have available for you as well as highlighting some new ones. 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 subs

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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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Fueled up a chaotic couch co-op reviewed

Posted By: Ryan - October 28, 2022

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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 test.

Huge thanks to my fellow reviewer, and multiplayer partner for the past 12 and a half years, Jenny.

Jenny joined me and helped me out with this review by playing the game alongside me and checking my impressions matched up with her own.

We played via local multiplayer on an Xbox One X hooked up to a television – this will be important later.

While it has no distinct visual style, Fueled Up is a pretty game where smooth textures, particle effects, and flashing lights all compete for your attention. I suspect this is mostly due to the camera being positioned such that you can see the entire map, and thus not have to worry about moving your viewpoint in addition to everything else clamouring for your attention.

The viewpoint does make certain things harder to see than others, although you may find these issues are solved by playing on a larger, or closer, display than we were using.

interactive Menu

Not only does the menu show your assigned colour, your character is added to the space station.

 

The player models are cute, and customisable, and each is colour-coded to player number. The player one position is a bright orange, the player two is a bright green and so on. The colour of the player character’s overalls is matched by a circle around their feet to make them easy to see when in game.

Aside from character models, both the player characters and the space squid and octopus that are an ever-present threat, the only other things you see in any great, and therefore cute, detail are the tutorials, which are text-based with images, and an NPC that is responsible for delivering the bare bones of a plot.

It is in the sound design that Fueled Up’s greatest strength and its greatest weakness lie.

The core concept here is that you are emergency engineers racing to repair ships and return them before one of any number of loss conditions triggers.

With the camera zoomed out to show the entire floorplan of the ship, you end up relying a lot on audio cues, rather than the visual triggers that were Overcooked’s main way of conveying information about the game state.

Accessibility is key, and audio cues are a vital part of that.

Fueled Up does a fantastic job of conveying what is happening through audio cues, and each one is distinct enough that you quickly learn to tell them apart and respond to each problem accordingly.

The problem is that there is so much going wrong that the cues overlap and, while each is still clear and easy to distinguish, if you suffer from audio processing issues, or simply dislike repetitive sounds, this is not the game for you.

Multiplayer Game for Couples

Pinball simulator, exposition, score prompts, AND the end of the Universe. What’s not to love?

 

The ambient soundtrack on the mission select screen is a music loop that borders on annoying, and each level is short enough that the alarms blaring nearly constantly don’t become infuriating, but both Jenny and I could only play in short bursts to avoid getting irritated by the constant assault on our hearing.

Just because the cues are clear and easy to distinguish, doesn’t mean they’re pleasant to hear.

On a more positive note, the gameplay loop is solid.

Each level has a variety of environmental problems that need overcoming to keep the spaceship moving, and ahead of the giant space octopus, and each is explained by a simple tutorial as it is introduced. Well, most are. Some of the problems are either entirely unexplained – wormholes, I’m looking at you – or the tutorial doesn’t explain enough.

That said, each is reasonably easy to figure out, so it’s not a big problem, just a niggling one.

Once you know what you’re doing, however, the game flows smoothly as you deal with problems when they occur, anticipate what is coming, and generally try to keep your communication calm and collected as alarms blare, airlocks vent, and smoke fills the room.

There were a few places where a difficulty spike made Jenny and I feel like we couldn’t continue playing the game without inviting a third player to join us, but by figuring out what we needed to focus on, instead of trying to keep on top of everything, we did manage to push through.

Multiplayer games on xbox and pc offer minimal differences when local

Some hazards are little too obstructive.

 

For game about a giant space octopus that likes to destroy spaceships, the difficulty is completely at odds with the tone of everything else. The character models are cute, the overworld is full of stuff to bounce off like a pinball, but when all of this is compared with the fact that each mission is just challenging enough to feel almost impossible as you head into the later game there is some dissonance;  without the light-hearted tone, however, I honestly don’t think Fueled Up would be as fun as it is.

As with many games in the genre, each level sees you completing a series of varied tasks to reach an end goal: in this case, making sure the ship isn’t destroyed before you get back home.

None of the tasks are little more than take item A to point A and repeat until the problem is solved, but the number, and diversity, of tasks – as well as the incredible variety of level design and environmental challenges – means that no two levels feel alike.

Local multiplayer will always be sovereign, but online is an option.

Jenny and I found ourselves splitting up the burdens on some levels – she would get the fuel while I dealt with generator fires, for example – while on others we’d move between duties as required, all the while repairing hull breaches to ensure the ship didn’t explode.

Communication is obviously key in games like this, and it does benefit from couch co-op play.

Online multiplayer is supported, but I think I’d rather the two players, one controller option purely because games like this hit differently when played in person.

Fueled Up alternatives such as overcooked vibe in a similar fashion

You always know what you’re going into, at least.

 

It's also far easier to apologise for a raised voice or poorly chosen word in person than it is over the internet when the other players may not be able to see you.

By this point of the review, you could be forgiven for thinking that there isn’t all that much innovative here and, truthfully, there isn’t. But it is, for the most part, polished and a nice refinement of the formula.

Ideal for people with neurodivergences

Being able to focus on discrete, unchanging tasks allows people with our neurodivergences to play the game without getting overwhelmed and the most annoying environmental effects – smoke and wormholes, in our opinion – were minor frustrations to be coped with at best, not game-ending difficulty spikes.

In fact, the only real problem we encountered was that some things are just too small to make out easily among the mass of visual information. Batteries and fuel crystals are illuminated but their receptacles are not, making figuring out where they go frustrating on occasion.

This may have been a consequence of playing on a television on the other side of the room, and the larger your display, the better you will likely find this aspect of the game.

Another thing to note is that on one level, a narrow metal bridge blends in a little too well with the purple goo it hangs above, making it difficult to tell at a glance if you’re about to walk off of it.

A game for Neurodivergent people

With hints like that, how can you fail?

 

It is worth noting that your score is reduced whenever the ship’s engines are offline. This is a conscious decision that does feel a little disheartening as you will likely be feeling overwhelmed by the point that happens, but the game does make you aware of it.

These are little problems and can be overcome, and there’s plenty of time to figure out ways to deal with them. A casual playthrough will likely take you no longer than ten hours at the outside, depending on experience and party size.

This is a very generous estimate, and most players will be able to complete the game a lot earlier. Replayability comes from each level having a score system – which is not used as a level gate, fortunately – and secondary objectives.

With two players, you will likely struggle to both reach the three-star threshold and complete the secondary objectives, but you can still have fun with the game.

Hours of cheap co-operative video game fun is yours for the taking.

Fueled Up sells for around £16 and, honestly, that’s a fair price. I would be reticent to pay more for it, but you’ll get hours of chaotic fun for a relatively low entry price, marred only by the odd quirk.

Affordable coop game offering heaps of fun

Cosmetics, score thresholds, bonus objectives. It seems like a lot, and it can be with only two players.

 

Ultimately, as with many games in this genre, you will either really like Fueled Up or hate it. We recommend this game and believe that many people out there will enjoy the cosy, chaotic sci-fi shenanigans that play out over the course of its missions

 

Look at the void isn't it gorgeous?

Sometimes you’ve just got to take in the view, you know?

 

With everything above in mind, we wholeheartedly give Fueled Up an 8/10. It’s not perfect, but it’s a lot of a fun, and it’s a great way to spend an hour or two with friends. Just make sure they’re still your friends after you get sucked out the airlock for the fifth time.

 

Fueled Up - 8/10

 

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