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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Posted By: Ryan - September 26, 2022

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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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Posted By: Alex - April 13, 2022

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April Rewards - Easter new games for your subscription!

Posted By: Alex - April 05, 2022

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Valentines February Rewards - Latest games for you!

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  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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Settlers in Space! The Colonists - Review

Posted By: Dan - October 24, 2018

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Excuse the title, but as an old fan of The Settlers series, right back to The Settlers 2, I was excited for the opportunity to review The Colonists.

As the name suggests, the game focuses around a group of colonists and building up their settlement from scratch, but with a twist; The "Colonists" themselves are all tiny robots with their own names, unique functions and adorable little computer screen faces, created to simulate human needs and behaviours, however they grow tired of their human creators and blast off into space to make a life for themselves on a distant planet. That's where you come in (as usual - ed) as their omnipresent guiding hand.



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Curses They built a watchtower along an undefended border capturing my mothership. Game over


When you start the game the colony ship lands on the planet with the door opening to reveal a curious bot looking outside. They will then perform a short dance of joy (AI are a funny lot... - ed), the steps of the ship descend and you're ready to go. The game eases you in with a step by step tutorial in order to get the most basic functions of your colony up and running. You start by building a lumberjack hut, followed by a residence, a well and some form of food production from which the industrious little bots will create batteries to power themselves. The batteries are apparently created from combining food and water.

 

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A new colony begins to take shape as the basic essentials are put in place


It soon becomes apparent that the bots want more from life than simple sustenance and you press on to your next location for colonisation with the bots deciding to build a monument to celebrate. The responsibility of gathering the natural resources to build such a monument of course falls to you. The bots will need iron. But first they will need stone, they will need workshops to research the technology required for the construction of the monument and a number of other basics that would normally be an essential to human civilization.



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A watchtower opens fire on the enemy with freshly manufactured arrows


The interface is simple to use. In some case perhaps even a little too simple (I've taken myself back to the main menu several times by accidentally clicking the 'main menu' as there is no 'are you sure?' message). The icons and menus are all relatively clearly marked, though there has been a little head scratching in some cases as to what exactly each menu symbol is, and I have simply memorised them due to the requirement to keep going back and checking things, such as production and colony requirements as well as help and advice. For a beginner, the game does offer an abundance of advice early on, telling you exactly what you should be doing with your colony to meet the mission objectives. The game seems to utilise several graphs and percentages to keep the player updated as to the overall productivity and requirements of the colony. Personally I have never been very good at reading graphs so these are of little help to me, though I can fully appreciate their utility.



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Workshops are essential to researching technological advances for your colony but make sure the techbot has batteries and resources or she ll fall asleep


The game is aesthetically pleasing in a clean, smooth way, and the screen at no point feels crowded even when the colony starts increasing in size. Nor does it feel sparse, and overly simplified The graphics are smooth and should be easily accommodated even by  ageing or lower end PCs. The soundtrack as well as the graphical style I find to be very reminiscent of something you might play on a Nintendo Wii. The music certainly bears a resemblance to the Wii menu screen in the tones you can hear. Overall, this gives the game a relaxing feel. If you've been hammering away at a fast paced action shooter recently, and you want to kick back with something far more chilled, then I don't think games come much more chilled than The Colonists. On the other hand, I couldn't help notice that there are inventory slots in your colony ship's(warehouse) hold for arrows and cannon balls. And I get the feeling there's a good reason that the guard towers you use to expand your borders (A la early settlers titles) have hit points. I pressed on to find out what could possibly want to threaten these adorable little robots simply looking for a peaceful new life.



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Advisor menus clearly indicate the best steps to take towards making your colony a success


In the third mission, I was told 'There are familiar faces around and we should expand quickly'. The mission brief had stated there would be some combat. Moving to build my colony quickly and get things flowing as fast as possible I quickly built watchtowers to expand my territorial borders. It wasn't long before I discovered another colony to the north of fairly identical robots with the exception they had red trimmings as opposed to the blue trimmings of my own colonists. I was a little disappointed. I had hoped for perhaps indigenous creatures or possibly humans looking to reclaim their 'property' to fight.



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Turns out we re not alone on this planet. The expansion of territory from a friendly watchtower forces the enemy s borders back destroying buildings on the way


I had noticed in the previous mission in the research panel that it was possible to upgrade your watchtowers to shoot arrows, or cannon balls. This can take a while in game and as such neither your won or your enemy's watch towers can take any form of offensive action. Early game combat becomes a game of territorial push and shove. Since you can only build watchtowers at the edge of your territory, the trick seems to be to build as many watch towers close to the edge of your territory closest to the enemy as possible, filling any gaps in the sides and surrounding them. If they have no watch tower close to their border at the point you build your own, then the expansion of your territory caused by your  watch tower will destroy any enemy buildings in the vicinity. This can lead to a... faintly interesting game of push and shove and resource denial but the interest stops there. After you and your enemy have built so many watchtowers that you cannot push each other's borders back any further, it then seems to be an arms race to see who can get their towers to a level where they can fire arrows or cannon balls at each other.



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A fisherbot provides fish to be converted to batteries for your industrious worker bots


There is a depth and nuance to this style of combat I can tell, and it matches the relatively sedate feel of the game itself yet there is an underlying urgency. Not the same sort of urgency one might feel playing say Total War: Warhammer where you might be rushing an army to intercept an enemy force about to sack one of your towns. This boils down to positioning your watchtowers and running your economy more efficiently than your opponent, it's a simple as that and it does work. It's not a particularly exciting combat system, but  I don't think that was the intention, and a faster, more adrenaline fuelled style of combat would seem incongruous in this otherwise chilled, pleasing game.



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The happy bots celebrate their success on Terra Firma with a monument. To themselves of course
 

If, like me you're old enough to remember the early entries in The Settlers series then you will instantly notice in The Colonists the striking similarities to The Settlers. Notably The Settlers 2. The mothership acting as a headquarters that is the beating heart of the settlement, the system of connecting buildings via roads, which are then used by workers to carry goods and produce around the colony, the system of using military buildings to expand territory whilst denying it to opponents and most of all the relaxed, comfy atmosphere the game exudes.  I wouldn't insult the developers by saying that The Colonists is The Settlers 2 reskinned, but I will say that they have taken the core mechanics of what many may consider to be an obsolete system of real time strategy and given it a thorough dusting off with ample application of spit and polish and brought it forward into a game that can quite comfortably considered a 2018 game. If you loved The Settlers 2 then you will love The Colonists. In a gaming world of high octane shoot 'em ups, gore splattered medieval battlefields, and highly competitive multiplayer games, The Colonists is a breath of warm, fuzzy life into modern strategy gaming.


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