DateJournal is a dating sim where you romance 6 lovely ladies in St. Petersburg, Russia. You do this by collect intimacy point ,by collecting stars in a Minesweeper-like dates. There are three three stars type, red(strength), grey(charisma) and blue(intelligence). Each lovely lady has their own preference. You also collect roses to increase passion, which increases the amount of intimacy you gather. There are also enemies on the board, which you attack and defend against with corresponding stats. There are broken stars that decrease intimacy, but they can be transformed into other things via items.Oh and did I mention each click takes energy, and if you run out of energy, you lose? Well yeah there’s that too.
Then there’s the board game section in Datejournal, that you use to move around St. Petersburg and romance the various women. You get cards with the number of moves you can make. You can move once per turn, then either send a gift of use the space for something. Like in the club, you use charisma points you collect to raise various stats. Same with the gym and university for their respective stats. There’s also the mall, where you use money to buy new date spots. The date spots correspond to a specific outfit you can have the lady wear, and not much else.
There’s there the dialog and story of each woman in Datejournal. Which honestly, is quite boring and doesn’t really matter. It often makes no sense. Like one lady is telling me off, while my response gives hearts, showing she likes me or something. There are five dates, and after each date you get a picture. None show nudity. While the game is rated M, it is not because there are titties(though the final pics are very risque). Anyways, like I said, the actual story lines are probably the worst part of the game. I just couldn’t bring myself to care about anyone. You can find out more about the ladies, but doing that doesn’t amount to much, since sending gifts on the board really isn’t important I found.
I’m kinda torn on Datejournal to be honest. One one hand, the game had the decent board game section and dating game section. Problem is the ladies and stories just aren’t interesting to me. Maybe something was lost in translation, not sure. I’ll give DateJournal a Your Mileage May Vary(YMMV) with a seven back-end score. In the end, play for the minesweeper-like dating game, ignore the story.
Overall: Datejournal is an alright dating sim where the ladies are boring, but the actual dates are not.
Verdict: YMMV
| Release Date | 3/8/22 |
| Cost | $14.99 |
| Release Date | Sometimes You |
| ESRB Rating | M |
P.S. For a dating sim to avoid, try Summer Sweetheart!
Game received for free from the publisher
