Announcing GrappleDate!

Our next release will be a big update to Boxing Day on Boxing Day (December 26), with possibly a small update to the Kali game coming too. But after that, we are excited to announce the start of our next big project, which we’re calling GrappleDate (until we think of something better/get tired of thinking).

GrappleDate is a sandbox dating sim set on a college campus with a secret erotic wrestling league (aka, the college from Super Grapple Day). The basic gameplay is you find characters on an app, meet them in person, then wrestle them in a no-holds-barred match. Some characters will also have variations in their route (maybe they prefer boxing or only want romance/sex).

One of the reasons why we’re moving to a sandbox is because as our audience has grown, people come to our games for different things. Some want wrestling, some want boxing. Some want intense fights, some want silly/humiliation-focused content. People have different preferences on gender, body type, etc. A sandbox structure gives players the option to only play the types of stories that interest them (while also giving us a framework that’s easy to update).

This gif shows the new character Erica on her dating profile, on a coffee date, and getting stretched out into a surfboard hold.

It also shows off some of the new features we’ve been developing, including the app-like character select screen, the flexible new conversation system we’ve created, and an early version of the new battle system, which is now first-person and features pseudo-3D animation as well as a body-part-based fighting system inspired by other wrestling games.

The reason why we moved to first person is because we want to let people make a fully customizable player character, who will appear in dialogue scenes. It would be too complicated to animate this player character in fights, plus the 1st-person perspective will help to make things more immersive.

No release date yet, but expect some sort of playable demo in early 2025!