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Don't Make Love

Assume the role of a praying mantis in a relationship. Constantly torn between their mutual love and the instinct to have sex – which could lead to the male mantis’s death – the couple are now on the verge of…

60 26 October 2017

Don't Make Love is an indie, released 26 October 2017 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Don't Make Love is

Don't Make Love was released in 2017. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Assume the role of a praying mantis in a relationship. Constantly torn between their mutual love and the instinct to have sex – which could lead to the male mantis’s death – the couple are now on the verge of making a decision. Assume the role of either of the lovers, and try to keep their relationship in balance. Do your best to convey your feelings in a situation with no solution.
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How it plays

Its themes are romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Don't Make Love holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 11 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Don't Make Love launched on 26 October 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins and South Park: The Fractured But Whole. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole.

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Don't Make Love was released on 26 October 2017 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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