Lover Pretend
Lights, camera, action! A hilarious comedy about the entertainment industry and the colorful characters that populate it.
Lover Pretend is an adventure developed by Design Factory, released 25 March 2021 on Nintendo Switch.
What Lover Pretend is
Lover Pretend is an adventure game developed by Design Factory and released in 2021. It was published by Aksys Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Chiyuki is a college student with dreams: One, to become a scriptwriter like her late mother, and two, to find her father, whom she’s never met. Living alone with no romantic experience whatsoever, Chiyuki struggles with writing stories about love. But one day, on the hunt for clues for the identity of her father, Chiyuki learns that he may have been involved in the production of a romantic drama based on a script her mother wrote before she was born. In a stroke of luck, Chiyuki lands a job as an assistant for an upcoming film working with the sons of the former staff from her mother’s soap opera. But things take an even more surprising turn when she’s cast as the film’s female love…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are comedy and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Lover Pretend holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Lover Pretend launched on 25 March 2021, within three weeks of It Takes Two, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut and Monster Hunter Rise. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: It Takes Two, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, Monster Hunter Rise.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Lover Pretend yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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