The Crush House on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Film and produce 1999's hottest reality TV show: The Crush House! Select a crush-worthy cast, satisfy voracious audiences and keep the show on air to uncover the sinister secrets behind this darkly comic thirst-person shooter.

The Crush House is a lgbtq+, simulation and adventure game developed by Nerial and published by Devolver Digital.
Released on August 09th 2024 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 308 reviews of which 224 were positive and 84 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 16.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Crush House into these genres:

LGBTQ+ Simulation Adventure Dating Sim Life Sim Cartoony Colorful Comedy Funny Romance Female Protagonist Politics Political Singleplayer Story Rich Psychological Horror Conversation Casual Mystery

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Windows

OS: Windows 10 x64 Bit
Processor: Intel Core i5-4570T / AMD FX-4350
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 660 / Radeon HD 7850
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 1 GB available space
Additional Notes: Low Quality setting, in 720p, producing 30 FPS

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Sept. 2024

While I thought the idea of the game was interesting, the art style is unique, and the storyline was decent enough to follow, once you understand the gameplay the game falls flat. The auto generated dialogue is probably the biggest factor that ruins the game. After collecting all items and going through 3 seasons, there's almost no reason to keep playing. It has SO much potential, especially with the characters and their personality and designs, but actual conversations lack variety. Try to complete personal quests felt like torture near the end. I'd suggest it if it's on sale, otherwise you don't miss much, and the ending is REALLY lack luster and unsatisfying.

Aug. 2024

Crush House is a decent proof-of-concept game, and there's enough content on offer, but I feel this is a game I'd rather play the sequel to. It is, simply put, a bit too simplistic. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it is a very accessible game; I don't want to harp on it for a lack of challenge, but I can't help wanting a bit more, and that makes me overly critical. So, let me start by saying it is just engaging enough, just silly enough, and just satirical enough to get you through each day and week, but its lack of larger strategic depth left me wanting to find more in the mechanics. For example, looking for shots that fill your audience's thirsts is a decent enough moment-to-moment mechanic, as different audiences like different things. Optimizing that requires knowing how to use the cast and set. However, there's no larger daily or seasonal strategy. You can choose to show ads during the day, but the most efficient way to do this is to complete your daily goals and then just run ads until the time expires. It seems the narrative is meant to do some of the heavy lifting, and that's the excuse for paper-thin mechanics. Still, if the satire is about the vapid nature of reality content, then why not ask us to manufacture drama for the sake of appeasing certain viewers? After all, there's nothing more real in the narrative than letting the player be the thing you are lampooning. If there were mandatory commercial breaks, perhaps you could coach the cast and try to set up scenes: do it wrong and you get an ad smack in the middle of premium drama, do it wrong and maybe nothing interesting happens. Maybe you could set up synergies between the ads being run and the type of viewers you are courting for the season. I'm not saying these are necessary; I'm saying that you can't play the game and not spot places where this stuff could've gone. Ultimately, the game is fine, but as I said at the top, there are a lot of places where you'd like to see the game go further, and because of that, it's a game I'd rather be playing the sequel to. I don't regret my time with it and would like to see it to the end, but I can't muster unqualified enthusiasm or praise for it. If "it's a slightly experimental, low-budget game about filming a reality TV set" doesn't rouse your interest, then nothing else I say will.

Aug. 2024

The Crush House was my long awaited game of the summer. The drama, the art direction, and the premise really intrigued me. The colour palette of this whole game, and the characters are so colourful in personality. The dialogue is hilarious and familiar - it's that messy goodness that's found in reality television. Had a lot of fun with the unsolicited fights and sudden hook-ups! You can tell that a lot of research was made for the happenings of The Crush House, particularly the viewers comments felt very realistic. A few thoughts on the game - the recycled dialogue between scenarios is personally okay with me, it gave me another chance to see the full conversation if I had missed it, or the answers would be different depending on the characters, but variety would be really great! I also wish you could review your footage by the end of the day, and see your work come to life. Finally, without spoiling anything, the ending didn't feel like one, and it felt more like a post-credits scene. I was really excited once the mystery was starting to unfold, that I somewhat wish there were a little more. I hope that there are plans to beef this game up, and I really look forward to its growth! All in all, I think The Crush House is a fun game to play particularly with your messy messy friends LOL. I will be running another playthrough! Let's get crushing!

Aug. 2024

Very strong concept and initial execution, but unfortunately even after finishing the first "season" the cracks start to form at the procedurally generated seams. For a game mostly based around the cast interacting with each other, repeated generic branches of dialogue are probably the worst offender here. It's really a shame because i feel like it draws away from the very unique cast of characters that. Hopefully the game will finds its audience and Nerial will be able to put more work into it in the future, even just adding more dialogue would be a huge help in giving this wonderful game a long lifespan.

Aug. 2024

I like this game a lot in theory more than I do in practice. Really conflicted writing this review. The main game mechanic is not about interesting camera framing as much as it's about angling to have as many audience interests on screen as possible, which is fun in its own regard, but filming a fishtank, some art and keeping the camera still to rack up points does not feel that rewarding or entertaining. The props you can buy aren't as interesting as I would have hoped, for a second I thought there was going to be a full blown house customisation aspect to the game, but no, it's just there to make the game easier and unlock a couple funny prop exclusive scenes or dialogue. The writing is funny and charming. The way contestants go around the house and interact in a funny way felt somewhat like those 24/7 Seinfeld procedurally animated streams. The chat is also fun to read. After a few seasons though, about 3-4 hours into the game, it starts getting repetitive but the game keeps its momentum with the weird storyline and sidequests for a while. I wish there were more reality TV tropes like jealousy, cheating and eliminations. The game also could have been a lot more weird. I didn't find the twist or the storyline interesting. Such a fantastic premise, it hurts to see a lot of this wasted potential. I still recommend it. It's a worthwhile 6/10 game. I appreciate the creativity that went into it and live for unique indie gems like these.

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16.99€

6.9

224

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Developer

Nerial

Publisher

Devolver Digital

Release 09 Aug 2024

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