While Hatoful Boyfriend and Doki Doki Literature Club played with the genre’s edges, the new wave of vdategames is leaning into hyper-realism and emotional intelligence. The current king of the vdategame hill is an indie title developed by two former AI researchers in Montreal. Here is why it’s going viral:

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Most games punish you for not answering immediately. This one rewards you. Sometimes, the best “vdate” move is just sitting in comfortable silence watching a virtual sunset. The game tracks your patience.