But some of us live thehorrorlife every day of the year.

So what are we to do to make this occasion still feel special?

They are, however, far more likely to be agnostic on the subject of Valentine’s Day.

Three monsters you can date in 2022! Left to right: Ln’eta, the cute curvy Cthulhu lady from Sucker For Love: First Date; Polly, the sexy ghost girl from the Monster Prom series; and The Trapper, a gruesome killer from Dead By Daylight as he appears in Hooked On You.

Which leads me neatly into the purpose of this feature: games that let you date the monster.

The goal, dear reader, is to help you find the monstrous abomination who’s right foryou.

I’m quite partial to Dead By Daylight, and I really wanted to like Hooked On You.

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I was so excited I planned to review it!

It’s not that Hooked On You had no good points at all.

Yes, you could still see the strings, but at least it was good for a laugh.

Text boxes invite the player to get very flirty with Dead By Daylight killer The Wraith in Hooked On You: A Dead By Daylight Dating Simulator.

“D” absolutely refuses to be constrained by conventional thinking.

Most shockingly of all: “D” is isn’t after sex from the betentacled babes he summons.

It’s not that “D” is a jerk.

A pop-up choice in Monster Prom 3 prompts you to choose between a demonic childhood friend and an angelic suitor at a wedding.

It’s that he’s an idiot.

She’s got face tentacles, for fuck’s sake!

What did any of us think was going to happen?

Ln’eta the Cthulhu Girl invites you to perform her summoning ritual in Sucker For Love: First Date.

Because by the end of Sucker For Love, I adored her.

My expectations were subverted so many times in a four-hour game that you could use them as a corkscrew.

And what a line-up Drac has to choose from.

P.S. Elle, the distressingly decolletaged pumpkin lady, flirts with the player in Romancelvania.

And I mean any.

They’ve branched out into more unusual, less humanoid designs for their side-characters, too.

Her decolletage alone can trigger a serious case of body horror heebie-jeebies.