Date Night Bowling

The arcade bowling is solid - I can consistently get strikes, but curving/spin isn't particularly intuitive. Unfortunately, each character has a single phrase you have to confirm through every single time they come up to bowl. You have to play as everyone in single player before they're available in vs. mode (whether AI or human). The minigames are fun and themed to the bowling alley. Achievements, at least at launch, appear to be not be functioning. If you're looking for some casual arcade-style bowling, you'll find it here - everything else feels a little thin.

Bowling is an activity that will always average a nice sweet spot in between Jason Belmonte spin-pros demolishing lanes and families eating good-enough greased up snacks for a fun afternoon out. It’s hard to beat a night out on the town rolling large orbs down an oil-slick hardwood into a bunch of pins and making people believe you meant to do what you did. But bowling as a date night? Pretty underrated if you ask me. Serenity Forge and Way Down Deep hope to capture that serotonin in crashing pins and drinks with a potential significant other with some good ole Date Night Bowling. You’ll take control of one of ten participants in a game of bowling and camaraderie. As you bowl to knock down as many pins as possible, preferably all at once for a strike, you’ll engage in conversation and activities in mini-game form between frames that will gauge your compatibility with the other. Aiming for a high score is imperative for your competitive side, but aiming for high compatibili...

Whenever I launch Date Night Bowling in my game library, It reminds me the scent of opening a box full of donuts. I admire this game, the experience is smooth, I love how minigames are silly and even the pixel art is a banger but It's missing something. There's not enough dialogue to make a story and comes with only two soundtracks which feels like a two dollar game. Bowling is not challenging, Santa Claus could sit on my lap without changing the aim direction in the game and still blow a strike. The game is unplayable after hours of playing due to a crash occurring randomly and the lack of content being added makes me think that the game has been abandoned by it's developers.

I do think other comment on this game are fair, you don't get much explanation (What is oil???) and you have to play all the character in solo to unlock them (it's not that long, but it's just bowling without the mini-games so it's not as fun). Once you pass that, I think the game is really cute! I like the art, I didn't mind the only two music. It's not too expensive and I think it will be a fun couch coop game to play with someone. I played on the steam deck and had no problem!

this is a cute little game. it has your typical bowling with a fairly easy to understand aiming and power system. the dating sim part is done through minigames which have a range of different little mechanics. if you successfully do a minigame, your chemistry bar fills there's also casual bowling if you don't care about the dating sim part overall i would recommend. it's a fun casual game

The graphics of the game are very retro which is a nice touch for the game. The bowling portion of the game itself is fine. The mini games are kind of a hit and miss sort of way. Some of them are great like the popcorn toss and the dancing, while others are pretty unforgiving such as the sing-a-long and the soda drink game. The instructions are pretty vague and doesn't offer a visual beforehand to study from. The choice in lanes reminds me of another bowling game from the Playstation era. The character are visually appealing, but lack any personality without any unique character backgrounds to play on. All in all, it's definitely a charming and fun game. If the developers could redo some of the side games while adding some character backstory, this game would elevate itself to some of the other bowling games in existence.

Cute little casual game that reminds me a lot of mobile phones game <3 Definitely recommend if you want something sweet and easy to play!

Wholesome fun

I really like the pixel art in the game and also the mini games that happen in between are fun. I happened to get a strike against one of the ladies and I think she made my game freeze, she wasnt havent it.

If treated solely as an arcade bowling game, Date Night Bowling is a solid game. As a the dating sim though, it fails to live up to expectations. Character interactions are done entirely via mostly lackluster mini-games and there isn’t a ton of character specific dialog to explore. Serenity Forge has proven they have the chops to deliver quality romantic comedy/slice of life stories with 2020’s Half Past Fate, so to see that aspect fall short is a little disappointing. That said, the bowling and vintage art style still makes this game worth playing. Just preferably if it’s on sale.