Since his breakthrough role in Final Fantasy XVI, fans can’t get enough of Ben Starr. Neither can he, as in a video for GameSpot, the voice actor decided to play through Date Everything by only dating his own character.
The surreal and comedic sandbox dating sim lets you literally date everything, thanks to a pair of magical glasses called Dateviators, which transform everyday household objects into dateable characters with their own stories. Each one is brought to by a huge roster of voice actors, including Ashly Burch, Matthew Mercer, Laura Bailey, Felicia Day, Steve Blum, Ashley Johnson, as well as the game’s lead designer and veteran voice actor Ray Chase of Final Fantasy XV fame. Despite more than 100 dateable objects, “resident video game narcissist” Starr has opted to only date himself.
Starr actually voices multiple characters as he plays a personified door called Dorian and there are 17 variations of Dorian throughout the house. There’s Front Dorian who wears a little hat, Back Dorian, which the actor said he recorded “facing away from the microphone with my hand over my mouth”, as well as Trap Dorian, who happens to wear a lot less clothes than the rest.
Date Everything is considerably more lighthearted than Starr’s more dramatic roles, including this year’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. But he is no stranger to getting weird and silly, having donned costume and makeup as the Balatro jester Jimbo for a trailer announcing Balatro’s Friends of Jimbo 3 update, and did the same when he collected the game’s Bafta games award for best debut on behalf of developer Localthunk.
Since its release earlier this month, Date Everything has had “generally favourable” reviews on Metacritic, and “overwhelmingly positive” Steam user reviews.
