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Press release:
May 10th, 2024.
“The Crush House “is the reality TV sensation of 1999, and it has a new producer: you! Playing as new hire Jae, take your camera into the show’s iconic Malibu mansion and keep viewers glued to their screens by filming all the drama, romance, and tension that erupts. But fail to keep your audience entertained and you may suffer a fate worse than death: cancellation.

Developed by Nerial (Reigns, Card Shark) and published by Devolver Digital, The Crush House will be hooking up on PC later this year. But there’s more to this thirst-person shooter than meets the eye.

In this new developer overview video, creative director Nicole He breaks down The Crush House’s unique gameplay loop, as well as dropping some tantalizing hints about the dark secrets lurking behind the mansion’s idyllic facade.

Websurf to https://thecrush.house to learn more about The Crush House mansion and the cast of sexy singles you’ll be pointing your camera at.

Key features:

Choose your cast
Choose between twelve eccentric personalities and find your four-person cast for each season’s run. Mix and match conflicting personalities or complementary attractions and watch as tensions run and sparks fly. Catch the best stuff on camera and watch your ratings soar.

Keep the audience happy
Everyone with a TV watches The Crush House, from Foodies and Divorced Dads to Butt Guys and… Pharologists? With dozens of micro-audiences to keep entertained, you’ll have to be strategic to capture them all. You can’t please all the people all of the time, but you’ll have to try.

Earn money
Entertainment this good isn’t free, so put down the camera and pull up some tasteful TV ads to keep the cash flowing in. You might lose a few viewers, but you can use the extra revenue generated to furnish the house and mix things up for both the audience and the cast.

Uncover the mystery
There’s more to The Crush House than meets the eye, and a sinister mystery to uncover. Jae can explore the mansion at night when the show goes off-air, engaging in forbidden conversations with the cast to figure out the many dark and twisted secrets of The Crush House.

About Devolver Digital:

We are
Devolver Digital
purveyors of fine digital entertainment wares from independent artists worldwide.

A boutique game label
Owned and operated by
a team that replies to Slack threads with a non-stop deluge of hilarious gifs and passive aggressive shots at one another.

Despite our Differences
A collection of Individuals
works with independent developers from all over the world to produce and promote some of the most original, eccentric, and beloved games of the past decade.

About Nerial:
Nerial started making games in 2013, starting with small projects including ‘Singular’, a mobile bubble popping adventure, ‘Magic Shot’, a hypnotic french billiards game and ‘Devouring Stars’, a star-eating epic, the company had its first commercial success in 2016 with the release of ‘Reigns’.
Since then, Nerial has released various sequels to the original as well as the critically acclaimed ‘Card Shark’ in 2022.
The team is currently working on multiple secret projects. Nerial has been part of Devolver Digital since 2021.