Singles - Flirt Up Your Life Demo

The Sims is the type of game that seems to lack any kind of purpose or meaning, yet you still forget to eat for a few hours after you start playing it. There is no story, the characters have no personality and there is no end goal, which means that you cannot finish or beat the game, no matter how much you play or how well you do.

Singles: Flirt Up Your Life takes the idea in a rather different direction, although one might wonder if it really is any different from Sims, after all. Hence, you start off with a couple and you must help them discover the love they nurture for each other, which means that the gameplay is a bit more mature. However, you can definitely do the very same thing in Sims as well, given the fact that you are free to recreate the same conditions at the start of the game and just take it from there.

Originality aside, the game does not really shine when it comes to anything else either. Beside having to worry about the relationship status, you must also keep an eye on the needs of the two characters, which range from hunger to sensuality. On the other hand, you can just scrap the idea and not do a thing about them, since nothing happens if they drop to zero and you can just forget about buying a fridge at all.

The beauty of Sims lies in the fact that the characters can evolve over time, by getting older, having kids and the like. Here, everything pretty much revolves around whether the couple has a good time in bed, which is not as fun as you imagine either. You can see everything the game has to offer in a matter of minutes, since it certainly doesn’t get much more exciting later on and there is no true incentive to keep on playing.

One thing you can have fun with is the fact that you can decorate the house in a variety of ways, by purchasing new furniture and changing the layout of the rooms. Speaking of which, there are multiple houses to choose from in the beginning, although you do not get to build your own from scratch. Hence, you eventually run out of ways to redecorate the kitchen and then there’s nothing to keep you from just forgetting about the game entirely.

In the end, the developers of Singles: Flirt Up Your Life basically had unlimited freedom when it came to gameplay, yet they chose to eliminate features and make everything as bland as possible. Thus, you are left with an unimaginative Sims clone that cannot keep you interested for more than a few minutes.