Loser's Romance

Loser's Romance is a high school roguelite set in the year 2000. You enter high school inexperienced, often saying things that come across as stupid, rude or corny, and try to put yourself out there. You can befriend or romance unpopular girls, including Wendy Strickland, a self-styled cartoon princess and VHS hoarder; Gretchen Kantor, a compulsive liar; Yang Rivers, a roly-poly hellion; and Tabitha Woodrie, whose shyness makes people think she is made up. You can play as male, female or nonconforming.

Shape your semester

Choose where to spend your free time, making the most of the semester or wasting it. Your choices shape the narrative, dialogue options and high school life. Choose your worst traits to determine which dialogue options are available, and meet goals to buy unlockables, including goth costumes and protection from social foul-ups.

Gifts and relationships

You can give characters items from the grocery store to win over a friend or charm a crush. Each person has unique responses to each item. You can also kiss the dog.

Replayable stories

Variant jokes, branching storylines and multiple endings give you reasons to replay. The game revisits the year 2000, the age of emo and Degrassi: The Next Generation, and features hand-drawn art and an original soundtrack by a single developer.