{"id":32253,"date":"2024-06-11T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T07:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=32253"},"modified":"2024-06-11T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T07:57:11","slug":"saeko-giantess-dating-sim-demo-promises-dark-sexy-surreal-experience-where-decisions-can-be-fatal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/reviews\/saeko-giantess-dating-sim-demo-promises-dark-sexy-surreal-experience-where-decisions-can-be-fatal\/","title":{"rendered":"SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim demo promises dark, sexy and surreal experience where your decisions can be fatal\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese indie developer SAFE HAVN STUDIO has just released a <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/app\/2492120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demo<\/a> for <strong>SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim <\/strong>as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/2492120?updates=true&amp;emclan=103582791473829256&amp;emgid=4191242201220043964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam Next Fest<\/a>.\u00a0The demo teases at a dark yet quirky story-driven experience tinged with black humor, where no-one is quite what they seem, and your choices can have devastating consequences. Playable in Japanese, English and Chinese, the full game is coming out sometime this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This surreal game casts you as Rin, an amnesiac who has mysteriously shrunk and is taken in by a girl called Saeko. Merely the size of her thumb, you are the latest plaything to be added to her desk drawer. But be warned, Saeko has some interesting hobbies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-005.jpg\" alt=\"SAEKO Giantess Dating Sim surreal Japanese indie game\" class=\"wp-image-32262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-005.jpg 900w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-005-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-005-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-005-600x337.jpg 600w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the game describes itself as a dating sim, it also promises a dark and sometimes brutal tale of survival (the game has an opening warning for depictions of sexual content and cruelty). With a distinctive visual style employing black backgrounds and animated pixel art, plus its unusual premise, it\u2019s not hard to see why a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gamecast_blog\/status\/1671431924735442944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Japanese tweet<\/a> announcing the game last year has since been shared 9700 times and bookmarked by over 5400 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-004.jpg\" alt=\"SAEKO Giantess Dating Sim surreal Japanese indie game\" class=\"wp-image-32261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-004.jpg 900w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-004-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-004-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-004-600x337.jpg 600w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The demo gives a taste of how the game will play out. It works like a cross between a visual novel and a point-and-click adventure game- allowing you to talk to people or interact with objects by clicking on them. As the \u201csupervisor\u201d of the eccentric cast of characters trapped in the drawer, and you can make decisions as to how you treat them- do you give one person some food or do you deny their request? These choices and how you converse with them can influence their fate- sometimes in brutal and unforeseen ways. To add pressure, Saeko has chosen you as her conversation partner and how you respond to her statements at night can also have surprising consequences. As a side note, the demo states that in the final game, the BGM will likely be displayed on the iPod in Saeko\u2019s desk.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-002.jpg\" alt=\"SAEKO Giantess Dating Sim surreal Japanese indie game\" class=\"wp-image-32258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-002.jpg 900w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-002-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-002-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-002-600x337.jpg 600w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-001.jpg\" alt=\"SAEKO Giantess Dating Sim surreal Japanese indie game\" class=\"wp-image-32257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-001.jpg 900w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-001-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240611-32253-001-600x337.jpg 600w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The demo alone threw some intriguing characters, bizarre situations and plenty of sudden and unexpected happenings my way, so the final game is likely to have plenty to keep fans of unconventional story-driven games happy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The developer SAFE HAVN STUDIO is a Japan-based team made up of three members who are self-confessed fans of visual novel games and eroge. Incidentally, they are named after a song from VA-11 Hall-A. SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim is apparently their first release and promises to be \u201cThe deepest journey into a developer\u2019s proclivities in indie game history.\u201d So far, it seems to be shaping up well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/genius-of-fromsoftware-and-hidetaka-miyazaki-revered-amidst-recent-big-girl-boom-in-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cbig girl boom\u201d on X, in which a mixture of very tall and giant female characters got much love<\/a> (including Resident Evil\u2019s Lady Dimitrescu, and Hidetaka Miyazaki\u2019s characters in FromSoftware games), SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim may have come along at just the right time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim is scheduled to be released for PC (Steam) in 2024. A <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2492120\/SAEKO_Giantess_Dating_Sim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">playable demo<\/a> was released on June 10 in Japanese, English and Chinese.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you survive being the tiny plaything of a girl with some&#8230; interesting hobbies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":32260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie-games","category-reviews"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim demo promises dark, sexy and surreal experience where your decisions can be fatal\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Can you survive being the tiny plaything of a girl with some interesting hobbies? 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