Ms. Popular: Text Dating Sim

One video did ten million views. Now everybody wants a piece of you.

In this texting dating game, you are a beauty creator with 1.2 million subscribers, a manager who loves you, an editor who has been there since the ring light on a stack of books, and five men in your phone who all want something. A season lasts twelve chapters. Every one of them ends with a decision you cannot take back.

This is a texting game. You do not walk anywhere. You read, and you pick what to say, and the people on the other end remember it.

WHO IS IN YOUR PHONE

Theo, your editor of three years, who has never once said the obvious thing.
Ash, four million subscribers, the only person in the industry who tells you the truth.
Vik, a creative director at a house whose money would solve everything.
Dan, a paramedic who works nights and has no accounts anywhere.
Elias, the photographer you lived with, and the four words that made his career.

CHASING EVERYBODY LOSES

Every man you keep warm costs every other one trust at the end of the chapter. Carrying one is free. Carrying two is survivable. Carrying five is not, and nobody in the script will lecture you about it, because the numbers do it instead.

Let the discourse build and THE SWATCH posts, and everyone still talking to you reads it in the same ten minutes.

WHAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY MANAGING

REACH, how many people are watching.
CRAFT, whether the work is any good, and whether you still care.
HEAT, the argument about you that has not gone off yet.

The choice that grows the channel usually costs the work. The choice that protects the work usually costs money. That is the whole job.

TWELVE ENDINGS

A good one and a bad one for each of the five, plus the season where you keep the channel and nobody else, plus the one where it all comes out. None of them is bought. Every ending is reachable without spending anything.

FREE, WITH ADS

Watch a video to read a reply before you send it, to skip a chapter wait, or to bank a little Charm. Nothing is required. No purchase exists. Every route through the story is open to a player who never watches a single ad.

IN YOUR LANGUAGE

English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, all three written as prose rather than run through a machine.

NO TYPING

You never type a word. Every reply is one you pick, which is why nothing in this game can be used to say something to somebody else.

From Crystl Labs. A sister game, Mr. Wonderful, tells the other side of the same idea.