First Date : Late To Date
Skip · Narrative · 2022
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 1h 2.2h to 100%
- Value
- $2.99/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 910 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 46 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
FIRSTDATE: LATE TO DATE is a romantic-comedy interactive cinematic (FMV) game in which the audience determines the progress of the movie with the options that appear every minute.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, HD Graphics 4000 or better, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 16 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 7 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 23 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. On the same math There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension ($12.99, scores 77) and Death and Taxes ($1.68, scores 73) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about First Date : Late To Date
Of the 463 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 21 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,627 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 11 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 2 of the 21 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 617 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 75 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1 hours; clearing it takes 2, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
83% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 13:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The game is really nice, I enjoyed opening all endings, the skip option allows it to be fast. Sadly translation into english here is automatic, the idea of dialog is still understood....but its bad xD Although the game is so cute and the actors are so nice that I still want to give it a positive feedback. The game is so short tho to play it once, its aimed that you replay it a few times.
2 more reviews
First Date: Late To Date, developed by Digital Fossil and Eyexapp Play and published by Digital Fossil, is an interactive romantic comedy that leans heavily into the charm of its full-motion video presentation. It puts players in the middle of an awkward yet relatable scenario-being late for a first date-and allows them to shape how that date unfolds through a series of timed choices. The premise is simple, but the...
Uhmm, it's made with love but it's loose. The story lasts about 20', you can skip the scenes viewed and the English subtitles are a little bad. Achievements don't jump until you leave the game. It hasn't been a bad experience, they act well and the endings are good but it doesn't have much content.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
First Date : Late To Date scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2080640/first-date-late-to-dateReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.