Don't Make Love
Fair · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 0.4h 4.4h to 100%
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 84% of 496 positive
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
Assume the role of a praying mantis in a relationship dilemma. Torn between their mutual love and the instinct to have sex – which could lead to the male mantis’s death – the couple is on the verge of making a decision. Type anything you want in response to your partner during this life-changing conversation.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Death and Taxes ($1.68, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Left on Read (free, scores 55).
More about Don't Make Love
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 0.4-hour game, that is a lot of evenings the rest never spend.
The main story runs 0.4 hours. Doing everything runs 4, 11 times as long.
The drop-off
75% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
10/10 Would nut in a praying mantis again Game made me cry, then made me horny, then made me cry again. Had to edit my environment variables just to run this jank on my modern PC. Still one of the best experiences I've had in a visual novel. Lost my virginity to a mantis :3
2 more reviews
Ngl this game is actually awesome. I probably haven't played it ages ago I might need to play it again so I can get all the other achievements but you should definitely check it out for yourself.
This game is a phenomenal work of art. The true ending brought tears to my face akin to the end of Le Divorce. Truly a genre defining masterpiece.
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Cite this score
Don't Make Love scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/723890/don-t-make-loveReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.