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Film and produce 1999's hottest reality TV show: The Crush House! Select a crush-worthy cast, satisfy voracious audiences and keep the show on air to uncover the sinister secrets behind this darkly comic thirst-person shooter.

The Crush House is a lgbtq+, simulation and adventure game developed by Nerial and published by Devolver Digital.
Released on August 09th 2024 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 330 reviews of which 239 were positive and 91 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 16.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.69€ on Eneba.


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Windows
  • OS: Windows 10 x64 Bit
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-4570T / AMD FX-4350
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce GTX 660 / Radeon HD 7850
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Low Quality setting, in 720p, producing 30 FPS

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Jan. 2026
I wish I could spend more time filming the drama, but I feel like a lot of days I'm missing it because the audiences literally don't want to see the action. I want to watch my baby boy Milo go enemies to lovers with his hot french boyfriend, but I'm running around filming the plants and the sink. I think the mechanic of satisfying different audiences as a whole is very fun but some combinations make it so filming the actual contestants doesn't get you anything. That being said, I'm only nitpicky about this because I absolutely love this game as a concept and want it to be even better. I love the characters and the nonsense they get up to and I love how they made it into a game mechanic. Portions of this game are hilarious and I have a lot of fun streaming it with my friends.
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Jan. 2026
This is a tough one because the game is just okay. Sometimes I hate the binary of yes/no on recommending a game. I honestly feel like I saw most of the content and I'm less than 2 hours in. I could keep replaying the same loop over and over again but there's no bonuses to my previous experience in prior seasons and every new season it's like Groundhog Day and the person giving me my tutorial (AGAIN) is like "oh nice to meet you. Just between you and me, things didn't work out too well with our last producer." ♥♥♥♥♥ I WAS YOUR LAST PRODUCER WDYM. The simulation is interesting but it's honestly just not that deep and it gets repetitive fast. It seems really neat at first then you begin to see which lines of dialogue are just switching out verbs and nouns like an endless Madlib of the script. The least they could've done is give the player character some sort of personality since they have a preset name and all that, but no. I struggle to see what kind of audience is supposed to find this game super engaging. I love filming with a camera and it was just okay because my audiences kept wanting me to film the potted plants in the background, or the art, or film only from a distance unseen, etc. The game ramps up the difficulty fast but there's an option to play in a no-fail mode. There's actually three difficulty options. I feel like if this game had held on another year or two to start development, it could've utilized AI in a much more interesting way and made for more varied and engaging gameplay.
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July 2025
It'd be easy to expect this to be what it looks like - a sandbox game about producing / directing / filming an inclusive 80s/90s 'closed house' reality show, and someone should make such a game where the story is driven by the talent of the player and audience is retained via clever filming techniques and edits. But although you do some of those things, this is not that game. The audience is all-important, sure, but their needs and likes are pre-determined rather than based on how well you can yield a camera. A number of different audience types (from an increasingly larger pool) tune in each day requiring you to film their favourite content from drama lovers to foot fetishists, and to progress the day you need to satisfy thir desires over yours. This could become frustrating over time and not age well except....well it turns out that they are NOT the crux of the game, just the parameters you have to play by. As you progress you'll learn that your goofy game-show contestants have specific requirements of you too, but resolving their issues progresses you through a story of subterfuge and exploitation for ratings. The graphics are really stylised but good on the eye, and it plays nicely. Those audience tasks are fun to work out and play around with until they become chores (though by then you have other priorities) and the characterisation is suitably course for the theme and era - very diverse but exaggerated caricatures and mostly hard to like people - hey, have you never seen a reality TV show before?? Really enjoyed this, but it only took 3 days to complete and max achievements so this is an ideal and unusual pocket-filler for a rainy day if you get it at a good price
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June 2025
Okay. So, weird question, but... Anyone here ever see Battlestar Galactica: The Plan? Or Razor? They're miniseries within the larger Battlestar Galactica TV show. You absolutely CAN follow the events of them if you havent' actually watched Galactica... But you will constantly be VERY aware that what you're looking at is a sidestory, and there's a ton more stuff going on that you're not seeing. THat's what playing Crush House feels like. I can't in good conscience give it a DOWNVOTE. Because that implies I didn't enjoy it. I did, I enjoyed the hell out of it. But it felt like there was another, much larger story that was happening, and not just the idea that there's these people who are doing the... Stuff, look, it's a conspiracy story, I'll just say that Character A and Character B are engaging in some sort of side story throughout, and you learn a fair bit about them and what's been going on. The thing is, it feels like not only is what they know and talk about happening, there's actually an even BIGGER story happening that even THEY are only vaguely aware of. Sort of like if they were in a game, that would be the mystery they're following, while you're playing a sidestory of their story. This sounds like a bad review. I mean, you could say it is. But also? It's a hell of a fun game. You might not go for it at $17, and if you don't want to, fine. But at a discounted price, I absolutely cannot recommend it enough. I'll call it 3.5/5. Still STRONGLY above average.
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May 2025
I'm going to recommend The Crush House because it is interesting and unique, and I appreciate the variety of representation. Plus, there's a lot of weirdo no-life l0sers snowflakes having meltdowns in the Discussion posts because they aren't mentally or emotionally competent enough to handle existing in the same time-frame as LGBTQIA+ individuals. Anyway, I do appreciate it for its uniqueness. Unfortunately, it lacks replay value because there isn't a New Game+ or an endless mode. I don't want to have to start over with an unfurnished house and have to do the tutorial over again just so I can complete all the character tasks or fulfill all the audience needs because it's going to be cut short by the story ending again. I'd completely start anew if there was an endless mode where I could just keep running seasons without being hindered by the plot coming to an end. At this point, I have 25/30 achievements. I personally don't want to start over just to get the other 5.
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Frequently Asked Questions

The Crush House is currently priced at 16.99€ on Steam.

The Crush House is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 16.99€ on Steam.

The Crush House received 239 positive votes out of a total of 330 achieving a rating of 6.85.
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The Crush House was developed by Nerial and published by Devolver Digital.

The Crush House is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Crush House is not playable on MacOS.

The Crush House is not playable on Linux.

The Crush House is a single-player game.

The Crush House does not currently offer any DLC.

The Crush House does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Crush House does not support Steam Remote Play.

The Crush House is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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The Crush House
Rating
6.9
239
91
Game modes
Features
Online players
1
Developer
Nerial
Publisher
Devolver Digital
Release 09 Aug 2024
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