Sucker for Love: Date to Die For is a Lovecraftian visual novel RPG developed by Akabaka and released in 2024 for PC. The protagonist arrives in the rural town of Sacramen-Cho to investigate a series of mysterious disappearances, only to be kidnapped and left stranded deep within a labyrinthine forest controlled by a cult. Survival depends on deciphering a strange purple spellbook, which contains a ritual for summoning Rhok'zan, an eldritch entity known as The Black Goat of the Woods. Spread across four chapters, the game draws inspiration from Lovecraftian works such as "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Shadow over Innsmouth," presenting its story through fully hand-drawn 360-degree 2D environments rendered in a nostalgic anime and classic dating-sim aesthetic. Rhok'zan is a newly introduced dateable character, and player choices shape the outcome across multiple distinct endings.
While investigating the mysterious disappearances plaguing your rural hometown of Sacramen-Cho, you end up kidnapped yourself! Trapped at the murmuring, pulsating, undulating heart of the woods, your only hope for escaping the labyrinthian roots is to turn to the cultists' strange purple spellbook. Amidst the fanatical scrawlings of madmen and unsettling images of otherworldy abominations, there's a passage describing the method for summoning the All-Mother, The Black Goat of the Woods -- preserver of life. Will you be able to escape? Or will you find your demise at the innumerable hands of The Thousand?
