
This game is rated ESRB: Teen for Language, Blood, Fantasy Violence, Sexual Themes and Alcohol and Tobacco Reference.
Undead Darlings: No Cure for Love is a dungeon-crawling RPG and visual novel hybrid developed by Mr. Tired Media, released in 2020 for PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. Players take the role of Reginald "Reggie" P. Happenstahnce, a young man who awakens from an alcohol-induced coma to find society has collapsed due to a zombie outbreak. Tasked with transporting his father's cure to a location where it can be mass-produced, Reggie travels with a group of six half-zombie companions who retain their human consciousnesses. Dungeons are navigated from a first-person perspective through maze-like environments across more than 20 floors, with turn-based combat and a loot system featuring breakable weapons. Interspersed visual novel sequences offer branching dialogue paths that reveal character backstories and can develop into romantic storylines. Choices made throughout affect which character arcs unlock and determine the outcome across nine possible endings. The script exceeds 300,000 words.
The story of Undead Darlings ~no cure for love~ revolves around Reginald "Reggie" P. Happenstahnce and his journey to take the cure for the zombie plague someplace safe; somewhere it can be mass-produced. His father—one of the scientists purported to be involved in the outbreak's inception—created this cure and left it behind before leaving on his own for the same purpose. The game opens with Reggie waking up from an alcohol-related coma (courtesy of his own father, no less) and being told by his childhood friend Pearl that society had crumbled due to a virus outbreak that turned most everyone into zombies while he was sleeping. This includes Pearl herself. However, Pearl has managed to hold onto her human conscience, and she relates that she is not the only one this has happened to. As with every half-zombie Reggie will run into, she may be undead, but her heart is still human. Your role as Reggie is to be the girls’ loot donkey and carry the things they find in dungeons. Since Reggie is a human, the girls will prevent him from getting infected by fighting in the front lines! Go them! While on this adventure, you will learn more about the undead girls' lives from before the outbreak, but whose tale you will hear is based on the choices you make during the visual novel scenes. Perhaps one of them will connect with you, open up about their hardships, and maybe even develop romantic feelings... The ultimate result of these interactions will determine whether or not any of these girls trust you enough to take the biggest risk of their undead lives—volunteer to be the first test subject for your father's cure!