History VisualNovel / ADateWithDeath

* BetaCouple: The only other characters we hear from is the player character's next door neighbor and their partner. If you eavesdrop on them all seven days, [[spoiler: you learn that you're neighbor's partner is also a grim reaper, and they're going through another loop in their [[ReincarnationRomance Reincarnation Romance]].]]

** Grim learned about kaomoji from [[Website/{{Yahoo}} Yihoo Answers]].
** Some other websites mentioned include [[Platform/YouTube MewTube]], [[Website/TwitterX Twotter]], and [[Platform/TikTok TokTik]].

* DontFearTheReaper: Despite wanting your soul, Grim is pretty friendly, if a bit grumpy.

* DontFeartheReaper: Despite wanting your soul, Grim is pretty friendly, if a bit grumpy.

* HangingUpOntheGrimReaper: On day one, you can ignore and even delete the app Grim installed on your computer. Of course it doesn't stick.

* Cannottellalie: As a Reaper, Grim is completely incapable of lying. As he interacts with you, he gets better at half-truths and verbal dodging.

* CompanyCrossReferences: Some of the wallpapers for your computer's desktop and the ads in the sidebar of the chat application are from some of Two and a Half Studios' other games, including ''VisualNovel/TheDivineSpeaker'', ''VisualNovel/{{Amelie}}'', and ''[[VisualNovel/StartAgain start;again]]''.

* LandDownUnder: If you guess that Grim resides in Australia, he suggests the idea of sending you there so that the native wildlife could end your life for him. Of course, seeing how Two and a Half Studios is based ''in'' Australia, this is the writing team poking fun at their own home country.

* RunningGag: If you choose the "soul baby" option when Grim asks what you plan to do with his soul if you win, you can bring it up multiple times throughout the playthrough from then on.
* WhenEldersAttack: Grim got the flowers for his bouquet for "Sunshine" from the garden of an old lady who ended up chasing him and [[CaneFu hitting him with her cane]].

''A Date With Death'' is a visual novel developed by Two and a Half Studios that released on December 7th, 2023 on itch.io and Platform/{{Steam}}. The base game is available for free on both platforms, with purchasable DLC that gives you more character customization options, more dialogue options, and an additional ending. During The Storyteller's Fest 2024, [[https://twitter.com/TwoHalfStudios/status/1752153199388282938 Two and a Half Studios announced an additional DLC pack]] called ''A Date With Death: Beyond The Bet'' that will add alternative versions of Days 6 & 7 as well as three additional days' worth of story and two new endings.

** Some other websites mentioned include [[Platform/YouTube MewTube]] and [[Platform/TikTok TokTik]].

You play as a seemingly normal human who lives in a downtown apartment with your pet. Well, normal except for one thing: for whatever reason, disaster always seems to occur wherever you go, yet you always come out unscathed. However, everything changes when a mysterious chatting application appears on your laptop computer one day, along with messages from an unknown sender claiming to be a GrimReaper who has come to take your soul. You are skeptical of his claims, leading you to propose a wager: he has seven days to claim your soul, or else you would get to have his. One thing that ''is'' for certain is that this self-proclaimed reaper is ''very'' easy to fluster, and thus a teasing courtship between the two of you ensues.

''A Date With Death'' is a visual novel developed by Two and a Half Studios that released on December 7th, 2023 on itch.io and Platform/{{Steam}}. The base game is available for free on both platforms, with purchasable DLC that gives you more character customization options, more dialogue options, and an additional ending. During The Storyteller's Fest 2024, [[https://twitter.com/TwoHalfStudios/status/1752153199388282938 Two and a Half Studios announced an additional DLC pack]] called ''A Date With Death: Beyond The Bet'' that will add alternative versions of Days 6 & 7 as well as three additional days' worth of story.

''A Date With Death'' is a visual novel developed by Two and a Half Studios that released on December 7th, 2023 on itch.io and Platform/{{Steam}}. The base game is available for free on both platforms, with purchasable DLC that gives you more character customization options, more dialogue options, and an additional ending.

''A Date With Death'' is a visual novel developed by Two and a Half Studios that released on December 7th, 2023 on itch.io and Platform/{{Steam}}.

* ShoutOut:
** The messaging app is very clearly modelled after Creator/{{Discord}}.
** Some of the ads that can be seen when the messaging app are for other visual novels such as ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess'', ''VisualNovel/{{Moonflower}}'', ''VisualNovel/TheOceanAtNight'', and ''VisualNovel/PleaseBeHappy''.
** Another ad references the [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-are-fucking-under-attack "We Are Fucking Under Attack" meme]].
** You can make fun of Grim's tendency to capitalize all his words by comparing it to a Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} typing quirk.
** Some of the games you can play on your laptop are VideoGame/{{Pong}}, VideoGame/{{Minesweeper}}, and a clone of VideoGame/{{Wordle}}.
** After Grim changes his profile picture to a selfie of him dressed as a vampire, you can mention that "white-haired vampires are in this year", likely as a nod to Astarion from ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII''.
** One of the possible nicknames you can suggest for Grim is "[[Franchise/{{Danganronpa}} Nagito]] [[Characters/DanganronpaNagitoKomaeda Komaeda]]".
** You can ask Grim if he sparkles in the sunlight "like the vampires from [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga that one movie]]".
** After [[spoiler:learning that Grim's real name is Casper]], you ask him the next day if he has heard of WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost.

** Some of the ads that can be seen when the messaging app are for other visual novels such as ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess'' and ''VisualNovel/{{Moonflower}}''.

** One of the ads that can be seen when the messaging app is open features [[Characters/SlayThePrincessThePrincess the titular Princess]] from ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess''.

* INeedToGoIronMyDog: After teasing Grim mercilessly, he tries to see himself out of the conversation by saying his cat is on fire, his oven is on, and his fridge is open.