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I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator is an announced dating simulator video game developed by Psyop and published by Kentucky Fried Chicken in which the player can date a younger version of the KFC founder mascot, Colonel Sanders. The game releases on September 24th, 2019.

History

On September 10th, 2019, a page for I Love You Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin' Good Dating Simulator appeared on Steam. ^[1] The page features a trailer introducing players to the cast of the game, including a younger, datable Colonel Sanders character. According to the Steam page, the plot for the game involves you going to culinary school where you meet a student version of the colonel. The page teases, "Do you have what it takes to survive culinary school? Will Colonel Sanders choose you to be his business partner? Or maybe even so much more?" It will release September 24th, 2019.

Online Presence

The game was covered that day by multiple news publications, including Polygon,^[2] PC Gamer,^[3] and Uproxx.^[4] Uproxx also included online reactions to the game. Twitter users appeared conflicted about the game. User @anjapatel^[5] tweeted a Trying Kombucha for the First Time reaction about the game, gaining over 500 retweets and 2,000 likes (shown below, left). User @ForkParker joked the game would cause video game developers to quit their jobs (shown below, right).

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