Single's Inferno is a romance/dating sim based on Netflix's Single's Inferno Korean tv show. A group of single people looking for love are put on a desert island (with amenities as this is not a survival show). They can talk to each other but can't reveal their age or occupation (which I guess must be an important dating thing in Korean culture). There are challenges and activities and I think each night two people get to go to Paradise, which is a high-end hotel on the mainland, where they can reveal all to each other and form a deeper connection.

In this game (I haven't watched the tv show) there are surprises involving a second Inferno island with a separate group of singles. People keep getting switch between islands which sets up new dynamics and the first time you are sent there it's interesting as there is a group of singles who know each other but don't know you. And there are also two or three new singles introduced one at a time.

The gameplay is reading dialog between characters and sometimes you get to choose one of three actions. Sometimes it's obvious that an action will increase or decrease romance between you and the other character and sometimes it's hard to tell. Sometimes you have to choice between two or more people/groups as to who you like more or who you want to do an activity with or who you go to Paradise with.

Every character has a romance bar that and you see the current bar at the end of each chapter and if the bar increased or decreased. In general getting most of the characters to max is pretty easy as it only takes a few romance choices to get their bar to maximum, though even then some characters are not romance-able and instead the romance bar is more of a friendship bar.

In the end each character choosing someone else to be their "One" and if two people choose each other they get to leave the island together. Weirdly at this point it the romance bar doesn't seem to matter as most everyone will choose you as their "One" so you get free choice as to whom to leave the island with.

I played Too Hot To Handle which is a similar sort of game and based on another Netflix show. On the positive side THTH each character has both romance and friendship stats so you can form a bestie relationship with one of several characters. And THTH has probably sexier graphics of the characters.

But Single's Inferno was a better experience to me. THTH characters are rather shallowly-developed and the game play is all about whether you hook up or not. Single's Inferno some of the characters have quite detailed back stories (and the frenemies arc between you and a surprise addition is rather epic) and the characters for the most part behave quite distinct. I went from forming a bond with one character to slowly moving to another character until finally I had a difficult choice as to which of the two to pick.

Single's Inferno also has three commentators, two previous participants and a celebrity commentator. The camera often cuts to them discussing what just happened or they'll have comments as you go through a dialog between characters. The commentary adds to the atmosphere as they elaborate on issues and consequences and are a good way of embellishing the story without a narrator or having the contestants keep talking all the time.

Overall this is a really good story app and I had a great experience playing it.