Don't Fool Me, Beauties! (2025) [+]
Apr 20 2026
Don't Fool Me, Beauties! is a Korean FMV Dating Sim from Storytaco. FMV (Full Motion Video) means filmed actors and dating sim means you're trying to form positive relationships.
You are Han Bin, a jobless young man whose parents finally kick him out of their home and force him to find a job. He finds one at a seaside resort hotel, Treebit, which is currently failing. With low occupancy rate the workforce gets their own rooms to stay at the hotel which gives you an excuse for being there 24x7.
As you go through your days you meet and interact with four women:
Everything having been pre-filmed by necessity the gameplay is mostly choose-your-own-adventure style. You get some amount of video and then it stops and you get two, usually three, sometimes more choices. Some choices will increase your favor with one of the women (and there is a visual and audio confirmation so you don't have to guess). Less often are choices that decrease your favor (again with visual and audio confirmation). A very few choices end up with a Bad End. The choices are sometimes obvious, often not all that obvious, and sometimes didn't make sense to me but that was rare.
When you get to the end you get to choose which woman to end up with though you can only choose ones where you have enough favor and I think at best that's two of them (and probably not Bit-na and Ji-woo since several branches you interact with one or the other). The final 10-15 minute conversation you get two to four choices. If you get them all right you get a Happy Ending (and this time there are no audio/visual confirmations to indicate you made the best choice) which apparently is marriage. If not you get a Normal Ending which is bf/gf relationship. And one or two choices give you a Bad Ending (which means you don't even end up with the woman).
Once you've seen a video and start the next section you can stop and go to the chapter screen then choose a decision point to play over again. When you watch a scene for the first time you can only pause and go to the chapter screen but on re-watch you can skip back and forward or skip to the choice selection. The chapter screen tells you exactly which path you've taken and gives you a clue that some paths lead to sub-trees rather than going back to the main path.
As you play the game you get video and picture rewards, most are scenes from the game but some are different scenes like a scene with a character and you're not around (otherwise you're always around in every scene so everything is your POV).
The story is fairly simplistic and the situations are not that great. This is not a K-Drama and I've seen dating sims with more interesting characters and gameplay. But using real women is rather nice -- they're attractive (they're all Instagram models) and maybe not the best actresses but POV you're talking to them in closeup or close proximity so kind of intimate that way. This is a PG-rated story so no nudity or even suggested sex.
Playing it through takes 3 to 4 hours. Six chapters at about half an hour each plus the ending sequence. I did go back and go through every branch to get 100% on all the chapters and endings and Steam says I spent 20-1/2 hours playing (probably much less since I was also filling out a spreadsheet with the various paths).
This was my first FMV Dating Sim and I found it entertaining. I can't tell if this was a good or bad example of an FMV Dating Sim but I think I'd recommend it.
You are Han Bin, a jobless young man whose parents finally kick him out of their home and force him to find a job. He finds one at a seaside resort hotel, Treebit, which is currently failing. With low occupancy rate the workforce gets their own rooms to stay at the hotel which gives you an excuse for being there 24x7.
As you go through your days you meet and interact with four women:
- Ga-eun, CEO of the hotel, who is under pressure from management to make the hotel profitable and from her grandfather to get married.
- Ah-young, your senior staffworker who's there to show you the ropes and also has a secret live-streaming hobby.
- Bit-na, Instagram influencer, kind of stranded at the hotel when her manager quits after a dispute.
- Ji-woo, your childhood friend and web comic illustrator, you haven't seen her in a decade she suddenly shows up to reconnect.
- The Manager, your immediate manager and the only male NPC. Although not a traditional partner there are like four or five choices that if you get them all right you end up with him.
Everything having been pre-filmed by necessity the gameplay is mostly choose-your-own-adventure style. You get some amount of video and then it stops and you get two, usually three, sometimes more choices. Some choices will increase your favor with one of the women (and there is a visual and audio confirmation so you don't have to guess). Less often are choices that decrease your favor (again with visual and audio confirmation). A very few choices end up with a Bad End. The choices are sometimes obvious, often not all that obvious, and sometimes didn't make sense to me but that was rare.
When you get to the end you get to choose which woman to end up with though you can only choose ones where you have enough favor and I think at best that's two of them (and probably not Bit-na and Ji-woo since several branches you interact with one or the other). The final 10-15 minute conversation you get two to four choices. If you get them all right you get a Happy Ending (and this time there are no audio/visual confirmations to indicate you made the best choice) which apparently is marriage. If not you get a Normal Ending which is bf/gf relationship. And one or two choices give you a Bad Ending (which means you don't even end up with the woman).
Once you've seen a video and start the next section you can stop and go to the chapter screen then choose a decision point to play over again. When you watch a scene for the first time you can only pause and go to the chapter screen but on re-watch you can skip back and forward or skip to the choice selection. The chapter screen tells you exactly which path you've taken and gives you a clue that some paths lead to sub-trees rather than going back to the main path.
As you play the game you get video and picture rewards, most are scenes from the game but some are different scenes like a scene with a character and you're not around (otherwise you're always around in every scene so everything is your POV).
The story is fairly simplistic and the situations are not that great. This is not a K-Drama and I've seen dating sims with more interesting characters and gameplay. But using real women is rather nice -- they're attractive (they're all Instagram models) and maybe not the best actresses but POV you're talking to them in closeup or close proximity so kind of intimate that way. This is a PG-rated story so no nudity or even suggested sex.
Playing it through takes 3 to 4 hours. Six chapters at about half an hour each plus the ending sequence. I did go back and go through every branch to get 100% on all the chapters and endings and Steam says I spent 20-1/2 hours playing (probably much less since I was also filling out a spreadsheet with the various paths).
This was my first FMV Dating Sim and I found it entertaining. I can't tell if this was a good or bad example of an FMV Dating Sim but I think I'd recommend it.