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Matchmaking for Ghosts Turns the Afterlife Into a Dating Game
Dying apparently does not get you out of dating. Adoraboo Studios has released the official trailer for Matchmaking for Ghosts, an upcoming supernatural visual novel that puts four dead protagonists through an afterlife matchmaking game hosted by Death itself.
Each playable ghost comes from a different time period and part of the world, with their perspective changing how players experience the mysterious Infinite Hotel and the characters trapped inside it. Rather than following a single fixed protagonist, players can eventually explore the story through all four ghosts and choose among up to three potential love interests for each.
That produces 12 different romantic pairings, with individual relationship dynamics, scenes and character information attached to each route. It gives Matchmaking for Ghosts a structure particularly suited to repeat playthroughs, much like The Spirit Weaver uses player decisions to push its supernatural visual novel towards different outcomes.
Four Ghosts Can Produce 12 Very Different Relationships
The matchmaking game is not simply an excuse to collect romance routes. The four protagonists have their own unfinished business, regrets and histories, while the wider mystery surrounding Death and the Infinite Hotel gradually develops across different perspectives. Players can pursue romance, disrupt relationships or make choices that send individual stories in less pleasant directions.
According to Adoraboo Studios, the complete game will contain more than 40 endings, with dialogue decisions determining where each route ultimately lands. The full release will also include more than 40 illustrated CGs, partial voice acting, and over 40 original music tracks. Love interests can additionally give players gifts depending on how their dates unfold, with those items subsequently added to a collection.
The approach puts character relationships at the centre of the experience, similar to how romance and personal decisions drive Singapore-set visual novel Merry Crisis, featured during the Southeast Asian Games Showcase 2026, albeit with substantially more ghosts involved here.
Death Is Running the Infinite Hotel’s Matchmaking Game
The premise gives those relationships a slightly more sinister incentive. Rather than immediately receiving judgment after death, the game’s ghosts have apparently failed to accumulate enough karma while alive. Instead, death brings them to the Infinite Hotel and puts them into a matchmaking game, giving them another chance to form connections before discovering what comes next.
Adoraboo Studios describes the visual direction as a mixture of anime-inspired character artwork and psychedelic elements, matching a story that shifts between romance, loss and the stranger mysteries behind the Hotel.
That balance between approachable characters and unsettling surroundings reflects the four-person studio’s broader aim of creating games that are simultaneously cute and creepy.
Matchmaking for Ghosts Steam Demo Is Coming This Year
Adoraboo Studios is currently preparing a Steam demo for release before the end of 2026, with further details expected closer to launch. The game’s Steam page currently lists its full release date as TBD and describes the project as a character-focused visual novel about love, loss, and unfinished business.
An earlier playable build is already available on itch.io, but the forthcoming Steam version will offer another chance to enter the Infinite Hotel before the full game arrives. Plenty of dating sims focus on finding the right partner. Matchmaking for Ghosts just happens to make the consequences feel a little more permanent.
