Tinder’s apocalyptic party video game Swipe Night – a fun way to spend five minutes, then see how other users did ... and check their profiles

The popular dating app has released a choose-your-own-adventure game that is live on Tinder every Sunday

The game, set at a party just as a comet is about to hit the earth, involves making snap decisions. Once you play it, fellow users’ profiles start popping up

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Tinder has a new game that goes live every Sunday. Swipe Night is a fun way to spend five minutes, and after the game profiles pop up showing you what choices other users made in the game. Photo: Tinder

Published: 10:00pm, 8 Oct 2019Updated: 4:14am, 9 Oct 2019

Dating apps are often compared to bars where everyone is single. Now, one of the biggest apps, Tinder, is literally casting itself as a party where all your friends are gathered. They’re drinking, dancing and trying to squeeze some fun out of the fact that a (fictional) comet is heading straight for Earth. And yes, those friends are hooking up with one another.

This is all happening in Tinder’s Swipe Night, a choose-your-own-adventure video game that will be live on the app from 6pm to midnight every Sunday. (Sunday night is the peak swiping time on dating apps.)

Curious about how Swipe Night works? I did a demo and can confirm that it was cooler than I expected.

If you open Tinder during Swipe Night hours, you’ll see a big START NOW button. Click it and you’ll see a news report about a near-Earth object (a comet). You’re the game’s main character, and you’re going to ride out the night at a party at your friend Molly’s house.

When you arrive, she answers the door in an all-black outfit with neon green piping, her dog similarly dressed, and you’ll face your first decision: You can compliment Molly or insult her. This being Tinder, all the decisions you make will be done via left or right swipe.

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