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I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator

Psyop · KFC · 2019-09-24

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view, Text

Releases: Sep 24, 2019 (Mac), Sep 24, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Welcome to the most delicious dating simulator ever created. Do you have what it takes to be the business partner of and win the heart of the most famous chicken salesman of all time? Play to find out! Go ahead, Colonel Sanders is waiting.

I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator is a free-to-play Casual, Indie, Simulation game released in 2019, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and Very Positive (92% of 12675 reviews).

3
playing now
92%
positive of 13k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0/100
critic score (0 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
2h
time to beat (IGDB)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 19:00 UTC (census sample)

I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin' Good Dating Simulator is a dating sim developed by Psyop. The video game was commissioned by the restaurant chain KFC and released for free on Steam on September 24, 2019. A parody of conventional dating sims, the primary objective of the player is to develop a romantic relationship with a fictionalized version of KFC's founder Colonel Sanders, portrayed as an attractive classmate at a cooking school.

Trailer

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Health check

Healthy
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 203 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~25/week).
  • · Review velocity down 24% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (3,511 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 29,977 Casual games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.3k3.3k20192026Week of 2019-09-01: 3,329 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 182 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 816 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 111 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1,337 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 482 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 144 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 219 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 286 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 236 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1012026-09-16 21:00 — 6 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 6 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 9 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 5 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 4 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 3 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 7 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 6 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 7 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 3 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 3 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 4 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 4 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 6 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 4 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 3 players2026-10-15 19:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2223Oct 2019Aug 2026Oct 2019 — avg 222 · peak 854Jan 2020 — avg 44 · peak 98Apr 2020 — avg 42 · peak 82Jul 2020 — avg 37 · peak 66Oct 2020 — avg 23 · peak 47Jan 2021 — avg 46 · peak 150Apr 2021 — avg 30 · peak 65Jul 2021 — avg 24 · peak 48Oct 2021 — avg 20 · peak 44Jan 2022 — avg 19 · peak 46Apr 2022 — avg 14 · peak 32Jul 2022 — avg 20 · peak 37Oct 2022 — avg 12 · peak 28Jan 2023 — avg 14 · peak 31Apr 2023 — avg 11 · peak 27Jul 2023 — avg 14 · peak 31Oct 2023 — avg 9 · peak 22Jan 2024 — avg 12 · peak 30Apr 2024 — avg 12 · peak 23Jul 2024 — avg 9 · peak 22Oct 2024 — avg 7 · peak 17Jan 2025 — avg 5 · peak 14Apr 2025 — avg 5 · peak 13Jul 2025 — avg 4 · peak 12Oct 2025 — avg 3 · peak 12Jan 2026 — avg 4 · peak 13Apr 2026 — avg 3 · peak 12Aug 2026 — avg 5 · peak 13
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Attention

73232026-06-01 — 32 pageviews2026-06-05 — 38 pageviews2026-06-09 — 34 pageviews2026-06-13 — 42 pageviews2026-06-17 — 40 pageviews2026-06-21 — 36 pageviews2026-06-25 — 54 pageviews2026-06-29 — 40 pageviews2026-07-03 — 46 pageviews2026-07-07 — 41 pageviews2026-07-11 — 39 pageviews2026-07-15 — 48 pageviews2026-07-19 — 35 pageviews2026-07-23 — 46 pageviews2026-07-27 — 43 pageviews2026-07-31 — 46 pageviews2026-08-04 — 41 pageviews2026-08-08 — 39 pageviews2026-08-12 — 58 pageviews2026-08-16 — 42 pageviews2026-08-20 — 36 pageviews2026-08-24 — 35 pageviews2026-08-28 — 39 pageviews2026-09-01 — 45 pageviews2026-09-05 — 33 pageviews2026-09-09 — 35 pageviews2026-09-13 — 38 pageviews2026-09-17 — 38 pageviews2026-09-21 — 49 pageviews2026-09-25 — 36 pageviews2026-09-29 — 41 pageviews2026-10-03 — 38 pageviews2026-10-07 — 47 pageviews2026-10-11 — 23 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

AnimeCasualHentaiBeautifulDating SimSimulationSouls-likeStory RichPsychedelicWorld War I

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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