---
title: "Dates & Wires"
description: "The year is 1995, and you're newly single, ready to mingle... and fresh off the plane in Stradania, the dysfunctional micronation whose chief exports are pig ir"
image: "https://t.vndb.org/cv/62/94262.jpg"
---

# Dates & Wires

![Dates & Wires](https://t.vndb.org/cv/62/94262.jpg)

**Aliases:** Dates and Wires

**Developer:** Io Black / Cryo

**Release date:** May 17, 2021

**Platform:** Windows, Linux, macOS

**Language:** English

**Rating:** 6.9/10 (6 votes)

## Description
The year is 1995, and you're newly single, ready to mingle... and fresh off the plane in Stradania, the dysfunctional micronation whose chief exports are pig iron, human misery, and radioactive souvenir mugs. 

Your travel guides have steered you to the hottest nightclub in town. Now it's up to you to seize the evening by getting up close and intimate with Stradania's Least Eligible Bachelors. Except all of these guys have their own thing going on and finding a date is the least of their problems...

[From [itch.io](https://ioblack.itch.io/dates-and-wires)]

A visual novel spinoff of the webcomic [Drugs & Wires](https://www.drugsandwires.fail/).

## Characters
### Ashley
- **Gender:** Unknown
- **Engages in:** Drinking
- **Role:** Nameable
- **Subject of:** Homicide, Completely Avoidable Death

### Dan
- **Gender:** Male
- **Hair:** Blond, Short
- **Body:** Slim, Pale, Young-adult
- **Eyes:** Blue
- **Clothes:** Earrings, Jeans, Hoodie, Leather Jacket
- **Engages in:** Drug Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Smoking
- **Subject of:** Clinical Depression
- **Role:** Musician
- **Personality:** Cat Person
- **Voiced by:** John Q. Kubin

### Dreamspaece
- **Gender:** Female
- **Hair:** Pink, White, Odango, Long, Multicolored, Blunt Bangs
- **Body:** Slim, Pale, Young-adult, Makeup, Navel Piercing, Eyebrow Piercing
- **Eyes:** Green
- **Clothes:** Skirt, Crop Top, Choker, Large Hoop Earrings
- **Role:** Girlfriend, Coder, Shop Clerk
- **Subject of:** Infidelity
- **Engages in:** Breakup
- **Voiced by:** Katie Otten

### Fixer
- **Gender:** Male
- **Hair:** Black, Mohawk, Stubble
- **Eyes:** Brown, Blue, Hidden, Heterochromia
- **Body:** Pale, Young-adult, Muscular
- **Clothes:** T-shirt, Vest, Sunglasses
- **Personality:** Distrustful, Grumbler
- **Role:** Mechanic, Shopkeeper
- **Voiced by:** Blake Hussey

### Jack
- **Gender:** Male
- **Hair:** Black, Bun, Ponytail, Long
- **Eyes:** Brown
- **Body:** Pale, Young-adult, Scar, Younger Appearance
- **Clothes:** Apron, Robe, Necktie, Cross Necklace, Vest, Gloves, Lab Coat, Goggles, Formal Shirt
- **Subject of:** Suspended Animation
- **Role:** Bartender
- **Engages in:** Open Relationship
- **Voiced by:** Steven Kelly

### NoK00l
- **Gender:** Male
- **Hair:** Pink, Short, Mohawk
- **Body:** Pale, Young-adult, Muscular, Lip Piercing
- **Clothes:** Trousers, Vest, Goggles
- **Role:** Boyfriend
- **Personality:** Arrogant
- **Engages in:** Infidelity
- **Voiced by:** Merlinus VA

### Sandman
- **Gender:** Male
- **Hair:** Black, Bun, Shoulder-length, Stubble
- **Eyes:** Brown
- **Body:** Pale, Young-adult
- **Clothes:** Sweater, Trousers, Glasses, T-shirt, Bathrobe, Fur Coat
- **Personality:** Protective, Taciturn, Dog Person
- **Role:** Asexual
- **Subject of:** Platonic Route Only
- **Voiced by:** Uduak Inyang

### Shitparade
- **Gender:** Male
- **Hair:** Pink, Long, Goatee, Undercut
- **Body:** Pale, Young-adult, Tattoo, Septum Ring, Lip Piercing
- **Clothes:** Vest, Jeans, Hoodie
- **Personality:** Friendly
- **Role:** Writer
- **Items:** Wheelchair
- **Subject of:** Disability
- **Eyes:** Teal
- **Voiced by:** Matthew Herrick

### Alfredo
- **Gender:** Male
- **Hair:** Black, Blue, Short, Moustache, Slicked Back
- **Personality:** Hard Worker
- **Body:** Unnatural Skin Tone, Scar, Younger Appearance
- **Clothes:** Apron, Glasses, Gloves, Formal Shirt
- **Subject of:** Suspended Animation
- **Engages in:** Open Relationship

### Lin
- **Gender:** Female
- **Hair:** Long, Dreadlocks, Orange
- **Body:** Slim, Pale, Young-adult
- **Eyes:** Green
- **Clothes:** Dress, Headband, Multiple Earrings
- **Role:** Medical Doctor
- **Engages in:** Avoidable Murder

### Vlad
- **Gender:** Male
- **Hair:** Black, Long, Beard
- **Body:** Pale, Claw
- **Clothes:** Trousers, Ring, Cape, Cravat, Cross Earrings
- **Eyes:** Red
- **Engages in:** Stalking, Flirting
- **Items:** Flower / Plant
- **Voiced by:** Léo Elso

## Shops
- [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3136150/)
- [Itch](https://ioblack.itch.io/dates-and-wires)

## Releases
### English
- **2021-05-17**: Dates & Wires - [Itch.io](https://ioblack.itch.io/dates-and-wires)
- **2024-11-11**: Dates & Wires: Augmented Edition - [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3136150/), [SteamDB](https://steamdb.info/app/3136150/info/)

## Tags
ADV, Nameable Protagonist, Bad Ending(s), Cyberpunk, Literary Adaptation, Past Earth, More Than Seven Endings, Unknown Gender Protagonist, 90's, Hero with Heterochromia, Writer Hero, Disabled Hero, Smoker Hero, Black Comedy, Bar, Bartender Hero, Hero with Tattoo, Friendship Ending, Both Male and Female Love Interests, Heroine in Relationship with Other(s), Only Adult Heroines, Friendship Route, Only Adult Heroes, Non-Japanese Voice Acting, Music Recollection, Hero with Facial Hair, Muscular Hero, Hero in Relationship with Other(s), Completely Avoidable Protagonist Death, Off Screen Sex Only, Asexual Characters

## More Games from Io Black / Cryo
- [Dates & Wires](https://pinovel.net/v31255)

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