Hair Dye

Genre: Simulation / Misc.

Players: 1

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Review:

Hair Dye, released on mobile devices in 2021 and ported to Nintendo Switch in 2024, is a Simulation-ish game where players take the role of a hair stylist working on various customers with all sorts of requests for different colors and cuts, which you are meant to oblige.

The presentation here is not great, using simple 3D characters who all have the same creepy face, in front of a simple background, backed by music with a relaxed beat that suits the setting but isn’t at all memorable.

When it comes to gameplay… there barely seems to be any here. You select the cut for the customer, overall style, colors, and then add the colors in whatever way you deem suitable, and half of this the game more or less automates for you.

And while you do have some control over the aesthetic choices, it seems to make little difference to customer satisfaction, which is always two at the lowest, but I’ve had customers give me a full three star review when I deliberately mismanaged their cut and gave them the opposite of what they requested, had them give three stars when I did as little as the game would let me, and then give me two stars when I tried to faithfully reproduce what they asked for. Right now in the world of this game there’s some lady walking around with a crude drawing of a clown face on the back of her head, and she’s absolutely thrilled with it, even though she came in just asking for a darker hair color.

As amusing as it may be making this game’s hideous-looking girls look even more hideous, that’s the sort of fun that loses its appeal pretty quickly, and what’s left is a game with almost nothing in the way of actual gameplay. Unless you’re a huge enthusiast for messing with girls’ hair, skip this one.

tl;dr – Hair Dye is a game where players take the role of a hair stylist working on various girls’ hairdos. While the game does give some degree of freedom to create the style you want, there’s little point to it, as the girls are always satisfied with your work and there’s no real goal here. Skip this pointless game.

Grade: D

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