Introduced early on in the tutorial with Skylar, the SPECS system is an important mechanic of the game. It plays a major part in achieving the game’s ending, unlocking dialogues and acquiring Candies.

In Date Everything, this dating simulator allows you the experience of dating your everyday household objects. You interact with them, the Dateables, to progress through each of their storylines to unlock different endings. Throughout the game, you will constantly be earning and using SPECS points. What are SPECS points and how does it work?

What Are SPECS points?

SPECS points are Date Everything’s in-game reward that can be used to progress the game’s storyline and unlock specific interactions. The SPECS system consists of five different attributes; Smarts, Poise, Empathy, Charm and Sass.

Each attribute represents a personality that you can acquire when interacting with Dateables. There are levels in each attribute that you reach when you have accrued a certain amount of points. You start with 0 points in each one, which makes you a bland character by default. The game describes the personality levels as such:

Smarts

Poise

Empathy

Charm

Sass

What Do You Use SPECS Points For?

Obtaining Candies

By interacting with Keith the Skeleton Key after opening the attic door, he will then assess your SPECS points to determine whether you qualify for a Candy. Getting it requires you to have about 40-50 SPECS points in an attribute.

A Candy is a limited, rare item that you can use to undo any Dateable’s Hate Ending- in case you accidentally made someone Hate you and want to reverse it. There are only 5 Candies available in the game: Smarts Candy, Poise Candy, Empathy Candy, Charm Candy and Sass Candy.

Unlocking Dialogues

Once in a while, you will encounter a unique dialogue that is unlockable through having a certain amount of SPECS points of a specific attribute. These dialogues lead to unique interactions, Collectables or even a guaranteed route to a Love Ending.

For example, your final rap battle against Jean-Loo the Toilet involves a lot of dialogues that are unlockable with SPECS points. The most common Love route for him requires you to choose one of those responses to achieve Jean-Loo’s Love Ending. 

However, according to the game, players are able to achieve any Endings regardless of the amount of SPECS points they have.

Dateables’ Realization Recipe

To Realize Dateables at the end of their storylines, you will need to use their Realization Recipe which entails the specific amount of SPECS points that you need to have in every attribute. This means that you will need SPECS points to bring them to life and end their storyline.

How To Gain SPECS Points

One of the only ways to earn SPECS points is to achieve relationships with Dateables whether it is Friends, Love or Hate. Each Dateable will only give you 5 SPECS points of a single attribute. The attribute of the SPECS points depends on which attribute category the Dateable is a part of. There are 20 Dateables in each attribute category.

Throughout the entire course of the game, you will gain 500 SPECS points, maxing out each attribute with 100 points. However, there are a couple of known bugs that might affect this number: 

1. Parker, of the Charm category, gives Empathy SPECS points instead.
2. Teddy does not give any SPECS points at all, when he should be giving you Empathy points
3. Beverly, Curt and Rod, Lyric, Penelope, Rebel, Scandalabra are only some of the known buggy characters where a glitch in the conversation prevents their storylines’ progress- keeping you a few points short in some attributes.

There is a way to make up for the missing SPECS points but it involves having the Lavish DLC. Both Lucinda Lavish and Michael Transaction, the DLC’s Dateables, allows you to get more SPECS points. Lucinda can give you 5 points in each attribute in your interactions with her, to prove that she’s the best character in the game. Meanwhile, you can pull for some gear for a limited number of times with Mikey- which can give you up to 10 SPECS points a gear.