The Ssum

The Ssum is Cheritz’s fourth game, released as a beta game on April 4th 2018, then finally released officially August 17th 2022. It is Cheritz’s second mobile game and plays similarly to Mystic Messenger in the way that progression relies upon selecting from a limited choice of dialogue options to interact with the characters, and that chatrooms open up in real time.

However, The Ssum is distinctly different in that it’s story spans much longer than only eleven days, boasting at least 400 days worth of content. The Ssum prioritises a more realistic, slow burn type of story that you can enjoy more casually, with a much calmer and more relationship-centered narrative than Cheritz’s previous games, which valued the mystery narrative more.

The story, explained by the bird mascot PiuPiu, goes that The Ssum is an app developed by the mysterious Doctor Cus-Monsieur with the purpose of connecting its users with their one true match. The player can choose from currently four different love interests, but another aspect of The Ssum that differs from Cheritz’s previous games is that the player does not have to do any kind of stat raising to unlock the love interests’ routes, but instead can simply choose which character to pursue in a menu at any point in the game.