{"rewrite":{"id":"r_23351a15ecb52a598063d333","clusterId":"c_9a1a58344b171828c6b0776c","slug":"love-locks-sets-dec-4-steam-release-with-a-real-wedding-as-prize","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Love Locks Sets Dec. 4 Steam Release With a Real Wedding as Prize","summary":"Blue Brain Games announced Love Locks on November 13, developed by Collision Games for PC via Steam with a December 4 release. The cleanup sim tasks players with removing 100,000 love padlocks from a bridge over the Seine in Paris, fishing the thrown-away keys out of the river with a magnet-equipped drone. Online co-op supports up to five players, and a post-launch time-attack race carries a real wedding worth 800,000 yen as the winner's prize.","whyItMatters":"A Slovak indie studio is turning the 2015 removal of the Pont des Arts padlocks into a co-op cleanup sim, and the 800,000 yen wedding prize puts real money behind a post-launch race rather than leaving it as a leaderboard.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe bridge in the game is modeled on the Pont des Arts, where padlocks left by couples were removed in 2015 after part of the wire mesh collapsed in 2014. According to the City of Paris, the load had reached about 45 tons, and acrylic panels now block new locks.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Love Locks, players run a magnet-equipped drone over the Seine to recover the keys lovers threw into the river, then match each key to its padlock. Collected metal unlocks stronger tools: saws, bolt cutters, shotguns, and lasers. At 100 kg, a cleanup robot called Expendabot becomes available and can be assigned to a section of the bridge and upgraded.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Love Locks turns padlock removal into a five-player co-op job, and Collision Games ties the post-launch time attack to an 800,000 yen wedding. A prize that size reframes a cleanup sim as a spectator race.","twitterPost":"Love Locks pays out a real 800,000 yen wedding to its time-attack winner, which turns Collision Games' cleanup sim into a spectator race.","threadsPost":"Love Locks asks players to strip 100,000 padlocks off a Paris bridge and fish the keys from the Seine with a magnet drone. Collision Games then attaches an 800,000 yen wedding to the post-launch time attack, so the co-op cleanup becomes a race with a prize bigger than the chore.","newsletterBlurb":"Blue Brain Games announced Love Locks, a Collision Games cleanup sim for PC via Steam, set for December 4. Players remove 100,000 love padlocks from a bridge over the Seine, recovering thrown keys with a magnet drone and unlocking saws, bolt cutters, shotguns, and lasers as the metal piles up. A post-launch time-attack race offers a real wedding worth 800,000 yen to the winner.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Automaton\",\"url\":\"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20261114-479254/\",\"title\":\"'Love Locks,' a sim about removing 100,000 lovers' 'love padlocks,' announced for Dec. 4 release; post-launch time-attack race also planned, with a real wedding worth 800,000 yen as the winner's prize\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":5581,"outputTokens":822,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1794628764,"createdAt":"2026-11-14T03:54:12.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-11-14T03:58:21.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-11-14T03:58:21.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_9a1a58344b171828c6b0776c","canonicalTitle":"恋人たちの“愛の南京錠”10万個撤去シム『Love Locks』発表、12月4日配信へ。発売後はタイムアタックレースも実施、優勝者へのご褒美は“リアル結婚式費用80万円分”","representativeArticleId":"a_c4afbd1d516f1465a0da7e31","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Love Locks\"],\"studios\":[\"Blue Brain Games\",\"Collision Games\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-11-14T03:14:23.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-11-14T03:14:23.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-11-14T03:58:23.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Automaton","url":"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20261114-479254/","title":"恋人たちの“愛の南京錠”10万個撤去シム『Love Locks』発表、12月4日配信へ。発売後はタイムアタックレースも実施、優勝者へのご褒美は“リアル結婚式費用80万円分”"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Love Locks"],"studios":["Blue Brain Games","Collision Games"],"people":[],"type":"announcement","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":["Blue Brain Games announced Love Locks on November 13, developed by Collision Games.","Love Locks releases on December 4 for PC via Steam.","The game is a cleanup sim about removing 100,000 love padlocks from a bridge over the Seine in Paris.","Love Locks supports online co-op for up to five players, with each player's padlocks and progress independent.","A post-launch time-attack race offers a real wedding worth 800,000 yen as the winner's prize."],"pageLinks":{"healthSlugs":["love-locks","blue-brain-games","collision-games"],"storySlugs":[],"entities":[{"slug":"love-locks","supported":0,"disputed":0,"contradicted":0,"unverified":4,"overall":"unverified","story_count":1,"has_dossier":false},{"slug":"blue-brain-games","supported":0,"disputed":0,"contradicted":0,"unverified":1,"overall":"unverified","story_count":1,"has_dossier":false},{"slug":"collision-games","supported":0,"disputed":0,"contradicted":0,"unverified":1,"overall":"unverified","story_count":1,"has_dossier":false}],"stories":[],"entitiesOk":true,"storiesOk":true}}