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Cake Game Won’t Launch, So Yutori Peke Switches to a Cheating-Husband Interrogation Game

A Windows security feature blocked the planned game, and Peke spent the rest of the night on a free online game about making a cheating husband confess.

Yutori Peke during “ケーキを落とすゲームをする前にゲームが落ちるのでぷりぷりの雑談 なんかやる #ペケライブ,” a broadcast that ran 2h 50m. Press to play from Twitch

Yutori Peke, an independent streamer on Twitch, opened Monday’s stream with a game that would not run. The game, in which the player drops cakes, failed at launch even after an update. Peke traced the trouble to Windows’ Smart App Control, which was blocking part of the app, and asked viewers and searched online for a fix. The cake game, Peke said, could wait for Christmas or for a second-anniversary stream. After floating expert-level Minesweeper, Peke settled on a free online game in which the player makes a cheating husband confess.

Peke took the wife’s side. The game opened with evidence, including a message notification on the husband’s phone reading roughly “thanks for yesterday, I want to see you again,” and Peke pressed for a confession, slapping the husband and demanding, “Don’t keep secrets from me.” The husband admitted that three months earlier he had met a woman through a matching app and gone to a hotel with her. Peke asked what he had liked about her and called the husband creepy.

“Even when things don’t go well, if we all have fun together, it works out somehow.” — Yutori Peke, near the end of the stream

The game let the player choose how hard to press, with an intensity setting, and chat joked that the instructions read more like torture than interrogation. Peke’s run ended with a full confession and a cut to a year later: the ex-husband eating instant noodles, with 12 payments of compensation left and a phone that no longer rang. Peke said recording the confession had its downsides as well as its advantages, tallied the slaps and the two fingers cut along the way, and told the husband to be grateful it stopped there.

A second mode put the player on the other side, choosing replies to tempt other characters. A wrong choice meant nothing happened with that person. Peke asked a character named Kenji about his wife, got a lukewarm answer and went straight home. The game’s closing diagnosis called Peke a woman who tells everything, one who is not so much honest as unable to keep quiet. Peke called that perhaps the best result and considered posting it on X, while chat repeated the phrase. Later Peke threatened to tell another character’s wife and was flatly refused, then concluded that choices leading to a later day looked better.

Before signing off, Peke thanked viewers and said the sudden trouble had been hard but the stream was fun. Peke said any game can be made fun to stream, with one exception named, and that another stream was planned for the night.

Twitch keeps no captions. This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from speech recognition of the stretches where chat was busiest, plus the opening and the close, and from the chat in those stretches; it covers only those stretches. Quotations may contain recognition errors.

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