History Main / MatchMakerQuest

** Played straight with the Lover's Pond sidequest, and hilariously executed. [[spoiler:Lover's Pond is the fabled area mentioned not only in Gerudo Town's Vai and Voe class, but also in the diary in Kakariko's armor shop. You can find it on Tuft Mountain, in the southeast area of the map, near Lurelin Village. The sidequest involves giving flowers.]]
** There is a sidequest in Hateno Village, in which Link is able to help the stable hand, Manny, woo the village innkeeper. The trope is hilariously played with, as when you ask the innkeeper, Prima, what sort of gift she would like, she quickly lies and says she'd like 100 crickets. Talk to her again, and Link will find out that she actually has eyes for a different guy in the village, and that she is already aware—and put-off by—Manny's interest in her. The quest also appears to be a bit of a reference to the sidequest in ''Skyward Sword'', in which Link attempts to help a Hopeless Suitor with his crush, even down to the character designs of the [=NPCs=] involved being similar.
** The Zora girl Finley and the Hylian guy she had been writing love letters to. Link is able to follow Finley's letter down Zora River to its receiver, and encourage the guy to actually go and meet Finley in person.

* ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'': Parvati's companion quest involves helping her get a date with Junlei Tenysson, the captain/mayor of the Groundbreaker.

** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Aveline's sidequest involves her attempting to court a fellow member of the city guards. Depending on whether you like plots like this, it's either [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments absolutely hilarious]] or excruciatingly painful to observe. Or anything in-between.

An {{NPC}} ([[LoveTriangle or three]]) are down on their luck in the love department, and can't seem to get that [[LoveInterest special someone]] to [[ObliviousToLove notice them.]] They're so desperate and mopey and (a)pathetically resigned to their doomed loveless future that they will spill their guts about these troubles to the first heavily-armed stranger to cross their paths [-([[CaptainObvious That means you]]).-] Rather than find a solution themselves, they will ask you to do something for them, usually involving a FetchQuest for some engagement gift, ImpossibleTask, or plain old bling to impress their potential partner. Other times, it suffices for you to use your prodigious dialogue screen channeled charisma to convince their intended to love them back. Occasionally, the match is already made and the quest centers on solving some other difficulty, like getting the parents to let them marry, gathering wedding materials, a dowry[[labelnote:*]]which will hopefully ''not'' consist of TwentyBearAsses[[/labelnote]], or helping them set up a life for themselves.

* A few quests in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' technically are of this sort. Technically, because the game isn't really designed to handle running around talking to {{NPC}}s, so it's usually just an excuse for killing things.

** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Aveline's sidequest involves her attempting to court a fellow member of the city guards. Depending on whether you like plots like this, it's either [[CrowningMomentOfFunny absolutely hilarious]] or excruciatingly painful to observe. Or anything in-between.

* In ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', instead of killing off Yandere-chan's rivals for Senpai's affection, she can hook them up with other guys.

*** And you don't get negative Karma.

** And, in the offshoot ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'' series (think HarvestMoon combined with ''Zelda''), your PC has his own MatchMakerQuest.

* In May of the 2nd year of ''[[TokimekiMemorial Tokimeki Memorial 2]]'', one of the protagonists' best friends, Junichiro Hokari, will phone him to confess he's in love with one of the girls of the cast. You, as the protagonist, can, with the help of your childhood friend Hikari, can then set up a double date between you, Hikari, Jun, and Jun's love interest, in order to help him get close to her. Of course, if the girl Jun targets is the same as yours, this is the clue for restarting your game, [[ThatOneBoss unless you feel]] ''[[ThatOneBoss really]]'' [[ThatOneBoss confident in your combat stats]]...

* There are several of these in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind''. The first involves a woman who has fallen for the bandit who robbed her, and wants help tracking him down. Surprisingly, it turns out well. Another in the Tribunal expansion involves helping a woman who is far too busy with her work to meet men find a husband.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' has the quest ''The Book of Love'' where the player helps out 3 couples, including [[spoiler: a pair of dead lovers]], get together.
** Much earlier on, you can resolve a love triangle in Riverwood between a woman and two local males, whose plans of wooing the girl involves giving her a letter that makes the other look bad. Alternatively, you can get the tell the woman about this, causing her to get angry at the two and instead falling for you.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'' has one too. It's played with though: firstly, you have two possible options, you can either give Cawlin's love letter to the object of his affection, or you can end up giving it to [[MythologyGag the hand in the toilet.]] Secondly, [[spoiler: it turns out the NPC he likes actually has feeling for ''another'' NPC, and he returns them. Giving her the letter results in ''them'' getting together and Cawlin being left in tears.]] Both paths give you the same reward, so you don't need to worry about LostForever.

* In ''{{Aion}}'', a man has you collect an item to give the woman he loves, but once you have them, [[spoiler: she says that she can't love a man that doesn't have the nerve to bring them himself.]]

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' has a few twists to the formula. The questgiver is actually asking for help on behalf of a friend of hers. Like in it's predecessor, it ends in failure. But mostly because the client decides she'd rather get with the player instead... then the ''questgiver'' gets jealous and decides she likes you too!

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** Also, Ronald Laren would like The Nuka-Cola Challenge to be this, but it doesn't work out that way. As in, you have the option of giving him the dough after fetching it so that he can use it to take advantage of her naiveté but this nets you bad karma, even though he doesn't succeed because the target is too stupid to understand his advances. If you want to be evil and have a female character, ''you can tell him to fetch the dough himself by proposing a threesome''; he rushes off eagerly, only to get killed.

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** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' has the ''very'' long Kafei and Anju quest, where it appears that Kafei has gone missing just before his marriage with Anju. It's not as simple as it looks, and you can't even do this quest until very deep into the main game.

* Many a ''HarvestMoon'' fan have done this, due to the fact that the games have multiple [[TheRival romance rivals]].
** And, in the offshoot ''RuneFactory'' series (think HarvestMoon combined with ''Zelda''), your PC has his own MatchMakerQuest.
*** In ''RuneFactory2'', a successful marriage unlocks 2/3 of the game
*** In ''RuneFactory3'', it is the only way to win the game.

* In NeverwinterNights Hordes of the Underdark, you meet an angel who managed to learn where he would meet his [[StrangledByTheRedString one true love]], without learning her name. You have the option of asking the Knower of Names for the name of the angel's one true love, it is randomly selected between Aribeth, Nathyrra, Sensei Dharvana and the player (if female).

* In ''JadeEmpire'', you come across an engaged couple having trouble because the man made a ChildhoodMarriagePromise to a local gang leader, who intends to hold him to it. If you can convince her to let him go, you get a follow-up quest to find a prospective mate for her.

*** Force the issue by [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale giving Angela ant queen pheromones to seduce him into quitting the church and marrying her]]. If you sit through the wedding, you get positive karma.

The Match Maker Quest is usually a necessary middle link in a ChainOfDeals, and almost always rewards you by dropping some unique love themed loot. Hey, who cares if the +5 Vorpal Sword is [[RainbowPimpGear pink]] and fills the air with {{Heart Symbol}}s? Headless bodies won't complain! Isn't it amazing how RPG's manage to [[UnfortunateImplications make even love reward you with implements of violence?]]

*** Force the issue by [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale giving Angela ant queen pheromones to seduce him]] [[WhatTheHellHero into quitting the church and marrying her]]. If you sit through the wedding, [[UnfortunateImplications you get positive karma]].

** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks Spirit Tracks]]'' has one that has become quite infamous due to what happens after said quest. [[spoiler:Namely, a pretty depressed village that has been left without a chief since he eloped.]]

** ''SkywardSword'' has one too. It's played with though: firstly, you have two possible options, you can either give Cawlin's love letter to the object of his affection, or you can end up giving it to [[MythologyGag the hand in the toilet.]] Secondly, [[spoiler: it turns out the NPC he likes actually has feeling for ''another'' NPC, and he returns them. Giving her the letter results in ''them'' getting together and Cawlin being left in tears.]] Both paths give you the same reward, so you don't need to worry about LostForever.

* In ''QuestForGloryIV'', one of the quests is to get a feuding married couple back together by making them realize how much they miss each other. However, neither of them will ''ask'' you to do so, there's no reward for doing so, and it's completely optional.

*** Force the issue by giving Angela ant queen pheromones to seduce him into quitting the church and marrying her. If you sit through the wedding, you get positive karma.