Plumbers Don't Wear Ties is an adult-oriented "romantic comedy" video game developed by United Pixtures and published by Kirin Entertainment in September 1994 for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer.

Foster and Jeanne Basone as John and Jane, two people who are being pressured by their respective parents to go out and find a spouse.

Plumbers Don't Wear Ties received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics for its lackluster production value, nonsensical storyline, poor acting and humor, and for primarily being presented as a slideshow despite being advertised as a full motion video game.

The player will use the D-pad (or mouse in the PC version) to make a choice and then will press the A button to see what will happen for choosing that option.

A full motion video clip features the character Jane introducing the player to the main objective and basic rules of the game.

John, a plumber, is told by his mother (Violetta Gevorkian, voiced by Samantha Eggersoll) to go to her house with the girl she had set a date up with, Amy, for dinner at 6:00 pm.

Around this time, Harry Armis is replaced by a female narrator named Wilma (Thyra Metz).

Bad endings include the following: Plumbers Don't Wear Ties was published by Fremont, California-based game company[2] Kirin Entertainment, a subsidiary of Digital Stuff Inc.[3] It was developed and produced by Michael Anderson.

[12] The new release includes additional features such as save states, an in-game gallery, documentary footage, and a dungeon crawler mode through which the player unlocks bonus content.

[21] In giving the game a 15% rating, Diego Antico wrote: "It's hard to determine where Plumbers Don't Wear Ties is at its most horrendous.

The site made note of how despite it being advertised as a full motion video, the game was simply a slideshow.

[27] PC Gamer dubbed it a "shallow, hateful waste of a game, [that] may very well be responsible for having killed the 3DO, interactive fiction, and the whale", naming it #1 on its "Must NOT Buy" list in May 2007.

[33] IGN has cited Plumbers Don't Wear Ties as "a symbol for everything that was wrong with giving a license to anyone that wanted one", referring to the fact that 3DO publishers only needed to pay a $3 royalty per disc and did not have to join a stringent licensing program like other game consoles, which led to many low-quality adult-oriented video games being released for the system.