You don't help them fall in love with the right dialogue choice, or participate in the daring escape from their home world. When players join Yu and Kay, their love is already in full bloom. One difference with Haven is that it's a relationship in progress. “There is an epic adventure story in Haven, but the real content is the mundane daily life of that young couple in love. "It's cute that when they kiss they heal each other but it kinda hurts my lonely ass soul," wrote one commenter on YouTube. It's also a game that drops in the midst of COVID-19, depicting a relationship where people can intimately touch one another's body in a world where people are being told to stay away. But it's true bigger budget games shy from sex, or depict sex as a cutscene reward for the act of talking with a person enough times. You don't have to go far into the independent game space-heck, just browse the visual novel section of any storefront-to see creators have been engaging and normalizing sex in the medium for a long time. It's a reach to say Haven developer The Game Bakers is breaking ground in its depiction of sex, and even the developers of Haven pointed to the work of designers Nina Freeman and Robert Yang.
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