Hey lovely cutie,
There is a game I played at an event maybe two years ago & instantly fell IN LOVE with it. It’s Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.
This game is everything I love about a local multiplayer game: it’s challenging, extremely fun and you have to communicate very well with your partner to get through the levels & survive - because yeah, it can be pretty hard. The story is ADORABLE: some super awesome scientists built a machine which spreads the most awesome force in the whole universe - Love. The Ardor Reactor was protected by the League Of Very Empathetic Rescue Spacenauts - the Lovers (UGH SEE? SO CUTE!) but OH NOES!! The dark force of Anti-Love found a breach in the reactor and SHATTERED IT INTO PIECES. The Anti-Love is now taking over the galaxy and IT’S CHAOS. It’s in this chaos that you & your partner (or AI pet) come in - you have to find the missing pieces by defeating bosses (they are based on constellations <3) but before that you have to find and rescue your Lovers friends.
For doing that you have to pilot & control a spaceship - you have eight stations with different things including weapons, the engine, a shield, a canon and a map. Each player can control only one station at a time - if you play alone you also have to command your AI pet (and this is why it can be really difficult to play alone - too many things to do at the same time). You constantly have to move around the station to keep a good balance between protecting your ship, flying it and attacking enemies. You can also find cute gift boxes which contain different types of gems to add some more powers to your stations.
The soundtrack by Ryan Henwood is absolutely amazing. It gets you pretty psyched. It can get as intense as the gameplay and it fits super, super, super well with the game. You can listen to it on his bandcamp. The art is also really delightful - it’s just pure candy for the eye.
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is an adorable yet challenging & amusing cooperative game. You can find it on Steam and Xbox One.
(Awesome cover art by the amazing @justinchan!)
