HAVEN

Developer/publisher The Game Bakers

Format PC, PS4, Switch

Origin France

Release 2020

Videogames excel at portraying combat, but can be famously hapless when it comes to romance. Often, this is because they treat love and sex as another kind of combat – a question of methodical attrition in the hope of a splattery finishing move. That’s the flavour of canoodling one might expect from The Game Bakers, developers of psychedelic boss rush experience , but the studio’s forthcoming RPG is a very different kind of game. Like the clearly influential , puts you in charge of two characters at once – sci-fi castaways Yu and Kay, whose inputs are split between D-pad and face buttons during shared tasks, and controlled as one unit during exploration. Unlike , this is