This game basically has all my favorite things: complex relationships that don’t revolve around the MC, platonic relationships being as valued as romantic ones, found families and sci-fi setting with aliens that aren’t boring blue humans (that we get to play with!) AND it’s hella queer.
I appreciate how the sci-fi setting wasn’t just uses for space stuff. I always wanna hear about small mundane details like chairs for aliens and gadgets and stuff like that, the things that ppl live with.
Plus, it’s always nice to have escapist settings rather than “racism/homophobia exists in every world regardless of context FEEL THE EDGE”.
I loved the crew and how they all had diff connections to each other but were strongly connected as a whole (like Oz and Zenith being basically sibs). I personally really like that all the characters have their own lives and aren’t sitting around waiting for me to play with them, and we only learn about them if we make the effort to get close - makes it feel like they’re their own people who don’t exist to entertain me.
I also really enjoy poly romances so I loved seeing the diff kinds present in the game. The triads were v carefully done and felt v inclusive, with the circle one being a classic meshing of tropes I enjoy. And if you weren’t in a triad you had to respect your partner’s right to have their own relationships, rather than them being just your personal toys.
This game did a lot of things I’m usually resigned to seeing only in fan content, and it felt incredible. I am looking forward to more works from this author!