Romance options are pretty popular in RPGs these days, and even though Avowed doesn’t have any, its director thinks it’s better off without one.
But one of next year’s biggest RPGs, Avowed, won’t have any romance options, despite it being a pretty common thing to find in the genre these days.
And so we felt that we could best tell our companions’ stories and our players’ relationships with them without the romance option.”
For reasons that will probably be pretty obvious, video game players love to digitally smooch other video game characters, with romance options being quite popular in a lot of RPGs, no doubt due to the influence of games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age.