ROMANCE?

[Starlight3100]

Is there any romance in this game? As in, are we able to romance NPCs, get married, etc? Just wondering.

[Optimus Christ]

Not at the moment, the dev has said he may put it in later if there's enough interest.

[Piperbird]

Oh goodness I hope not. Not every game has to be a romance sim. It's refreshing when I find one here or there that doesn't have it.

[Flare |UKCS|]

I don't think romance will be a option, the character creation doesn't have a gender option, the mess a romance option would cause issues alone that the dev doesn't need.
You are a genderless character that develops the town.
That's a fine gameplay option, you can be who you want... adding romance options would taint that idea in my opinion.
I personally love the idea we can be friends in this town, and not adding odd stuff like romance.

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by Piperbird:

Oh goodness I hope not. Not every game has to be a romance sim. It's refreshing when I find one here or there that doesn't have it.

Then just don't try to marry someone? It's not like you accidentally slip off your mouse multiple times and getting into an unwanted relationship suddenly at some point. This game will most likely not turn into an ecchi harem anime.

Originally posted by Flare |UKCS|:

I don't think romance will be a option, the character creation doesn't have a gender option, the mess a romance option would cause issues alone that the dev doesn't need.
You are a genderless character that develops the town.
That's a fine gameplay option, you can be who you want... adding romance options would taint that idea in my opinion.
I personally love the idea we can be friends in this town, and not adding odd stuff like romance.

This game is programmed by a single developer and given that, it works very well. Why would you think, that they suddenly are so incompetent in programming, that they wouldn't be able to add another feature into the game, which was already implemented hundreds of times within other games? It's not like your gender really matters to the code, which genders the characters are, as long as it doesn't throw out a syntax error.

And languages are flexible enough to handle neutral genders on top of that. Like you yourself wrote your comment without any kind of gender specific pronoun right now.

And ultimately, having romances being available doesn't suddenly change the "you can be who you want"-stuff. If anything it would actually add another layer of being yourself. Like i for example love to love someone and being loved and also my wish for children is quite big. That said, if a slice of life game doesn't add romance options, it's harder for me to actually be, who i want to be. Not that i care that much, as long as the gameplay works good without it as well, but it's always a nice addition to have more options to play a game the way you've the most fun with it. And asexuals and people, who don't want to get married for other reasons can still decide to just skip this feature

[Piperbird]

Originally posted by Maya-Neko:

Originally posted by Piperbird:

Oh goodness I hope not. Not every game has to be a romance sim. It's refreshing when I find one here or there that doesn't have it.

Then just don't try to marry someone? It's not like you accidentally slip off your mouse multiple times and getting into an unwanted relationship suddenly at some point. This game will most likely not turn into an ecchi harem anime.

It doesn't work like that and you know it. Once a game has a romance system, it starts adding game play that is gated behind it. Special items or achievements (if this game gets them), special cut scenes, discounts and so on. Every freaking farming sim forces you to eventually marry if you want to get everything. It's boring, it's done to death, it's time consuming when I'd rather be doing anything else, but here I'm stuck bringing an egg to Potpourri every day because if I don't have a family by the end of year three grandpa's takin the farm back.

People just have this weird obsession with romancing pixels. There are thousands of games you can go have a family in. This doesn't need to be one of them.

[spielerinchen]

no romance & i hope there won't be ever any !

[belly]

honestly i get the whole annoyance of romancing npcs, but having a marry option for multiplayer would be nice. ofc multiplayer needs to be flushed out more first before that would ever get implemented but it'd be nice to be able to marry your significant other and having cute cosmetics that isnt necessary to gameplay like a wedding dress/tux, wedding furniture etc. :)

[AZCards]

Originally posted by belly:

honestly i get the whole annoyance of romancing npcs, but having a marry option for multiplayer would be nice. ofc multiplayer needs to be flushed out more first before that would ever get implemented but it'd be nice to be able to marry your significant other and having cute cosmetics that isnt necessary to gameplay like a wedding dress/tux, wedding furniture etc. :)

I'd rather the creator work on different content than this. Maybe post release.

[dog]

god yes i hope so melvin is so hot

[Seditious Emu]

I am also up for a romance option. Doesn't hurt to have it be an option. also not putting a gender in is fine too, just live however you want, romance who ever you want or hell make it a option that is not easy to fall into. Stardew did it ok by the npc not even seeing you as a "love interest" until you got them a specific item (except a few heart events that don't need to be included). Don't want to do it? don't get the item. Literally wont impact anyone who doesn't want it. same with children, some people can't have children so it might be nice. Like life you don't need to experience life any one way

[worstcase11]

I'm not that interested into a romance option for players - but how about some npcs becoming couples and the players helping their relationships along? Playing Amor for them (or if you want to be mean sabotaging them).

[Jase]

I don't see any harm in it unless it's like animal confinement operator :D i.e. hug your wife each evening and a new baby person pops out... an army of children wielding sharpened fish to storm the castle of the sentient crocodile lord

[Supahz]

Nothing wrong with adding it. I'm for it.
If you don't want to romance, you don't have to.
Seems pretty simple.

Originally posted by belly:

honestly i get the whole annoyance of romancing npcs, but having a marry option for multiplayer would be nice. ofc multiplayer needs to be flushed out more first before that would ever get implemented but it'd be nice to be able to marry your significant other and having cute cosmetics that isnt necessary to gameplay like a wedding dress/tux, wedding furniture etc. :)

YES

[Piperbird]

Originally posted by Supahz:

Nothing wrong with adding it. I'm for it.
If you don't want to romance, you don't have to.
Seems pretty simple.

Originally posted by belly:

honestly i get the whole annoyance of romancing npcs, but having a marry option for multiplayer would be nice. ofc multiplayer needs to be flushed out more first before that would ever get implemented but it'd be nice to be able to marry your significant other and having cute cosmetics that isnt necessary to gameplay like a wedding dress/tux, wedding furniture etc. :)

YES

I have no problem with them adding it for people who want it, but ONLY if they do not include romanced based achievements. Don't tell people they can't 100% a game unless you force them to romance in a game they don't want to.