Lovers In a Dangerous Spacetime: The Power of Cosmic Love

Cute bunnies. Giant spaceships. Unforgiving enemies. This colorful chaotic image belongs to the love filled game that is Lovers in  Dangerous Spacetime.

This lovely game was released in September 2015 by developer Asteroid Base. While it is both single-player and multi-player, I highly recommend grabbing at least one other friend to join you on your five hour trip through space. You can find Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime on Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and Windows.

Let’s hop into our spaceship and explore a love filled galaxy together.

Galileo 

The story in Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is rather simple and incredibly adorable. The basics is that the entire universe is full of love and of course something goes wrong. A space-time rift is opened up and through that rift comes a bunch of anti-love creatures that threaten to derail the universe. 

Outside of love and anti-love, the universe is full of cute creatures like bunnies and frogs that you have to go and rescue. It’s your job to take your spaceship, upgrade it, fly through space, and save as many animals with the power of love as you can. 

Constellations 

When you play Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime alone, you get to pick a sidekick who can be a cat or dog. But where Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime really shines is in multi-player. Playing with other people encourages communication that's needed to navigate the ship. 

The ship is made up of multiple working components that need multiple people to work at once. So for example, if one person is steering the ship, they also can't actively be aiming and firing the gun. You need to have one person on guns, one person on steering, one person on shields, and a fourth as your wild card who can go wherever is needed. Throughout the entire ship are a bunch of stations that you need to divide your attention to and communicate with your team in order to survive the anti-love creatures.

Stunning Cosmos 

The music in Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is absolutely adorable and ear catching. It suits the theme of the game perfectly. There's also the sound effects, which are fantastic. The sounds of your ship are some of the most stunning. The sound of ships and guns changes depending on the type you have and each is incredibly unique and phenomenal for a small indie game. 

It’s not just sound effects that are incredible, the visuals are as well. Visually Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is vibrant and colorful. It feels like the embodiment of love and joy. I can't stress that enough. It's pink, shiny, and covered in hearts. There’s nothing scary about Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime. It’s just strategy and fighting all different kinds of enemies with friends.

The Fate of The Galaxy Rests in Your Hands 

In terms of gameplay, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is very unique and something I haven't seen before. In this game, you play as 2D characters in a space and you have to control a spaceship by navigating the ship and going to each station in a quick and efficient fashion that keeps your ship alive and well. 

Alone Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is incredibly hard and you think with more people it's easier, but the game balances it out. When you have more players, the amount of enemies ramps up and you have to fight more. It makes this game incredibly difficult at times because you have to strategize on the go. 

When you play with friends, you'll learn who's good at what station and just kind of stay in one place depending on the situation. When my friends and I played, we divided up into one person manning guns, one person managing steering, one on shields, and the fourth person would either help on guns or move around the ship as our jack-of-all-trades player who could help us anywhere. 

Personally, I find steering the ship to be the most complicated and stressful part of Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime because you have to navigate around these tight chasms and avoid hitting walls so you don’t do damage to your ship. 

Each station does in fact have its ups and downs. The guns have blind spots, the shield can be incredibly slow to move, and you’ll just have to play the game to find out the rest. 

Navigating The Solar System 

Each level of Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is set up the same: you have to navigate a new terrain, find captured bunnies (or other cuddly animals), and free them. When the bunnies are free, a gate will open, you'll go through, and then there will be a boss fight. 

That pattern is rinsed and repeated until the end of Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, which can be a little bit monotonous, but I think the fact that you get new types of enemies in each new location, plus even cooler boss fights, keeps Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime from getting boring. 

What I find incredibly interesting is each boss is styled after constellations like Orion and are incredibly fun to fight. There's also a centipede looking boss, Cetus, that's one of my favorites in the entire game. 

Into A Black Hole 

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime plays with its setting as well. You're in space so Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime adds elements like gravitational pulls that your ship can get grabbed by, sometimes there's water pockets that you can be pulled into, and there's explosions that don't quite go as fast as a normal explosion, but are slow like you see in space movies. 

There’s also mechanics, like your ship continues to move even after you let off your thrusters. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime does a great job of displaying the fact that you are in space with physics and different types of mechanics.

Supernova or Dying Star?

My main issue is that Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is not fun alone. It’s actually rather hard to play alone. It’s a game that you need to have a crowd and the right crowd to play with, because the controls can be infuriating and the boss battles can be annoying. 

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime takes a lot of patience, and sometimes you find yourself scolding your friends because the person on shields is not doing their job. In that sense, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime can be frustrating, but I encourage you to have patience and figure out where each friend excels so you can beat anti-love. 

12 Out Of 12 Zodiacs

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a fun game and worth at least one night of playing with friends. Alone you’ll have a tough time, but with another person or three, you’ll have the time of your life. 

So jump in your spaceship and travel to a galaxy full of love far far away…

My Rating