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Mass Effect is an open-galaxy RPG with stacks of different quests, activities, and storylines to pursue. It’s also everybody’s favorite sci-fi dating sim. Ask any hardcore Mass Effect player and they’ll tell you: you’ll spend most of your time and effort trying to make sparks fly steamy human/alien relationships!

You can get into various different relationships in Mass Effect, depending upon the gender of the playable character and the sexuality of the NPCs. While Female Shepard can be lesbian, heterosexual, or bisexual in all of the first three games, Male Shepard could only pursue heterosexual relationships in the first two. There are, however, two gay romances in the third game. The most recent offering, Mass Effect: Andromeda, has more romances than ever with the new Sara and Scott Ryder protagonists. There are homosexual, heterosexual, and bisexual romances available for both genders throughout.

The Romance mechanics are pretty nuanced. First, the attraction phase, where you learn a romance is possible with a given character. Then there’s a courting phase in which you’ll try to woo your potential lover by saying and doing the right things to win their favor. If you succeed, you’ll be granted a series of scandalous cutscenes with various different alien species. What more could you want from a video game!

The core of Mass Effect’s success with romance lies in its variety of well-crafted characters with personalities so distinct its easy to tell them apart and try and learn what they like. The fact that they can vary so much in appearances is also super fun. One minute you will be chasing after a cute blonde and the next a long-headed alien with spikes jutting out of their head! It’s all in a day’s lovin’ in the universe of Mass Effect.


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