In Love And Deepspace, Intimacy Is The Ultimate Gooner Bait

intimidated the hell outta me, so much so that I, the horniest

writer not named Kenneth Shepard, wanted nothing to do with it. I had known about the mobile gacha game ever since its release in 2024. It’s published by Infold Games, the same studio that developed the fashion-focused

because it managed to expertly capture, “What if

?” And because my social media algorithm intersects neatly at Gamer Street and Gooner Boulevard, I was also constantly fed videos featuring the game’s devastatingly handsome protagonists

doing things you’d be embarrassed to show to grandma

. Despite those two massive perks, I still felt a discomfort with the game I couldn’t name. But when peer pressure and my own curiosity became too powerful to ignore, I finally started playing a few weeks ago.

I get it now. Both why I was so scared of it and why it’s managed to become one of the most popular mobile games of the last 2 years, with over

and billions in revenue. The reasons for that success are ones I both did and did not expect.

Because it’s a gacha game ruthlessly engineered for maximum wealth extraction with minimal payout, I expected my time with

by the game’s community) to be what I thought of as an anglerfish scenario. I’d be lured in by the bait of attractive men doing attractive things attractively, only to be gobbled up by an endless cycle of mindlessly farming for in-game currency (if not buying it outright) to spin the great gacha gambling wheel in hopes of winning one of those sexy interactive videos.