You can now play as a same-gender couple in the sci-fi RPG Haven

Followers of Haven, the 2021 dystopian sci-fi RPG and one of Polygon’s favorite games of last year, have the option now to play the game as a same-gender couple thanks to a new free update.

“Haven is a game about the freedom to love whomever you want, and that’s why we’re particularly happy to bring this free Couple update to all platforms,” The Game Bakers CEO Emeric Thoa wrote in a post announcing the new addition to the game. You can now choose to play the game with the Yu and Kay you prefer: either a woman and a man, two women, or two men.”

Haven is a third-person survival RPG where players assume the roles of Yu and Kay, two lovers and fugitives who escape from an oppressive authoritarian society and flee to a mysterious uninhabited planet known as “Source” in search of freedom.

In a post published on the developer’s blog, The Game Bakers’ Mylène Lourdel emphasized that the update will not change the story arc for HavenHowever, they will be able to offer more choices in the matter of the marriage composition. “This update is special to us,” they wrote. “Originally, the concept for HavenThe show featured eight couples with diverse relationships. It became clear during production that we wouldn’t be able to reach our initial vision for the full cast of characters, so we focused on the two characters you know well. But right after the game launch, we went back to work on this update.”

Ryan Highley, Lexie Ann Kendrick and Yu are the new voices of Kay. They rererecorded every 80,000 line of dialogue in the game. Additionally, all eight versions of the dialog have been updated. Haven’s available languages, with any explicit and implicit gender references throughout altered to reflect the player’s selected characters.

Haven’s Couples Update is free for PS4, PS5, or PC.