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Love and Deepspace
2024 Otome mobile game From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Love and Deepspace [a] is Chinese mobile game developed by Papergames (with publishing outside mainland China under Infold Games). The game was released on Android and iOS on 18 January 2024. The game is a spin-off of Mr Love: Queen's Choice and is known as the first 3D otome game, receiving generally positive reviews and achieving commercial success.
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Love and Deepspace is the first 3D otome game,[2][3][4][5] which replaces semi-anime 2D character design with semi-realistic 3D modeling.[3] It also allows customizing the female protagonist,[5] both in appearance and voice.[6] This 3D art style makes the game more immersive and has contributed to its widespread popularity. It follows a free-to-play pattern while monetized by gacha and in-game purchases such as gift packs, monthly cards and characters' costumes.[3]
Love and Deepspace merges intense monster-hunting gameplay with a sci-fi universe setting, where "love knows no bounds".[7] It provides the opportunity to establish heterosexual relationships with five love interests, who are Xavier, Rafayel, Zayne, Sylus, and Caleb.[8] Players take the role of a Deepspace Hunter, wielding a superpower known as Evol to confront the cosmic beings known as Wanderers.[1][9] The love interests serve as supporting characters, which players will naturally connect with throughout their journey. The gameplay features action-RPG combat, allowing players to team up with their chosen love interest to take down Wanderers using combinations and light parrying mechanics.[9] It presents its story through visual novel segments at times and fully animated, voiced cutscenes at others.[6]
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Setting and characters
Love and Deepspace takes place in the fictional Linkon City, where 14 years ago, an incident known as the Chronorift Catastrophe devastated the city and caused many extraterrestrial beings known as Wanderers to ravage the area. In response, the Hunters Association was established and has protected the city ever since, using special elemental abilities called Evol to defend themselves.
The player takes control of the female protagonist (whose name and appearance can be changed), a newly inaugurated Deepspace Hunter working on the UNICORNS team with the Resonance Evol, which allows her to amplify other people's Evol skills and perform team attacks. The heterosexual love interests in the game consist of Xavier, another Deepspace Hunter with the Light Evol; Zayne, the protagonist's childhood friend and primary physician with the Ice Evol; Rafayel, an eccentric artist with the Fire Evol; Sylus, the leader of the crime organization Onychinus with the Energy Evol; and Caleb, the protagonist's adopted older brother and colonel of the Farspace Fleet with the Gravity Evol.[8]
Plot
The protagonist is initiated as a new Deepspace Hunter and begins fighting Wanderers, who leave behind energy crystals called Protocores. Shortly after, the protagonist's family home is bombed, killing her adoptive family. Her adoptive grandmother, Josephine, leaves behind secret files revealing that she had been involved in illegal human experimentation, where a piece of a rare and powerful Protocore called the Aether Core had been fused to the protagonist's heart. The protagonist learns that she has become a target by EVER, a biotechnological research group, who aim to use the Aether Core to explore the Deepspace Tunnel.
Resolving to learn more about the Aether Core experiments, the protagonist investigates N109, a crime-infested location outside of Linkon City that had been destroyed during the Chronorift Catastrophe. With the help of Sylus, she learns that it was once inhabited by the Gaia Research Center. After returning to Linkon City, the protagonist is sent on missions to safeguard more Aether Cores and learn about EVER's involvement. During a mission to Skyhaven, the protagonist discovers that Wanderers were once humans who were infected by the Protocore Syndrome. At the same time, the origins of her acquaintances are revealed: Xavier is part of a time-traveling group from the future called the Backtrackers; Rafayel is a Lemurian; and Caleb, the protagonist's adopted brother, is discovered alive but is now working as the colonel of the Farspace Fleet.
Concerned about EVER, the Hunters Association decide to move their Spatial Core, a powerful Aether Core, to a different location, but they are attacked by EVER operatives and the protagonist accidentally absorbs it into her own body. Curious about her origins, the protagonist returns to N109 to investigate the Gaia Research Center, where she finds Dimitri, one of Josephine's former co-workers. Dimitri reveals that the protagonist was born from the Deepspace Tunnel and was the cause of Wanderers appearing and the Chronorift Catastrophe. When he attempts to kill her and send her back through the Deepspace Tunnel, the protagonist realizes she is connected to the life cycle of the planet. Sylus rescues her, and Dimitri is killed.
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Development and release
Love and Deepspace was developed by Papergames, a Chinese video game company based in Shanghai.[7] It was globally released for Android and iOS on 18 January 2024. It is the second installment in the Mr.Love series.[10]
Music
The version 1.0 theme song of Love and Deepspace, which inspires the game's title, is sung by Sarah Brightman. Brightman describes the song as "exud[ing] a mysterious and ethereal ambience ... tinged with a little bit of melancholy." According to Brightman, she "adopted the perspective of a cosmic observer, or you could say a wandering poet, infusing it with a sense of cosmic mystery and the notion of transcending the river of time".[1] The version 2.0 theme song titled Visions opposées, is sung by Mikelangelo Loconte and produced in collaboration with the original creators behind Mozart, l'opéra rock.[11][12] The version 3.0 theme song is a Chinese song titled Cosmic Encounter, performed by vocalist Wu Bixia.[13] The version 4.0 theme song titled Witnessed by Deepspace, is performed by Angela Zhang.[14]
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Reception
Love and Deepspace has gained popularity worldwide since its global launch on 18 January 2024. Its download numbers surpassed 10 million by the third day of its launch,[17] and by 2025, it boasts 50 million players worldwide.[18] In Japan, Sensor Tower reported that it was the most downloaded and highest-grossing interactive story game from January to September 2024, amassing nearly $30 million.[19] As of March 2025, the game has an accumulated global revenue of over $500 million on the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store, with markets outside of China accounting for 40% of the total revenue, based on data from analytics firm Sensor Tower.[7] Studies attribute the success in revenue to both the blend in 3D and ethereal games elements, as well as the 'SHEconomy', since the game is realistic and caters to women's needs and desire for equality, respect and independence.[3][4]
Accolades
Love and Deepspace won the Best Mobile Game in 2025 Gamescom Awards.[20] This marks the first time in history that an otome game has been nominated for and received an award at Gamescom.[21] At the 2025 NYX Game Awards, Love and Deepspace received two honors in the Mobile Game category: Best Experience (Grand) and Best Game Design (Gold).[22]
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Legal actions
On 26 August 2024,[23] Papergames issued a statement demanding the removal of a diss track by rapper PACT, which it said contained unauthorized use of gameplay footage with distorted and derogatory remarks,[24] and would take legal actions on this matter.[23] After the statement, PACT deleted the video in question and re-released a version with no gameplay footage, in which the rap song and lyrics were captioned the same as before, while this new video version was lately deleted.[25] This first court session was conducted on 14 January 2025 at the Yangpu District People's Court of Shanghai.[23]
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