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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 a 2024 Chinese 3D otome game. It was developed and published by Papergames (with publishing outside mainland China under Infold Games), which released for Android and iOS on 18 January 2024. It 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 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—people players 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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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
Reception
Love and Deepspace has gained wide 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]
Legal actions
On 26 August 2024,[20] 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,[21] and would take legal actions on this matter.[20] 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.[22] This first court session was conducted on 14 January 2025 at the Yangpu District People's Court of Shanghai.[20]
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Characters
As of July 2025, there are currently five love interests in-game, who are Xavier, Rafayel, Zayne, Sylus, and Caleb.[8]
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