Haven

This is another one of those 'I have a lot of mixed feelings about the game' games.

I ADORE Yu and Kay and their story, and by god I could gush about the gorgeous art they have for the load screens and animations, along with Danger's FANTASTIC music for days, but the actual 'game' part has many, many problems that make it difficult to fully recommend to people who want an easygoing experience (that this game states that it provides).

The combat is incredibly frustrating and clunky, and the movement (while slick) is finicky at best but most of the time is another source of annoyance (esp when trying to follow aerial flow threads). The crafting systems are set up in a way to seemingly deliberately waste your time as to need to slowly add individual items, then watch the animation of the cooking/crafting/touchpad, then slowly select the option to craft another one and repeat each time you want to make another item. I could rant more, but I don't want to be overly negative. Overall, I did have a decent time with it, just the issues did wear me down until I was ready to throw in the towel and not bother finishing getting all the achievements.

I make the 'positive' recommendation almost solely based on the story/characters, OST (seriously, buy/listen the soundtrack and put it on loop forever), and its art because the 'game' part could have used some more work/tweaking.

I am very ambivalent about this game.
The plot isn't very good. There are many plot paths that are cut abruptly and never talked about again. There are many parts that raise many questions for me but I'll leave them unmentioned here because I want to keep the review spoiler free.
Haven is all about interactions between the two characters. And at the start of the game I didn't believe in the relationship. It just felt off. Maybe because you're introduced to the characters when they love each other and you're not shown any backstory of their relationship. Over time I started feeling much warmer towards the pair.
Gameplay isn't good either. The exploration is bad. It is just about traversing islands which are all the same. Sometimes you need to take a glowing rail to reach a higher altitude. Wowie. There are only four location types and you spend 80% of the time exploring only one type which gets stale really fast.
Progression only affects numbers so there's no reason to discuss it. There are no customization of any game segments either.
The worst part of Haven is the combat system. It's extremely simple and static. And if you're especially dull like me and decide to clear out each island in the game, you're forced to finish every fight on it. I highly do not recommend doing it because it's pointless and running away from enemies will prove to make your game experience much better.
Soundtrack is great. I only learned of the game (and sequentially bought it) because I saw one of my favorite music artist in the genre Danger work on it. And the soundtrack is fantastic. At first I didn't think it fit the game that well, but after an hour I understood that I'd drop the game if it was not for it. The score is definitely the strongest part of the game for me. Voice acting is great too.
And personally, this game raised some thoughts in my head about what I would like to have in my relationship if I'll ever get in one again. And generally showed that there can be this level of trust between people. It's obvious for normal people, but was important to be reminded for me.
Nevertheless, I would not recommend this game unless you really want to submerge into detail of the relationship of Yu and Kay. Although the game is quite unique in its genre, so if you'd tried everything, maybe this one will be new experience for you.

I love the romance between the main characters. Games like this are rare. Usually romantic games are otome or dating sims. So to have a game in this genre focus purely on romance is really cool to see. I don't know any other game like it.

This game is probably the best cozy game for couples.
Can also be played as single player.
Love it 10/10.

Finally they added ability to play it as two women.
Game has decent (a bit naive and romanticized) story and standart-ish gameplay with some unique twists (stylized exploration and jRPG battles).
Best to play it with your couple on one screen (or via Remote Play Together), as it is focusing on romantic relationship and your actions can change some outcomes and events (thought, not much). Technically you can play it alone with an AI controlling your second half, but it is not as fun this way.
Premise of the story is that you and a person of your choice are two young adults (or older teens) in love, who escaped the world to a new clean planet. You are building here a house to live together and to better bond with nature that you adore so much, while enjoying this untouched by civilization world. However, your past is not leaving you alone - as an Evil Empire wanders world to world and consumes all its resources and energy, polluting planets or completely edstroying them to dust - and now it is aiming to get here. So your love to each other and love to nature is challenged not only by the life together in lone small planet, but also by your past and the Evil Empire that can't just leave your alone. But maybe your new bond with nature and each other can help you to save this planet and yourselves? Or two people is just not enough to challenge such an immense force?

I'mma be real, I have tried to finish this game three times now, and only finished it once. The story was a bit meh for me when I first played and the combat, while being unquie and a time based system that I didn't have much experience with( But thought it was super cool), frustrated me a lot. So I quit the first time around 2 years ago, and a second time a year or less ago. But.. I tried again and found a sort of deep joy and embarrsingly deep love for the characters, how they interacted, acted and the kind of people they were.

I knew most of the story, where certains plot points where located and most of the stuff I needed to do to progress the game, but I can honstly say, I hadn't expected a lot of the things I saw on my third playthrough.
Hidden beach island, rust wastelands and the ending was quit unlike what I had expected. I even forget to go the svanna area I saw last I played, just from how interesting all this other stuff was.

It's good, play it just once and spend about 15 hours of honstly pure wholesome, romanc between two people who dares to go against a dystopian future that sounds way more interesting then most other games "dystopias".

Plus it can be played as a straight couple, two guys or two girls. And honstly, Kay and Yu look good either way. Too bad, you can't play female Kay with Male Yu.

Great game to play with your significant other.
Even if they usually aren't into gaming, they could enjoy this one with the story and great interaction between the 2 characters.