I really wish people wouldn’t play Dispatch with the expectation that it was gonna be BG3 with its romance options. Like I get you think certain characters are hot, that’s totally fair. But this is basically a Telltale-style narrative game, not an rpg. Even though you have some control over his actions and decisions, Robert is a pre-defined character who is not meant to be a player-insert. Even though it has a branching narrative that changes based on your choices, those choices are less about actually affecting the plot and more about how your relationships with the characters develop. All this to say, it’s fine that the only romance options are Blonde Blazer and Invisigal. At no point did anybody say it was gonna be like BG3 where you could fuck anybody you wanted. This is an indie-studio with not a huge budget and trying to write, animate, and record full romance scenarios for every character is simply unreasonable. The story they wanna tell is about this (probably) straight guy and these two women whom he can choose to pursue. (Or not pursue either, as the steam achievements show us.) I just encourage anybody playing to try and engage with the game where it’s at, instead of where they were expecting/hoping it would be. Feel free to make and engage with all the fanart and fanfiction you want, but don’t criticize the game unfairly because you wanted it to be something it was simply never going to be.
EDIT: It has been pointed out to me that the game is tagged LGBTQ+ on Steam. I didn’t realize this at the time of writing, yeah that’s pretty fucked unless the second half has way more of it. That’s a fair criticism.
Keep seeing the LGBTQ+ tag being mentioned but I can’t find it anywhere on the Steam page - not sure where it’s supposed to be
(important to note these tags are user-defined as well - the + is to add a tag)
(and yes, not an rpg; it’s an adventure game with pre-defined characters)
EDIT - Ok I digged into SteamDB a bit
The game’s name, categories and “official” tags (tags added by the devs themselves) were added in December 2024 (note there isn’t any LGBTQ+ tag)
The LGBTQ+ tag was first added to the game page 6 months ago in april
and first got removed one month later, in May
since then, the LGBTQ+ tag keeps on being added and removed, alongside other tags like “Romance”
one of the many reasons to insist upon chronological timelines is that it’s much, much harder to scroll forever if you can catch up with yourself. if you can run out of tumblr because you reach yesterday, that is a good and helpful prompt to do something else.