Haven scores an update that lets player choose the gender of the main characters, among other changes
The Game Bakers have announced that Haven has been given a new update, which among other things, lets gamers choose the gender for Yu and Kay, in order to reflect the wider gaming community. Players can now have Kay become female and stay with a female Yu, or change Yu to be male and spend time with a male Kay.
Being able to choose which relationship is something that the team were eager to make happen, as the initial plan for the game was to have many more characters to choose from, as explained by Emeric Thoa, Creative Director:
“Haven is about the freedom to love whomever you want. From the very early days of conception, we had created several couples for the game, with a diverse range of relationships. But the constraints of our indie team production made us focus on Yu and Kay only. After the game launch, we wanted to go back and work on this update. We hope that many players will feel better represented in the game.”
This update does not change the story arc for Haven, players still play as Yu and Kay, but the game offers more options as to the composition of the couple. If the alternate characters share a similar look with the original Yu and Kay, they have been recreated to the standards of quality of the original release, with two new fantastic actors giving life to the characters across all 80,000 lines of dialog in the game, new models, and the whole in-game art.
There are more details that you can discover about the change, over on the PlayStation Blog.
