I hoped playing this with my partner would have been the ideal way to experience a co-op title about two lovers exploring the stars, but Haven constantly found ways to wedge inbetween the intimate experience a plethora of elements that drag the journey down to earth.

Haven not only struggles to deliver the adventure it alludes to, it is a co-op game where the other player is only made to feel like a hindrance. The fact that players control a single given character, yet we both have to agree on each other's dialogue options - that only one player gets to direct the actual journey while the other merely collects starbits Mario Galaxy style - the way you each control a single looming third person camera within the house. It constantly finds new ways to feel impersonal, which betrays the intimate and adult love story of Yu and Kay so much. The moment the journey feels like it's finally abound, the momentum is halted by tutorial prompts, redundant battles, and dialogue that could really have been part of traversal.

Haven masquerades as a fun road trip for two, but it's really just a tour boat with Haven at the helm. There's one passenger seat that the players have take turns to sit on, and you're not entirely convinced Haven even knows where he's taking us. Big respect to these devs for taking such a huge departure from Furi, though.