Relationships in games like this are honestly few and far between for me, I have yet to see a solid non porn made game that has the great game play, great characters and ability to shape our characters world that this has the potential to be
I haven't caught up on comments past yours, so it may have been addressed, but other games do have much more subtle, much more player-consensual romance, eg POE2 Deadfire, where there are dialog options blocking the romance paths, and that's ish the case here, but with much less subtlety.
