A Long Journey to an Uncertain End is the Queer Space Drama We Deserve

GAAAAYS IN SPAAAAACE! Right, now that we have your attention, perhaps you’d like to consider looking at A Long Journey to an Uncertain End?

Created by Crispy Creative, a team full to the brim of developers coming from Obsidian to Telltale Games, brings us it’s very first IP. And it turns out it is gay as hell, has a ton of space drama and, for those of you who like a challenge, a lot of managing resources. Oh, did we mention that you play as a spaceship, an actual sentient spaceship? No? Well, now you know.

A Long Journey to an Uncertain End is a narrative focused, space opera slash management game where you play as an outlawed ship. Because of you being, y’know, outlawed, you’re in a bit of rough spot in regards to money. This is where your crew comes in, a rag-tag bunch of folk that you have to recruit and give jobs to. It may sound tough, but you’ll do anything to stay one step ahead of your abusive ex. Who we assume is also a sentient spaceship?

It isn’t all fun and games though, you’ve got decisions to make, planets to explore and a crew to keep happy. It isn’t enough to recruit them and pay them little attention apart from when they are needed on jobs, you’ll really have to get to know them in order to know what makes them happy. After all, a happy crew is a productive crew! Well, unless they are distracted by the AI corgi on the ship…

What we already really love about A Long Journey to an Uncertain End is how it describes itself as radically inclusive. It isn’t apologetic in showing a futuristic wheelchair user, characters with cybernetics that aren’t made to look ‘weird’ or ‘quirky’ (we’re looking at you, Cyberpunk 2077) or a racially inclusive crew. It embraces the diversity of people and media that we’re so very much about.

A Long Journey to an Uncertain End is set to release sometime in 2021 on Steam. Be sure to wishlist it if you’re interested in what looks to be the queer space drama that we deserve!

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Aimee Hart

[She/They] Aimee Hart specializes in queer fandom, video games and tabletop, having started her career writing for numerous websites like The Verge, Polygon, Input Magazine and more. Her goal now is to boost LGBTQ+ voices in the video games industry.

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