Mass Effect: Andromeda dev says game features 'full nudity,' says it's 'totally softcore space porn'

It’s hard to be the playable character in a Mass Effect game. You have to make tricky decisions while trying to figure out what kind of person you’d like to be. You have to be representative of the entire human race in situations where that designation may not be exactly fair, but you have to do your best anyway, or maybe your worst.

You have to make some hard choices about which characters you’d like to have sex with, and that can pose a certain conundrum, too. The fans have already begun the speculation about which Mass Effect: Andromeda characters they’d like to see hook up, and why. The developers, so far, have been more than willing to lean into the game’s reputation as a place to meet all sorts of new people and have sex with at least some of them.

We already know the game will feature “pretty good banging,” but it looks like things may go a bit further in Andromeda.

That’s BioWare general manager Aaryn Flynn, who continued to joke with fans about what they can expect from the game. One said that they were worried their husband will consider Andromeda to be “space porn,” to which Flynn replied that ...

This is probably just a fun joke, or a bit of a troll at the expense of very excitable fans, right? He has to be poking fun at us.

Others brought up the issue of pet names from the rest of the crew, to which we were told that ...

Another fan said that they would probably be playing by themselves ... once the children were asleep.

The game’s lead designer, Ian S. Frazier, suggested that maybe they include some Mass Effect “massage oil” in the collector’s edition of the game to drive up pre-orders as the launch approaches.

This has been a pretty good Monday so far. Andromeda doesn’t actually have an ESRB rating yet, nor have the rating descriptors been released in the U.S., so we’re just going to have to wait and see how far things go. But all signs point to the fact we’re going to sexytown, at a speed of Warp 69. It’s refreshing to see Mass Effect so willing to lean into its own more tawdry side.

You can read thoughts from our first hands-on time with the game, in which we weren’t able to seduce anyone. Mass Effect: Andromeda is out on PS4, Windows PC and Xbox One on March 21, 2017.