I recently ordered the boxed edition of Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime from The IndieBox. It arrived today and I just got the time to unbox it. I've bought merchandise from The IndieBox before (which is excellent), but never a boxed game, and I was really impressed by the whole thing.

So impressed, in fact, that I haven't actually gotten to playing the game yet - I've just gone straight to posting about it here because it's given me such a big smile to unbox something like this, which is simultaneously new and nostalgic. The experience reminded me very much of the tangible bonuses that some UK electricals stores would bundle with Windows 95/98 big-box games in the late 1990s.

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My apologies for the utterly potato-quality photos here - I recently had to replace my phone on very short notice and the camera on the new one is awful, and I haven't had the chance to get a proper camera to rectify that yet. It's all really high-quality stuff and it's annoying that my pictures can't do it justice right now!

This is what's in the box;

• Figurine of Dr. Hopsy Flopsy (articulated at the head and arms, so you can pose him a little bit)


• Game in Steam-key form for Linux, MacOS, and Windows (printed on a sticker on the shrink-wrap, so collectors can avoid opening the box if they want to! Up to 4 players)


• Game on a USB flash-drive shaped like the Drillfoot enemy (Windows version, DRM-free, up to 2 players only)


• Gumball ship schematics poster


• IndieBox Newsletter


• Instruction manual


• Lovers HQ friendship necklaces x2


• Soundtrack CD


• Stickers, big, x2

Anyway, yeah, I just had to share this because it was just such a joyful experience opening up a new game that comes with other cool goodies included. Can't wait to get stuck into it, which is what I'm off to do now!