Recommending this visual novel is hard. Doing so without spoiling anything is even harder. But I think I owe an attempt to try to write about the game that gave me the most intense emotional experiences I've ever had from any piece of media, ever.

Part of what makes recommending this difficult is that in order to have that experience, you kinda have to be, at least a little bit, parasocially and romantically attracted to the himbo space wolf. You will still probably have an enjoyable experience without said attraction to said himbo space wolf, but I believe you will be fundamentally missing part of the intended experience if you don't, because the game is built around that pretext.

But if you are? Adastra is a furry sci-fi space comedy drama political-thriller heartbreaker queer-romantic orbital-strike-to-the-heart. I cried multiple times, on one occasion having to stop and go weep into my boyfriend's arms. Even now, several months after touching the game, I am still occasionally and spontaneously struck by a wave of emotion, sometimes triggered by vivid recollections of scenes or lines, other times just characterized by pangs of grief of the knowledge that I won't get to experience it for the first time again.

I look forward to the completion of Adastra's side stories, Khemia and Interea.