Mass Effect: Andromeda launches this week, inviting fans to reflect on their time with Bio Ware’s epic science fiction RPG series.

Go check the Allies and Relationships section in codex to be sure.

Every single one of them ends up hovering between chatting up your first high school crush and being a sleazy boss.

What it also does, however, is establish that romance isn’t some end-game reward.

It’s all about experimentation, and actually unlocking a scene of digital canoodling doesn’t require much effort — we’ll go over everything you need to know, on the dating front, too.

In Mass Effect’s twin galaxies of the Milky Way and Andromeda, there’s a lot of smooching to be done, along with awkward flirting, saucy trysts and deep romantic connections with pretty alien boys and girls.