If players prefer to play on their own, they can and will partner with an AI space pet to help them. Instead, the premise of the game is simply to eliminate Anti-Love, which everyone should be in favor of.
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is often cited as a great game to play with a significant other on Valentine's Day, but there's not really any romance going on.
One to four players play in a condensed spaceship to navigate through neon galactic environments to destroy the powers of Anti-Love.
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a space shooter, but it's not just any space shooter.