Relations in Send define almost every choice Robert makes. Even his quieter moments are structured to reinforce how intimately the player can form Robert's bonds with the Z-Team. This design is most evident in the romances with Invisigal and Blonde Blazer, which helped anchor the emotional and romantic thrust of Season 1 and gave fans something familiar to cling to amid the chaos of superhero and HR crises.
But how do players view the option SendIn season two, the romance system as it stands may not keep up with rising expectations. Season 1 succeeded because its relationships were personal, unpredictable, and woven into the larger narrative. However, its two romantic paths, strict orientation, and potentially limiting implications also left threads of a deeper narrative unexplored. If Send given another chance, romance could become one of the areas with the most exciting room for growth.
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The send off needs stronger romantic arcs
Send Season 1 hinted at emotionally rich romantic paths, but season two could give those arcs more impact — both story-wise and mechanically. AdHoc Studios can have many ways to get there:
Higher emotional or narrative stakes
SendThe character structure in the first place practically begs for the romantic choices to ripple outward. In season 1, the romance with the Invisigal subtly affected the dodge chances Send'A bad ending that proves the team already knows how to combine emotional investment with real results. A second season could expand on this idea through:
- Romance Driven Consequences: The main scenes change depending on who Robert supports, disappoints, or falls in love with.
- Team dynamics responding to your love interest: Send's villains, friends and co-workers count your relationships into their trust level.
- Other late game payouts: To impress with romance who stands with Robert in his worst or highest moments. Send it has the perfect framework for it. You just need to lean into it more.
Larger romantic pool
With only two options for romance, players looking for something outside of the binary, either in terms of personality or attraction, have found fewer avenues for roleplaying. This narrow pool also fulfilled the fandom's expectation that some characters might be romantically involved in later episodes, but ultimately proved not to be the case. For example, after popularity Baldur's Gate 3's Karlach, Malevola feels like one that many players have missed.
A larger cast of love interests would allow for this Send Season 2 mirrors the diversity of personalities that are already part of the Z-Team, while compensating for a problem that the developers themselves pointed out: that many players gravitated towards Invisigal simply because Mandy/Blonde Blazer wasn't enough to build a connection with.
Less restrictive orientation options
One of the clearest opportunities for growth lies in expanding Robert's romantic interests beyond women. A variant of queer romance is not too demanding – it fits the world story-wise, thematically and emotionally.
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Flambae practically begs for a lover's enemies arc, especially given his canonical attraction to men.
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Waterboy's adoring, borderline golden retriever demeanor is perfect for the slow burn.
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Even characters like Phenomaman could add Send's hilarious B-plot where Robert finally gets to hear the other side of the breakup story.
Send is a game where players can explore who Robert can become. Limiting who he can love limits this exploration more than the narrative would have intended.
What the developers are saying about Season 1's missed romantic potential
What could have happened and how season 2 could fix it
According to Send Narrative director Pierre Shorett and creative director Nick Herman's interview with Polygon surprised gamers. Not by who they liked, but by how nice the players were. Almost everyone chose polite or compassionate responses, even when harsher or more complex options were available. As Herman said, players “talk the big game” about being chaotic or evil, but often don't stick with the safest emotional decisions. Send.
This unintended subtlety meant that large parts of the romance's content were never fully explored. Moments designed to complicate relationships—particularly scenes calling for loyalty to the Blonde Blazer or deepening bonds with the Invisigal—were left unseen as players instinctively avoided friction. This may explain why only 7% of players ended up romancing Invisigal and Blonde Blazer.
More insights from the developers show exactly where Season 2 could improve:
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Blonde Blazer's limited presence made it difficult for players to connect with her, inadvertently leading them to Invisigal. As a result, more than 60% of all players fell in love with Invisigal.
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Players were unaware that romance was optional, which meant that many non-romantic variations of key scenes went unnoticed.
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Some of the implications were too subtle, leading players to miss the emotional ramifications the team hoped to discover.
If Send When Season 2 happens, those lessons could inform the romance system with clearer emotional stakes and more balanced screen time split between love interests. Send already rooted in human vulnerability masquerading as heroism. Extended romance arcs would only sharpen this focus.
Send
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October 22, 2025
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ / Blood, Crude Humor, Intense Violence, Nudity, Sexual Content, Crude Language, Drug and Alcohol Use
- Developers
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AdHoc Studio
- Publishers
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AdHoc Studio
