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This Love And Deepspace / Blade Runner 2049 Event Is Either An Unfortunate Coincidence Or An Elaborate Troll
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Love And Deepspace, the mobile game that serves players sweet, romantic, and sometimes horny fantasies featuring five hunks of grade-A quality man, hasn’t wholly recovered from the social and economic battering it took when the developers released, then un-released its sixth love-interest, Valko. His fiercely loyal cadre of fans have dug in their heels, remaining committed to not spending a dime on the gacha game until he is re-released. Each new event brings hope it will be The One and while that hasn’t happened yet, this latest event seems to be actively making things worse.
New in Love and Deepspace is a crossover event with Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villenueve’s 2017 follow-up to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. I can’t really tell why LADS is featuring an event tied to a Totally Fine But Otherwise Didn’t Really Need To Be Made sequel to one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made, unless maybe this is some circuitous attempt to remind people there’s an Amazon TV show set in the Blade Runner universe coming next month. But some of the game’s messaging around the event is rubbing Valko fans the wrong way.
What you touch—is it real?Love and Deepspace × Blade Runner 2049 Crossover Event [Rendered Real] is coming soon!Log in and check in to claim ✨Special Crossover Rewards for FREE and recreate iconic movie scenes with him!
💫Event Duration: 05:00 on Oct. 19 to 04:59 on Nov. 5… pic.twitter.com/Rqt9uMOkkl
— Love and Deepspace (@Love_Deepspace) October 18, 2026
The event isn’t particularly groundbreaking. Players can earn daily rewards of in-game currency and a special photo background and emote that recreate the scene from the movie in which K, played by Ryan Gosling, interacts with a digital billboard advertising a mass-market digital girlfriend named Joi, one of which is waiting for him at home.
Fans are pointing out that the fate of K and Joi’s relationship—she gets destroyed—seems an uncomfortably close mirror to what happened with Valko. To fans, it seems like Infold Games is either the least aware company on the planet or is taking the piss, mocking players for their continued attachment to Valko, long after his removal seems like settled fact.
the audacity to talk about “real love” in a time like this. dude. #BringValkoBack https://t.co/ETVR0J9jCp
— gutz | VALKO IS LOVED 🐺 (@loseurgutz) October 18, 2026