Mission: It's Complicated
Released Feb 2020
Mission: It’s Complicated is a narrative-based, visual novel where you match super-awesome superheroes to go on missions during the night and dates during the day. The more compatible the pair of superheroes are, the more likely that they will fall in love and save the world.
92% positive · 242 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Mission: It's Complicated launched on February 14, 2020 as a free, complete visual novel. The store description presents it as a fully self-contained experience with a defined set of heroes, story paths, and endings — no additional content is teased or promised. The only post-launch developer communication was a bug fix patch on June 19, 2020 to resolve a save issue, with no mention of future updates or new content. Since then, there has been no developer communication of any kind. The game was released as a finished product and has received no post-launch content additions beyond that maintenance patch.
Evidence
Game launched on February 14, 2020 as a complete, free visual novel with no mention of future content plans.
Store description presents the game as a complete, self-contained experience — no DLC, expansions, or future updates are referenced or teased.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Schell Games
Achievements
33
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
Mission: It’s Complicated is a visual novel about getting superheroes to fall in love, and the shenanigans that happen along the way. Send your heroes out on ridiculous missions at night, and try to keep them from getting hurt -- or they won't be able to go on dates during the day! Grow your favorite pair's bond so they can go on more dates. Help them pick the right thing to say.
Get them to fall in love… and save the world.
Super sweet features of this narrative-based, visual novel include:
In case you missed it, Mission: It’s Complicated is free. Completely FREE!
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Fun gifs!
Get them to fall in love… and save the world.
Super sweet features of this narrative-based, visual novel include:
- Heart and humor! The puns are terrible and the feels are real.
- Choose your OTP! Any hero (there's 5) can be paired with any other to win the game.
- Friend dates! Friendship is just as important as romance. Win the game with romantic or platonic love depending on which pair you pick!
- No bummers! Every pair has a happy ending. But can you get the ULTIMATE happy ending?
- A serious lack of beds! Oh no, there's only one! :O
- Super cute art! Look at it! It's cute as heck.
- So much reading! Over 100k words! That's an entire novel! Wow! It'll probably help you on your SATs or something! Are those still a thing?
- NO voice acting! Cast your favorite voice actor for each character using the power of your imagination.
- LGBTQ+ friendly
- Want to breeze through the game to see all the endings? Skip any mission you've done before and still get credit... so you can get to those juicy dates!
- Free! Not secretly-designed-for-microtransactions-free, but actually free. So that's cool.
In case you missed it, Mission: It’s Complicated is free. Completely FREE!
To let someone know you care, share one of these special Valentine’s Day cards with them. Sharing is caring!
Fun gifs!
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 26, 2026
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