Though neither The Witcher 3 nor Cyberpunk 2077 used an intimacy coordinator, developer CD Projekt Red is thinking about how sex impacts their games; not only how to create mood and intimacy in brightly-lit motion capture stages while covered in velcro balls, but also how sex influences both the game’s world and the real world. CD Projekt Red senior writer and Cyberpunk 2077 story coordinator Magdalena Zych told me that the company (which is based in Poland) was making Cyberpunk 2077 during a time where several Polish municipalities were declaring themselves as “LGBT-free zones,” where LBTQ events and marches were unwelcome. The Witcher 3 had only straight relationships and sexual encounters — “[Geralt] is quite a sexual creature,” Zych said — while Cyberpunk 2077 had the chance to do something different. Cyberpunk 2077 has a playable character that can have different body parts and different genders, but you can’t just romance anyone; it’s an intentional approach to showing not only straight and bisexual characters, but gay ones, too. (CD Projekt Red has been both criticized and praised for its characterization of both trans and queer characters.) Judy, for instance, is specifically a lesbian woman, and only female characters can romance and have sex with her.

Judy's arc is incredible, BTW, and the fact that you must play lesbian to experience it is the icing on the cake.