How Dispatch Season 2 Could Improve Its Romance

The relationships in Dispatch define nearly every choice Robert makes. Even its quieter moments are structured to reinforce how intimately the player can shape Robert’s bonds with the Z-Team. That design is most visible in the romances with Invisigal and Blonde Blazer, which helped anchor the emotional and romantic momentum of Season 1 and gave fans something familiar to latch onto amid the chaos of superhero and HR crises.

But as players look toward the possibility of Dispatch’s second season, the romance system as it stands may not keep up with rising expectations. Season 1 succeeded because its relationships felt personal, unpredictable, and woven into the broader narrative. Yet its two romance paths, strict orientation, and potentially restrictive consequences also left threads of deeper storytelling unexplored. If Dispatch gets another shot, romance could become one of the areas with the most exciting room for growth.

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Dispatch Needs Stronger Romance Arcs

Dispatch Season 1 hinted at emotionally rich romance routes, but a second season could give those arcs more impact—both narratively and mechanically. AdHoc Studios may have plenty of ways to get there:

Higher Emotional or Narrative Stakes

Dispatch’s character-first structure practically begs for romance choices to ripple outward. In Season 1, romancing Invisigal subtly influenced the odds of avoiding Dispatch’s bad ending, proving the team already knows how to tie emotional investments to real outcomes. A second season could expand on that idea through:

• Romance-driven consequences: Major scenes shifting depending on who Robert supports, disappoints, or falls for.
• Team dynamics reacting to your love interest: Dispatch‘s villains, friends, and coworkers factoring your relationships into their trust levels.
• More late-game payoffs: Letting a romance impact who stands with Robert at his lowest or highest moments. Dispatch has the perfect framework for this. It simply needs to lean harder into it.

A Bigger Romance Pool

With only two romance options, players looking for something outside the binary, either personality-wise or attraction-wise, found fewer avenues for roleplay. This narrow pool also fed the fandom’s expectation that certain characters might be romanceable in later episodes, only to ultimately prove they weren’t. For example, after the popularity of Baldur’s Gate 3‘s Karlach, Malevola feels like the one that got away for many players.

A larger cast of love interests would allow Dispatch Season 2 to mirror the diversity of personalities already embedded in the Z-Team while offsetting the issue the developers themselves noted: that many players gravitated toward Invisigal simply because Mandy/Blonde Blazer wasn’t around enough to build a connection.

Less Restrictive Orientation Options

One of the clearest opportunities for growth lies in expanding Robert’s romantic interests beyond women. A queer romance option isn’t a stretch—it fits the world narratively, thematically, and emotionally.

• Flambae practically begs for an enemies-to-lovers arc, especially given his canonical attraction to men.
• Waterboy’s adoring, borderline-golden retriever behavior is perfect for a slow-burn crush.
• Even characters like Phenomaman could add to Dispatch’s hilarious B-plots, where Robert can finally hear the other side of the breakup story.

Dispatch is a game where players can explore who Robert can become. Limiting who he can love restricts that exploration more than the narrative might intend.

What the Developers Say About Season 1’s Missed Romance Potential

What Could’ve Been, And How Season 2 Could Fix It

According to Dispatch narrative director Pierre Shorette and creative director Nick Herman’s conversation with Polygon, players surprised them. Not by who they romanced, but by how nice players were. Almost everyone chose polite or compassionate responses, even when sharper or more complex options were available. As Herman put it, players “talk a big game” about being chaotic or mean, but often default to the safest emotional choices in Dispatch.

This unintended gentleness meant large portions of the romance content were never fully explored. Moments designed to complicate relationships—especially scenes challenging loyalty to Blonde Blazer or deepening bonds with Invisigal—went unseen because players instinctively avoided friction. That can explain why only 7% of players ended up romancing both Invisigal and Blonde Blazer.

Other developer insights point toward exactly where Season 2 could improve:

• Blonde Blazer’s limited presence made it harder for players to connect with her, unintentionally funneling them toward Invisigal. As a result, over 60% of all players romanced Invisigal.
• Players didn’t realize romance was optional, which meant many non-romantic variations of key scenes went unnoticed.
• Some consequences were too subtle, leading players to miss the emotional branching that the team hoped they’d discover.

If Dispatch Season 2 happens, these lessons could inform a romance system with clearer emotional stakes and a more balanced screen time split among the love interests. Dispatch is already rooted in human vulnerability disguised as heroism. Expanded romance arcs would only sharpen that focus.

Dispatch

Systems

Released

October 22, 2025

ESRB

Mature 17+ / Blood, Crude Humor, Intense Violence, Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Drugs and Alcohol

Developer(s)

AdHoc Studio

Publisher(s)

AdHoc Studio