Love and Deepspace Developers Issue Safety Warning Over Toxic Fictional Cocktail Recipes

The studio behind the mobile dating simulator Love and Deepspace has released an urgent safety advisory after publishing promotional drink formulas that incorporated lethal flora. Developer Infold Games shared five themed beverage guides on September 28 to celebrate an ongoing in-game event, tying each drink to specific characters from the virtual title.

According to GosuGamers, for Social Media Backlash Scale, Discussion regarding Infold Games' hazardous recipe cards rapidly crossed beyond the core player base, surpassing 1,000 upvotes in mainstream gaming subreddits.

Hazardous Florals Included in Promotional Guides

Community members quickly flagged that several aesthetic garnishes recommended in the official recipe cards were dangerous to human health. One featured cocktail paired pomegranate juice and cinnamon with datura, a psychoactive plant known to trigger severe delirium, rapid heartbeat, and hallucinations. A second guide mixed peach juice and gelatin sheets with flame lily, which contains the toxic chemical colchicine. Ingesting parts of the flame lily can cause high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and hypovolemic shock resulting in lethal fluid loss.

According to GosuGamers, for Player Safety Advocacy Response, Players pushed back against arguments relying on consumer common sense, noting that average followers cannot identify toxic flora by sight and could inadvertently ingest dangerous garnishes.

X's Community Notes feature placed a warning beneath the post stating that the plants are poisonous.

Fans flooded official channels with demands to remove the posts, pointing out that players frequently recreate virtual food items and outfits for social media content. Critics argued that publishing toxic plants alongside standard edible ingredients in a formal recipe format created an unnecessary safety risk for uninformed followers.

Developer Clarification Follows Community Pressure

Faced with mounting criticism and an appended X Community Note warning users about the hazardous contents, Infold Games published a formal statement on September 30 clarifying that the guides were strictly artistic representations. The developer noted that the visual drink cards were meant solely for virtual enjoyment rather than real-world preparation.

This promotional misstep compounds a turbulent period for the studio. Earlier in the year, the player base staged protests including demonstrations outside company offices and mailing animal waste after the studio cancelled a planned romanceable character named Valko before his official debut.