Spirittea Relationships Explained: How To Increase Friendship With Locals

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With many cozy games featuring various romanceable NPCs, gamers might be asking themselves whether the new bathhouse cozy game, Spirittea, includes romance. Relationships may be central to this game, but does that mean you’ll be able to fall in love?

Spirittea has attracted a good bit of interest with its comparisons to the Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away and the cozy pixelated game Stardew Valley. The game is now available to play on Switch, Xbox, and Steam, which means players are asking themselves… can I go on a date with this intriguing local I just met?

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• Does Spirittea Have Romance?
• Building Relationships with Locals in Spirittea
• Using The Notebook to Track Details about Locals

Does Spirittea Have Romance?

The short answer to the question is no, Spirittea does not have traditional romance. While you can build up your relationship level with characters, this is a reflection of friendship only, and the game doesn’t feature any mechanics for dating, flirting with, or getting married.

Building relationships with the people (and spirits) you meet is still a key part of Spirttea. Just not in the romantic sense.

Building Relationships with Locals in Spirittea

In Spirittea, your job as the bathhouse keeper is to take care of the spirits, which means that interacting with them is a key part of gameplay.

However, there are plenty of living NPCs you’ll get to meet and befriend in the game, as well. In fact, one of your first tasks in the game is to run around town introducing yourself to everyone, so you’ll have a pretty good sense of the town’s (living) inhabitants from early on.

Throughout the game, you can build your