Sex in games! For science, of course. Arguably one of the first series to fully explore sexual relationships in gaming, Mass Effect is renowned for its mature portrayal of sex, as well as the subsequent complications the act poses for those mixing work and pleasure Pro tip: no good can come from dipping your pen in the company ink, even if you are stranded on a spaceship with a blue-skinned hottie. With a bevy of male or female and alien partners to explore, your romantic successes and failures pretty much come down to being able to say the right thing at exactly the right time, just like real life. Refreshingly, it also offers same-sex relationships without any political or social commentary, with your sexual orientation entirely unimportant to the story. Yes, some encounters fall on just the wrong side of awks and yes, some of the animations are a bit, well, rigid, but we have so much to thank — and blame — BioWare for, eh?