I haven’t actually played, but noodling around in the tutorial, it looks like imgur is used for hosting some images shown as popovers when you hover over dialogue – perhaps they are character images or something? (e.g. 1, 2)
imgur doesn’t serve images to the UK any more (since about October) – see screenshot for what we see. Maybe you can’t / don’t want to do anything about that, but it’s something to be aware of. (If the images were hosted on itch, I think that’d work fine in the UK.)
Not actually due to the UK OSA
This isn’t actually due to the UK’s Online Safety Act – imgur were fined under data protection law about their handling of childrens’ data, and decided to take their ball away (coverage from BBC, The Register) – it’s not a government-mandated block. I’m unclear if the data handling concern is just about children with imgur accounts, or adtech, or that anyone on the Internet including children might see Bad Pictures served by imgur, or all of the above; certainly a recent press release by the regulator leans into the latter.
(btw if this is going to turn into another discussion of government regulation of the internet, let’s do that in a new topic, not this game announcement topic)
