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The game's storyline involves a protagonist who recently made some mistakes and broke up with his "princess", and needs to change some things in the past to fix this.

My guess is that this "fantasy" storyline is autobiographical. The dude probably had a bad breakup and got over it by sitting in his basement for 3 years making a great game. I feel like drugs may have played a small part in the design as well.