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>It does, the game even explicitly tells you through its own mechanics of trust, voicelines, tutorials, leveling, auto deployment, etc., in various ways.
Those are not part of the games canonical story, and I never claimed they were. They may reference canon events but are not explicitly canon in and of themselves - Gravel did kiss Doctor in Near Light but she doesn't canonically kiss him every time you get her in Recruitment.
>It does, since you stated whatever HG publishes is what is canon. The game is of course published by them, and that naturally includes the player and their interactions with the world, so therefor that does line up with the definition you provided.
Except I did not claim "the player and their interactions with the world" as part of any canon story.
>HG has explicitly and intentionally made a possibility for you to do. Again according to your definition, that is therefor canon.
Again you misunderstand my definition. I did not claim a players personal choices in gameplay are part of the games canonical story that HG publishsed.