It’s heteronormative if you equate topping with being dominant.
Dancing is typically heteronormative because there’s a standard (that’s enforced for competitive dancing) that the man leads and the woman follows. And you can absolutely follow this as a same sex couple by assigning femme and butch roles and having the femme follow and the butch lead. But you can also switch it up, even while dancing.
When someone talks about heteronorms it’s not about straight people. Of course toxic masculinity and ditto femininity is sad but the goal is not to reproduce that for queers, not too change what the straights are up to.
Is a traitor mechanic semi-coop? I thought that was just unknown teams. I thought semi-coop where games like Republic of Rome where the game makes everyone lose but if you actually win then there’s a first winner. Or Fog of Love where both players, one player, or no players might win.
Anyway, I played Istanbul which is a classic for a reason.
Silver Eye was also excellent and a very worthy addition to the series.