Here are a selection of queer games our jury really liked this year.
Were|House
Madi Wander
Were|House is a comedic visual novel with dashes of romance, where protagonist Dori gets roped into working alongside three monstrous cuties during Halloween!
Winter
Freya Campbell and Elliot Herriman
WINTER is an interactive fiction about sex, trans insecurity, and a girl with a skull for a face.
violeta
Gabrielle Serna
Be a cat, be cute, listen to your friends, and knock over some plants if you feel like it.
The Life of Saint Fiona Bianco Xena
Fantasia Malware
"The Life of Saint Fiona Bianco Xena" tells the hotly disputed story of the fictitious saint’s life. Fiona is a kaleidoscopic vision of one woman seen through three rotating eyes, an illusion of separated light scattering in different directions.
TraceS
Paulette
TraceS: Where our story hides is the first episode of a series of Bitsy games, which proposes to search for traces and archives of the fight against AIDS.
boy's curse/boy's blessing
nilson carroll
boy’s curse/boy’s blessing is a desperate anti-dating sim, a shattered queer self-portrait, a shakily written list of every binary binding my body and ruining my heart.
Minotaur Hotel
MinoAnon
A gay romance visual novel where you meet the legendary minotaur and manage a magical hotel.
Mizuchi 白蛇心傳
Roxie
Mizuchi is a wlw a fantasy romance visual novel inspired by the Legend of the White Serpent and other multicultural myths.
A Good Game We Can Speak Of
Audre
You send your queer game to the game publisher "fantastic-pear". They'll accept it, only if you modify it a little.
Zen: A Gay Sequel
Bob Conway
A stat-based, planner-focused gay dating sim set in college; also the sequel to Yearning: A Gay Story
co-open
rayzones & Yaffle
co-open is a slice of life adventure game about a kid who is sent on their first independent grocery shopping run by their grandmother, that touches on supportive social systems and depicts casual queer representation.
Happy Pride
Gamaturgie (creators: Axell and Paulette)
In a Pride, Alex enjoys the party, meeting people and talking with them, and creates a zine about Prides' history.
What's your gender?
radow
a non-eucledian labyrinth, exploring terms and concepts related to gender and identity