Queer Games Festival 2022



QGF Awards - Shortlist

Here are a selection of queer games our jury really liked this year.



A Clever Label

A Clever Label

Michela Ledwidge

This VR experience allows you to follow the money and untangle the web of anti-equality lobbyists!

shortlisted

U.S. Route 160

U.S. Route 160

Sangita Nuli

A runaway bride is forced to confront the demons of her dangerously religious hometown and considers what - and who - she left behind.

shortlisted

GUACUCO

GUACUCO

Sol Martínez-Solé, SpitefulFox, avyary

A short dream about returning to your home and making space for better things.

shortlisted

Killigan's Treasure

Killigan's Treasure

Eddio

A bovine's journey in a land unexplored.

shortlisted

Buy Hyacinths

Buy Hyacinths

Benjamilian Swithen, Cow Children Games

A colourful adventure about Sheepy, one of the first sheep to go to a human university

shortlisted

Autumn Wish

Autumn Wish

Violet Fairy

Be a gay witch, have a nice day in town, draw runes to cast spells, and fall in love with your best friend in this visual novel/rpg.

shortlisted

TAIPEI METRO QUEST

TAIPEI METRO QUEST

Dri Chiu Tattersfield

A short narrative game about time-traveling home.

shortlisted

Angel!

Angel!

Cathy Trang and Sean Wejebe

You're in heaven! Time to reconnect with your boyfriend.

shortlisted

Vivica's Heart

Vivica's Heart

Cerise & the Vivica's Heart Team

A dark fairytale visual novel, with timeloops, secrets and sapphic witches.

shortlisted

As We Know It

As We Know It

Jaime Scribbles Games

In a future where the surface is scorched by the sun, can you save your new underground home in this heavily-branching romance and life-sim visual novel?

shortlisted

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Queer Man Peering Into A Rock Pool.jpg

Fuzzy Ghost

A joyful, strange experience in which a middle-aged queer man toddles around an island attempting to re-furnish his empty house.

shortlisted

Queer and Chill

Queer and Chill

Ignacio Bustos

A spicy and challenging puzzle full of pride flags, and lots of diversity.

shortlisted

Kaiju Noir

Kaiju Noir

Jamie Kaiju Marriage

A queer pulp fiction tale of giant monsters in a world rebuilt in humanity's image, for better or worse.

shortlisted

He Fucked The Girl Out of Me

He Fucked The Girl Out of Me

Taylor McCue

A game about trauma.

shortlisted

talking to my dad

talking to my dad

Hatim Benhsain

A game about being on a drive with your dad and having a conversation.

shortlisted

Body of Mine

Body of Mine

Cameron Kostopoulos

An interactive VR exploration of gender dysphoria, trans identity, and our relationship with our bodies through dance, animation, and interactive storytelling.

shortlisted

An Outcry

An Outcry

Quinn K., Kitet

A non-binary shut-in is faced with a flock of murderous birds that tests the limits of their agency.

shortlisted

Mushroom Musume

Mushroom Musume

Mortally Moonstruck Games

Grow a mushroom from a spore to a fine young woman.

shortlisted

Marcus Comes Out Online

Marcus Comes Out Online

littlerat

figure out transition and social media at the same time

shortlisted

Wrong Number

Wrong Number

Red Chan

How to turn a wrong number into a free movie date.

shortlisted

Curtain Call

Curtain Call

Mason Sabharwal, Zach Northrop, Melody X Wang, Jake Wylykanowitz, Ashley Ware

Curtain Call is a visual novel about (literally) breaking through our social masks to form meaningful connections with new and engaging personalities.

shortlisted

For Her Lady's Hand

For Her Lady's Hand

Lynne M. Meyer

A sapphic duet Caltrop Core TTRPG about risking everything for your happily-ever-after.

shortlisted

Social Moth

Social Moth

Social Moth Dev Team

A charmingly beautiful narrative platformer where you play as Aletris, a socially anxious moth trying to find their place in a daunting world!

shortlisted