Here are a selection of queer games our jury really liked this year.
Nocturnals
Max Jolly
A short, choose your own adventure game about two boys that find each other in a lonely, post-apocalyptic town.
DEVIL'S LIMINAL
Renee Blair, Iris van Peer
A branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel inspired by Azores folklore and Goethe's Faust about a last summer in Arizona.
A Sunday Afternoon
Sofia Wickerhauser
Help the insecure Lucas explore a watercolored São Paulo and solve puzzles to complete a sticker album to gift his crush in this cute-as-heck visual novel!
MAW
Miroslav Prokop, Nikola Šolaja
Narrative driven adventure about a queer wolf detective sniffing out crimes for a totalitarian regime.
Sucks to be in the sticks
Alyona
A newly turned queer vampire surviving in a post-Soviet decaying town
TEKNOKRAT
Vertebrae Entertainment: Hauk Seim Flåøien and Åge Markus Schultz
Gay sci-fi thriller/romance visual novel where you, a cyborg repairman, find yourself dragged into a city-wide conspiracy.
Glory Hounds
Redd, Sabre
A gay furry visual novel about superheroes operating in a city inspired by Amsterdam, where the canals house entire city districts.
UNDER | HEAVEN
Faintlyspotted
A visual novel about art, survival, and buulding a life worth fighting for.
Quality Dreams, Reasonably Priced
zorkie studios
Decide how to sell body mods as you juggle your clients' needs against earning enough to save your sick pet rabbit.
Night Shift: 1999
Georgina Owassapian
Balance work, vampirism and socialising as you explore Kings Cross, Sydney during the last year of the millennium.
LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST
Stanley Baxton
A self-described "chronically online" trans guy goes to a kink club thinking it will fix him. It doesn't.
transitional roads
Sasha Deetar
An abstract game about the simultaneity of trauma and escapism, choice and powerlessness, endings and new beginnings.
procuring estrogen for your toxic slime girlfriend
Spiders
slime gf is not feeling super hot today... help her procure some estrogen!
Welcome to Spring Flounder Cove
BigBeefySharkBaby
Go fishing with your BFF who you're madly in love with and make cool music together.
Final Profit: A Shop RPG
Brent Arnold
An incremental RPG where capitalism is your enemy, but also your weapon.
DYKESOMMAR
lasticotdelespace
Explore the importance of preserving the legacy of lesbian culture and of living your identity proudly.
My Buddy Did Something Weird And Now I Have Feelings For Him??!?!?
HiroRCK
A cute and silly comedy about fake-dating your bro and falling in love with him.
Doce Fim
Meiri
A queer psychological narrative game about mental health and love both platonic and romantic - a story in the works for 10 years.
Creatures Like Us
Circle-A Studios
A narrative driven life sim about anarcha-queer squatting, mutual aid, and system change. Balance individual & community needs to smash capitalism!
Ediction
Nathaniel Santore & Mauricio Castillo
Raised from the dead, a man whose life was riddled with pain is made to consider what his last words will be once again.
Adaptory
Jevon Wright
A 2D base-building survival game, combining multiple complex simulations with a story-rich world.
Silverstone
BrickZed
Zeke and his friends return to the coastal ghost town of Silverstone after an exodus occured 15 years ago. However, the horrors from before still lurk there...
I'm Making a Monster
zorkie studios
Cope with grief by pouring yourself into making a monster while your friends bother you to take breaks.
Trans Theft Horso
Ben Swithen
A colourful western adventure about pursuing gender gladness across a chaotic west.
