Cozy Games for the People Who Are Already Tired of This Year
Rather than being defined by genre, cozy games are identified by vibes. They’re soft in tone and connect players to themes like friendship and cooperation.
How AI Erases Queer Content
“In an uncanny way that only AI can achieve, this expressed rationale mirrors a common feeling held by cis folks when interacting with trans people: the paralyzing dread of saying the wrong thing.”
Dice Sets Ranked by How Much My Girlfriend Wants To Eat Them
My girlfriend Lucy lives with the neurodivergent urge to put small, colorful things in her mouth.
Jump Into Pen-and-Paper Roleplaying With These Free and Simple Systems
Here’s a bunch of easy-to-learn roleplaying systems that are still packed with love and detail. They’re also better than cheap. They’re free.
An Unkempt List of Great Video Games for Queer Relationships
Someone saw Stardew Valley and decided it wasn’t gay enough. That’s how we ended up with Fae Farm.
Palworld Could Be Your Relationship’s New Favorite Game
I tried Palworld because my bestie told me to.
9 of the Best Queer Video Games of 2023
Adventure games, farming sims, and even a musical! Check out this list of some of the best — and queerest — games of 2023.
Queer Dungeons & Transgender Dragons: Exploring Gender Through Imagined Worlds
In D&D, your character’s gender is entirely yours to invent. When you’re already embodying the experience of a half-elf or a cat person, playing a person of another gender isn’t all that strange. From there, anything is possible.
From Birdetta to Flea: 12 Trans Video Game Characters From the 80’s and 90’s
Whether we’re claiming a beloved, aspirational character or simply being mocked, the following characters are proof we’ve always been in the vast world of gaming.
Fae Farm Is Your New Stardew Valley — Including, Yes, Gay Marriage!
If you like growing crops, fighting magical monsters, collecting stuff, and making a whole town fall in love with you, I’ve got some great news.
The Teal Mask Is a Sweet, Shiny Addition to Pokémon Scarlet & Violet
The Teal Mask builds on the sweetness that the base game gave us in all our main character stories last time around.
The Journal-Planner That Turned My Real Life Into a Video Game
The Hero’s Journal is more about the vibes, like cozy fantasy, than it is about actually making it to Mordor with a cursed ring in your pocket and hurling it into a fiery doom.
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood: A Tarot-Making Game That Explores Gender, Grief, and More
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood is queer spooky season catnip.
My 10 Best Butch Haircuts in Video Games
How could Cassandra ever refuse my elfin shaggy butch style??
MONOPOLY GO! Has Made a Monster Out of Me
I’m playing this game by asking myself what my actual favorite top-hatted person would do: And Anne Lister would stop at nothing to become a railroad tycoon!
Yep, You Can Be Gay and/or Trans and/or Nonbinary in “Baldur’s Gate 3”
There’s even gay sex scenes, like every good pen-and-paper D&D game.
Hello Kitty Island Adventure Is Your New Animal Crossing
My Melody? Yep, she owns a gift shop and bosses me around! Badtz-maru? Mm-hmm, he has a comic book stand on the dock!
Marxist Barbie Discourse and the Weird Wide Web of Queer Video Essays
So what is there to do now that you’ve seen Barbie twice? I will be watching as many long, overly elaborate, documentary-style YouTube video essays about the subject as I possibly can.
The 10 Gayest Video Game Moments I Found When Cleaning My Nintendo Switch and PS5
This girl I flirted with three times in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey gave me the choice of being with her or killing her! ETERNAL LOVE OR DEATH. Lesbians, dude.
“Critical Role” Campaign 3 is Gayer Than Ever
Nic and Valerie discuss how Imogen and Laudna finally kissed, and all the other gay goings-on of Critical Role’s third campaign.