“Detroit: Become Human” Mines Familiar Social Justice Stories for Empathy and Fails Miserably
It’s a really pretty game, though, and there’s a very good dog.
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“Gorogoa” is a Gorgeous, Dreamy Puzzle Experience That’ll Let You Put Your Stress on Hold
This game was exactly what I needed: a couple of hours where my busy brain could focus on tangible puzzles with achievable solutions.
Mario Kart Characters Ranked in Terms of Queerness
I always played as Toad or Yoshi, which I didn’t know at the time was because I was gay! Or it turned me gay; it’s not clear which. Some Mario Kart characters are more queer than others, and over the many years and 10+ games we’ve had plenty of opportunity to speculate about their IDs.
“House Flipper” Gives You the Power to Live Your Wildest Real Estate Mogul Dreams
“It’s not even about fanciness or property ownership as much as it’s about imagining if my house could just be clean right now? It’s a powerful drug, let me tell you.”
Even My Soft Butch Hufflepuff Dreamboat Couldn’t Redeem the Cash-Grabbing Mess of “Hogwarts Mystery”
Merlin’s Beard, Jam City! Way to take all the magic out of Hogwarts!
You Should Play “NieR: Automata” if You Like Hot Androids, Cute Robots, or Nude Somebodies
The combat has a frenetic arcade-iness that makes me a little giddy even as I’m being chewed up by the robot dog that was for some reason built under the metallic skirts of the robot diva that was for some reason deemed an essential part of the robot invasion force.
“Celeste” Is a Very Difficult Video Game for People Who Know What It’s Like to Have Something to Prove
Celeste sets out to climb a mountain and learns a whole lot about herself along the way.
TDOV Spotlight: Annie Mok’s “They Say That I’m A Witch”
“Traveling back in time to school days, and getting to confront one’s bully, hit me viscerally. I found myself going through the game over and over.”
6 Video Games For Springtime’s Short Attention Spans
Hi hello and welcome to springtime, when the weather has no predictable pattern and neither does my attention span. Here are some games I’ve picked up for five minutes or thirty minutes or maybe even an entire hour at a time lately.
“Butterfly Soup” and “GENDERWRECKED” Are the Queer Indie Games You’re Looking For
These days, I constantly crave queer ass stories about queer ass characters. Luckily for us all, there are some incredible indie game creators who are here to give the people what we want: gays!
“Lost Wage Rampage” Is Your Morning Coffee Spite Play, Highly Recommend
Friedhoff games always give players a space to vent rage without real-world consequences; Lost Wage Rampage is no exception, and whoo boy, do we got a lot of rage.
6 Women Speedrunners to Follow After Awesome Games Done Quick 2018
Aside from the record-breaking amount of donations received, women speedrunners were more prominent than ever at this winter’s AGDQ.
If You Love Brave Little Toasters and BB8 You’re Gonna Want To Play “Rumu”
This is a game about a vacuum that is not about vacuuming, and it’s a game about sadness that is not a sad game. I did cry at the end, but I basically always cry at the end.
“Monster Hunter World” Gives Gay Gamers the Gift of Fighting Alongside Cat Companions
Even if I don’t especially want to kill the dinosaurs, who have been killed enough by now in my opinion, seeing Budgie whacking a T Rex in the face with a lute that I made her to distract it long enough for me to chug a health potion really does just warm my heart.
“Doki Doki Literature Club” Doesn’t Subvert Dating Sim Misogyny as Much as It Thinks It Does
Rather than simply acknowledging the ridiculous trope of no female agency in dating sims and attempting to explain it away from a meta perspective, I wish the game had instead just given the girls more agency.
“Life Is Strange: Before the Storm” Episode Three Is Such a Frustrating End to Such a Beautiful Thing
“The question I asked after Episode One was always hovering, and it’s up to Episode Three to answer it: Is this story as doomed as it seems it has to be, and is that a story we should allow ourselves to get invested in? I super wish I could tell you that the day was saved and everybody is okay or, most of all, that the story honored itself to the very end. I wish a lot of things, let me tell you.”
I Accidentally Punched The Virtual Reality Assistant Who Helped Me Become Wonder Woman and It Was So Worth It
It’s so weird and different and fun!
“VA-11 Hall-A” Is A Good Gay Video Game For a Winter Murder Break
Jill has a crush on her boss, Dana, and, predictably, so do I. She also has an ex-girlfriend that’s a whole tropey plot of its own. There’s a gay biker boy and a lesbian veterinarian who works at a company owned and run by dogs.
“Steven Universe: Save the Light” Is a Warm Blanket in a Cold World
A sweet, exciting RPG that’ll give you warm fuzzy feelings and non-binary heart eyes for days.
“Dishonored: Death of the Outsider” Gives Us Another Queer Protagonist We Want to Go Stabbing and Drink a Beer With
It’s also just so great to see a major games developer consistently shrug off the idea that a protagonist has to be a white man somewhere between CW Love Interest and CW Hot Dad in age whose character development can be deduced by counting the number of grey hairs in his angst-stubble.