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Itch.io’s Queer Games Bundle is back, offering hundreds of games for Pride monthT’is the season
T’is the season
For the second year in a row, queer developers have come together on itch.io to bundle up their games for a suggested price of $60. (There’s also a sliding scale starting at $10 for those who can’t afford that.) For that you really get a bit of everything - visual novels and Bitsy games and RPGs (computer) and RPGs (tabletop) and mystery games and poetry and game assets and music and so on, you get the picture.
Perhaps I can help with some recommendations, direct from the brain of a real life gay person. Morgue simulatorA Mortician’s Taleis in here, which is an unflinching look at the death industry. There’s alsoEVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK, the fantastic game/zine hybrid from Nathalie Lawhead. (Some of Lawhead’s other work is in here too, which I don’t have direct experience with but am confident enough to recommend anyway.)
A more recent release I’m thrilled to point to is Everest Pipkin’s Anonymous Animal. This is a browser poem that runs on the hour, every hour. It’s really special meditation on what it means to be present with other people within digital spaces, and also an ode to the time of off-site media hosting where so much of online was chaotic and broken and fascinating. I played it a couple of weeks ago and I still think about it often.
The Queer Games Bundle for 2022 can be found onitch.iofor $60.
