Queer Games

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

📅 Release: 2017

👾 Developer: Machine Games

🎮 Publisher: Bethesda Softworks

Contains overtly pro-DEI messaging. Flashbacks retcon the player character's previously established background so he now had an abusive, racist father. MC is saved by his strong pregnant girlfriend, who manages to fight off a wave of nazis. The npc Grace Walker is the leader of a Black Power group and constantly engages in feminist, anti-male, and anti-white rhetoric.

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Pyre

📅 Release: 2017

👾 Developer: Supergiant Games

🎮 Publisher: Supergiant Games

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Pronoun selection including an option for they/them.

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Morph Girl

📅 Release: 2017

👾 Developer: Jaydeb

🎮 Publisher: Jaydeb

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. The player character is a lesbian grieving her wife's death.

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Love Ribbon

📅 Release: 2017

👾 Developer: Razzart Visual

🎮 Publisher: Razzart Visual

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Features lesbian characters and romance. The player character is a lesbian. The adult patch adds female-female homoeroticism.

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Kindred Spirits on the Roof

📅 Release: 2016

👾 Developer: Liar-soft

🎮 Publisher: MangaGamer

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Features multiple lesbian characters and multiple homosexual romantic relationships.

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Dead by Daylight

📅 Release: 2016

👾 Developer: Behaviour Interactive Inc.

🎮 Publisher: Behaviour Interactive Inc.

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Pride flags, LGBTQ+ characters, removed Leatherface's ability to wear POC survivor's faces, retroactively changed David's sexuality to be more inclusive.

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Princess Remedy 2: In A Heap of Trouble

📅 Release: 2016

👾 Developer: Ludosity

🎮 Publisher: Ludosity

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. The player character is pansexual. Any npc you have healed can be asked out on a date.

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Sid Meier’s Civilization VI

📅 Release: 2016

👾 Developer: Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)

🎮 Publisher: 2K, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)

Contains overtly pro-DEI messaging. Contains overtly pro-climate action messaging. Race swapped Suleiman and added historically unimportant female leaders. Global warming and carbon capture mechanics.

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Darkest Dungeon®

📅 Release: 2016

👾 Developer: Red Hook Studios

🎮 Publisher: Red Hook Studios

Contains overtly pro-DEI messaging. Features multiple female heroes who are front-line combatants, including the Arbalest, a WOC wearing full plate armor who wields a giant crossbow.

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Escape from Pleasure Planet

📅 Release: 2016

👾 Developer: Up Multimedia

🎮 Publisher: Up Multimedia

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. The player character is gay. Features a story about gay characters and interactions.

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Killing Time at Lightspeed: Enhanced Edition

📅 Release: 2016

👾 Developer: Gritfish

🎮 Publisher: Green Stripe Snake

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+, overtly pro-Transhumanism, overtly pro-DEI, and overtly pro-climate action messaging. Multiple npcs use they/them pronouns. Heavy social commentary.

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Battlefield 1

📅 Release: 2016

👾 Developer: DICE

🎮 Publisher: Electronic Arts

Contains overtly pro-DEI messaging. Historically inaccurate POC soldiers on both sides.

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Love, Guitars, and the Nashville Skyline

📅 Release: 2016

👾 Developer: Cosmillica

🎮 Publisher: Sekai Project

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Features a story about lesbian characters and romance. The player character is a lesbian. Heavy social commentary.

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Radiator 2: Anniversary Edition

📅 Release: 2016

👾 Developer: Robert Yang

🎮 Publisher: Robert Yang

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Features male-male homoeroticism.

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Bastard Bonds

📅 Release: 2016

👾 Developer: Bigfingers

🎮 Publisher: Bigfingers

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Features multiple LGBTQ+ characters and interactions. The game takes place on an island where most characters are gay males.

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