Queer Games

Hypnospace Outlaw

📅 Release: 2019

👾 Developer: Tendershoot, Michael Lasch, ThatWhichIs Media

🎮 Publisher: No More Robots

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+, overtly pro-DEI, and overtly anti-free speech messaging. Portrays an 'alternate history' version of the internet in 1999 which is more 'inclusive' than it actually was.

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This Party is Killer DEMO

📅 Release: Coming Soon

👾 Developer: SweetToothTiger

🎮 Publisher: SweetToothTiger

LGBT+ cast of characters. Over 80+ lovingly hand-painted pieces of key art. Uncomfortable encounters that will leave you squirming.

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📅 Release: 2025

👾 Developer: Last Night Dreams

🎮 Publisher: Last Night Dreams

Agender cast of characters. The game is unintentionally a critique of the idea of gender and how much it means to us. _blank is a story of two AI fugitives trapped inside your computer. How they came to be here, who they are and what they want is for you to know.

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Humanity Must Perish

📅 Release: 2017

👾 Developer: Zetsubou

🎮 Publisher: Zetsubou

Contains overtly pro-climate action and overtly anti-human messaging. Kyuu states it must 'convince humans to reduce their carbon footprint, food intake, and birth rate.' Heavy social commentary.

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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

📅 Release: 2019

👾 Developer: ZA/UM

🎮 Publisher: ZA/UM

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Features multiple LGBTQ+ characters, including the player character. Heavy social commentary regarding communism. Whether pro or anti is unclear.

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Your Adventure

📅 Release: 2021

👾 Developer: Zachary Fox

🎮 Publisher: Zachary Fox

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Pronoun selection including options for they/them or custom pronouns. Multiple LGBTQ+ and non-binary characters.

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Kiss the Demiurge

📅 Release: 2022

👾 Developer: YuriEureka

🎮 Publisher: YuriEureka

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. The player character is a lesbian. Features lesbian characters and romance.

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AEW: Fight Forever

📅 Release: 2023

👾 Developer: YUKE'S

🎮 Publisher: THQ Nordic, All Elite Wrestling, LLC

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Features multiple LGBTQ+ playable characters. The roster is comprised of real-life wrestlers some of whom identify as LGBTQ+.

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Bugsnax

📅 Release: 2022

👾 Developer: Young Horses

🎮 Publisher: Young Horses

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Features multiple LGBTQ+ npcs, including the npc Floofty Fizzlebean who is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.

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Wail of Despair

📅 Release: Coming Soon

👾 Developer: Yai Gameworks

🎮 Publisher: Yai Gameworks

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. The player character is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.

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Shovel Knight Treasure Trove

📅 Release: 2014

👾 Developer: Yacht Club Games

🎮 Publisher: Yacht Club Games

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Now includes a body swap mode that allows you to independently change whether each character is male or female for his/her body and text.

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Shovel Knight Shovel of Hope

📅 Release: 2014

👾 Developer: Yacht Club Games

🎮 Publisher: Yacht Club Games

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Now includes a body swap mode that allows you to independently change whether each character is male or female for his/her body and text.

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Spellbound : The Magic Within

📅 Release: 2022

👾 Developer: Wyrdren Games

🎮 Publisher: Wyrdren Games

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. They/them body options. Pronoun selection and customization. Npcs have pronouns displayed next to their names. Ari is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns.

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Infinite Stars - The Visual Novel

📅 Release: 2022

👾 Developer: Wraiith303

🎮 Publisher: Wraiith303

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Pronoun selection. Same sex romance options.

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Wildermyth

📅 Release: 2021

👾 Developer: Worldwalker Games LLC

🎮 Publisher: Worldwalker Games LLC, WhisperGames

Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Non-binary gender option. Attracted to anyone option.

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Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition

📅 Release: 2020

👾 Developer: World's Edge, Tantalus Media, Forgotten Empires

🎮 Publisher: Xbox Game Studios

Contains overtly pro-DEI and overtly anti-colonialism messaging. A developer note displayed upon launch states how 'problematic and harmful' aspects of the original game have been changed.

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