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From 57 to 21. It’s been less than a month since this year’s Melbourne Queer Games Festival showcase went live, and now… we have a lovely list of shortlisted games. Which means you should really check out this particular lot. Go on. They don’t bite. At least, I don’t think any of them do.
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Zen: A Gay Sequel
A stat-based, planner-focused gay dating sim set in college; also the sequel to Yearning: A Gay Story
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Starry Flowers
two witch boys fall in love
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Parcels and Pollen
Be a rabbit. Sell flowers. Make friends!
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What’s your gender?
a non-eucledian labyrinth, exploring terms and concepts related to gender and identity
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Minotaur Hotel
A gay romance visual novel where you meet the legendary minotaur and manage a magical hotel.
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userID
Log into the console and locate “userID.”
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TraceS
TraceS: Where our story hides is the first episode of a series of Bitsy games, which proposes to search for traces and archives of the fight against AIDS.
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Mizuchi 白蛇心傳
Mizuchi is a wlw a fantasy romance visual novel inspired by the Legend of the White Serpent and other multicultural myths.
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The Life of Saint Fiona Bianco Xena
“The Life of Saint Fiona Bianco Xena” tells the hotly disputed story of the fictitious saint’s life. Fiona is a kaleidoscopic vision of one woman seen through three rotating eyes, an illusion of separated light scattering in different directions.
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Happy Pride
In a Pride, Alex enjoys the party, meeting people and talking with them, and creates a zine about Prides’ history.
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A Day of Maintenance
An open world truck-sim driving game with gay robots in it
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Parmesan
an 8-bit story about a non-binary person being bullied for being who they are
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Weltschmerz
Two young trans men find themselves stuck together on a strange train.
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boy’s curse/boy’s blessing
boy’s curse/boy’s blessing is a desperate anti-dating sim, a shattered queer self-portrait, a shakily written list of every binary binding my body and ruining my heart.
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Winter
WINTER is an interactive fiction about sex, trans insecurity, and a girl with a skull for a face.
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violeta
Be a cat, be cute, listen to your friends, and knock over some plants if you feel like it.
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湯圓 [tong jyun]
a little chat about cooking & culture.
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Video World
Video World is a synth-pop halloween musical set in a 90s video store.
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Were|House
Were|House is a comedic visual novel with dashes of romance, where protagonist Dori gets roped into working alongside three monstrous cuties during Halloween!
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A Good Game We Can Speak Of
You send your queer game to the game publisher “fantastic-pear”. They’ll accept it, only if you modify it a little.
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co-open
co-open is a slice of life adventure game about a kid who is sent on their first independent grocery shopping run by their grandmother, that touches on supportive social systems and depicts casual queer representation.
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Cover Me In Leaves
An interactive fiction game about queerness and small towns.