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Ok I got a few suggestions from a couple different places so I might as well leave them here (I’ve only played a few of these so I can’t attest to quality of everything):
- Little Goody Two Shoes + its sequel - this was the most recommended at first I think, it has some dating sim elements but is at its core a horror game!
- In Stars in Time - Time Loop RPG with much of the main cast being explicitly queer
- Signalis - Sci-fi Survival horror
- Celeste - platformer with a canon trans main character, a trans creator and trans composer with a trans allegory for a story!
- Bugsnax - this game is difficult to describe without playing it as I can’t work out what you actually do in the game it but apparently there’s gay people. And I really want to play it
- The Path - Horror game! Izzyzzz has an iconic video on it
- Baldur’s Gate 3 - DnD
- Smile for Me - Horror/Puzzle game - really fun and has lots of cool characters
- MyHouse.WAD - might seem like an odd selection but just watch this video
- Chicory: A Colorful Tale - adventure/colouring game?
- Unpacking - didn’t add this at first as it’s kind of the cozy game I was trying to avoid a little in this list, however it is really successful in showing a compelling queer story through pure exposition and so I think it deserves an inclusion
Feel free to suggest more games! I think it’s kind of wild how few queer games exist outside the visual novel genre
Does anyone have any suggestions for queer/ queer coded video games that aren’t visual novels/dating sims or farming games …. 😁