LGBTQ+ Indie Games Rec List
I’ve seen several rec lists for books with LGBTQ+ content going around on tumblr, but what about indie games? So here’s a list of LGBT-friendly games that I find cool. I’ll update it as I find and play new ones! The genre classification is tentative as some don’t perfectly fit one genre or another.
Some of these are free but their developers accept donations. Do feel free to reblog or to message me with your favourite queer indie games, I’ll add them to the list.
Advising to check the latest version of the post before reblogging :^)
★ : personal favourite
RPGs
Starbot
(Le Petit Prince inspired; lesbian couple; homoparenthood?)
Pom Gets Wi-Fi
(gay dogs in love; parodies yaoi cliches)
The Yawhg
(★ ; choose-your-own-adventure; multiplayer option; multiple encounters with both male and female characters regardless of your character’s gender)
Dead State : Reanimated
(gay character; you can play a queer character)
Masquerada : Songs and Shadows
(tactical a-rpg; to be released in Summer; demo available; gay character; I’m really really excited about this one)
Divinity: Original Sin
(★ ; multiplayer option; closeted gay couple of background characters)
Seven Levels to Paradise
(classic jrpg-like; gay couple)
Embric of Wulfhammer’s Castle
(A+ humour; lesbian characters)
Always Sometimes Monsters
(lesbian and gay couples)
Moon Tree
(work in progress; gay couple)
Lonely Wolf Treat and its sequels Friendly Bunny Mochi and Clever Fox Moxie
(lesbian main character; lesbian secondary characters)
Mainichi
(slice of life; trans female main character)
Undertale
(★ ; genderqueer main character; lesbian couple)
Take the Dream IX
(lesbian couple)
Shadowrun: Dragonfall and Shadowrun: Hong Kong
(lesbian or bisexual secondary character; gay or bisexual secondary character; queer background characters)
Hospital Sleepover
(work in progress; bi and pansexual characters; aro and ace characters)
MMORPGs
Path of Exile
(couple of gay antagonists)
Action/Adventure games
Gone Home
(lesbian couple)
Lesbian Spider Queens From Mars
(★ ; arcade; the title says it all; this is exactly what you think it is)
Aerannis
(★ ; platformer with stealth; trans female main character)
Read Only Memories
(all shades of queer characters!)
Dreamfall Chapters
(★ ; goes with The Longest Journey; gay main character; gay secondary character; possible relationship between the two but still unclear; secondary lesbian couple)
Night in the Woods and set in the same world Lost Constellation and Longest Night
(NitW to be released soon; LN and LC available; anthropomorphic animals; gay couple; nonbinary god)
Mighty Jill Off
(★ ; platformer; lesbian main character; lesbian secondary character; BDSM themes)
Rogue Legacy
(platformer; gay and lesbian playable characters)
Sunless Sea
(goes with Fallen London; transgender and non-binary characters; queer romance options)
Point-and-clicks
Astronauts
(nsfw-ish; work in progress; gay couple)
Spotney
(anthropomorphic animals; gay characters)
A Normal Lost Phone
(bisexual and transgender characters)
The Longest Journey
(goes with Dreamfall Chapters; lesbian couple; gay background character)
Belladonna
(lesbian main character)
Simulators
Coming Out Simulator 2014
(★ ; bisexual characters; gay couple)
Stardew Valley
(★ ; farming simulation with rpg elements; 10 romancable characters regardless of your character’s gender; homoparenthood)
Papers, please
(★ ; immigration officer simulator; LGBT characters)
Rinse & Repeat
(nsfw-ish for homoeroticism; shower…simulation?)
Long Live the Queen
(queendom ruling simulation; romancable lesbian characters)
Pumpkin Online
(work in progress; multiplayer; farming simulation; genderqueer option for your character; romancable queer characters)
Puzzle games
Triad
(polyamorous relationship between three people)
One
(about homosexuality)
Road Not Taken
(your character’s gender is not explicit; queer romancable characters)
Visual novels
Persona 4 New Days
(★ ; Persona 4 fangame; male love interests for Souji/Yu; polyamorous relationship)
Coming Out On Top
(★ ; nsfw; A+ humour; romancable gay and bisexual characters)
We Know the Devil
(lesbian couples)
Kindred Spirits on the Roof
(nsfw-ish; lesbian couples)
Loren the Amazon Princess and Tales of Aravorn: Season of the Wolf
(rpg elements; romancable gay, lesbian, and bisexual characters)
Her Tears Were My Light
(lesbian couple)
Eldet
(kickstarting; demo available; LGBT characters)
Date or Die
(work in progress; trans female main character; trans male secondary character; genderqueer secondary character)
Love is Strange
(Life is Strange fangame; female love interests for Max)
Hustle Cat
(genderqueer option for your character; romancable characters of any gender)
Long Story
(genderqueer option for your character; romancable genderqueer character)
Brilliant Shadows
(lesbian main character; gay and bisexual secondary characters)
Analogue : A Hate Story
(romancable lesbian characters; lesbian couple)
Asphyxia
(romancable lesbian characters)
Great Personality: Guardians
(genderqueer option for your character; romancable queer characters)
Cute Demon Crashers
(nsfw; romancable pansexual female character)
Ladykiller in a bind
(work in progress; nsfw; romancable lesbian/bisexual characters; BDSM themes)
Text-based games
Guenevere
(★ ; Arthuriana; you play as Guenevere and can be in a relationship with Morgana; you can explicitely choose Guenevere’s sexual preference, including asexual; possible polyamory?)
Birdland
(lesbian main character)
Queers in Love at the End of the World
(you have 10 seconds with your lover before everything is wiped away)
Fallen London
(goes with Sunless Sea; trans and non-binary characters; queer romance options)
Wolfgirls in Love
(lesbian couple)
With Those We Love Alive
(trans female protagonist)
Creatures Such as We and other Choice of Games
(genderqueer and trans option for your character; characters romancable regardless of gender)
