Who tf are you? Why are you shilling this game so bad? I don't like this
Well, you see anon, when you actually possess genuine love and appreciation for something
especially something that usually gets left in the dirt, like, say, a heavily queer romance game with an all black cast, including the MC, and that allows you to be MANY flavors of queer - lesbian, bi/pansexual, ace, even polyamorous
and you are aware of just how much passion and love the devs have for their own creation, despite being well aware of how the deck is stacked against them in terms of racism, queerphobia, everything indie devs have to fight against before all that...
You try to help fight against that in whatever way you can!
However, I am by far not some big tumblr blog with hundreds of thousands of followers. I have generally been content to do my own little thing in my own little corner. Which is fine, generally, but is a problem when I want to really help rally a cause I'm passionate about.
So yeah! I have to do things the old fashioned way by going to people individually and telling them about this game! Because, clearly, me just posting about it, reblogging from the dev, is only going to get me so far.
Which is frustrating, let me tell you, because then I go to look at how the kickstarter is doing, and see it's not even halfway, and there's only a week left, and I'm well aware of how they're down $5,000 because of fuckery from some scammer on kickstarter...
...and then I get to look at tumblr, or twitter, and at any given time see a post going
"MLM media is ALWAYS more popular than WLW, it's misogyny, people are so male-centered, there's no WLW media"
with thousands of notes, retweets, etc
A fraction of attention which cannot be sent this game's way
Like, I've tried to stay bubbly and positive when rec'ing this game to all the people I've tried to talk to on various social medias, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't kinda pissed about all that. Women of Xal is SUCH a good series, with SO much dedication to it from the devs, that it deserves more than what it's getting.
Anyway. Check out Women of Xal, and the kickstarter for its sequel. You can get the first game for free right now while this kickstarter is running.
It is a political fantasy drama where you play as Xjena, a young woman with the ability to see into the future. You are gunning for the powerful political position known as "Matriarch", but have to compete with various other women for this spot. Other mysteries and drama are all happening at the same time. There are a plethora of romantic options, some of which you can pursue polyamory with, and all of which you can refuse if you decide to be asexual.
If you want even more detail on the story, this post does an excellent job on that.
You can get this first game for free on itchio with no trouble, and get it for free on Steam if you simply hit up the dev's discord
Original Game Free! The revolution begins. Can Xjena survive rising violence and The Great Silence— Xal's final extinction event?
Now if you'll excuse me, I am going to try not to throw rocks through people's windows.
