[H] Games [W] Recommendations (active LGBTQIA+ GAs again, and the recs remains!)

These games aren't exactly cozy, but they have cozy moments, and the LGBTQ+ depictions are wholesome in my humble opinion:

Speed Dating for Ghosts - A thoughtful vn about life (and the afterlife) from different perspectives. It's funny, heartwarming, sad, touching. The dialogue seemed very natural. You can date any ghost, and it's worth dating them all.

Sorcery! series - There are 4 chapters total. LGBTQ+ content is mostly in 3&4. It's a fantasy choose your own adventure booked adapted into a game. The world is imaginative, and you're given spells that make for creative approaches to it. It's fun and dangerous. A couple of story events and romances are gender-locked, but most aren't.

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Sorcery! makes me nostalgic for the time I was saving up on my allowance to buy those CYOA books. Especially the fantasy ones.
A prelude to actual table top RPG gaming once I found my tribe.
They were cool but they didn't have much romance and very definitely not of the open-minded kind when there was any.
Looks like a cool one.

Speed Dating Ghosts reminds me of Monster Prom

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Table top gaming looks fun! I’m glad those books opened up a new hobby for you. You might enjoy text games from the interactive fiction database if you haven’t already tried them. Most are free and can be played on mobile or pc. I haven’t played enough to suggest ones with LGBTQ+ content, although I’ve read that 80 Days has it. It’s also on steam.

Speed Dating for Ghosts is more meditative than Monster Prom, which is pretty high energy and has some gameplay on top of being a visual novel. But they’re both humorous :)

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You might enjoy text games from the interactive fiction database if you haven’t already tried them

Never have but I definitely will now. The internet really is a wonderful place at times.
Thanks for the link :)

Speed Dating for Ghosts is more meditative than Monster Prom, which is pretty high energy

Haha yep high energy for sure!

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Can you elaborate on Sorcery? I played them a lot back in the day but I don't remember seeing any queer content (and there definitely wasn't any in the original books) :x

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I haven’t read the original books (hope to), but in the game, you can play as a man or woman and have both men and women show interest in your character. The main romance option is a man though, who appears in more than one game/book. Others are limited to one game and might just be a brief reference. The focus is more on adventuring than romance, but it’s there.

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Do you remember which characters offer this option? Like I played the first two as both genders and don't remember any romance options, but maybe they were just on a path I didn't take.

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I don't remember 1&2 as well (spoilers):
Meeting Flanker in 1&2 is the beginning of an optional romance that progresses in 3&4, for either gender. I played as a woman, and these women were interested in her: A cook maid in 4, a fortune-teller in 3&4 (Elthera?)
Those are the ones I know for sure. This reddit thread lists some more that I'm not sure about- a guide, festival goer, werewolf, Alianna. I'll edit my post to specify that 3&4 are the ones that contain lgbtq+ content. Thanks for pointing that out, I'm forgetful.

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Thanks for the list I wasn't expecting Alianna to be in there (kinda a waifu from my teen years lol) :D Dunno if she'll be interested in a female MC or how it would matter in the long run considering she's just a minor character but it's something to look forwad to :)

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Some of these are hard to figure out how to encounter! I wish I could help you. I’m pretty sure I never met Alianna. I should replay, but I burnt my eyes replaying so much recently haha. Good luck with it!

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She's in the first book but yeah it's easy to miss her if you don't take the right path, unlike Flanker who you'll always meet (and who consequently seems to be the most developed romance option).

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Just dropping a warm recommendation for Across the Grooves (thanks Foxy (•‿•))
I wasn't sure what to expect but I was surprised by how very much drawn I was into the story.
The writing is excellent and, while there are romantic interests and some of the story is based in that, it's above all a story about identity and the interconnection of lives through random encounters, friendships and of course love.
I won't spoil it but it's definitely one of the best VN I have played (and I'm not very much into the genre as a whole) so give it a try if you have the chance.

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adam1224

Until Then looks very promising

4 months ago

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Foxpile

Cheers!

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