Should you’re in search of nice indie video games to check out, look no additional than Itch.io’s Queer Games Bundle. That is the third 12 months the corporate has bundled video games in celebration of the queer developer group, to have a good time Pleasure Month. This assortment of 466 video games, tabletop video games, books, zines, albums, and artwork prices $60, which can also be “the worth of an AAA recreation,” the bundle web page notes. (There’s additionally an choice to spend a sliding scale of $10 – 20 on the bundle.) Practically 300 queer creators are featured.
“If we had the finances of an AAA recreation, we might give each solo developer on this bundle a livable wage a number of instances over for a 12 months and each single crew an enormous funding increase,” the bundle description reads. “Think about what the builders and artists on this bundle might create a 12 months from now in the event that they weren’t nervous about ravenous or how one can pay their lease this month.”
The gathering features a broad vary of cool artistic works, together with romance visible novel Lookouts, developed in the course of the Homosexual Western Jam (cool theme, should you ask me.) There’s additionally Hoping This Finds You Well, a letter-writing recreation meant to “evoke the distinctly candy homoeroticism of Victorian and Edwardian literature.” I’ve additionally been taken in by Rodents With Guitars, a TTRPG the place you play as rodents attempting to win a battle of the bands.
That is one in every of many itch.io bundles that numerous communities have launched up to now few years for social causes, together with bundles for Racial Justice and Equality, Abortion Funds, Ukraine, and Trans Witches Are Witches (a bundle offered as an alternative choice to Hogwarts Legacy).