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TITLE: "虚构未来（Imaginary future)"

RELEASED: jan 25 2024

GENRE: Turn based RPG, Mystery, Occult, F/F, anti fascist.

Play as Gu Shuoyue, former leader of the defeated black shadows gang. Forced to work as a cop, her handler's cases take her to the heart of a cult conspiracy to destroy her hometown of Serbia. Great small stories and fun femme cast, story focused long game with F/F scenes! Detailed RPG maker game with a day system, I highly recommend this story!

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TITLE: "Penny's Big Breakaway"

RELEASED: "Feb 21, 2024"

GENRE: 3D Platforner, speed running, Anti-Fascist, hopeful!

Roll swing and dance as Penny and yoyo in this slick and satisfying 3D platformer!! Together perform mutual aid as you outrun penguin cops, make lasting friends and reknit the fabric of community as they return for their star studded debuts! The soundtrack is fantastic and the levels are creative, a must play title for any genre fans or speed nerds. The story is simple and touching and the conclusion was hopeful in a way that made me happy

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TITLE: "Death of a Wish"

RELEASED: "Mar 11, 2024"

GENRE: Action RPG, Brawler, Anti-Fascist

Christian embarks on a quest for vengeance as he rips and tears thru nightmares and the NEO-SANCTUM to crush their power and snuff out their organization. Team up with old friends and rebel groups to crush their sick fantasy and rise up against fascist theocratic atrocity.

The gameplay is slick and stylish and tho the visuals made me seize (until they didn't???) they are extremely unique! i really recommend this to anyone seeking vengeance or catharsis, especially for its discussion of solo vengeance!

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TITLE: "Mary Skelter Finale"

RELEASED: Sep 12, 2023

GENRE: Dungeon Crawler, Visual Novel Turn Based RPG

The finale in the mary skelter series of 3d dungeon crawler RPGs! You could easily play this after "Mary Skelter 2" because the timelines of 1+2 merge for 3 and the backstory of 1 is well summarized. The opening has the blood maidens face to face with some intense violence so it might be hard to play this first. An ensemble cast of Blood maidens fighting to escape a warped earth where living jails consume and twist human lives. Marchens roam the dungeons and powerful nightmares stalk the halls but at the end of this finale the cast finally reaches out to live their freedom from jail once and for all. Its a satisfying end to a great series but a long long game.

🩸💉Upsides

Great systems, upsetting environments

Varied-ish Cast of Neurodivergent femmes

Sapphic content (f/f couple in main cast, central to second games story)

🔪🔥Downsides

Huge dungeons, 3 party split means 3x size

Ableism issues, tw: Hameln's speech is mocked even more than 2. The happily ever after ending cures everyone of their blood libido "neurodivergence"

Mascs are still technically the main characters in two parties so the bechdel test ratio gets way rougher than 2.

Why play?

Hack and slash and power creep your way through difficult encounters with compelling mechanics, unforgettable locations, enemies and conflicts! If you like fairy tales the aesthetic will resonate with you!

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TITLE: "Mylene and the Lust Temple"

RELEASED: Feb 1, 2024

GENRE: non-con eroge

Strange and fun short non-con game!

Mylene is a low power, low confidence magician who learns hidden magick to drain magical power from sexual desire. She uses this gift to travel to a sealed nearby temple and find a cure for her daddy's terminal ilness.

Battles are bonking into others, it costs mp, but there is no turn based system. There's optional requests with the magician's guild and some optional scenes along the way!

I had fun, i'd definitely recommend this game to anyone who enjoys f/m non-con games!

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TITLE: "Slave Princess Finne, why did she sell out her own kingdom?"

RELEASED: Oct 13, 2023

GENRE: Eroge, Turn Based RPG

Strange and compelling eroge about a world where humans won a wish granting contest with the godess. They chose to be above everyone else and enslave elves. Finne is a half elf who can switch back and forth from human to elf as she chooses. Adopted by the human royals she becomes their representative, while secretly acting as the elf queens champion. The game is a quick romp & stomp thru dungeons with side quests and some optional content. The main story a touching slow build, and I really liked Liss the demon paragon.

The Ero content is f/m, mean non-con with a misogynistic gross out flavor. Theres also a lot of fantasy race play, heavy intox scenes, and multiple slavery ends.

❌T/W & potential deal breakers❌

⛓️Heavy over 18 Loli content🚨, Finne's human form is labeled "human(loli)" and treated as such and if you choose not to rescue Liss there's scenes with her too.

🤢 Smegma/grossout 🧼

Rough anatomy descriptions

Terrible depiction of sex work

💊rude depictions of drug use & addiction

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TITLE: "Crystal Story Dawn of Dusk"

RELEASED: Jan 12, 2024

GENRE: Adventure, Turn/Action based rpg

I liked the title, and the art & imagery was thin. The gameplay is okay, and the story is short and sweet! You could play thru most or all of this game in one session and as an undertale-like it's fun! I liked how the turn based boss battles draw a window with the typical action gameplay for dodging and charging moves. Apparently this is part of an upcoming series so its more of a taste of whats to come. If u like weird rpg's its a great one-shot.

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TITLE: "TEVI"

RELEASED: Nov 29, 2023

GENRE: Battle Platformer, Backtracking, Bullet ocean.

Hot new release from CreSpirit, devs of previous snake x bullet ocean rec "Last Command", and action platformer "Rabi-Ribi". This Battle platformer blends bullet ocean mechanics into boss and enemy encounters to create a ranged/melee system that feels gripping and definitive. Abundant Sigils (costing build defining EP) and super diverse combo options make the systems feel super exciting. The movement and patterns in all encounters feel great, and the story is unmissable. This game stands among all time greats as a true pleasure for metroidvania fans. The character designs are diverse and stylish and theres touching and heartfelt LGBTQ+ representation!

I give this my full, sincere, recommendation as an all time hit!

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TITLE: "Eris Dysnomia"

RELEASED: Aug 18, 2023

GENRE: Eroge, beat-em up

Fun Horny beat em up with some repeating scenes, theyre mostly f/m with two f/f scenes at the end. It was difficult to avoid non-con grabs (more so with optional abilities) so i liked that you're able to be fully resistant and still experience the ero scenes. There are many skills you can develop with changing names based on xp levels but the title names can be a bit degrading (enjoyable?!). Big rec as a simple game with flashy combos and strong systems.

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TITLE: "Cookie Cutter"

RELEASED: "Dec 14, 2023"

GENRE: Metroidvania, 2D Brawler, Revenge

Play as Cherry, an amnesiac android & cut a path to her kidnapped creator. In this world humans have their souls extracted and placed within immortal android bodies to perform endless labor for Infonet, their capitalistic overlords. The gameplay is weighty and dodging or combos are key to surviving fights with many opponents. The weapons and finishers are creative and very fun, so are the void powers and build options! All the zones feel very distinctive and are fairly large. The boss encounters are fun and varied!

Overall the story was pretty compelling and the characters were appealing. I',d strongly recommend this game to any metroidvania fans!

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TITLE: "Scarlet Maiden"

RELEASED: Sep 15, 2023

GENRE: Roguelike, Eroge, action

"Scarlet Maiden" is a gameplay heavy, eroge roguelike with a high variety of shorter scenes and mostly f/x content. Nearly all the scenes are penetrative, but there is a lot of f/f scenes and good genital variety. The scenes are goofy and gameplay affecting, granting items and power boosts to the polished gameplay. The Sin you collect in the underworld can be handed over for permeant boosts, and you get lots each run.

Negatives:

There aren't any trans-masc characters, and nearly all bodies have pale skin, or are enemies with fantasy skin tones.

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Title: "Baldur's Gate 3"

Released: Aug 3, 2023

Genre: RPG, turn based strategy

Well known and well loved, "Baldur's Gate 3" has already been played by many RPG genre fans. Anyone who likes Larian's "Divinity Original Sin 2" will recognize the similar gameplay, otherwise it can be a little difficult to pick up. The systems and wandering are wrapped in Dungeons & Dragons lore and drenched in production value. Most dialogue is voiced, and the set dressing is very detailed. The character building and roleplay options are robust and kind of linear. If you aren't into mind flayers the plot focus can be a turn off. There are some truly great dialogue lines, scenarios, stories and encounters to be seen. However there are major flaws.

The world has LGBTQ+ people, scenes and characters are central to the plot even if they can be missed. There is the option to select pronouns independent of the player's body (she/her, he/his and they/them). There is one trans character very hidden away near the end of act 3. There are few fat characters anywhere, and the character customization does not let you create a fat character.

Another Owlbear in the room is the near abscence of characters with darker skin tones in the main cast, APID people are non existent in faerun. The world is slightly better with non-white characters playing major roles in many quests throughout the game. However many characters with darker skin tones (Minthara, Mizora and Wulbren) are fantasy races and played by white VAs.

There is also whorephobia, a SW can be found as a missing murder victim chained under a bed, when informed of her killing the brothel owner treats her as disposable. As an ex sw'er I found it painful.

It is long, those flaws might not even be noticable to some. But it remains very missable. The time commitment can be a big ask and the pacing drags in the 2nd and third act.The plot is mostly anti-fascist.🤷‍♀️

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Title: "Laika: Aged Through Blood"

Released: 2023, Oct 19th

Genre: Bikes, guns, serious tone, post apocalypse, anti fascist

Spin wheels and slay bird-fascists as you prevent their next atrocity from destroying the peace of "Where We Live". Play as Laika, a cursed Immortal protector in a family of women who become mortal when their daughters come of age and bleed for the first time. Heavy themes of generational trauma and violence. This story of resistance is set to a beautiful soundtrack by Beicoli, and the visuals are stunning. Some of the backtracking gets repetitive.

CW: discussions of violence commited by/to violence do-ers(heavy tw on start), and on screen acts in gameplay and cutscenes, traveling somewhere where many experience death.

I would highly recommend this story!

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TITLE: "Lunarlux"

RELEASE DATE: September 25th, 2023

GENRE: Turn Based RPG, Hopepunk, End-Resistance.

LunarLux is a story of life on Luna during the comet Coda crisis. 255 days until the antimatter comet destroys all life on luna, Just as it did on Terra. Bella and Tetra are members of the Lunex Force, together they defeat anti-matter life-forms known as murks that emerge from the phantom realm to attack humans. But where did the murks come from, and why is the masked-murk-slayer collecting the anti-cores left behind when they die?

Together resist the end and fight for truth, to protect all human souls!

The gameplay is 🔥 with lots of build variety, great action-input abilities, and strong comboes. Anyone who liked grid based systems like "mega man battle network" or "one step from eden" will love the play, and this weaves in the soul- dodging bullet ocean mechanics people love from undertale with recharging shields for extra breathing room.

This is a genre hit, a must play!

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Title: "Lost Chapter"

Released: July 17th, 2023

Genre: eroge, card-based-roguelike

Play a nameless wanderer travellijg across the underworld to be born!

The card based gameplay gets very tough, but is simple and lots of fun.

The art is very nice and though most of the lewd content is non-con and in fights, the systems for lewd attacks are very strong. Making your opponents cum, and taking that advantage to defeat them immediately is a very powerful option for most builds.

The themes and writing are very inspirational, about leaving who you were behind with each footstep.

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Title: "First Snow"

Released: Aug 19, 2020

Genre: romance, visual novel

Free F/F visual novel about the romance between college first-years Allison Merlo/Eileen Turner.

Set in a Utah community college, both meet as their mutual friend Caprice Shiften asks them to form a new art club together. The pacing is relaxed, the romance grows over a college term and winter break. Themes of leaving home, struggling to connect with family, Queerness and coming out, seperation and isolation. I would recommend this story to anyone about to leave for college.

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Title: "Human Farm Rehabilitation "

Released: Aug 4, 2023

Genre: Horror, Eroge, Escaping

Escape cow-assaulting creeps and captivity in a place where human-femme captivity and drinking that milk is normalized.

I tend resistant so I found the normalization slimy, tw fet gaze patriarchy on the non sexual scenes. Also fuck captivity ✨🔪