#the music was sooo unnecessary btw

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thanks! wish i was dead!

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GAMES WITH TRANS/NONBINARY REP!!

Happy pride month!! I love playing video games so I thought it'd be neat to share the many many games I've played with nonbinary and trans characters >:3

Sorry in advanced I’m copying and pasting stuff from twitter ;v; Also know that many of these games ARE on consoles, but if you buy them on pc/mac use itch.io if it exists. It gives devs more money!!

VALIDATE!!  There's a demo on Steam and Itch.io that you can play RIGHT NOW and also a patreon you can support and I highly suggest it ^o^ It's a lovely VN with several playable characters and rlly good writing

Extreme Meatpunks forever is so SO good omg. It's a VN/mech brawler where u be gay and fight fascists!!! Trans and nonbiney ppl are out here being badass af. The game has cws/tws built into the game ( which i love sm ) Also there's a ttrpg on Kickstarter RIGHT NOW!! 

Another game with nonbinary characters is an rpg called Ikenfell! It was one of my favorite games to play last year and the music and just everything? Honestly so good I'm def replaying it this year. It also has tons of good accessibility features!

ok but i wanna geek abt ikenfell just a smidge more  U DON'T UNDERSTAND 3 OF THE PLAYABLE CHARACTERS ARE NONBINARY <333 The strongest playable character also uses ze/zir pronouns and I think that's pretty epic

Ok so like literally every game I've played by @analgesicprod I've loved 100% And Anodyne 2? Everyone should go play it and I will keep saying it until everyone does. And yes there's a trans character in it <3 Drem my beloved <3  Go check it out!!

Another game studio I love is @pillowfightio !!! They worked on Later Alligator, We Know the Devil, and Heaven Will Be Mine. I highly recc all of them but esp. Later Alligator cuz like just look at Joanie. They're so cool.  

In the game Everhood gender doesn't exist <3 Literally multiple characters are referred to with they/them pronouns and the gameplay is very enjoyable 

 CW LOTS of flashing lights and I feel like there should maybe be more cws but I'm not sure what else to add :l I guess a warning is that Everhood gets into more serious stuff and I'll be honest when the game first came out I had to put it down for several days b/c I just wasn't ready for a lot of that stuff, but I honestly liked the game a lot!

I was debating on adding this bc while I love this game there's some issues. So Gnosia is like werewolf ( or among us if you will ) but more narrative focused with time loops etc. There's two wonderful nonbinary characters and you can be nonbinary HOWEVER ( minor gnosia spoilers. skip past if you want to avoid it) . . . For some reason finding out the AGAB of one of the characters is mandatory and I fucking hate that. It's so unnecessary esp for the world building that's been done. Also tws for the game: sexual abuse / assault, gore ( in only one scene ) (spoilers end) but yeah I still added it because the characters are so neat and strong for the type of game it is and without that bit I wouldn’t feel so :/ abt recommending it. It’s pretty fun ngl

Wandersong!!! The main character is nonbiney and I love them <33 It's such a lovely little musical adventure with such a nice narrative and!! Some of the devs just released Chicory ( which I haven't gotten to play yet ;v; ) but check that out too!!

Bravery Network Online is super fun!! It's a turn based rpg that feels really good and has two characters that use they/them pronouns ( Fel and Reed ) the character designs are sooo good and the game is currently in early access!

I never thought I'd see a claymation point and click musical featuring a nonbinary detective but Dominique Pamplemousse is just that Need I say more?

A personal fav I think about every now and then is Dad fighter 30XX!! Like who doesn't wanna beat up their friend's shitty dad in the parking lot of a dennys?? Also the win music is my FAV

SPIRIT SWAP!!! By @SoftNotWeak !!!! Super chill and pretty game by lovely people with a demo you can play right NOW!! This game makes me want to become a strong magical thembo

More games I’ve played, but am too lazy to ramble about

ROM:2064 ( game is amazing but i got mixed feelings tho bc the og devs aren't getting paid for it I think :/ )

A Year of Springs

Secret Little Haven 

A normal lost phone

Calico 

Celeste

Hollow Knight

Undertale

Deltarune

Monster Prom / Monster Camp

Hades ( all of supergiants games slap btw )

If Found

Here’s games I haven’t played but have heard about

Bugsnax

Diaries of a spaceport janitor

Hustle Cat

Tell Me Why

Our Life

Last Minute Love

Black Tarot

Apex Legends

World of Warcraft has trans npcs :0

Dragon Age Inquisition

Sky, Children of the Light

TemTem

Battletech

Death and Taxes :0

Flicker :0 ( roblox games do count! It’s always cool to see what ppl make in it )

Assassins Creed Syndicate has a trans npc

Verdant Skies

Wandering Wolf Trick ( I love nomnomnami’s games sm but haven’t played this one. Highly reccommend her stuff )

If you have any games you wanna add to this PLEASE please do and I'll add them!! And while you're here please support the Queer Games Bundle going on itch rn to support tons LGBTQ+ game devs financially (including me ) <3 Last little edit for now: I’d def suggest trying to find cws/tws for these games just in case I haven’t covered everything for the ones I did talk about <3

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Warning: RANT

Had to wait a few days to write it, because I was too angry to be coherent. Our expat community has a self-proclaimed expert and SJW on all indigenous issues, a white American woman in her 60ties. She also believes herself a militant anti-Capitalist; before 2016 election she loudly advocated not to vote, in order to “speed up American Revolution”. She tried to get adopted by a Kitchwa family, not a success, changed her name to a Kitchwa name, lived in three different indigenous communities, now back in town, renting a comfortable house.

Her recent comment on FB (sadly I can’t copy) was extolling the virtues of the indigenous people sustainable “lifestyle with a small footprint“: they live in extremely modest houses, with almost no furniture, one bed for several family members, very few pots and pans, no modern appliances, no “superfluous” decorations, cold water only, one naked lightbulb with no unnecessary lampshade, clothing is washed by hand in a stream, walking everywhere, carrying stuff and small children on your back, no use of public transportation, no travel, no travel by air, used clothing “handed down by their employers”, herbal medicine, and so on and so forth.

You STUPID woman, this is not a lifestyle, this is POVERTY, in many cases abject, crippling and extreme. I went with a team of doctors from Tandana Foundation to a remote communities and seen this “lifestyle“ results firsthand: back and joint problems at an early age, gastric issues due to the “healthy” diets, ulcers, because herbs don’t work on everything, bad vision due to UV rays and wind, can’t afford sunglasses, untreated anemia, cleft palate in children, i could go on. Kids come from the mountains to school across from my house on their bikes, the lucky ones by truck, on bad roads, rain or shine; they go home, do homework under the “naked lightbulb, no lampshade“, then go to bed with “several family members”. Well, at least there’s some body heat, it’s damn cold up there; the “extremely modest housing” often has no glazed windows. I’ve had this discussions with Gringas (for some reason it’s mostly women) enamoured with the “lifestyle“ before. One got upset at an indigenous family for buying a washing machine: “such loss of tradition”! NONE of them would ever want to live like this, I wonder why, if it’s sooo good for other people?

This a disgusting case of western romanticization of poverty in other, “exotic” countries, and it has to stop. Poverty is not traditional, picturesque, or pretty, it’s not “sustainable”, these families are not living like that BY CHOICE. “Maintaining a small footprint“ is not a sole responsibility of poor people, at the expense of their well-being.

I rarely really hate people, but I do hate this woman guts. BTW, indigenous people do use public transportation and travel, as merchants, with musical groups, or just visiting family members in other countries. Ecuador has a significant diaspora. Recently meet someone returning from Singapore. “Walking everywhere“ is a ridiculous statement.

😡 rant over 😡