Jess' Queer Games Journey

MARVEL: Avengers Academy

June 12, 2017

A smiling femme person talking to another femme person in a city. Dialogue reads 'I know, but it's a total soap opera! Who's gonna backstab who?! Maybe they were brothers all along! What if one of them is pregnant? What if they both are?! Who's the father? These are the days of our lives!'.

I’ve been playing this fairly consistently for more than a year now, mostly ‘cause it’s a fun way to kill time and learn a little more about Marvel’s comic heroes. This one’s on the list because of the inclusion of Union Jack (a gay man), whose sexuality is openly acknowledged in the app, so yay!

Miitomo

June 11, 2017

A femme looking person with a computer and a flame next to them.

Miitomo was such a fleeting thing. I played it when it first came out, and haven’t touched it since about a month after that. I won’t deny that it was fun answering silly questions and seeing my friends’ responses, plus my Mii was damn stylish for awhile there.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

June 10, 2017

I kind of wish I’d played KotOR back when it came out, before I played Mass Effect. It was great, but I did unfortunately spend a lot of the time thinking about how similar some of the locations looked to those in ME.

Silent Hill

June 9, 2017

Two gender ambiguous people sitting in a room with many seats. Dialogue reads 'I don't know what happened.'.

So, this is on the list because people think Cybil is a lesbian. Hey, she might be, who am I to know? I haven’t asked. Mostly what I felt when playing this was concern for the main character Harry’s state of mind.

Lux Pain

June 8, 2017

A femme looking person and a dog at a city at night. Dialogue reads 'So you have special powers too?'.

This was a bit of a strange one. It wasn’t until about halfway through that I even realised there was a romance mechanic, because it’s clearly not the focus of this whole thing. This is actually a game about seeing the spirits of people and using them to… solve crimes? Solve a mystery? But maybe the spirits are memories? It’s all a little confusing. Fun, but confusing.