Jess' Queer Games Journey

Firewatch

June 2, 2017

Mountain range at night with a fire burning. Dialogue reads 'I love how they look at night. During the day it's just smoke, but when the sun is down you can just...get lost.'.

I wrote about Firewatch back when it first came out, and you can read the full review here. Spoilers: I loved it. This is another one that doesn’t have the queer content at the forefront, but there are so many other things going for the game that it didn’t matter to me. There’s still a love story of sorts here which is perfectly told by amazing voice actors, but that’s only one of the reasons I’ve been recommending Firewatch to everyone for the last year.

Always Sometimes Monsters

June 1, 2017

A femme looking person facing a gender ambiguous person in a bedroom. Bed, dressing table, desk and two windows. Dialogue reads 'I'm sorry Casey, are you judging me?'

I actually started ASM back in 2014 when it was first released, so really, getting to the end has been a journey of its own – and damn, what a journey. I went through the full spectrum of emotions with this game as I laughed, cried, related and then had a standard existential crisis, which I can only assume is what the devs were hoping to achieve.

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