Queer Games Bundle celebrates queer devs for a third year

If you’re looking for great indie games to try out, look no further than Itch.io’s Queer Games Bundle. The company is celebrating Pride Month by bundling games for the third consecutive year in honor of the LGBTQ developer community. This collection of 466 games, tabletop games, books, zines, albums, and art costs $60, which is also “the price of an AAA game,” the bundle page notes. (There’s also an option to spend a sliding scale of $10 – 20 on the bundle.) The bundle features nearly 300 queer artists.

“If we had the budget of an AAA game, we could give every solo developer in this bundle a livable wage multiple times over for a year and every single team a massive funding boost,” the bundle description reads. “Imagine what the developers and artists in this bundle could create a year from now if they weren’t worried about starving or how to pay their rent this month.”

This collection features a wide range of creative works including visual novels and romances. Lookouts, This was developed for the Gay Western Jam. (A cool theme if I may say so.) There’s also Hope this finds you well, a letter-writing game meant to “evoke the distinctly sweet homoeroticism of Victorian and Edwardian literature.” I’ve also been taken in by Rodents with Guitars. It’s a TTRPG that lets you control rodents in a band battle.

The bundle is just one among many that have been released by various communities in recent years to support social causes. These include bundles for Racial Justice and Equality (including a version for trans people), Abortion funds, Ukraine and Trans Witches Are Witches. Hogwarts (Legacy)