In celebration of Pride Month, itch.io is offering a massive bundle of games made by and about queer folk.
There’s A Mortician’s Tale, the widely-praised game set in a funeral home. Play as Charlie, a recent funeral direction graduate as she prepares bodies, meets with the families of the deceased and sometimes even attends their funerals. Its honest and sometimes humorous look at the western funeral industry earned it a spot of many “Best Games Of” roundups when it was first released.
In Boiling Over, you play as Hazel as she works at a coffee shop to save up to study abroad. Learn how to operate the coffee machine, add ingredients to your customers’ drinks, plan your schedule, interact with a diverse cast of queer characters and, occasionally, face just a snippet of what it’s like being transgender.
A Normal Lost Phone is another highly-rated games, set entirely inside a smartphone. Your character is trying to discover what happened to the phone’s owner by digging through their apps, messages and photos. It’s an intriguing and slightly voyeuristic game that’s received positive reviews for its clever storytelling.
Other standouts include the old-school adventure game 2064: Read Only Memories, the seniors dating sim Later Daters, the Witches-in-WW1 text adventure Trenchwitch, the paranormal hidden objects game Vicarwissen and co-open, a wholesome game about being a kid in a grocery store.
There are more than 500 items in the Queer Games Bundle, which includes 371 games, rules for 164 tabletop games, 18 books, seven soundtracks and more. Part of the joy of these bundles is combing through hundreds of titles you’ve never even heard of and playing games you might never have experienced otherwise.
The Queer Games Bundle is available to buy for $60, but there’s an option to pay what you can if that’s too steep. All of the money goes to the creators to support the queer arts community.
