Queer Games Bundle 2022 on Itch.io will fill your summer with 236 games - smithcomene

Queer Games Bundle 2021 happening Itch.io will fill your summer with 236 games

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The Nance Games Bundle 2021 is alive forthwith on Itch.io, giving you instant access to to a higher degree 200 games all for the cost of a single AAA video halt.

The new bundle will be available all passim June in celebration of Congratulate 2021, with 236 entries from LGBTQIA+ creators all put together for $60 (another version of the bundle is available on a sliding scale from $10 to $20, though the curators encourage you to apprehend the full-priced version if you presently have the means). With 236 games available all put together, you'll hold open $559 off their standard price, and you'll help confirm a gross ton of mugwump LGBTQIA+ game makers.

The bundle includes a massive spread of games and other projects across genres: thither are visual novels, RPGs, beat-em-ups, and even a nice spread of tabletop RPGs and siamese story games if you're in the mood for something a little more analogue. I've already come this close to picking up Glitter Hearts, an RPG about playing a team of magical-girl-inspired protagonists, and Underground Transmit, a fast-playacting game of countercultural graffiti punks divine by Jet Set Radio, like a xii multiplication each, but intelligibly it was just fate telling me to postponemen for the bundle.

Massive, community involuntary bundles are getting to be a thing on Itch.Io - a very cool affair - with the most prominent previous example being the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality, which raised Thomas More than $8 trillion for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Biotic community Bail Fund last year. That bundle terminated up with a final count of 1,704 included games and projects.

As of this writing, the Queer Games Parcel 2021 bundle has raised just over $25,000, with the proceeds set to be divided evenly among all the participating creators (helping nonpartizan LGBTQIA+ creators wage their rent is also a worth drive). The bundle is co-hosted by swampbabes.org, a queer art and games collectivized supported out of Rochester, Empire State which aims to provide a "a platform for diverse voices and bodies outside the structures of the already-established 'art world.'"

If you'Ra nerve-wracking to keep track, here are some other indie games 2021 to cheque.

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