#LGBT interactive fiction

[interact-if]

Pride Month

For Pride Month in June, Interact-IF is bringing back one of its beloved events, spotlighting queer (LGBTQ+) authors and their interactive fiction projects (here’s the 2021 series).

Throughout June, we hope to celebrate the massive queer representation these stories and games help provide, as well as the awesome IFs created by and for the queer community.

We will feature a masterlist of interaction fiction written by queer authors, and select a couple to interview about their experiences and creative process! The interview will be done fully via a text Q&A format.

Prep:

If you wish to be featured (whether in the masterlist or the extended interview, which will be done fully through a text Q&A format), do fill out this google form. Or, if you prefer, you could drop me, @allieebobo a message or an email at allieebobo@gmail.com with the following information: 

Name

Background/About you

Game(s)/Projects

A link to the game(s)/IF/intro post

A short blurb/description of the game(s)

Genre/Tags

(Optional) If your writing or experience has been shaped by your identity in any way, feel free to share more here as well :) 

Contact information (or how you’d like me to reply/contact you)

Do drop me a DM if you have any questions! Note that interactive fiction includes those written in ren’py and twine as well, not just Choicescript.

Interact-IF mods will contact selected authors by email/DM by the end of the month with a full set of questions that you can type out replies to, and send back to me via email. I’ll try to feature everyone who’s interested, but will discuss further if for whatever reason I am unable to feature everyone who reached out. 

P.S. If you know any authors who you’d wish to see featured, feel free to share this post with them or @ them when reblogging :)

[tellltaleacademy-if]

Are there any fun facts about the new Romance Options?

Yifei

Yifei is really good at playing Mahjong and is very serious about it. Do not even joke about trying to beat her she will become a Yu-gi-oh villain.

She used to be the Captain of her team back in SNH48 and ranked third in her last Senbatsu before graduation. Her graduation ceremony's theme was "Flying Away Into a New Future with Yifei " in honor of the meaning of her name " 逸飞" which means fleeing flight. On top of her white graduation dress she also wore huge angel wings.

Probably the most dominant out of the ROs

She one relationship with a girl previously and it ended horribly, by her own fault.

Sabira

Sabira’s love language is feeding people and leaving them alone.

She was born in a very rural town in Tatarstan, in the old old capital of Bulghar. When she was 13 she was cast by a modeling agent and brought to Moscow to work. She hasn’t really seen her family since.

When Sabira was a little girl she really admired Tatar traditional dancers and her and her brother would often imitate them when they went to regional festivals.

Her comfort food is baked potatoes.

Emiko

Emiko collects pink hairpins and bows and always borrows them to her loved ones.

Her biggest role model is Showa idol Momoe Yamaguchi.

Emiko is also one of the Lovekraft CEO’s favorites for the final group.

She is obsessed with eggs and her favorite food is takoyaki.

Agatha

Agatha has a very hard time recognizing social cues and engaging in conversation. This has made her incredibly introverted and shut off from people. This introversion has mostly been seen by others as arrogance or a general weirdness, and her whole life she has been excluded by her classmates.

Agatha's aunt is a Korean shaman and gave her an amulet to ward off evil spirits, to this day Agatha believes she was never a target of school violence because of the amulet.

She had a very prestigious career as a child model and stopped temporarily to focus only on training. The last show she walked was for Dior Korea when she was 13.

Agatha has been nicknamed "Lovekraft's Princess" by the companies staff. She has trained there ever since she was 10, and most of the employees there look over her fondly.

Mayuka

Any odd job you can think of, Mayuka has had it. She even used to work as a beer girl in Japan. Beer girls are girls that go around carrying these huge beer kegs in sport matches to sell alcohol to fans. They end up developing their own clientele, and some people even only go to matches to buy beer from their favorite girl. Mayuka had to leave the job after she got jumped for stealing other girl's clients.

She is a League of Legends player. Please forgive her.

Mayuka is a huge chatter box, her love language is gossiping.

Mayuka has dyed her hair fully pink,blue and neon green, but she always tries to leave some black in her hair. In 2014, with purple ends in her hair, you could have mistaken her for the sixth member of Red Velvet.

[collegetennisoriginstory]

Btw the thing that the sapphic reader said about being seen, as a gay dude your ifs do the exact same for me as well! They just said it way better than I ever could but these are the most relatable and personal IFs ever, and I'm glad that extends to many ends of the lgbt spectrum

Yayyyy thank you for this message :') I'm always amazed and really happy to know that y'all are enjoying the LGBT rep in CT:OS and merry crisis.

[stygiansun-totaleclipse]

Public Demo Update! 🎉 Chapter 1 Part 3

It's finally here! Adds ~61,800 words to the story plus ~6,700 words in codex character entries. Reblogs and shares very appreciated! ❤️

Play here on itch.io!

I would HIGHLY recommend you start on a new save as I have had to make some changes to variables and stats which will be detailed below, but starting from an existing save may break some things later in the game for you and you won't unlock the codex or stat pages if you don't.

In this update, you will:

Meet Lady Safina (Parim and Aurora's mother) and talk to Aurynn

Meet Lady Najaat (Nour's mother) and speak with your own mother

Play a flashback scene involving you, your mother, and Luca from your childhood

Speak with Samira

Get your food and bed stolen by your greedy little hog of a serval, Farwah

Meet the rest of MC's siblings (Aurora, Castor, and Ember) and Something or Someone Else™️ in a dream sequence

Speak with Luca in a dream

Use your divination to have a vision

Ouchies T-T

(Mostly) Accidentally snoop through Aurynn's mail with Samira

Find Aurynn in the library vault

Detailed changes below:

Changed the Straightforward stat to "Sincere"

Added "Aloof" stat

MC's personality is now divided between two types of stats: your main stat (charismatic, gentle, confrontational, dignified, imposing) and your secondary stat (manipulative, aloof, sincere)

Minor edits throughout demo and Character Creator

Added custom pronouns to Character Creator

Added cis/trans option to Character Creator (originally, this was going to be a choice introduced in chapter 2, but upon further thought I felt it would be easier to establish cis/trans early on and then in chapter 2 there will still be a scene that reflects on and clarifies mc's gender identity)

Added new music tracks

Updated UI

Added main menu

Added OpenDyslexic font to Settings

Added options to be able to rename saves to the Settings or have them autoname for you for ease of keeping track of save files

Added Stats page

Added character codex entries (codex is currently still a WIP in terms of UI and content and more entries on lore/history/magic etc will be added later)

Thank you so much for all the support you've shown the demo this last year and I am so sincerely grateful for all the kind messages people have sent! I hope you enjoy the update--I worked very hard on it! :D

The next update, Chapter 1 Part 4, will finish off chapter one.

@interact-if

[skeletonmob]

Second attempt at trying to advertise my game! More details under the cut.

Old Haunts

Old Haunts - DEMO

For the past few years, Hunter Greene has been saving money for his transition. But his dreams are dashed just as he approaches the finish line, when the powers that be block the biotech company that he was going to transition with. All hope is not lost however, as his manager, a robot named Aster, has been brewing something behind the scenes for quite a while now . . .

Old Haunts is a choose your own adventure style visual novel set in an alternate, cyberpunk-esque present. There are a total of six different endings, each route taking about 3-4 hours to play through, depending on how fast you read. I wanted to do multiple things with this project. Including commenting on the current wave of transphobia in our society and also try my hand at making a proper choose your own adventure style game. Something that didn't boil down to 'do you want to be a good person and rescue the puppy? or do you want to be a bad person and murder the puppy?'.

[dreamty-games]

After one month of work, @aoi1dee and I have the pleasure to announce that our new game just released for free on itch.io!

When your friend, Eiran,  left the country to go on a family trip for about three months, you weren't upset that he wasn't responding because, obviously, he didn't have service. But now he's been back for two weeks and hasn't responded to a single message you sent, and even left you on read?!

Now you're on your way to a party his family is hosting with your parents. And so help you, if you see him there, you are going to confront him. You want to know if you did something that might've made him uncomfortable or hurt his feelings. 

Or, worst case scenario, he found out you have a crush on him...

Left on read is a short fanntasy romance made in a month for Nanoreno jam.

Game features:

7.8k Words

3 CGs

1 Ending

1 male love interest 

Pronoun & Gender Options 

Customizable Doll 

Voice acting

[neointeractives]

Neo-Twiny Jam 2025

Returning for a third edition! Still fundraising for LGBTQ+ organisations! Come make a Tiny Game for charity!

The Neo Twiny Jam is an Interactive Fiction Jam with one rule:

Don't write more than 500 words.

Any type of Interactive Fiction is welcome, from any kind of IF system/format, regardless of genre/theme.

You are not limited to Twine only. Use any program you want as long as the output is interactive fiction.

NSFW content is acceptable (NSFW themes must be clearly indicated in the submission).

Sounds, graphics and code are not included in the word count.

No AI/LLM generated content, incl. game cover/title card.

No Hate/Spam submissions.

You must credit any asset used.

The Neo Twiny Jam will run from June 1st 2025 (12:00 AM/00:00 EST) to June 30th 2025 (12:00 AM/00:00 PST).

This Jam is unranked.

The inspiration for this jam comes from Porpentine's Twiny jam, which ran in 2015. During the original three-week jam, creators were asked to submit a Twine game with no more than 300 words.

Like the previous years, I will be matching the number of entries into a donation to an LGBTQ+ charity - Trevor Project and SAGE. Please contact us if you would like to donate as well.

Join the Jam!

We will track entries on Tumblr with the #neotwinyjam, but you can also tag @neointeractives/@neo-twiny-jam!

Join the Neo-Interactive Discord 

[just-a-carrot]

IT IS HERE. HUZZAH.

The finale to my big massive queer horror game is now released. Which means that, after 2 years and 8 months, the game is now complete. (And I am now officially spent.)

The finale features:

🖼️109 CGs

🔚4 epilogues (1 neutral and 3 LI-focused)

🌳3 cutscenes

⁉️A lot of answers

💦A lot of tears

💕A lot of heart

If you're new to this school, Our Wonderland is a super cool and definitely not traumatic horror-fantasy visual novel following a passel of childhood pals returning to the wish-granting wonderland of their youth. Or, as I also like to describe it, "five 30-year-olds tackling the traumas of a cis- het- allonormative world in a land where all their (darkest) dreams come true."

It stars an awkward biro-ace guy who may or may not get some gay kisses as he struggles to figure himself out (and keep from dying). YEAHHHHHHH.

The full game features:

283k words (around 20-25 hours)

520 CGs (because I'm severely unhinged)

96 unique sprites (+ countless variations)

7 animatic-style semi-animated cutscenes

12 optional deaths (+4 non-optional deaths)

1 heart (my own)

Please to be enjoying the finale to my magnum opus!!!

Read the launch devlog here! (contains extra details on the launch plus about 2k words of my unfettered ramblings)

OR jump ssssstraight to the main game page to download! (IT'S FREE)

[soulsisterif]

Soul Sister IF

Tired of dating show games where you feel like you don't actually get to know your fellow contestants? Sick of wlw routes being treated as an afterthought? Done with interchangable characters that share ultimately the same storyline? Do you think it's ridiculous that your choices don't get acknowledged? Do you cringe at motherf*cking adults behaving like 12-year-olds?

Then this self-indulgent game may be just what you were looking for!

Welcome to Soul Sister, the IF game where you'll participate in the first ever exclusively sapphic dating show!

DEMO: TBA

You can't say you've ever been all that lucky in love but after your best friend's insistence that you give this a try maybe the time has come for that to change. Whether your intention is to just be a good wingwoman for her or get yourself a new partner you'll have to make the most of it.

Day after day and week after week, you'll spend your time with other women actively trying to find a partner while facing the surprises the show will throw your way. First seasons always keep contestants on their toes!

This light-hearted but romance heavy story focuses on the relationships you can stablish with your fellow contestants. Have fun trying the different choices that allow you to shape your own journey through the ups and downs of human interaction.

Features:

•Customize your MC, including name, appearance, interests and age.

•Bond with your potential matches over shared interests or experience the joy of learning new things.

•Enjoy the different approaches to dating. Commit to one person or keep your options open.

•Deal with all the curveballs, courtesy of the showrunners. What did you expect? This is show biz!

♥ Abbie ♥

Monolid blue eyes. Long straight black hair, the top strands often clipped back while she leaves it hang freely on the sides. Square jaw. Pale skin with a few moles scattered here and there. As tall as you.

She's in love with you but you don't know that (you moron). She's been your best friend for years. She's known you for such a long time that she can read you like an open book. Bookstore owner.

Not particularly athletic, she enjoys reading. Novels, essays, comic books, poems. You name it. She's goofy and has a blast bantering with you, though she always keeps an eye out as not to overwhelm you and promptly backtracks when she thinks she's making you uncomfortable. She's (not really) subtly touchy with you, always resting a hand on your back or patting your leg. The other contestants see through her from the start.

*What she wants in a partner: familiarity, trust, everyday romance. *Goods you get: feels like home, understanding, warm-hearted, protective. *Bads you get: a bit possessive, scared of change.

Route: friends to lovers, everyone can see it but you.

Says: "I've wanted a relationship for a long time. This might be the only way to push myself out there." But means: "I already love someone who doesn't seem to love me back so I'd rather push both of us to date other people so that I can move on."

♥ Irene ♥

Round green eyes. Shoulder-length, wavy blonde hair left as is, pointy ears peeking through the strands. Tallest of the bunch. Wears more than a few rings, and fiddles with them a lot. Fair, rosy skin that gets easily sunburnt. Smells of sunscreen more often than not when she's outside.

Sweet and shy, her tall and strong frame doesn't look like it suits her. She seems to be eager to make conversation, but ignores how to keep it going. Very into sports and nature. Botanist.

She gets crushes easily, and just as easily she forgets one to focus on the next if her attention isn't instantly reciprocated. Can be stiff in a conversation with someone she's not familiar with, and is often much more relaxed when she can move while she talks, which is why dinner like first dates are certainly not for her.

*What she wants in a partner: kindness, support, life companion. *Goods you get: gentleness, non-judgemental, good listener. *Bads you get: clingy, needs reassurance, naive.

Route: puppy love to actual love.

Says: "I just want to find someone who loves me." But means: "I'm insecure and finding someone who wants to be with me may change the way I see myself."

♥ Joanna ♥

Upturned brown eyes. Curly apparent shoulder-length brown hair that's actually much longer when wet. Golden brown skin with more than a few tan lines. High cheekbones. Average height, wide hips and small waist, epitome of classic femininity.

Energetic, language lover. Flirty and confident, it takes a while to know whether she has a genuine romantic interest on someone or is just being her coquettish self. Translator.

Most well-travelled of the bunch, Joanna is in love with language and shows love through it. She can smooth-talk you and flirt with you relentlessly, and she's the one out of all the contestants who will want to try it out with all of the others. When she feels like things are getting serious for her, though, she'll won't keep it to herself.

*What she wants in a partner: open-minded, curious, willing to learn. *Goods you get: fun facts galore, passionate, straightforward. *Bads you get: dismissive, a little self-centred, commitment issues.

Route: no strings attached (…but she'll get jealous).

Says: "I'm looking for love, not a shackle." But means: "I like the feeling and closeness of a romantic relationship but I'm terrified of how vulnerable that leaves me."

♥ Vega ♥

Hooded black eyes. Short, black hair, long enough at the top so that she can style it a little with wax. Could easily become an afro if given time. Dark skin, tats on her arms highlighted in white ink. Average height, a little on the slim side, but has a toned build.

Laidback and calm. Really enjoys movies and series, has a thing for animation and dubbing. Very good at drawing and impersonations. Voice actress / Music producer

Always humming or whistling, she's content to spend her time looking for shapes in the clouds. She's more sentimental than she cares to admit and often struggles with her feelings when she knows that they don't respond to a logical behaviour, which often leads her to close off and avoid important conversations.

*What she wants in a partner: chill, no over-the-top romance, no pretence. *Goods you get: honest, creative, independent, loyal. *Bads you get: trust issues, reluctant to talk, ignores problems.

Route: let's wing it.

Says: "No need to dress up or hold back a guffaw. I want to truly see you for who you are from the start." But means: "I think every little change in other's behaviour conceals a lie or intent to cheat me. Please don't lie to me."

♥ Margot ♥

Almond-shaped hazel eyes. Long, strawberry blond hair always up in a tight French twist, or a low ponytail if she's going to bed. It's uncommon to see her with her hair down. Tan, freckled skin and hazel eyes. Curvy, doesn't look that short, but reality hits when she allows herself to climb down her high heels.

Gruffiness born out of social anxiety. Surprisingly family oriented. High salary at an important firm. Stiff but compassionate, she's a bitter realist. Lawyer.

A little rough and forceful, she'll make you feel as if you're applying for a girlfriend position instead of organically getting to know her. She's so concentrated in discovering if she's compatible with the other contestants that she overlooks the fact that she has to open up and allow them to get to know her, too.

*What she wants in a partner: family oriented, mature, understanding. *Goods you get: family oriented, devoted, nurturing, tough love. *Bads you get: impatient, approaches dating as an interview, not willing to compromise. …Tough love.

Route: romance bureaucrat turned softie

Says: "I want a wife but the girlfriend stage is such a hassle" But means: "I don't want to waste my time in shallow relationships when all I want is someone to share my whole self and life with."

♥Dawn♥

Deep set brown eyes, dyed blond hair in a wavy pixie cut, but it's naturally a soft chestnut brown in colour. Sharp features, thin nose and lips. Dimpled cheeks.

Confident, master of the innuendo. Loves good (and bad) wordplays and puns. She'd be the intersection in a Venn diagram between Witticism and Self Awareness. Her ability to both fill silences and end discussions in an entertaining manner make her an invaluable asset for any TV show.

Her bold nature lead many to mistake her openness for invitations to go further, which can end badly if anyone dares put a hand on her without her explicit permission.

Openly queer, Dawn is a big fish in the little pond of reality dating shows. Her newcomer label didn't stop her from making a splash from her very first episode. Now a coveted host in the reality world, she turned now the chance to renew her contract with the show that saw her become famous in favour of the upcoming Soul Sister.

*What she wants in a partner: respect, communication, commitment. *Goods you get: intelligent, dependable, romantic, sensible. *Bads you get: paranoid, obdurate, overly perfectionist. …Married.

Route: trying to stay in love while falling for someone else

Says:

"People would be better off if they listened to their brain more often than their hearts. Or loins." But means:

"I consider my actions so thoroughly that them proving to be a mistake makes me feel like a worthless idiot."

[amaregames]

Issue 40 of the Amare Fortnightly Bulletin (May 16 - May 31)

​Hello everyone!

Issue #40 of the Amare Bulletin is out now! 🎉

As May comes to a close, we’re back with a fresh wave of exciting launches, updates, and crowdfunding news! Whether you’re into dark fantasy, chatsims, or steampunk adventures, there’s something here to spark your interest.

Inside, you’ll find:

New releases, including the full launch of a long-awaited dark fantasy romance and a slice-of-life horror BL demo

Episodic updates and first chapters across sci-fi, monster dating, and immersive magic settings

Interactive fiction updates with new chapters and completed stories

New game announcements ranging from psychological thrillers to demonic temptations

Crowdfunding campaigns you can support right now—including fantasy CRPGs, chatsims, and steampunk tales—plus a few ending soon!

That’s all for now—happy gaming, happy reading, and see you in a couple of weeks!​

~ The Amare Bulletin Team

[elliepastelgrandma]

New trailer for “Love at the Milky Way Diner”

🌌🥞🛸🧡

[rinriya]

The one and only IF that makes me cry every time I reread it.. is "A Mage Reborn". Its epilogue is an unrivaled masterpiece.

[tellltaleacademy-if]

Next chapter I'll be properly introducing Soapy, Sabira and Emiko!

[404errorgamestudios]

My latest game is done! It’s an interactive fiction game exploring being aromantic and forms of non-romantic love. I made it for AroJam2025.

[meidenzone]

i've made an extremely important post on my itchio regarding funding for my next big queer visual novel. Please read it.

[memingursa]

Okay so, for tales of the road, my short story “games”, I intend the framing device to basically be Life and Death arguing with each other. These two eldritch goddess beings as a result of unbridled toxic love have created everything and all of human suffering. Life wants to create more and more to horrific results to honor death. Death tries to guide people to survive and live well as to honor Life. Life giving death meaning, Death giving life meaning. They don’t understand how the other doesn’t devote themselves to their named cause. Death only seeing the beauty of life, life only seeing the beauty of death.

So, my question.

Link for my game if you want to try it’s still a work in progress to make right and I will edit it more. Less a promo and a curiosity about the reception to the general vibe of the idea.

https://tedabear.itch.io/tales-from-the-road-episode-1

(I am still working on it, trying to figure out how to time typing speed out and give options, relatively new at this)