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As we step into the month of June, we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge and celebrate something very important: Pride Month.

Pride Month serves as a reminder of the progress we have made towards creating a more equitable and inclusive society, as well as the work that still lies ahead. It’s an opportunity for us to reflect on the importance of celebrating and embracing the diverse identities and experiences that enrich our lives with different perspectives. At GOG, we firmly believe that diversity and inclusion are not just buzzwords, but fundamental principles that drive innovation, foster collaboration, and enable us to simply grow as people, as well.

To celebrate Pride Month, our queer team members selected the variety of games containing LGBTQAI+ themes and characters, all available on GOG. Inclusive environments and diverse characters create a safe space to have fun and express yourself for all kinds of gamers!



This time, we decided to choose a slightly different approach, to make browsing LGBTQAI+ games much easier; instead of just one collection, we created a whole page and divided it into categories.

Among such, we’ve created a list of games containing masculine romance representation – we’ve gathered all the games we could think of that include romance representation between male characters. Whether it’s Kerry Eurodyne in Cyberpunk 2077, Kim Kitsuragi in Disco Elysium, or Nailsmith in Hollow Knight, we tried our best to get them all! If you have any other recommendations that slipped our attention though, feel free to share them with us.

Another category you’ll notice is, of course, a set of games containing female romance representation. Through the emotional story of Unpacking, walking alongside protagonists of Life is Strange, getting to know Undyne in Undertale, and even more – we’re sure they’ll all steal your hearts!

In Choose-Your-Gender category, we’ve gathered games that allow you to play around and choose your gender representation in the virtual world freely. It’s a great way to explore your own identity, as well as try to put yourself in other people’s shoes – all while being in the safety of your own game, NPCs, without an ounce of worry about judgement.

Last but not least, we’re proud to present a list of games featuring transgender characters. Representation of trans people in video games is just as important as in any other media – and we couldn’t be happier to see the number of them slowly growing. Meet Claire ( Cyberpunk 2077), Sam ( Normal Lost Phone), Jackie ( Night in the Woods), and many more!



Let’s celebrate Pride Month – and together, make love last forever!
Happy Pride
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my name is catte: It's amazing how the point is smacking you in the face like a rake and you still can't see it. The entire point of Pride is saying "I am who I am, get over it and grow up". The pushback against this is what demonstrates the need for it.
More irony.

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neumi5694: That much is true. The best you can do is not to care.
Wish it where that easy. Its the same shit every week but goes into overdrive now thats to "pride month".
An entire month of people going "your bi right? pride month right?" ergh.

Get it out of my and everyone elces faces, your just feeding the fires of backlash.
Oh the irony~ of requiring others to accept you before you can even accept yourself.

I am me, an individual.
I dont need others acceptance, especially group acceptance or ideology to be myself. Nor should you.
Thats not acceptance, thats self perscribed peer pressure.
IN the spirit of this thread, a good educational video from the bilogist Forrest Valkai about sex and gender that more people really need to watch, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szf4hzQ5ztg
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b00marrows: Get it out of my and everyone elces faces, your just feeding the fires of backlash.
Oh the irony~ of requiring others to accept you before you can even accept yourself.
That I can also agree on. I know that people would not appreciate it if did I run around and yell in everyone's face who I am and they have to grow up and accept it. Luckily I don't feel the need to do so.

It's not about the other people, it's about the person that keeps yelling. This person needs to grow up and accept that most others don't care.
Of course there are some haters, but you find haters for everything.


Now that I think of it, this would also be a idea for a game show. Tie a person to a chair and see how long I can talk about who I am without this person going insane.

And we definitly need a sale for straight content (and no, that's not 'all other' games because most 'other' games are not about that topic at all, or could someone honestly say he knows about the preferences of the Doom guy?)
Sale on Life is Strange games?
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OldOldGamer: The point is indoctrination.
No one can change anyone else's sexuality or gender identity. You're making the same tired arguments that tried to justify section 28 and conversion therapy torture.
Post edited June 07, 2023 by my name is catte
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my name is catte: [...] The entire point of Pride is saying "I am who I am, get over it and grow up". The pushback against this is what demonstrates the need for it.
I'm a straight, white man, and proud of that.
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Happy Pride!

Last year my sibling understood that they are non-binary, and of course that bowled a lot of people in my family over. In retrospect, I have to say that we should have seen it decades ago. Literally decades, it was obvious. There was no kind of indoctrination involved, no fashion, no attempt at being hip or belonging to a certain modern group. My sib always were their own style, and we always knew they wouldn't stop in their personal development and growth just because they have a degree in law, computer science and ... well, hoof care.

The situation in Germany is the same as everywhere else I guess. We have the added problem that German slaps a grammatical gender on everything. Respecting non-binary people would require new grammatical forms of addressing groups and, most complicated for me personally, actually new pronouns. Our conservatives – not just the 'blue' nazi party, but also our 'black' Merkel party folks and even the Stalinist head of our supposedly ultra Left – of course heavily politicize any such effort at inclusion as a destruction of "our" language.

When these interesting new times arrive in your family, at the very least you see true colors flying. My mother, at 70 years of age, is doing her utmost to do things right, use the pronouns, forget the deadname. My conservative grandmother, at 99, is pissed as fuck that we didn't tell her last year to give her a chance at understanding (and back in 2022 she told me that "gendern" would literally "kill the German language").

My uncle, at 65, some dude who definitely never voted for a conservative party in his entire life, told us in no uncertain terms that he thinks "non-binary" was bullshit and my sibling should just pull themselves together.

And he's the reason why today I think that the provocation is a necessity. You can't kindly ask for a very basic kind of respect that you're denied. You have to get in there, make clear to people that you and yours exit, and demand that respect.
Post edited June 07, 2023 by Vainamoinen
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BreOl72: Nice surprise to find that the locking of this thread was only temporarily.
I disagree here. The only thing this thread is doing is opening the floodgates to have a Twitter battlefield right here in this thread. Right now, most of the posts are off-topic and have nothing to do with the actual topic. The games of the sale.

This thread should be locked and stay locked.
happy pride month :)

and thanks for the sale, gog. :)
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my name is catte: [...] The entire point of Pride is saying "I am who I am, get over it and grow up". The pushback against this is what demonstrates the need for it.
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cielaqu: I'm a straight, white man, and proud of that.
I'm happy for you? You have nothing to be ashamed of, but have you ever been made to feel ashamed of it? I am also a heterosexual white cis-man and I can honestly say I've never felt attacked for that and thus have never felt a need to express pride in it.
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BreOl72: Nice surprise to find that the locking of this thread was only temporarily.
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toma85: I disagree here. The only thing this thread is doing is opening the floodgates to have a Twitter battlefield right here in this thread. Right now, most of the posts are off-topic and have nothing to do with the actual topic. The games of the sale.

This thread should be locked and stay locked.
I think it's good to let the "critics" get it out of their system. Locking the thread only helps them imagine their "side" being much bigger than it is.
Post edited June 07, 2023 by my name is catte
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my name is catte: I think it's good to let the "critics" get it out of their system. Locking the thread only helps them imagine their "side" being much bigger than it is.
Maybe. But there are enough places over the internet where this is possible.
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BreOl72: Nice surprise to find that the locking of this thread was only temporarily.
After seing this thread locked yesterday night, I already assumed the haters here had - once again - successfully managed to shut down a thread that hurts their precious feelings.
What a bunch of delicate flowers they are, huh?

Whatever - here are my two cents:
I'm an old (50+), white, straight male.
I don't know anyone in my close personal circle who is openly LGBTQ+.
Nonetheless - I've had a few encounters with LGB and T people.

People of the first three groups, I only know that they belong to these groups, because they were open about their sexuality (more about that further down).
The one (!) trans person I ever encountered, came as a real surprise on my job.
It was a truckdriver (definitely born male), that wore a blouse, skirt, stockings and makeup. Probably would have loved to wear high heels, too - if laws/restrictions in regard to work safety hadn't mandated the wearing of safety boots on the loading dock.
Definitely not something you see everyday, where I live/work.

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I can say with all honesty: while I have no personal connections to the whole LGBTQ+ / Pride groups, I also definitely have no negative feelings towards them.
And why should I?
They never did anything to me.

A few years ago, we had a nice gay bar in the city where I live.
I know that it was a nice gay bar, because I frequently went there to have a drink, or two, or three - despite not being gay myself.
I simply liked the music they played, the nice, bright (forget about the "Blue Oyster"-cliche) and welcoming ambience, where parents even could (and did) bring their kids along (only during the afternoons and the early evenings, of course).
There was a pool table, two pin ball tables, and even a corner set up with toys and board games.
It was a really nice place to hang around with the whole family.

The owners (a middle-aged gay couple) were among the nicest people you could imagine, and the (mostly) LGB regulars were also a nice bunch to have a talk and a drink with.

It would have never occured to me to hate on any of these people, just because they live out a different sexuality than my own.

I think of them in the same way, I think of red-haired, or blue eyed, or stuttering people: I know they exist, and - depending on their condition - I may feel a little pity for them, but in general - they don't bother me.

I simply accept them, the way they are.

Despite all that: I never went to watch a Pride-Parade, or a CSD-celebration.
I also never explicitly bought one of the "Pride Month" story bundles and/or "Pride Month" game bundles that regularily pop up at this time of year.
Simply because I don't see myself as the "target group" of these events.
(Same goes for "Black" and/or "third world" or "ethniticy" bundles, etc. - not made for me)

Pride month is something, I know exists - but it isn't really meant for me to celebrate. And that's ok.

But rest assured - if ever a situation should arise, where these people face even harsher opposition than they already do - I would go there - if only to publicly show my solidarity and alliance with them.

"Live and let live!" - that's my motto.

For as long as your lifestyle doesn't hurt me (or anyone else) - I don't give a flying fuck, whatever you do.

But as soon as your words and actions result in people being hurt, I will not sit idle by.
I've learned early on in my life, that you have to stand up against bullies, else they'll never stop their bullying.
And I have no plans to stop standing up against oppressors...be it for myself - or for others.

So - good for GOG to re-open this thread!
Don't let yourselves bully into closing/hiding these threads, just because a few "eternally-stuck-in-the-pasts", want it so.
Remember: YOU have all the necessary moderation tools at hand - use them.
Ah, here we go again with the innocent claim

The claim that LGBTQ+.comunity
or people around this or the medical industry doesnt hurt anyone is a lie

Theres people that have regrettet transitioning that have told the public how much the process have hurt them personally
but they can never get their normal body back

Therees also bullys on the LGBTQ+. side that do mockery and death treaths and other such stuff against such people
This also happens towards medical proffesiolals that dares to speak out about the negative impacts of transitioning

So dont come with this crap that LGBTQ+.activism doesnt hurt people
It clearly does
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ah. and as always:

lots of nonsense in this thread.

i'm going to suggest what i did in the LAST thread like this one:

HEY SOME SALES AREN'T FOR YOU, IT'S OK.

[in the same way i just don't care if gog put shooters on sale.]

JUST SCROLL ON BY. IT DOESN'T AFFECT YOU I PROMISE.
please stop pushing this agenda, not everyone agrees with it.