Top LGBQT+ Games to Release in 2023

• Available on Steam

A short visual novel about queer love and art. Follow Maya, a once-celebrated painter now paralyzed, as she struggles to accept her new reality and its effects on her relationship. Argue with your Prefrontal Cortex, insult an art critic, befriend the elderly.

• Available on GOG
• Available on PlayStation
• Available on Switch
• Available on Xbox

In a time where people are isolated from each other, Coffee Talk is a place where we can reconnect over a cup of warm drink.

It’s time to revisit your favorite late-night coffee shop and reconnect with your fantasy friends over a warm drink or two. You are a barista, and your customers aren’t always humans, listen to their stories and influence their hearts with a warm cup of coffee or two.

• Available on Humble Bundle
• Available on Switch

You play as Fortuna, a Witch living exiled on an asteroid who forms a pact with a forbidden creature in the hopes of regaining her freedom. Reconnect with your Witch friends after a 200-year-long exile, meet new Witches, and use the cards you created to pierce through their pasts and futures.

As you delve into this universe, you will see yourself immersed in the complex web of interests that surround your coven, leading to a political plot that will define the fate of the Cosmic Witch society.

• Available on Steam

It was only meant to be another annual visit to his mother’s grave, but midway through Diandrir’s story was shrouded in darkness. A kinect visual novel about darkness and girls’ love.

• Available on Steam

A NSFW tale of magic and love between man and monster with art by the famous bara artist Jouvru! Allen is trapped in a mansion with five magical beasts. Will he escape or claim his legacy as a wizard? Magic is real, the pull is strong, and he can’t turn away from these gorgeous monsters.

• Available on Steam

An immersive MMORPG-simulation chatroom based romance / otome visual novel. You are the leader of a raiding guild in the world’s hottest MMORPG, Emberfate. Will you lead your guild to success in the newest raid — and perhaps find love along the way among your guildmates?

• Available on Steam

Write letters with your typewriter on behalf of others in this cozy single-player game. Compose everything from simple hellos to theater scripts and love letters, express each client’s emotions, and find your own meaning to letter writing.

• Available on Steam

Furry Shades of Gay 3 is a collection of hot novels with choice and match-3 elements! You’ll find new stories, new (and old!) characters, and a new, more diverse match-3 experience. Go through all the stories, uncover all the plot options, and unlock 15 hot voiced animations!

• Available on Steam

Hunt down a beheaded ghost to save your college club from losing funding! It’ll be a piece of cake— wait, what do you mean he wants to marry you!? The Groom of Gallagher Mansion is spooky comedic romantic visual novel full of laughs and scares all around!

• Available on Steam

He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me is a semi-autobiographical narrative visual novel about trauma and sex work made for the gameboy. The author explains how sex work impacted her life and changed her perception of the world. The game takes approximately 40 minutes to play from start to finish.

Available on Steam

The story of Hush Hush centers around five girls that the player must date, impress, and ultimately make fall in love with them. Each girl is hiding a potentially dangerous secret that the player will need to discover and find a way to address / solve.

• Available on Steam

A yandere yuri visual novel with a fairytale theme. Can you escape from your mysterious pursuer?

• Available on Steam

A fully voice acted story about a group of friends who experience visions of their future – and the anxieties they endure as they try to walk their own path in a predestined life. All while living under the watchful eyes of the ever-present Argus Corporation.

• Available on Steam

Can you save magic before the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve? Life After Magic is a queer, retro visual novel that follows jaded ex-magical girls as they reconnect, deal with young adulthood, and face off against one last threat before Y2K hits.

• Available on Steam

memories is a sapphic visual novel dress-up game where clothes are linked to painful memories of a failed relationship.

• Available on Steam

Mice Tea is a visual novel full of transformation, sex, and steamy, hot beverages. Take the role of twentysomething bookstore clerk Margaret de Campos as she finds a box of magical tea with transformative powers that turns the lives of her and her friends into an unforgettable, erotic adventure.

• Available on Steam

Misericorde: Volume One is the first part of a series of mystery visual novels set in a convent in 1482.

• Available on Steam

A comic book adventure of freelance supervillainy, petting cats, and/or destroying capitalism in which your choices determine success in a series of daring heists and capers.

• Available on Steam

Restore your town as you run, jump and dash through cozy locales while helping lovable townsfolk! Become immersed in a tight-knit community of animals and robots while becoming the town hero in this heart-warming solarpunk adventure.

• Available on Steam

A slice-of-life visual novel about the hardships and joys of a trans girl transformed into a zombie.

• Available on Steam

There are so many things I want to do with the rest of my life. Like dreaming with you, laze around with you, look at the moon, eat rice with you, go on the biggest wedding trip to Antarctica, and most importantly – say goodbye to you.

• Available on Fanatical
• Available on Humble Bundle

Experience the joy of running your own cozy small business: Create stickers, pack orders and hear your customers’ stories. Time to build the cutest shop on the internet!

• Available on GOG

The Symbiant is a BL / Yaoi / Gay visual novel about two men, both from vastly different worlds, embracing their sexuality and their newfound romance. It is also a tale of interstellar friendship and being gay in space!

• Available on Steam

One of them is visiting a friend in Chicago. The other wants to shake things up in New York City. It starts in San Francisco, but where this relationship goes is all up to you.

• Available on Steam

Play as twins Hazel and Jace in this wholesome romcom visual novel. After a silly bet is made, the protagonists must find a boyfriend or girlfriend before their twin beats them to it!

• Available on Humble Bundle

As Emmett, a young video game fan and aspiring artist, dive into this fictional video game era, where the Kinmoku Shark gaming system and its online social network, Videoverse, were still popular. Strengthen Emmett’s friendships, share fan art and browse the lively gaming communities. Make decisions that will change how Emmett grows, his approach to Videoverse and, ultimately, the final outcome!

Will your actions help Videoverse thrive, or will you get caught up in teenage drama, video game fandoms and corporate conspiracies?

• Available on Steam

Rhythm-mystery hybrid game about uncovering the dark truth about a mysterious organization. Everything happens for a reason. However, the truth behind that reason is left obstructed.