It’s Delight Month, which means there are homosexual flags far and wide. That is true for the Nintendo eShop, too, although you might have to look slightly extra intently to seek out it. Scroll down for some time within the Featured part and also you’ll see that somebody has quietly snuck in a rainbow flag to name consideration to video games with queer characters and themes on the Nintendo Swap. It’s pretty to see, even when the highlight is slightly shaded by a number of different banners.
Nintendo’s eShop has a piece referred to as Hidden Gems, a usually occurring listing of video games somebody at Nintendo apparently thinks it is best to play however might need missed. Proper now, although, the video games on that listing have slightly extra in widespread than simply being cult favorites or titles which will have flown below the radar. You’ll discover stuff like A Regular Misplaced Telephone, Espresso Speak, Gone House, Life Is Unusual: True Colours, and Pace Courting For Ghosts—all video games coping with queerness in some capability.
All 11 Hidden Gems Are Queer AF
As noticed by YouTuber Chris “Campster” Franklin, this Hidden Gems listing of 11 queer video games doesn’t point out “Delight” in any capability and is tucked away on the very backside of the Featured tab, which is the default window of tiled video games and gross sales lists you see if you open the eShop on the Nintendo Swap.
“Is Nintendo attempting to do a [Pride] sale whereas explicitly avoiding mentioning [Pride] by title,” Franklin mentioned. “Or am I simply studying an excessive amount of into this?”
Whereas these Hidden Gems are, effectively, slyly hidden within the eShop to place it mildly, it’s nonetheless cool to see such nice queer video games getting slightly extra consideration this Delight Month. Take Night time In The Woods, an journey recreation a few pansexual cat who does crimes with a homosexual fox and hangs out with different queer anthropomorphic animals. (This one additionally occurs to be a private fave.) Or the open-world detective recreation Paradise Killer, which contains a bevy of queer and gender-nonconforming of us. Hell, even the lovable journey recreation Bugsnax normalizes completely different gender identities through the use of acceptable pronouns, thus treating gender fluidity as an everyday factor.
Kotaku reached out to Nintendo for remark.
Beneath is the total listing of queer Hidden Gems:
A Regular Misplaced PhoneBugsnaxChicory: A Colourful TaleCoffee TalkGone HomeLife Is Unusual: True ColorsMy Time At PortiaNight In The WoodsParadise KillerSpeed Courting For GhostsSteven Universe: Save The Mild
