I have a two-for-one rec for things you might enjoy!
We Know The Devil is a short (~1.5-3 hours) visual novel about three troubled teens at a summer camp that tries to un-trouble them through hard work, singing about Jesus... and putting them in an abandoned cabin to fight the Devil. It's psychological/religious/magical realism horror with beautiful atmosphere. The dialogue is great, and feels realistic to how late night summer camp conversations feel, if not what they are actually like. And all the major characters are LGBT. Warnings for heavily implied child abuse, the fact that while the camp is not explicitly a conversion therapy camp, it does come across that way.
Heaven Will Be Mine is a longer sci fi visual novel made by the same people as We Know The Devil. Earth sent people out into space in giant robots to fight an unknowable, alien Existential Threat... which turned out to be pointless. So Earth is asking them to come back, whether they want to give up the freedom of space or not. You pick one of three pilots to play in each run of the game, as you try and grapple with your relationship to the other pilots and the factions you are part of (which have varying attitudes of "Let's go back to Earth," "Let's stay in space and bring everyone else to space" and "oh, so you think us being in space makes us less human? COOL.") It's got some beautiful worldbuilding it gives you in bits and pieces that you have to try and puzzle out. And being in space is a metaphor for being LGBT-- but all the main characters are textually LGBT too, and it leads to an interesting interplay of the metaphorical and real. Warning for child abuse.
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Date: 2020-12-08 08:47 pm (UTC)We Know The Devil is a short (~1.5-3 hours) visual novel about three troubled teens at a summer camp that tries to un-trouble them through hard work, singing about Jesus... and putting them in an abandoned cabin to fight the Devil. It's psychological/religious/magical realism horror with beautiful atmosphere. The dialogue is great, and feels realistic to how late night summer camp conversations feel, if not what they are actually like. And all the major characters are LGBT. Warnings for heavily implied child abuse, the fact that while the camp is not explicitly a conversion therapy camp, it does come across that way.
Heaven Will Be Mine is a longer sci fi visual novel made by the same people as We Know The Devil. Earth sent people out into space in giant robots to fight an unknowable, alien Existential Threat... which turned out to be pointless. So Earth is asking them to come back, whether they want to give up the freedom of space or not. You pick one of three pilots to play in each run of the game, as you try and grapple with your relationship to the other pilots and the factions you are part of (which have varying attitudes of "Let's go back to Earth," "Let's stay in space and bring everyone else to space" and "oh, so you think us being in space makes us less human? COOL.") It's got some beautiful worldbuilding it gives you in bits and pieces that you have to try and puzzle out. And being in space is a metaphor for being LGBT-- but all the main characters are textually LGBT too, and it leads to an interesting interplay of the metaphorical and real. Warning for child abuse.