Press Gay to Play 2025 Showcase
Press Gay to Play 2025 Showcase
This is "Press Gay to Play" - a 47-minute celebration of incredible LGBTQIA+ indie games that was the heart of Rainbow Tech Fest 2025's opening ceremony. This showcase isn't just about games - it's about our experiences, our creativity, and our joy. Every developer featured here is crafting something that matters, something that represents us. These are windows into queer stories, featuring everything from action-adventure titles to cozy simulation games, visual novels with LGBTQIA+ themes, and horror/mystery games with queer protagonists. This showcase was part of RTF's mission to uplift LGBTQIA+ talent in tech and streaming, especially supporting those impacted by layoffs and seeking career paths outside traditional routes.
63 featured games
Featured Games(63)
Trackastrophe!
Kinoko Studio, Black Smoke Studios
Trackastrophe! is a wholesome train puzzle game. Build railway tracks across dreamlike isometric levels and grow your train with collected cars, as you navigate ever-whackier obstacles. It's totally choo-choo!
Roombattle
Dust Games
Destroy your friendships with adorable chaos. Roombattle is a fast-paced party battler for up to 6 players where you play as customizable vacuum cleaners, battling friends in frantic arenas and wildly unpredictable minigames across multiple game modes.
Reality Break
Element Games, LLC, Gamersky Games
Rewrite the universe! Break reality to change your fate, and use your powers to stop sinister forces from altering existence itself. Discover the origin of your new abilities in a fast-paced ARPG Loot Collection Roguelite where you will bend, break, and change the laws of the universe!
All Hands on Deck
Studio Mantasaur, Wikkl
All Hands on Deck is a co-op puzzle platformer game. Use Rock, Paper, Scissors and various items together to solve puzzles, traverse through playful worlds and save plushies. Everyone can share the same experience! Just swap items and you're good to go. How handy is that!
Ink Inside
Blackfield Entertainment LLC, Entalto Publishing
INK INSIDE is a cozy & chaotic story-driven action RPG from ex-Cartoon Network (+ horror) devs! A unique indie cartoon + RPG adventure with beat-em-up & ball combat, laughably weird items, crazy deep lore, live action cutscenes, handmade assets, human orchestrated soundtrack, and heart.
Spilled!
Lente
Clean up ocean waste in this short & relaxing game! Recycle, earn coins and upgrade your boat. Explore new areas. Clean bigger spills and different kinds of waste!
Magical Delicacy
Skaule, Whitethorn Games
A magical pixel art platformer. Explore an unfamiliar town and deliver tasty treats to the townsfolk. Cook magical delicacies from your bought and gathered ingredients. Learn new ways to traverse, discover secrets, and figure out the intricacies of your orders.
Delusion Out of Space
Have a Dream, Two Cakes Studio
Delusion Out of Space is a Lovecraftian sci-fi horror adventure where you find yourself trapped after audacious experiments conducted by an alien race. As you explore a spaceship, you make choices at critical moments, decisions that will determine your fate and the lives of those around you.
Tako no Himitsu: Ocean of Secrets
Christophe Galati, Deneos
Wild animals are disappearing, the mysterious Temple of the Order is on the rise, and shadow voids are suddenly populating the land. Gather six heroes and their Octopus companions and work together to save a world consumed by the secrets of its past.
Fishbowl
imissmyfriends.studio, Wholesome Games Presents
Fishbowl is a slow and tender narrative game about dreams, grief, and hope. Rediscover your memories and find your way into the present in this intimate experience where slice-of-life meets surreal.
High Times
Yangyang Mobile
Manage your own cafe and become a donut therapist in this cozy dating/cooking sim. Cook mood-changing donuts, decorate your shop, and help customers navigate life, love, and heartbreak—one bite at a time.
Xochi's Apothecary
Single Effect Studios
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
Light of Atlantis
Duck 'n' Run Games
Explore the depths of the ocean in this 2D-Puzzle-Metroidvania! Control the water levels and switch between various robots to solve the ancient puzzles of Atlantis.
Neo Junk City
Starblade Games
Sinister tides are rising in the Drowned City. Dive into a Point and Click action-RPG with fast-paced shoot-outs and retro arcade racing. Uncover the truth behind a murder you don't remember committing!
Cyber Paradise
DDmeow Games
Revive Mini-the-dog digitally in an atmospheric, neon-drenched cyberpunk world of roguelite action and cafe stories. (Pls dont change my tags🥺🙏)
Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts.
made by betalars, Polynormal Games, Purple Sloth Studio
Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts is a brief and cozy narrative game that lets you explore a character via thoughts and momentos you find in stages of their life. Its an introspective game, meant to share some experiences a peer-group of neurodivergent queers, including the dev, had growing up.
Design and Conjure
Tiny Kiwi Games, Thermite Games
Join Dalia, the Nature Witch, on a heartwarming journey to restore her hometown. Tidy spaces, design magical rooms, solve gentle puzzles, and soothe magical creatures affected by mysterious corruption bringing warmth and peace back to the town. 🌸
Ritual of Raven
Spellgarden Games, Team17
Ritual of Raven is a story-based farming sim - but you don’t do the farming yourself! Enchant Arcana Constructs to grow a magical herb garden, befriend a cute bunch of weirdos and use your witchy skills to perform powerful rituals to stabilize the portals that are causing trouble for the village.
Urban Jungle
Kylyk Games, Assemble Entertainment
Use luscious plants to turn your ordinary home into a green haven in Urban Jungle. Find the best place for each plant in your small apartment and enjoy gardening without worries. And don't forget to pet your cat!
Tailside: Cozy Cafe Sim
Coffee Beans Dev
Run your own cozy café in Tailside! Brew coffee, decorate your café, and follow small stories in the daily newspaper. Progress through days and levels to unlock new items, skills, villagers, and creature visitors.
The Tennis Academy
Rawb Herb
An UNCONVENTIONAL ACTION RPG where the fate of the world is decided in TENNIS BATTLES. Featuring a rich story, giant boss battles, and GAY romance with your doubles partner! Ace your classes on weekdays, and live your best college lyfe on the weekends!
Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery
Nobody Crown, Devcats
There's only one detective to unravel this murder turned museum heist... and they're the cat's meow. Interrogate a "colorful" cast of suspects until they cough up hairballs... and the truth. Will you wrap up the case in time for an afternoon nap, and make injustice knead its last biscuit?
Catto's Post Office
In Shambles Studio
Deliver mail as Catto, the town's dedicated Postcat, while meeting unique friends in a vibrant cozy town filled with kitty residents.
Winter Burrow
Pine Creek Games, Noodlecake
Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals.
Until Oblivion
ixavon, Tailtone Games
Until Oblivion is an atmospheric narrative game that follows 17 year old nobody Emma Wilson as she tries to rekindle a dying relationship in a dying world. Join her in an increasingly nightmarish Halloween party and find out if anything (or anyone) is worth anything at all.
Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts
Yaza Games, Mythwright
Make and share the most beautiful and bizarre medieval art imaginable! Manage and grow your manuscript workshop by illustrating manuscripts, using friendly tools and a massive range of drag-and-drop artworks from the deepest reaches of history. Welcome to your very own Scriptorium!
Hungry Horrors
Clumsy Bear Studio
Hungry Horrors is a card-based adventure inspired by British and Irish folklore. It blends deckbuilding and cooking with narrative, and permanent roguelite progression. Feed legendary monsters instead of killing them, satisfy their cravings, or become the next meal.
Quality Dreams, Reasonably Priced
zorkie studios
Work as a body modification consultant in a dystopian future. Talk to clients, make recommendations, and decide how much to upsell them. Balance helping others with earning enough to save your sick rabbit. Make decisions and change lives.
Inkshade
Studio Vezelle
Inkshade is a turn-based tactics game carved out of strange wooden miniatures, wrapped in a web of locked rooms, and orchestrated by an otherworldly game master. Victory is not guaranteed, and the only constant is the cruel black ink that flows within the pieces.
Best Served Cold
Rogueside
Can you mix a cocktail while eye-to-eye with a criminal? Find out in Best Served Cold, a murder mystery set in a bustling speakeasy where you serve customers, make friends and enemies, and solve crimes. At the Nightcap bar, prohibition is a killer… and so are some of your customers!
Find This Pixel Anomaly
NickHatBoecker
A cozy-horror game where you have to monitor surveillance camera footage to spot anomalies. Have you seen anything suspicious? File a report to fix it. But beware - too many anomalies will end the game.
Don't Wake the Beast
Artificial Disasters, better. publishing
In Don't Wake the Beast, a roguelite stealth game, you’ll sneak through ever-changing dungeons to steal precious treasures guarded by deadly beasts. Use your trusty grappling hook to evade traps, outsmart enemies, and solve puzzles. But beware—each treasure you claim makes escaping more dangerous!
AM Archaic Memories
Third World Productions
It's a 3D platform about the dreams and nightmares of a 90-year-old being.
Steel Century Groove
Sloth Gloss Games
Steel Century Groove is a rhythm RPG where you pilot mecha in dance battles! Using your own music or the built-in soundtrack, master the deep rhythm combat system, assemble a team of colossal superstars, make friends, and challenge rivals on the road to the ultimate dance championship.
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions - Cozy Kitchen
Mooncube Games
Step into a fresh new corner of Spirit City's room with the Cozy Kitchen DLC! This feast of a DLC expands your Spirit City experience with a brand-new kitchen area. New items, spirits and activities await!
The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish
ZIPIT! Games
A story-driven photography game... on the back of a giant, flying catfish! Transform clouds into sea creatures and bring abundance back to an empty sky!
Not Monday Cafe
Sunny Syrup Studio, Flyhigh Works
Cozy idle cafe management that keeps you company while you work. Grow fresh ingredients, cook, and serve delicious food to adorable animal customers. Build your dream cafe that sits at the bottom of your screen.
Timelake: Time Travel Tactics
Catenary Games
Timelake is a stylish roguelite strategy game where time is your greatest weapon. Foresee enemy moves, plan your turn, then fight alongside your past selves with a unique timeline mechanic. Master your resources, overcome the odds, and watch your plans unfold like clockwork.
In Ashes
Studio Ephua, Ephua Ltd
In Ashes is a medieval LGBTQ+ fantasy adventure where you must balance heroism and survival with rest, burn out, and trust. In this choice-driven visual novel, you must build a hero who can overcome the weight of their legacy. When faced with a choice, what kind of hero will you be?
Desktop Cat Cafe
samyam, lockyaw, Zippyzappy Games
Build your dream cat cafe in this tiny cozy management sim that lives at the bottom of your screen! Unlock exciting new recipes, decorate your space with our wide variety of goodies, and watch cute cat helpers take care of the cafe while you're doing other things.
Gemporium: A Cute Mining Sim
Merge Conflict Studio
Mine, refine, and sell gemstones in Gemporium, a cute, fast-paced shop management game. Upgrade your tools, expand your store, and master the daily rhythm of digging, polishing, and turning a profit to pay off your debt, one gem at a time.
Steel Century Groove: Midnight
Sloth Gloss Games
Pilot mecha in rhythm-RPG dance battles in this free standalone adventure from the world of Steel Century Groove. Assemble a squad of colossal dancers and groove your way through a neon city where it's always night.
Void Martyrs
Mac n Cheese Games
A grimdark survival horror about a nun in space. Scavenge amongst the drifting space-Basilica, balance your faith with survival, and craft the tools of your salvation.
Sunny Trails
Plot Interactive, Sunny Team
Sunny Trails is a cozy turn-based RPG. Amaterasu and her sisters travel to a party on a paradisiacal Brazilian island, only to find all the guests turned to stone. Fish, decorate your camp, and explore the island to discover who petrified your friends!
NOMIA
Magnesium Ninja
Coordinate two heroes in this story-rich tactics roguelike. Set up combos with your reliable Action cards, execute masterstrokes by drawing the right Gambit cards, and blast monsters off cliffs. Chase salvation with cloth and steel. Chart the path through a shattered dream.
IKUMA - The Frozen Compass
Mooneye Studios
Embark on a haunting journey into the cold in this narrative adventure - either alone or with a friend. IKUMA tells the story of Sam, a teenage boy who finds himself stranded in the Arctic with his dog. He must face not only its harsh environment, but also something lurking deeper in the shadows.
Sock Dating Simulator
Hannagie Productions Inc., Bishop Games, Hannagie Productions
A light RPG visual novel where your choices shape your relationships and outcomes with the sockxiest of socks. Explore the woolderful world of Sockhalla, customize your sock, rizz up other socks, and discover ALL of the lore in this narrative-driven adventure.
Cozy Beach
LunaBeat
🏝️ Cozy Beach is a wholesome game set on an beautiful tropical island where you can fish and explore, solo or with friends. Catch and collect fish, go swimming, search for treasure, craft tropical drinks, or just hang out and chill!
Roadside Egg Stand
ZoZo Studio
Bring the residents of Reine the freshest, finest eggs! Raise cute chickens, collect their eggs, and sell them at roadside egg stands scattered throughout the village. Decorate your egg stand, collect your daily earnings, restock with fresh eggs, and read the heartfelt letters from the villagers.
Plush Party
Jugacogi
Get ready to challenge family and friends in PLUSH PARTY, the ultimate party game for all ages! Customize your cat, escape the claw, and be the last plushie standing!
The Well's Blessing
BIG STRETCH
Explore the mystical sanctuary of the Old Well and reconnect with your childhood friends while solving audio-driven puzzles. Meet quirky animals, unravel forgotten tales and immerse yourself in an interactive soundscape as you piece together your place in the world.
Sticky Business: Book of Shadows
Spellgarden Games, Assemble Entertainment
Add a little magic to your sticker shop with the Book of Shadows DLC! Craft enchanted stickers, explore witchy new stories, and charm your customers with mystical goodies in this cozy, spellbinding expansion. The coven is waiting!
Draggin'
Dragon Fractal Games
Capture Draggins by draggin' the mouse in this casual arcade roguelite! Click-and-drag to cast spells on enemies and get your fill of wave battlin', achievement huntin', upgrade unlockin', rinse-and-repeatin'!
Deck of Memories
Sentiment Games
Deck of Memories is a deckbuilding roguelite where you delve into the life of the last lighthouse keeper through immersive card dioramas. Customize your deck with a unique card crafting mechanic, explore fragmented memories, and uncover the secrets of the lighthouse.
Lady Dracula
Goth Donut Games
An evolution of the Classicvania genre and a return to the glory days of precision platforming, retro challenge and gothic atmosphere. Transform yourself into a wraith, a spider and a bat to fly, climb and blast your way across Transylvania to do battle with Lady Dracula at her castle keep.
Parcel Dash
Roslin Studios, Leland Wilson
Parcel Dash is a fast paced, arcade like time trial. Plan the most efficient route to deliver packages as fast as you can and compete in online leaderboards.
Setup Savior
Triheart Studio
Set out on a creative journey, organize, decorate, and level up clients setups as you chase your dreams and build your business as the “Setup Savior”. Tidy up and refurnish rooms, decorate surroundings, and sell old furniture to purchase new, unleash your creativity and achieve your vision!
Whistle Pig
Soren Greenwood
In this narrative action adventure, experience both the beauty and the brutality of the natural world through the eyes of a mother groundhog on a quest for revenge.
Banned Together
Unquiet Games
A queer mystery game about book banning. Play as Ruby (they/them), a journalism major on a surreal, after-hours adventure to investigate the disappearance of books from their college library.
Unmasked Truths: Shattered Dreams
SuperPROTEIN Studios Inc.
10 world-renowned experts are trapped together and must cooperate to survive... until conflicts arise, and they discover the greatest threat to their lives isn't the system they're resisting: it's each other! Discover the truth of who's living a lie in this fully voiced murder mystery adventure.
Flowerbud
PxPetals
A narrative-driven flower shop management and relationship sim where YOUR choices shape the town’s future. Customize your flower shop, craft unique items, and unlock different outcomes through branching dialogue and evolving relationships.
The Grey Road
Hush Fin Games
Enter a world of road trip horror in this procedurally generated driving adventure. Face hazardous environments, deadly weather, and gigantic monsters. Scavenge for supplies, navigate obstacles, and search for safehouses - but remember: you are never truly safe.
Little Aviary
Tom Daly, TrueColor Games
Little Aviary is a relaxing idle bird collector that sits at the bottom of your screen! Hatch unique birds, sell them, decorate, then watch them fly around your screen and perch on top of your other windows!