Queer them all!

Queer games are incredibly important for visibility, and making them available to the widest audience possible is essential. So in honor of Pride Month, the team of Queer Them All wanted to give the opportunity to an indie game dev or studio to have their game translated for free! 🌈

In summer 2024, we worked hard to unite a huge team of awesome volunteer video game translators. More than 70 volunteers joined the event, with 21 languages in total. Meanwhile, we received dozens of messages from talented game developers, and we submitted the queerest games to vote: our volunteers chose to work on Rocket Adrift's game Psychroma. This narrative-driven side-scroller is being localized into 20 languages for this event. The 21st language team chose to translate Forsythia Productions' Confluence, An Of Sense and Soul Soliloquy into Japanese. Their translation is already available, you can read the details in Japanese here!

Since this is a volunteer-only, non-profit project, we wanted to make sure everyone involved had fun and would be able to feature this event on their portfolio. So, naturally, all translators, proofreaders and testers will be credited on Psychroma and are already credited on Confluence.❤️

Our goals are to promote diversity in video games by making queer, indie games available in many languages, and to offer linguists a chance to be featured on a meaningful project. We hope that this event will help them grow their career and take part into paid projects, as gameloc is a passion but also and mostly a job.

For the record (and as we may or may not consider making Queer them all! a recurring event), these were the criteria for selection: 

To be selected, the game must either:

- be developed by a queer indie studio/team/individual

and/or

- have a story that features queer themes, queer stories, or queer characters

You must also agree to name all translators in the credits of the game.  ❤️

Even though the games for the event have already been chosen (and translated!), we’d be so glad to hear about other LGBTQIA+ games and to share them on our platforms! Get out there, tell us about your game, we will listen.

We're here, and our stories are meant to be told 🏳️‍🌈

Below are some of the games we want to promote through this event — even though we cannot translate all of them, we sure support them all!

Please make sure to check out or other social media to see the games that are not available here ❤️