The summer gaming events are starting to heat up, which means lots of queer news and games, too!

Ekamy joins me this week to discuss news, the Six One Indie Showcase, and a strong dose of two lesbian witch-themed indie games.

Headlines are stacked! We have news on Borderlands 4, Haunted Chocolatier, the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077, The Last of Us TV show, a Syberia remaster, and more! Plus, there’s layoffs — as well as some good old-fashioned backtracking on rainbow capitalism.

The Six One Indie Showcase also streamed this week, and coincidentally, there were a total of six indie queer games featured! Listen to our thoughts, and then find the Steam page links below.

Finally, we discuss the Quantum Witch demo — the hilarious “plot-former” about a lesbian escaping a homophobic cult — and Crescent County — the lesbian “motorbroom” delivery game!

00:00:00 - Intro

00:04:20 - News

00:53:48 - Six One Indie Showcase

01:16:00 - Quantum Witch (Demo)

01:21:32 - Crescent County

This episode was recorded on May 25 2025.

Indie games highlighted:

Truth Scrapper: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3239830/Truth_Scrapper/

Bonnie Bear Saves Frogtime: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2466130/Bonnie_Bear_Saves_Frogtime/

Building Relationships: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/Building_Relationships/

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3570370/CARIMARA_Beneath_the_forlorn_limbs/

Blue Ridge Hunting: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2434930/Blue_Ridge_Hunting/

Oddbat: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3158280/Oddbat/

Quantum Witch: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3100650/Quantum_Witch/

Crescent County: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2202650/Crescent_County/

Sources:

Does It Play: https://www.doesitplay.org/

In the podcast, we discussed how the video games industry might not see any impact from a recession because it’s an affordable form of entertainment compared to going out to a movie (for one example), and the short answer from the sources I found say that this was true in 2008, but it remains to be seen whether it will be true this time: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/08/22/are-video-games-recession-proof-sort-experts-say/

https://www.gamefile.news/p/take-two-dei-lgbtq-removal

https://x.com/duvalmagic/status/1922454876803551555?s=46&t=sVUrhNeL5EXDMRDpzdemfQ

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/randy-pitchford-tries-to-justify-comments-that-real-fans-would-find-a-way-to-buy-borderlands-4-at-80/

https://x.com/Cromwelp/status/1924895249756749864

https://www.eurogamer.net/the-last-of-us-tv-showrunner-confirms-four-season-plan-says-no-way-to-wrap-things-up-in-three

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/neil-druckmann-is-working-on-a-second-unannounced-game-at-naughty-dog/

https://blog.playstation.com/2025/05/21/playstation-stars-coming-to-a-close-as-sie-evaluates-new-ways-to-evolve-future-loyalty-program-efforts/

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/05/yooka-laylee-dev-playtonic-is-the-latest-studio-hit-by-layoffs

https://deadline.com/2025/05/street-fighter-movie-eyes-jason-momoa-noah-centineo-more-1236407261/

https://deadline.com/2025/05/elden-ring-alex-garland-directing-a24-movie-1236408999/

https://gameinformer.com/2025/05/19/sag-aftra-files-unfair-labor-practice-complaint-against-epic-games-due-to-ai-darth-vader

https://www.gematsu.com/2025/05/syberia-remastered-announced-for-ps5-xbox-series-and-pc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh4QQyM1KP0

https://www.shacknews.com/article/144403/concernedape-haunted-chocolatier-5-year-window

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/new-prestige-physical-game-label-editions-promises-to-reinvent-what-it-means-to-collect-games/

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/cyberpunk-2077s-sequel-features-a-second-city-that-feels-like-chicago-gone-wrong-reveals-creator/

https://www.sixoneindie.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adI4uizTYN4

https://www.sixoneindie.com/read/bonnie-bear-saves-frogtime-preview-theres-cake-in-this-cake