Rainbow tech fest presents
Press Gay To Play 2025
a pRIDE MONTH INDIE GAME lgbtqia+ CENTERED SHOWCASE
We finally did it! 🌈✨ Our 47-minute celebration of incredible LGBTQIA+ centered 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 curated into this showcase is crafting interactive experiences that reinforce the impact we make in the indie gaming space. 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.
We’ve listed all the showcased PG2P games below!
OUR Press Gay To Play 2025 CreatIVES
We’ve organized the games in accordance with the genres they were featured in during the showcase: action-adventure, co-working, simulation, platformer, horror, cozy, mystery, visual novels, and then our final montage.
showcase action-adventure games
Don’t Wake The Beast
Developer: Artificial Disasters
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!
✅ DEMO
Hungry Horrors
Developer: Clumsy Bear Studio
A culinary roguelite deckbuilder where you feed monsters instead of fighting them. Prepare traditional dishes and serve Horrors from British and Irish folklore. Match cravings, build combos, and stay alive one turn at a time.
✅ GAME AVAILABLE
Ink Inside
Developer: Blackfield Entertainment LLC
INK INSIDE is a CO-OP action RPG based on a lost cartoon pilot! Play as Stick (Brian David Gilbert) an unfinished doodle fighting back against the wet "Sog" corrupting the notebook they live in. Team up with a friend in CO-OP to find treasure, upgrade your characters, and beat-up the sog together!
Ikuma
Developer: 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.
✅ DEMO
Steel Century Groove
Developer: Sloth Gloss
Steel Century Groove is a rhythm-RPG where you pilot mecha in dance battles. Challenge yourself against the deep music combat system, build a team of colossal dancers, make friends, and take on rivals as you groove from your cozy hometown to the big-city championship..
showcase Co-working games
✅ GAME AVAILABLE
Not Monday Cafe
Developer: Sunny Syrup Studio
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.
✅ GAME AVAILABLE
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions
Developer: Mooncube Games
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions is a gamified focus tool, set to a soothing lofi soundtrack. Discover and collect Spirits, customize your cozy virtual space, and facilitate your real-life tasks with a collection of handy features designed to improve concentration and ease stress.
✅ DLC AVAILABLE
showcase SIMULATION games
✅ DEMO
💛 PLAYTESTING
Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts
Developer: Yaza Games
Run your manuscript workshop, receive orders to illustrate medieval books, decorate them any way you like, send them back to clients to get paid, and unlock new jobs, decorations, and items. Welcome to your very own medieval scriptorium!
Setup Savior
Developer: 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!
showcase PLATFORMER games
✅ DEMO
Lady Dracula
Developer: 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.
✅ DEMO
Light of Atlantis
Developer: 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.
Archaic Memories
Developer: Third World Productions
It's a 3D platform about the dreams and nightmares of a 90-year-old being.
showcase HORROR games
💛 PLAYTESTING
Delusion: Out of Space
Developer: Have A Dream
Delusion Out of Space is a Lovecraftian sci-fi horror shooter 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.
✅ DEMO
Find This Pixel Anomaly
Developer: 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
Void Martyrs
Developer: Mac n Cheese Games
A grimdark survival horror about a nun in a space suit. Scavenge amongst drifting space cathedrals, balance your faith with survival, and craft the tools of your salvation.
showcase Cozy games
✅ GAME AVAILABLE
Catto’s Post Office
Developer: 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.
✅ DEMO
Deck of Memories
Developer: 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.
The Well's Blessing
Developer: 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.
Draggin’
Developer: draggingame
Capture Draggins by draggin' the mouse in the demo for 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'!
✅ DEMO
Frame of Mind
Developer: made by betalars | Polynormal Games
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.
✅ GAME AVAILABLE
Ritual of Raven
Developer: Spellgarden Games
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.
✅ DEMO
Nomia
Developer: Magnesium Ninja
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.
🎮 GAME FEATURE
PrimRows
Developer: Tursiops Studios
A mindful game of logic, luck, and pattern recognition that adds a dice-rolling twist to sudoku rules. Grow, prune, and harvest flowers as you unwind with ambient soundscapes and scenery in each season. Unearth new challenges with special mechanics every week.
✅ DEMO
The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish
Developer: Zip It 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!
Whistle Pig
Developer: 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.
showcase MYSTERY games
✅ GAME AVAILABLE
Best Served Cold
Developer: 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!
Banned Together
Developer: 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.
🎮 GAME FEATURE
Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery
Developer: Nobody Crown
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?
showcase VISUAL NOVEL games
In Ashes
Developer: Studio Ephua
An unexpected quest has reached your sleepy town. Once again, you must raise your weapon and step into the boots of a weary, burnt out adventurer. When faced with a choice, what kind of hero will you be? In Ashes is a choice-driven fantasy visual novel about adventurers, monsters, and legends.
✅ DEMO
Sock Dating Simulator
Developer: Hannagie Productions Inc., Bishop Games
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.
Unmasked Truths: Shattered Dreams
Developer: SuperPROTEIN Studios Inc.
1 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.
showcase FINAL MONTAGE games
✅ DEMO
All Hands On Deck
Developer: Studio Mantasaur
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. Just swap items and you're good to go. How handy is that!
✅ DEMO
✅ DEMO
Cyber Paradise
Developer: DDmeow Games
ACTION. DOGS. CAFE. Revive Mini-the-dog digitally in an atmospheric, neon-drenched cyberpunk world of roguelite action and cafe stories.
✅ DEMO
Design & Conjure
Developer: Tiny Kiwi Games
Join Dalia, a young witch, in her cozy adventure to fix her hometown. Reconnect with nature and bring beauty back as you clean, decorate, solve light puzzles, and help magical creatures affected by the mysterious corruption.
✅ DEMO
Fishbowl
Developer: imissmyfriends.studio
Fishbowl is a slice of life, coming of age story told over a month. Video call loved ones, work from home, sort through puzzles to rediscover childhood memories, do care tasks and get to know yourself better, one day at a time.
✅ GAME AVAILABLE
Desktop Cat Café
Developer: samyam
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.
Flowerbud: A Flower Shop Dating SIM
Developer: 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.
✅ GAME AVAILABLE
Gemporium
Developer: Merge Conflict Studios
Mine, Refine, and Sell Gemstones of various rarities to eagerly awaiting customers in Gemporium, a mining simulation management game! Manage your time wisely while purchasing upgrades and growing your shop's reputation day by day.
High Times
Developer: Yangyang Mobile
Manage your own donut café in High Times, and help customers escape from their problems by serving special donuts that affect their emotions. Sometimes they don't know what they want, so listen to their stories, offer them advice in the form of donuts, and mend broken relationships.
✅ GAME AVAILABLE
Magical Delicacy
Developer: Skaule
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.
🎮 GAME FEATURE
✅ DEMO
Quality Dreams,
Reasonably Priced
Developer: 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.
✅ GAME AVAILABLE
Inkshade
Developer: 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.
✅ DEMO
Neo Junk City
Developer: 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!
✅ DEMO
Roombattle
Developer: Dust Games
Wreck, clean, and claim your victory! Roombattle is a 2-6 player family friendly party game where you control an adorable vacuum cleaner equipped with sharp objects and balloons. Customize and fight your friends in minigames.
✅ GAME AVAILABLE
Reality Break
Developer: Element 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!
Roadside Egg Stand
Developer: 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.
✅ DEMO
Tailside:
Cozy Cafe Sim
Developer: Coffee Beans Dev
Run your cozy café in Tailside! Brew coffee, decorate, and follow heartwarming stories through daily newspapers. Inspired by quiet moments of rest—morning coffee, gentle stretches, childhood birdsongs—this game offers accessible comfort for all players. Progress unlocks new skills and adorable creature visitors in this stress-free, inclusive experience.
✅ GAME AVAILABLE
✅ GAME AVAILABLE
Sticky Business: Book of Shadows
Developer: SpellGarden Games
Open your Book of Shadows and dive into a charming new expansion for Sticky Business that’s steeped in witchy vibes and cozy spells. The Book of Shadows DLC brings a bewitching blend of magic, mischief, and heartfelt moments to your sticker shop!
✅ DEMO
Sunny Trails
Developer: Plot Interactive
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!
💛 LIMITED DEMO
Tako no Himitsu: Ocean of Secrets
Developer: 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.
The Grey Road
Developer: 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.
White Thorn Games
Whitethorn Games publishes easy-going games—playable in pieces for busy schedules, constantly saveable for fatigue or attention needs, and approachable without gaming expertise. Setting a new industry standard, they publish accessibility details before release and require a11y features in every title. Their "defenders of easy games" philosophy removes barriers that exclude players while celebrating diverse stories and characters, making gaming truly inclusive by establishing transparency as the norm.
BOTANY MANOR
SPRAY PAINT SIMULATOR
SLIME HEROES
✅ DEMO
Timelake: Time Travel Tactics
Developer: 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 and overcome the odds.
✅ DEMO
Tracktastrophe!
Developer: Kinoko Studio
Trackastrophe! is a puzzle game where you guide an eccentric train through wacky worlds. Add tiles to the map layout, expand your train by collecting train cars, and pray you can get to the other side in one piece!
✅ GAME AVAILABLE
Until Oblivion
Developer: Ixavon
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.
✅ GAME AVAILABLE
Urban Jungle
Developer: Kylyk Games
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!
✅ DEMO
Winter Burrow
Developer: Pine Creek Games
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.
💛PLAYTESTING
Woodlins
Developer: Tom Daly
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!
Xochi’s Apothecary
Developer: 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.
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