True Avatars - A Queer Video Game Podcast

It has been exactly one year since the first episode of this podcast launched, and this episode is the biggest one we’ve ever recorded!

For the first third of the show, it’s just me, Zoey, your host and producer! I talk about the podcast’s birthday, what I’ve been playing, and the news!

In terms of news, there were a lot of gay happenings in the gayming space: Witcher season 4 has a release date and one of the trailers of all time,...

I know I write this into every episode description, but this week’s episode is not-hyperbolically jam packed full of news and content!

First up, Amy-Lynn and I discuss the headlines and the surprisingly long Nintendo Direct, which had new trailers for lots of queer games!

In the second half, Ekamy, Lloyd, and I are joined by Endellion, one half of the Zorkie Studios dev team who is back to talk about the release of Quality Dreams, ...

Amy-Lynn and Cleo are back on this week to discuss the small but mighty headlines this week! The Life is Strange TV show is finally moving forward (at Amazon of all places), Evo (the esports event) has a brand new owner, Final Fantasy XIV might be getting some changes, there were more layoffs, and Amy-Lynn gives us her thoughts on the payment processor scandal.

And now that Hollow Knight: Silksong is out (Cleo played some of it in ...

It’s September, which means we’re on the cusp of an avalanche of new releases… but that also means an avalanche of new queer games! There’s basically one every week until the end of November! That’s wild right? I wonder what all those games are! What if there was a podcast that discussed all of these games in one convenient place? Oh wait!

For the first half of the episode, it’s just me, and I also cover a bunch of headlines: Micro...

This week is a bit of a shorter episode, True Avatars (I may or may not have speedran the news…), but it’s still a great one!

This week I had the chance to interview the lovely Kelly Gilkes, the Lead Artist behind the 9 amazing romanceable NPCs in the enjoyable queer indie, Matchmaker: Dungeon Heart! She and I discussed body positivity, gaining many perspectives to create honest, relatable characters, and even the voice acting!

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It was a slower news week – speculation about Sony leaving the console business (maybe??), Dragon Age is probably not getting any remasters in the near future, there were layoffs because why wouldn’t there be, and Ratatan (the Patapon spiritual successor) has a new release date.

What wasn’t slower was all the news about the payment processors censoring video games. Hint: it’s escalating exactly as we expect.

But this week I’m joine...

Cleo is back from episode 43 and this week we’re talking about something this podcast has sorely neglected: Soulslikes! I’m certain it’s just an oversight and not because the podcast hostess has a deep seated fear of difficult games…

We talk about Bloodborne, the recently released Elden Ring: Nightreign, Nintendo’s new Fromsoft exclusive (The Duskbloods), and why queer people play Soulslike games.

We also catch up on a bunch of hea...

This week I have a less conventional interview — a spoilercast — with the lead developer of Misc. A Tiny Tale: Michael Pearce!

Misc. A Tiny Tale is the recently released 3D platformer-collectathon inspired by games like Chibi Robo and Super Mario Sunshine, and Michael is joining me to discuss everything we can fit into 90 minutes.

We chat about the “miscellaneous” character design, the narr...

This week I took a break from news (I’m moving!) and interviewed betalars, the lead dev behind Frame of Mind: A game of thoughts. This is a point-and-click cosy game about processing one’s own thoughts with a unique “mind board” style of gameplay. Neurodivergence, accessibility, and queerness are all very important elements in the design, too.

betalars has a lot of amazing insights, including what it’s l...

This week, Steam was forced to removed a bunch of overly explicit games at the behest of Visa and Mastercard, the two most important payment processors that allow Steam to make money.

The games that were removed were not queer (they were of the much more “aggressive” variety) — but where is the line drawn? How long before queer games are equated in the same breath as games that are actually explicit? Wil...

I got the amazing opportunity to interview Tanat Boozayaangool, the lead developer of Building Relationships — the dating sim where you play as a house who dates… other buildings?!

Tanat gives a clever and hilarious window into his thought process behind this wacky and adorable video game, including the reasons it’s so queer at its very core and what to expect from the full game when it launches this yea...

Devona (Heldevo) and Amy-Lynn are back this week for the big gay Deltarune chat! We talk about our thoughts, if it’s a good time for a newbie to jump in, and even carve out some time for spoilers (don’t worry, we kept the spoilers separate so they’re easy to skip).

We also discuss a bunch of headlines, including Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ second season renewal, Baldur’s Gate 3 actors haven’t seen more succe...

This week it’s just me, Zoey, as I cover three main segments!

I start with the headlines, as usual, and it’s thankfully a lighter week (even if not all the news is good). Deltarune got a big patch, Drag x Drive and Chained Echoes: Ashes of Elrant DLC finally got release dates, Microsoft is doing yet another round of layoffs (a month after doing a major round of them), and Netflix is delisting several gam...

The first half of this episode is just me as I speedrun through the news. Queer headlines include a major update on Hades II, a release year for Deltarune’s next chapter, Misc. A Tiny Tale has some upgraded Switch 2 visuals, and information on a canceled Dungeons & Dragons game. In other news, Xbox has started to ramp up their next-gen plans while Nintendo gives us a better look at Donkey Kong Bananza!

Amy-Lynn is back and we’ve got the juiciest, hottest queer game gossip on this side of the internet!

Runescape is canceling their Pride events — kind of, it’s messy, we have a followup on the Dragon Age 4 development issues story from Episode 33, The Last of Us Season 3 will neither be starring Ellie nor Joel but a secret third character, and Amy-Lynn accurately predicted the existence and reveal of a Sp...

Ekamy, Lloyd_Lloydster and I played 10 exciting LGBTQ+ demos from the June 2025 Steam Next Fest — and they were even better than we already expected them to be!

From super-powered queer people, to reimagined gay Dracula, roguelike-Pokémon, and gay clouds — there’s so much to play and discuss. Plus, Lloyd joins Ekamy and I as a member of the ‘Quantum Witch’ fan club, and we might even have news on ‘Qualit...