Game information
Name
Coming Out Simulator
Release year
2014
Editor's Choice
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Alternative release
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As an adventure game, Coming Out Simulator is brilliant in many ways. For a relatively motionless and tiny game, it is clever with audio, grabbing your attention from the first moments. It straddles between breaking the fourth wall and granting player agency as a direct participant, and doesn't even try to hide it. It is witty with its jokes, and at times, brutal and heartbreaking in the way the story turns out.
As a cis straight man, I don't get to judge any of its authenticity or relatability. Doesn't stop me from loving it.
It might not have been made as a native application and distributed the old-fashioned way, but it runs beautifully and best on a smartphone, nevertheless.