I’ll pick Tally Ho! It’s an 8-ish hour text adventure, where you’re employed as the unflappable butler or lady-in-waiting of a bumbling British noble. Set during the 1920s, it jovially skewers the bullshit class politics of the era and allows fairly free rein to define your character as you see fit.
There’s queer romance, a string of cunning heists to solve (or join in on!), and just a bit of party planning.
I have updated the Grouvee Game Club list to include dates and themes for the winners. I considered adding who suggested the winning game. I thought it might be fun to see who’s winning on the winning games hahaha.
+1 for Citizen Sleeper.
It’s already in my Steam library
I was planning to play it this year
It might fit in my Diverse Experiences list.
Here is the final poll! Have your votes in by May 4th! Everyone get two votes. 
I’m reading through the thread because I thought it’d be fun to rejoin a game club, though I’m currently uncertain if I’ll have the available time, but…
Just stumbling upon this, has there been a switch in vocabulary? It feels like I’m visiting an alternate dimension.
I thought “ / “ was the ‘normal’ slash, and “ \ “ the reverse one, the backslash ???
Help.
Nah, you got it. / is a forward slash and \ is a backslash.
Our dear friend BMO seemed so certain, that I was sure it was so. It felt like the day I learned the cheese was called “Grana Padano” and not “Gran Padano”, and the whole world came crashing upon me.
I just mixed up the terms because I wasn’t really thinking about which slash was used. I was more focused on the fact that the terms were being conflated.
Also technically / is a slash, rather than forward slash. Forward slash is a colloquialism rather than the term.
I didn’t know forward slash wasn’t the legit name for it. I didn’t even know it was referred to as a forward slash until I started working IT.
Wow. We have a three-way tie this month! Our Employees of the Month are…
American Arcadia
Developed by Out of the Blue, a Spanish indie developer who also created Call of the Sea (which I recommend), and published by Raw Fury on September 28, 2023. This 2.5D puzzle-platformer takes place in the 1970’s featuring two protagonists with a plot that fans of the Truman Show may enjoy with an average completion time between 6-8 hours.
Citizen Sleeper
Developed by Jump Over Age, a one-person studio created by British nonbinary indie developer Gareth Damian Martin (they/them) and published by Fellow Traveller on May 5, 2022 (the anniversary is tomorrow!). This is an award-winning dice-rolling sci-fi RPG which won the Social Impact Award from the 23rd Game Developers Choice Awards and was nominated for many others. The incredible character designs are by French cartoonist Guillaume Singelin. This is one of my favorite games of all time featuring choice-based routes and endings with an average completion time of 7-14 hours.
Papers, Please
Developed and published by American indie developer Lucas Pope through his company 3909 LLC on August 8, 2013. This is an multi-award-winning puzzle simulation game (and nominated for many more) where you play as a border control immigration officer with an average completion time of 5-16 hours. A live action film created by two Russian filmmakers, Liliya Tkach and Nikita Ordynskiy, called Papers, Please: the Short Film has been released on Youtube.
Time to bust out the Vita for Papers Please. Ive played the other two so it seems thats my obvious play
The Grouvee Game Club theme for June 2026 will be… Trans Representation.
Please suggest 1-2 games created by trans developers or features a trans character.
Suggestions will close on May 29th when the final poll opens.
Ooh, I need one of those for the diversity challenge [working on this at my own pace]
I choose Street Fighter V, which features my favorite
Obviously I can’t nominate Sorry We’re Closed again, but I have other noms up my sleeve:
I’m going to suggest:
Secret Little Haven is a game about old computers, community, creativity, fandom, gender, and the internet. Alex Cole is a teenage trans girl in 1999 who has yet to figure herself out. She spends much of her free time on the internet, browsing a fan forum for her favorite magical girl show, and chatting with her friends.
Join her on her story of self-discovery through friendship and media as she explores her computer for the treasures and curiosities of the early internet.Play with SanctuaryOS, an entire operating system developed in Unity, with nearly a dozen applications such as a Web Browser, Chat Client, Doll Maker, and Text Editor, as well as an entire web forum for you to search through.
Explore the internet. Explore yourself. Find haven in your life’s small comforts.
The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories
Kind of a spoiler to include it in this list, though.
If Found… is an interactive visual novel from Dreamfeel about searching for connection. Find out who you really are.
I’ll pick Specters of the Deep, which is a text-based fantasy RPG with two main characters who are trans, multiple trans romances, and an optionally-trans protagonist. There’s also several big subplots about characters who are using magic instead of hormones to transition, and an especial focus on the dysphoric experience of inhabiting a body that doesn’t fit.
Unrelatedly, you can also side with the villain and spiral off into an alternate plotline with completely different goals and outcomes, which is pretty neat!
Edit: I’ll also throw in Unsighted, which is a lesbian Zelda game made by two trans women. It’s got a lovely samba-inflected soundtrack and a big honkin’ axe that you can crush fools with.
For this one I’m going to nominate a couple games I’ve yet to play with focus on trans themes and characters, but would really like to play: Secret Little Haven and (NVM ROACH ALREADY NOMINATED A YEAR OF SPRINGS TY ROACH)!
I really want to play these, but I also want to play all the suggestions everyone has made. I want cake and I wanna eat it too. >:C
Sounds like we need to make a “List” on the main feed lmao. I think there’s already a LGBTQIA+ one though.
