This Party Sucks
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🏳️🌈 Why it’s here
What we found
- Queer storyline central to play
According to the game’s own description
“This Party Sucks is a collaborative story game about being a queer and/or trans twentysomething who is (badly) processing a recent breakup.” - Queer themes
According to the creator’s own tags on itch.io - Queer characters
According to the game’s rulebook
“This Party Sucks is a collaborative story game about being a queer and/or trans twentysomething who is (badly) processing a recent breakup.” - Queer creator
According to our queer creator directory - Tagged queer by its creator
According to the creator’s own tags on itch.io
“itch.io tags: queer, transgender” - Safety tools (X-card, lines & veils, session zero)
According to the game’s own description
“expanded gameplay tools built based on playtester feedback, including tips for creating a main character, determining themes and details of the game setting, and managing game tone if gameplay veers humorously or awkwardly close to players' own relationship histories”
Description
This Party Sucks is a collaborative story game about being a queer and/or trans twentysomething who is (badly) processing a recent breakup. You will play out a piece of their story as they attend a series of three parties while trying (and failing) not to think about their ex. The game encourages a group of three players to laugh, wince, and (possibly) reflect on their own lives and relationships while telling their shared protagonist's story with honesty and tenderness. This Party Sucks now features updated PDFs, one formatted for digital reading and the other a print-and-play zine format. This edition also has expanded gameplay tools built based on playtester feedback, including tips for creating a main character, determining themes and details of the game setting, and managing game tone if gameplay veers humorously or awkwardly close to players' own relationship histories. You can also access a random character generation tool I designed specifically for this game here. Inspired by Mal Blum's queer folk punk album Tempest in a Teacup, and made for the ReCo2k19 game jam. The original game jam version and interim drafts are still available through Patreon for those who enjoy seeing the game's development arc.