This is my hand-curated collection of 52 games, books, and more by creators on itch.io that are about people who are nonbinary, genderless (agender), genderfluid, genderqueer, bigender, or who do not identify as only a man or only a woman all of the time.
This collection is part of my directory of other people's creations on itch.io, Curated Collections of LGBTQIA, where you can find more collections about other topics. I personally select and review each creation in them to make sure they meet the criteria of queer positivity, authenticity, and quality, even if they are different than my own views or experiences as a queer person myself. If you want to ask me to add or remove your creations from my collections, or if you have other comments, you can email me.
- Orion Scribner (they/them)
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A computer game. It can run in your web browser.
Genre: Walking sim.
Languages: English and French.
Length: About five minutes.
About: Walk through a hazy landscape, reflect on how you feel, and discover doors. Each door is the color of a stripe from the transgender or nonbinary pride flags, and each door is associated with a certain experience of or perspective about gender.
Mood: Gently curious and thoughtful.
Content: Rated PG.
Medium: Book, a personal zine.
Genre: Nonfiction.
Length: 16 pages, with covers. About a ten minute read.
About: As described by the author, Erik M.Y.B.,
"Queer zine with anecdotes from my gay life, comic work about queer youth homelessness in Canada from 2015, lifestyle tips from my disabled experience, and whatever other weird stuff I've included."
LGBTQIA themes: Transgender, trans feminine nonbinary.
Content: Rated PG.
Languages: Available in English and in a translation to Russian.
Medium: A computer game, a kinetic novel. It can run on Windows and Mac.
Genre: Furry fiction in a realistic modern day setting.
Length: About fifteen minutes.
About: As described by the author, Sxilin,
"in the summer of 2019, i legally changed my name. 'what's your name?' is a semi-fictional visual novel about my name change process - the paperwork i had to file, the people i had to talk to, the time i had to wait."
LBGTQIA themes: Transgender. Nonbinary.
Mood: Sad, frustrated.
Content: Rated R. See the beginning screens of the game for specific content warnings.
Medium: A computer game. It can run in your web browser.
Genre: Fiction in a realistic modern-day setting.
Length: About an hour.
About: As described by the game creator, KB,
"(val)iant: or, val's guide to having a broken vag is a single-player narrative game about "vagina problems". Play as Val, a nonbinary college student struggling with their relationship to their body, as well as their relationship with sex. This game is fundamentally about how we as a society learn (or don't learn) about sex."
Mood: Anxious, uneasy.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: An interactive story. It can run in your web browser. There is one choice which can reveal three endings.
Length: Each play through is under five minutes. 776 words long.
Genre: Nonfiction, memoir.
About: A memory from the author's life. After you play, read the dev log.
LGBTQIA themes: Transgender, nonbinary.
Mood: Sad, wistful.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A computer game. It can run in your web browser. Drag and drop the person onto different colors to move on through the story.
Length: Under five minutes.
About: A bigender person figures out who they are by trying outfits that are feminine, masculine, mixed, or neutral.
LGBTQIA themes: Transgender, nonbinary, bigender, questioning.
Mood: Positive.
Content: Rated R.
Medium: An interactive story created with Twine.
Length: About five minutes long. There is replay value in exploring other choices.
Genre: Fiction in a realistic modern setting.
About: On a date, the nonbinary trans feminine main character explains to her girlfriend that she has transitioned to have a combination of sex organs, and she prefers to use the word for it shown in the game title. They talk about whether this is an acceptable word compared to other options, each of which has problems, since she wasn't born intersex. The author of this story is also a nonbinary genderqueer trans woman.
LGBTQIA themes: Trans feminine nonbinary people.
Mood: Anxious, thoughtful, tender.
Content: Rated PG.
Medium: A book, a personal zine. There is a version for reading on screen and another for printing.
Length: 11 pages.
Genre: Nonfiction.
About: An introduction, as described by the author, Roboticchibitan, "about being nonbinary from a Buddhist perspective. I mainly wrote this to give it to my teacher at the temple I go to ..."
LGBTQIA themes: Transgender. Nonbinary.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A computer game for one player. It can run in Windows, Linux, and your web browser.
Genre: Walking simulator. Maze. Nonfiction.
Length: About twenty minutes.
About: Learn and reflect as you explore a non-Euclidean maze made of metaphors, definitions, and questions about gender.
Relevance to this nonbinary collection: The maze has areas about several nonbinary identities and experiences, such as genderfluid, demigender, and void gender.
Mood: Curious, pensive, wonder.
Content: Rated PG-13.
Medium: A book, a zine. There is a version for reading on screen, and a version for printing and folding.
Length: 28 pages. About a fifteen minute read.
Genre: Nonfiction, memoir.
About: The author, Wesley, reflects on being a demiboy. Thoughts on tough femininity and gentle masculinity.
LGBTQIA themes: Transgender, nonbinary, and trans masculine people. Questioning. Transition.
Mood: Heartfelt and analytical.
Content: Rated PG-13
Medium: An interactive fiction story created with Ink. It can run in your web browser.
Length: About ten minutes long. You can play it again to make different choices along the way and reveal different variations on the storyline, though it always reaches the same ending (as far as I know).
Genre: Fiction in a realistic setting.
About: You loved Pokémon Red, where you had no choice but to play as a boy. Now that Pokémon Crystal has been released, you're excited to finally get to choose for your character to be a girl. You wonder why that choice feels strangely difficult.
Told through a series of vignettes that are likely to be familiar to Millennials, the trans masculine nonbinary protagonist grows up and is prompted to question their gender through interactions with school, friends, and loved ones, as well as through the character selection screens in well-known video games over the years.
They're especially delighted by the nonbinary option in Fallen London.
Mood: Nostalgic, anxious, hopeful.
archive of the nonbinary wiki
Content: Rated PG for a couple of swear words.
Accessibility: Not screen reader friendly.
Medium: Book, zine. There is a version for reading on screen and a version for printing.
Length: About a five minute read.
Genre: Nonfiction, personal.
About: The author describes his feelings of looking forward to top surgery after scheduling it, and reflects on what held him back from doing it sooner even though he had always wanted it.
Queer themes: Transgender. Nonbinary. Transition.
Mood: Excitement.
Content: Rated PG-13. Sexuality and body dysphoria.
Accessibility: Not screen reader friendly.
Medium: A mini zine that can be printed and folded from one piece of paper.
Length: Four small pages, with cover. Under a five minute read.
Genre: Nonfiction, personal.
About: As described by the author,
"as a nonbinary person, my thoughts for what I want from top surgery are often conflicting and confusing. this zine shows the spiral that my thoughts usually take when I get stuck on the topic."
Queer themes: Transgender. Trans masculine nonbinary people. Transition.
Reviewer's note to readers who may be new to the idea of nonbinary genders: What body shape each nonbinary person wants to have is unique to them as an individual, it isn't one size fits all. Some nonbinary people have complicated feelings about their chests, as in this zine, whereas others have very simple feelings about wanting or not wanting to have breasts.
Mood: Anxious.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A book, a mini zine.
Genre: Nonfiction.
About why the author goes by it/its pronouns.
LGBTQIA themes: Transgender. Nonbinary.
Mood: Mysterious.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A tiny computer game created with Bitsy. It runs in your web browser. This is a walking simulator with no ending and no choices.
Length: About ten minutes to see all.
Genre: Futuristic science fiction.
About: What would you give up to be yourself? You left the Earth to be true to yourself.
Queer themes: Transgender. Nonbinary.
Content: Rated G. Background music with no lyrics. WARNING FOR FLICKERING LIGHTS. There is a different version that you can download that doesn't have flickering lights.
Medium: A computer game created with Bitsy. It can run in your web browser.
Length: About five minutes. You can play again and make different choices to reveal different text.
Genre: Philosophy.
About: This was created for the nonbinary game jam. The game describes how philosophers divide everything in the world into elements. This is about how dividing things into categories changes how we think about things. If everything is either fire or water, what is a dragon?
Mood: Mysterious.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Comic book.
About: As described by the authors,
"SHUVAH is an 11-page comic created for Heartwood: Non-Binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy (2019, Power & Magic Press) about Ofra, a middle-aged trans Jew who returns to the forest where they had a mysterious experience 40 years earlier. A collaboration with Ezra's partner Jey Barnes, the story was co-developed, with the script then written by Ezra and illustrated by Jey. It features uniquely Jewish forest spirits, a lovable scruffy dog companion, and themes of self-acceptance, growth and change."
LGBTQIA themes: Transgender. Trans feminine nonbinary people.
Vibe: Mysterious.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Books, mini zines. This is a pair of mini zines, designed to be printed and folded from a single sheet of paper each.
Genre: Nonfiction.
About: One mini zine is advice for people who are nonbinary about their transition options, focusing on how nonbinary people don't necessarily look androgynous or have a medical transition. The other mini zine is a primer on what "nonbinary" means, and some words to know.
Content: Rated G. Warning for talk about institutional sexism (governmental and medical discrimination against transgender people).
Medium: A tiny computer game created with Bitsy. It runs in your web browser. This is a kinetic game with one ending and no choices.
Length: About three minutes.
Genre: Nonfiction, diary, memoir.
About: The author's experiences of questioning, coming out, and starting hormone therapy during a time that is difficult for transgender people.
Queer themes: Transgender women and trans feminine nonbinary people. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT), estrogen, and finasteride.
Vibe: Serious.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A book, a zine.
Length: Eight pages. About a three minute read.
Genre: Nonfiction. Memoir.
About: A colorful experiment in using mixed media to describe the author's indescribable nonbinary gender.
Mood: Fun.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A mini zine. You can print and fold it from a single sheet of paper.
Genre: Nonfiction, workbook.
About: A tiny little journaling workbook that you can fill out to explore your gender.
Vibe: Fun.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Book, a mini zine that you can print and fold from a single piece of paper.
Genre: Nonfiction.
About: The genderfluid author's reasons for going by xe/xir pronouns.
LGBTQIA themes: Transgender. Nonbinary.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Instructions for a physical game. The instruction book is available in a version for reading on screen, and another version for printing and folding as a zine.
Genre: Comedy, satire.
About: You play this game as you go about your day in real life. For anything you see, do, wear, feel, or experience, use the Genderizer 3000 to assign either a male or female gender to them. This game is meant to be a satire that helps us notice how much of life is divided into these genders, how arbitrary and nonsensical it can be, and how these made-up divisions might be getting in the way of us enjoying full happy lives.
Content: Rated PG-13.
Medium: Book, zine. There is a version for reading on screen and a version for printing.
About: This is a punk parody of a zine that you print and fill out to describe your gender.
Queer themes: Transgender, nonbinary, xenogender, questioning.
Vibe: Satirical, punk, anarchic.
Content: Rated G. Warning for description of family members expressing sexist discrimination.
Medium: Comic book.
Length: 38 pages, with covers.
Genre: Nonfiction. Memoir. Commentary on media.
About: "A comic exploring the creator's nonbinary identity and feeling like a werewolf through the roleplaying game 'Women are Werewolves.'"
Content: Rated PG-13. Blood. Bare chest of a person who isn't a woman.
Medium: Comic book.
Genre: Nonfiction. Memoir.
About: "Collection of autobio comics I drew during 2018-2019, more or less chronicling my first 18 months on testosterone."
Queer themes: Transgender. Nonbinary. Transition.
Content: Rated PG. Swear words.
Medium: Book.
Genre: Nonfiction. Cookbook.
Length: Twelve pages long, with covers.
About: Recipes and body positivity.
Queer themes: Transgender, nonbinary.
Vibe: Loving.
Content: Rated PG-13. About dysphoria. Mentions sexual assault. Bare chest of a person who isn't a woman.
Medium: A short nonfiction writing piece, enhanced with multimedia and interactive elements. It runs in your web browser.
Length: A five minute read.
About the author's complicated feelings about his breasts, as a nonbinary person who doesn't want to be thought of as a woman but also doesn't want top surgery.
Queer themes: Transgender. Trans masculine agender. Gender dysphoria.
Vibe: Candid.
