Summit (beta)
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🏳️🌈 Why it’s here
What we found
- Queer themes
According to the game’s own description
“Summit gives us hushed whispers, risky rule-breaking, queer secrets, a group of troubled teens desperate to survive” - Tagged queer by its creator
According to the creator’s own tags on itch.io
“itch.io tags: lgbt, transgender”
🤝 Inclusive design ⓘInclusive design is separate from a game’s queer labels. It marks games whose design is deliberately inclusive even when not queer-themed: romance or marriage mechanics with no gender constraint, character creation without a forced gender binary, gender-neutral rules language, or table safety tools. Each marker shows where we found it.
- Safety tools (X-card, lines & veils, session zero)
According to the game’s rulebook
“Somesafetymechanicsthatareencouragedarelines,veils,andhighlights,thex-card,andtakingabreak.”
Description
“We are going to play a game,” your therapist says. “I want you to imagine a version of yourself that would deserve to be loved. What would you need to change?” In Summit you play as a resident of a haunted lockdown residential treatment facility for adolescent girls. Beyond the gates of the house that you are trapped in, life goes on. High school dances are planned, exams are failed, friendships blossom and burst, while you are forced to strip away your defenses and punished for your every defiance. As you learn to wield the cruelty shown to you against your fellow residents, this house starts to feel like it could be a home. Summit gives us hushed whispers, risky rule-breaking, queer secrets, a group of troubled teens desperate to survive, and a locked house haunted by therapists and ghosts, always asking, “what will you do next?” Welcome to Summit! We are a sophisticated therapeutic treatment program that helps young women reclaim their lives and strengthen their relationships. We aim to create a safe and supportive environment where teenage girls can feel at home and receive the specialized treatment they need by balancing challenging therapy and a strong therapeutic community. Creating a familial home environment is our utmost priority. We specialize in treatment for a wide variety of issues that struggling teens may be battling with, including: Anxiety and depression Behavioral issues Mood and personality disorders Drug and alcohol dependency Body image issues Self-harm and suicidal thoughts Summit utilizes intensive group and individual therapy along with therapeutic interventions in order to push residents to deal with their issues head on. Residents are carefully monitored to ensure that they are working to be honest and vulnerable in their therapeutic work and that they can't simply manipulate their way through the program. Residents attempting to manipulate their way home is why we make sure Summit is a place that feels like home. Home is a place you can stay forever. We are certain that our program can give at-risk and troubled young women the safe home they need in their lives. Summit is a Belonging Outside Belonging game for 3-6 players. It is a diceless and gm-less game where you gain points by making moves that comply with the treatment center program, and you lose points by making insubordinate moves. Throughout play you will discover secrets about yourself, each other, and the House you are trapped in. Summit includes 10 unique character sheets, 9 setting elements that are revealed throughout play, over 120 secret and ghost cards, and 4 ritual special groups that can add to the horror. CW: This is a game that deals implicitly and explicitly with physical and psychological abuse, sexual violence, physical violence, drug addiction, transphobia, homophobia, conversion therapy, suicide, self harm, forced institutionalization, and the general perils of being an adolescent.