Cover art for Sunset Swords

Sunset Swords

itch.io
Queer
Avg rating
10.00
Bayes rating
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Weight
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Players
2
Playtime
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Ratings count
1

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🏳️‍🌈 Why it’s here

What we found
  • Queer storyline central to play
    According to the game’s own description
    “Sunset Swords is a one-page one-shot two-player gm-less collaborative lesbian fencing-driven gender-exploration role-playing-game”
  • Queer themes
    According to the creator’s own tags on itch.io
  • Tagged queer by its creator
    According to the creator’s own tags on itch.io
    “itch.io tags: lesbian, lgbt, lgbtqia”

🤝 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 own description
    “you take actions based on the four humors use them to develop your fencers and their relationship”

Description

Sunset Swords is a one-page one-shot two-player gm-less collaborative lesbian fencing-driven gender-exploration role-playing-game that draws inspiration from games like Blade Kissed, historical developments of gender and swordplay, my lesbianism, and the fact that I had a creative project assignment for my gender and sexuality class. Sunset Swords takes place over three scenes that capture different important moments in your budding romance/rivalry, during which you take actions based on the four humors use them to develop your fencers and their relationship. No dice or math is required, and instead everything unfolds through guided roleplay and the consent of each player. It's fairly simple, and free to download (though donations are always appreciated) so why not just try it out yourself? If you play, let me know in the comments what you think!

Mechanics

Role Playing

Themes

Medieval

Publishers

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Designers

None recorded