The protagonist pulls on the hair of their lover, Addie.Classic Match-3 gameplay to add some casual fun.Branching narrative, choices, and decisions (because sex is always exciting in many ways).Hand-animated sex scenes that will leave you wanting more.Six steaming hot stories, one better than the other.But it's time he figured out his role in this weird ensemble. Their crotches press together and they kiss. They rip off each other’s clothes and moan loudly to drown out the noise just outside their elongated isolation quarters - the sounds of screams at the end of the world. “Her gaze was unable to even stay locked onto me, just clawing my hips as she let out the most delicate and pathetic moans I’d ever heard. I kept filling my lungs with the cool air with sharp gasps, my head being thrown back as the little I could see from my dark room was lost in a blur. It was too easy, just erasing the whole world. I didn’t have to crave for reason or belonging, because feeling my heart pound in my chest had my veins pump the rush of lust and love.” For that one ephemeral moment, everything was right. This is Nadia Nova’s most recent game, 2021’s doomsday dreamgirl. It follows two new lovers isolated together amid the end of the world. Nova has been a prominent developer of queer independent games for the past half-decade now, producing 11 games and three comics. She isn’t interested in following controversy or trends, instead choosing to dive deep into the characters she creates.
Nova’s work fills a unique niche on itch.io - sexually explicit visual novels featuring furry transgender gay characters. “As niche it may be, there is most certainly a demand for trans furry erotica,” Nova tells Inverse.
There are other trans erotica games on itch.io, but few are as emotionally intimate and vulnerable as Nova’s work. Whether you came to play her games because they were hot or because they feature cute trans characters, you are in for a surprise. Her stories are far deeper and more thought-provoking than saucy genre labels might suggest. “I love showing the more complicated sides of this kind of interaction.” Make it euphoric “As much as horny things are great, things like these can easily be overlooked for the sake of wanting to make the sexiest story possible,” Nova says. That’s what makes Nova’s work so special. In all her games, even the smallest ones, there is a relatable depth to the characters and their situations.
Part of this stems from Nova’s candid willingness to draw from her own experiences, but it also comes from allowing her characters’ emotions to intersect with their sexualities.Ībove all, Nova wants her stories to uplift trans characters rather than focus on their hardships. “It is more enjoyable for me - and presumably for the readers - to show trans positivity. It makes me happy to focus on gender euphoria and acceptance instead. It isn't intended to remove or hide the negatives, but to build on top of it and focus on the good parts instead,” Nova says. “Feeling represented in a positive way is extremely valuable for trans people, especially when they're still sorting everything out regarding their gender- so just being able to show this feels like I'm doing a good thing.” “I love showing the more complicated sides of this kind of interaction.”įor decades, furry communities have experimented with gender and sexual identity, heightening the sense of fantastical possibility within a grounded setting. Nova tells me that this sense of fantasy is always in the background for her characters, but largely it’s just her preferred art style. There’s not necessarily a deeper meaning behind it. Instead, Nova’s visual style might better be described as a euphoric trans aesthetic, which uplifts her characters in various ways.
A notable example comes in can you say my name again?, which follows Laina, a trans bunny girl, who lets trans girl Pisti stay the night after being kicked out by her transphobic family.īoth characters face hardship - Laina struggles with anxiety and Pisti is figuring out how to live after being kicked out.