Coming Out Simulator 2014

Play:

Maximise Touch: tap anywhere to advance dialogue; tap a choice button to select it · Keyboard: not required — the game has no keyboard-only interactions

About:

Nicky Case built Coming Out Simulator 2014 in two weeks for the Nar8 game jam, retelling the night they came out to their parents as a fictionalised, branching conversation. It went on to a 2015 IGF finalist slot for Excellence in Narrative and a large, durable itch.io audience (4.7/5 from roughly 2,950 ratings).

Every interaction is a single tap: read the next line, or pick what you say next. Underneath that simplicity a few dozen tracked choices — what you told your boyfriend, how you answered your mother's tears, who you blamed afterward — genuinely reshape later scenes, not just the next line of dialogue. The build here is the author's own dedicated touch-friendly mobile version of the game, not the original desktop-only jam build.

Credits:

Made by Nicky Case, 2014. Published here under the Unlicense (public domain / CC0) licence. Source code. The author's own page for it.

Phone check: played to completion on a simulated phone (390x844, real touchscreen taps) and on desktop, twice, down two divergent story paths, on 7 Sep 2026 — zero console errors, zero failed requests on either run

Tags:

narrative · visual novel · autobiographical · lgbt · nar8-jam