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With a name like "Coming Out Simulator 2014" one would expect indie developer Nicky Case's autobiographical text-based browser adventure to be a pretty one-note affair. You expect to get outraged over homophobic parents, yelling will ensue, then crying, then ultimately acceptance. It's a story we've heard a million times before, but rarely in as excruciating detail as what Case has wrought here.Taking after Telltale's The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us, Coming Out Simulator 2014 thrusts players into a tense situation which they have to carefully navigate with their wits. Like Telltale's recent adventures, there's no right, wrong, moral, or immoral answers and every deviation feels tempting in its own way.
But perhaps the most hand-wringingly awful thing about Coming Out Simulator 2014 is that Case's mom isn't a raging homophobe. That would be too easy. Instead, she means well, but is just completely disinterested in his mental well-being, ignorant about sexual identities, and takes her abysmally wrong-headed interpretation of their teenage son for granted. (Case's dad, however, is a more conventional villain.)
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