Diversity In Gaming

Representation: Black, Asian, Mixed-race, and LGBTQ+ characters
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: A Battle Royale shooter where legendary characters with powerful abilities team up to battle for fame & fortune on the fringes of the Frontier.

Representation: Asian characters, Japanese and Mongol cultures
Available On: Playstation 4
Description: Set in 1274 on the Tsushima Island, the last samurai, Jin Sakai, must master a new fighting style, the way of the Ghost, to defeat the Mongol forces and fight for the freedom and independence of Japan.

Representation: Asian protagonist, Woman protagonist
Available On: PlayStation 4; Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Follow Kena, a young spirit guide, who uses her magical abilities to help deceased people move from the physical to the spirit world.

Representation: Asian protagonist, Woman protagonist
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Alex Chen, a young woman who can experience the emotions of others, tries to solve the mystery behind a tragedy that happened in her life.

Representation: Asian protagonist and characters
Available On: Xbox One
Description: Play as Wei Shen, the highly skilled undercover cop trying to take down the Triads from the inside out. You'll have to prove yourself worthy as you fight your way up the organization, taking part in brutal criminal activities without blowing your cover.

Representation: Black, Asian, Mixed-race, and LGBTQ+ characters
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: A Battle Royale shooter where legendary characters with powerful abilities team up to battle for fame & fortune on the fringes of the Frontier.

Representation: Black, Women, Underrepresented Groups
Available On: in browser game, free
Description: A suite of online PC games designed by Catt Small, a Black woman that codes and builds online games that helps one understand the world around them. (i.e. microaggressions, race, gender, body image, etc.)

Representation: LGBTQ+, Black, and Ethnically Diverse Characters, Global Perspectives
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.

Representation: Black protagonist
Available On: in browser game, free
Description: A travel game about a Black woman who is tired of people touching her hair.

Representation: Black protagonist
Available On: mobile devices, free
Description: Based on the television world of Issa Dee and her friends from the hit HBO show Insecure. Hustle, heart and hype are your tools to build your new life in Los Angeles. With Issa and her crew as your guides, you navigate the messy business of adulting – learning to define yourself, fight for your city, cultivate your crew, and nurture your closest friends.

Representation: Women, Black
Available On: Xbox One
Description: In the aftermath of a split second of destruction that fractures time itself, two people find they have changed and gained extraordinary abilities. One of them travels through time and becomes hell-bent on controlling this power. The other uses these new abilities to attempt to defeat him – and fix time before it tears itself irreparably apart. Both face overwhelming odds and make dramatic choices that will determine the shape of the future.

Representation: Women, Black, Diverse Characters
Available On: Xbox One
Description: Explore a vast open world of unspoiled islands, sunken ships and mysterious artefacts. Seek out lost treasure, confront cursed Skeleton Captains and protect precious Trading Company cargo. Go hunting and fishing or dip into hundreds of optional goals!

Representation: Black and Latino protagonist
Available On: Playstation 4
Description: Miles Morales discovers explosive powers that set him apart from his mentor, Peter Parker. Master his unique, bio-electric venom Blast attacks and covert camouflage power alongside spectacular web-slinging acrobatics, gadgets and skills.

Representation: Black protagonist
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Play as the Master Stacker, Rockit, who must use her psychic helmet to clean up the colorful bricks falling all over her madcap world.

Representation: Afrofantasy, Black game designers
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Play as our hero Mooba, who uses a variety of unique power ups and weapons to survive in this aquatic world of this multiplayer shooter with Co-Op and Versus game modes.

Representation: Black protagonist
Available On: Xbox One
Description: Play as Lee Everett, a convicted criminal, who has been given a second chance at life in a world devastated by the undead. With corpses returning to life and survivors stopping at nothing to maintain their own safety, protecting an orphaned girl named Clementine may offer him redemption in a world gone to hell.

Representation: Black protagonist
Available On: Playstation 4
Description: Play as Marcus, a brilliant young hacker, and join the most notorious hacker group in San Francisco, DedSec. Your objective: execute the biggest hack of history.

Representation: Black Game Developer
Available On: in browser game, free
Description: A Google Doodle highlighting the contributions of Black game developer Jerry Lawson. Play and edit several games in his style.

Representation: Accessibility
Available On: in browser game, free
Description: New to web accessibility experiences? Encounter a number of barriers you must work around, mirroring the experience of those who encounter these obstacles daily. Learn quick lessons on how to avoid or correct these common barriers.

Representation: Colorblind Mode
Available On: Xbox One
Description: Become Eivor, a legendary Viking warrior on a quest for glory. Explore England's Dark Ages as you raid your enemies, grow your settlement, and build your political power.

Representation: Accessibility features including eye-tracking technology
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: A first person narrative adventure which tells the story of a soul's journey into the afterlife using a new and innovative form of interaction—your real-life blinks.

Representation: Blindness
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: In this modern fairy tale about finding courage and friendship, carefully guide Rae, a young blind girl, on a life changing journey.

Representation: Blindess
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Discover the original, innovative sensory experience of binaural 3D sound, in this first-ever action-adventure game without video – where ears replace eyes!

Representation: Blindness
Available On: mobile devices, free
Description: A game that takes place entirely through sound, with the narrative told from the point of view of a man in an authoritarian society who wants to escape his life by ending it.

Representation: Accessibility, Color Blindness
Available On: In browser game, free to create account
Description: Join costumed crooks and crime fighters of every imaginable variety in Titan City, a massive world with many diverse neighborhoods and secret places to explore.

Representation: Latinx protagonist, Accessibility Features: customizable
audio, visual, and control settings
Available On: Xbox One
Description: Set in the adrenaline-filled world of a modern-day guerrilla revolution. As dictator of Yara, Anton Castillo is intent on restoring his nation back to its former glory by any means, with his son, Diego, following in his bloody footsteps.

Representation: American & British Sign Language; Disability representation including characters with prosthetic limbs, hearing aids; LGBTQ+ pronoun choice
Available On: Xbox One
Description: Racing video game set in an open world environment based in a fictional representation of Mexico.

Representation: Women, LGBTQ+ characters, Accessibility
Available On: Xbox One
Description: With all out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera herself in this epic campaign and brutal action across five thrilling modes.
Accessibly features: Full controller remapping, single stick movement, Adaptive controller support, narrated UI and menus, improved subtitles and more.

Representation: Accessibility features for visually impaired players
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Play as the clashing couple Cody and May, two humans turned into dolls by a magic spell. Trapped in a fantastical world, they're reluctantly challenged with saving their fractured relationship by the suave love guru Dr. Hakim.

Representation: LGBTQ+
Available On: Playstation 4
Description: When a violent event disrupts Ellie and Joel's peace, Ellie embarks on a relentless journey to carry out justice and find closure with the devastating physical and emotional repercussions of her actions.

Representation: Accessibility features include descriptive captioning and specific difficulty options
Available On: Xbox One
Description: In this third-person action-adventure game, you are Star-Lord, and thanks to your bold yet questionable leadership, you have persuaded an oddball crew of unlikely heroes to join you. A chain of catastrophic events has been set off, and only you can hold the unpredictable Guardians together long enough to fight off total interplanetary meltdown.

Representation: Accessibility features for low vision, colorblind, and deaf players; LGBTQ+
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: After inherited your grandfather's old farm plot, you set out to live off the land and see if you can turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home.

Representation: Disability including blindness, cognitive impairments, wheelchair user
Available On: mobile devices, free
Description: Four friends, each with a physical or cognitive difference, unite their powers to make their way through challenging puzzle parcours and track down the mysterious thief of their beloved guide dog Tofu.

Representation: Accessibility features include interactive audio game for visually impaired players
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Play as Alex, a blind princess, who has just been shipped off to a rural castle 500 miles away. However, things don't go as planned, as her carriage is attacked by raiders just short of their destination.

Representation: Indigenous protagonist, Mohawk language dialogue
Available On: Playstation 4
Description: You are Connor, an assassin who has sworn to secure liberty for his people and his nation.

Representation: Indian protagonist
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: A narrative exploration game that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived.

Representation: Indigenous protagonist, Inupiat language dialogue
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Experience the epic journey of Nuna and Fox as they search for the source of an eternal blizzard that threatens the survival of everything they have ever known.

Representation: Black, Asian, Mixed-race, and LGBTQ+ characters
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: A Battle Royale shooter where legendary characters with powerful abilities team up to battle for fame & fortune on the fringes of the Frontier.

Representation: Latinx protagonist, Accessibility Features: customizable
audio, visual, and control settings
Available On: Xbox One
Description: Set in the adrenaline-filled world of a modern-day guerrilla revolution. As dictator of Yara, Anton Castillo is intent on restoring his nation back to its former glory by any means, with his son, Diego, following in his bloody footsteps.

Representation: Latinx, Spanish language dialogue
Available On: Playstation 4
Description: A Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical world inspired by traditional Mexican culture and folklore featuring melee combat, parallel dimensions, and same-screen co-op.

Representation: Brazilian characters
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Quico’s best friend, Monster, is a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth, but that doesn’t scare Quico away from playing with him. That said, Monster does have a very dangerous problem: an addiction to poisonous frogs.

Representation: Black and Latino protagonist
Available On: Playstation 4
Description: Miles Morales discovers explosive powers that set him apart from his mentor, Peter Parker. Master his unique, bio-electric venom Blast attacks and covert camouflage power alongside spectacular web-slinging acrobatics, gadgets and skills.

Representation: Latinx protagonist
Available On: Playstation 4
Description: As Javier, a young man determined to find the family taken from him, you meet a young girl who has experienced her own unimaginable loss. Her name is Clementine, and your fates are bound together in a story where every choice you make could be your last.

Representation: LGBTQ+
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: A journalist-turned-detective teams up with Turing, the world’s first sapient machine, to unmask a conspiracy that will shake the foundations of Neo-San Francisco.

Representation: Black, Asian, Mixed-race, and LGBTQ+ characters
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: A Battle Royale shooter where legendary characters with powerful abilities team up to battle for fame & fortune on the fringes of the Frontier.

Representation: Non-Binary protagonists, LGBTQ+
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Taking place in an urban fantasy setting, the player must fight through dungeons with the help of a human partner who can transform into a sentient weapon.

Representation: Mental Health, Trans (protagonist & creator)
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall.

Representation: LGBTQ+, trans
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Enter Thedas, a vibrant world of rugged wilderness, treacherous labyrinths, and glittering cities. The Dragon Age is a time of warring nations, savage combat, and secret magics.

Representation: LGBTQ+
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: In this dating simulator game, play as a Dad with the goal is to meet and romance other Dads.

Representation: American & British Sign Language; Disability representation including characters with prosthetic limbs, hearing aids; LGBTQ+ pronoun choice
Available On: Xbox One
Description: Racing video game set in an open world environment based in a fictional representation of Mexico.

Representation: Women, LGBTQ+ characters, Accessibility
Available On: Xbox One
Description: With all out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera herself in this epic campaign and brutal action across five thrilling modes.
Accessibly features: Full controller remapping, single stick movement, Adaptive controller support, narrated UI and menus, improved subtitles and more.

Representation: LGBTQ+, Black, and Ethnically Diverse Characters, Global Perspectives
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.

Representation: LGBTQ+
Available On: Playstation 4
Description: When a violent event disrupts Ellie and Joel's peace, Ellie embarks on a relentless journey to carry out justice and find closure with the devastating physical and emotional repercussions of her actions.

Representation: Accessibility features for low vision, colorblind, and deaf players; LGBTQ+
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: After inherited your grandfather's old farm plot, you set out to live off the land and see if you can turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home.

Representation: LGBTQ+
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Reunited twins Tyler and Alyson Ronan use their supernatural bond to unravel the memories of their loving but troubled childhood. Your choices will affect their relationship, determine the strength of their bond, and shape the course of their lives.

Representation: LGBTQ+
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: In this RPG, you control a human who falls underground into the world of monsters. Now you must find your way out... or stay trapped forever.
Game contains imagery that may be harmful to players with photosensitive epilepsy or similar condition.

Representation: Mental Health, Grief, Coping
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Meet Chris, a creative and imaginative 9 year old boy who escapes reality with fantastical adventures as his alter ego, the Awesome Captain Spirit! Set in the Life is Strange universe.

Representation: Mental Health
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Take control of the wind as you explore and navigate beautiful, lush environments and journey through varied landscapes at your own pace. Interact with and changing the environment and find balance and harmony in your surroundings.

Representation: Woman protagonist; Mental health, psychosis focus
Available On: Xbox One
Description: Follow Senua, a Pict warrior who must make her way to Helheim by defeating otherworldly entities and facing their challenges, in order to rescue the soul of her dead lover from the goddess Hela.

Representation: Mental Health
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.

Representation: Mental Health
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: An award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

Representation: Mental Health
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: A surreal adventure RPG where you must traverse an ethereal dreamscape, confront your inner nightmares, and escape from a never-ending coma.

Representation: Disability including blindness, cognitive impairments, wheelchair user
Available On: mobile devices, free
Description: Four friends, each with a physical or cognitive difference, unite their powers to make their way through challenging puzzle parcours and track down the mysterious thief of their beloved guide dog Tofu.

Representation: Iranian protagonist and characters
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.

Representation: Colorblind Mode
Available On: Xbox One
Description: Ancient Egypt, a land of majesty and intrigue, is disappearing in a ruthless fight for power. Unveil dark secrets and forgotten myths as you go back to the one founding moment: The Origins of the Assassin’s Brotherhood.

Representation: Syrian protagonist and characters, refugees
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Bury me, my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd, as Nour undertakes a perilous journey to safety in Europe.

Representation: Jewish
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.

Representation: Egyptian
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Using simple rules that can be learned in minutes, players alternate turns moving Egyptian themed mirrored pieces, after which they fire their laser with the goal of blasting their opponents Pharaoh to win the game!

Representation: Black, Women, Underrepresented Groups
Available On: in browser game, free
Description: A suite of online PC games designed by Catt Small, a Black woman that codes and builds online games that helps one understand the world around them. (i.e. microaggressions, race, gender, body image, etc.)

Representation: Women, LGBTQ+ characters, Accessibility
Available On: Xbox One
Description: With all out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera herself in this epic campaign and brutal action across five thrilling modes.
Accessibly features: Full controller remapping, single stick movement, Adaptive controller support, narrated UI and menus, improved subtitles and more.

Representation: Black protagonist
Available On: in browser game, free
Description: A travel game about a Black woman who is tired of people touching her hair.

Representation: Woman protagonist; Mental health, psychosis focus
Available On: Xbox One
Description: Follow Senua, a Pict warrior who must make her way to Helheim by defeating otherworldly entities and facing their challenges, in order to rescue the soul of her dead lover from the goddess Hela.

Representation: Woman protagonist
Available On: PlayStation 4
Description: Continue the story of Aloy, a young hunter of the Nora tribe and a clone of the Old World scientist Elisabet Sobeck, as she leads a band of companions on a quest to the arcane frontier known as the Forbidden West to find the source of a mysterious plague that kills all it infects.

Representation: Women Protagonist
Available On: Playstation 4
Description: In this Open World Action/RPG, play as skilled hunter Aloy who must use every ounce of her knowledge, intelligence, and agility to survive each encounter and overcome a much larger and technologically superior enemy.

Representation: Asian protagonist, Woman protagonist
Available On: PlayStation 4; Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Follow Kena, a young spirit guide, who uses her magical abilities to help deceased people move from the physical to the spirit world.

Representation: Asian protagonist, Woman protagonist
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: Alex Chen, a young woman who can experience the emotions of others, tries to solve the mystery behind a tragedy that happened in her life.

Representation: Woman protagonist
Available On: Nintendo Switch
Description: Metroid Dread retells the story of the 2D Metroid games leading up to it, ending with Metroid Fusion. Now, Samus is dispatched to investigate by a currently unknown party and travels to ZDR. As the only being in the universe with immunity against the X Parasites, Samus seeks to uncover whether they truly still exist.

Representation: Women with realistic body proportions, Age Diversity
Available On: Playstation 4
Description: As a hunter, you'll take on quests to hunt monsters in a variety of habitats. Take down these monsters and receive materials to create stronger weapons and armor in order to hunt even more dangerous monsters.

Representation: Women, Black
Available On: Xbox One
Description: In the aftermath of a split second of destruction that fractures time itself, two people find they have changed and gained extraordinary abilities. One of them travels through time and becomes hell-bent on controlling this power. The other uses these new abilities to attempt to defeat him – and fix time before it tears itself irreparably apart. Both face overwhelming odds and make dramatic choices that will determine the shape of the future.

Representation: Female protagonist
Available On: Gaming Lab PC Steam account
Description: A 3rd person action adventure where players take on the role of Nilin, a former elite memory hunter with the ability to break into people’s minds and steal or even alter their memories.

Representation: Women, Black, Diverse Characters
Available On: Xbox One
Description: Explore a vast open world of unspoiled islands, sunken ships and mysterious artefacts. Seek out lost treasure, confront cursed Skeleton Captains and protect precious Trading Company cargo. Go hunting and fishing or dip into hundreds of optional goals!

Representation: female protagonist, Indigenous language representation
Available On: Xbox One
Description: As Lara Croft races to save the world from a Maya apocalypse, she must become the Tomb Raider she is destined to be.

Representation: Female characters
Available On: Playstation 4
Description: Follow the perilous journey of Nathan Drake across the globe, from humble beginnings to extraordinary discoveries, as he puts life and friendship on the line in a race against ruthless enemies to uncover unimaginable treasure.

Representation: Accessibility
Available On: in browser game, free
Description: New to web accessibility experiences? Encounter a number of barriers you must work around, mirroring the experience of those who encounter these obstacles daily. Learn quick lessons on how to avoid or correct these common barriers.

Representation: Black, Women, Underrepresented Groups
Available On: in browser game, free
Description: A suite of online PC games designed by Catt Small, a Black woman that codes and builds online games that helps one understand the world around them. (i.e. microaggressions, race, gender, body image, etc.)

Representation: Accessibility, Color Blindness
Available On: In browser game, free to create account
Description: Join costumed crooks and crime fighters of every imaginable variety in Titan City, a massive world with many diverse neighborhoods and secret places to explore.

Representation: Black Game Developer
Available On: in browser game, free
Description: A Google Doodle highlighting the contributions of Black game developer Jerry Lawson. Play and edit several games in his style.

Representation: Black, LGBQ+, Disability,
Available On: in browser game, free
Description: Solitaire where you can select decks with members of the show heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, Women in STEM, Women's Suffrage, Disability Rights Activists, Pride, and more.

Representation: Black protagonist
Available On: in browser game, free
Description: A travel game about a Black woman who is tired of people touching her hair.

Representation: Blindness
Available On: mobile devices, free
Description: A game that takes place entirely through sound, with the narrative told from the point of view of a man in an authoritarian society who wants to escape his life by ending it.

Representation: Disability including blindness, cognitive impairments, wheelchair user
Available On: mobile devices, free
Description: Four friends, each with a physical or cognitive difference, unite their powers to make their way through challenging puzzle parcours and track down the mysterious thief of their beloved guide dog Tofu.