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How far have we really come since The Sims? A short, sweet history of being bi in games


Introducing a week of LGBTQIA+ stories on Eurogamer.

Things get underway today as Keza MacDonald whisks us through a brief history of bisexuality in video games, and if you want catch up on previous years' festivities, why not have a nose around our Pride Week hub? He turns a lot of queer tropes upside down: he's camp, devilish (unsurprisingly for the son of Greek Satan), articulate and sardonic, but we are not invited to hate him as we were, say, Jafar or Scar or a bunch of other 90s queer-coded characters. Life is Strange would redeem itself for its earlier tentativeness with the openly bisexual Alex Chen, in 2021's True Colors (fun fact: her singing voice in the game is provided by mxmtoon, a bi artist).

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