Category: Playable Black Characters
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Tiny Bird Garden
Developer: Super Retro DuckPublisher: Super Retro DuckRelease Year: 2018Platform: Android, iOS, Mac, WINGenre: SimulationTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters Set up and customize your garden space and wait to meet and befriend strange, silly, and magical birds. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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The Walking Dead: Michonne
Developer: TellTale Games, Skybound EntertainmentPublisher: TellTale Games, Skybound Entertainment Release Year: 2016Platform: Android, iOS, Mac, PS3, PS4, WIN, Xbox 360, Xbox OneGenre: Point and Click AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Politics/Ideology/History, Narrative Themes, Black NPCs, Intersectionality Haunted by her past, coping with unimaginable loss and regret, you will discover what took Michonne away…
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The Walking Dead (Series)
Developer: TellTale Games, Skybound EntertainmentPublisher: TellTale Games, Skybound EntertainmentRelease Year: 2012, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2020 (Switch)Platform: Android, iOS, Kindle Fire, Mac, Ouya, PS3, PS4, PSVita, Switch, WIN, Xbox 360, Xbox OneGenre: Point and Click AdventureTaxonomy: Anti-Blackness, Regressive Characterizations, Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Politics/Ideology/History, Narrative Themes, Black NPCs, Intersectionality An episodic series that traces…
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The Sims (Franchise)
Developer: EAPublisher: EARelease Year: 2000-PresentPlatform: Android, BlackBerry 10, Blackberry Curve, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, iOS, iPod, Mac, N-Gage, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, PS2, PS3, PS4, PSP, WIN, WIN Phone, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox OneGenre: SimulationTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Black NPCs, Fandom/Community/Reception, Significant Black Cultural Mods, Robust Character Creation System, Intersectionality Creating virtual people, “Sims”,…
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The Journey Down
Developer: SkyGoblinPublisher: SkyGoblinRelease Year: 2010, 2014, 2017Platform: iOS, Linux, Mac, PS4, Switch, WIN, Xbox OneGenre: Point and Click AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Politics/Ideology/History, Narrative Themes, Black NPCs, Intersectionality Bwana and his trusted sidekick Kito struggle to make ends meet at their gas station in a corner of Kingsport Bay on the outskirts…
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The Gunk
Developer: Image and Form GamesPublisher: ThunderfulRelease Year: 2021Platform: WIN, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|SGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Narrative Themes, Intersectionality You play as Rani, a scavenger who has arrived on an alien planet with her partner Beck. As you search for treasure you discover that the planet’s various biomes have…
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Tacoma
Developer: FullbrightPublisher: FullbrightRelease Year: 2017Platform: Linux, Mac, PS4, WIN, Xbox OneGenre: AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Narrative Themes, Mechanics, Intersectionality Set abroad a high-tech space station, Tacoma, in 2088, you are tasked to recover the station’s AI and find out why the station was abandoned by the crew. interviews and other media scholarship…
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Sunset Overdrive
Developer: Insomniac GamesPublisher: Microsoft StudiosRelease Year: 2014, 2018 (WIN)Platform: WIN, Xbox OneGenre: Action Adventure, Third Person Shooter Taxonomy: Robust Character Creation System, Playable Black Character Set in Sunset City, in 2027, tasked with cleaning up the mess left behind from a party FizzCo, you must fight humans whose endocrine systems have gone into overdrive from…
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Sunset
Developer: Tale of TalesPublisher: Tale of TalesRelease Year: 2015Platform: Linux, Mac, WINGenre: AdventureTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Politics/Ideology/History, Narrative Themes, Intersectionality You play as Angela, an African-American housekeeper, who is working for the wealthy and politically connected Gabriel Ortega in the a fictional country of Anchuria. Ultimately you must make decisions about…
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Subnautica: Below Zero
Developer: Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Shiny Shoe LLCPublisher: Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Shiny Shoe LLCRelease Year: 2021Platform: Mac, PS4, PS5, Switch, WIN, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|SGenre: Action Adventure, Survival Taxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture Taking place two years after the first game, scientist Robin Ayou travels to 4546B to learn the circumstances of…