Lookouts
- Developer
- paranoidhawk, coldoggo
- Engine
- Unity
- Length
- 5–6 hours
- Status
- Released
About Lookouts
Lookouts is a romance visual novel about two gay trans masc outlaws in the Old West, finding refuge in each other and a little hope for a better life. Two lookouts meet in the desert, far from the sight of their gangs, and scout out a town with rumours of gold. With roughly 45,000 words, it is a much-expanded version of a game first made for the Gay Western Jam.
Inside Lookouts
Why Lookouts Feels Different From Other LGBT Games
Most romance visual novels happen at schools and offices. Lookouts puts its love story in a frontier town, between two people who are supposed to be watching their backs.
- Two gay trans masc leads, and you speak as one of them.
- About 45,000 words and a 5–6 hour read.
- A flat orange-and-black art style built on a desert palette.
- Original music by Jamiee, a.k.a. dreamyfreakout.
- Listed as one-button and blind friendly, with keyboard, mouse and touch input.
How To Play Lookouts?
Give it a minute to load. The browser build is large, and it is worth the wait.
- Press Play Now; if the screen stays still, wait — the official page warns the browser version can take a minute or two.
- Click or press Space to progress and show dialogue.
- Move the mouse over the top-right corner, or tap it, to bring up the menu bar.
- Read at your own pace; there is no timer and the story runs for hours.
Who Will Enjoy Lookouts?
- Players looking for queer romance with trans masc leads.
- Fans of Westerns, outlaws and dusty frontier towns.
- Readers who prefer a long, character-focused story to a maze of branches.
- Anyone who enjoyed the warmth of A Date with Death and wants something slower.
- If two outlaws finding refuge in each other sounds like your kind of story, saddle up.
Will the Lookouts Find the Gold — or Each Other?
Lookouts is quiet in a genre that often isn't. The tension comes not from monsters or killers but from two people in rival gangs deciding how much of themselves to show, with gun violence and frontier hardship never far away.
Read it like a novel. The payoff is in the small conversations around the campfire and on the road into town, so don't rush ahead just to find out what happens with the gold.
Ride out to the desert, meet the other lookout, and see where the trail goes.
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