CLT
Release date: Oct 16, 2021
Developers: notagamestudio
Publishers: notagamestudio
Genres: Casual, Indie
Categories: Single-player, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English

CLT is an art-house tarot card game about the idea of female sexuality. Its gameplay is centered on a tarot deck of 24 rorschach-esque cards. Every card’s design was hand-painted. The cards are linked to each other, and function like a maze of interconnected memories. The goal is reaching a non-existent 25th card, which symbolizes reaching a sexual climax, thereby ending the level. The game is intended to be non-erotic. The Rorschach motif is not a coincidence: like its trailer (which contains no explicit sexual content) the game contains nothing but abstract imagery and soundscapes. It also contains no actual readable text (formally, that is). This was done as a protest against the idea that games are meant to be nothing more than infantilized escapism: any distribution platform that chooses to censor the game because of its adult content does so in bad faith, as it doesn’t really exist outside of the eye of the beholder.

Press reviews: “It really wasn't until a few stages in that I started understanding the structure. By that point I was already fully invested in the narrative experience.” Defunct Games “CLT is an all-around original product […] suggestive but classy, inspired by art, music, philosophy: a real orgasm of a videogame.” Game Legends “A very strange, minimally-interactive experience that might be best recommended to those interested in the weirder, more experimental side of gaming.” Game Critics 

Notes: CLT is a non-erotic sex-themed card game. Despite being sex-themed, it contains no audiovisual depictions of sex and with no actual readable erotic text. Its gameplay is solely centered on a tarot of 24 rorschach-esque cards. The Rorschach motif is not a coincidence: wanted to make a game about sex that it actually contains no sexual content per se. Like the game's trailer (which contains no nudity or depictions of sex) the game itself contains nothing but an implicit suggestion of sexuality that in fact solely exists in the eye of the beholder.