A beautiful little game that says a lot with just a little. The premise is a concept that I can't imagine any trans person hasn't wished they could do at one point or another - read the minds of those around you to see if you actually "pass" or people are just being nice to you.

You play as the disembodied ghost of a trans girl riding the bus. The beauty of this game lies in the multiple endings, each depending on which people you "talk" to. If you encounter people who can tell you are trans, she walks away sad that she doesn't pass but vows to keep trying. If you encounter people who just think she's cis, she walks away happy that she passes, but with the caveat that maybe she got lucky and the next person she meets could be the one who can tell. Lastly, if you only talk to people who aren't thinking about her at all one way or the other, she comes away still wondering whether she passes, but with the relief that random people aren't actually thinking all that much about you and have their own concerns to deal with.

This last one feels like the "true" ending to me, insofar as there is one, but the real point is that each of the endings is just as true as they are false - even if we could astral project around and read people's minds, it's impossible to ever truly know if we fully pass or not. The people on the bus are the same in each playthrough, the only difference is whose opinion we actually hear. It speaks to the arbitrary nature of "passing" itself, and how the sole pursuit of it as a basis for a successful transition is an unattainable goal.

Despite being just a little homebrew Game Boy game that I played 2 years ago, I keep coming back to this game in my mind, especially when I'm feeling self conscious about passing myself. Even it's something you could know definitively, does it really matter? Does it truly change anything? I consider this one of the essential transfem indie games along with Secret Little Haven. I'm glad it exists.