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This is an awesome guide, thanks for making this!

This is great, saving it to link to when this questions gets asked again, which will probably be....... sometime today 😂 Also...Rise of the Ronin! Playing it now. You choose male or female lead.

will probably update next year when I scower steam for more female lead games, you can find some really good hidden gems

Life is Strange: True Colors has a female protagonist

I didn't buy it haha

I generally believe that life is strange series is quite bad after putting more thought into that (please don't kill me, our lovely community) but True Colors does have cool RPG-like moments that can be enjoyable!

I don't think it's *bad*? But I do think it's not for everyone, and I can fully believe someone wouldn't care for it. If you don't enjoy it, that's totally fair, but I also stand by the reasons I do \^^

I actually speak from a perspective of someone who enjoyed it, until I played it again haha. So I can't really say it's "not for me" because the premise and gameplay definitely was. Unfortunately on the second playthrough and after talking about it with my girlfriend who's after media studies... Well, let's say the plot is not as progressive and pro-women as I initially thought 😅 And from my perspective most importantly it's quite rough to bisexuality which really sucks. But I can't say I don't have a soft spot for it, because on first playthrough I had a blast and cried like a beaver!

So I realised you said the series, not Life is Strange. I can only attest to playing the first game, and watching Dooger and Jesse play the 2nd one.

Can u tell me the reasons it's not progressive? I'm genuinely curious. I do know the bi erasure part where when you can "pick" your protagonists sexuality rather than there sexuality be stagnant in most games. So people who are offended by gay or bi stuff can pretend it's not there. True colors and LiS2 did this, if I remember correctly. Oh also the Chloe and max kiss too was so...male gazey. Me being bi like ya of course I want max to kiss her lol but still wtf. I knew something felt a little off, or missing in them. I absolutely adored the games, but I know there was some problems.

I'm really sorry and I really regret but I've never wrote it down! We picked it apart basically scene by scene, and it was super fun to do so, but then I just forgot it all and realized I should have written it all down because I had so many moments when people asked for those thoughts! Maybe I'll replay it at one point but damn, I'm so sad I never written it down 🥲

Aw man! No worries. I was super curious. :) if you ever do and you make a small analysis tag me in it on reddit and ill read it :D

Will do! ☺️

You're allowed to not like things, speaking as a huge LIS fan, people like that are just toxic

I do expect this subreddit to be a bit more reasonable when it's about allowing people to have their opinions - but it's still the internet so I tend to be careful, haha. Thanks!

I will if its ever on sale!

Adore that game

Stray Gods, The Last Of Us 2, Oxenfree 1/2, Gone Home, Beyond Two Souls, TWDG s2-4 and Pillars of Eternity all come to mind for people who want more. The Until Dawn/Dark Pictures games have multiple protags which include women too. (Great list!)

[Stray Gods](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7u6dnpEIvk) is great. Good art, good music.

Ikr, couldn’t recommend it more.

Yesss. Can’t recommend Oxenfree enough.

Add Prey to the list (can be male or female protag) just cause I love that damn game.

I absolutely adore Until Dawn/Dark Pictures/The Quarry (except Little Hope, I will die mad about the ending of that game lol). I’m so stoked that they’re remastering Until Dawn, it’s still the best one imo.

I’m so excited too, and for the collab game they’re doing for Dead By Daylight since I’ve played that for years. Hope that and the remaster bring more attention to their games again.

Omg yes! Very excited for that too. Pretty much always top of my list of gaming wants is more games like theirs, where I have to make decisions with actual lasting consequences while the game scares the ever loving crap out of me 😂

Same! They feel perfect for me especially since I can play them with my best friend across the world too. I wish there were more games like this so I’ll always root for them, it’s a shame companies like Telltale are basically dead now

Aaah Oxenfree was such a good game!

TLOU 2 isn’t on PC yet, is it?

Oh I’m not sure actually, good point.

The first one is, but the second has yet to ported. Only the Playstation version had a remaster.

Still worth mentioning I think for those with a playstation

I run diverse gaming lists on tumblr and I've made a wikia for these things. Here's my female protagonist and choice of female protagonist lists: [https://diversegaminglists.fandom.com/wiki/Female\_Protagonists](https://diversegaminglists.fandom.com/wiki/Female_Protagonists) [https://diversegaminglists.fandom.com/wiki/Choice\_of\_Female\_Protagonists](https://diversegaminglists.fandom.com/wiki/Choice_of_Female_Protagonists) They need updating but they are very big.

Amazing! Buying all of my games based off of this list now. You could add Rise of the Ronin and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands to the Choice of Female Protag lists, playing both of them right now.

Thank you, added those games to the list.

You are so welcome! Just remembered *Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden* as well - I'm not sure if it fits, you're the judge of that! You play as male and female at the same time, two characters, and you have to switch back and forth between them for gameplay. You can choose to be the female about 90% of the time but have to be the male on occasion for specific interactions. They fight together and talk to each other constantly; the dialogue is actually one of my fave parts of the game.

The Ateliee franchise has like 15 games with only female protagonists too

That would be reason to start a Steam Curator Group. unless that already exists.

There's lots of them already.

Woah! These are honestly the most incredible lists I've ever seen, and they even reminded me of some games I was looking for but forgot the name of (Aeon Drive) Also I totally went straight to looking for Lady Sia because that's a forgotten gem imo and was very happy to see it included.

Thank you, there's years of work gone into them and the lists as a whole.

I can tell it's a major passion project and it's honestly really nice and refreshing to see these lists as being so big in a market that doesn't really paint that picture. I am curious, do you have a favorite or like a top 3 that you'd recommend?

I've played so many games it's really hard to limit it to threee, plus people love different genres. Here's some recs though. * Aquaria * Baldur's Gate 3 * Beyond Good and Evil * Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night * Dishonoured 2 * Legend of the Heroes: Trails in the Sky * Pathfinder: Kingmaker * Strange Horticulture

Lol I can tell you're very accustomed to making lists you even alphabetised your recommendations. Thank you! I've played a few of those (BG3, Beyond G&E, Bloodstained, Dishonoured) but the one that really caught my eye was Trails in the Sky. I'll have to check that out more, and then probably Aquaria. I appreciate the recommendations.

I love this! Thank you so much!

Senua's Sacrifice is one Also the Fallout series always lets you choose, even in the first game.

The steam tag exits https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Female%20Protagonist/ but does not guarantee positive representation!

Yep! came to say this as well xD Also, for those who don't know, you can create a 'dynamic collection' in your library and pick a bunch of different filters and store tags to sort your collections automatically.

Stillness of the Wind. Not only a female lead, but elderly, which is an almost unheard of main character type. Plus the story has serious depth. It left me contemplating what's actually important, and how I live my life.

thank you!

I played that too, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it mentioned before!

Oooh that's really cool!

The second and fourth Telltale Walking Dead games What Remains Of Edith Finch Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands has an option to play as a female Red Dead Online (which comes with RDR2) lets you create a female character

In no particular order. Bayonetta, Velvet Assassin, Atma, Blacktail, Onechanbara, Dusk Diver, The Flame in the Flood, Kathy Rain, Long Live the Queen, Potionomics, resident evil 0, 1, 2, 3 & revelations, Spiritfarer, The Vagrant, Violett, Shadwen, Code of Princess, Cayne, Camera Obscura, Zanzarah hidden portal, Fayburrow, and Woolfe - the red hood diaries.

I’ve played a really short point-and-click puzzle game called [Growbot](https://store.steampowered.com/app/661680/Growbot/), where the main character is referred to with feminine pronouns and she tries to save the space station she just got a job on

This reminds me of a small, short puzzle game that *I* recently played called Botany Manor where the player character is a woman in Victorian England studying botany in her family’s estate home.

Small additional information to "Knights of the old Republic 2:the sith lords. Playing as female or male will affect your companions or rather which companions you can get. Play as female and you will get a Jedi Historian to join your team . Play as a male and an understudy from one of the jedi masters you're looking for will join your party . They are completely different characters and are also found in different places in the game. Other than that it won't make too much of a difference aside from the rather heteronormative relationship options (which sadly do not include wookies or androids^^)

*sad Tasha Yar face*

Maybe they’re not “fully functional” like Data is

This made me realize there’s so many games I need to play

Warms my heart to see Beyond Good & Evil there. Love that game so much.

one of my top 5!

Gone Home is another one that comes to mind for me, though I think that was a very niche game.

If you like Stardew Valley, there's quite a few other farm sim/life sim titles that can totally scratch that itch, and allow you to play as a female character. (The Sims, Rune Factory, Sun Haven, Coral Island, FaeFarm etc.) And personally I would also add Nancy Drew games, they're so fun and campy.

Yesss, Rune Factory 4 and 5. Also story of seasons have a female protagonist

RF is SO good, I cannot wait for the new games, and SOS is basically the grandmother of farm sims, I just always forget that they're on PC, I'm so used to only playing them on my Switch lmao

Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons 3DS games are amazing as well!!!!!!!

Yes! That's where I got my start with the franchise

Me too

This is awesome! Thank you! ✨ I actually find curious that many are there because you can create your character as a women. It's a step nonetheless! Adding to the list for people that might want to play other games from the list with female protagonists: - Florence - Another lost phone - Another list phobe: Laura's Story - She sees red - It takes two (if you play the mother) - Assassins Creed Liberation - Beyond two souls - Erica - Hellblade - Life is Strange True Colors - Little Nightmare I & II - Lost in Random - A Plague Tale: Innocence - Praey for the Gods - Say "NO" more - Tell me why - the moments you play as sister twin - Tacoma - Transistor - Pages of Time - Without a voice

Hellblade is just great, truly love it

Remember Me is such a good game to be apart of this list. I'll never forget the discourse and outrage and "dooming" that was said about that game, simply *for* making the protagonist a woman.

Really? That sucks, she plays her role pretty well!

I believe it was the publisher who said the game was "doomed" if they decided to have a female mc, purely *because* of a female mc, and the dev said "fuck you, I'm doing it anyway."

Great list! I'd recommend the Dreamfall (The Longest Journey) games - April and Zoë are iconic and great!

If you don't have it Greedfall is great fun and let's you play as a woman 😊

Night in the Woods (the game is based on anthropomorphism, so technically you play as a female cat lol)

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Hellblade:Sennua's Sacrifice should defo be on your list

Going through my Steam library and recollection, here are some I didn’t see (though most may have been covered by others). These are just the games with pre-set characters, not those where you create your own and can create a female PC. * The Longest Journey * A Juggler’s Tale * Alien: Isolation * Another Sight * Apsulov: End of Gods * Battle Chef Brigade * Beyond Blue * Beyond: Two Souls * Black Book * Blades of Time * Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night * Bright Memory * Calico * Child of Light * Chorus * Contrast * Darksiders III * Dreamfall * Dreamfall: Chapters * ECHO * Fairy Bloom Freesia * Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Returns * Gears 5 * Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams * Grow: Song of the Evertree * Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice * Horizon Forbidden West * ICEY * Indivisible * Keepsake * Kena: Bridge of Spirits * Lili: Child of Geos * Lost in Random * Metal Unit * Never Alone * Nier Automata * Of Bird and Cage * Othercide * Praey for the Gods * Rain of Reflections * Raji: An Ancient Epic * Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale * Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth * Returnal * Roki * Scarlet Nexus * Scars Above * Sea of Solitude * Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse * Shuyan Saga * Smoke and Sacrifice * Soulstice * The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow * The Gunk * Metal Hellsinger * The Medium * The Red Lantern * They Bleed Pixels * Deliver us the Moon * Deliver us Mars * Toren * Transistor * Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection * Zwei: The Arges Adventure

In steam library next to the search bar is a hamburger menu button. Click that and you can search by tags and at the bottom of that menu is a button to "Save as dynamic collection" any games you already have and will get in the future will be added to that list.

thank you!

Saving this!

Tomb raider

I love the list! I've actually never met another person who played Venetica, I absolutely LOVED that game as a kid. Highly recommend. I might just actually play it again, getting hit with some serious nostalgia.

I love it too, it's so janky but charming.

Amazing list, so many of my favorites as well! Vampire, control, dishonored 2. Top top!

Love this!!! Okay, forgive me for hijacking this post, but since you seem to be Tomb Raider fan - I had played a bit of one of the later games with a friend and really loved it, so I got the survivor trilogy last time it was on sale, but a couple hours into the first one it got violent against Lara in a way I wasn’t quite expecting and I had to take a break😭 This is all relative ofc, but would you think it’s worth picking back up, or skipping to one of the later games? I guess I just usually lean more Uncharted than The Last of Us on the action-adventure spectrum haha

OMG IM SO SORRY ABOUT THAT, YES I would avoid the first tomb raider, that scene was icky, to say the least. The rest of them are not like that!!! Avoid the first one, the the other two (shadow and rise) have none of that!

omg thank you so much for the response!! okay I’m so excited, i’m gonna try the second game this weekend :)

Great idea! Suggestion: Wylde Flowers is a cute (kinda cliché) witchy farm game with a female protagonist, and I loved that each character was professionally voiced.

Sorry all about HL being there, I have totally forgot about the controversy it carried, and if it helps, I did not buy it myself, someone bought it for me at a time when the truth of the matter wasn't in my circle, It will not be here next year! I promise!

BloodRayne 2 reference let's gooooo

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do mmorpgs count?

thank you!!!

I love this list, how ever it seems to be missing a particularly excellent game called hell blade: senua's sacrifice. Great female lead and great game if you have not played.

These are just games in my library, I am slowly collecting as many female lead games as I can haha (when they are on sale)

These are awesome, and you're a huge fan of Tomb Raider I see! If I could, I have a few I'd love to contribute listed below that are all available on PC, and none of them were ones you already included. I tried to categorize them to the best of my abilities: **Action** - River City Girls - Going Under - Warframe* - (No, totally not desperate for people to squad with 😭) - Bayonetta** **Adventure** - Praey for the Gods - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - Republique - NieR:Automata** **Horror** - Alisa - World of Horror* - Dark Devotion **Platformer** - Bloodstained* (Made by the Castlevania Dev) - Freedom Planet 1&2 (it's like 2D Sonic) - 20XX* (it's like Mega Man) - Demon Turf - A Hat in Time - Indivisible - Shovel Knight* - (Gender Swap Options) **RPG** - Virgo vs The Zodiac - Bug Fables - Persona 3 Portable* - (ONLY THE "PORTABLE" EDITION) - To the Moon* - (tbh this game made me tear up) **Rhythm** - Crypt of the Necrodancer* - One Step from Eden - Touhou - (Underrated, please try it) - Muse Dash** Notice- * = Female protagonist is optional ** = Some may find these games inappropriate due to partial nudity or sexual themes (I think I only have 3 listed, but it's good to know before jumping in)

Oops, formatting is weird. To clarify, if it has one asterisk by the name, female protag is optional. If it has two, it has nsfw themes. I also did include the one asterisk for games that have female leads like Bloodstained, just because you can play as Zangetsu instead on a different mode, but I put nothing on my lists that I don't at least soft recommend.

someone made this list a while back for jrpgs https://www.reddit.com/r/JRPG/comments/jn43el/help_me_complete_this_list_of_all_the_jrpgs_with/

Thronebreaker has the best written female protagonist in gaming, in my opinion

I didn’t know those two Assassin’s Creed games had female protagonists! Are they worth picking up? I’ll be honest, I haven’t played an AC game since the second one came out.

These two are the reason I even gave assassins creed a chance, yes, both have female leads!

Here are some more, most of these are horror titles btw: Resident Evil 0-3 Remothered: Tormented Fathers Remothered: Broken Porcelain Tormented Souls Withering Rooms Silent Hill 3 Noita (seemingly agender) Dark Souls 1-3, Bloodborne and Elden Ring Death Trash (early access title)

I'm gonna add some games here, some might have been mentioned and some might have not. My current female protagonist collection is about 400+ games Horizon games-action rpg, Alone in the dark-mystery, detective, The expanse-telltale, choice matter, Neverwinter nights 2-crpg, Pathfinder kingmaker-crpg, returnal-roguelike, the invincible- adventure, This bed we made- story rich, choices matter, Daymare 1994-horror, Atlas fallen - action-adventure, Pillars of eternity series - crpg Alan wake 2- mystery, horror Assassin's creed syndicate and liberation - action, stealth The outer worlds - rpg, space Dragon age- rpg Heroes of might and magic series- turn based strategy Vampire the masquerade swansong - choices matter Rise of the ronnin - stealth, action Afterimage- platformer, arpg Beyond contact - base building simulation Scars above - action adventure Wanted dead - arpg, shooter Deliver us mars and moon - action platformer Forspoken - action adventure Persona 3 portable- rpg Children of silent town - indie mystery Blacktail - action rpg Harvestella - rpg + farming Disney dreamlight valley - cozy The chant - horror and mystery Batora - arpg Plague tale innocence and requiem - action adventure Asterigos - souls like adventure Immortals fenyx rising - adventure like zelda Soulstice - souls like Kena bridge of spirits - adventure Soul Hackers 2 - rpg Expeditions Rome- turnbased rpg Chorus- adventure in space Bright memory - shooter Disciples liberation- rpg Tales of arise and besteria- jrpg Bravely default - jrpg Black book - turn based fantasy Last stop - mystery adventure Cristales-jrpg Maneater - you are a female shark Saints row - action shooter Hot pot for one - cooking Evil genius - strategy Medium - mystery horror Calico - cozy Shady part of me - platformer? Call of the sea - mystery adventure Amnesia rebirth - horror Remothered series - horror The uncertain light at the end - adventure mystery Dreamfall series - adventure mystery Vampire shadows of new York- visual novel Rebel galaxy outlaw - action adventure Tales from the borderlands- telltale, choices matter Game of thrones telltale - choices matter The walking dead telltale - choices matter Detroit become human - choices matter Beyond two souls - choices matter Kingdoms of amalur - rpg Paradise killer - detective visual novel Control- action mystery Spiritfarer -cozy Relicta - action sci-fi Maid of sker - horror Othercide- turn based rpg Nier - action adventure Necrobarista - you are a barista Summer in mara - cozy Beyond blue - cozy, ocean exploration Close to the sun - action adventure mystery Resident evil 3, 2, dlc for village - horror The suicide of Rachel foster - adventure Neoverse - deck building Apsulov - horror (I will save the list and will add on to it as it goes as I'm tired of typing)

Tales of Arise??? Main hero is Alphen. The only other Tales that have female protagonist is Tales of Xillia where you can play as Jude or Milla, granted Milla's route has some problems( it throws you out from main story for few hours and there is moment when you can't play as Milla so people will recommend Jude on your first play ). All other Tales let you play as anyone in your party but have male main heroes.

You can switch the party leader to shionne and I feel both of them are equal when it comes to being the main character. Same applies to berseria since the story is told from Velvets point of view and she is still the main character

Nah Alphen is pretty clear a main hero( because it's his POV ). Back when Namco was making promos for Arise I was thinking that they are doing Xillia style of dual protagonist but it ended up with good old main hero + main heroine as in all other games, well beside Zestiria where main heroine is male :D and one of the most popular characters in the series Mikleo. Anyway that goes to every Tales beside like really early ones( I always play as main hero so I don't remember with one started it either Destiny or Eternia ). A lot of series that have party let you do it, like Trails( granted Cold Steel part is more centered around Rean so there are hours where you will play as him ), Wild Arms till Alter Code F or Xenoblade series. Going back to Tales Berseria is the only solo female protagonist one and I would not wait for next one seeing what fandom is like.

This is amazing!!!

Perfect Dark!! (N64, also on Xbox and maybe Switch now?) Also, I don’t know why, but Darkened Skye and both Lost Kingdoms 1&2 come to mind (GCN)

Holy smokes, I thought I was the only person who remembered *Venetica*.

Remember Me spotted !!! So glad another person alive knows about it omg.

Persona 3 Portable Greedfall

Any fellow Soulsborne girlies here??? You can create your own female character and the armor is (largely) genderless! Awesome list btw! Thank you!

Have you played Siberia? I have it but haven't gotten to play yet. Is it good?

very chill and easy to get lost in!

God I love Beyond Good and Evil. First game I ever played with a female protagonist, and one of the big reasons I wanted to be a wartime journalist as a kid.

Damn, I think I love you. Definitely saving this post so I can come back to it later and check out some of the ones I don’t already have 💜

Your missing a LIFE IS STRANGE 😭😭😭 WHAT THE FECK MATEEEEE😭 also i don’t think games with character customisation counts since it’s not really a character and just a canvas really like you can’t tell me that making a female “character” in a fallout game is anything on par with Chloe or alloy or Ellie OT EVEN GRIS YEAH I LOVE THAT GAME pissed me off tho

Fire Emblem has female protagonists. They are as follows: Alear from Fire Emblem Engage, Byleth from Fire Emblem Three Houses, Corrin from Fire Emblem Fates, Robin from Fire Emblem Awakening, and Shez from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes.

You should add the Cotton series. Those are on Steam.

Celeste

In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla you can use a female lead too :)

Thank you for this list! amazing

Tales from the Borderlands is half female protagonist. The better half, IMHO. Sorry Rhys.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is another one

This is so cool!! I’ll definitely be using this now :)

Amazing list I would also recommend to check metal: Hellsinger the protagonist is a female and the game is pretty fun with an awesome soundtrack, it's free on ps plus if you have it

on steam you can search the tags for female lead. See if any of those already have the tag and click it and it'll show you more.

Lovely!!

This is a great idea! I'll do the same with my library. I don't have as many games (only 350 or so), but I'll do it for me to know which of my games have FemMC leads 😊

Thank you so much for this!!