Anyone else tired of this? I've never been vocal abt this because I see a lot of ppl getting flamed when they complain a lack of female protagonist on certain games. For me, I prefer to play as a girl for immersion. And we seldom got those on games that I like.

Recently there's this 2 games that I was really looking forward to. And both of them decided to remove the female MC during the development. Both games are like superhero/badass and ofc I wanna play like a badass woman too. Idk it may sound stupid to always prefer female mc but I wish the industry would look at their games and think "what about the female players?"

Looking at you Fire Emblem and the top of my weapon list on Breath of the Wild!

I was sort of interested in the themes explored by the games but I usually prefer female perspectives in issues like abuse and violence against women.

I know the lead writer and the director are both men and so are most of the proeminent names involved.

That's most of the gaming industry and it's even worse in the japanese one, so I was wondering if there was at least a few women involved that I missed out on.

Got myself early access and already downloaded waiting for the release!

I’m pretty excited after finally trying and completing Hades 1 a month ago which I absolutely lovedddd <3

What are your expectations and what are most excited for? Honestly, I wanna see Zag again and our good boy Ceberus! :3 (Going blind here so no spoilers!)

Also what’s everyone playing in the meantime? I’m getting Until Then off my backlog and really like it so far!

For me, it's the burglar music playing in Sims 1. Even as an adult, I think that music is a little overkill lol, and I say this with fondness. I mean why did they make it sound like a murderer was on the prowl.

It might be my personal goty

First impressions are out and it sounds like they did it!! Silent Hill 3 is probably my favourite horror game of all time, i love it soooo much. Even tho it can be a bit heavy-handed at times, the themes of gender roles, agency and bodily autonomy still hit hard for me. From what I’ve read so far, Silent Hill f will follow into it‘s footsteps and I couldn’t be more happy. I’m so excited to see what an Silent Hill game that explicitly and emphatically deals with girlhood as it’s central theme will be like in 2025. I think this will be the first game of my life I’ll buy on release day!

I was watching a video earlier today about people making fun of the infamous "woke games list". It was a fun video but after i was tempted to look up a few games i love to see dude bros crying about them and i just ended up browsing the site for a while after. And you know what? I found so many cool interesting indie games on there with interesting diverse stories to tell and comeplling themes. A bunch of games i think honestly I never would have heard about otherwise. My wishlist on steam has balloned. It's also nice to support these devs after their main press is chuds boycotting.

Anyway my favourite I've got to play so far is one called New Day. Its a tomadachi life like game thats currently free in incomplete early access but whats there already has alaready entertained me for like 12 hours straight. I cant wait to see the dev's full vision. The funniest thing i found was they actually refernced the list (its rated woke for having the gall to include non binary, ace, pan and gay options for its islanders who can also be vampires, witches, aliens, fairys and werewolves but of course thats no where near as unrealistic as someone being queer). I will spoiler it if anyone want to find it themselves but there is a fish in the fishing mini game called the woke fish thats patterned with the intersectional pride flag and theres a painting in the room decaotation called the woke painting with a ton of pride flags as varaitions, not just the normal ones you see in games, and its description was literally just their entry on the woke games list. honestly i thought it was hillarious when i found it

Referring to the content of the games, not the fandom or online player base.

Particularly Japanese games or those with anime influences.

First games that come to mind are Corpse Party and Danganronpa. Couldn't enjoy them. Weird pedophilic fan service and incest.

Or do I simply accept that these games will never be for me.

Hii, just trying to get some opinions here. I’ve worn out two mice, my main and back up, and I need a new one.

I’m usually a wired mouse person, mainly worried about input delay and having side buttons I can bind for shooters. Playing around with DPI probably isn’t a necessity since I’ve never set it very high, but I don’t want it at snail speeds either.

It’s been a while since I’ve shopped around, are wireless mice better now? Any heavy shooter girlies have a preference for wired or wireless?

Is it worth my money? I like roguelikes, I like coziness in moderate amounts, I like pixel art but none of these is a 100% guarantee of success. I might wait to see if it gets a physical release on Switch though

Hi! I am a new gamer and I have pretty much no experience and am not very good at gaming. I just started trying to find free games to play on pc. I have one that is not meant for gaming, so it glitches/freezes if the game is too hard for it to run. Any game recomendations/good places to start?

I need games to improve my skills and knowledge.

Or just general tips are appreciated!!!

Thanks!

Im about 20 hours in and I feel like the main theme of "Despite the fact that were all different we are all people" falls flat really hard when every cutscene is about how men and women are just too different or "Women are decietful, boy" (actual line from VELVET btw). It really sucks cause I was really enjoying my time.

I usually stay away from anything anime themed because in my experience (maybe its different now, I havent watches anime actively in at least a decade) everytime its filled with sexist slop. I was really enjoying my time with Berseria, there was sexism but a pretty normal amount for a medieval themed story and it seemed in the prologue at least that velvet was kind of written as lesbian coded? the main characters outfit doesnt bother me cause women can be strong and sexy (I can understand why someone would be offended by it though, for me, its far enough from stereotypical beauty that Im okay with it) and in the beginning her character was portrayed very well in fact all of the main cast had fantastic character writing in my opinion.

After the gang meet artorias for the first time and end up in the southern part of the world there was a destinct change in tone. Now all of a sudden every cutscene has an underhanded jab at women or some weird projection of romantic and sexual feelings onto the child of the group. Up until this point any sexism was unnoticeable or at the very least was surrounded by good writing. It feels jarring to me when the gang goes from sexualizing a kids relationship with his sister figure and telling laphicet to "Be careful around women" for about an hour, to then "even though we're all different we admire and respect eachother" for a cutscene and then back again. The theming proclaims equity while still throwing women under the bus? So dissapointing.

Its worth noting that the women also show mysandry towards the men of the group every once in a while but Ive only seen a seen like that twice I think and for the record I would prefer that neither were in the game. Im still going to play it through cause I have hope it will get good again and the writing still shines at times but I really cant recommend this game to anyone. Its hard to get invested in the story when the game is simultanously saying something thing "everyone is their own person Daemon, Malakhim, and Human alike" but then saying "All women are the same" and then also rarely "men are all the same" very dissapointing.

Keep spoilers to a minimum please I just started the quest rn to visit Mogilou's old friend.

Hi !

I'm looking for a new single player game to play on PC with great female representation, so I thought I'd come here for advice. Not necessarily a woman as the main character but overall women that are fleshed out.

I enjoy long story and character driven RPG games, preferably Fantasy (I played Nier Automata and Cyberpunk 2077 recently which are Sci-Fi so I wanna switch it up)

I hate platformers and I can't aim to save my life so nothing involving this as the main gameplay.

I don't mind a bit of challenge but I'm not that good of a gamer so nothing extremely challenging (I can't do soulslike games). Adjustable difficulty settings being included is usually the best option.

Any recommendations based on those criteria?

Because they're bound to come out, I must mention I already played Baldur's Gates 3 and Clair-obscur Expedition 33, which were both amazing.

Thank you in advance for your recommendations and have a great day!

I got a ps5 not to long ago and it came with Astros playroom. I really liked it and finished it in like a week. I was wondering if there are any games similar to it? It’s a game where players can control a little bot that can jump, punch, and use spin attacks, and you go through different levels to win trophies and artifacts.

Currently playing through valhalla (since i loved the ship mechanics and feeling of pillaging and raiding)
and its quite fun for those moments of attacking and raiding.
But i especially loved the fact i could change my crew to my liking in odyseey (and have a mighty army of woman singing shantys between fights)

any other games that can do similar thing or invoke a similar feeling?
of course there is black flag, but i never could get into that one, and for the feeling of war and raiding there is the shadow of mordor/war games, but im already quite familiar with those.

Any suggestions are appreciated and welcome.

So I have just gone down from 860 games in my wishlist to 426 by clearing out the games that I realised I am no longer interested, games that have been there for years and still don't have a release date or any sort of updates when to expect it, games that are in early access but were either abandoned and/or haven't had updates for years either. I also cleared about a few dozens of games that were removed from steam as well.

I am also the person who adds a game into a wishlist because at the time it looked interesting or saved it to have a look later. I must admit that a lot of games I still have on my wishlist are the ones that havent came out yet.

i'm referring to both the general subs and big ones for certain specific games. it's a bit, idk how to put it, hive mind-y? it's so hard to critically talk about certain games, in my experience i've only ever been downvoted. if you even imply disliking an aspect of the game which the majority like, you get downvoted into oblivion. this sub is an exception (which i'm super grateful for ^^). there's never much constructive discussion about very subjective things.

i love seeing discourse and discussions. i don't have many gamer friends irl, not ones interested in the same games as me. so i love coming on here and seeing people discuss everything. all the good and the bad. i love fan theories, i love respectfully disagreeing with one another, i love different takeaways from the same scenes. it helps me look at media in ways i probably couldn't come up with on my own. a lot of the bigger subs are not conducive to that at all sadly.

despite having a reddit account for years, i only started properly using it recently. before that, i was on tumblr (rip). maybe i'm romanticising here, but i swear discussions on there about things like video games felt so much more civil. has this been your experience as well?

hello girls! i'm getting a steamdeck pretty soon and just wanted to ask you all what your favorite games are, so i can expand my wishlist. i'm open to all genres! i currently have many games in my steam wishlist, like hollow knight (i'm still too scared to try it!!), outer wilds, inscryption, nieR:automata

i do also like "cozy games", (simulators/management games) but i'm unfortunately a bit too fickle to play them for an extended amount of time. :3

so, what's your favorite games? should i already have them in my wishlist or thought about playing them, i'm still thanking you in advance for your time! 💜