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Games with transgender and nonbinary protagonists/options.
Autor
Diverse Gaming Lists
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Zotero
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Web Page
Abstract Note
Note: I tried to find good examples, but so many turned out to be rather nasty and harmful stereotypes. I’ve eliminated characters whose basic concept is hurtful, such as Birdo and Poison.
Many of the games that are stated to be free offer the chance to donate to the developers.
I could really use some help and suggestions with this list, because it is sparse.
ETA: I’ve had to remove links because tumblr post editor is broken keeps making every link in the post the same, but google searching will find the games.
Transwomen/Transfeminine protagonists:
Aerannis (kickstarter)
The Blind Griffin (free)
Bloom: Memories (up coming game)
Clarity (prototype - Free)
Dance Like a Butterfly (Free)
Dys4ia (Free)
Fight Like a Girl (Free)
Gender: Assigned Male at Birth (Free)
Mainichi (Free)
Naomi (Free)
Reparative (Free)
Technobabylon
To Put it Simply (Free - About Leelah Alcorn, trigger warning for suicide)
You are the Reason (Demo)
Transmen/Transmasculine protagonists:
Eien no Filena/Eternal Filena (This game was only released in Japanese but has been fanpatched into English. I also note that information about this game keeps using female pronouns for the main character, despite them ID'ing as male.)
Non-binary:
Crypt of the Necrodancer (Unlockable character Bolt)
Journey
Nights into Dreams Franchise (while you choose a girl or boy player character to interact with, Nights themself is genderless).
Tekken (Leo)
Undertale (Frisk/Chara)
Games with non-binary friendly character creation:
Analogue: A Hate Story & Analogue Plus
Always Sometimes Monsters
Choice of the Dragon (you play a dragon and you can answer “I’m a dragon” to the gender question.)
Community College Hero
The End (Free)
Fallen London (Free)
Habit RPG
Happy Pet Story
Hollywood Visionary
Hustle Cat (choose pronouns and appearance, but cannot change the protagonists name)
LongStory
Metahuman Inc.
Pokemon Reborn (A ROM Hack featuring several protagonists)
Pumpkin Online (upcoming game)
Redshirt
ROM: Read Only Memories
Saints Row, excluding the first game (Sort of, the body and voice are separate options so you can choose any combination.)
Sunless Seas
Versus: The Lost Ones (You can choose between cis gender options, trans gender options, intersex, or non-binary)
Ambiguous protagonists:
Borderlands 2 (Zer0 uses he/him pronouns but appears to be agender)
The Closed Road
Namco Date
Miserere (Yume Nikki fangame)
Ori and the Blind Forest
Pirouette (Uses both male and female terms to refer to the protagonist.)
VVVVVV
Games that explore transgender themes:
Acceptance
Binary Choices
Falling Out of Place (Free)
Fit In (Browser)
This is Not A Game About Catching Monsters (Free)
TransForms (Free)
Unsorted WIP (I need more info or need to play these games myself):
Climb
Closeted (Free)
Delicate Thread
Discovery
Princess Boy and Little Elephant (Browser)
SafetyNet
SeaQuest海探1992
Tranxiety (Free)
Many of the games that are stated to be free offer the chance to donate to the developers.
I could really use some help and suggestions with this list, because it is sparse.
ETA: I’ve had to remove links because tumblr post editor is broken keeps making every link in the post the same, but google searching will find the games.
Transwomen/Transfeminine protagonists:
Aerannis (kickstarter)
The Blind Griffin (free)
Bloom: Memories (up coming game)
Clarity (prototype - Free)
Dance Like a Butterfly (Free)
Dys4ia (Free)
Fight Like a Girl (Free)
Gender: Assigned Male at Birth (Free)
Mainichi (Free)
Naomi (Free)
Reparative (Free)
Technobabylon
To Put it Simply (Free - About Leelah Alcorn, trigger warning for suicide)
You are the Reason (Demo)
Transmen/Transmasculine protagonists:
Eien no Filena/Eternal Filena (This game was only released in Japanese but has been fanpatched into English. I also note that information about this game keeps using female pronouns for the main character, despite them ID'ing as male.)
Non-binary:
Crypt of the Necrodancer (Unlockable character Bolt)
Journey
Nights into Dreams Franchise (while you choose a girl or boy player character to interact with, Nights themself is genderless).
Tekken (Leo)
Undertale (Frisk/Chara)
Games with non-binary friendly character creation:
Analogue: A Hate Story & Analogue Plus
Always Sometimes Monsters
Choice of the Dragon (you play a dragon and you can answer “I’m a dragon” to the gender question.)
Community College Hero
The End (Free)
Fallen London (Free)
Habit RPG
Happy Pet Story
Hollywood Visionary
Hustle Cat (choose pronouns and appearance, but cannot change the protagonists name)
LongStory
Metahuman Inc.
Pokemon Reborn (A ROM Hack featuring several protagonists)
Pumpkin Online (upcoming game)
Redshirt
ROM: Read Only Memories
Saints Row, excluding the first game (Sort of, the body and voice are separate options so you can choose any combination.)
Sunless Seas
Versus: The Lost Ones (You can choose between cis gender options, trans gender options, intersex, or non-binary)
Ambiguous protagonists:
Borderlands 2 (Zer0 uses he/him pronouns but appears to be agender)
The Closed Road
Namco Date
Miserere (Yume Nikki fangame)
Ori and the Blind Forest
Pirouette (Uses both male and female terms to refer to the protagonist.)
VVVVVV
Games that explore transgender themes:
Acceptance
Binary Choices
Falling Out of Place (Free)
Fit In (Browser)
This is Not A Game About Catching Monsters (Free)
TransForms (Free)
Unsorted WIP (I need more info or need to play these games myself):
Climb
Closeted (Free)
Delicate Thread
Discovery
Princess Boy and Little Elephant (Browser)
SafetyNet
SeaQuest海探1992
Tranxiety (Free)
Access Date
2016-06-18 14:29:38
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Games with transgender and nonbinary protagonists/options.
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