Recently played Control. Had a blast!
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Control is great.
Jessie is great.
Quantum Break would have been twice as good, if you'd played as Beth (same actor).
The Mass Effect and Dragon Age games. I love me some Jennifer Hale as Commander Shepard.
Portal and Portal 2
Portal, Portal 2. Bonus points for also having a female antagonist and passing the bechdel test
-Control
-A Hat in Time
-Celeste
-Shantae (Pirates Curse and Risky's Revenge are my favs)
-Touhou Luna Nights
-Returnal
-Portal 1/2 if that counts
Try Life is Strange: an emotional coming of age game about a photography student with the ability to rewind time. One of my favorites.
I know it's already been said, but Control is one of my favorite games ever and it has a well-written female protagonist. It's a must-play.
Also Returnal.
Life is Strange games! More story then anything, and the dialog is a bit cringy these days but there's really no other games like it and I highly recommend them.
Control.
One of the best games I've ever played, and I don't play many games. I've even replayed it twice. Criminally underrated female protagonist with a super cool story :))
edit: sorry didnt see its been suggested a trillion times :c
There are several pages in this thread so these might've been mentioned already, but
Mirror's Edge, the original.
Tomb Raider (2013) and up
If you enjoy the Ubisoft formula, Far Cry 6
Saints Row 2 and up
Mass Effect franchise before Andromeda
Subnautica (obviously?) - Female protagonist trying to survive long enough to figure out what happened to her sister on a frozen planet.
Gris - A very lovely and emotional story about grief.
Just to be explicit, Subnautica: Below Zero is the entry featuring the female protagonist, Robin, not the first game.
I just finished Control and it's really good! Jesse is a strong female lead and there's no male option like some games.
For anyone unaware, Control feels like a triple-A SCP game. Which should appeal strongly to anyone who enjoys SCP.
Portal
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits
- A Plague Tale (franchise)
- Tomb Raider (franchise)
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Bayonetta
- Control
- Fatal Frame (franchise)
- Nier (franchise)
Portal?
I definitely have to add another vote for Celeste. The mental health theme was incredibly well done and it's one of the most memorable games I've ever played.
Dishonored 2. Haven't played through much of it because my laptop is a bit weak, but loved the first one.
I'm very much looking forward to Hades 2, and hope it won't be too much longer before we see some more news on it! I would like to try Transistor sometime too, as I've heard good things about it.
- metroid
- returnal
- beyond good and evil
- the FFXIII trilogy (yes they're good and I'll fight anyone that says otherwise)
- Bayonetta
- A lot of the Resident Evils
- Celeste, bonus points for being very gay as well
- Half-Life: Alyx
- Tales of Berseria (if you like anime stuff. the protag's outfit is trash but she's probably the best Tales MC IMO)
- Telltale's Walking Dead
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey. The female protag is canon as far as I'm concerned
- Night in the Woods
- Control
- Nier Automata
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits
- Signalis
Mass Effect! FemShep is amazing!
Scrolled through the comments, how has no one not mentioned A Plague Tail? Amazing story from a woman's perspective
There's a lot of great recs in here! A few that I don't see posted yet:
- Gone Home is a highly atmospheric exploration game where you play as Katie, a girl investigating her family's house after she arrives home and finds it empty. FYI in case you're with me in the "easily frightened" camp: this one can be just a little tense/scary in that "alone in the house at night" kind of way, but it's decidedly not a horror game.
- A Short Hike is a(n unsurprisingly) short and sweet little game where you play as Claire, a bird who goes on a little hike/adventure through, essentially, an island nature preserve. One of my go-to "relax and feel good feelings" replays.
- Bayonetta was already mentioned, but I'd specifically like to call out Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon. It's a quite different game from other Bayonetta installments, with creepy-cute fairy tale vibes and somewhat unique controls.
RetroPi -> Tomb Raider
Get off my lawn
Also NOLF but you can’t run it on anything anymore.
I am old.
Many good choices here. I didn't see Half Life Alyx here yet. It is an amazing game which alone is almost worth the cost of VR.
Life is Strange and Life is Strange: Before the Storm are some of my favorites.
Does Crosscode count? I bought it on sale after hearing how good it is and so far sunk 40 hours in easily. Characters interact very well with one another and the combat system is high paced but accessable. Lots of great puzzles and the over arcing story is engaging.
If we are doing the "protagonist is technically female even though it changes nothing for the plot" we have to add portal
Returnal, a rogue like 3rd person shooter (sort of bullet hell) with a scifi alien setting and a mindfuck story. It's one of my favorite games I've played in years, both for the story and gameplay. I can't recommend it enough.
If you're familiar with the story of the first Last of Us game, Last of Us 2 is great and is centered around Ellie.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark (think Final Fantasy Tactics) https://store.steampowered.com/app/699170/Fell_Seal_Arbiters_Mark/
Final Fantasy VI https://store.steampowered.com/app/1173820/FINAL_FANTASY_VI/
Definitely Celeste
Alien Isolation
The Last of Us: Part II !
Besides me wanting to immediately say things like Metroid, Celeste, Tomb Raider, Life is Strange and such.
Games I enjoyed
- Cat Lady / Lorelai
- DOS2 (technically you can just play Sebille and Lohse stories)
- fault milestone (incomplete)
- anything by Christine Love (visual novels)
- Transistor
Then other random games I can think of that I didn't see listed
- Fatal Frame
- Bleed
- They Bleed Pixels
- Franbow
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Beyond Two Souls
- Indivisible
- Hatsune Miku games? (lol)
- Potionomics
- Alice Madness Returns
- Tandem: A Tale of Shadows
- Gris
- Little Misfortune
- Crypt of the Necrodancer
- Neptunia series
- Saintmaker
And I should stop before I am here all day thinking... lol
All the Metroid games, especially the 2D ones. If you like a good metroidvania, well, you can't go wrong with the game that created the genre.
I did not see Celeste mentioned, but if you're at least one bit into platforming, this gem is an absolute must-play. And must listen, I have the OST on repeat since it came out.
If beat them all are your jam, you need to play some P* games, and the ones with a female protagonist are the Bayonetta. Heavily sexualized, but to a point where it becomes some kind of parody of itself, you have to embrace the aesthetic. The rhythm is frantic, the scenario barely understandable, the action way over-the-top, and the combat gameplay tight as hell.
In more standard AAA waters, the two Tomb Raider reboots are pretty good, although a bit heavy on male-gaze.
Back to the indy side, What Remains of Edith Finch is a first person narrative game, in which you'll play as different characters. But the main ones are girls, and it matters in the plot.
I enjoyed Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. It's a bit shorter than U4, but still worth playing. I liked Chloe and Nadine together.
In approximate order of how strongly I recommend but all are recommended
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Epistory
Tales of Berseria
Tangle Tower (Pair of male and female protagonists through the whole game and they are very balanced for screentime)
Wargroove
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
Crypt of the Necrodancer
The Stillness of the Wind
Sable
Tsioque
The Flame in the Flood
The World Next Door
Never Alone
One Step from Eden
Celeste is a classic. It's a platformer. Really amazing game.
Chorus is a space dogfighting game. It has a great core gameloop but imo it is missing out on side content and story.
technically any MMO (or other RPG) that lets you build a female character, but I would say FFXIV as there are a lot of interesting female secondary protags.
Hmm, by that standard, Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous both qualify, though opinions on the NPC companions vary.
Nier: Automata
Immortals: Fenyx Rising
A couple of the Star Ocean games let you choose between a Male or Female protag.