Best survival games with female protagonists?

[SealOfApproval]

The 'best' survival horror games I've come across tend to focus more on story and character development then gender and such. When you take aim at "We need a female protagonist" thing too hard, you end up with a less than stellar game where the character's personality is either off, poorly handled, or just bad.

In most of the better survival horror games I've played that are really good the gender of the MC changes from time and place to give you more of a feel of the story. Best example I can think of off the top of my head are those Fatal Frame games where most of the main character cast are female.

Best advice I can tell you is find good games, and worry about who you're playing as later. Otherwise you end up with an interchangeable character who isn't very interesting. Also Clock Tower isn't too bad if you're into that sort of thing and willing to back off the god awful graphics and dialogue that comes with being an older game.

 

[Silvanus]

The 'best' survival horror games I've come across tend to focus more on story and character development then gender and such.

Nobody said they wanted a game that "focused on gender"; only a game with a female protagonist, which is a very different thing.

OT: There's TLOU expansion, or any if the RE games with Claire ir Jill Valentine, though they're at least partially horror.

 

[SealOfApproval]

Requesting a game with a 'female protagonist' seems dangerously close to you focusing on the gender rather than the gameplay. The RE Games are as much horror as Dead Space or The Evil Within are. The Last of Us has DLC that focuses more on the female characters involved, but hardly has the 'survival horror' genre in mind, same with Resident Evil. Which is why it's difficult for a question like this to get answered. "Crazy Zombie Horror Smash-time" Has plenty of games with female protagonist, survival horror not so much.

 

[Someone Depressing]

I think in Lost in Blue, there a new game plus mode that lets you play as the girl (was her name something like Skye?) but she really can't do much aside from starve and trip up and be blind.

Fatal Frame is a survival horror series, not a straight up survival game, but most of the characters are female and all but one playable characters are.

And it's not really a "survival" game, per se, it's very heavily story based and character driven, but Winter Voices might be of interest to you.

 

[nomotog_v1legacy]

Ctrl F... Ok no one has mentioned ARK yet. It's a survival game with dinosaurs. You can make your own charcter and it's rather fun if a little hard to start off in. (You will die and when you die, you lose your stuff.) The big problem is that it's a PC killer. The requirements are high and most people just can't play it right now.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

Alien: Isolation? It's surprising no one has mentioned that.

Or there's female characters in "Don't Starve"

As far as I understand, they're not the protagonist, just sidekicks.

Where did you get that? Wilson is the poster-boy, but every other char is just as capable protagonist as him.

 

[Fallow]

If genderless is fine, XCOM should fit as tactical RPG (and it's a bit survivally too). You can have all your soldiers be female (or fembots) too.

 

[Silvanus]

Requesting a game with a 'female protagonist' seems dangerously close to you focusing on the gender rather than the gameplay.

No, it doesn't. It's just a personal preference, and emphasis over anything else isn't implied.

When someone says they'd like to play something with a medieval setting, they obviously aren't focusing on setting "rather than gameplay"; they're just mentioning a preference.