Games with lesbian content?

The Viewer

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There's Dragon Age, Mass Effect and to an extent Jade Empire. Technically speaking, there's also (very) little of it in Fallout3/Vegas, Vampire: Bloodlines and God of War. And that's all I can think of...
Anyone has more examples?
 

Vegosiux

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Shall I be cheeky and say "Any MMO ever made?"

Another cheeky reference would be in Alpha Protocol when Heck sends you a mail telling you some important news "Me and two chicks, I totally did it"; to which you can reply "One 300-pound woman doesn't really count as two." (Just go with it, Heck's a piece of work)

But I'm derailing, so let me thing. Aside from what you listed, one could also get into it in BG2 with some modding and/or tinkering with the config files. Leaving aside the eroge games, I am not sure where else I've seen any I'd remember though.

PS: Oh yeah. If you play your cards right, you can get a lesbian ending (a few different ones, even) In Long Live the Queen.
 

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I never played Fear Effect 2 but the advertising for the game was at least very suggestive of a lesbian relationship between two of the main characters, albeit in a very exploitative way.
 

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the hidden eagle said:
personally I hate it when gay characters are only there for fanservice.
Mostly, but not entirely.

The Fear Effect series was set in Hong Kong and the series takes a fair amount of inspiration from the CAT III subgenre of HK movies of the era. In much the same way that Resident Evil drew on Romero movies, and Tomb Raider drew from Indiana Jones, the FE series is Naked Killer, in video game form.

That doesn't sound like much of a defence, but consider the near total absence of lesbian characters from the mainstream of film, television (except for ratings stunts, which were regular in the 90s) and especially video games. By comparison Fear Effect 2 is positively progressive - with the lead character in a relationship with another woman.

Sure it's done for fanservice, but they have a nicely written relationship with lots of fun and sometimes flirty dialogue - years before Bioware would get plaudits for doing the same thing. That's a lot more than any other game I can think of from that era was doing.

As an aside, as was often the case in 90s tv shows that touched on the same subject - LA Law and Babylon 5 come to mind - Hana was bisexual rather than gay... though the cancellation of the third game in the series meant that was never explored in-game.
 

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Grim Grimoire has a more or less obvious lesbian romance going on between Lillet and what's her name, the homunculus.
 

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Well, it depends on how you want to qualify things. "Lightning Warrior Raidy" (both games) for example are almost non-stop lesbian kink, with an occasional heterosexual scene to mix things up.

Outside of porn, one little known title that comes to mind is "Loren: Amazon Princess". Loren herself is a lesbian. There are also romance options for all gender possibilities (man on man, girl on girl, hetero) somewhere in the game. Your character can be either male or female which means the game can have a lesbian relationship in focus if you want there to be. That said there is very little in the way of "action" despite the title being made by Winter Wolves (which focuses on romance graphic novels mostly, their RPGs represent something of a departure from their normal format), this is also why it's made it onto app-based devices and STEAM. It should be noted that a big part of why I mention this is that Loren is actually the hero of the story, although not the protagonist, your character is pretty much a slave/servant sent to assist her during a quest to rescue her mother which leads to her being exiled from the amazon kingdom at least temporarily. Depending on the choices you wind up making, you can wind up in situations where you say visit the elven kingdom in the woods, and the queen pretty much gives Loren a couple of forest nymphs to have sex with as part of her hospitality (which she indulges off screen) nothing particularly graphic or fan service oriented overall there, the point being that Loren pretty much does her thing (more "Conan" style if Conan was a lesbian than anything) whether you try and romance her or not.

That said, outside of porn it seems lesbians get very little attention. I suspect it's mostly political, with the media tending to heavily gravitate towards gay men. The idea seems to be that it gets more attention by upsetting more people, and with a majority of male gamers/viewers/etc... for genere material that same reaction makes it easier to claim it as a 'statement' rather than catering to perverts, since most of the guys viewing like watching girls make out to begin with. This has the ironic effect of meaning that lesbian relationships in the context of heroic fantasy tend to mostly be relegated to porn, at least in the west.

That said as a big defender of mature content in games (both sexual and violent) I think people are pushing things too hard on the sex/relationship front a bit too hard, given that I do not think everything needs to have sex or romance options in it, and in some cases it detracts from the product itself. "Saints Row 4" had a fairly clever parody of this. What's more when you shoehorn in romantic relationships, it brings politics with it (gay/lesbian representation!) and then the next thing you know you've got a giant mess attached to your product. It works in some cases, not in others, and really I don't think anyone should set out with the stated purpose of say "having more lesbians in games", but rather setting out to make games and then having lesbians in it if it works. For that matter I'm not a big fan of forced gender representation either, for example while I understand WHY they did it, I see no real reason why they should have put "Tauriel" into "The Hobbit" as the entire story worked just fine without needing to toss in a girl and romance subpltot for the sake of having a girl and a romance subplot. Heck, for that matter, just having Legolas running around being awesome (which is also part of selling this) detracted from a plot where the Dwarves should have been doing their own fighting, and truthfylly I expect more than half the problem is Peter Jackson's inability to handle the idea of effective dwarven warriors and direct it properly.... but I'm getting well off subject.
 

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DementedSheep said:
The Witcher 2 has a fair amount but its mostly fan service.
I can only think of one scene in Witcher 2 that's outright lesbomancy, although you're right about it being total fan service. I'm still not even sure what the point of that scene was other than as a setup for using the word lesbomancy.

Lesbomancy.
 

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The Madman said:
I can only think of one scene in Witcher 2 that's outright lesbomancy, although you're right about it being total fan service. I'm still not even sure what the point of that scene was other than as a setup for using the word lesbomancy.

Lesbomancy.
I wouldn't say fan service. Rather, it's a part of her character. Phillipa was a very open lesbian in the books as well, and made no attempt to hide it. In fact, it was quite the contrary. Being a sorceress, it also makes a certain kind of sense as to why she's playing the dominant role (they're rather bitchy by nature, even Triss).

So yeah, not exactly fan service in my mind since it wasn't added to get kids rockers off but because it was one of her defining traits as a character.
 

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The Madman said:
DementedSheep said:
The Witcher 2 has a fair amount but its mostly fan service.
I can only think of one scene in Witcher 2 that's outright lesbomancy, although you're right about it being total fan service. I'm still not even sure what the point of that scene was other than as a setup for using the word lesbomancy.

Lesbomancy.
I'm pretty sure there is also a scene between Margot and her female elven lover when you question her about what happened to Triss. I think its different depending on what happened though, the elf is killed if you gave Iroveth his sword.
You walk in on Phillipa in towel spanking a half naked Cythia and the massage scene I would count even though technically it was just a massage. Some of Phillipa's dialogue suggest she is a bit taken with Saskia as well though she might just like her as a person rather than being in love with her.
 

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BathorysGraveland2 said:
The Madman said:
I can only think of one scene in Witcher 2 that's outright lesbomancy, although you're right about it being total fan service. I'm still not even sure what the point of that scene was other than as a setup for using the word lesbomancy.

Lesbomancy.
I wouldn't say fan service. Rather, it's a part of her character. Phillipa was a very open lesbian in the books as well, and made no attempt to hide it. In fact, it was quite the contrary. Being a sorceress, it also makes a certain kind of sense as to why she's playing the dominant role (they're rather bitchy by nature, even Triss).

So yeah, not exactly fan service in my mind since it wasn't added to get kids rockers off but because it was one of her defining traits as a character.
it is a trait of her character but the way its presented is very fanservicy.
 

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There's always Skyrim. Of course calling the marriages in that game "relationships" is a bit of an oxymoron, but I did appreciate that you were essentially allowed to construct the romances entirely in your head(my lady vampire lord and Lydia had such a lovely courtship).
 

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DementedSheep said:
it is a trait of her character but the way its presented is very fanservicy.
By all means, explain. I thought the sexual aspects in Witcher 2 was rather well done, all in all, unlike the comedic (but charming) way its done in the first game. Here, it's very Game of Thrones-y.
 

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BathorysGraveland2 said:
DementedSheep said:
it is a trait of her character but the way its presented is very fanservicy.
By all means, explain. I thought the sexual aspects in Witcher 2 was rather well done, all in all, unlike the comedic (but charming) way its done in the first game. Here, it's very Game of Thrones-y.
You don't consider this fan service?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYutBKYooUE
There are plenty of ways they could have worked in her sexual orientation rather than walking in on them and casting a spell that just so happens to require her to make out with the target. You can like fan sevice and have it done well but it's still fan service.

In case you think I'm gong on a sexism or exploiting lesbians tangent I think they do the same with Geralt in a few places though a bit less blatantly.

Games a Thrones has fan service to.
 

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Rule of Rose, Skyrim, most BW made rpgs, fallout 4 moreso then 3,Dragons Dogma but then again the script just refuses to acknowledge you're a girl so the princess still thinks you're a man and so does everyone else when she's falling in love with you, Fear Effect, Fable, Witcher 2 and the books, and Jade Empire That's about it.