Recommending Lesbian Protagonist Games List (My Version)

[damnedfrog]

As I know, the best thing humanity has produced is A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986. (I'm disappointed, humanity)
But you also can enjoy following games: Blackberry Honey and Heart Of The Wood.

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And I also want to ask, out of craving, what's everyone's favorite ROMANTIC lesbian game?

Totally agreed with A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986. It's the game that introduce me to the yuri genre.
I also remember enjoying Heart Of The Wood
Other romantic lesbian game that I have liked:
Kindred Spirits on the Roof
Highway Blossoms

 

[damnedfrog]

At Your Feet shouldn't be my jam, but it's so oddly sincere about it I'm shockingly impressed.

I don't particularly have a kink about feet, but just the puns exchange between Avaron1974 and Icarus Media is worth reading the thread

 

[damnedfrog]

Another finished game that I like is Naughty Lyanna Season 1. Although it does have some content with guys, luckily it's fully avoidable and all of the canon content is lesbian. I really love the main cast, their interactions, and the over the top story and character's antics. Season 2 is also great, but it's still unfinished. I think it's already longer than Season 1, though.

This game is fun. Exhibition isn't one of my fetish, but I really enjoyed playing it. The girls are cute, with some personality, you always wonder how they will inevitably finished naked, there often funny situation, and yet a darker plot.
A bit in the same kind, there is Sunville

 

[JustAUser89]

I think it's too early to get a clear call on Black Diamond. It's got promise but it's still in the build-up phase (at least the public release is). I'll call it once the smooching starts.

It's fairly obvious where things are headed that you don't need smooching to be convinced

 

[Mistress Elizabeth]

This game is fun. Exhibition isn't one of my fetish, but I really enjoyed playing it. The girls are cute, with some personality, you always wonder how they will inevitably finished naked, there often funny situation, and yet a darker plot.
A bit in the same kind, there is Sunville

Exhibitionism isn't particularly my thing either, but I like how the game uses it for humor and very absurd situations. And since characters are likeable and cute, and even the "dark" plot is also entertaining, it's a great game.

And yeah, Sunville is very similar, even developers comment on that sometimes xD. No "dark" plot at all here, but cute and likeable characters too, and as a plus Sunville doesn't have any guy scenes, so all new content is always girl x girl.

 

[BenHatira]

I think it's too early to get a clear call on Black Diamond. It's got promise but it's still in the build-up phase (at least the public release is). I'll call it once the smooching starts.

Well i actually support the project on Patreon and the last big update was purely lesbian (Rose in this case - even if you play the free version it's obvious the lesbian options are actually more present in the game than the straight ones atm .)
Having said that it's more of a slow burn and there are no sex scenes in the sapphic routes atm, but the Rose path is considered the vanilla love romance in the game.

Beside that you have the mom, the mom's best friend (who is 100% lesbian) and the nude model you met in the museum.
All comes down to your choices of course - you can easily avoid all the male LI's if you make the right choice (also no throwaway comments from the MC how sexy those ignored LI's actually are).

But atm the patreon gone rather quiet (same with the Discord - where the dev was really active not too long ago), which makes me wonder if we get another abandoned game soon....

EDIT: DEV is actually still active on Discord so yeah just ignore my rant

 

[The Celtic fan]

since I see that shygirl is on this list, op should remove it, the last update completely killed the agonizing "lesbian route" it had.

 

[Toesgirl]

Great post

 

[CboyC95]

Added Knight Bewitched: Enhanced Edition

 

[Gwedelino]

Regarding lesbian-focused games on F-95, do you think that lesbian content is an underserved niche or an unpopular niche?

- By underserved niche I mean that not enough devs are making lesbian-focused game, so it doesn't help making this kind of content more popular.

- By unpopular niche I mean that not enough people are interested in lesbian-focused game, so there's very few incentive for devs to make lesbian-focused games?

Had a little talk on discord about it and I'm curious to see what people think here.

 

[afterlights]

A little bit of both?

I think it's underserved, in that there are only afew devs really putting in the work for a quality game.

I think it's unpopular, in that there's always a jackass posting "female protag? pass" or "no dicks?" despite the overwhelmingly quantity of games to satisfy their dick-lust.

 

[The Celtic fan]

Regarding lesbian-focused games on F-95, do you think that lesbian content is an underserved niche or an unpopular niche?

- By underserved niche I mean that not enough devs are making lesbian-focused game, so it doesn't help making this kind of content more popular.

- By unpopular niche I mean that not enough people are interested in lesbian-focused game, so there's very few incentive for devs to make lesbian-focused games?

Had a little talk on discord about it and I'm curious to see what people think here.

I think it goes more for the latter, devs who want to make a "career" out of it and make money, almost always choose the popular trends to attract more audience and unfortunately lesbian games is not one of these.

and that leads to the first thing, that since it is not popular there are not many "serious" devs that put the effort in making a quality game because they know that it cannot give them that much money.

for me seeing this was one of the biggest disappointments I've ever had, considering how popular lesbian porn is, I thought that at least for video games it would be like that too, it was a complete disappointment to see that this was not the case.

 

[feierflei]

I think it goes more for the latter, devs who want to make a "career" out of it and make money, almost always choose the popular trends to attract more audience and unfortunately lesbian games is not one of these.

The ceiling for male protagonist harem games is much, much higher than that for female protagonist lesbian games.
That said – the floor is much lower as well. The overwhelming majority of male protagonist games has less than 50 patrons if they even made it into the double digits within the first year or so of their existence, while many lesbian games get a small (compared to the high earners), but very loyal audience in a relatively short amount of time since the niche is starved for content.

Devs who are in it for the money will probably end up miserable on both sides lmao

 

[IM6]

My assumption is that it's the tendency of a lot of players to "self-insert" and the vast majority of the player base being straight males. Many that bypass the self-insert still prefer male protag games or straight paths and those that always self-insert disregard female protag games altogether (and make stupid comments about how much they love seeing peepees).

I figure the disparity with the popularity of lesbian porn is that those just watching the porn rationalize it as a voyeur experience, but can't do the same in a game.

In any case, it definitely feels less popular as a game genre. And if I were making a game with the sole goal of making money, I'd avoid the genre. Which probably leads to it being underserved. I know I started making Erisa's Summer because I felt like there were very few lesbian-focused games at the time in 2017/2018 (and they're the games I prefer!). The numbers have increased, but not by much compared to the way adult games have exploded in popularity and availability.

 

[Olivia_V]

I think it goes more for the latter, devs who want to make a "career" out of it and make money, almost always choose the popular trends to attract more audience and unfortunately lesbian games is not one of these.

and that leads to the first thing, that since it is not popular there are not many "serious" devs that put the effort in making a quality game because they know that it cannot give them that much money.

Yeah, lesbian protagonist game development at this level will always be an enthusiast's niche. Nobody in this just for money will make such games. On the other hand, those that are making these games despite the small earning potential really like the genre.

 

[The Celtic fan]

The ceiling for male protagonist harem games is much, much higher than that for female protagonist lesbian games.
That said – the floor is much lower as well. The overwhelming majority of male protagonist games has less than 50 patrons if they even made it into the double digits within the first year or so of their existence, while many lesbian games get a small (compared to the high earners), but very loyal audience in a relatively short amount of time since the niche is starved for content.

Devs who are in it for the money will probably end up miserable on both sides lmao

it's a bit about supply and demand, as there are so many straight games, the good numbers are going to be maintained in the most outstanding ones.

lesbian games, because there are so few people interested in them, make them few, but that makes their audience quite loyal and makes profit "distribution" less "uneven", maybe these devs don't earn as much as the big straight games, but enough to make it an extra amount.

Generally what I have seen is that lesbian devs treat it as a "hobby" or at least as a second job where they earn extra money.
while the many of straight devs try to make it their main job, but of course very few actually manage to accomplish that for all the competition out there, as you say the devs who are here for the money will probably end up miserable (reality always hits hard XD).

and well apart from that there are also the straight devs who do it because that's what they like, which adds to the great disparity between the genders.

maybe i'm just talking nonsense, at this moment i'm taking admin subjects at the U so i'm in "admin" mode XD, but i'm kind of understanding it that way.

 

[feierflei]

while the many of straight devs try to make it their main job, but of course very few actually manage to accomplish that for all the competition out there, as you say the devs who are here for the money will probably end up miserable (reality always hits hard XD).

I consider my games my main job at the moment. By no means do I make a ton of money, but I don't need a lot, so it works out for my hermit life style.
However: This was only made possible by including a male protagonist option for my second game. The income from purely lesbian content would barely cover my rent and utilities, and I'm sharing a very cheap apartment with a friend.

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[IM6]

If I made enough money from game development and could afford to drop my main job and work on my game full-time, I would. But my dev support level is equivalent to about 2% of my full-time job salary's paycheck and I have a mortgage, a family, and pets to take care of. I love my game and I work on it as much as I can, but that's why I have to leave development as a hobby (that I spend a lot of time on!) and not a full-time job.

 

[Éama]

Regarding lesbian-focused games on F-95, do you think that lesbian content is an underserved niche or an unpopular niche?

- By underserved niche I mean that not enough devs are making lesbian-focused game, so it doesn't help making this kind of content more popular.

- By unpopular niche I mean that not enough people are interested in lesbian-focused game, so there's very few incentive for devs to make lesbian-focused games?

Had a little talk on discord about it and I'm curious to see what people think here.

I think there are some social mechanisms at play that actively stop LGBT games from getting traction, or popular straight games from including more LGBT content. There is a very vocal crowd that will rate games with one or two stars when they include any form of sex that doesn't include the MC. Since the MC in almost all popular games is a male, that means it is impossible to include sex between women. I wouldn't say it's taboo since there are exceptions, but it's a high-risk decision for a developer who wants to make it a profession.

I know from a very successful and lovely developer that he would enjoy to include LGBT content, but his income depends on good ratings and that's why he will always create straight harem games. His fear of negative ratings is that great.

So, it's not really unpopular in the sense that people don't desire that kind of content. But it's high-risk to include it, because maybe players have a little too much power? Maybe it will change when more developers can afford a stable income by doing what they want and not what is the popular opinion. Maybe that means cheering for the big straight games on Steam is opening doors for our little community as well. I'm not sure.
I'm grateful for the developers that dare to create lesbian games and LGBT games in general though. You are amazing.

 

[EndlessNights]

Regarding lesbian-focused games on F-95, do you think that lesbian content is an underserved niche or an unpopular niche?

- By underserved niche I mean that not enough devs are making lesbian-focused game, so it doesn't help making this kind of content more popular.

- By unpopular niche I mean that not enough people are interested in lesbian-focused game, so there's very few incentive for devs to make lesbian-focused games?

My vote is for "underserved niche" because I think the potential audience for lesbian games is way bigger than the current actual audience. You don't even have to consider the popularity of lesbian porn: just think how many mostly straight games have lesbian scenes (you know, all the ones that help make the current tagging system useless). I don't think most players of those games are skipping through those scenes or dislike the characters involved in them.

Admittedly, the hardcore self-inserters that IM6 mentioned may not ever be reachable. There are even guys on here who complain vociferously at the prospect of playing a black male MC so I doubt they're prepared to play a female character. However, I think there are also a lot of people who would be open to playing lesbian games if they were more aware of the kinds of titles that are out there. I suspect one issue is that many straight male players who like slice of life, romance, college, harem, etc games may not even think to try out lesbian games in those niches because the straight female protagonist games they've likely encountered before are so commonly corruption-focused.

Another thing I've noticed speaking strictly of VNs is that there are a lot of high quality no or very limited sexual content lesbian games (which isn't a bad thing of course). I feel like some of the best writers and artists in this space mostly avoid adult content. This in turn probably limits the number of high concept or very ambitious projects we get that might potentially broaden the audience and create hype. I think if games like Nothing Is Forever or Superhuman had been written with lesbian protagonists they might very well have ended up being all ages VNs instead of AVNs.

I also wouldn't discount the possibility that lesbian and bi players might be able to support the ecosystem mostly on their own eventually. We're talking about millions of people, after all. Just because the adult game audience today is mainly straight and male doesn't mean it won't continue to diversify in the future just as the gaming audience as a whole has.

Perhaps something we could all do to help out a little is spend some time in the rec threads now and then and throw out some plugs for relevant games (something like Toro 7 or Mythos would make for an excellent starter/"gateway" game and be relevant to a lot of request threads IMO). I should definitely do more of that myself.