Since you always have good recs, can you recommend me your top 5 where a FMC is actually strong and resist dumb blackmail by male characters? Every time I read "strong" female protagonist, I get disappointed because the game just starts and she's already fallen by "corruption" or raped? RPGM games have this major problem. Neither writers know how to write a dominant male protagonist without being a villain nor they know how to write a dominant female protagonist without being a sadist (or write women in general).
It's a little difficult because I don't keep a top 5 of games like that, or even a top 5 of games with a female protagonist. There's
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as you've said before. So a lot of my recs are with bi or lesbian protagonists, and they're mostly the stuff I name more often.
That means a lot of my recommendations aren't with straight protagonists, I'm sure you've seen a lot of them, and not all have blackmail scenarios. Anyway here's my shortlist of strong, capable or manipulative protagonists, story quality varies from strong to functional, unfortunately most of them aren't story heavy like
Eternum or Talothral's VNs:
As a bonus,
Salome's Kiss is imo the best example of a well written weak female protagonist (this one can interest NTR fans too), and
A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986 is the best case of a well written passive female lead. Both are lesbian, though
A Summer's End has an alternative straight path.
So yeah,
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still applied.
And it's mostly a copy of this.