I... don't think it's inspired by Asoiaf at all? Idk maybe that's just me but I don't see it at all, in any way. Nor does it do machiavellian statecraft? Solenasia is pretty standard fantasy feudal (then again I wouldn't consider Asoiaf grimdark, though I'm not a fan of it either)Well, I know some lesbian protagonist games probably made by men that are safe. Often where you choose the protagonist's gender, so it has a lesbian protagonist or a straight male protagonist. Usually they're porny and they have "men with tits" like you'd expect, sure, but no rape scenes with male characters because those devs aren't interested in duplicating that shit for the male protagonist branch.
I have no idea what female protagonist games you play, and while I know a few that fit this, most certainly don't.
Maybe the core content of the game has widened after I played it, but I checked the guide after I quit it and I feel what I wrote described what was in the guide then well. Or maybe this gets down to the definition of cheating, but Rowan and Alexis are shown as married while nothing is said that they're in an open marriage. And an open marriage sure isn't an obvious fit either for what looked like a pretty patriarchal fantasy setting, or just about any premodern complex agricultural society really, though for this style of fantasy that could assume too much. And if it isn't said it's an open marriage (or any committed relationship) the default should imo be to assume it's closed.
I didn't say anything about cheating arcs though, because I didn't check for any arcs.
Well it's a fantasy game that's obviously inspired by ASoIaF and (worse) GoT, where Macchiavellian statecraft is teleported to a vaguely vassalage-based context where that doesn't really work (basic historical cynicism). And no, that isn't a claim that vassalage-based political orders weren't oppressive, they were. And then the MC is captured, tortured and pressed to serve 2 entitled edgy demon kids, and there are different flavours of corruption. That makes it grimdark in my book, and it sure fits my "problems with grimdark fantasy".
Games with grounded female protagonists and male LIs sure aren't where the money is. No doubt about that.
But I think the group of men who play female protagonist games is a lot bigger than the group of lesbian players. Only a minority of games with the female protagonist tag have the lesbian tag. Tho both tags include games with a male primary MC. And a lot of those aren't even true lesbian games or even just games with purely FF paths. From another angle, the male playerbase of female-protagonist games seems big enough to make most of those games fall in the corruption genre or corruption adjacent.
Aren't a lot of otome pretty much "not adult" tho?
on the relationship thing, idk maybe it's because I'm Aro/Ace but it always seemed to me like since no one is taking issue with anything, and they both have sex with other people and know about it, it's kinda open by fiat, as both seem to be fine with whatever as long as it's sexual and not emotional (which they do consider to be cheating and can come up as a plot point if you want) (and they do form a textual polycule with one character at one point). Then again, I don't have the same assumptions as you do, only people I know who are in a relationship and not in a polycule of some sort are my parents and I always assumed that was because thier very co-dependent.
Someone said they got overambitous, I don't see it. There's a bunch of events and stuff yeah but the story is consistent and has been developed pretty darn far and is consistently continuing
Idk, not everything is for everyone. I always liked it because they do corruption as self driven emancipation and not the weird, nonconesque, bad corruption that alot of things tagged with it do that I hate. And the good art and writing of course
Back on topic, one can really tell when a "lesbian" game is made for and by lesbians vs straight men, and the latter are much more predominant sadly. The same is true for gay men as well, there's alot more made by and for straight women then gay men. I have hope this will change in the future now that we have more non straight people, but it'll take a while
Generally speaking if your looking for a game with a good femprotag, a good first step is to just look for something made by a woman, albiet it's rarer due to sociatel biases
