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neotula · 1 month

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If you liked Baldur's Gate 3, try these games!

Something Similar (ish): Divinity: Original Sin 2: BG3 would not exist as it is without DOS2. A fun game with a depth of lore and games leading up to it. Harder than bg3, but not so hard that I wasn't able to play it just fine when I was a baby to turn based games. Cool characters with fun flavor. Liked Astarion? Into bad boys? Meet the Red Prince! (This is a joke. Please don't kill me.)

I liked it, but I want to suffer: Baldur's Gate 1 + 2: Don't let anyone tell you they're too old to be fun! I first played these in the past few years, and they absolutely held up. The special editions on steam run perfectly on modern machines. Things I'd recommend: mod in a teleport button! It's easy, and fixes a common complaint of "too slow". They have a wild sense of humor, fun forgotten realms cameos, and a fun combat system that, when you get the hang of, is genuinely fun! a hard learning curve, but easily worth it. BG2 is easily one of my all time favorite games with one of my all time favorite video game romances. Also, Jaheira. If that's your thing. If not, there's an evil lesbian vampire in bg2 you can romance! Hexat, I'm sorry, please call me. Semi-turn based (pause and go)

I liked it, but I want to suffer (and I wish it was more steampunk!): Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura: Made by Troika studios: (The guys who made the first fallout, of VTM: Bloodlines fame), Arcanum is genuinely the most fun you can have in a game from 2001. (*checks other games that came out in 2001* yeah. sure. i'll commit to that.)

Arcanum is an incredible game, with quirky humor, and a female dominatrix that I spent money on every time I went to the city to get her two lines because it let me be gay, okay? Very complicated, the combat can be a lot, but the lore is so fascinating, and you can see that the devs were trying to do something really cool there. Notable for it's time in that your decisions cause a companion to evolve (Virgil <3 I'm so sorry buddy). I cannot stress enough how cool of a game this is. Victorian steampunk setting that tries really hard to make something fun of it.

has. uh. a similar sense of humor at times to vtm:bloodlines. and i'd assume the og fallout but i still haven't made it past the first hour so i can't speak for that.

I liked it, but I don't want to suffer that much (Just a little... or more?): Pathfinder: Kingmaker: Look. This game is so good! Set in the pathfinder setting, all the trappings of a dnd based game. This one is genuinely difficult, but the easiest difficulty is bearable, and there's the incredible toybox mod for help if you need it. Has one of my all time favorite romances in a video game (Tristian <3). Paired with a kingdom building sim that is genuinely a little difficult to get the hang of, but I'd just recommend checking the wiki if you're unsure, and to save often! The only downside is Linzi! But you might like her! I dunno!

Genuinely has some of my favorite characters from a fantasy game in this genre: Owlcat is very good at taking tropes and either working them till they show more than you'd expect, or just playing it straight in a way that really explores the characters well. Also, I just realized I forgot the word Subvert. That's what I was looking for. They like to subvert tropes. Sometimes. Has excellent amoral characters (Jaethal, Regongar, Jubilost.) Has a poly romance where you can romance both or either half of an existing couple and it's all hunky dory.

I like it but I wish it was more fucked up: Tyranny: Look. You gotta trust me on this one. Tyranny isn't for everyone. Made by Obsidian, published in 2016 to... uh, mixed reviews. Tyranny has it's problems (buy it on sale. don't buy the dlc till you've played the main game.) But it was genuinely some of the most fun I've ever had in an rpg in the genre. Everyone's awful! it only took me ~20 hours to play! it's incredibly difficult (if not impossible) to fully complete in one playthrough, but it's short, so it's okay!

Everyone's a villain! Some wild lore. You can either stay a villain, or fix your shit! Or something in the middle! Companions are awful people and i love them (look. you have a companion. who canonically smells like shit. it. it makes sense in game. he's. he's stuck in his armor. it grew to him. the metal like--)

i don't think i'm selling this very well. UH, yeah! You play as the villain! You're the horrible (or neutral) little minion of the established conqueror, and you gotta decide what to do with that when power stumbles upon you! if you like games about horrible people, you might like this one!

the combat was really easy to get a feel for in tyranny, a thing i wouldn't say about a lot of games in this genre, so that's there too!

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bloodpenned · 3 years

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Is You and Me and Her a good game for lesbians to play? Sorry if that's a weird question - can't think of a better way to phrase it. I mean, is the protagonist a man? I prefer games where you play as a girl and romance other girls 💔

short answer: No, it's a game very explicitly for men.

long answer: YOU and ME and HER is my favourite game on that list because of its big twist and production value. It's genuinely an interesting piece of work to me, and the yandere aspect is only half of it. Despite me being a lesbian, I still really enjoyed it. (Though I've played so many shitty dating sims with male protags that I've just become desensitized to it LMAO i just pretend the character really is a girl the whole time </3)

But, yeah. The protagonist is very obviously a man and the game is catered to a male audience. In the Steam version, the sex scenes aren't there, which makes it easier to ignore. Yandere wlw games are very few and far in between, I'm pretty sure the only one where you can explicitly be a girl and romance a girl is: My GF Doesn’t Know What I’m Into | Female | FREE (despite it's flaws, i enjoyed this one!)

Of course, you also have Kylar in DOL, but if you're here, I assume you already know about her. You've got the DDLC After Mod where Monika can explicitly call you her girlfriend, but I'm not sure how much that counts since she isn't really overtly yandere there haha

I've really looked for them over the years, but they basically don't exist :/ The next best thing is that there are a couple of games with neutral protags, I can give you those if you want. God knows if I had art skills I would make them myself. Maybe once I have a more stable job I'll commission someone to make some sprites and do it anyway haha

I also made a list ages ago of WLW games, that aren't necessarily yandere, if you'd like it. I made it for a friend, but it's way longer than the yandere one.

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