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Does anyone have gender affirming video games suggestions? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't have a lot of time to play game these days. I usually play games like Cities Skylines where it's easy to pause and exit. I basically have 1-4 hours to game a week - depending on the week. But ever since coming out trans, I've wondered if there was a game that casually was affirming. I realize I could play an RPG where you can design your character, but most of those games have you spend 2 hours designing and then you never really look at the character again. Baldur's Gate was a lot of fun, but it's a little too deep to play casually on the side. I strongly prefer a non-NSFW game. I realize a lot of NSFW games exist on Steam that do explore trans concepts (I assume), but I'm looking for a more positive, gentle, affirmation.

But I don't want to knock down too many ideas! What do you play?

Edit: I realize I made it sound like I've excluded all RPGs which I don't want to be the case since - inherently - anything affirming will have some RPG element to it. I just don't think first-person RPGs really work since I spend most of my time looking at my hands and I don't get to see my character.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

would you like any specific gender to be affirmed?

i recently played lost records: bloom and rage and i think it might be quite affirming to trans fem people. it's an interactive storry game (kinda like an evolution on life is strange), where you play a highschool girl who becomes friend with 3 other girls and goes on punky, witchy adventures, with a lot of focus on girlhood.

it has some scarry aspects and seems like it is going into some scarry horror sometimes, but the horror is really just in the atmosphere.