"Girly" Video Games -

[Son of Odin]

How do you do, fellow females.
(OK not really I'm also a dude)

I've recently finished Princess Maker 2, and despite my efforts to make my princess work as a lumberjack and do combat training she still ended up as a housewife. I still really enjoyed it though. Now to start on the first and third games...

 

[Sissy]

I like to play pretty games and i can look at them

 

[Mage of Conquest]

Okay, so years ago I remember seeing my cousin play these flash dress-up games on some girly website. I can't remember the name for the life of me, but it was so pink and was obviously intended for girls. Anyways, I noticed they were playing some dress up game and I thought I could check out the website later that day. So I did, and I somehow ran into a game where you clean a character's foot? That made me feel very uncomfortable.

Anyways, years later I play things like Stardew Valley and My Time at Portia. At least you can beat up people in Portia.

 

[Sasori of the Red Sand]

The best dress-up games are Love Nikki and Helix Waltz.

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

Okay, so years ago I remember seeing my cousin play these flash dress-up games on some girly website. I can't remember the name for the life of me, but it was so pink and was obviously intended for girls. Anyways, I noticed they were playing some dress up game and I thought I could check out the website later that day. So I did, and I somehow ran into a game where you clean a character's foot? That made me feel very uncomfortable.

Anyways, years later I play things like Stardew Valley and My Time at Portia. At least you can beat up people in Portia.

Yeah there are aggregate sites that gather any kind of "girly" game that involves princesses, babies, etc., including the gross fetish ones programmed by horny Pajeets.

 

[Wild Wild Wisteria]

Necroing to share nostalgic girly games I grew up with

-Barbie's Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue
Unlock outfits, customize horses, ride horses on a trail to rescue escaped horses, play minigames


-Barbie Explorer
Mentioned up-thread, knock-off Tomb Raider


-Sabrina A Twitch In Time
I don't think anybody had played this besides me. Platformer collect-a-thon with shitty hit-detection. Unlock outfits and cast spells n shit


-Monster Rancher 4
I'm counting this as girly cuz some aspects of it are like a virtual pet game. Train 36 unique breeds of monsters (more cross-breeds if you combine em!), praise or scold them according to how well they trained, watch their fatigue and stress levels, feed them and play with them. Very cute all-in-all.

"Girly" games:​

Klonoa Beach Volleyball and Klonoa 2 because of the sheer cuteness and feels involved.

Fatal Frame 2 because 2 twin sisters trapped in a cursed village of endlessly repeating death and torment screams "girly". And because you unlock a fuckton of cute outfits for both twins after completion.

Also because I love the Japanese cover

 

[georgyjobe]

Necroing to share nostalgic girly games I grew up with

-Barbie's Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue
Unlock outfits, customize horses, ride horses on a trail to rescue escaped horses, play minigames
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Barbie's Horse Adventures was the shit.

Pet Rescue was also nice. The animals in that game were A+ cute.

When I was a preteen, my gay neighbor got Final Fantasy X-2 and the paperback game guide. We spent hours in the book, each of us circling our favorite outfits/which girl looked best. I never even played the actual game or had much interest in watching him play.

 

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

Barbie's Horse Adventures was the shit.
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Pet Rescue was also nice. The animals in that game were A+ cute.

When I was a preteen, my gay neighbor got Final Fantasy X-2 and the paperback game guide. We spent hours in the book, each of us circling our favorite outfits/which girl looked best. I never even played the actual game or had much interest in watching him play.
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God, most of the outfits in FF X-2 were hideous.

 

[admiral]

Paper doll dress up games were getting big when I was a kid, and I think this and the barbie one were my favourite:

Stardoll was the big dress up site at the time (early-mid 00s), except it was called Paperdoll Heaven back then. My favourite was Aishwarya Rai, who I also had a massive crush on (still do, she's hot). This was in like 2005-7? I actually found it because it had a horse dress up game and I was also obsessed with horses. It was pretty nifty for the time, you could clean the horse with a scrubby brush and braid its mane and all that good stuff. There were a bunch of flash games which we were all playing - My Scene and Barbie, then things like Bubblegum club which just had a little platformer you could play on their site.

I guess, because I was a girl, people were always giving me weird girly knockoff games for the DS. I had some celebrity vet simulator and Pippa Hamilton's Show Jumping game to name a few.

 

[tigergrinder]

Paper doll dress up games were getting big when I was a kid, and I think this and the barbie one were my favourite:

Stardoll was the big dress up site at the time (early-mid 00s), except it was called Paperdoll Heaven back then. My favourite was Aishwarya Rai, who I also had a massive crush on (still do, she's hot). This was in like 2005-7? I actually found it because it had a horse dress up game and I was also obsessed with horses. It was pretty nifty for the time, you could clean the horse with a scrubby brush and braid its mane and all that good stuff. There were a bunch of flash games which we were all playing - My Scene and Barbie, then things like Bubblegum club which just had a little platformer you could play on their site.

I guess, because I was a girl, people were always giving me weird girly knockoff games for the DS. I had some celebrity vet simulator and Pippa Hamilton's Show Jumping game to name a few.

This is what I grew up with. (The company was later accused of racial stereotypes, which made me laugh.)

 

[Brussels Sprout]

This is what I grew up with. (The company was later accused of racial stereotypes, which made me laugh.)

Omg that Purple Moon screen spanked me with feels. I loved the Secret Paths in the Forest game!

I feel all warm and fuzzy looking at the cute later 90s graphics. It was so whimsical.

 

[melty]

Okay, so years ago I remember seeing my cousin play these flash dress-up games on some girly website. I can't remember the name for the life of me, but it was so pink and was obviously intended for girls. Anyways, I noticed they were playing some dress up game and I thought I could check out the website later that day. So I did, and I somehow ran into a game where you clean a character's foot? That made me feel very uncomfortable.

Anyways, years later I play things like Stardew Valley and My Time at Portia. At least you can beat up people in Portia.

Was it this place? https://kiwifarms.net/threads/mafa-com-free-girl-games-online-not-safe-for-girls-or-anybody.8143/

 

[Cavalier Cipolla]

Bejeweled is a girl's game? Interesting. Though the last time I played it was about 10 years ago, so I dunno.
Well, I suppose Valis games are worth a try, and they have some schoolgirl as protagonist. Is that girly enough?
Oh, and Atachamanure School, of course.

 

[healslut]

rip girlsgogames.com

 

[bitter heaux]

An interesting video about girly lost media

 

[tigergrinder]

Omg that Purple Moon screen spanked me with feels. I loved the Secret Paths in the Forest game!

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I feel all warm and fuzzy looking at the cute later 90s graphics. It was so whimsical.

Yooo I had that game, too!! The treehouses and the customization was SO fucking cozy, especially playing them at night.

I found Purple Moon's website on the Wayback Machine, saved as many of the images as I could find. It hit me right in the chest.

 

[Deathclaw Tiddehs]

- The Sims (duh)
- Spyro the Dragon (most girls I've met preferred Spyro, most boys I know preferred Crash)
- Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley
- Animal Crossing
- Life is Strange (I don't think I've met a guy that enjoys this game and its series)

Most of these aren't super girly, but visual novel games in general are marketed towards female audiences generally. It's very rare that there are male oriented visual novels unless it is marketing sex appeal.

 

[Patriarchy]

- Life is Strange (I don't think I've met a guy that enjoys this game and its series)

null's favorite game

 

[furūtsu]

Most of these aren't super girly, but visual novel games in general are marketed towards female audiences generally. It's very rare that there are male oriented visual novels unless it is marketing sex appeal.

Eh, the most ubiquitous VN series (Fate, Higurashi, Little Busters, Steins;Gate, Clannad, Muv Luv, Umineko, etc) are all aimed at men and aren't entirely based on sex appeal. More recent VNs made in the west and the surge in Otome game popularity, as well as some mainstream hits like Dangan Ronpa have shifted the paradigm a bit sure. But VNs, especially in Japan, are still by and large a young man's genre.

(also nitpicking but none of the games you listed are VNs, though they do contain VN elements)

Spot on with Spyro and Crash though.

As for my contributions to the Girly Games List:

Spoiler

Rune Factory (harvest moon but make it JRPG)

Okami (not a distinctly feminine game per se but it has a big female fanbase)

Odin Sphere (pretty Norse fairy aesthetic, lots of female characters to play as, compelling romance sideplots)

Neptunia series (if you can get past the straight guy fanservice; it has cute girls and lots of customizable outfits and an overall very feminine vibe)

Atelier games (same as Neptunia but even less sexual)

Folklore (underrated early PS3 title with an Irish fae aesthetic and lore, female protag, not sexualized much at all)

Dark Cloud 2 (Monica's outfits, my gosh. Plus appeals to the customizing trend girl gamers like, ie you can build your own towns, very vibrant and pretty)

My Time at Portia (again, harvest moon but different)

Yume Nikki (exploration sim with female protag, collect different powers that alter you appearance and interactions with the world, trippy horror visuals)

Neopets: The Darkest Faerie (the best licensed Neopets game, basically Zelda but with Neopets. Can collect different outfits for the protags, a female and male protag, cute cartoonish visuals and whimsical ambience)

 

[Just Dont]

Tomb Raider unironically has a big fanbase of women and girls.